Wanton Waste of Money and Farm Crisis Reflections
A Kansas City Star excerpt highlights alleged Liberty Bond waste by the Washington administration from 1917 to 1920, citing massive figures and failed projects. It contrasts these with earlier budgets and notes farm finance pressures from a Federal Reserve ruling, predicting hardship for Minnesota and North Dakota farmers and freight-market manipulation.
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Kansas City’ Star
Washington
The
Star
Charleston
Norfolk
France
Virginia
Federal Reserve Bank
North Dakota
Minnesota
Ex czar real joy killer and Bulgarian frontier ring tale
A faded passage recounts a notorious Bulgarian bandit and a jewel ring gifted by a czar or noble figure. The scene features a princess, Ferdinand, and a taunting remark about a severed finger, suggesting danger and intrigue in a royal court.
Queen Marinette Named City Queen City Saga
A historical note describes Marinette as the daughter of Bartholome Chevalier and descendant of Wa: Deshish, a Menominee chief. It recounts Marinette building the first frame house on the Menominee river, planting apple trees, and her son John B. Jacobs running the steamer Queen City between Menominee and Green Bay. Marinette died in 1868 at age 73. descendants live in Marinette, Green Bay, and South Dakota.
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Queen City
Queen Marinette
Bartholome Chevalier
Deshish
Menominee
Marinette
Menominee River
Mme
Farnsworth
Queen's
Louis Chappee
John B. Jacobs
Menominée
Green Bay
South Dakota
Wis
Letter from employee seeks $25 raise and straight time pay
A St Louis worker writes to Mr. Joan Doe detailing four years of service and asking for a $25 weekly raise plus straight time. The employee pledges loyalty, notes rising costs, and offers to stay with the firm if the raise is granted, stating willingness to do any work and not to cause trouble.
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St. T Louis
Joan Doe
Deak
Doe
Doel
Clark
Mr Haberdasher and the Pennsylvanian Bargain Tale
In a household discussion about rising prices a granddaughter mentions a haberdasher on Pennsylvania Street selling stock at half price. Grandmother quips that Mr Haberdasher is a real man and not just a name, while mother and family react to the comic misreading seen on a doorway plaque in an Indianapolis newspaper.
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Grandmother
Mr. Haberdasher
Extent of Tobacco Industry in the United States
The tobacco sector drives immense activity with over 1.5 billion dollars yearly in manufactured products. More than 40.5 million acres are devoted to growing tobacco, while 1914 investments of 305 thousand dollars are dwarfed by current levels. About 378,872 wage earners produced 77.96 million dollars in wages, with related demand for cigarette paper, packaging, and containers enriching the industry and its connected trades.
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United States
Luba goes much to Gorgas in Havana history
Cuban pride in Prado and Havana shows how plague and yellow fever shaped the city. General Gorgas modernized sanitation, ending fevers by 1910, while sugar shortages and wealth from America fuel Havana’s swift but uneven prosperity under colonial rule.
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Prado
Cuba
Malicia
Vanu
Gorgas
Fe Yann
Havana
Spain
America
Alcohol From Coal Demonstrated at Middlesbrough Meeting
Ernest Bury of Skinningrove Iron and Steel Works showed on a large scale that alcohol can be extracted from coke. At Skinningrove plant carbonizing 5800 tons of coal weekly yielded about 1.5 gallons of alcohol per ton. If applied to UK coal usage in 1918 the potential output would reach tens of millions of gallons with substantial value, supplementing benzol and meeting national needs.
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Cleveland “Institute
Inginders
Middlesbrough
England
Ernest Bury
Skinningrove Iron and Steel Works
Bury
Skinningrove Plant
United Kingdom
Plywood use in Airplane Construction and Radium Watches Rise
Plywood strengthens airplane wings by cross grain layers enabling higher loads than steel in some planes, as shown by De Haviland data. The radium watch industry grew from a 1903 start to millions of watches and clocks produced in the United States by 1919, with steady growth and imports from overseas.
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de Havilands
de Hatland
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Sac
George F. Kunz
United States
Almont Prisoner’s Dramatic Jail Escape Attempt
In La Crosse Wisconsin a county jail inmate devised a plan to escape using butter mixed with cell disinfectant as a candle. He ripped shirt strips to form wicks, burned through a cell floor, and crawled toward a brick wall, hoping to breach it with a funnel device before discovery.
