Pilgrim Tercentenary Observances and Federal Appropriations
Observances mark the Pilgrim landing tercentenary with multiple nations taking part. A federal resolution provides 40000 for participation day and 800000 for related projects. Funds support Pilgrim monument work in Provincetown and markers in Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, and Eastham, plus Plymouth burial grounds work and commemorative markers. Massachusetts appropriates 325000 with support from patriotic and fraternal societies and other contributions.
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House Haus Gassed
Coles Hill
Plymouth
Miss
Massachusetts
Bismouth
Oklahoma’s early prosperity hailed by Rep Everette Howard
Representative Everette B. Howard of Iladhern delivered a speech praising Oklahoma’s early growth as a thriving Indian Territory settled state. He noted crop values in that year reached hundreds of millions, livestock worth millions, and farm labor costs higher than many southern states, with a booming population surpassing 100 000.
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Ntile House
Everette BB. Howard
Iladhern
Thoousands
Garden for Every Child movement notes garden work value
The U.S.S.G. A announces “Every Child in a Garden” linking garden activities to education. School supervised gardening requires limited classroom time, with garden work integrated as a core study. Compan y sizes vary. insignia and certificates will accompany distributed program materials.
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Sehr
Uruiv
Milk price trends show farmers receive far less than consumers
The report outlines that average milk prices in April ranged from 4 to 28 cents a quart across regions, with national averages rising from 9 to about 16 cents over time. It notes farmers retain a small share while distributors take a large portion, especially in Omaha where 71 percent of the price goes to the company and 42.8 percent to the farmer.
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Taited
Department of Mericulture
United States
New England
North Central States
West
Atlaretics
Est
South Central Region
S&s
South Central States
Mountain States
Tevisic States
Omaha
Nebo
Senate Seeks America First Ocean Trade Plan
A Commerce Subcommittee bill and public release outline an America First ship policy. It requires 75 percent American ownership of foreign trade firms and bans sales of US ships to foreign interests without Shipping Board approval. The plan would place the government merchant fleet under a seven member Shipping Board to expand trade, via private routes or government operation if needed.
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America First
Senate Commerce
Jones
Shipping Board
Interstate Cobinierce Commission
Theebg
United States
Ili
Four Boys Confess Brutal Drowning Case In Snow Shoe
Four youths aged from nine to fifteen confessed to tying a rope around ten year old Jarvis Hall’s neck and hanging him from a rafter before casting the body into a pond near Snow Shoe Pennsylvania on August 17 1919. The grandfather Mr W H Hall notified authorities after noticing inconsistencies in the drowning report. The case reveals missing water in lungs and tongue severities not typical of drowning. State police investigated and arrested Melvin Rowan Arthur Markley Charles Markley and Thomas Stirk.
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Snow Shoe
Melvin Rowan
Arthur
Charles Markley
Thomas Stirk
Jarvis Hall
W. H. Hall
Hall
Pennsylvania
Rowan
Markley
Stark
Paw
Greek Prince holds rank amid reports of renunciation
Geneva notes Prince Christopher of Greece and his wife deny reports that he renounced his rank or succession rights in the Greek royal house. Dissension with former King Constantine has been rumored though Constantine and his wife recently visited at Montreux and St Moritz with the prince and princess.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Prince Christopher of
Greece
W. P. Leeds
America
Sovereigen House
Constantine
Montreaux
St. Moritz
Gotham teacher weds convict in romance across bars
New York Miss Mary Fairchild, Long Island public school principal, marries Henry Hoppe, released from Sing Sing in 1917. Their courtship began when she helped win his freedom and later pledged to a life together, tracing back to her prison welfare work and his reform.
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Sing Sing Prison
New York
Mary Fairchild
Long Island
Henry Hoppe
Sing Sing
Cupid
Fairchild
New York City
Pbappe
Rusalsky
Trappe
Whitlam
Treppe
Sliss
New Yeuur City
Wriggies Escape Is 180th Jail Break Claim
Troy Dickerson charged with aiding bank robbery in Girard Alabama allegedly escaped from Los Angeles Delaware city jail for the 180th time. He climbed a ventilator shaft using a crude key to flee. his wife says he was a vaudeville performer known for freeing himself from restraints.
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Troy Dickerson
Girard
Ala
Los Angeles
Del
Dickerson
End Younger Set Parties in Kansas City Plan
Kansas City mothers organize to curb the wild ways of youths. Parents and youths will set a mutual curfew with a pledged agreement. The campaign also targets street attire for young women and reports of erotic escapades.
