Alaskan Timber Permit For Rail Line From Chugach Forest
The Washington based Alaskan Engineering Commission received a permit from the forest service to cut 85,000,000 feet of timber in the Chugach National Forest for use on the government railroad from Seward to Fairbanks. The cut, largest ever in Alaska, supports construction while ensuring only mature trees are felled and the forest is improved.
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Engineering Commission
Chugach National Forest
Washington
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Seward
Fairbanks
Forest Service
Chugach Naonal
Portland
Ore
Secretary of Agriculture
Havy Department
National Forests
Seattle
Watc
Alaska
Chugach
Alaska forests hold vast merchantable timber reserves
The Forest Service estimates Alaska forests contain roughly 78,000 909000 feet of merchantable timber and that more than 800,000 900 feet could be cut annually indefinitely without reducing productivity.
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Alaska
The
Forest Service
Honolulu Is Up To Date In Traffic Police Deployment
Honolulu in Hawaii shows Americanism with traffic police at all downtown intersections. The city has about 2400 automobiles and a dense downtown traffic scene. Foot patrols have formed a trade corps in olive drab uniforms, mainly Hawaiians with a few Irish members.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Pacific Ocean
Actors Hard Hit by War in London
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree told the Actors' association that war has doubled living costs and cut salaries by about 50 percent for actors. He warned postwar life would require them to start anew, yet praised their patriotic sacrifice. About 8,000 male actors exist, with 1,500 having joined the colors.
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London
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Actors’ Association
Potatoes In His Cash Box Trick Outline Repetti Case
Little Rock reports sixty year old Italian American commission merchant Louis Repetti found twelve potatoes in his cash box instead of seven thousand ten dollars. He says Ricci, another Italian, swapped boxes in a scheme. a warrant is issued but Ricci remains at large.
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Little Rock
Ark
Louis Repetti
United States
Commission
Repetti
Ricci
Man of 73 Goes Barefoot
Kansas City report describes J. M. Halger of Carlton Oklahoma who for eight months each year farms barefoot. He claims grass roots and earth provide soothing electrical currents that revitalize the body and attend to his work without shoes, despite public attention in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Kan
J. M. Halger
Carlton
Okla
Noise complaint over early lawn mowing in Hackensack
N J Lamb files nuisance complaint against New York commuter George W Burdette for mowing a lawn before six o clock in the morning, arguing the noise disturbs residents.
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Hackensack, N
N. S
Lamb
George W. Burdette
New York
Will Never Drown Francis Tuohy Still Goes Down to Sea
Francis Tuohy of Hyde Park Mass known as the man born never to be drowned survived the Titanic Empress of Ireland and Lusitania disasters. A fireman on the White Star liner Baltic he served 12 years in the US Navy, crew on Olympia and Baltimore. He recounts clinging to wreckage twenty minutes after Titanic sank and hours on flotilla segments in other wrecks. He later sailed to the Dardanelles with 7000 British troops aboard Mauretania and returned aboard Baltic.
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Francis Tuohy
Empress
New York
Hyde Park
Mass
Liverpool
Tuohy
United States Navy
Admiral Dewey
Manila Bay
Baltimore
Schley
Sweden
Ericsson
Empress of Ireland
Storstad
St. Lawrence
Lusitania
Mauretania
Dardanelles
Baltic
Will-O’-the-Wisp Girl Custody Battle Stirs Passaic
Thomas Miller of Passaic New Jersey fights Joseph Samtax of Athenia for custody of the child known as Will-O’-the-Wisp. Miller says he has cared for the girl since four months old after a sister found her as an abandoned baby and will spend all he owns to keep her.
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Thomas Miller
Passaic
N. J
Joseph Samtax
Athenia
Francis Albina Samtax
Miller
Submarine Blockade Feasibility Against Great Britain
An analysis cites 49 ports on Britain’s coasts and calculates that 147 submarines must be on station to close all ports, with a total fleet of 294 submarines when including passage and overhaul times, based on Zeebrugge bases and four day round trips.
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Zeebrugge
Great Britain
England
Scotland
Wales
Cuticura Hand Treatment Ad Promises Quick Relief
The advertisement touts Cuticura soap and ointment as superior for cleansing purifying and soothing hands. It claims a one night treatment can heal severe red rough and chapped hands and offers a free sample by mail via a postcard to Cuticura Dept XY Boston. Sold everywhere.
