Bank Pleads For Government Credit To Stabilize Trade
The Corn Exchange National Bank argues for continued government credits rather than private loans to avert a collapse in exchange and rising living costs. It warns private banking alone cannot sustain vast international needs, urging intergovernmental credit to share risk and protect overall stability.
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Corn Exchange
Philadelphia
Pra
United States
Federal Reserve
National Clothing Manufacturers Unite Under New Federation
Chicago New York Baltimore and Rochester clothing firms form the National Industrial Federation of Clothing Manufacturers with New York headquarters. The system covers over 10 000 to 75 000 workers across cities and aims to stabilize wages hours and working conditions through a cooperative industrial government including a board of governors and a national board of labor managers aligned with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.
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Chicago
New York
Baltimore
Rochester
National Industrial Federation of Clothing Manufacturers
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Earl Dean Howard
Northwestern University
Board of Governors
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Board of Labor Managers
Cers and Cars and a Glorious Yet Troubled Vehicle
A frustrated owner laments a costly, grand car that refuses to run reliably. He contrasts it with cheap cars that zoom by, while his machine coughs, backfires, and stalls, leaving him stranded and mocked by passing drivers. The piece blends humor with mechanical woes and wasted patience.
Fragmentary NYT item on political forecasts and German invasion protests
Fragmented text references Mr Pitelwon and a Republican leader predicting events. Mentions Germans and invaders, original protests, and robberies amid unrest. Context unclear due to damaged text but indicates political forecasting and public reaction.
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New York Times
Pitelwon
Teader
Republicans Threaten Treaty Fallout and League of Nations
The passage argues that ratifying the treaty and returning the instrument to the peace conference would doom the League of Nations. It accuses Republican senators of sole responsibility for destroying the treaty and the League, saying Democrats will not participate in that destruction.
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Dilon
League of Nations
Gompers Presses German Labor Reform at Hague Congress
Samuel Gompers sternly reproached German delegates at the International Trades Union Congress in Holland. He demanded repentance before renewed relations, praising bold critique of errors in his own camp. A German delegate confessed misbelief about a defense war, prompting a plan for labor reconstruction and a sweeping revolutionary outline.
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Gompers
Organized
Germany
Samuel Gompers
International Trades Union Congress
Scasion
Holland
Tadanaster Gompera
Baby life gets safer in American cities study
A New York milk committee report ranks 18 cities by baby death rates, led by Brookline with 5.4 and Pasadena 4.3. The annual, though approximate, survey covers about 250 cities and notes limitations from incomplete birth registrations. It cites wide variation by city size and foreign-born populations, with Seattle and San Francisco among lowest five-year rates and Baltimore high among large cities.
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Brookline
Minas
Madixon
Vila
Pasadena
Cal
New York Milk Committee
Brook- Nine
Madisen
Bint Orange
Berkeley
San Francisco
Sal
Blein
Malden
la Crosse
Ogden
Everett
Alameda
Salt Lake City
Seattle
Poise City
New York City
Cleveland
Chicago
Reading
New Bedford
Fort Worth
Fall River
Lowell
Portsmouth
Lawrence
Mays
Baltimore
Richmond
Memphis
Scranton
Troy
Wheeling
Chester
Raleigh
Haverhill
Quincy
Chelsea
Nashville
Youngstown
Wilmington
New Zealand
Contrast of Banks in English and American Systems
From the Corn Exchang e Bank Bulletin Philadelphia a comparison shows English banks operate far fewer offices than American networks. The British system uses a centralized branch network with the Big Five holding large capital and deposits, while U S banks maintain broader branch reach and higher capital-to-deposits ratios.
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Bank Bulletin
Philadelphia
Great Britain
Ielow
England
Wii
United States
Back to Nature Venture Reported by San Francisco Bulletin
A narrator recalls fleeing civilization to bathe by a river, but Palo Alto co-eds interrupted a nude escapade with a picnic. The piece humorously notes attempts to hide behind a Manzanita bush while mosquitos bite and embarrassment ensues, concluding with a retreat home.
