Missouri Ledger Faces Early 1920s Financial Turmoil
A broad set of Missouri news items recounts expenses tied to a hanging in Jefferson City, bank runs across Kansas City and Springfield, a 1924 auto registration update, bank reorganizations, and legal actions. Reports cover state tax gains, disease checks among livestock, and a major court decision linking a St Louis bank failure to further charges.
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Gliff Gretlein
Cole County
Jefferson City
John Lee
State Penitentiary
Hyde
Barrett
Crowder
Gretlein
H. Hanna
Epworth
Ill
Kansas City
Louis
Springfield
Chicago
St. Louis
City
State of Fund Commissioners
Missouri
St. Joseph
Joplin
Thomas Eggers Bank
la Barton County
State Finance Department
Walter E. Yodd
Jarry Hendricks
Frisco
St Frisco
Ngi
State Tax Commission
H. A. Wilson
Davies
Livingston
Wilson
Samuel Sheldon
Trenton
Harmony
Glasgow
Supreme Court
Arthur O. Meininger
Bank
Frocks for little ladies and afternoon frocks in vogue
In 1924, Western Newspaper Union describes charming frocks for young girls and their mothers. Georgette, voile, and crepe de chine fabrics dominate, with double skirts, lace panels, tucks, and ribbon decorations. Afternoon dresses feature fuller skirts and beaded girdles enhancing modest, formal looks.
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Georgette
Latins Make Much of Fair Haired Beauties
A New York woman recounts Italian men following her and praising her hair and complexion as a white rose and pink rage. An officer declines to arrest, saying the men merely complimented her beauty.
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New York
Italy
Signorina
New York Sun
English sports spread across Europe as experiment and fever
The piece traces how sports born in Britain traveled to the continent as a novelty and then a chronic trend. It notes English zeal for physical endeavor driven by glory, with Germany embracing it prewar in Prussian style and Russia and Turkey remaining without a national sport or intent to adopt one.
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Britain
Montreal Herald
Germany
Russia
Turkey
Tit for Tat Dr George McE Lunn's Marquesas tale
Dr George McE Lunn retells a Marquesas missionary story from Detroit Free Press. A Tahitian chief named Tusivailuala is renamed Jean by a French priest and mockingly told to avoid meat on Fridays. The chief quips he will be fish before roast pig.
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George McE. Lunn
Denver
Tusivailuala
Jean
Tusit-vail-yala
Detroit Free Press
Marvelous cures exposed in Vancouver reported
Report from E. W. Howe's Monthly notes a Vancouver man praised for miraculous cures draws thousands. After twelve investigators, none of the marvels hold up, and storytellers are deemed to have lied. the pattern mirrors other marvel claims.
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Vancouver
B. C
E. W
Howe's Monthly
National Forest Visitors Highlight 1923 Reach
The final tabulation from the Forest Service shows nearly 10,000,000 people visited the 146 national forests in 1923. More than eight in ten visitors, over 8,000,000, arrived in privately owned cars, underscoring the automobile’s role in recreation.
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Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Gum Industry Growing Worldwide since 1860
The chewing gum industry, a major American manufacturing sector, now holds an invested capital of 25 million dollars, tracing back to 1860 when the original industry began with an outlay of 55 dollars.
Old South Yields to the New Woman in Banking Rise
Bertha Hellen becomes Raleigh Banking and Trust Company's first woman assistant cashier after eight years at a small town bank. She cites early opposition from male colleagues, then rapid promotion to Wilson and finally Raleigh. She urges young business girls to value home life and community as paths to growth.
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Dan Griffin
la Plata
Macon County
Mamie Baney
Gladys Scherell
Springfield
Finley River
Riverdale Mills
Christian County
Jefferson City
Jesse W. Barrett
C. E. Brummal
Chariton County
Daisy Ashby
Glasgow
Marceline Trust Company
First National Bank
Marceline State Bank
Trust Company
Marceline
North Carolina
Cartaret County
Bertha Hellen
Raleigh Banking and Trust Company
Raleigh
Main Street
Wilson
Engineering Both Babies and Business
Nina S. Gould combines engineering and civic leadership in Oklahoma City. She runs reports and estimates at Gould & Gould while guiding kindergarten and school groups and serving on city boards. She prefers smaller cities for family life and community growth over big urban centers.
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Gould
Nina S. Gould
Gould & Gould
Chi. Epsilon
Chamber of Commerce
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Farmers’ State Bank of Ford
J. A. G. Reynolds
Ker
Atederate Home
Higue
W. H. Hargrove
L. F. Page
Higle
Sedalia
W D. Smith
State Fair Board
Holland Bank of
E. L. Sanford
May McKinney
Pettis County
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company
Gallatin
Western Newspaper Union
Rose
National Forest
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Laura Miller
Oklahoma City
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