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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1920
Page
4
The Agricultural Bulletin notes varied views by locality on wear from trucks and manure wagons. Improved roads allow 150 to 180 baskets per market wagon and 4–5 ton two‑horse manure loads, increasing repairs but not justifying higher tax claims against improved roads.
The Boston School Committee appoints twenty one women nurses to supervise all public school pupils with physicians overseeing illness and quarantines. The system would cost 25000 dollars yearly. Randolph Coolidge argues for radical reform, relocating grammar schools near the city, keeping children at school all day with transportation paid by public funds, and supervised play by authorities, else parents bear costs for food and clothing while strangers raise the children.
The Philippine Review reports more than 300 Filipino students studying in the United States and abroad, with 75 percent in the United States and 40 in England. They pursue varied fields from law to medicine and engineering, scattered across many institutions to avoid forming isolated colon ies.
In a dialogue set piece a potential employer seeks a boy who never swears or speaks discourteously. Roy offers his cousin as a quiet, steady candidate, describing him as steadfast and dumb.
The Wagner bill creates a commission to investigate factory fire conditions in cities with expert help. It promises thorough inquiry, informing better laws and reforms, though it adds no immediate protections. The piece urges strict enforcement of existing fire laws and notes federal vigilance after the Slocum disaster.
Reports confirm a vast solid soda deposit at Lake Magadi in East Africa. An expedition penetrated toward German East Africa and described a pink marble like surface that dries to reveal a workable crust after rains. Locals from Nairobi have long mined the soda for washing and snuff.
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