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San Francisco Bulletin
Henry
George
Peter
Hiram
Palo Alto
The Crying Need and Letters to the Editor
A Tribune editor receives two letters praising the editorial The Crying Need and urging work over complaint. The note argues for national moral reawakening, prayer for guidance, and restraint from self indulgence, citing faith and duty. It closes with an 1860s poem excerpt by T. Buchanan Read.
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The
Tribune
Lnst
Utte
Nebraska
Editor Urges Racial Segregation For Territory If Needed
Letter from Mrs. Urace Kramer of Sheldon Ia argues for a separate territorial area for colored people to live and for white residents to relocate, contending segregation would calm rioting and protect commerce. She says equal rights would be unwelcome and mixed marriages would fuel hard feelings, warning the current policy is dangerous.
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Sioux City Tribune
United States
Urace Kramer
Pacific Trade Grows From the Beattle to Vladivostok
The article notes a surge in Seattle Vladivostok trade in early 1919, adding 87.24 in import export value in the first eight months and totaling 15,774 for the first six months, more than fourteen times the prior year. Cargo includes railroad equipment, machinery, boots and clothing, and general goods.
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Pacific
Cement guns aid rapid war warehouse construction
A Engineering News-Record contributor describes cement guns or gunnite used to spray stucco on steel and timber war warehouses at Norfolk Virginia. The device resembles a hose and can project thousands of thin concrete filaments at once, enabling fast, robust building during wartime. Eclipse of the Apple notes apples fall from favor as showy, inferior varieties dominate markets and production shifts away from traditional favorites.
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Engineering News-Record
Orfolk
Norfolk
Boston Transcript
Back to the Republic by Newell Dwight Hillis
An analysis of Hillis's book Back to the Republic argues that the United States should restore a Golden Mean republic. It contrasts autocracy and mobocracy with representative government, urging dismissal of commissions and efficiency in governance to save taxes and restore constitutional balance. It likens expert rule to Newton and warns against populist excesses.
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Chicago
H. F. Atwood
Republic
Isaac Newton
Newton
Germany
Kaiser
Washington
Hamilton
Lincoln
Winnipeg
the Republic
Call for a Taxpayers Union in Lowell Courier Citizen
A call to organize the public as a taxpayer union to counterbalance capital and labor. The piece complains that taxpayers in Lowell and other cities are ununited, allowing dispassionate elites to control public funds. It urges urgent self interest, leadership, and collective action to reclaim oversight of public finances.
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Lowell Courier Citizen
Capital
Labor
Curse of a Sensitive Nature
John C. Wells writes in the Buffalo News about a husband reflecting on enduring love while dreading his wife rereading old poems and photos from courtship, acknowledging pride and happiness amid nostalgia and warnings about past self-perceptions.
Tanks Prove Worth on Western Front in Atrocity of War
The article asserts tanks shown their value on the western front from the outset, saving infantry lives and reducing artillery ammunition use. British bases cite 10 percent fewer losses in offensives where tanks were employed, with tanks used in many attacks without preliminary bombardments.
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Tanke
Howe
Wich
We Won the War Says Doughboy and Others
The author notes disputes over who won the war, with Americans like doughboys, truck drivers, and marines asserting victory while German leaders place blame on Max von Baden. The only service division not claiming victory yet is the Interpreters, who may claim later. The core message remains that Germany lost and the Allies won.
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Max von Baden
Germany
Thas
Corps of Interpreters
Moving French Chapel sold from London Mall tale
The Hovas Agency reports an American buyer acquired the Belew Crom Chapel on the heights of Villeneuve la Avignon. Built by Chartreuse monks in the Mth century the chapel held fine carvings. It has been torn down for transfer to an unknown estate amid uncertain motives.
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Hovas
Villeneuve-la-Avignon
Safety Fliat
In a Kansas City Star comedic snippet a husband and wife banter about a skirt. The wife praises a laundress yet fears offending her husband. Observations pivot on style and social tact in a light domestic moment.
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The
Kansas City Star
George
The Passing of the Great Race and Blonde Projections
The Los Angeles Times essay discusses Prof. Madison Grant and his controversial book. It notes his remarks on blondes and claims four years of war have eroded racial ideals, with marriages and identity reasserting influence as hair and heritage themes reappear.
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Madison Grant
Grant
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