Fruit of Faith and Workplace Wry Reflections In 1919
A Cincinnati hospital story about a boy who walks without crutches to tend a garden plot leading to a prize muskmelon. The piece blends moral lessons on fear of failure with a collage of light political and economic jests. It notes rising coal output per miner in the United States from 1901 to 1918 and cites commentary on finance and wartime leadership.
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Cincinnati
United States Bureau of Mines
Department of the Interior
United States
New South Wales
Nova Scotia
British Columbia
Great Britain
Germany
France
Austria
Belgium
Japan
India
Bureau of Mines
Local items mix business and city life in Cheyenne
Fraternal building stores gain new tenant a shoe repair shop while Oldsmobile agency space remains vacant. A wide range of baby carriages is advertised by Hobbs Hockfeldt and Finkbinder. Public schools prep for fall term opening September 7. Secretary Chaplin expected back from Denver. Hangar work and mail planes draw crowds at the municipal field.
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Municipal Field
The Winning Run and Bread Amid World Wheat Surplus
Essay contrasts individual effort with collective history and notes on bread supply. It cites 1920 wheat and rye stocks totaling 10.5 million metric tons with a projected surplus of 2.4 million by August, urging action to ensure distribution and harvest outcomes.
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Joffre
Fosh
Bell
Franklin
Morse
Marconi
International Institute of Agriculture At
Rome
North America
South America
Australia
Census 1930 May Use Single Day Take Plan
A House census committee led by Rep. Isaac Siegel discussed reorganizing census methods amid criticism of 1930 figures. A proposed plan would set a single Census Day with block registration sites and follow up, replacing per name pay to census takers to curb abuses.
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Washington
Census Committee
House of Representatives
Isaac Siegel
Siegel
What’s this drink lover doing now
Cincinnati report notes John Dreihs, county mortuary superintendent, recalls an old friend once nicknamed a human ostrich who would eat glass or burn and eat hot coals for a drink. The piece questions what he might be doing now to obtain alcohol.
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Cincinnati
John Dreihs
Dreihs
Fish Bandits Target Toledo Fisherman
In Toledo on August 26 a man named Robert Kelly was robbed by three youths while returning home with a string of fish. The assailants tied him up and cooked and ate the catch before fleeing, according to police reports from his mother.
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Toledo
Robert Kelly
Robert
Weather Report For The Day
Normal temperature this date 64 degrees. Actual mean temperature 64. Change last 24 hours four degrees colder. Highest 79 degrees at 2 p.m. Lowest 44?8 degrees at 6:15 a.m. Total precipitation since January 1st 11.39 inches. Normal precipitation since January 1st 11.00 inches. Precipitation last 24 hours 0 inches. Average hourly wind velocity yesterday 9.5 miles. Wind direction W.
Cheyenne Seeks Homes for Visiting City Teachers
Cheyenne public schools Superintendent A S Jessup appeals to residents to open homes to incoming teachers as overcrowding threatens room shortages. He notes about sixty teachers arrive this week and urges locals to list rooms, praising prior community support and stressing that rental landlords should also help.
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A. S. Jessup
Cheyenne Public Schools
Jessup
Cheyenne
Precipitation for 1920 Still Slightly Above Average
Cheyenne weather notes show 1920 precipitation at 11.389 inches versus an average 11 inches for this date. Early in the year rainfall was more than two inches above normal but has since fallen to 0.89 inches above average.
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Cheyenne
Record Channel Crossing Set in Nine Minutes
A new channel crossing record is believed to have been established as Captain Halliwell piloting an airplane with one passenger flew from Folkestone to Grisnez in under nine minutes. The quick crossing marks a notable early achievement in cross-channel air travel.
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London
Halliwell
Folkestone
Hng- Jang
Grisnez
Lydia Pinkham remedy helps Danville girl
A Danville family credits Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with improving their daughter's health after a year of illness and failed tonics. The letter urges mothers to consider the root and herb remedy for irregularity painful periods and related symptoms, claiming decades of experience support its use.
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J. H. Boyd
N. Jackson St
Danville
Miss Boyd
Tate
Lydia
Pinkham, Medicine Co
Lynn, Maas
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