Mexia Booms At Oil Town With High Lodging Costs
Mexia Texas rapid oil development spawns tent cities and tents cost from 50 cents to 3 dollars nightly. beds in crude structures run about 5 dollars. rail traffic surges as new derricks and buildings surge, water and bath facilities are scarce. wolves drive fear in Cordiero Sopena Spain after heavy snowfall.
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Mexia
Texas
Southwest
Houston & Texas Central
Trinity & Brazos Valley
Alto
Spain
Leon
Cordiero
Sopena
American foxes raised in Germany under Munich university control
Silver foxes and skunks will be cultivated on a large scale on a German farm in the Tyrol under Professor de Mill of Munich University. Prices for high grade furs have risen, with a perfect silver fox costing about 100,000 marks in Germany.
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Berlin
Bya
Austrian
Tyrol
de Mill
The
Natural
Munich University
Germany
Prizefighter Kid Wedge Seeks PhD at Harvard
Frederick Kid Wedge aged forty one a former prizefighter and lumberman from Arizona registered at Harvard graduate school of education to pursue a Ph D He endured tuberculosis battled in the woods boxing rings and war service before finishing degrees at Arizona Nebraska and a year after Harvard mid year exams he will study for his doctorate in philosophy.
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Boston
Harvard University
Frederick “Ikid” Wedge
Arizona
Harvard Graduate
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Wedge
Ife
University of Nebraska
Camp Grant
el Paso
Tex
University of Arizona
Benson, Ariz
Cambridge
Harvard
Nebraska Press Association
Lincoln
Wolbach
Virgil
W. H. Maddox
Glen View
Larson & Son
Larson
New Use for Pigeons in Forest Fire Communication
Idaho forest service tests show carrier pigeons fastest link between rangers on the fire line and headquarters. Birds flown 18 miles in a day, returning from rugged terrain with messages that directed aid and helped prevent costly forest losses. The program plans expansion to all protective camps next year.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
Idaho National Forest
Idaho
Department of Agriculture
Buckhorn
Blindness Decrease Shown in US Census Figures
The United States saw a drop in blind residents from 57 272 in 1910 to 52 617 in 1920 per census bureau data. The decline is linked to improved treatments for blindness and public education on blindness prevention.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Census Bureau
Berwick shopkeeper shoots robber to protect store
Fy.Jd. Dunkle of Berwick Iowa resolved to sleep in his store after 22 prior robberies in two years. The first night he spent there he shot and killed a would be thief identified as robber No. 23.
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Jd. Dunkle
Berwick
Iowa
Flood Benefit to Farmers in Sedro Woolley
Floods along the Skagit River left a fertile silt layer two to five inches thick on farmland after subsiding. The deposit, described as valuable to valley soils, followed the season’s heavy rains and extensive inundation noted as the most severe since early homestead days.
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Sedro Woolley
Wash
Skagit River
Skagit
Wireless stations urged for Empire network plan
The wireless telegraph commission urges building stations in England Canada Australia South Africa India Egypt East Africa Singapore and Hongkong. A year of study produced an estimated cost not over £160000 per station with Egypt Singapore and Hongkong totaling about £853000. Two wavelengths should be fixed for each station and centers to receive from several stations on the same dial.
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London
Wireless Telegraph Commission
England
Canada
Australia
South Africa
India
Egypt
East Africa
Singapore
Hongkong
Nebraska Penitentiary
Fenton
Jefferson City
Lexington
J. Stuart
Stuart
Nebraska
Fr. D. Lute
Lincoln
Nebraska Arm Bureau Federation
Congress
RR. L. Gray
Fairbury
North-West
Nebraska Methodist Hospital
Richardson County Board
W. I. Grnandt
Omaha
Hiking hobbyist travels to Washington prompts caution
Milo Gibson of Emporia declares long hikes as poor sport for fun seekers. After walking 500 miles last summer from Chanute toward the Pacific coast he was received by President Harding. He plans college life at the College of Emporia after a pneumonia setback at the Grand Canyon of Arizona.
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Emporia
Kas
Milo Gibson
Washington
Harding
Gibson
College of Emporia
Grand Canyon of Arizona
Chanute
Pacific Coast
West
Nebraska in Brief overview of regional incidents
A sweep of small notices from Nebraska includes carp frozen in a pond at Partington farm near Havelock, a $10 bill refund note to Palmer merchant Teo Nicholas for prior mischarges, cremation ashes of attorney Matthew Gering to Bavaria, and a $0.01 judgment in a defamation case against Fr. H. Shoemaker. Additional items report influenza in Norfolk, a potato growers club at Gothenburg, and various local civic projects, church and farm updates, and upcoming events.
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Partington
Havelock
John L. Spidell
Lincoln
Spidell
Teo Nicholas
Palmer
Mr. Nicholas
Nicholas
Matthew Gering
Omaha
Plattsmouth
Kempton
Harding nominates envoys to Germany Austria and Hungary
President Harding sends to the Senate the nominations of Allison B. Houghton to Germany Albert Henry Washburn to Austria and Theodore Brentano to Hungary. The Austria Hungary split ends ambassadorial status in Vienna and Budapest with ministers in charge.
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Harding
Senate
United States
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Alanson B. Houghton
New York
Albert Henry Washburn
Massachusetts
Theodore Brentano
Chicago
Cunl
Austria-Hungary
Washington
Vienna
Budapest
Woman With the Serpent's Tongue Visits America
Mrs. Margot Asquith, famed author nicknamed the serpent’s tongue, lectures in the United States as photographers, reporters, and telegrams flood in. Her early days here show a strong public interest and possible book material. She appears graceful with magnetic presence and refined poise.
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Margot Asquith
America
Capper Leads Agenda on Knickerbocker Theater Inquiry
Senator Capper of Kansas, amid leadership of the agricultural bloc, seeks a Senate investigation into the Knickerbocker theater disaster. The resolution cites reports of code violations by contractors and possible collusion with building inspectors, warning of risks to District of Columbia residents.
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Arthur Cupper
Kansas
Congress
William S. Kenyon
Iowa
Senate
United States
Senator Capper
Senate Committee
District of Columbia
Knickerbocker
Senate of the
Sky Pilot of the Lumberjacks
The Rev. Jack McCall, once a lumberjack, was named sky pilot for timber workers in Minnesota, western Montana, and northern Idaho. He travels on foot with Bible and phonograph, using bunk houses as churches and stopping disruptive poker games with firm discipline.
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Jack McCall
Presbyterian Board of Missions
New York
Michigan
Mel Trotter
Francis FE. Higgins
Timber Country
Minnesota Woods
Montana
Idaho
Norbeck's Luck Puts Him Back in Senate Race
Peter Norbeck, a veteran South Dakota politician and well driller, declares luck led him to a long career from state senator to lieutenant governor, governor, and U.S. senator. Born in Dakota Territory, he touts strong local ties and broad votes over opponents. He is married with four children.
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America
Peter Norbeck
South Dakota
United States
Norbeck
South
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Steele City Schools
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J. D. Phillipe
South Platte District
M. T. Caster
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph .Co
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A. H. Byrum
Fraklin
Nebraska House of Representatives
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Portland
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