Woman Held at Ellis Island After WWI Bread Duty Tale
Scenes from a German rising recall Mrs. Chaya Menkes wife of an American citizen detained at Ellis Island on passport grounds. She says nine armies crossed Galicia during the war and one daughter was killed by Polish soldiers. Her husband Mirsch Isaac Menkes became a U.S. citizen on April 5 but cannot claim wife and children Pelya eleven and David fifteen.
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Chaya Menkes
Eliis Island
United States
Pelya
David
Buster the Calamagos Turtle Lofts in Bronx Zoo
Buster the Calapagos turtle, three centuries old, is described as the largest land tortoise and one of the oldest. He resides at the Bronx Zoo in New York, noted for his unlikely longevity and calm temperament.
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Buster
Bronx Zoological Gardens
New+ York
Advised Walt and a Frightened Child on Waiting for Rain
A stormy Saturday night unsettles Alice who prefers prayer to travel in the rain. A stray anecdote about a penny, a lucky man, and a lost ten dollar coin follows, then a note on Swiss policy toward unemployment as an economic issue.
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Walt
Alice
Beaver
Achteerland
Wide Range of Curiosities In 19th Century Notes From Europe
Gerald Dickens, grandson of the famed novelist, serves as a British navy captain. Inventors test a blank shotgun shell powered confetti gun for crowds. England’s colleges employ women on pharmacy faculties. Charles KE Hughes attends Colgate at fourteen. Panama Canal depth is 41 feet with about 50 miles of route. McCracken Kansas claims smallest city with council-manager gov. Utah salt fields exceed 600 square miles, mainly sold as stock feed. US shipbuilding tonnage trails UK, while straw yields 800 cubic feet from 50 pounds. Walt Whitman discusses gas lighting, and Lloyd George won first prize for singing. Jerusalem olive trees exceed 1,000 years. US labs stock 800 rare chemicals previously imported from Germany. Lord Sterndale enjoys horses and climbing. Fatty Arbuckle desired to be a jockey. Skull findings suggest 1.5 million years of humanity. Dragonfly fossil wings span two feet. Montana inventor packs a compact auto tour outfit. Auto dashboards gain battery-powered electric clocks. Pyrenees salt deposits are mostly undeveloped. Foxes threaten woodchucks. large hawks feed on fledglings.
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Kan
United States
Utah
United Kingdom
Walt Whitman
Lloyd George
Great Britain
Garden of Olives
Jerusalem
Germany
Lord Sterndale
England
Fatty Arbuckle
Montana
American Forestry Magazine
Barry New
Cleveland
Martins Fei High School
Wilmington
Wilmington Commercial Club
Samuel Wright
Marysville
Amelia Houser
Pairtild County
Lancaster
Frank Mohn
Delaware
Nfo
George Doulas
First Presbyterian Church of
Tiftin
Toledo Presbytery
Alliance Ministerial Association
Frank K. Norwood
Alta Koehler
Warren
Ironton Steve Manufacturing Company
Ironton
Wolf Credit Clothing Company
Frederick Grassley
Grove Giey
Franklin County
Canton Automobile Club
Springfield
Marion Morgan
South Vienna
S. BR. Auble
Lodi
Medina
Sandusky
Arch T. Fogle
Belmont County
Alexander Neff
Neffs
Foor
Liverpool
Morgan
Miller Rubber Company
Akron
John A. Feller
Graphic Sentinel
Martinsburg
W. Va
Carlton Terrace
Hanna Theater
James W. Hull
Frank J. Herbert
Colimbus
Bernard McGill
Frank BE. Malone
Steubenville
Wheeling
Henrietta Cherzanowski
Kenmore
Joseph Cherzanowski
Helen
Adolph Dunbeck
Columbus
Council
Thomas
Fred Hammer
Bridgeport
Cineipnat
Pease Company
Arthur Ihlenfeld
Mabel Foote
Louise Wolf
Parma
Lima State Hospital
Henry Farmer
Hayes Reed
Farmer
Toledo
Kiliits
Walter Depentha
Grand Rapids
Wood County
Issac McCrackem
Marys
GA Buwner
Lake Erie
Cincinnati
Elmer Smythe
Buyton
Cambridge to build new movie theater at forty five thousand
Cambr idge plans a new cinema costing 45000 dollars to expand entertainment options for residents. The project is part of broader community development reflected in local civic initiatives and economic activity across the region.
Multiple Ohio Fortunes and Deaths Blink Through 1920s News
A sweeping slice of Ohio life with deaths by train and gunfire, fires that devastated factories, arrests for liquor violations, and public notices. Highlights include Vincenzo Foegarlare killed by a train near Youngstown, a factory fire at Ironton, a payroll of stolen goods in Cleveland, and a bank holdup in Barberton. Also noted are civic moves such as church building plans in Cin ton and a Toledo presbytery election, plus a slide of gas rate talk in Columbus and a state-wide mourning of serial incidents.
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Wilmington
Vincenzo Foegarlare
Truckman
Youngstown
Ohio State University
St. George Syrian Orthodox Church
Cinton
Modified Knox Peace Resolution and Tariff Bill Debate
The article reviews President Harding's foreign policy aims including resistance to the League of Nations covenant and pursuit of a modified peace with Germany. It covers domestic plans like an emergency tariff bill, labor unrest in Britain, and diplomatic moves on Yap and the Colombia treaty amid Senate debates and political reactions.
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Washington
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Japan
France
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Austria
Wheyta
Harding
Ways and Means
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Wilson
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North Carolina
Kitchin
Packers’ Trust
Sugar Trust
Demand an arid day law in Congress plan
Washington leaders urged a five year liquor purge including ban on beer as medicine and manufacture limits until 250000 gallons in stock, with central liquor warehouses. The move cites non beverage use of liquor, urges tax penalties for diverted beverages, and calls for concentration of warehouses to curb theft.
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Congress
America
Palmer
Wayse B. Wheeler
Prohibition
Judiciary
House
Senate
Walk Daily to Live Long Says Sir Herman Weber
A 95 year old European physician Sir Herman Weber advocates daily walking for health. He asserts walking keeps bones muscles nerves and brain active regardless of weather and warns against too much sedentary time. The piece contrasts walking with modern car use and ends with a Lowell quote about human sameness versus originality.
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