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Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
Locomotives Sparked Patriotism Test, London Tit-Bits
A schoolteacher asked a pupil to name motives of territorials in war. The boy answered with a humorous take recalling the public sendoff at the railroad station, saying the motive was locomotives.
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Territorials
London
Banana Peel Prank Sparks Lady Slipper Quip
A playful exchange on a street scene features a joke about a woman slipping on a banana peel and a pun comparing her to a lady slipper, highlighting humorous street banter.
The Shell Shortage Sparks Allied Volunteer Valor Talk
A. J. Drexel praised the English volunteer army in New York noting undergraduates from Oxford and Cambridge fight beside coal miners and tradesmen. He said peers and millionaires’ sons hobnob with plumbers and blacksmiths in the ranks and warned that many "nuts" in the volunteer army challenge the Kaiser, despite shell shortages.
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A. J. Drexel
New York
Oxford
Cambridge
When Chopper Clogs
A kitchen tip advises adding a few drops of lemon juice when chopping raisins dates or figs to prevent clogging the food chopper.
Faith and Good Works in a Country Parish
A country woman arriving late to church explains the horse nearly ran away. The parson urges faith in Heaven, but she notes she trusted until the harness broke and she jumped from the wagon.
Save the Babies Castoria Warns on Infant Mortality
An early 20th century warning argues castoria can reduce infant deaths, citing high mortality in many countries and accusing narcotic medicines of causing illnesses. The piece urges use of Castoria with the signature of Chas. Fletcher for safe relief and better circulation.
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Chas
Fletcher
Hart
Maeterlinck Bypasses Tobacco With Dericotinized Pipe Trick
The London Chronicle notes M. Maeterlinck, freed from tobacco’s grip by using a tasteless dericotinized substitute. His pipe remains lit during writing, serving mainly to satisfy an irresistible mechanical craving rather than stimulate the brain.
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M. Maeterlinck
M. Gerard Harry
London Chronicle
Where Brass Is Made in Waterbury Region
Eighty two percent of the brass in dustry of this country is in the ter ritory around Waterbury Connecticut. The United States brass industry comprises 55 to 60 percent of that of the world.
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Waterbury
Conn
United States
Wealth and Heaven Barriers Questioned by Observer
The text reflects on the difficulty for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven versus the ease of staying outside. It suggests a moral contrast between wealth and spiritual access. No specific persons or events are named.
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Kingdom of Heaven
Conversation Fails To Get A Word In
Swamped by a jovial talk with Miss Gadders last evening the speaker found it hard to get a word in as chatter ran fast and free throughout the parlor.
Minimum wage fixed for chambermaids in Washington
The Washington industrial welfare commission sets a nine dollar per week minimum wage for chambermaids and similar help in the state. In California an amateur horticulturist has bred a seedless, large tomato.
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The
Washington Industrial Welfare Commission
California
Firm Basis Cementing Friendship Through Concrete Action
A dialogue fragment shows two speakers stressing practical steps to strengthen ties. The exchange uses a metaphor of building with concrete to imply taking tangible measures beyond words.
Spoiled Joke and Facts on Railways and Posts
A humorous exchange about an accidental remark and a new pair of shoes. The text then states that Egypt has over 1 500 miles of railways and Germany operates about 50 000 post offices.
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Egypt
Germany
Planting Sugar Cane Farrowing Tradition and Technique
Sugar cane is planted by placing small sections with two to three nodes along fur rows. Some areas use hole planting. After trenching, pieces are lightly covered with soil. Growth appears in weeks with buds and roots forming, rows spaced about three feet to allow leaf removal for faster maturation.
Dancing Energy Splits Between Foot Power and Brain Power
A witty exchange contrasts energy wasted in dancing with the idea of using it for useful work. One speaker argues dancing uses foot power, not brain power, while the other resists entertaining the supposition. The conversation highlights skepticism about redirecting artistic energy to practical tasks.
Mainstay of the Business
A quip noting that nine-tenths of dry goods stores rely on women and would falter without them, highlighting women's central role in retail.
Women Food Experts In Government Service
Two Washington women serve as food experts with one a pomologist and the other a specialist in medicinal plants. A man who says he is glad he is married may be an optimist or a liar. Spectacles were invented in the thirteenth century. A lazy man makes much ado about nothing.
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Washington
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