Veterans Welfare Push Seeks Expanded Postwar Aid
Congress faces renewed effort to broaden World War I veterans relief beyond the pending bonus bill. Representative Burton Sweet and Senator Walsh push new measures, including longer disability ratings, safeguards against unwarranted reductions, broader coverage for postservice illnesses, and liberalized reinstatement of lapsed insurance with investments in U S bonds and farm loan bank notes.
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Ashington
Burton FE
Sweet
Veteraans’ Bureau
David I. Walsh
Massachusetts
Ccnre
Veterans’ Bureau of Insurance
United States
Federal Farm Loan Bank
Pension Granted After Long Fight Over Soldier's Horse
Jacob Barger of Shawneetown Illinois won a lifetime pension after a decades long battle. Private Bargers memory of a horse dispute helped prove service and entitle him to twenty dollars monthly for life and later increased. The case featured 500 pages of testimony across six states and multiple congresses before President Harding signed the bill.
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Jacob Barger
Shawneetown
Ill
Barger
Pension Bureau
Thomas S. Willams
Motoring public urged to aid fire prevention in parks
President Harding urges Fire Prevention Day while the National Park Service asks motorists to help prevent fires in national parks. A. B. Cammerer notes 1.2 million park visitors this year, 70 percent arriving by car, and calls on drivers to spread safety practices, as careless campfires cause costly damage in Sequoia and other parks.
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Harding
National Motorists’ Association
National Park Service
A. B. Cammerer
Cammerer
Union
Yellowstone
Sequoia National Park
Cumper
Modern ordnance dazzles at Aberdeen field days show
Exhibits include a 16 inch gun with 26 mile range and a wounder fuse that bursts on wing cloth contact. A 2,000 pound shell penetrates 16 inches of steel before exploding. A 14 inch railway gun and a 2,000 pound aerial bomb are described with vast ranges and crater yields.
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Army Ordnance Association
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Society of Automotive Engineers
Association
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Maryland
Long Island
New York City
Only Woman at Head of Law School
Miss Emma M. Gillet leads the Washington College of Law as the only woman head of a recognized U.S. law school at seventy. Born in 1852 in Princeton Wisconsin she pursued teaching before studying law under Belva Lockwood and Harvard then earning her degree in 1888. She founded a women’s class in 1896 and helped grow the college into a nationwide institution.
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Emma M. Gillet
Washington College of Law
United States
Miss Gillett
Miss Gillet
Princeton
Wis
Pennsylvania
Ohio Seminary
Belva A. Lockwood
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Lockwood
Harvard University
Torpedo Attacks by Seaplanes Demonstrated at Hampton Roads
The Navy tests off Virginia capes with seaplanes firing torpedoes at the battleship Arkansas show nine hits from seventeen launches. Seaplanes traveled 90 miles from Hampton Roads, planes dropped torpedoes from about 2000 feet to 40 feet above water, revealing new naval warfare dynamics and prompting plans for a longer range Davis Douglas seaplane.
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Jones
H.T. Bartlett
Atlantic Coast
Hampton Roads
Yorktown
Pensacola
Newport
Arkansas
Wyoming
North Dakota
W. A. Moffitt
Bureau of Naval Aeronautics
United States
Navally Service
Donald Macgregor
New York Herald
No Seat Large Enough for 216-Pound Pupil
Walter Winkley, a 16 year old weighing 216 pounds from Little Rock Arkansas, faced school seating limits until a custom chair could be built. Superintendent F C Abbott searched for a suitable seat but none fit Walter, so he could enjoy a brief fishing and swimming period while the special chair was being prepared.
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Walter Winkley
Little Rock
Ark
Walter
F. C. Abbott
Chief Little Bear seeks divorce from Madelaine in tribal clash
In Chicago a Native American chief named Henry Rice Little Bear petitions divorce from his wife Madelaine after years of alleged abuse. He laments white man laws prevent him from using his traditional methods to “tame” her and seeks peace through court proceedings.
