Pearl Bulleit Regains Speech After Nine Months
Miss Pearl Bulleit daughter of Mr and Mrs F A Bulleit of this place recovered her speech last Wednesday after nine months of silence. A Sacred Heart Academy Louisville student she spoke first to tell her parents and then visited home over the weekend. The piece also urges readers to buy Liberty Bonds to support the Second Liberty Loan and the war effort.
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Pearl Balleit
F. A. Bulleit
Ths Place
Miss Bulleit
Sacred Heart Academy
Louisville
Holding of Loaded Cars Shifts Blame to Shippers
Washington September 26 The Bureau of Markets of the U S Department of Agriculture says shippers holding loaded cars at Potomac Yards Virginia for up to 84 hours before moving them worsens transportation shortages. Perishable goods like cabbage watermelons cucumbers potatoes and tomatoes show long delays, with 236 cars averaged 44 hours each.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Markets
United States Department of Agriculture
Potomac Yards
Virginia
Local Visitors and Community Notes from Mauckport Area
Mauckport residents Mr and Mrs James Lamping from Tennessee visit Mr and Mrs Allen Lamping. A C Bedenstadt returns from Ekron Kentucky visit. Malon Hottie and son Joseph visit Corydon relatives. Roscoe Hardin 835 A S Infantry exempt from service Mrs W H Fiers Jr and others attend Meade County rally at Brandenburg with Col Bennett H Young speech. Rev Tallis moves into Isaac Beanblogsom property.
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James Lamping
Tennessee
Lamping
Allen Lamping
A. C. Bedenstadt
Ekron
Malon Hottie
Joseph
Corydon
Roscoe Hardin
A. S. Infantry
Camp Taylor
W. H. Fiers Jr
Walter Daily
Harold Kalb
F. M. Hays
Noel
Meade Co. Ky
Brandenburg
Col
Bennett H. Young
Kentucky
Rev. Tallis
U. B. Church
Isaac Beanblogsom
World Wheat Crop Hits 1.665 Billion Bushels This Year
Global wheat production reported by the International Institute of Agriculture and the U S Department of Agriculture totals 1 665 489 000 bushels up 8 8 percent from 1916 The barley rye oats and corn crops are also up with barley at 464 289 000 and oats near 1 995 501 030 bushels while rye soars 107 percent and corn climbs 25 8 percent Algeria shows wheat 29 765 000 bushels up 1 9 percent and outs 18 946 000 bushels up 44 2 percent with barley at 33 208 000 bushels down 7 7 percent.
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United States
International Institute of Agriculture At
Rome
Department of Agriculture
Algeria
Boon Township Farmer Sells 62 Hogs for 2450.60 at Louisville Market
Tiler L. Roby of Boone township sent sixty two hogs to the Louisville market last week in four auto truck loads. The animals averaged 215 pounds and brought 18.55 and 1870 per hundred after commission. Roby expects fifty four more hogs at home to market later.
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Tiler L. Roby
Boone Township
Louisville
Roosevelt Attacks La Follette at Midwestern Luncheon
Col. Theodore Roosevelt denounces Senator La Follette as a disgrace while urging stronger wartime measures. He says Congress could have ended the war earlier and calls for war against Austria and Turkey to safeguard democracy. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood backs the need for men and sacrifice, not weapons alone.
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Kanana City
United States
Senate
la Follette
Theodore Roosevelt
Leonard Wood
Congress
Col. Roosevelt
Germany
America
Wilson
Austria
Turkey
Col
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Attacks LaFollette As German Loyalist
Col. Roosevelt denounces Senator LaFollette as loyally serving Germany and a danger to democracy. He claims LaFollette pretends to defend democracy while promoting autocracy under the German flag and urges patriotic groups to reject him as a speaker in the future.
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Maj
Wood
Col. Roosevelt
America
LaFollette
Germany
Minneapolis
Spartan Girls Farewell to a Soldier Boy Poem
The poem by Lloyd P. Robertson from News- Democrat in Paducah Kentucky laments sending a gallant soldier away. It vows prayers and support, urges courage on the battlefield, and romantic farewell lines for Belgium France and liberty, ending with tribute if the loved one falls.
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Lloyd P. Robertson
Care News- Democrat
Paducah, Ky
Thankful notes for mother Mia Beaublossom
The undersigned thank friends for asserance and kindness during the brief illness and death of their mother Mia. Rachel Beaublossom. The children.
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Mia
Rachel Beaublossom
Harsh Words In a Selected Tales Quote
The line portrays sharp observation on cleanliness and change with a Parisian flair, reflecting the author Barry Pain in Se lected Tales. The excerpt contrasts unclean tea cups and cold toast with the idea of defection expressed as crumbs.
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Barry Pain
A Very Little Love Tale Revealed
A brief exchange shows Bob realizing that a fiancé’s love was only a little. The line captures a comic moment in Londou Answers where expectations meet a sharp, witty remark.
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Bob
Londou
The Right Key Proves A Prompt Humour Break
A brief exchange frames a joke about music and a proposal with a playful back and forth. The Boston Transcript style hints at a light, witty aside in a newspaper page caption or cartoon caption.
