Year's Work for Better Food in Federal Update
Washington reports progress on enforcing truthful labeling for medicines and mineral waters, with actions against false hog cholera cures and radium mislabeling. Surveys of oyster beds in Chesapeake Bay and Jamaica Bay address pollution. The Bureau analyzes 12,000 samples, pursues cases under various laws, and studies potato frying and new apple products. Fish industry research aims to reduce waste and improve sardine quality along Maine coast. Agricultural notes urge asparagus planting and proper seed, drill spacing, thinning, and cultivation.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Chemistry
Bureau
Lithia
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
Chesapeake Bay
Jamaica Bay
N. Y
Gaiakes
Maine
Early orchard fungous disease control tip
The article advises starting prevention before disease appears as the only effective method. It notes that furvicidal sprays act as preventives, not cures, and emphasizes early action in the orchard.
Potter's Dirt Dilemma Sparks Potatoes Discarded Tale
A family camping story tells Georgie peeling potatoes for dinner and failing to wash his hands. He cuts off dirt and ends up with tiny potatoes he throws away, prompting a humorous retort from his mother about overestimating portions.
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Georgie
Kansas City Times
Waiting Bridegroom and the Two Waitin Ministers Tale
A gentleman asks a former servant if she is married. She explains she has not wed because two are waiting the minister and herself. The exchange ends with a humorous, innocent misinterpretation of the word waiting.
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Birmingham
England
Spoiled it All in a Small Missouri Town
A Kansas City Times snippet recalls a reunion in a Missouri town after fifteen years. A man greets Mary with warmth and humor while she jests that he looked old to her, highlighting enduring memories and playful banter between former youths.
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Missouri
Mary
Kansas City Times
Lively remark on Timmins consent to marry
A Cleveland Leader excerpt notes a playful exchange about a daughter’s engagement. The suitor asks Timmins for scissors and jokes about clipping coupons, hinting the task is large for him alone and the girl enjoys helping.
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Phocksey
Timmins
Cleveland
What He Was Paid for
In Souphone Pollen Court Mr Dowden questions an Italian organ grinder about pay after a dispute over damage. The grinder insists the fee is four pounds for silencing the instrument, while the judge quotes the king’s reply and the man’s request to leave.
English Rector Quips About An Heir To The United Kingdom
A rector jokes with a parishioner about his diverse household. He notes the family as English Irish Scotch and mentions the baby waltzing as a playful line. The exchange reflects playful dialogue from The Sketch.
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Thompson
Waltls
Pinned Down in Courtroom Exchange
Humorous quarrel unfolds as a witness recalls the defendant telling a funny story while under oath. The exchange highlights courtroom tension and the back and forth between lawyer and witness in a Somerville Journal report.
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Somerville Journal
Reading Room Dispute Over Snoring Causes Tension
A cranky patron criticizes another for snoring loudly in the reading room. The drowsy patron protests, and a verbal exchange ensues as others react to the noise. The Bystander notes the awkward moment and resident tensions in the quiet space.
Rattlesnake Keeps Visitors Entertained at Cleveland Zoo
A zoo keeper explains a rattlesnake with twelve rattlers and a button to trigger its rattle. A visitor learns to make the snake rattle by touching the button while remarking on its size and presence.
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Cleveland
Not So Foolish Fable Reveals Caution in Marriage Plans
A Philadelphia Press quip recounts Phamiman announcing his daughter’s marriage to Count Brokaw next month. A friend teases about the arrangement, and Phamiman insists he will not pay in advance, signaling caution in deal making.
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Phamiman
Brokaw
Ree
Philadelphia Press
Kilting Two Birds in a New Residence
Dialogue between Mrs Grammerey and Mrs Park hints at an planned move to a new home. They discuss happiness in the place and jest about using it to obtain a divorce and evade taxes, reflecting social concerns and humor of the era.
Cleaning carpet question prompts marital advice quip
A reader asks what to use for cleaning carpets. The editor jokes that if she is married she should tell her husband to do it. The humorous exchange appears in the Chicago News.
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Awake
Chicago News
Czar’s Fate Central to Russian Judicial Inquiry
Evidence presented shows jewels of the imperial family hidden on ex‑grand duchesses and their suite near Ekaterinburg. A campfire site 18 versts from the city yielded emeralds bones corset fragments and a diamond valued at 100 000 rubles. The government o msk continues the inquiry hoping to locate the burial site of the former imperial family.
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Ekaterinburg
Red
Omsk
Wheat Dust Explosions Prompt Automatic Fire Extinguishers
The United States department of agriculture investigated the danger of wheat dust in threshers. Experts recommend automatic fire extinguishers using a water and soda tank with an acid bottle. When a fuse melts, acid breaks, carbon dioxide is released, and the extinguisher activates to suppress flames.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Lost Diamond Ring Recovered Inside Fishbone Tale
A story recalls two men and one woman who go fishing far at sea. The woman loses a diamond ring but the sea proves too deep for recovery. Later a very large fish is caught and that night they eat some of it. The twist ends with a fishbone yielding the ring.