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Little Bear
Chicago
Henry Rice Little Bear
Madelaine
Chipmunk Triggered 23-Inch Rainbow Catch in Holt Creek
Timber cruiser Tom Fulda reeled a 23 inch rainbow trout in Holt Creek that had swallowed a small chipmunk. The fish was found near Woodville Washington and the event is noted as unusual by local observers. A remark on underwater flame devices used by ship salvors follows, stating the flame burns underwater and can cut holes in sunken vessels.
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Woodville
Wash
Tom Fulda
Holt Creek
Reindeer Desert Tame Herds Halifax Report
Halifax Nova Scotia reports many Norwegian reindeers brought to Baffin Bay by Hudsons Bay Company are missing. Captain Falk on the Bay Eskimo says only 160 of 700 landed reindeer could be accounted for during his summer visit. He cites country size and terrain as barriers to herding and believes the missing animalsjoined wild bands. remaining deer are described as fat and sleek.
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Sweet
Veterans’ Bureau
Halifax
N. S
Baffin Bay
Hudson's Bay Company
Falk
Hudson Bay
Bay Eskimo
Nuscopte
Iowa News Highlights From Various Counties
A wide survey of Iowa incidents includes an injury from a corn sheller in Missouri Valley, multiple robberies at Floris, a child’s fall injuring a Dubuque boy, and a new implement company with 126 stockholders near Sheldon. Other items note deaths from alcohol poisoning in Cedar Rapids, a gas explosion near Greenfield, a 2500 bushel apple harvest sale near Bedford, and the Iowa Farm Bureau convention planned for Des Moines in January.
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Oris Fitzsimmons
Missouri Valley
A. M. Strickland
Floris
Frederick Kenline
Dubuque
Sheldon
Frank &. Sape
Cedar Rapids
Will Green
Sam Kirkus
Ogden
John F. Salzer
John A. Salter
Keokuk
Mississippi
Kendall
Orrie Cross
Fosdick
Des Moines
Carnegie Library
Newton
Pella
St. John’s
Arcadia
Robert
N. G. Higbee
Webster City
Coggan
Henry Stiles
Hubert Utterback
Deas Moines
Harding
Near East Relief Committee
Polk County
F.C. Flutter
Polk County Medical Association
A. L. Peterson
Post
Austin Haines
Des Moines News
Anna EH. Richardson
Washington, D. C
Iowa State College At
Ames
Catharine MacKay
F. C. Lowden
Illinois
Iowa State Teachers Association
Coliseum
F. J. Cross
Electric Service Company
M. R. Kirschbaum
Sioux City
Albert Gianguillo
Mason City
Decker Meat
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
State Weather Bureau
Girl Sailor Quits the Sea After 16 Adventurous Years
Helen Lowell, once a boyish sailor aboard the Minnie E Cain, spent 16 of her 19 years at sea between Puget Sound and Australia. Raised by her seafaring father who taught her navigation and Latin, she slept ashore now in Los Angeles with her mother. She has renounced life at sea to adapt to feminine life and family ties.
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Los Angeles
Helen Lowell
Minnie BE
Cain
Puget Sound
Wash
Australia
South Sea Islands
Helen
Helen Joan
Minnie E. Cain
Mrs. Lowell
Racine
Wis
Evelyn Calnan
J. A. Simpson
Child Gored to Death by Large Hog on Farm
The 23 month old son of Everett Foster was fatally gored by a large boar on the farm after wandering with other children into the hog pen. Mrs. Foster drove the hog away but the child suffered fatal injuries before help arrived.
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Bradford
Everett Foster
Land of El Dorado explained in historic usage
The term El Dorado meaning the gilded one originates from Spanish lore about an Indian chief covered in gold dust during a yearly festival. It became a generic label for any country believed to abound in valuable natural products.
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el Dorado
South America
More Decorous Fashion Declares Paris Now Clad
In a witty exchange, Miss Cayenne contrasts Parisian style with mere unclothed drapery, noting Paris has shifted to clothing as its business, signaling a refined turn in couture and taste.
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Miss Cayenne
Paris
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