German Fire Money and a South African Train Run
A German municipality issues new emergency notes depicting local scenes, while a freight train runaway on the Graaff-Reinet line in South Africa tears through the landscape. The box car describes a dramatic run over several bridges before stopping at Adendorp station with minor damage.
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Grant Reinet
South
Attica
Geaaff-Reinet
Zemmelspoort
Full Epee
Sundays
Graaff-Reivet
Port Elizabeth
Adendorp
Pe Dumage
Chicago Signals and Old News Fragments
Disjointed notes mix references to Chicago Spitters fines and education, Yale and postage, Valparaiso shipping, and women’s college access. Vague quotes include family dialogue about a bottle, a father’s taxes, and a century of ancestry speculation, with scattered historical remarks throughout.
Fragmented 1900s notes touch on labor and industry
The item covers Edison thin paper printing, a military academy course on printing, London gilded growth costs, a British Columbia seed extraction plant for forest restoration, Washington female workers count, a New York woman found dead with a note about a $3 debt.
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Edison
Willy
nead+ wey
London
Britsh Columbia
Washington
N.Y
Relic Lincoln Chimney Exhibit in National Museum
The National Museum in Washington houses a relic described as a round chimney once linked to Abraham Lincoln era. It notes round chimneys reduce friction and have smaller wall surfaces for the given cross section, comparing 24 inch round to square chimneys, and ponders when writers first used the interjection "Huh" or "Humpt."
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Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
National Muses
Washington
Scientific American
Senate Moves to Postpone Soldiers' Bonus Legislation
Senate reservations linger over the four power treaty while debate grows on delaying the soldiers bonus with party lines hardening. Harding outlines that confidential talks were not kept, and Brandegee, Lodge, and Johnson proposals fan the impasse as Mellon hints at a sales tax if bonus funding proceeds. Debates extend to tax options, debt commissions, and pay scales for military services under a reform plan to reduce annual costs.
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Senate
Harding
Foreign Relations Committee
Brandegee
United States
Congress of the
Johnson
California
Uke Kellers
New
Senator Lodge
Ure House
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Corelen Debe Commission
Ling
Natonal Republican Elib
European and domestic policy muddle in early 1920s crisis
Reports detail American budget cuts under the Commerce and Labor departments, Lloyd George and Poincare meeting in France over Genoa talks, Hoover's Chicago address signaling cautious U.S. involvement. Sinn Fein Ard Fheis adjourns for three months as Irish constitutional issues loom. Judge Landis resigns amid regional justice concerns. Railway unions and United Mine Workers form defensive alliance while coal strikes loom. A Chicago movement seeks working-class congressional candidates amid a broad radical-society gathering.
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Remiers Lloyd George
Poincare
France
Genoa
Europe
United States
Hoover
Washington
Chicago
United Mine Workers of America
Chgre
Ireland Factional Reactions to Ard Fheis Uree Decision
In Ireland Dublin reports mixed reactions to Ard Fheis unity on a four month term aimed at a future prerogative. Some hail Sint Mein unity while staunch Gréans supporters doubt the agreement and question its effect on imperial parliament and constitutional changes.
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Dublin
Geners
Ieeland Eer
Sint Mein
John McEnece
Vietory
Foster Spirit of Monarchy in German University Debate
Hugo Preuss, father of the German constitution, denounces monarchist influences in Prussian universities while urging the state to support a progressive republican spirit among students. He warns against extreme right rhetoric and stresses unity for the republic’s renewal through education reform.
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Herlin
Hugo Preuss
Oil
Mme
Herr Press
Selene
Life Saving Requirements Updated for Boy Scouts Merit Badge
The American Red Cross life saving department approves revised requirements for the Boy Scouts merit badge. Scouting candidates must submerge seven feet, retrieve a ten pound object, tow a person of equal weight ten yards by multiple carries, swim 100 yards, and demonstrate releases from perilous grips, plus the safe prone pressure method of resuscitation.
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Barlee
Agwrican
Ted Cross
Civic Service Awards Recognize Myrion Scouts For Hours
In Myrion Indiana a civic service time committee rewards scouts for community work with hour based credit. Six Marlon Scouts have earned the gold bar for reaching 50 hours while others received red or gilt bars. Activities include poster campaigns, cemetery grave charts, safety drills, Memorial Day ushers, traffic duty, flags on graves, unemployment survey cards, and relief drives.
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Myrion
Ind
Finy
Near East Relief
Scout Rescues 200-Pound Man From Water
A Brooklyn Eagle report praises Albert Tawe of Park Avenue Babylon a boy scout who used a hockey stick to pull a 200 pound man from Argyle lake. Others helped as bystanders watched and the rescuer received recognition later.
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Terra Firma
Brooklyn Eagle
Albert Tawe
Park Avenue
Babylon
Argyle Lake
Benjamin
McGoeckie Ashi
McGaelin
Three Boys Rescued From Ice at Butler's Pond
Two ten year olds fell through ice at Butler's Pond in Quincy Massachusetts. A third boy, Ralph Allen, aided by his ladder, climbed to the hole and dived in. He saved one drowning child while others pulled both to safety with help from scouts Callie Peterson and Gilbert Pallett. All recovered.
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Butler's Pond
Quincy
Mast
Callié Peterson
Ralph Allen
Gilbert Pallett
Peterson
Look After Kiddies Guards At School Crossings
Volunteers from Wie Vinantic, Conn.lave formed two squads to serve as guards at busy street crossings. They will regulate traffic at noon recess and dimise a hour, signaling children and visitors. Guards may report violators to the police for not cooperating in safeguarding the youngsters.
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Wie Vinantic
Conn
Lave
Police
Five Thousand Toys Collected by Boy Scouts in Poutine
Boy scouts of Poutine Michigan collected repainted and repaired over 5 000 old toys and distributed them to the city’s poor. Toys gathered through schools were taken to a shop in a vacant store for restoration and then given to child recipients by energetic youth.
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Boy Scouts of
Poutine
Mich
Youn
Reefere
Teast Tablet
E Kester
Scouts Save Boy After Wounding at Syracuse Party
Young Conskt Greey of Syracuse nearly died at a party when he severed an artery by thrusting a hand through a window. Two scouts from Troop 12, Rey McLaughlin and Leon Reuter, acted quickly, providing first aid that saved his life.
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Conskt Greey
Syracuse
Veel
Rey McLaughlin
Leon Reuter
Troop 12
Exterminator Stearns Paste Promises Pest Panic Cure
What can be disagreeable than a home infested with pests Destroy them with Stearns Electric Paste, the exterminator for more than 43 years. Kill rain mice cockroaches waterbage or ants in a single sight. Does not blow away like powders ready for use better than temps. Directions in 15 im every box. Order from your dealer, 2og size 35c 15 02 size 1.50.
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Stearns
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