Washington sidelight on good roads politics across candidates
A Washington column notes presidential contenders share broad support for national good roads policy. Hoover favors a national roads system. Wood and Lowen think roads aid economy and war recovery. Bryan and Palmer urge road-building in peace. Harding and others cite transport as civilization’s path.
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National Good Roads Movement
White House
Uncle Sam
Gen
Frank
Lowé
Leonard Wood
Herbert Hoover
W. G. Mesidoo
America
Bryan
A. Mitchell Palmer
Anti H
California
Wiliam Johnson
Warren G. Harding
Miles Poindexter
War Insurance Red Tape Cut With New Bill
A House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee approved a bill to simplify war risk insurance. It allows premium payments at post offices and creates 14 regional offices plus suboffices. Treasury supports. agencies to assist veterans including healthcare and vocational training beneficiaries. Temporary premium relief applies to hospital patients, vocational trainees, and those temporarily totally disabled.
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Roceal
Mouse Committee
Oon
Sweet
Tuwatus
Jlun Us
Treasury Department
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
United States
Bureau of Public Health Service
Beard of Vocational Education
Overalls Campaign Sparks Global Hype and Wealth Claims
Paris reports allege a bold promotional stunt by American press and business circles as fashion overalls trend, with claims of vast wealth and high profits. Johnny Sorenson, linked to Newark and Buffalo factories, claims a massive publicity push built from a New York reporter’s idea and firms’ publicity chiefs.
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Eiyergdis
Vparis
Daris
Jim” Brady
Gates
Johnny Sorensen
New York
Newark
N. J
Schenectads
MN. Y
Buffalo
N. Y
Claridge’s
America
Mr. Sorenson
Vietor
Sorensen
No Sportsman Verdict on German Racing Policy
The piece discusses global reactions to racing bans and registry actions by English and allied jockey clubs, the potential American response, and the impact on German breeding. It notes Germany's wartime racing activity, the reliance on English lineage sires, and the broader implications for European horse breeding.
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Merica
Jockey Clubs
Jockey Club of America
United States
Remtienan
Wie
Mein
Autien
Rawcing Sportsmmen
England
Belgium
Germany
Austre-Fhingcaurg
Bulgaria
Turkey
Austre- Hungary
Uncle Sam Defends Tax Bureau Costs in 1919 Report
The Bureau of Internal Revenue released figures defending its 1919 cost of collection. It states 53 cents was spent for every $100 collected, with total income tax and related revenue at $3.85 billion and expenditures at $20.57 million.
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Bureau of Internal Revenue
Varios
Wlingis
Bureau Wiis Teles
Bureau
Pueblo Detective Kills Seven Mexicans in Twenty Years
City Detective Charles Baty of Pueblo Colorado rose from a sick bed to confront four Mexicans bent on assassination at 1 20 in the morning. He killed Salvador Parea twenty eight and wounded none, while the others fled. Mrs Baty assisted by supplying two more revolvers as the detective fired from the doorway. This marked the seventh Mexican slain by Baty in his twenty year career on the force amid major police cases in the Mexican district.
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Pueblo
Colo
Charles Baty
West Fourth Street
Salvador Parea
Baty
Varen
Half Pound Baby Defies Odds Sees Growth
Jeanne Ousset, a New York lightweight baby born weighing half a pound, has grown to one pound three ounces in six weeks. Doctors doubted survival, but nurse Louise Benard reports perfect health and steady development. The child's parents, Louis and Mrs. Ousset, live at 229 East Thirty-fifth Street, as they care for their tiny daughter.
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New York
Jeanne Ousset
Jeanne
Louis Ousset
Fast Thirty-fifth Street
Louise Benard
Shellshock patient swallows varied hardware diet
In a U S hospital a shellshocked patient nearly consumed a bizarre hardware banquet. Doctor Driesbach found 80 tin rolls the size of a little finger, four toothbrush handles, four wooden depressors, nails, buttons, buckles, needles and sticks totaling 665 pieces recovered from the stomach.
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Danville
N. Y
United States
Not a Fish Story: trio seized by pasture bull
Columbus Indiana. Phillip Long Marsh Ralston and B Freese set out on a fishing trip but were attacked by an enraged bull in a pasture. The animal released them and held the men as prisoners for the day before they escaped.
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Columbus
Ind
Phillip Long
Marsh Ralston
B. Freese
Banks Ad Highlights Robbery Fire in Louisa Kentucky
Robbers sought Carl Buychett's hidden funds in Louisa KY. They failed to locate the money, set fire to his house and burned his barns. About 8200 dollars secreted in the building were lost.
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Louisa, Ky
Carl Buychett
Buychett
Mexican Miner Shot After Gun Fails in Delagua
Trinidad Colorado Luccas Ruiz twenty two a coal miner was shot dead by Night Watchman Joe Atler in Delagua after Ruiz and Ficundo Martinez tried to rob the watchman and Deputy Sheriff T J Littlejohn The gun fired only when Atler shot Ruiz as the weapon twice failed to discharge and Martinez escaped The incident followed Ruiz and Martinez drinking and discharging revolvers at the camp with the officers disarming Ruiz and warning them to go home.
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Trinidad
Colo
Luccas Ruiz
Joe Atler
Delagua
Ruiz
Ficundo
Martinez
T. J. Littlejohn
Atler
Alartinez
Ruizg
Swiss father found guilty of neglect in New York case
John Peraldo a 35 year old Swiss resident near Inwood is convicted in the New York City court of special sessions for neglecting his duties as husband and father. The testimony shows his wife and three children Linda 6 Edith 3 and Joseph 11 months lived in a tumble down shack with animals while Peraldo fed the pig and dogs from garbage before feeding his family. He reportedly lived in a coop behind the yard.
