England revives village smithy with traveling forges
London reports a Ministry of Agriculture program to revive village blacksmiths in England. Traveling vans equipped as modern smith shops will teach oxy acetylene cutting, welding and repair of motor plows and machinery, enabling smiths to service tractors, plows and other modern farm equipment. Several counties have started schemes and architects are urged to source local ornamental iron work.
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New York World News Service
London
Iin
England
Ministry of Agriculture
Bradfield
Berkshire
Hertfordshire
Oxfordshire
Leicestershire
Kent
Yorkshire
Royal Institution of British Architects
Diamond cutter-buyer eyes £45000 gem in dark London
Charles de Hahn, a famed continental cutter-buyer, visited London to pay £45,000 for a diamond worth $250,000. He will spend weeks examining the stone daily in dim light before deciding how to cut it to avoid losses, then sell multiple stones from it. He notes France's diamond boom and predicts English retailers are falling behind Paris and Amsterdam.
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New York World News Service
London
Charles de Hahn
de Hahn
France
Amsterdam
Paris
England
Watercress Green Color Gains Fashion Spotlight at Ascot
London reports a new shade Watercress green for silks inspired by a dried watercress bed. Ostrich feathers dyed in bright colors and trimmed on gowns and hats promise a summer craze as South African feathers flood England after the war.
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London
Watercress
England
Africa
Dinner plate size parasols brighten Paris streets
Paris swelters under an early heat wave as parasols no larger than a dinner plate appear. One gem festooned piece with red silk loops and ivory handle stands out, while many use cretonne with bright broken designs and gold thread. The popular choice remains the flat Japanese paper parasol with bamboo ribs.
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Paris
U S Controlled Carriers Granted Tax Reduction
The Board of Tax Appeals ruled wartime government controlled railroads may exclude 2 percent withheld as taxes from earned income. The decision lowers 1918 corporate tax to 10 percent and 1919 to 8 percent, reversing IRS findings, and could apply to all carriers taken over during the war.
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Washington
Board of Tax, Appeals
Director General of Railroads
Internal Revenue Bureau
Tax Board
New York, Ontario & Western Railroad Company
American Woman's Gems Vanish In Paris Heist
Mrs. Mario Hicks of New York accused dancer Serge Papini, known as Count de Rucellor, of stealing a gold bracelet and platinum bracelet ring worth 2500 dollars after inviting him to dine in Montmarte. Papini has been arrested in connection with the loss.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
Mario Hicks
New York
Montmarte
Count de Rucellor
Serge Papini
Baracuda Bites Bather In Porto Rico
A Puerto Rico hospital reports Lorenzo Iglesias a schoolboy was bitten on the left arm by a baracuda while swimming in San Juan. The arm was amputated. The incident challenges the belief that baracudas attack only in months with an R in their name. In two years there have been two fatal bites locally.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Lorenzo Iglesias
Equipment Exhibition Opens Here Showcasing Coal Mining Gear
The National Exhibition of Coal Mining Equipment and Machinery opens at Music Hall with a public Monday evening view. Cincinnati hosts the four day sessions of the American Mining Congress with speakers like Louis C. Cates and Carl Scholz.
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American Mining Congress
Music Hall
James C. Layne
Man O’ War Coals
Cincinnati Coal Exchange
Cincinnati
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
National Coal Association
Chicago
Mining Men of America
Louis C. Cates
Utah Copper Company
Carl Scholz
J. Ernest Allen
Hayden, Store & Co
New York
Memorial planned for Donald McKay great clipper shipbuilder
Boston honors Donald McKay with a proposed outdoor memorial funded by Allan Forbes Charles Knowles J Pierpont Morgan and Arthur Curtiss James. The project aims to repay a debt of remembrance for the New England shipbuilder who created famed clippers like the Flying Cloud and Great Republic.
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New York World News Service
Boston
United States
China
East Indies
State Street
Donald McKay
Longfellow
Great Republic
McKay
America
Massachusetts
Newburyport
Allan Forbes
State Steel Trust Company
Charles Knowles Boston
Boston Athameaum
New England
Sea
J. Pierpont Morgan
Arthur Curtiss James
Newbury
Essex County
Merrimac River
Essex
Nathaniel Tracey
Old North Church
New York
Louvre
California
Taunton
Samuel
Eliot Morrison
Mr. Morrison
James Banes
Rheims
Parthenon
Amiens
Flying Fish
Flying Cloud
Laughlin McKay
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Noodle Island
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Hamilton
Prince of Wales
Newport
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Cluger
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Zoo
Whittier
Windsor
Dyer
Sherman
Oakley
Sands
Washburn
Hoffman
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Bloom Junior High
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