Federation Will Meet at Melrose
The Beaverhead County Federation of Women's clubs convenes in Melrose on May 26 for a morning business session at Community church with a revised constitution by Mrs. W L Hughes and officer elections. Afternoon talks feature Dr Caroline Magill on women's health, scouting demonstrations by Butte Girl Scouts, and reminiscences by Mrs A S Christie.
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Melrose Women’s Clubs
Beaverhead
Ladies of
Melrose
Magill
Caroline Magill
Butte
Scott Fries
Butte Girl Scouts
A. S. Christie
Montana State Federation
Melrose Club
The Force of Intellect in Modern Boxing
The article argues that physical strength has waned in prominence as intellect guides success. It notes prize fighters now blend business sense and scientific boxing knowledge, citing Italy's Umberto Torriani as a literate challenger. American champion Gene Tunney is mentioned as a potential intellectual rival.
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Tne
Italy
Umberto Torriani
Umberto
Gene Tunney
Readers value brain power over brawn in modern era
The passage notes that individuals in sports and other fields now show greater intellectual depth. It remarks on a college address about Shakespeare and praises wise remarks about the Bard. It concludes that modern participants possess substantial brain power, challenging cynics.
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Avon
Government warns of summer infantile paralysis outbreak risk
Federal authorities warn of possible summer outbreak of infantile paralysis and spinal meningitis. Dr. Harris, New York Health officer, urges protection measures such as copper screening, keeping flies from children, pasteurizing or boiling milk, and providing vitamin rich foods while awaiting further information.
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Harris
New York
Teaching children hygiene and safe kissing practices
Public health guidance emphasizes teaching children not to put fingers in mouths or noses and to wash hands well before meals. It also advises limiting kissing to one's own children and cautions adults about carrying germs that can affect young children with developing immune systems.
Consistency and Progress in Inference Across Ages and Inventions
Dorothy Dix muses on flexibility over consistency as a mark of wit and youthfulness, contrasting old age dullness with fresh ideas. The note recalls Harvey’s blood circulation, Napoleon’s rifle, Fulton’s steamboat prophecies, and U.S. poultry practices with electric hatcheries, feeding, and market aims for British trade, ending with iron and steel shipments to Chicago and Milwaukee.
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Harvey
Government should shield American workers from foreign competition
The speaker argues that domestic workers and businessmen require protection from cheaper foreign prices and urges government action to ensure competitive fairness.
Florida crops menaced by Mexican competition threaten growers
Political dispute shadows Florida agriculture as winter vegetables face ruin from Mexican competition. Campaigns pledge protection for American labor through tariffs and Congress action.
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Florida
Congress
Flood control bill signed by Coolidge boosts Mississippi Valley plans
The flood control act okayed by President Coolidge spurs New Orleans and the lower Mississippi valley as construction funding and engineering oversight shift to the army and the Mississippi River Commission. Carleton W. Sturtevant named third board member. $25 million initial outlay, total up to $325 million with possible long term costs reaching $500 million. Also notes Farm Relief and Merchant Marine bills, and political jockeying for the 1924 conventions with Hoover and Smith factions and Mellon hints at a potential Coolidge candidacy.
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Whder
Jadwin
The
River Commission
Coolidge
Carleton W. Sturtevant
New York
Sturtevant
American Society of Civil Engineers
University of Missouri
Mississippi
Panama Canal
South America
Mexico
Army
Mississippi River Commission
Secretary of War
Senate
Ashurst
Kellogg peace plan praised by British Lords with global reach
Gustav Stresemann nears death in ailing Germany while Kellogg's antiwar plan gains British Lord’s endorsement and Australian Premier approval. Reports hint Kellogg may win a Nobel Peace Prize as delegates from sixteen nations, including the U S, meet in Cassel under the Third International to discuss extending communism into military ranks. Moscow warns of limited European revolutions amid Vienna’s defeat.
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Gustav Stresemann
Germany
Sener Ary
STATD
Kelloggq
House of Lords
Lord Reading
Bruce
Australia
Japan
Paris
Kellogg
EDS
United States
Cassel
Third International
Rykoff
England
France
America
Moscow
Europe
Vienna
Aerial Camera Built for Army Air Corps With 8 Mile Range
Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation announces a new aerial camera for the Army Air Corps capable of photographing fires up to four square miles from 30,000 feet. It features automatic control and an on board data recorder for exposure time altitude and other details. The unit includes an electrical heating system to prevent shutter freezing in extreme cold. In Italy the senate passes a new electoral law to reform the chamber of deputies and abolish democratic popular suffrage. The 400 Mussolini picked deputies will be approved or rejected by a yes or no plebiscite. no oppositionists will be presented.
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Hoover
New Jersey
Alabama
Smith
Vermont
Montana
South Carolina
Houston
New York
Senate Committee On
New York State
W.F. Kenny
Smith Fund
Soover
Lowden
Hooverites
Kansas City
Mellon
Coolidge
Charles D. Hilles
Philadelphia
Mr. Mellon
William Vare
Secretary of Commerce
Vare
Dawes
Pennsylvania
Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation
Army Air Corps
Aascism
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Muscle Shoals nitrate plants and power project plan
NCLE SAM moves to form a 10 million dollar corporation to operate obsolete nitrate plants and dispose of power. The resolution relates to Muscle Shoals and may face a presidential veto. The bill funds dam No. 2 and improvements potentially up to 340 million, atop 140 million already spent.
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Ncle Sam
House
Senate
Norring
Muscle Shoals
Danish Bishop Bast Found Guilty on Two Charges
The Methodist Episcopal ecclesiastical court in Kansas City found Bishop Anton Bast of Copenhagen guilty on two charges of imprudent and unministerial conduct and permanently suspended him from exercising bishop functions. The court kept him in membership and ministry and urged support provision until the next conference meeting, citing misuse of charity funds.
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Methodist Episcopal Ecclesiastical Court
Anton Bast
Copenhagen
Kansas City
Bast
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