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Almont
la Crosge
Wis
Ita Specialty funding ex Kaiser to Cardeous
A fragment notes funding from Ita Specialty to move the ex Kaiser to Cardeous and mentions a cordial welcome expected there.
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Ita
Wrong Man That Time: Bonan Recalls College Smoke Out Pranks
Tom Bonan, former Indiana attorney general, recalls college days at Indiana University. Seniors staged a “smoking out” of freshmen by assembling in one room to smoke pipes until the smoke forced surrender. A Kentucky boy endured the long night, insisting on staying as tobacco finally ran low, then revealed a trunk packed with tobacco to continue the game. Indianapolis News.
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Tom Bonan
Indiana
Indiana University
Mr. Honan
Kentucky
Kentuck
Tadianapolis
Serkess Found His Mother at Near East Relief Orphanage
Early one morning Arabs delivered a five year old boy to the Kars Armenia orphanage saying he had no parents. The boy was named Serkess and soon a caretaker realized the child resembled a local woman helper who, upon seeing him, cried out Serkess and embraced him. He is identified as her son taken by the Turka two years earlier.
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Sophia
Tiger
Paté
Ferdinand
Ciar
Kars
Armenia
Serkess
Mttle
Turka
Country of Little Change and Ancient Moroccan Charter
Professor Williams visited the vice regent of South Morocco who cited a charter from the sultan dated 1026. The vice regent remarked the parchment has remained in the vault since then, noting in the Turkish empire age is commonly evident in family and national traditions rather than seen as remarkable.
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Willams I
Morocco
Mms
Things That Count In Actions Not Words
A reflective piece argues that deeds and warm compassion shape souls more than sermons or printed pages. It emphasizes mercy, kindness, and the human touch as true measures of faith, contrasting harsh words with benevolent acts.
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Los
House of Mercy
Fourth Grade Naturalist Lesson Sparks Bright Moment
A teacher tests students on the word naturalist by naming John Burroughs and nature lovers, prompting Newell to recall a vivid image of his grandfather’s cabinet for a moment of relief as he answers.
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John Burroughs
Little
Newell
Fragmented OCR Reflects A Buried Relationship Question
Readable bits hint at a discussion of marriage, compatibility, and a second spouse. The text implies a claim about an evenly matched pair and a nontraditional union. Details are sparse, with unclear names, dates, or places to anchor facts.
Five New Chinese Demons Named In Scholar’s Talk
Dr W B Hudson of Shanghai reports to the San Francisco Chronicle on evolving Chinese beliefs. He lists five new devils malaria opium red match railway and sunshot and describes charms exorcisms used to banish them. Local priests seek dramatic rituals to impress natives and deter evil spirits amid modern changes in punishment.
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China
W. B. Hudson
Dknshing
Shanghai
San Francisco Chronicle
Hudson Si
Bread Line Dole of Wheat Bread Serves New York Poor
John Leake, a wealthy Revolutionary era New Yorker, funded a weekly bread dole via Trinity parish. The will directs bequeathed funds to provide long standing wheaten loaves for the most deserving poor, a system active for 128 years. Originally eight to ten families now receive four to six loaves each at St. Luke’s chapel parish house after moving from St. John’s and Trinity churches.
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John Leake
New Yorker
Trinity Parish
New York City
N.Y
St. Tuke’s Chapel
St. John's Chapel
Trinity Church
Embarrassing Moment In Apartment Hamper Hideaway
A studious pupil visiting for help hides in a large clothes hamper when a talkative mutual friend arrives. Forty five minutes pass as the friend searches, the sneezes reveal the ruse, and the intruding chatterbox departs. The narrator recalls never seeing her again.
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Beniche
Portuguese Woman Doctor of Agronomic Engineering in Brazil
Portuguese born Maria Adelaide Pintre Magallanes Quintanilla becomes the first woman in Brazil to receive a doctorate in agronomical engineering. She hails from a famed Iberian family traced to Magellan. She is the third woman to earn such credentials in related fields, specializing in tropical plants and conditions.
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Brazil
Maria Adelaida Pintre Magallanes Quintanilla
Magellan
Miss Smagmiaines
Ine Ki
Pertinent Query From Overseas Telephone Operator
An overseas returnee, identified as a telephone operator, recalls a brief exchange about a 9 ft2 area, a group labeled TM, and an inquiry about the outfit associated with The Home Sector. The fragmentary dialogue hints at a coded or classified context without clear resolution or names.
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Mojes
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Dare Devil Airplane
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