Making Shoes Show How American Industry Works
Washington April 19 A National Geographic Society letter by William Joseph Showalter outlines four shoe sole attachment types welt McKay turned nailed or pegged stiff soled. He notes the vast factory scale with eighty to hundred workers plus many machines and processes producing a single pair. The piece ends with a Massachusetts factory’s daily output of 14,000 pairs and a fourteen day cycle.
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Washington, D. C
William Joseph Showalter
National Geographic Society
Maine
Walther
Iskin
Massachusets
Island Community Transformed by New Global Link
Tahiti The island Pitcairn with 240 residents once isolated by crime of ancient crew may see communal life altered by a new Pacific sea route from Panama to Australia. Islanders, descendants of white mutineers and Tahitian women, live devoutly under English law with a magistrate, a British consul, and a public auction for items like a phonograph.
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Paperte
Tahiti
Girele
Panama
Australia
Pitcairn Island
England
Tahitii
Pacific
Fiji
French Force in Frankfort Under General Demetz
General Demetz commands French troops in Frankfort accused of ordering actions leading to deaths of German civilians including women and children during street demonstrations.
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Frankfort
Demetz
Pitcairn Island and Its Quiet World Faces New Ocean Route
On March 28 in Pago Pago the opening of a Panama Canal era ocean lane brings Pitcairn Island into regular contact with the outside world. The island, settled by mutineers from the Bounty and Tahitian companions, now hosts forty families descended from those early settlers, previously visited rarely by passing ships.
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Pago Pago
American Samoa
Mal
Pitcairn, Island
South Pacific
Panama Canal
Seven Seas
Panama
Australia
Pitcairn Island
Bounty
Bligh
Tahiti
Pitcairn
A Tropical Island Stopping Place for Vessels
The island lies just south of the Tropic of Capri corn with a semi tropical climate. Many fruits from both tropic and temperate zones flourish there making it a grateful stopping place for vessels.
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Sland
Capricorn
Gabes Glistening Dome Inspires DAnnunzio Style Troops
FIUME April 4. Gabriele d Annunzios baldhead sets fashion for his officers who shave heads and grow Van dyke beards to imitate the poet. Flume aviators join the craze naming themselves Tron Heads. Youthful officers in their teens and twenties adopt bald caps and pointed beards. Uniforms mix blue horizons and grey green with pride.
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Fiume
Mall
Gabriele d'Annunzio
Flume
Factory manager throws 147 silver dollars to show waste
An eastern factory manager demonstrates waste by tossing 147 silver dollars from a window to symbolize four weeks of discarded needles.
Real Estate Ad Promotes 6 Percent Union Trust Rate
J. A. Kirkpatrick advertises real estate and insurance services at 1824 Carey Ave. with a savings pitch that funds placed with Union Trust Company will earn six percent interest.
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J. A. Kirkpatrick
Carey Ava
Union Trust Company
Urgent call to save waste paper to ease shortages
Secretary of Commerce urges saving all waste paper to keep paper supply steady. He notes waste paper substitutes for ground wood pulp in books and newsprint, warns of shortages if not reused, and cites two million tons used for boxes and shipping containers. The effort aims to curb lumber use and protect pulp supplies nationwide.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Alexander
Wwe
United States
Waste reclamation advice stimulates city efforts
The Department of Commerce offers two publications on waste reclamation to help cities and businesses create city wide systems for home, store, and factory waste. They outline how one large city developed its program and provide organizers’ points to operate the service efficiently.
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Department of Commerce
Ene Esa
Sehid
Pereona
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Battle Creeks
Mich
Gabé
d’Annunzio
THE
Sherman CO
Interchurch World Movement
France
Great Britain
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