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Kansas City
Marked Cards Used in Krohnberg Trial Case
In New York a shirt maker Louis Krohnberg is tried for fraud in a game of chance. A poker hand with marked cards was shown to the magistrate. Two backs of a Swrohhn berg Hone deck bore signs revealing the cards. Complainants allege Krohnberg won $5,010 with the marked deck.
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New York
Louis Krohnberg
Krohnberg
Nut trees for roadways and parks cited as shade goal
The article argues for replacing wasteful shade trees with nut and fruit varieties along roads and in parks. It notes northern highways lack shade except self sown trees and recounts an Illinois farmer’s 1918 walnut harvest as evidence of economic value in nut trees.
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Robert T. Morris
American Forestry Association of Washington
Illinois
Bestow Thought on Garden Coloring and Planting
A guide urging careful garden planning with trees and shrubs as the main planting and flowers used sparingly as decorations. It stresses background contrast, tasteful placement, and avoiding overplanting to keep yards dainty with color accents.
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Gandy
Well Kept Lawns and New England Yard Habits
Connecticut and New England towns showcase well watered neat lawns. Observers note residents sweep cut grass rather than rake to protect roots and maintain lawn appearance.
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Connecticut
New England States
New
Bell of York City with historic ties to Independence
The York bell given by Queen Anne to St. John's Episcopal Church rang for key events including the Declaration of Independence and Cornwallis surrender. Now displayed in St. John's vestibule, it marks York's role in American history. James Smith, a Declaration signer and early Pennsylvania militia captain, is buried in York’s Presbyterian cemetery.
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York
Queen Anne
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Cornwallis and
Burgoyne
Washington
St. John’s Church
James Smith
Pennsylvania
Great Britain
Aged Suitor Rejected. Man Shoots Widow then Kills Self
In Barre Vermont an enraged suitor, 68 year old Hoceyt Gallum, shot Mrs. E M Fenwick, 51, a widow, after she refused immediate marriage, then killed himself. The incident ended in tragedy for both.
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Barre
E. M. Fenwick
Hoceyt Gallum
Canada population and revenue estimates for 1920
Ottawa reports Canada’s population around 9 million in 1620 compared with 7 million in 1917. Secretary of State Sifton presents figures in the House of Commons showing per capita revenue about 86.11 and per capita expenditures about 75.01 with total revenue in the 1920s around 4,000,000.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
House of Commons
Sifton
Home Still Put Man on Easy Street
In Vraitport Michigan officers raided a home still run by John Spazer. He claimed to have run the still all winter and to have cleaned up enough to put him on easy street.
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Vraitport
Mich
John Spazer
Bandits Kill Three Pool Players in Council Bluffs
Three men were killed and four were fatally wounded in Council Bluffs when 25 Austrians failed to understand the demand from three bandits who entered the pool hall and shouted stick em up.
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Council Blatisla
Bootleg Whisky Sold From Tombstone Counter in Hinton
Gordon Kirby allegedly selected a hilltop graveyard in Hinton West Virginia as the site to sell bootleg whisky Prohibition officers say they found him using a tombstone as a counter to conduct the sale.
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Hinton
W. Va
Gordon Kirby
Faith Before Doubt
A compact quotation from the Dallas News notes that people often spend freely to feel good in the moment while anticipating doubt and regret the next day. The remark reflects on mood, money, and self awareness.
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Dallas News
What is the average man as described in dialogue
An Average Man contrasts city life with marriage and finances. It depicts a man waiting for a raise, skipping meals off a chair, marrying into kitchen dining, and limiting amusements to small amounts while following street parades along the march.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Isinglass Industry Concentrated in Japanese Regions
Isinglass from seaweed is produced across Japan with climate suitability. Osaka Kyoto and Iyogo account for more than two thirds of output about 2 809 207 pounds, indicating regional dominance in production.
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Japan
Osaka
Kyoto
Iyogo
Notions on Virtue and Vice by Sir Philip Sidney
A quoted reflection notes that character shifts gradually not by sudden extremes. A person grows into virtue or vice by steady self formation or neglect, highlighting the gradual nature of moral change.
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Sir Philip Sidney
MODELED ON HUMAN FRAME A new efficiency dictum from Philadelphia
The New York Evening Sun reports that efficiency experts claim the human frame is 109 percent efficient and industry plans now model factory organization on medical analogy. Promoters trust physician advisers as they design plant layouts with prominent brackets and curves, equating senses to supervision and the brain to executive control, aligning labor with automatic functions of production.
