17 Feb 1921
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Newspaper
Democrat Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1921
Page
1
Local printing house in Jefferson City operates under Cole County Democrat Printing Co. serving community newspapers. It distributes print services and presses materials for county wide circulation.
Alexander Howat head of the Kansas coal miners group and five executive committee members received one year in jail for ordering a coal miners strike. The report ties the ruling to perceived autocratic governance in Kansas and critiques suffrage of personal liberty.
A St. Louis Star reflection contrasts grandmothers with today’s women, noting greater liberties, business sense, and direct buying. It argues modern shoppers prioritize value, style, service, and persistence, shopping across stores until they find what they want.
Stanford University has secured a collection of Babylonian tablets from recent excavations. Several tablets show finger impressions from their moulding era over 4,000 years ago, including one bearing the name of Darius, King of Babylon.
Europeans see love as simple or temporary and rarely a sacrament. Americans differ by gender with men tending to focus on material life while women proclaim a refined view of love. The piece notes a gap between declared beliefs and actual thoughts, especially among American women.
In a Philadelphia Public Ledger On Second Thought note the essay discusses how calling a statesman a 10 cent cigar would insult both cigar traders and voters. It argues the market would rebuke such elitist labeling at the stand and at the polls.
The article notes a U S import surge of coconut oil to offset animal fat scarcity evidenced by butter prices. It explains copra drying, oil extraction by hydraulic presses yielding 85 to 70 percent, and coconut oil’s cooking use plus roles in nut butter candles soap and cosmetics. A new alloy resembling nine carat gold resists corrosion and offers high tensile strength, ductility, and malleability.
New Griffith picture Scarlet Days portrayed the California gold rush with artistic depth. The film, a Paramount Aircraft feature, reimagines old West romance under David Wark Griffith’s mastery and is showing at the Jefferson tonight.
Eleanor Markell in the Outlook describes the post 1918 Czecho-Slovak currency shift, noting the kronen’s depreciation, a gold reserve melted from antique items, and a 1000 kronen note printed in the United States with Justice depicted with six fingers. It explains export-led policy to raise values and the patriotism of citizens while detailing the sugar beet crop drive to fuel exports.
For many years world animal fat production declined leading to European famine during the war as large quantities were removed from human use and replaced by coconut fat to sustain supplies.
The Living Age notes M Millerand's election highlights a plan to endow the French presidency with real power beyond ceremonial duties. Socialists fear a drift toward monarchy, while royalist papers praise the move. If enacted, the power shift could alter how the president is chosen, diverging from direct popular election. Jamaica Seen as Potential Vanilla Source Through Pimento Leaves Eugenol Spoils. Eugenol-rich pimento leaves in Jamaica may yield crude vanilla, offering an economic edge via fermentation to produce iso eugenol and vanillin as a new vanilla supply.
Dr H J John reports in the American Journal of Medical Science his experience with intravenous glucose in pneumonia. More than two doses daily rarely needed. it eased discomfort and sleep, lowered temperature, boosted kidney and skin elimination, and slowed the heart while increasing pulse volume.
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