Europe Arms Grow Despite Postwar Reductions
European experts report new states formed after the war have boosted continental standing armies beyond 1913 totals. Britain trims navy and France plans further cuts. Italy reduces 1922 levels. Poland Romania and Finland greatly expand, with Czechoslovakia at 160,000 and Poland at 275,000.
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London
Europe
Germany
Hungary
Bulgary
Great Britain
Italy
France
Poland
Romania
Finland
Czechoslovakia
Vienna
Austria
Battle Hymn Author's Daughter Becomes Citizen
Mrs Maud Howe Elliott daughter of Julia Ward Howe author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic is naturalized in the Superior court under the act allowing American born women who married foreign subjects to regain citizenship. She married John Elliott a British subject in Rome twenty five years ago and now lives with him.
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Newport, R. J
Maud Howe Elliott
Julia Ward Howe
Congress
Lathrop Pack Gifts Tree Seeds To France Consul General
Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree Association, presents millions of seeds as a gift to Charles Barret the new French consul general in New York aboard the U S Lafayette. The seeds were shipped to France for reforestation efforts.
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Charles Lathrop Pack
American Tree Association
Charles Barret
France
New York
U. S. Lafayette
Man's Lightning Brings Thunder at GE Pittsfield Demonstration
In Pittsfield Massachusetts GE high voltage lab produced 2,000,000 volt artificial lightning. A miniature village and church steeple were struck as rain and thunder were recreated. The test explored transmission limits with tubular cable and 100 miles of coil wiring. F W Peek Jr led the effort stressing preparedness for future power needs.
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Pittsfield
Mass
lFrom
General Electric Company
Be- Hove
Pittsfield Laboratory
F. W. Peek, Jr
Million Dollar Incomes Decline Amid Tax Returns Drop
Washington D C Million dollar incomes shrink as Treasury data for 1921 shows only 21 earners above a million, down from 33 in 1920 and 206 in 1916. Across all high brackets, returns fall while total net income reported reaches 19 577 212 528 with tax due of 719 387 106 and 6 662 176 returns filed.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury Department
Derby Luck Brings $160000 to Yorkshire Mill Worker
A sweepstakes triumph in England awards Mrs Nellie Ford of Yorkshire about 160000 dollars after drawing Papyrus in Otley club’s 80000 pound sweepstakes. The article notes multiple winners, including a London man winning about 60000 dollars and a Cork hospital draw awarding around 50000. Other sweeps in Calcutta and London Stock Exchange are pending. Tests of mine telephones in Pittsburgh aim to prove explosion resistance.
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London
Nellie Ford
Otley
Ford
England
Cork Hospital
Calcutta
Near East Prelates Urged to Cut Beards
The world conference on faith and order in 1925 spurs Episcopal churchmen to push Orthodox church leaders toward trimming their long beards. Meletios IV, the ecumenical patriarch, currently reforms in the Balkans after American exposure, once visiting New York with a notable beard that was shortened by the time he left for Constantinople.
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New York
Near East
Athens
Meletios Itv
Constantinople
MK Eastern Orthodox Church
Balkan States
Thetugl
Orthoaea
America
Meletios
Hughes
Girl Hikes 5 000 Miles in Africa
Miss Gertrude Denham of London completes one year of hiking through deserts and jungles across Africa totaling about 5000 miles. Arriving from the Orient, she proclaims herself the champion woman hiker of the world and nears the final lap of a world circle.
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Africa
San Francisco
Cal
Gertrude Denham
London
Orient
Dentist Breaks Man's Leg Pulling Tooth in Pottstown
Maurice Bryan, 42, rose from a chair after a molar extraction in Pottstown Pennsylvania and cried that his leg was broken. He collapsed as both bones in his right leg snapped between ankle and knee.
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Pottstown
Maurice Bryan
Doctors Liable for Wrong Diagnosis in Berlin ruling
German Supreme Court holds physicians liable to patients for wrong diagnoses. A vineyard owner Braun was misdiagnosed as having a hip fracture after a streetcar fall, leading to unnecessary treatment. The court said patients entrust their future happiness to doctors and deserve the use of modern means to clarify medical conditions.
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Berlin
Supreme Court
Braun
Devel
Kiwanis clubs grow in Nebraska and a deadly accident
A Gothenburg Kiwanis charter is issued while a Kay club forms in Wairbury. A 19 year old, Otto Rudebausch, drowns at Wisner, and a 65 year old, Mrs C E Craven, is injured after a fall into an open cellar. A wave of small items covers thefts, accidents, weddings, and civic notes across the state.
