Nitrogen Research Work Is Continued
Washington June 16 One of the key cogs in the nation’s peace and wartime machinery is the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory born from World War I. The plant network, 107 staff, 17 buildings and $1,000,000 in equipment advance nitrogen fixation for explosives and peacetime fertilizer uses. The lab supports Muscle Shoals cyanamid work and the Sheffield Haber plant operations, underscoring nitrogen’s vital role in war and peace.
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Washington
United States
War Department
Germany
Muscle Shoals
Alabama
Sheffield
Haber
Beauty spending in America totals fifty five million dollars
The figure estimates annual expenditure by American women on cosmetics and facial beauty routines. This highlights a significant consumer spending pattern and the growing emphasis on personal care during the period.
Meerschaum From Black Sea Mines Through Ages
Meerschaum largely comes from long worked mines near the Black Sea with a history spanning about a thousand years of production.
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Black Sea
Science Adds Four Years To Man's Life
CHICAGO June 16 Here is cheery news for the unfortunates who have been standing on the brink of happy hunting grounds. We are to have an extra four years of life. Science has fixed things by eliminating or reducing the toll of various diseases. The health standard has been so raised that the average man and woman in a civilized community will live four years longer than the life time period of ten years ago. Deaths from typhoid and diphtheria, once considered plagues, are reduced to dull statistical reports, and in ten years deaths from these diseases will almost disappear.
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Chicago
Fourth Presbyterian Children's Day Observance Planned
Fourth Presbyterian Sunday school will observe Children's Day on Sunday, June 18. The program starts at 10 a.m. with hymns and prayers, followed by recitations from Margaret Henry, Dolly Stickle, Ruth Ferry, Velma Farrell, Mabel Ferry, Ralph Kroesen, Irene Book, Viola Maxwell, Emma Maxwell, Anna Frisbee, and others. Music includes songs, piano solos, and a reading, with an address by Miss Perry and an offering for Sunday school missions.
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Fourth Presbyterian Sunday School
Margaret Henry
Dolly Stickle
Ruth Ferry
Irene Book
Viola Maxwell
Emma Maxwell
Pearl Wheale
Norman Lewis
Elizabeth Maxwell
Bernice Dunkerley
Martha Swisher
Anna Frisbee
Miss Blucher
Miss Perry
Terrace Avenue School
London Chorus Girl Wins Suit In Court
London, June 16. Miss Doris Thomas, a chorus girl, won $500 damages in a London court after being dismissed from a touring Afgar company. The manager argued she was fired for wearing too few clothes, but failed to prove the claim.
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London
Doris Thomas
Afgar’’ Company
Match Moocher Is Smacked For Being Hard Boiled
G H Allen of Indianapolis asked for matches from Jake Sheslin in Kansas City. After two failed lightings and a third attempt, Sheslin refused more matches and struck Allen, who fell and suffered a fractured skull. He was taken to hospital.
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International News Service
Kansas City
G. H. Allen
Indianapolis
Allen
Jake
Sheslin
Shesline
Sheilin
Skeleton Of War Hero Unearthed In Cambridge
Workers digging in a field at Channing and Mt. Auburn streets unearthed a Revolutionary War hero’s skeleton. Believed an officer who died in a hospital on the James Russell Lowell estate site during the American war for independence. A bullet hole was found in the skull. Medical examiner says bones lay in earth about 150 years. Cambridge revolutionary groups plan to petition for a military funeral.
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International News Service
Cambridge
Mass
Channing
Mt. Auburn
James Russell Lowell
Cambridge Revolutionary Societies
Finish Huge Illinois Dirigible Hangar Near Scott Field
SCOTT FIELD Illinois June 16 Work nears completion on the massive steel frame of the 1 250 000 dirigible hangar at Scott field near Belleville which when finished will be 810 feet long and 165 feet high and will house airship operations for the army air service
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Scott Field
Ill
Belleville
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