Panama Canal Shows Profit and Traffic Growth
General Harding reports the canal posted a surplus of 2.3875 million dollars for its first six years, with expectations of future profits beyond its cost of 866.65 million. He notes the canal boosts American trade with South America and the Orient, with over 25 percent of traffic in transit US to South America and 14 percent US Atlantic seaboard to the Orient.
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Washington
Panama Canal
Chester Harding
West
South America
Orient
United States
Atlantic
Harding
Canal Toll Revenues, Costs, and War Time Traffic Shifts
Judge Landis notes wartime traffic shifts while U S expenditures on the canal show tolls and revenues of 8 935 871 with operating costs 6 548 272 leaving a current-year excess of 2 281 091. Projections suggest toll revenues will top annual maintenance costs by about 1 000 000 by mid 1921 and an ongoing excess of 5 000 000 yearly thereafter. Auxiliary services yield coal 6 032 578 water 55 412 oil and other supplies 1 274 566 and ship repairs 3 863 033.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Pacific
South America
Harding
Taxable income rises in 1918 despite million-dollar losses
Internal Revenue Bureau reports 1918 total income of 15.92 billion dollars, up from 1917 by over 2.27 billion despite 74 fewer taxpayers in the millionaire class. Returns totaled 4,425,144 with the largest tax by incomes 50 000 to 100 000 at 147 428 655 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
United States
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Lightkeeper Stands Firm Through 72 Hour Lake Huron Storm
Alfred H. Griffiths, longtime keeper at Giant's Tomb lighthouse near Midland Ontario, endured three days and nights alone with the lights after a deadly storm on Lake Huron. he was bereaved by his wife’s death during the ordeal and finally summoned mainland help from 12 miles away once the gale subsided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland
Lake Huron
Alfred H. Griffiths
Oil City reports largest baby girl in the world
In Oil City Pennsylvania a 14 pound baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs R A Brown. Both mother and child are reported doing well. Doctors note the infant is not only Oil Citys largest girl but among the largest in medical annals. The weight excludes clothing. A 17 pound baby boy was born here nine months ago.
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Oil City
R. A. Brown
University At Lincoln
France
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Czecho-Slovakia
Nebraska College of Agriculture Extension
College of Agriculture
Cheyenne County
Platte County
Nebraska College of Agriculture
Chicago
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Minnesota
Illinois
Ohio
Dakotas
Texas
Purdue University of Indiana
Greenwoord
Wymore
Edwin Maxey
The
State University
Collegetion
Nebraska University
Missouri Valley Conference
Joe Treglia
Omaha
Treglia
Emory Pickett
Auburn
North Platte
Kearney
Elm Creek
Lexington
Cozad
Well Fleet
Maxwell
Ft. McPherson
Stapleton
Brady Island
Farnam
Richland State Bank
Teddy Bear Shielded Child From Car Wheel Tragedy
A fuzzy brown Teddy bearheld by a four year old Degler girl shielded her as a wheel passed over her body. The father backed the auto from the garage and the bear protected the child until help arrived. Doctors expect she will recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvert Degler
New Indiana sport tied to safe thefts
In Lafayette Indiana a fad of stealing safes and transporting them to open at leisure grows. Many crooks, including Edward Spangler of West Sonora, report finding safes rifled and emptied of cash, with Spangler recovering his $250 safe from a field.
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Lafayette
Ind
Indiana
Edward Spangler
West Sonora
Angry Farmer Hangs Balky Horse and Is Fined
Edward Byrne of Crum Bibow New York tied a rope around a horse to frighten its mate, causing strangulation after a pull by the second horse. Byrne pleaded guilty and received a 25 dollar fine from the S P CO A inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Byrne
Crum Bibow
N. Y
Byrne
12 year old prodigy surprises New York singers
A 12 year old Columbia freshman named Edre Roche Hardy astonishes singers in New York by reportedly mastering a dozen languages and displaying remarkable musical promise.
