Forgery Plot in Federal Prison Exposed at Leavenworth
Chicago officials report a 25 man fugitive forged ring operating from Fort Leavenworth prison printing office. They produced 1000 sub treasury checks of $100 and forged letters, targeting private firms like United Fruit. Key figures include Robert Jones and Arthur Matheson. others held on $1,000 bonds as investigations linked to widespread counterfeiting.
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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 Willams
John Skelton Williams
Treasury
St. Louis
Drautzberg
Robert Jones
Jones
Draumberg
Tos Hl Street
Arthur Matheson
North Marshfiekt Avenue
Atfonwh
Headstone Stolen From Eugene Salesrooms
Eugene police report a stone headstone with no markings stolen from B C Bake who ran a Eugene salesroom. Bake believes the thief may have been planning a future grave decoration.
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Eugene
Ore
B.C. Bake
Luke
Efficiency tips for horse power on the average farm
The article from the United States Department of Agriculture argues that farm labor and horsepower are underutilized. It recommends fall plowing, two-horse and four-horse plows, light harrows, two-row cultivators, cooperative harvesting, and manure spreaders to save labor and increase land output across cotton and corn belts.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Cotton Belt
Raising Healthy Chickens Symptoms of Several Ills
The article from the United States Department of Agriculture stresses selecting vigorous breeding stock to raise healthy chicks. It outlines age guidance for hens and cockerels, care for breeding birds, and warns that limberneck is a symptom linked to various conditions. It recommends purgative treatment for affected birds and cautions against extended delays in recovery.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Lice Powder Use Advised for Poultry Health
The United States Department of Agriculture promotes lice powder as essential for poultry care. A dust bath of road cast and wood ashes, plus sodium sulfate powder from druggists, helps rid fowls of lice. Apply powder at the base of feathers across head and neck, back, breast, vent area, tail base, thighs, and under each wing.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Market All Surplus Fowls
Editorial urges disposing of surplus hens and roosters no longer useful and replacing them with fresh young fowls. It calls for consigning older birds to the stewpot or market basket and improving stock in pens and nests.
Harvesting Big Wheat Crop With Record Yield Expected
The article notes the largest wheat crop on record about to be harvested. It warns ro iery neighborhoods thrashers may miss rounds and much wheat could wall berom if left in the shack. Dew and rain threaten stored grain, and stacking has fallen out of use though preservation favors prompt thrashing.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Ro Iery
Berom
Successful Sheep Farming Emphasizes Wool and Mutton
A system of sheep farming that remains consistently successful must treat wool and mutton as equally important. Depending on conditions, management, and market, one product may be emphasized while the other remains a key consideration.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Wealth in Spandau Castle Tower and 20 Million Lei Embezzled
A Berlin report notes the Spandau citadel stored 120 million marks in the Julius tower as war funds. Disturbances after armistice lead to 20 million lei removed from the citadel, stored there for lack of room in the Julius tower. Was the Romanian money crowded out by other specie in the vaults of Spandau?
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Spandau
Berlin
France
Ioumania
Julius Tower
Magnetized screwdriver proves a boon to autoists
Ethel Webb writes in the Electrical Experimenter that she magnetized a screwdriver by holding it near a dynamo for several minutes, and it remains her valued repair helper. The magnetized tool helps pick up dropped screws, sets screws with one hand, and eliminates screws slipping away on lonely roads.
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Ethel Webb
Magazine Syringe A Wartime Invention For Peace
A magazine hypodermic syringe, capable of twenty uses without re filling, aids physicians under fire and in dugouts by reducing syringe recharging. It features a platinum needle for flame sterilization and a protective cap filled with iodine or alcohol. When mass typhoid inoculations are conducted, this instrument saves time and effort.
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Dirk
Roosevelt Visits Panama to Inspect Canal Site
President Roosevelt traveled to Panama during his term to inspect the Panama Canal site. The trip marked the first time a U.S. president stepped onto non U.S. territory while in office, breaking tradition of remaining within the United States.
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Roosevelt
Panama
United States
Panama Canal
Europe
Africa
Health reform warns of widespread illness and poor living
A bulletin from the Indiana state board of health blames modern living for sickness. It claims Americans are only 60 million in health terms though population exceeds 100 million, citing wrong feeding, lack of air and sunshine, impure water, caffeine and nicotine, and heavy use of patent medicines.
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Indiana
Hawaiian Population Decline Attributed to White Contact
A professor from the College of Tiawati warns that native Hawaiians are rapidly dying out due to diseases and social changes brought by white settlers. He cites alcohol, measles, tuberculosis, and other infections as new threats unknown before Western contact.
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Vioughn
Mie Craghey
College of Tiawati
Dittana
Hawaii
Electric Lighting Reach in U S Homes
The text cites 900000 homes lit by electricity and 14800000 by other means. A portion of latter are wired but not connected. Among electric lighted homes there are 125000000 sockets with improved lamps 25000000 sockets with carbon lamps and 11000000 empty sockets.
Queen Helena Captures Her Children Outdoors
Queen Helena of Italy appears as a clever amateur photographer focusing on her children at outdoor play. The royal hobby highlights a personal side of the monarch framed by informal, candid shots.
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Queen
Queen Helena
Italy
Vader-Balm Promises Quick Relief for Summer Ailments
Ad claims Vader-Balm relieves nervous headache superficial inflammation and offers relief for mumps hay fever and general pain. It advertises a free sample and 225 tube options for 50 cent stamps with agents terms, from E. W. Vacher Inc New Orleans Louisiana.
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E. W. Vacher, Inc
New Orleans
Ady
It Is Not Permissible to Photograph Women in China
The text cites a prohibition on photographing women in China and then veers into a poetic line about men saving money by collecting others' sorrows, suggesting a moral or social commentary rather than a clear news event.
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China
Bayer Aspirin Ad Promotes Bayer Cross Packaging
An advertisement urges buyers to ensure Bayer Tablets of Aspirin carry the Bayer Cross and proper directions. It promotes unbroken packages and various sizes, noting the tablet’s aspirin composition and uses for headache toothache earache neuralgia colds.
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Bayer
Old cigarette query from child and reply in Auckland News
A dialogue from the Auckland News features The Makin's and Smarl Boy-Sir asking for an old cigarette and a boy explaining his father allows smoking when older. The exchange highlights attitudes toward youth smoking in a historic local clipping.
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Auckland News
Wr Indian Vegetable Pills Promoted for Liver Tone
An ad touts Wr Indian Vegetable Pills to tone a torpid liver and aid digestion. A playful dialogue line mocks a boastful suitor and a quip about supporting wives, illustrating humorous content in a clipped newspaper snippet.
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Limberneck
Department of Agriculture
Jake T
Carey
Philip Carey Company
Wayne Ave
Lockland
Cincinnati
Count de Bustup
Peter
Paul
Lydia E. Pinkham
Canada
Western
Loana
Dominion
Manitoba
Saskatcheewn
Alberta
Ihawran
Albada
W.S. Nethery
Columbus
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