Falsified Checks Plot Unmasked at Fort Leavenworth Prison
Federal prison forgery ring of about 25 men printed 1000 subtreasury checks and private company checks at Fort Leavenworth. Arrests linked to Chicago Secret Service detail reveal ringleaders including Robert Jones and Arthur Mitheson. Dozens of forged papers circulated nationwide with aliases like C Skelton Williams. Bonds set at 10000 each.
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Chicago
Fort Leavenworth
Peter Drautzberg
W. G. Harper
Thomas L Porter
United States
Secret Service
United Fruit Company
New Orleans
C. Skelton Williams
John Skelton Williams
Treasury
St. Louis
Drautzberg
Robert Jones
Jones
Trusty
Ios Eoi Street
Arthur Mitheson
North Marshfield Avenue
Alfonné Jones
Oe Wilson
New York
Marph Winserbors
Teacoworth
Eugene headstone theft shocks local craftsman
Eugene man ELC Lake reports a plain unmarked headstone stolen from his salesrooms. Lake suspects the thief planned a future grave decoration and believes the act reflects a morbid intent.
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Eugene
Qre
ELC
Lake
Efficient Use of Horse Power on the Farm
The USDA urges better use of horse power to save labor on American farms. Recommendations include using two-horse breaking plows, light harrows and weeders, two-row cultivators, and four to five horsepower teams for larger plows. Cooperative machinery sharing and manure spreaders are advised to maximize labor efficiency and reduce idle work.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Cotton Belt
Raising Healthy Chickens Symptom Of Several Ills
The article advises selecting vigorous breeding stock for healthy chicks and outlines age and condition of hens and cockerels for breeding. It explains Amberneck as a symptom linked to various diseases, caused by intestinal poisons, with digestion and worm issues noted. Treatment suggests purgatives like epsom salt or castor oil, with rapid recovery possible within a day, and to quit if no improvement in 3-4 days.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Lice Powder Essentials for Poultry Care
The Department of Agriculture notes a free use of an effective lice powder is advisable. A dust bath of road dust and wood ashes helps rid fowls of lice. Sodium Aurid is effective and available from druggists. Apply a pinch at multiple feather bases including head neck back breast vent tail thighs and under wings.
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United States Department of Anriculture
Market All Surplus Fowls For Market And Stewpot
Announcement urges disposing of surplus hens and roosters no longer useful. Farmers should consign such birds to market or stewpot and replace with fresh young fowls of good strain in pens and nests.
Harvest Wheat Crop May Delay Thrashing Schedule
The big wheat harvest promises a record crop and may disrupt thrashers rounds in late season. Farmers should consider waiting to thresh shocks to avoid grain loss from dew and rain as advised by the agriculture department.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Successful Sheep Farming Emphasizes Wool and Mutton
A continuous, successful system of sheep farming requires attention to both wool and mutton. In many cases both products deserve equal consideration, while in others one product may be emphasized over the other.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Mystery of the Spandau gold reserve and 20 million lei
Berlin reports reveal that about 20 million lei were taken from the Spandau citadel after armistice disturbances. The money, part of Romania’s wartime escape from evacuation, was said to be moved because the Julius tower had no room. The note questions if the Julius tower was already full of gold.
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Spandau
Berlin
France
Roumania
Julius Tower
Magnetized screwdriver aids auto work says Ethel Webb
In the Electrical Experimenter Ethel Webb notes a screwdriver magnetized near a dynamo helps car repairs. She says it picks up dropped screws and parts, sets screws with one hand, and often saves time on lonely roads.
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Ethel Webb
Magazine Syringe Aids War Time Medical Work
A magazine hypodermic syringe designed for peacetime value can be used twenty times without refilling. It features a platinum needle for flame sterilization and a cap filled with iodine or alcohol. In mass inoculations such as typhoid serum campaigns it saves substantial time under fire or in dugouts.
Roosevelt Visits Panama To Inspect Panama Canal Site
President Roosevelt toured Panama in 1909 marking the first time a sitting U.S. president stepped onto foreign soil under the flag. He aimed to inspect the canal site and break with the custom of not leaving the country during a term. His trip followed hunting in Africa before returning home.
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Roosevelt
Panama
United States
Panama Canal
Europe
Africa
Health Reform Warns of Widespread Ills in Population
A bulletin from the Indiana State Board of Health argues most people are born healthy yet become sick due to diet and lifestyle. It claims the U S population is overstated and blames wrong feeding, immoderation, lack of air and sun, water quality, excessive coffee and patent medicines for national health decline.
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Indiana State Board of Health
America
Hawaiians Dying Out As White Influence Spreads
Professor Virugtha Mite, from the College of Tawali, warns the Phiwaiiin race is near extinction due to alcohol, treastes, leprosy, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and Cleon diseases introduced by white men. He cites the decline as one of the finest physiol types in trotmin history.
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Virugtha Mite
Convicey
College of Tawali
Aiwail
Electric Lighting in Homes and Socket Distribution
The text estimates 9.0 million homes heated by electricity and 14.8 million by other means. Some in the latter group are wired but not connected. Among electrified homes there are 125 million sockets with improved lamps, 25 million with carbon lamps, and 21 million empty sockets.
Queen Helena Captures Moments with Children Outdoors
Queen Helena of Italy enjoys amateur photography focusing on her children at outdoor play, showcasing candid family scenes and royal daily life through her lens.
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Queen
Queen Helena
Italy
Vader Balm Advertises Quick Relief for Summer Ailments
An old ad promotes Vader-Balm as harmless fast relief for nervous headache superficial inflammation and ailments like mumps hay fever and general pain. It invites free samples or agent terms and 50 cent stamps for two 25 cent tubes from E. W. Vacher Inc New Orleans La.
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E. W. Vacher, Inc
New Orleans
Adv
Silent Observation Behind China Photo Ban
A remark notes that photographing women in China is not permissible. The author then uses a vivid metaphor about men hiding wealth in the brine of others' tears to critique social consequences.
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China
Small Boy Seeks Old Cigarette in Auckland News
A brief cartoon-style exchange shows a Small Boy asking for an old cigarette, a Golfer questions the purpose of a cigarette holder, and the boy explains his father allows smoking when older. The vignette appears in the Auckland News.
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The
Makin’s
Auckland News
Indian Vegetable Pills Offer Gentle Liver Support
A humorous snippet mocks a Victorian quack remedy while a boastful count seeks marriage, and a sly saying notes that thieves who rob Peter to pay Paul often avoid paying Paul. The fragment hints at social satire and circulating humor in period printing.
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Peter
Paul
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