A Hero's Welcome We Ain't in Firsex 1920
Conrad Roberts, returning from France, is met with a town-wide welcome scheme. Frances Keith battles poverty and a hopeful but uneasy romance as Louise Pearson vies for Conrad's attention. A power outage amplifies the moment, forcing a simple kerosene lamp gesture over grand displays.
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Conrad
Louise Pearson
Frances Keith
Louise
Conrad Roberts
Firsex
France
Frances
Conrd
Rosehills
Wales
The Standard a Man Chooses for Himself
Milwaukee Journal praises Robert Louis Stevenson for refusing unearned money and upholding a personal standard. The piece argues true happiness and lasting satisfaction come from pursuing a self set moral and material goal, not from chasing wealth or merely following law.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson
Milwaukee Journal
Ponce de Leon’s Quest and the Florida Landing
The tale recalls the Fountain of Youth lure and Ponce de Leon’s 1518 sighting of an island which led to claiming lands in Pascua Florida on Easter 1518, his explorations, battles with Indigenous peoples, a 1521 voyage to establish a colony, and his death from wounds aboard a vessel bound for Puerto Rico.
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Ponce de Leon
Porto Rico
Miss Hall Teaches Quercus Alba Surprise Test
In a fall lesson Miss Hall directs fourth graders to identify Quercus alba, the White Oak, using a green bound book prize. Tommy Judd bets a book while Lottie Blinn shines. Ray Blinn returns as a local soldier and reunite with the teacher in a park scene.
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Miss Hall
Europe
Alba
Lottie
Lotte
Judd
Litte Smuartie
Lottie Blinn
Tommy Judd
Tommy
City Park
Miss Mall
Fita
Ray Blinn
Liettensor Blinn
Roy
Yommy
Rey Blinn
Hog Island Shipyard Sets World Record For Shipbuilding
The Hog Island yard in Philadelphia launched its ninety eighth vessel as part of a record building push that added over 750 thousand deadweight tons to the U.S. merchant fleet. From Aug 1918 to March 1920 the plant produced 611,575 dwt launched and 586,875 dwt delivered, with 83 cargo carriers rated top by ABS and 50 by Lloyd’s. Vessels logged over 1.6 million miles, carried more than 1,002,800 tons of cargo, and eleven rescues were made at sea. The Quistconek, christened by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, steamed 60,000 miles and remained in service without workmanship weaknesses after inspection. The yard, the nation’s largest, spans 927 acres with extensive facilities and a peak workforce around 86,000.
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Philadelphia
United States
Hog Island
American International Shipbuilding Corporation
Delaware
The
Shipbuilding Company
Hog Island Yard
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Shipping Board
Mog Island Yard
American Bureau of Shipping
Shipping Kev Spectors
Lloyd's Bureau
Mog Island
Ihe Island
Woodrow Wilson
Shiplunding Company
Sttpe
Flame throwers to curb crop pests in Rhone delta
At a French Academy of Sciences meeting M Vayssiere reported using flame throwers from World War I to exterminate Morocco cricket swarms threatening crops along the Rhone delta in 1918 1919. A twelve liter apparatus can sweep 200 square meters killing larvae while asphyxiants underperformed. Poisoned bait with arsenic yielded good results, and chloropicrin powder offered a safer alternative where flames were risky.
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Rhone
Morocco
French Academy of Sciences
M. Vayssiere
Italy
United States
Kept Gowns of a Lifetime at Princess Lotanoff Sale
The London Mail reports a vast sale of Princess Lotanoff's belongings at Hotel Drawer revealing gowns dating from her wedding trosseau, heavy furs, and linens sold in large bundles. Embroidered house linen drew keen interest, while coats and cloaks in sealskin and astrakhan showed vast variety.
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Lotanoff
Son
Astrakhan
London Mail
Quiet Back Porch Remedy Eases a Neighbors Noise
A retired farmer recalls moving in with his niece after selling his old home. He felt lost and missed familiar tasks and sounds until he started filing a saw on the back porch to quiet his nerves. The habit helped him adapt to the new neighborhood sounds.
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Kansas City Star
Officer In Uniform Mistaken For Sousa's Band
An exhausted reserve officer orders a cocktail but recalls the breach of discipline. A waiter returns with the drink in a cracked cup, and the officer sternly questions serving a uniformed officer. The waiter asks, Is you an officer, sah, adding comic confusion as innocence shines through.
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Darky
Dem Sousa
Danger in Electric Current in Baths Warned by Doctor
Dr. A Zimmern in Presse Medicine warns that no electric appliance should be near a bath or tub as water on the skin aids conduction. He cites cases of deaths from damp hands touching belts or devices and warns that wet floors or defective insulation can cause fatal shocks.
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A. Zimmern
Presse Medicine
Paris
Doctor Zimmern
Measuring sludge depth in Fitchburg sewers
A Canadian writer describes an inventive method used at Fitchburg Mass sewerage works to measure sludge depth in deep sedimentation tanks. A 1A pitcher pump with 28 feet of lined rubber hose marks readings in foot lengths. The hose is lowered inch by inch from a plank across a gas vent, with water replaced between shifts to ensure a full hose turnover.
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Fitchburg
Mass
Mexicans See Snow for First Time in Years
In Mexico City a rare snow event drew curious locals as light rain turned to a chill fall unseen by many residents. Snow banks from the hills framed the skyline, with Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl visible beyond the city. Barefooted natives tested the strange powder before retreating indoors to wait out the cold snap.
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Mexico City
Valley
Mexico
Popoentepetl
Iztaccihuatl
His Predicament in Kansas City Star Tale of Uncle Riley
A traveling salesman questions Riley Rezzidew’s mood. tenants explain Uncle Riley ruined the peach crop for the next season, disrupted talk of the League of Nations, and left no fresh topics to argue about, leaving him out of talking points until new issues arise.
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Petunia
Riley
League of Nations
Mars
Kansas City Star
Packing Cases for Rubber Demand Boosts Burma Industry
Before the war Japan supplied most packing cases for rubber from Burma. Rising costs and shipping scarcity led the Burma Forest Department to take over the business, now providing necessary cases and aiding local industry with fair profits and broader supply.
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Japan
Burma
Burma Forest Department
U S Sells 3000 Planes And Engines In Postwar Sale
The army air service sold 2000 airplanes and 500 engines between November 11 1918 and February 2 1920. Receipts from planes were 348 968 or 9 percent of cost and engines 2 008 618 or 19 5 percent. Most sales went to Curtiss company. Excludes 214 engines sent to navy or post office and 31 foreign motors to schools. Unclear if 26 L W F planes with engines were profitable. cost about 327 000, sale 221 000.
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Army Air Service
Curtiss Company
War Department
Navy
Post Office Department
Uncle Sam
Air
Small boy nurse and 20 percent? Seven year old Asa aids family
A seven year old boy Asa Bissell in Gun ter Kan cared for his influenza stricken mother and household for three days. He cooked, washed, cleaned, and gave prescribed medicines, while his father was away. In a separate note, grave digger John Olson of La Crosse Wis was found dead in a grave after not returning for supper.
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William Bissell
Gunter
Kan
Asa
Matti
John Olson
la Crosse
Wis
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Ohio
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Traction Terminal Bldg
Indianapolis
Ind
Big Tabernacle
Greencastle
Evangelist
Daisy Douglas Barr
Union
Tabernacle
A Million Dollar Bank
Central National Bank
Loware
Stevens Company
the Miller Meat Market
the Herald
Holcs
East Washington ST
Donner
Bond
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Fountain of Youth
McClure Newspaper Syndicat
Scientist
His
Riley Rezzidew
U. S
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