Majestic the World’s Largest Liner Ready for New York Service
A Hamburg report says the 56,000-ton liner Majestic formerly the Bismarck will enter the New York Southampton service next spring. The ship will be docked for fittings, then sailed to Southampton for furniture and linen. It will be the largest vessel, carrying about 5,200 people with 1,245 staterooms across three classes and crew quarters.
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New York
International Mercantile Marine
Hamburg
Majestic
Bismarck
New York Times
Blohn & Voss
Southampton
Ec Plare
Olympic
Bertran Hayes
D. S.C
Portsmouth
America
New York-Cherbourg-Southampton
White Star Line
Leviathan
Distinctly Dangerous Edith Returns to Durkee House
Adele Garrison notes Edith Fairfax shifts from ingénue to a cool worldly strategist, while Lillian’s party speech sparks tension. Madge and Dicky exchange blunt remarks about Ede as they discuss trunks, marauders, and potential losses, ending with Madge suspecting her drawings are ruined.
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Llan
Alfred
Leila
Siser
Mrs. Durkee
Lillian
Aee
Dicky
Ates
Durkee
Grim Sisters
Rom
Katie
Vughing
Mother Graham
Graham
Father
Madge
Ede
Otther
Ship
Charlestown Tax Rate Budget Notice 1921
Citizens of Charlestown Indiana are notified that on September 6 1921 the town will set budgets for General Fund Street Fund and Bond Fund totaling 4689 42 1200 00 and 640 00 respectively with levies on property and polls. Taxpayers may be heard and may appeal to the State Board of Tax Commissioners after levies are set and county audits are filed by the fourth Monday in September.
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Charlestown
Clark County
Indiana
General Fund
Sitate Board of Tax Commissioners for _furth cand
Union
Clark
Indiiana
Office Cat and Rambles of a Dry Time Verse
A short humor piece interleaves a verse about dry times with light quips on speed limits and everyday idiosyncrasies. It notes a sailor, farmer, cotton, seacast, and bier in a comic circular rhyme. A punchline recalls a car stuck in traffic and a cop overheard remark.
Poetry, Love, and War Wit Parade Through El Paso
A fragmented El Paso Herald column hints at poetry, love and cooking notes, a subdebt joke, and a veteran judging a baby show. A Chicago court hears a real John Doe report of theft totaling $860, described as substantial dough.
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el Paso Herald
John Doe
Chicago
Echoes of Automobiles and Wardrobe in Yesteryears
A fragmented reminiscence recalls the auto mobile as a wonderful invention and humor about a hospital stay for a car accident. It also reflects on fashion, noting a time when young men wore a fancy vest and proper dress.
Majestic Ship's Mighty Dimensions and Powerplant
The Majestic rises 164 feet above the water with three stacks totaling towers around 144 feet and 184 feet above keel. Public rooms feature 26 foot ceilings and 41 466 by 98 foot dining area. Four turbine engines drive the hull with four reversing turbines, each main turbine weighing 375 tons, delivering up to 64 000 indicated horsepower for about 23 knots.
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York
Majestic
Revolu
Old World and New Notes From a Busy Day
A mixture of curiosities and facts including a claim that radium stimulates plant growth during dormancy Italy advertises goods via a steamship to Mediterranean ports Mrs Mary Klump of Allentown Pa is said to have reached her 400th birthday The song Home Sweet Home was written by John Howard Payne and set by Sir Henry Bishop West African bridegroom powders his wife’s head with clay Emmeline Pankhurst has settled in British Columbia as a permanent resident
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Italy
Mediterranean
Mary Klump
Allentown
John Howard Payne
Sir Henry Bishop
West Africa
Emmeline Pankhurst
England
British Columbia
Mrs. Jakes Schwaninger and Family Visit Columbus Ind
Misshapen OCR text notes Mrs. Jake Schwaninger and children of Columbus Indiana have been guests of her parents, with fragmented wording and incomplete names.
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Jake ‘Schwaninger
Columbus, Ind
Moon facts spark playful chatter in sleepy astronomy class
A witty exchange unfolds as a professor notes the Moon’s gravity being about one fourth Earth’s while a coed asks if they dance on the Moon. A talking house machine mocks staying home, and a stage manager jokes about a living statue with hiccups amid a traveling show.
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Moon
Earth
Clairvoyant: When in trouble consult sus pense
In the column titled Clairvoyant a playful prompt invites readers to seek guidance when troubled and doubtful, suggesting reflection as a route to clarity. The tone blends humor with a parental nudge toward thoughtful doubt.
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K.C. Swartz
Jeffersonville
Eacet
Eees Aseeaverter
H. Edmund ‘Sheerer
AR. R. Mulligan
Hayes
Iself
Adele Garrison
Board of Trustees
Doly Kala
Health and Sanitation
Lehae
Money
Levies
Ccount
Thuoge
Ethel Kimbrel
Interstate Public Service Company
Robert F. Bennett
Spring St., Jr
Lousville
Sarah Cold Warder
Marblehead Apartments
E. Riverside
Tillie
Ee Spring
Court Ave
Fred A Mason
Ind
Madam Nora
West Breckinridge St
Louisville
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