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Boston Transcript
A St Louis Boy Visits Zoo Zebra Confuses With Convict Mule
A St Louis boy visiting Chicago with his uncle sees a zebra at the zoo and humorously calls it the convict mule. The tale appears in a column citing Publus Sirus and titled A Matter of Stripes.
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St. Louis
Chicago
New York Times
Agriculture In Japan Reveals Farm Family Distribution
The Department of Agriculture and Commerce reports 5,448,292 agricultural families in Japan. Among them 1,728,692 cultivate their own land, 1,507,520 are tenant farmers, and 2,202,080 work partly on own land and partly as tenants. Land owning farmers make up 32 percent. This is small versus the United States 62 percent and the Netherlands 58 percent, but large compared with England at 13 percent.
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Surance
France
United States
Congress of the United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Treasury Department
Trooya
Treasury
Europe
Japan
Department of Agriculture and Commerce
Netherlands
England
Diplomacy Wisdom From a Father to His Son
A Life magazine quip contrasts diplomacy with deception, explaining a diplomat aims to plant the opposite of his true intent in the adversary’s mind. The exchange frames strategic misdirection as a form of lying in negotiations.
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Papa
Devoted to Duty In a Sleepless Vigil
A woman vows to watch for Mrs. Jones's husband while she is away, promising to stay up all night to track his return. The scene captures a tense domestic moment as she commits to her alert duty despite exhaustion.
Half Mourning Costume Sparks Office Jibe
A playful exchange has one person asking why the other wears a costume that resembles half mourning. The response notes the other’s habit of complaining of being half dead after returning from the office each evening.
Leek in Soup Sparks Humorous Waiter Exchange
In a lively kitchen exchange a diner notices a leak in the soup. The waiter replies that the plate is cracked and the table is wet while a second customer jokes about the leek in the soup.
Liver Spots Hint at Liver Derangement
Practical Health Hint explains liver spots arise from chronic liver sluggishness and advise dietary changes. A diet of buttermilk, apples, or grapes is suggested for several weeks, started gradually with one meal replaced at a time. Seek professional medical advice for individual cases.
Lava Still Too Hot to Cool After Eruptions
The article notes lava from Mount Aetna eruptions remains extremely hot, with estimates around 2000 degrees F. It cites Walter Woodburn Hyde and Forelli on lava lasting years to cool, mentions steam in 1830 from 1787 lava, and describes a 1787 lava flow that reached the sea near Catania, filling a wide breach and forming a lava promontory that protected the harbor.
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Mount Aetna
Walter Woodburn Hyde
University of Pennsylvania
Geographical Review
Forelli
Catania
A Sincere Compliment From a Louisville Meeting
A writer in the Dallas Pitchfork recalls Rev. Sam P. Jones recounting a moment in Louisville. He described meeting a colonel’s saddle horse led by a yard man who said the horse “has sense” because it knows who is looking at him.
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Sam P. Jones
Dallas
Louisville
Sam Jones
Monster Haystacks Reveal Romanian Land Labor System
A giant Romanian haystack near a village illustrates a system where landowners compel peasants to consolidate hay. Peasants face collective liability if fire breaks out, with weights of each contribution recorded by both sides, and arson by a disgruntled peasant is hard to detect.
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Roumaniana
Roumania
Food Ration Notes From War Fronts
The article describes British soldiers receiving dog biscuits as bread substitutes and French war bread that swells in hot water. It also explains the German pea sausage made from pea meal bacon and fat, a Berlin invention preserving pea meal quality. one eight inch sausage yields twelve plates of soup.
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Berlin
Time and Taste Learnings by Justice Hohnes
A noted remark from Justice Hohnes on how time shapes beliefs and tastes, emphasizing an amiable latitude in judgments and opinions across perspectives.
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Justice Hohnes
Unbelievable America in Munsterberg memoir excerpt
In Century’s Twenty five Years In America Hugo Munsterberg recalls German misperceptions of the United States a quarter century ago. He praises historian Holst for his immersion in American life and his hotel room hot bath anecdote at a New York hotel underscores disbelief.
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America
Hugo Munsterberg
Harvard
Germany
Holst
Professor Munsterberg
Freiburg
New York
Length of Wireless Waves and Wave Meter Basics
Explanation from Scientific American on measuring wave lengths in wireless telegraphy. It notes the natural wave length of an aerial is four times its length, similar to organ pipe and tuning fork resonances. It also states a wave meter yields more accurate results than a simple ruler.
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Scientific American
How much experience behind the counter matters
A shop manager questions a job applicant who lacks counter experience but has customer experience. The piece emphasizes the value of sellers understanding buyers, seeing merchandise through the customer lens, and using proven sales methods to attract and retain patrons.
Fragrant Wild Flowers Among American Botanists
Readers of the American Botanist debate the most fragrant wild American flower. In New England pink azalea leads, white water lily second, trailing arbutus noted but possibly overrated due to early spring bloom. Other contenders include partridge berry, common locust, horned bladderwort, yellow Jessamine, spotted wintergreen, and several magnolias.
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New England
John Burroughs
Remarkable Pianist Noted for Timing and Control
Detroit reports a pianist described as remarkable for her timing and restraint. The piece highlights that she knows when to quit, suggesting disciplined interpretation and precise phrasing in performance.
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Detroit
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