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New Yorks
John Peraldo
Inwood
Court of Special Sessions
New York City
Peraldo
United States
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Linda
Edith
Joseph
New York
Woman Swallows Mouse While Sleeping in London
Mrs. Mary Watson of London reports she swallowed a mouse while asleep with her baby in bed. She says the mouse ran across her chest and slipped into her mouth as she slept with mouth open, and she was awakened by the child.
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Mary Watson
London
England
Whaling Station Planned at Eureka California
Eureka California and Trinidad northern towns attract investment as a sea food company plans a whaling station to produce fertilizer and chicken feed. Contracts for a wharf and buildings were let signaling summer construction. In Elkins West Virginia police chief Dallas Wilfong quietly marries Miss Lottie Kittle, leaving the jail empty for the first time.
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Fureka
Cal
Trinidad
Sea Food
Elkins
W. Va
Dallas G. Wilfong
Lottie G. Kittle
Eight-vehicle wreck blocks bridge. gasoline spill halts supplies
In Sulphur Ky eight cars carrying fresh vegetables wrecked on a bridge. A tank car gasoline spill prevented residents from profiting by the accident as responders contained the fire and secured the scene.
Loggerhead Beetle and Fly Talk on Names and Being Interesting
A dialogue between a Loggerhead Horned Beetle and a fly explores identity, ownership of a name, and the notion of being interesting. The beetle boasts its horns and face while the fly dismisses being noticed, leading to reflections on politeness and uninvited visits. The scene closes with a child asking if there is a polite way to fight when insulted.
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Jimmy
Runa Without Legs Puzzle Appears in Comic Run
A playful comic gag shows a character named Runa asking what runs across the floor without legs. The punchline ends with water as the answer, delivering a light moment in the strip.
Alarm Over Dread Disease Encephalitis Lethargica Global Spread
Medical Record cites Dr Lhermitte on a worldwide rise of encephalitis lethargica also called sleeping sickness. Core signs include deep prolonged sleep with four cardinal symptoms fever ocular paralysis hypersomnia and severe muscle stiffness. Warns Wassermann test and spinal fluid analysis for diagnosis.
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New York
Lhermitte
Wassermann
Old Fish Market Must Go From Billingstate to New Site
London’s old time fish market at Billingstate quay faces relocation due to transport and modern needs. Saxon era trade and Edward I price tariffs are recalled, with historic rates for mullet haddock lamprey oysters and porpoise. The Thames retains salt water at high tide but fish now do not travel past Gravesend.
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Billingscate
London
Billingstate
Thames
London Bridge
Gravesend
Shadow of the sword brings hard earned happiness and loyalty
A Montreal Herald reflection notes life’s deepest joys come from hardship and shared trials. It asserts that poverty and illness reveal true friendship and near heavenly companionship, while pity cannot grasp the happiness snatched under hardship’s shadow.
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Montreal Herald
Potato Size and Use Across Regions
The article compares potato preferences in Virginia and northern markets noting larger meal potatoes in Virginia versus modest sizes in the North. It explains European cultivation of varieties for cooking, starch, or distilling, and mentions the stock potato as a very large, coarse, nonfood type with high starch content suitable for alcohol production.
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Virginia
Europe
Paderewski Shakes Hands With Allied Leaders
After the Austrian peace treaty signing in Paris Paderewski Poland’s representative shook hands with allied plenipotentiaries using both hands. Earlier in life an accidental cigar touch injured his fingers, prompting him to insure each finger and ban handshakes to protect his craft.
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Paris
Paderewski
Poland
Henry’s Four Sounding Golf Alibis Explained
A playful tale about Henry and golf etiquette. He explains why players yell fore, joking that shouting toot toot would echo two two, so they combine the sounds into four. The anecdote links Henry’s father’s love of golf to Henry’s quick quip.
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Henry
Remarkable Recovery for Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
Philadelphia reader Mrs. Margaret Danz describes relief from organic troubles and changes of life after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She cites severe pain head ache and insomnia and urges others to try the remedy, asserting it offered hope after doctors failed.
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Philadelphia
Lydia E. Pinkham
Margaret Danz
N. 25Th Street
Phila
Prayed for Cure Finds it After 10 Years
Herbert M. Gessner of Berlin New Hampshire writes that ten years of stomach trouble, worsened by January, vanished after taking Eatonic. He reports relief started after one third of a dose and continued with a second box, allowing him to eat what he likes.
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Herbert M. Gessner
Berlin
N. H
Eatonic
Teamster's life saved by Peterson ointment claim
William Haase of West Park Ohio credits Peterson's Ointment with curing a years long leg sore after doctors failed. He praises the product and says Peterson's Co. sells boxes for 25 cents with mail orders from Buffalo.
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Peterson Ointment Co., Inc
Peterson
William Haase
West Park
Ohio
Care
P. G. Reitz
Peterson Ointment Co
Buffalo
Donation mix up sparks rural seed debate
Mrs Corn tessel complains that the congressman cannot send free seeds this year while a farmer notes that the types sent previously were of little value as chickens refuse to eat most of them. The exchange underscores skepticism about government aid programs in rural farming communities.
England’s Stamp Output in UK Daily Rate
The article notes that the United Kingdom prints postage stamps mainly penny and half-penny issues, totaling about fifteen million stamps per day across the realm.
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England
United Kingdom
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