Census figures show rising divorces in six northeastern states
Preliminary 1922 data from the census bureau cover six states New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut New Jersey and Delaware. The divorce rate rose to 9.3 per 100 marriages in 1922 from 6.8 in 1916 as marriages fell and divorces climbed.
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Washington
Census Bureau
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Jersey
Delaware
Sungringes
Propaganda Trends in Soviet and Western Historiography
Analysis critiques how Soviet and Western historians portray Bolshevik doctrines and the impact on individual lives. It notes monographs arguing the West’s failure to counter Bolshevik influence and various fiction volume narratives shaping responses to Soviet ideas.
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Wwe
Hasty Conclusion Loses Paris Doctor Fat Fee
A Paris surgeon recounts treating an American patient for appendicitis who offered a cigar case as thanks. The doctor rejected it, asking for cash, while the patient explained there were five more such items in the case as compensation.
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Paris
Fat Fee
Sigima
Sten Maindam
Old Sailing Vessels Puzzle Modern Mariners
The Leviathan’s return sparks reflections on the near disappearance of American sailing ships. Students in a seafaring class vary in knowledge of seven masts. fore, main, mizzen, pusher, driver, jigger, and spanker are listed in order, while other authorities offer alternate mast names or week-based schemes.
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Norfolk
Ram airramps to strike enemy airships revealed
A Daily Chronicle aeronautical report describes secret British developments in heavy armored ram ramps for airships. The weapon would be dropped from mother ships to pierce troop transports and battleships, guided by a lone pilot inside the ram craft, with no guns, using a cutting bowl and telescopic sight to strike from immense height.
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London
Daily Chronicle
Clinic opens under gas works fumes in Suburban Lower Sydenham
Unclear text reports a gas works site in Lower Sydenham England converting a pump room into a clinic for whooping cough patients. A nurse or doctor notes mothers bringing sick children to inhale fumes from crude liquor beneath the pump room, claimed as a cure.
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Yvhe Ptap Louth
Csodtii
Lower
Sydenham
Went
England
Elidrea
Pirates Take Murder Toll in Arctic Trading
Anchorage Alaska Capt Andrew Predersen claims he joined a Nome to Siberia trading voyage where drunken natives traded furs for whiskey and a Siberian official aboard to collect tax was thrown overboard and shot. He says murder occurred during the government effort to halt the traffic and he feared assassination on return voyage.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Andrew Predersen
Predersem
Nome
Siberia
London Plagued by 70 Tons Soot Floating Over City
London experts report the capital’s atmosphere as highly polluted with 70 tons of soot seen in the air at ten o clock on a recent day. The average June daily soot is twenty tons.
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London
Woman Hangs from Bridge After Jump Attempt in Rosedale
Florence Smith attempted suicide by leaping from a Rosedale bridge in Toronto. Her leg became caught in girders, leaving her suspended head down about 50 feet above the road until passersby rescued her.
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Toronto
Florence Smith
Rosedale
Many Candidates for County Superintendent
A number of candidates to succeed Superintendent Waldrip are named. Afiss Coffeen Miss Glescack Fine Allen Professor R Coffine of Attica and several others are listed. The contest for the office is expected to be lively.
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the Common Schools
Supt. Waldrip
Afiss Coffeen
Glescack
Fine Allen
R. Coffine
Attica
Notice of Administration in Fountain County
Notice announces the administrator of the estate of John Cty, deceased in Fountain County India. It notes the estate is solvent and names Nando CL Starnes ABR as administrator. The text includes unrelated fragments about a birth and other items, with garbled names and stray lines.
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Fountainy County
Indianela
Fountain Co
John C$ty
Public Sale of Shorthorn Cattle at Isley Farm
Monday October 1592 sale at Ches Isley’s farm seven miles southeast of Veedersboro four miles northeast of Yeddo and one mile from Steam Corner. Lunch at 11 30 sale begins at 12 00. 31 head registered cattle for cash or up to 12 months with bankable note at 8 percent interest. Auctioneers A G Madden Harvey Saylor C P Madden W E L Harrison. Owners Charley Isley Grant Bonebrake Elbert G Palmer Charles P Ceats.
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Ches. Isley’s
Veedersboro
Yeddo
Steam Corner
A. G. Madden
Harvey Saylor
C. P. Madden
W. E L. Harrison
Charley Isley
Grant Bonebrake
Elbert G. Palmer
Charles P. Ceats
Ninety nine of a hundred druggists back Chamberlain’s remedy
The text asserts that 99 out of 100 druggists recommend Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy when asked for the best diarrhoea medicine, claiming customers praise its reliability and safety. It also notes druggists’ profit motives do not change their endorsement.
State Tax Board Refuses to Approve Bonds for Gravel Road
The Indiana State Tax Board rejected 3000 bonds to fund the James Prairie gravel road between Richland and Clinton townships. Board member Zoercher recently reviewed the evidence. The project cannot proceed. promoters’ plans are unknown and the road has lingered unfinished for years despite contracts and printed bonds.
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Tne
Indianatelis
James Praziery
Richland
Czin Township
Zoercher
A Good Thing ISN'T MISS IT ut wane as ny
The readable fragment offers a fragmented line urging timely action with a playful misspelling. No clear event or entities are identifiable beyond the phrase suggesting urgency about missing something.
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