Simple methods of controlling webworm and cotton leaf worm
The article outlines fall plowing and weed control as the best means to reduce webworm in southern cotton, notes the cotton leaf worm's northward spread from the Mexican border, and details arsenical dusting methods including lead or calcium arsenate, Paris green, and safe mixing with air slaked lime for effective control.
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Mexican
Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Coast
Oklahoma
Tearful Bride Cooks Chicken Pie Despite Cat Theft
A playful exchange follows dressier tears as a bride laments a cat eating her chicken pie with husband promising to bake another. The pair share light humor over the domestic mishap in a quaint scene.
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Jerry Boy
Queenie
Winter Vacation In Washington Pupils Study In Winter Break
Pupils at Lewis Peak school twenty five miles east of Walla Walla Washington remain in class while most U S children take a break. Severe winter cold and storms make travel hard so the school observes a winter recess.
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Lewis Peak School
Walla Walla
Washington
Telephone Growth Through Private Enterprise and Regulation
By 1921 the United States leads with over thirteen phones per hundred people and 14.5 million in use, two thirds of world total. Europe trails at just over one per hundred. The boom stems from efficient organization, widespread investments in transmission apparatus, and Bell system leadership under private enterprise with prudent government oversight.
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Oriental University
Helmuth P. Holler
Washington
University
Virginia
Heller
District of Columbia
United States
Europe
Radio and World Enlightenment Praise From RCA Leader
James G. Harbord, president of the Radio Corporation of America, lauds radio as the most influential invention since Gutenberg. He says it spans land and sea at light speed, survives storms, saves lives, and brings music and information to every home, from farmer to millionaire.
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Gutenberg
James G. Harbord
Radio Corporation of America
Curious Climate of Alto Crucero Bolivia
Alto Crucero Bolivia features a striking climate with nights so cold that water freezes while midday heat drives people indoors. The region's unusual temperatures create a sharp daily swing impacting outdoor work and daily life.
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Alto Crucero
Bolivia
McAdoo Leads Poll as Democratic Nominee Choice
In the Literary Digest poll of prominent men likely to be delegates to the next Democratic convention, William Gibbs McAdoo topped the list as the preferred Democratic presidential nominee. Second place went to Henry Ford.
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Literary Digest
W. G. McAdoo
Henry Ford
Oh, I See Young Bride Wool Rug Confusion
A playful exchange centers on a wool rug labeled COT TON causing a young bride to ask about its bold label. The salesman hushes and hints at moth-fighting lore with a stammered reply. The vignette captures domestic humor and midcentury speech.
Hawaii 25 Years Under U S Flag
A Washington dispatch notes that twenty five years after Congress paved annexation, Hawaii remains a territory with uncertain statehood prospects. It traces economic boom during wartime sugar profits, now followed by labor unrest across plantations and mixed demographics that hinder quick admission as a state. It cites high sugar and pineapple exports and warns political control could tilt toward Japanese and Chinese blocs.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Hawaii
United States
Great North American Republic
America
North Pacific
Washington
Isle of Lost Ships at National Theatre next week
First National attraction directed by Maurice Tourneur arrives Monday and runs through Tuesday at the National Theatre. Milton Sills Anna Q Nilsson Frank Campeau and Walter Long star in the sea tale of a girl and two men on a legendary island of ships in the Sargasso Sea with a submarine escape.
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M. C. Levee
National Theatre
Maurice Tourneur
Sargasso Sea
Cataways
Milton Sills
Anna Q. Nilsson
Frank Campeau
Walter Long
Crittenden Marriott
Europe struggles over reparations and rising socialism
The article notes France pressing for heavy German reparations while Britain and others push for moderation as Germany risks bankruptcy. It mentions Mussolini gaining confidence from the Italian Chamber, England's Commons backing socialism but defeating a move to topple capitalism, and Russia shifting back toward capitalism after failed extreme socialism.
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Europe
France
Germany
England
Italy
Musolini
Mussolini
House of Commons
Russia
Life insurance and the old fable on union strength
An archival piece reflects on life insurance grounded in the saying in union there is strength and traces the idea to the fable about cooperation. It discusses collective security and the moral of shared risk in early insurance thought.
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Young County
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Radio and World Enlightenment
U. S
Liberty Theatre
Novak
North
Reeland Review
Harold Lloyd
DR. Jack
Liberty
Colorado
Roselyn Hotel
Graham
Mrs. M. Barnes
The
Robown Hotel
Oakland
Lesage Motor Company
Lincoln
FORD
Fordson Authorized
Sales & Service
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