Complexion Bias and Early Baseball Then and Now
The piece comments on complexion and driving bias, notes women drivers rising, and questions how machines influence people. It then delves into Indian baseball, citing Black Hawk’s autobiography and large tribal games in the Mississippi valley, suggesting early forms blended many sports and arguing ball is our national game due to soil and climate.
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Mississippi Valley
Porridge Forsaken in Edinburgh Breakfast Debate
Scotch grocers meet to lament oatmeal decline in national diet. Jam and eggs replace two courses for breakfast as oat meal consumption drops about 50 percent. Prof Mellanby warns porridge diet linked to rickets while Whin-Burgh health officer defends it as nourishing when properly prepared. Ham and eggs suggested as tastier, more nourishing alternative for Scots teeth and health.
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Edinburgh
Mellanby
Scotland
Whin- Burgh
Oil Lease Cases Split Courts on Teapot Dome Morality
A Wyoming judge finds Teapot Dome lease honest and free of collusion despite money paid to a cabinet officer, while a California judge finds illegalities and fraud in the naval oil reserve lease under the same official. Editors note public appetite for law to align with morality before higher courts decide.
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Wyoming
Teapot Dome
California
California Naval Oil Reserve
Drivers, Brunettes for Driving Claim Surfaces
The owner of a large taxicab firm says he trusts a dark complexioned woman behind the wheel more than a light skinned one. He argues the darker drivers are more careful and conservative, reflecting a fundamental difference seen by psychologists between two types.
Humility Day Proposed as Global Observance
A letter discusses creating Humility Day on July 1 in Japan and abstractly elsewhere, criticizing humiliation days tied to historical conflicts. It suggests a world humility day to curb pride, praising Som Marshall as a humorist and influential citizen and noting a quip about age and wisdom.
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United States
China
Shantung Peninsula
Europe
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Germany
France
Ily
Helsium
Som Marshall
Goats and Hounds Win Free Speech Rights in City Debate
A Portland Oregon ruling declares pets and farm animals may engage in vocal discussions without human interference. The decision shields goats cows roosters and other creatures from disturbance suits, likening their nocturnal chatter to lawful speech while noting human domestic disputes remain separate.
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Sbridgeport
Portland
Oregon
Selective Business Dreams of Selina in Yards
Selina stands firm on earning and repaying a starter loan from August Hempel. Dialogue reveals plans to drain and tile the yard property, invest in horses and a wagon, and avoid debt culture. A tense view of family business, future offices, and pride in self-reliance unfolds through August and Julie.
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Selina
Michael Arnold
August Hempel
Julie
Lam
Dirk
Aug Hempel
Duffy
Dirk DeJong and the Farm Boss Lady
Dirk DeJong grows from a charming farm youth to a Midwest University student under Selina DeJong's strenuous care. A gifted yet restless journey unfolds as Mattie Schwengauer and campus politics test his loyalties, ambition, and love for the land.
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Selina
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Schwengauer
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Geyer
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Chicago
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Tita
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Irk
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Ten Years Later in the Yards and Rang er’s Bank
The narrator recalls becoming a controlling power in the Yards and Ranger’s Bank a decade later. Selina preserves a personal trove of keepsakes, including an early I Q with “Paid in all Aug Hempel,” a dried trillium bouquet, a faded cashmere dress, a letter about Infanta Eulalie of Spain signed Julie Hempel Arnold, and a field sketch of Haymarket with wagons and farm horses, showing Roelf’s childish drawing.
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Selina
I. QO. U
Aug Hempel
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Spain
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Roelf
Fragmented newspaper humor and gossip miscellany
A collage of jocular rearings, quotes, bumper jokes, and cheeky anecdotes from a historical page. It mixes puns about newsrooms, radio culture, a Civil War quip, a pupil's note, romantic lines, and a quip on life insurance, reflecting light society chatter and satire.
The Oldest Tourist Resort in the World Spa Belgium
Brussels reports Spa in Belgium as the oldest tourist resort. Pliny the Elder praised its waters in Natural History. In the 18th century it was called the Pearl of the Andes and drew European elites, including Peter the Great. Its fame grew after 1919 with the International Armistice Commission. The waters have long been famed for anemia chlorosis myasthenia heart rheumatic conditions.
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Brussels
Spa
Belgium
Pliny, the
Andennes
Peter the Great
International Armistice Commission
Hotels in Norway Match US Standards Says Travel Association
Oslo reports about 2,000 hotels boarding houses and resorts listed by the Association for Travel in Norway. The booklet notes Norwegian accommodations now feature American conveniences such as electric lights stoves private baths telephones in rooms wires and beers billiards restaurants elevators central heating concerts tennis skating rinks skittle grounds garages broadcasting and a 10 percent service charge in place of tipping.
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Oslo
Norway
Lsted
Association For Travel In
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