Tin Shortage Sparks Packaged Goods Substitution
The department outlines steps to boost tin can supply for the upcoming season. Measures include speeding tinplate production, diverting tinplate from nonperishable to perishable packing, and introducing substitute containers for many nonperishable lines. Manufacturers may face 40 percent higher can demand, with guidance offered to use substitutes to avert a food shortage next winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redfield
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Straits Settlements
Europe
Bolivia
United States
New Jersey
Mars canals debate by Dr Percival Lowell cited
Dr Percival Lowell, longtime Harvard Conservatory head, announced at the University of California that Mars canals are vegetation strips cultivated and watered by artificial canals. He claimed the smallest observable spot would be about ten miles across and that canals could not be seen from Earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percival Lowell
Harvard Conservatory
Flaystaff
Arizona
University of California
Mars
Lowell
Earth
Jongar
Onlookers witness odd wedding atop 200 foot smokestack
The article notes Bessie Norton and Joseph Bowling of Florence Colorado wed atop a smokestack 200 feet high with townsfolk spectating. It also references Lord Curzon's Chelsea speech and lists wartime literature and Brazil's coffee exports and plant numbers in a rapid factual montage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Norton
Joseph Bowling
Florence
Col
Lord Curzon
Chelsea
England
Our Ruler Ho Who Guides Us In The Realm
A compact line from a poem or lyric reflects guidance during upheaval. The fragment mentions a ruler named Ho guiding through a storm, implying leadership during crisis and resilience in a symbolic realm.
Submarine Nets and Tsarist Abdication Scene
Descriptions of a World’s Work style submarine net trapping subs in shallow depths. The narrative shifts to political turmoil as General Zabel informs Tsar Nicholas II of dethronement and abdication, with discussions of Petrograd, Vishera, and Livadia. The scene ends with the Emperor accepting abdication.
Farmers and Ships and the U S Shipping Board
The U S Shipping Board, a five member commission, will build a merchant marine and naval auxiliary with up to 50 million dollars for buying building leasing and maintaining ships. It aims to raise American exports battered by war and ship shortages while guarding farm prices and coastwise and Great Lakes access. The board seeks to restore the American flag to oceangoing trade as it expands the fleet amid wartime disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Shipping Board
United States
Great Lakes
America
Shipping Board
Czar Hastens to Capital as Petrograd Uprising Surges
A telegraph from the Czarina reports an uprising in Petrograd. The Czar, roused at two in the morning, learns troops will quell the revolt. Commander Voyekoff notes 700 St George cavalry moving toward Tsarskoe Selo to reinforce the Emperor.
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Czarina
Petrograd
New York American
Duma
Voyekoff
St. George
Tsarskoa Selo
Ivanoff
Sid Voyekoff
Tsarskoe Selo
For sale items advertised with full-blooded cow
An old western newspaper ad lists a cow for sale along with hay a wheelbarrow a grindstone two stoves a scythe and a democrat wagon indicating a rural classifieds listing from a past era.
Executors Notice in John Imboden Estate
Letters testamentary granted by Dauphin County Register of Wills to Harry F. Imboden Charles E. Imboden and E M Hershey as attorney. Executors request immediate payment of debts and prompt presentation of claims for settlement to Hershey Pennsylvania and Philadelphia addresses.
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Register of Wills
Dauphin County
John Imboden
Derry Township
Pennsylvania
Harry F. Imboden
Hershey
Charles E. Imboden
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
E. M. Hershey
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Brazil
Columbia
Czar
Zabel
Vishera
Grekoff
Nicholas
Livadia
Maylfair
Hershey Penna
J. C. Nisley
Palmyra, Penna
Edw. J. Hilton
Harrisburg
Republican Party
New York Life Insurance Co
Harry M. Hartz
W. Main Street
Palmyra, PA
Gemeral Insurance
Model Homes
East Hershey
Cocoa Avenue
New York
Futhermore
Hershey Improvement Company
Hershey Trust Company
Hershey Industrial School
Hershey, Pennsylvania
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