Paying by check in the home economy in 1922
A 1922 guide explains check payments for wages and household expenses. It notes the exchange fee when checks move between banks, advises including fees in the amount or ensuring no fee arises, and stresses practicalities for small towns and domestic transactions.
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Merry Hite
Vane
Lee Aardele
Cheek
Ureteey
Meyer Staeered Nou
Serio
Iso
MecClure Newspaper Syndicate
Moon Riddle by John Kendrick Garges
A fragmentary verse by John Kendrick Garges hints at a lunar line and a tense date near October. The cryptic lines suggest a cosmic motif and misfit phrasing.
Prime Tea Tone Missing Context
Fragmentary OCR text provides little readable content. The line appears garbled with stray characters and unclear references to a prime item or time. No identifiable persons, organizations, places, or events are established from the fragment.
Humble Pie Origins In Medieval Royal Feasts
The article explains how humble pie derives from medieval customs where the nobility kept venison leftovers called the tribles for the rich, while poorer portions fed the less fortunate. It traces linguistic shifts from Urllepie to umble and then humble, noting Cockney influence in dropping h sounds.
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Ereiend
Wheeler Syndicate
Burman Oil Field Notes Sparse Well Density
The article discusses oil wells in a Burmese field under British control. John Park, a former Deayoen cae man and manager for the company, states that the field has 74 to Tu wells per acre, with workmen interfering as wells are closely grouped.
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John Park
British Oil Company
Riot control gear described for Washington police
Article details riot squad equipment including a five cylinder gas device and compressed air canisters. It explains how a mist is released through a nozzle causing immediate discomfort and confusion among protestors while noting the device weighs seven pounds.
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McDride
Washington
Poles Honor Pershing With Polish Medals
General John J. Pershing receives the Virtuti Militari and Peliana Restituta from Poland. Presentations were made by Dr. Wrobeliewski, newly appointed Polish minister to the country, in recognition of his World War services.
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John J. Pershing
Virtuti Moilitari
Pelania Restituca
Wrobiewaski
Poland
Polar voyage sparks plan to film aurora phenomenon
Captain Ronald Anund sen, during Arctic discovery, contemplates making movie pictures of the aurora to capture its electric light streams. He notes aurora borealis originates from solar activity, with streams rising 40 to 50 miles high and sometimes spanning the night sky, causing telegraph instruments to fail during peak activity.
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Arctic
Ronald Anundsen
Aurora
Arctic Circle
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R. M. Kellogg Company
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