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American Society of Industrial Engineers
Philadelphia
New York Evening Sun
C. E. Kuseppel
New York University
Forgetful Senior Dons Red Makeup In Studio
A Technical high school senior, famed for disdain of cosmetics, succumbs to classmates urging a makeup test in a photographer's studio. After posing, she hurries home and notices another woman’s complexion. later she realizes she left her own makeup on.
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Technical High School
Indianapolis News
British cobalt-molybdenum high speed steel without tungsten
A British origin high speed steel without tungsten is claimed to combine practicality and economy. The cobalt molybdenum alloy acts as stabilizer and mitigates molybdenum tungsten steel drawbacks. Enrichment includes a 2000 degree Fahrenheit hardening temperature and easy machining. The material weighs similar to carbon tool steel but 10 percent less than tungsten variants, allowing 10 percent more tools per weight.
Industrial research urged as wartime lesson
The article notes Britain’s push to expand industrial research during the war. A government department dedicated to scientific and industrial research has been established, and universities led by University College London are re equipping their training departments to support the effort.
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England
Great Britain
Institution of Electric Engineers
University College, London
The Fickle Men
Two girls gossip about a boyfriend’s fickleness as one recalls buying gauntlet gloves to learn driving only to have the man take a new girlfriend before paying off the purchase. The scene captures adolescent heartbreak and social mockery in a light, anecdotal tone.
Boy’s bobbed hair prompts memory of barber’s iron
Simple Operation Douglas, a three and a half year old, comes home from the barber shop with a neat bob. His mother hears him tell a playmate the barber “ran the electrique iron over my head,” recalling the odd phrasing from the day.
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Douglas
Following Human Fashions Hen Blackbird Featherless Neck Report
A Worcester ornithologist reports a hen blackbird appearing featherless on neck and back while attempting to emulate current styles. The observer finds the bird's fashion-driven behavior particularly curious.
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Worcester
London
Bermuda Island Car Ban Draws Laughs From Judge
The paper quotes Judge Gillis joking that Bermuda would be a wonderful, frugal place if autos were banned on the island. The remark highlights a lighthearted exchange about cost savings and travel.
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Ideal
Willis
Bermuda
Gillis
Judge
Auto signs turn Death Valley into night friendly route
The Automobile Club of Southern California plans extensive sign posting in Death Valley guiding night motorists with headlights. The project marks water holes and desert routes and directs travelers to Palm Canyon, a desert oasis slated for national monument status for its ancient palm rows and historic landscape.
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Death Valley
Automobile Club
Meath Valley
Palm Canyon
Burt
Not All Due to Comedian
Speaker Sweet cited in Albany that newspaper space does not prove greatness. He shared a parable about a rich man employing a comedian for workers, where the barn audience laughed loudly and a plowman warned the show risked ending late as chaos grew.
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Sweet
New York State
Albany
Blue Jay Nest Dispute Highlights Canary In Maple
A reader recalls blue jays nesting in a maple crotch near a study window. The female favored a lower site while the male preferred higher, prompting protests until the female's choice prevailed. They built a twiggy nest, raised the family, then returned to common jay chorus in fall.
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Christian Science Monitor
Poor Father Hair Fable Ends in Clever Quip
Marian, an eleven year old, resists her mother's plan to keep her hair bobbed. The mother argues cutting hair helps it grow thick. Marian counters with a quip about her bald father, turning the family debate into a light moment.
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Marian
Father
Dream of Flowers Signals Fortune and Warnings
Dreaming of picking flowers presages future fortune while seasonal flowers indicate pleasure and out of season implies obstacles and lack of success. Wide blooms lessen obstacles. yellow flowers portend pain while red predicts serious illness. Decoration signals brief happiness and buying flowers brings good news, per Chicago American.
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Chicago
Imitations and Real Things at the Picture House
A young physician and his date attend a focal theater where ads are shown. He quips about a self photograph for Christmas while she declines imitations, preferring real gifts.
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Focal Picture House
Husband enjoys golf despite steady score
Conversation shows a husband pleased with a round of golf that ended with a 102. He jokes that the score should have been 87 while expressing satisfaction at being able to work out the better score after the round.
Topsyturvy Weather Ushers In Early Spring Verses
A whimsical column notes the world feels upside down as spring poetry from last winter arrives. The piece playful observes weather shifts and fits of seasonal change with light humor and literary flair.
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