The Welter of Fastidiousness in a Grafton Plea
A New York World excerpt notes the public demand for high priced goods amid charity efforts. It critiques the “fastidiousness” driving rising prices for cloths, meats, shirts, and theatre seats while praising Mr. Maeter to support humane causes and lamenting uneven benefaction across organizations and poets.
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Knights
Lump
Salvation Army
Cuion Mission
Huen Coor
New York World
Wood
American Woolen Company
u/s
Woo
Frton
Miragers
Segis
Thrifty Woman Solves Cost of Living Dilemma
Mrs Weeks of Seat Washington finds ways to cope with high prices by cutting food costs. She buys a brown coat and uses spare vegetables, beans, corn and greens to feed her hungry family. The piece notes wider public concern over profiteers and government efficiency.
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Gov
Harry D. Weeks
Ian
Weeks
QUE PARMER'S LOT DISCUSSES FARMER'S ECONOMY AND LIVING
A Detroit Free Press piece argues that a center of population would yield too few men with enough assets to reach large sums. It critiques wage struggles and the gap between farmer earnings and urban factory life, noting persistent hardship and limited chances for modest competence.
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Detroit Free Press
Ayollér
Tia
Tito
Tsuaty
Fragmentary letter discussion on taxes and public figures
A dinner table excerpt cites a letter accusing a prominent DC resident of stoking fear over tax policies and wartime bonds. The text references federal taxes and various societies, suggesting a climate of suspicion and intrapersonal rhetoric about political influence.
New Year's Resolve: Economize to Save and Prosper
A speech promoting thrift and consumer organization urges economizing as the path to lower prices and stronger bank accounts. Asbury Lever frames saving, production, and prudent spending as key to building wealth and enabling home construction, while criticizing profiteering and calling for shared town effort.
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Asbury Lever
Belgium’s rapid postwar recovery compared with France
The piece argues Belgium rebuilt faster than France and other nations after occupation. It cites Belgium’s 80 percent of prewar coal output, restored glass and steel industries, and rails for France. It notes Belgium’s population urgency and lack of politics, contrasting Northern France’s slow recovery and frequent production setbacks.
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Belgium
France
Cantary
Perating
Springfield School Board Rejects Five Cent Per Student Fund
The Springfield Maes school board narrowly voted to forbid soliciting five cents from each public pupil. The proposal, urged by P P larten United States commissioner of education, offered no urgent need despite plans to fund reconstruction in devastated Northern France. The measure would have levied six cents per pupil but faced opposition and was defeated.
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Springfield
Maes
P. P. Larten
United Statesommissioner of
France
Reconstruction aid via five-cent drives for French village schools
The speaker argues against relying on France to rebuild its village schools. He questions the value of five-cent contributions from American public school children while noting millions of undernourished U.S. students. He contends France cannot restore scattered northern village schools and urges child relief at home over foreign reconstruction.
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France
United States
A Square Deal for the Public
A 1930s American Security League editorial argues majorities must organize to resist a powerful foreign-born minority. It claims unifiers are needed to protect freedom of thought and property, condemns communism and wealth concentration, and warns labor has been shortchanged by politics and bad governance amid social change.
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American Security League
America
United Sites
Citzen
Merica
Ilabor
National Security League urges united effort to defend America
The document outlines two main aims to combat Bolshevik threats and build better citizenship. It calls for mobilizing citizens in public affairs, expanding the league to one million members, promoting 100 percent American workplaces, deporting aliens who seek to overthrow the government, strict immigration controls, universal military training, and English as the sole instructional language in schools while stressing American rights and patriotism. It warns of Lenin's growing influence and the risk of peace with Bolsheviks, urging decisive action rather than concessions.
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America
United States
América
National Security League
League
Aberdeen's Community Effort Aims for Broad Benefit
In Aberdeen Washington the community launches a wartime style solidarity drive for peace time needs. Labor unions chamber of commerce and civic groups back a plan to fund visiting organizations public health recreation and youth clubs while business leaders handle harbor improvements and growth. The program seeks to blur class lines by denying prominent donor recognition and aims to sustain worker employment and neighborhood welfare.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Aberden
Abereen
Shipping Board ships may sell liquor despite three mile limit
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Chairman Payne ends hopes that ships under Shipping Board control could sell liquor without the three mile limit, setting American ships back due to prohibition laws. The ruling leaves vessels constrained by law, disadvantaging U.S. shipping in the sea liquor question.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Shipping Board
Payne
Prohibition’s Financial Toll on Shipowners and Transport
Port life and legal fault lines mix as the piece argues prohibition causes heavy losses across hotels railways ships and other transport. It questions exemptions for ships and presses shipowners to share the burden along with others, amid moral and economic debate.
Government insurance promise fails after two years
A New York City citizen sent a package to New Hampshire with full postage and added insurance. The government admitted liability after two years and a month, but could not pay, awaiting congressional appropriation. The $11.75 claim was acknowledged yet never paid, highlighting a failure to fund insured losses.
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Prom Harvey
New York City
New Hampshire
Congress
Hungary rejects communism amid cost and pain
A Hungarian premier faces a cripled soldiers deputy with little aid, noting communism cost Hungary 18,000 600,000 Kronen and 3 600 000 000 dollars in real value. The piece contrasts this with local branches of communism in U S cities. The article also reports icy sidewalks causing falls and injuries across the city.
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Hungary
Josef
Bela Kunand
Aso Sles
Communist Party
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