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Nese
York
Edre
Ré Rochie Hardy
Columbia
When Madrid Is Gay Brilliant Daily Display in the Palace Yard
Madrid presents a vivid morning pageant as King Alfonso in residence is saluted by the changing guard. Red and blue hussars, blue artillery, red trousers and blue tunics march in circles while regimental bands perform. Thousands watch from palace precincts as flags unfurl and bayonets flash in bright sunshine.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Spain
Hussars
Young Polish chess wizard tops West Point strategists
Samuel Rzeschewski, a 9 year old Polish prodigy, defeated nineteen West Point strategists in a row in chess. Robert Murray, 12, of Tacoma, Washington, astonished Metropolitan stars led by Mme Frances Alda by singing arias at higher keys with remarkable resonance. The audience claimed he produced the highest note ever heard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Rzeschewski
West Point
Robert Murray
Tacoma
Wash
Mme
Frances Alda
Murray
Railroad clock delays costs Decatur widow $500
Montgomery Ala The Louisville and Nashville railroad must pay Mrs Ellen Carey of Decatur $500 after a court found the clock in the Decatur station ran four minutes late causing her to miss a train while accompanying her son’s body. She had sued for $3,000, with the court valuing her anxiety at $500.
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Montgomery
Ala
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Ellen Carey
Decatur
No Room to Sleep in Vienna Hotels
An American visitor reports Vienna rooms and bathrooms in short supply as hotels overflow and government housing quotas fail. Trains bring crowds to taxicabs and fevered searches for sleep space continue. four American officials helped secure a bathroom for an American woman amid the shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Budapest
Sul
Nebraska News Roundup Punctuated by Fires And School Closures
A broad digest notes Nebraskans in Hebron, Beatrice, Omaha and beyond facing exams, library gaps, and library funding issues. Fire in Beatrice hospitalizes workers, schools close near Chadron due to heat diseases, and counties report library gaps. Ongoing business shifts include bankers facing solvency rulings, and corn prices drive marketing from Kearney to Omaha.
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Abert Biehn
Hebron
Annapoli
Geneva Farm Bureau
Fred
Beatrice
Valparaiso
CLC
Smith
Exeter
State Manufacturers
Chadron
Platte County
Plattsmouth
R. J. Reynolds, Tobacco Company
Harold Gifford
Omaha
South America
State Sheriff's Association
Grand Island
Carl Quinton
Porttsmouth
Peter Duffy
O'Neill
Kearney
Mike Curtain
Nebraska
W. F. Thiehoff
Burlington
Missouri River
George W. Holdrege
Thiehoff
College of Agriculture
Gothenburg
Leopold Godowsky
Cass County Farms Bureau
Hobb Motors Company
Patriot Motors Company
Lincoln
United States
T. G. Munger
Robert B. French
Organized Agriculture
Walter E. Anderson
Army
Modern-Barn: Design to House 30 Cows and Feed
An article by William A. Radford outlines a 36 by 76 foot concrete farm barn with a milk house and 14 foot silo. It features a center feeding alley, overhead carrier track, litter alleys, sanitary stalls, ventilated air shafts, and a concrete floor with cork brick sections to prevent slipping. The piece stresses modern barns save labor, improve health, and boost milk production, urging planing this spring for a 30 cow capacity barn with integrated equipment.
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William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Tis
England swept by leprosy in the twelfth century chronicles
A historical account describes a century of leprosy across England with extreme cruelty and public fear. It notes the social measures, such as mitered attire and bell ringing, and discusses lingering beliefs that knots of disease and pollution shaped medieval responses.
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England
St. Lazarus
Lazar
What Makes a Book
A brief reflection attributes a book’s value to the reading it inspires, linking art and author to the will that brings literature to life and endows it with meaning. The passage implies reading as the true measure of a book’s worth.
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Carlyle
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General Harding
Canal
Judge Landis
K. M. Landis
Board of Control
Organized Baseball
Internal Revenue
Lightkeeper
Teddy Bear
Europe
Nels Nelson
Norfolk
Battle Creek
IA Rat
Dan Swanson
George E. Condra
State Conservation and Soil Survey Department
Stanton
Opera House
Congressman Andrews
Charles H. Blivens
Daniel Stubbs
Naval Academy
Theodore
Ef, Barnes
McCook
Thomas Norris
Peter Starr
Dunning
John H. Garrettson
Nebraska, Welfare Association
Prang
Yakima
R. I. Ehrlichma Lumber Company
Airpla
Forest
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