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Kiwanis Club
Gothenburg
Wairbury
New Methodist Church
Wauneta
Otto Rudebausch
Peterson’s Park
Wisner
G. B. Zook
Barneston
J. Nolan
Altoona
Nebraska Press Association
Omaha
W. H. Weimer
Beatrice
C. E. Craven
Broken Bow
Yeggs
Bank of Walton
Benj. F. Bailey
Beaver City
G. A. R. Post
Arnold
Callaway
A. W. Downey
Aurora
L. BH. Jones
E. V. Capps
Blair
Missouri Synod Lutheran Churches
Hayer County
Deshler
Fremont
Underberg & Moyer
Ceresco
Leslie Coulter
Fred Coulter
Randolph
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
Falls City
Omaha Bible Institute
G. A. Axelson
Grand Island
Louis Moeschler
Order of Eagles
Hastangs
Moeschler
S. J. Kizer
Emilie M. Marquardt
Fred Messmore
Bob” Hohan
Burlington
Havelock
Nebraska
Frank Schmidt
Beaver Creek
South Omaha
Robert Smardick
Star Fderal
Texas Panhandle
Oakdale
Antelope County
Farm Labor Bureau
U. S. Employment Service
Nebraska City
Hastings
Gerald Link
Masonic Temple
Kearny
Moment of fear at sea as steamer passes close
A first person recollection describes a near encounter at sea. The narrator sits in the companion watching lights when a second steamer looms from the sky as hulls vanish. The ship rises and sinks silently with black smoke and glaring lights, leaving a terrifying impression.
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Ball
Astorm
Poultry House Design Expands with Flexible Units
The article outlines a modular poultry house plan with duplicate 12 foot deep units that can be added to expand capacity. Each unit features south facing sunlit windows, 16 nests, triple roosts with dropping boards, and easy litter removal. Concrete floors and adaptable water and feed provisions are noted, plus ventilation and moisture-control ideas.
Multiple Unit Poultry House Provides Fresh Air Without Dampness
A description outlines a design where each compartment of a poultry house receives abundant fresh air while maintaining warmth, preventing dampness and ensuring comfort for the birds. The entry emphasizes improved ventilation and climate control.
Building a modern farm or suburban shed with roofing paper
The article notes using boards of ship-t up and prepared roofing paper in good grades. Two coats of paint on the sides in white create a substantial, attractive structure that enhances a modern, progressive look for farm or suburban buildings.
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Farn
State Where Women Rule In Travancore Matriarchy Prevails
In Travancore the wife chooses her husband and hosts him at home. Divorce was once by her whim. now by mutual consent. The woman is head of the family and owns property in her own right. Upon death her property passes to children, not to her husband’s kin. Child marriages are absent and illiteracy is low. The province claims to be progressive and prosperous.
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State Fair Board
Oliver Lee
Keyapaha
Butte
Raffaele Bonacci
Omaha
Horack Brothers General Merchandise
Brainard
Hershel Rouse
George Louse
Redbird
Holt County
Bryan
Niobrara
Nebraska
Auburn
Broken Bow
Valentine
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
A. A. Reed
University of Nebraska
M. Peterson
Fremont
Sinai Lutheran Church
Peterson
State Railway Commission
Ak-Sar-Ben den
Knights of
Ak-Sar- Ben
Normandy
Eberhart
Fairbury
Hastings
Beatrice
Ak-Sar-Ben Field
Charles N. Trimble
Farmers of Nebraska
College of Agriculture
Long Pine Creek
Polk County
Clear Creek
Platte River
Beatrice State Leasuers
Neligh
Board of Supervisors
Antelope County
Elkhorn
Dodge County
Clatonia
Gage County
Scottsbluff
W. C. Lessley
First Christian Church
O. W. Lessley
Hollis
Okla
Dillard
Cotner
Brock
O. A. Abbott
Grand Island
Hall County Historical Society
Great
Travancore
Lve
India
Relics of Maglemose Harpoons Declared Genuine
Eminent scientists declare two bone harpoons found under peat in Fast Yorkshire Ing land to be Maglemose age relics. After earlier doubts by Mr. T Sheppard, committees of the British Association Anthropology section and the Royal Anthropological Institute affirm their Maglemose origin and link to Baltic finds. They are England’s oldest harpoon relics, dating 10000 to 12000 B C.
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Fast Yorkshire
Ingland
T Sheppard
M. Se
Wall
Anthropology
British Association
Royal Anthropological Institute
England
Yorkshire
Golf practice device lets indoor shots swing freely
A home golf exerciser uses a square steel base and a post with a revolving plate. Two tempered coil springs connect to a clevis and airplane wire attached to a golf ball. When struck the ball swings around the base for a stroke dependent duration.
Baby Animals Raised on Bottle Feeding Report
Nature Magazine notes lion and tiger cubs often bottle fed and later fed ground pigeon meat. Baby elephants enjoy bread and milk. Some camels in American zoos are bottle raised on cow's milk.
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Nature Magazine
Yellowstone Splendor Painted by Nature's Palette
Turquoise sky over Yellowstone Park reveals vast pine forests, climbing terraces, and jewel like pools of blue and green. Sunsets wash the earthen lakes in glowing color as rivers rush through canyons and a snowy cascade threads a jade ribbon through depths below.
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Chrirman Science Monitor
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