McAdoo Attacks Coal Owners Profits and Prices
Former U S Treasury secretary William McAdoo says bituminous coal mine operators earned 100 to 300 percent profits on capital stock in 1917 and warns it would be a grave wrong to permit higher coal prices amid proposed wage increases. He urges public release of soft coal income tax returns and no price hikes to consumers.
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William McAdoo
U. S. Treasury
William G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Garfield
Tlam
McAdoo
McAdool
Terrible vows and fashion costs in old clothes scene
A garbled excerpt shows a man lamenting costly old garments while a father scolds a son for late hours. Interwoven notes mention water iris fertilizer, its value, partial drying, and saline content, suggesting a miscellany page with household hints and odd dialogue.
Fate of a British trooper in Turkey under martial rule
Thorneycroft, a 22 year old British trooper, stranded in Turkey after Townshend’s offensive, governed a territory of 60 villages and 60,000 people until relieved by Allenby’s martial law. The Bristol hotel keeper’s son proves imperial fiber amid war, fate, and comic resilience.
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Rudyard Wipling
Kipling
Thorneycroft
Turkey
Townshend
Tle
Allenby
Bristol
Tommy Atkins
Doughboy
Hach
Iowa News Notes recounts forgeries and trials in Des Moines
A long Iowa roundup describes Sarah F. Tracy’s confession naming herself as a famed forger, her aliases Belle Lewis and J. T. M. Henry, and alleged Southern lineage. It covers a six year reformatory sentence, a Purlington congress candidate, a Plymouth county murder indictments and swift trials, and a string of local insurance and legal actions, plus hospital closures and a family reconciliation after long estrangements.
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Sarah FF. Tracy
Nes Moines
United States
United States Senate
Des Moines
Belle J Lewis
J. TM. Henry
Mutta
Wonolin
Meyer
Reformatory For Women
Rockwell City
Iowa
Charles €. Taft
Hugh B. Hedge
John J. Spindler
Council Bluffs
Samuel A. Ensigne
Storm Lake
John C. Voorhnes
Anita
John J. Watson
Timmersburg
John W. Noel Ofillisea
Noel of
Villisea
Wilkerson
Ead
Albia
State Board of Control
Knoxville
Oldest Doctor Dr Air and His Airy Tonics
A letter characterizes Dr Air as the oldest physician in history, claiming he has treated humans, animals, and plants with airy tonics since the dawn of humanity. It describes hot and cold tonics adapting to climate, notes Canadian pride in Our Study of the Snows, and paints a whimsical panorama of Dr Air’s pervasive remedies across land and water.
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Dr. Air
Air
Great White North
Tropics
Northland
Ais
W. T. Wolle
Nature Never In A Hurry In Colorado Mountains Change Slow
A Kansas City letter argues nature acts with patience, contrasting human impatience with the gradual geological sculpting of Rocky Mountain peaks. It recalls glacier formation and uplift at Pike's Peak and Longs Peak as evidence that even grand changes unfold over vast timescales.
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Colorado
Rocky Mountains
Pike's
Long's
Montana
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Sfe
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Fred
Wolsteen
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Harry Smith
William Convey
W. Cullen
Lee Harrington
James O'Keefe
William Maxwell
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LeMars
Sioux City
Risden Sant van Wagnon
le Mars
Gedar Falls
P. P. Claxton
Washington
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Wdwin
Hill
Albert Dickerson
Chicago
Clarence
Tom Nickerson
Albert
Atlantic
Tiaae Tickerson
Cass County
Cass County Bank
REX Theatre
Wm. Wamcher Amusement Company Presents
LULU
Honolulu
Howe’s
Mickie
Tempe
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