Missouri petitions seek faster highway plan and tax hikes
Missouri road initiative petitions filed in Jefferson City seek to speed the 7600 mile state highway system and place a 2 cent per gallon gas tax a 50 percent rise in state auto license fees and to issue 15 million dollars a year for roads. The drive needs signatures of five percent of two thirds of the vote for supreme judges.
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Jefferson
Charles A. Becker
Secret
Matthew F. Morse
Automobile Ub of
Missouri
Signa
Supreme
Ender
Supreme Dyes
Morse
Bismarck Tron County
George Pressley
Juliantcheon
Gster
Pressley
B. Straub
Pass
Elston Station
Miiles
Jefferson City
Justin Straubimer
W. T. Plimmer
Phus
Harrisburg
Summer Hats and Frocks Feature Dainty Voile and Swiss
A fashion survey highlights cool summer dresses in dotted Swiss and voile with sheer fabrics and embroidery. Large picture hats, brims and lace accents dominate, with trends including bangkoks in citron and Milan black hats with pink highlights.
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Milan
Paris
Chantilly
Origin of the Lyre From Hermes to the clavicytherium
Tradition credits Hermes with founding the lyre from a tortoise shell found on the Nile. The article traces ancient Egyptian harps, psaltries, dulcimers, and the first keyboard the clavicytherium, noting early string instruments and their sounding boards.
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Hermes
Nile
Greece
Clavicytherium
The Finest English Sentence in Donne Prose
An editor cites John Donne praising God mercy and judgment as vast as day and night. The prose envisions God bringing light from darkness and turning winter into summer, illustrating mercy and timely grace as noon sun across all shadows.
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John Donne
Sinder
Big Production of Glass in Auto Industry Surges
The automobile sector has more than doubled U S glass production in recent years. Over half of U S plate glass is used for car windows and windshields, driven by the rise of closed cars needing seven times more glass than open models. By 1921 leading glassmakers have ties to auto firms with three of six major producers acquired by manufacturers. Plate glass output valued at 37 261 000 dollars out of 213 471 000 total glass production, with building glass at 68 951 000.
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America
National Bank of Commerce
Motor Cars Used to Stabilize Shreveport River Bank
The Red River threatens industrial land as bank erosion worsens. Temporary protection comes from sinking 2,000 discarded motor cars along the bank, hauled by 20 mule teams and submerged 20 to 40 feet deep. some cars are filled with rock to prevent floating away.
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Shreveport
Red River
Death by electric current linked to silver coin incident
Edward Amble sixty died while repairing a dynamo at the waterworks when a silver dollar in his hip pocket bridged a 2 220 volt circuit after he leaned against switch terminals. A Lyons dispatch to the World reports water leaked into an oil box causing the contact. Amble, recently appointed sewer and plumbing inspector, left a wife and daughter.
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Edward Amble
Amble
Lyons
New York World
Katherine Walker Smith Builds a Fashion Shop After Loss
In 1918 Katherine Walker Smith faced hardship after her husband died and a factory failed. She moved to Evanston Illinois opened a small shop selling women's fine wear. The location attracts college girls and discerning buyers near a wholesale district and hotel, funding her family’s future.
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Katherine Walker Smith
Smith
Belling
Missouri
Evanston
University Girls
A Distinguished Woman Who Made a War Time Path
Caroline Ruutz Rees, headmistress of Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, built a career of leadership through education and scholarship. She held advanced degrees from Paris and Columbia, wrote on French Renaissance and literature, and served in national and state suffrage and Democratic roles.
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Caroline Ruutz- Rees
Rosemary Hall
Connecticut
Greenwich
Boston Post Road
Ruutz-Rees
Eleve Titulaire
Ecole Des Hautz Etudes
University of Paris
Columbia University
Yale Review
American Woman Suffrage Association
State Council
Young Women's Christian Association
National Democratic Committee
Emerson
Ancient Fletcher Confucius on Preparing Food
The saying attributes to Confucius a belief that food should not be eaten until it is chopped into small pieces.
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Confucius
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Comy
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D. J. Casey
Exico
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Farmers Merchants’Bank
J. B. Armstrong
Sident
J. Garrettnes
J. Merrifield
Chillicothe
C. F. Merri
New Bloomfield
Lier
John Paul
Gus Yman
FE. L. Lieheimer
Direc
E. R. Cockrell
Fortyth
Tex
Fulton
Negers
William Wood College
Col Ge
Byron Crosby
Louise
Byron, Jr
Kirksville
Nelda Huff
Star, Ill
Queen City
Lancaster
Crosby
A. Lisenby
L. W. Losseners
Lipscomb Grain, and Company
Lossen
W. W. Thomas
Sedalia
United Spanish War Veterans of Missouri
Chaims
Hydé Snow
Veterans Organization
Peter T. Barrett
St. Louis
Supreme Court En Banc
Jfferson City
David Kreyling
John KE. Heil
L. F. Padberg
Ren. C. Ehrhardt
Rollan S. Watson
John B. Edwards
Emma J. Bobb
James Y. Pleyer
Edward C. Lewis
Board of Election Commissioners of
City of St. Louis
Frank C. Millspaugh
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of Peculiar
Cass County
Millspaugh
Robert H. Davis
Fredericktown
Madison County
St. Francois
Joplin
Harry Himan
Kansas City
Poplar Bluff
Williamsville
California
Missouri Pacific
F. 8
Tally
James T. Gibson
Kansas City Garden
Edina
Henry Parrish
Pete Snelling
Bangkok
Dally
Julia Bottomley
Western Newspaper Union
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