50 Million for Gotham Docks Plan Approved
The New York Dock Commission proposes a $50 million program to replace 82 antiquated piers along the Hudson with 18 modern piers, wide marginal streets, warehouses, and tracks. Completion expected in ten years, with construction starting next spring. The plan aims to increase dockage and speed freight, aided by electric cranes and hoists, and funded to pay for itself in about four years.
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New York
Hudson River
Murray Boulbert
Foad Commission
New Jersey
Michael Cosgrove
Mr. Cosgrove
Lower North River
Tts
War Department
la Guardia
H C L Not New Problem In Diocletian Echoes
Rome notes that high cost profiteering is ancient, dating to Diocletian. Proclamations against profiteers read like modern price controls, urging boycott. The piece warns modern rise in aluminium 500 percent, nickel and copper goods 500 percent, iron 600 percent, locks 700 percent, and earthenware 400 to 800 percent over pre war levels.
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Rome
Dan Daly Quits Marines From Inactive Reserve List
New York First Sergeant Dan Daly, famed as one of the best known servicemen, is placed on the Marine Corps Reserve Inactive List. Daly holds two medals of honor from the Boxer Rebellion and Fort Riviere actions, plus the Croix de Guerre, and the Distinguished Service Cross from General Pershing. His departure to pursue business removes a colorful figure from the old marine detachment.
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New York
Dan Daly
York
Argonne
Marine Corps Reserve
Daly
Fort Riviere
Frange
Gen. Pershing
New Bedford Rum Sealed in 1706 Unearthed in Cemetery
Workmen removing bodies from the Pultney street cemetery in Rochester, New York, unearthed a large stone jug embedded in a grave. After cleaning centuries of accumulation, the jug revealed the inscription New Bedford Rum 1706. About two gallons of liquid remained, suggesting it once held ten gallons.
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Rochester
N. Y
Pultney Street
Geneva
New Bedford
Slain Rattleawake Family at Blue Hults Reservation
A visitor to the Blue Hults reservation near Poncopog, Massachusetts killed a family of 18 small rattlesnakes and their mother. The mother allegedly fought to defend her young, and after her death the remaining hatchlings were reportedly disposed of.
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Poncopog
Mass
Blue Hults
Here
Enake
Pastor is gored by bull near Muscatine
Julius Deden, longtime pastor of the German Lutheran Orphans home south of Muscatine, was fatally gored while adjusting a halter on a young bull. He died 15 minutes later witnessed by around score of children and staff. Deden served 27 years as pastor of the Lutheran church in Wilton. Wireless courtship ends in marriage in Pittsburgh as Burton Williams and Marine Curron wed after a telegraphy proposal.
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Muscatine
Julius Deden
Doden
Lutheran Church of
Pittsburgh
Burton PL Williams
Marine Curron
Springdale
Williams
YANK DREGS IN PARIS
Two thousand former American soldiers drift in Paris living jobless and among Apache quarters. Many survive by loose work and crime as police admit they cannot curb the group. War leftovers linger in Paris seeking food and shelter, sliding toward degradation and prison danger.
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Paria
Paris
Puorls
Averte
Legion
States
U. K
Europe
Kitchen Cabine F244 Salad Recipes and Comforting Verse
A fragmented page offers several old fashioned salad recipes including Fisherman’s Salad Potato Salad Creamy Dressing and Simple Tomato Salad with garlic and mayonnaise notes. It also contains a spiritual couplet and lines from a poem praising personal resolve.
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Adil
Things Worth Knowing Tips From Old Household Advice
A collection of practical tips covers cork fitting with rolling, safe razors for tipping, brushing eyebrows for cleanliness and growth, using small tonic amounts, tenderizing tough chicken with alcohol, vinegar to soften meat, mint extract from fresh leaves, mint alcohol infusion, cleaning polished steel with unslaked lime, dry brow cleaning uses, cornmeal for cleaning fur and ermine care.
Tima Woll Spent on Fence Whittling
Jud Tunking explains he did not waste time while whittling on a fence. He was cutting up the family Ouija board, according to a Washington Star report.
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Tima Woll
Jud Tunking
Washingtom
Star
Swamp Root Advertisement Confuses With Promises
An old advertisement fragment promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root claiming purity and medical benefit. It mentions security, racing liver and blood and urges readers to buy at druggists and to mention the paper, but the copy is garbled and unclear.
Bygones and a vow on primaries voting
A Washington Star quote notes a shift in attitude toward past matters and a resolve to no longer dwell on decisions about how to vote in the primaries. It highlights a personal change in focus from past concerns to current political choices.
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Washington Star
Fragments Describe Medical Patent Sale by Toledo Firm
Fragmentary OCR shows Catarina Medion noted as an invention in teeth and mucous treatment. The text mentions a patent sale and reaction to medical restoration claims. References include FP. J, Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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Salen
Vote for my candidate in jail and mine out on bail
A fragment from the Louisville Courier Journal quotes a girl’s sharp remark about political loyalties and men’s fortunes, noting a jailed candidate and another freed on bail as a witty snapshot of public sentiment.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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