Rich Man Lived Simply Ends Fortunes In Modest Furnishings
John R. Manning, NY ship owner and broker, left an estimated nine million dollars with a desk worth fifteen dollars at the center of his fortune. His Riversde Drive home shows simple furnishings, with a $250 grand piano and beds valued at 875 and eight dollars, reflecting frugal taste despite wealth after a breach of promise suit with Honora O Brien.
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John R. Manning
New York
Riversde Drive
Manning
Honora O Brien
Quiet Postwar Scene Amid Peace Signaling Bells
Hastings correspondence notes a new quietness after the peace signing. The writer recalls church bells ringing and distant gunfire, reflecting subdued public reaction and wartime echoes in daily life.
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Hastings
Sage
Manchester Guardian
Financing the Farm on the Budget Plan
Farmers should treat farming as a business using a formal budget with daily income and expenditure records. War Savings Stamps offer a practical, nondepreciable investment for farmers, with ready-made ledgers to track receipts, costs, and yearly summaries.
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War Savings Stamps Department
War Loan Organization
Seventh Federal Reserve District
How a School Bank Works in Hartford Conn
A New England principal started a school savings bank twelve years ago to teach thrift and industry. At Henry Barnard School in Hartford deposits exceed 50 000 dollars with an average weekly intake of 140 dollars. Eighth grade pupils serve as tellers recording deposits with teacher verification and envelopes sent to Hartford Society for Savings for personal accounts once a child has two dollars. Withdrawals require a written parent request.
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New England
Henry Barnard
Hartford
Solon PB. Davis
Hartford Society
Society For Savings
Honor Scrolls for Islay Graves of American Soldiers
The Glasgow Islay association funds and distributes the Photographic Album of the American Soldiers' Graves in Islay to next of kin through the American Red Cross. The album honors 160 graves across Port Charlotte Kilnaughton Kinabus and Killegan with frontispiece by Robert J. Walker and maps for locating each grave. The Otranto disaster of October 6, 1918, on Islay is memorialized by a Mull monument serving as a tribute to those buried there.
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Glasgow
Scotland
United States
Islay
American Red Cross
Bureau of Communications
Washington, D
Tuscania
Dugald Clark
B. D
Glasgow Islay Association
Port Charlotte
Kilnaughton
Kinabus
Killegan
America
Empire
Robert J. Walker
Muir
Mull
Kilehoman
Otranto
Kashmir
France
Stranger in New York Sees Bathhouse Accident
A visitor from Rich Hill Missouri, H W Insley, aboard the Zeelandia, came to Bathtub Falls New York in May. He traveled two years in France without a bath and slipped at a bath on the Zeelandia, breaking two ribs.
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Bathtub Falls
New York
May
H. W. Insley
Rich Hill
Zeelandia
France
Zeelanda
Turkish Bath Weapon Alleged Mass Deportations Reported
Dr George E White of the American committee for relief in the near East sends a letter to Prof J P Xenides accusing Turkish officials of decimating Greeks along the Black Sea coast between Sinope and Orhan by parboiling in baths and freezing deaths in Anatolian winter. He cites 1916 17 deportations and says Basra province Greek villages were reduced from 29000 to under 13000 with 60000 orphans.
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Black Sea
Sinope
Oraon
George E. White
American Committee For Relief
Diogenes
White
Basra
Girl is Named City Clerk in Wildwood New Jersey
At the Wildwood city commissioners weekly meeting Miss Helen Geisenberger was appointed city clerk. At nineteen she is the first woman known to hold the post in New Jersey. A Wildwood High School commercial department graduate, she previously served as assistant in the board of trade before joining the city hall and earning promotion through diligence and proven executive ability.
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Wildwood
N. J
Helen Geisenberger
Geisenberger
New Jersey
Wildwood High School
Board of Trade
Japs Buy Peru Land Report
Lima reports that Dr Augus to Durand owner of La Vrensa sold about 800000 acres near Huanuco on the Amazon watershed to a Japanese syndicate. Negotiations continue for 300000 more acres. Land lies in the sub tropical belt suitable for sugar cotton coffee cocoa. This purchase signals a large Japanese colonization scheme in Peru.
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Lima
Augusto Durand
la Vrensa
Huanuco
Amazon
Peru
Yale seeks new tune for Bright College Years prize offered
New Haven becomes the focal point as the class of 1899 through secretary Murray Dodge offers a $1,000 prize to obtain a new air for the Yale song Bright College Years. The prudential committee of the corporation will receive the notice and the alumni advisory board will select the tune.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale
Bright College
Murray Dodge
Prudential Committee
Corporation
Hitch in Side Was Nine Broken Ribs
St Louis man Thomas Morgan, 34, walked into the city dispensary with a hitch in his side. Doctors found nine fractured ribs and internal injuries after a wagon ran over him in East St. Louis. Morgan said he ignored the accident until the side pain intensified.
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St. Louis
Thomas Morgan
East St. Louis
Morgan
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