Blind deaf pianist Helen Martin astonishes world
Helen May Martin of Olathe Kansas, blind and deaf, gave a piano recital at a Methodist church using a unique sense approach. She played pieces by Gounod Mozart Beethov en and others, guiding her performance by touch and rhythm, repeating an encore at the end. She writes on a typewriter, brailles music, weaves, tatting, bakes angel food and can cook and manage household tasks. Her teacher Andrea Granger aided the program as a former early instructor. She also writes stories and carefully handles bank checks, illustrating a broad range of skills beyond music.
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Olathe
Kun
Helen May Martin
Miss Martin
Gounod
Mozart
Morrison
Lang
Beethoven
Carrie Jacobs Bond
Andrea Granger
Miss Granger
Kansas State School For the Deaf
Kansas
Lincoln
Neb
Helen Meller
Flag Sunk in Battle Reaches Berlin Naval Museum
The flag of the German cruiser Scharnhorst, sunk in the Falkland Islands battle, arrived at the Berlin Naval Museum after a Brazilian vessel captain recovered it from a German sailor’s sea chest. A German resident purchased and funded its acquisition, and it is now displayed with the cruiser Gneisenau model and other naval mementos.
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Berlin
Scharnhorst
Falkland
Brazil
Navy Department
Gneisenau
Germany
Bear Cub Born in Park Zoo Chisholm Minn
The Chisholm park zoo announces a new bear cub born in captivity. Superintendent Phillips notes few cubs survive long, recounting a prior cub killed by the mide bears. The current cub was found in time to be tassoed and removed from the pen and is being bottle raised.
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Chisholm, Minn
Chisholm Park Zoo
Phillips
Aged Cabinetmaker Buys Coffin Predicting Death
Fred W. Miller of Hillyard Spokane bought his own coffin after a premonition that he had few days left. He paid cash for funeral costs including embalming and died the next day.
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Spokane
Wash
Fred W. Miller
Hillyard
Corn Value as Food and Aid Across Europe
Trade Commissioner Dr J A LeClerc argues corn provides the cheapest cereal food and could feed hundreds of millions, noting vast US production and low human-use share. He highlights corn grits and flour replacing rice and wheat, the export potential, and relief feeding millions of European children with corn products amid postwar shortages.
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Department of Commerce
Washington
United States
J. A. LeClerc
America
Doctor LeClerc
Department of Agriculture
Europe
American Relief Administration
Poland
Austein
Toungeury
Russia
World News Hears of 1919 Policy Shifts and Crises
A wide ranging 1919 roundup reports U S efforts to curb war profiteering with a $500000 War Prosecution Bureau and a freight rate cut by the Interstate Commerce Commission. It notes record corn exports, discussions on Russia trade, and diplomatic hopes over Japan Siberia. Also covered are rail and harbor projects, political shifts, crimes, accidents, a public divorce case, and a priest shot while cleaning a pistol.
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United States
Hungary
Russia
Jugo-Slavia
Greb Defeats Tunney For World Light Heavyweight Title
In New York Harry Greb defeated Gene Tunney in fifteen rounds to win the world light heavyweight championship. The bout showcased Greb’s relentless pressure and Tunney’s skilled boxing as the headline event.
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Harry Greb
Gene Tunney
New York
Papal Mass Draws Thousands at Rome International Congress
Foreign Pope Vius celebrated Mass in St Peter's Basilica before thousands at the international eucharistic congress in Rome. Delegates toured St Calixtus catacombs. The report also notes street clashes in Rome, wartime dispatches from Tokyo, and a series of other global incidents including a fatal shooting in Cairo and a deadly explosion near Vienna.
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Vius
St. Peter’s
Rome
St. Calixtus
Iowa news items and incidents from the era
A compilation of Iowa notes reports and incidents spanning sorority housing church fires suicides drownings bank robbery farm losses rail and road events and local crime across towns including Tipton Denver Lost Nation Eldon McIntire Marquette ElDora Anamosa Osceola Thor and Eagle Grove with details on agriculture finance disasters and public safety actions.
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Negro Girls’ Sorority
University of Iowa City
Norhwest
Anton Psota
Tipton
Denver
Libertyville
St.Patrick's Catholic Church
Iowa City
Tim Donahue
Sheldon
Harold Blair
Lake Park
Peter Spillers
Redfield
Lost Nation
Lincoln Chastrain
Hamburg
W National Retarder Company
Webster City
Willis Wehrman
Eldora
Franklin Pierce
Jack Moore
DeWitt
Norway
Stanley Huff
Sioux City
Big Sioux
Marquette
McGregor
Waukon
Lansing
Ossian
Helkader
Aetna Savings Bank
McIntire
Charles Malone
Eldon
Malone
Herman Lanxon
Cherokee
Clyde Stewart
George Coakley
Lanxon
Iowa
A. M. McColl
State Board of Control
Anamosa
Secretary of State
H. L. Reynolds
John and
Glenn
Osceola
Merkle & Co
Thor
Eagle Grove
Humboldt
Vincent
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Helen Keller
Willetta Huggins
Angel
Los Angeles
Park Zoo
U. S
Auburn
Cayuga County Court House
Hoarding
Department of Justice
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hoover
White House
Great Britain
Japan
Siberia
Daniel Willard
Interestate Commerce Commission
Norris
House At
Victor L. Berger
Wisconsin
House of Representatives
Milwaukee
General Assembly of Presbyterian Churches
United States of America
Indianapolis
Des Moines
Charles 2. Crane
Chicago
China
Damaascus
Syria
Paris
North St. Louis
Clyde
Michin
Gladys Walton
Gladys Liddell
Cali
Frank St. Liddell
Virginia Power Company
Fayette County
James C. Smith
Charleston
W. Va
Connecticut Company
Bridgeport
Conn
George Elmer Munroe
Camden, N. J
Wolverton
Ida Kramer
Linn Burnett
Bessie
Galesburg
Mich
Curl
Akeley
Albany
N. Y
Delaware & Hudson
Camp Bragg Range
Fayetteville
N. C
The
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Little Rock
Ark
Rex B. Wilkes
United Assembly of the
Presbyterian and Reformed Churches
Presbyterian General Assembly
Mgr
Michael J. Phelan
St. Cecila's
William A. Bither
Chicago Board of Education
San Lorenzo
War Office
Tokyo
Red
Wilfred Cave
Cairo
Egypt
Bluman
Vienna
Lloyd George
Commons
London
Genoa
France
Kartav
Hanover
Sassnitz
Geneva
Alps
Belfast
Lac Lu
Kenora
Ont
Maj
W. T. Blake
Corydon
England
Bulgaria
Belgrade
Leonard Wood
Philippines
Apo
Manila
Andre Vardien
Chamber of Deputies
Warsaw
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