Germany Eyes Rhine Danube Canal to Link Seas
National Geographic notes Germany weigh plans to connect the Rhine and Danube for ocean going ships. The piece maps possible routes via Mainz Bamberg and Regnitz Ludwig canal to Kelheim and discusses vessel sizes and city anchors like Frankfort and Regensburg. It compares the potential waterway to the Panama Suez and Mississippi Missouri channels and cites deep water levels and travel distances. The Watt family line is mentioned in context of steam engine history.
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Washington, D. C
Mississippi
Missouri
Danube
Rhine
National Geographic Society
North Sea
Black Sea
Europe
Germany
Wence
Turkey
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Jugo-Slavia
Les
Mainz
Ratisbon
Kelheim
Frankfort
Wurzburg
Nuremberg
Main
Mannheim
Neckar
Offingen
Amazon
Montana
Gulf of Mexico
First Bible Printed in the United States
The first American Bible, a Massachusets Indian tongue translation by John Eliot, arose from an English and Welsh fundraising drive. Parliament ordered a national collection to fund missionary work in New England, aiding four Indian towns with schools and the Bay Psalm Book prior to printing in Cambridge in 1663.
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Chicago
United States
England
Wales
George B. Utley
Newberry Library
Massachusetts
John Eliot
Eliot
Western Hemisphere
New England
Cambridge
Mass
Aiding World War Veterans Plan for Seven Relief Branches
Washington reports the Aiding World War Veterans program seeks more than $510 million in 1922 to fund seven relief branches. Col. C R Forbes, director of the Veterans Bureau, outlines allocations for vocational training, medical care, insurance, retroactive allowances, and administration totaling about $514 million before a $5.7 million deduction for self‑supporting life insurance claims.
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Veterans’ Bureau
Washington
United States
Col. C. R. Forbes
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Forbes
Bureau
Mines Bureau reports 1921 January death rate per coal output
The bureau of mines notes 146 deaths last month versus 197 a year earlier. With an estimated coal production of 48,955,000 tons, the death rate was 3.32 per million tons mined, down from 4.13 in January 1921. Fatalities declined in West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Indiana, and Iowa, with increases in Alabama and Ohio.
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Bureau of Mines
West Virginia
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Wyoming
Indiana
Iowa
Alabama
Ohio
Coal mine fatalities drop in January nationwide report
Washington, D. C. fatalities in coal mines for January fell about 26 percent from the same month last year according to an official announcement. Golden Eagle Captured in Kentucky between Glensboro and Lawrenceburg weighs seven feet wing tip to wing tip and was safely captured by Winfrey P. Blackburn of Van Buren. The eagle is displayed at Blackburn's home and has drawn local attention.
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Washington
D. C
Anderson
Winfrey P
Blackburn
van Buren
Glensboro
Lawrenceburg
Jack Hodek
Exeter
Joe Gephart
Bodek
George Meyer
du Boise
Lincoln Highway
Elm Creek
Kearney
South Odessa
William E. McMahon
Omaha
Stanton County
Stanton County Purebred Livestock Breeders Association
Wayne
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Ben
Dan Desdunes
Band of
Lincoln
Senate
State House
Augusto de Alencar
United States
Frank A. Harrison
Globe Trotter
Harrison
Brazil
William H. Jones
Soldiers
Grand Island
Nellie Woods
Mr. Jones
Clark Stell
Fremont
Stell
Chicago
McCook
Western Nebraska Irrigation Association
Keith
Devel
Perkins
South Platte River
Ovid
Colo
Sedgwick County
Colorado
Lincoln County
Nebraska
Skinner Packing Company
E. D. Brown
Nelson
William A. Thornton
Superior
Thornton
Republican
W. D. Shaal
Springfield
Shaal
George Schleuter
Otto Schleuter
Raleigh Medicine Company
W. C. Drake Et al
Fairbury
G. W. Miles
Miles
State of
Goldwyn’s
National Film Distributing Agencies
Charles 8. Reed
Reed
Comn
Endicott gains first electric lights from Fairbury plant
State brief highlights Omaha automotive show attendance over 10 000 on opening day. Wymore petitions push to repeal Sunday amusements. Nebraska towns report road work bids, school ingredient cuts, bank acquisitions, and flood of local incidents across Doane era.
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Endicott
Fairbury
Omaha
Wymore
Otto Fleishman
Elmwood
Board of Education
Leigh
Security State Bank of Spaulding
Farmers State Bank
Gas
Omaha Utilities District
Arnold
Eugene Meyers
War Finance Corporation
Nebraska
Nebraska Base Hospital
J. K. Mieck
William H. Smith
Nebraska City
Canning dubbed a modern genie of the home
The piece extols canning as a foundational invention beside the tele graph wireless and airplane. It credits Appert for hermetic sealing and heat sterilization, notes canning saves surplus harvests, eliminates seasons, and lets households access global foods year round and from distant regions.
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Nicholas Appert
California
Hawaii
Alaska
South America
Antarctic
New York
Sacrifice Worthy of the Name in Armenian Orphanage
Aboard an Armenian orphanage relief post the three hundred children shared scarce bread and walnuts. They saved their meager handfuls for those in nearby villages with nothing. Their voluntary sacrifice moved observers and highlighted generosity amid hunger.
Thrifty Stranger Uses Bonds to Secure Small Loan
A Scottsburg story notes a nondescript man entered a local bank asking to borrow $5. The banker refused, only to be outdone when the man produced $10,000 in Liberty bonds as collateral and left them, joking that another bank would charge $3 for a safety deposit box.
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Scottsburg
Indianapolis News
Airplanes' Good Record in British Civil Aviation 1921
London Opinion notes that no passenger was killed or seriously injured in British airplanes in 1921. It credits pilot skill, aircraft mechanics, the aeronautical inspection department, and the controller of aerodromes and licenses for ensuring only first class crews and machines carry passengers despite high summer cross channel and joy ride activity.
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Aeronautical Inspection Department
London Opinion
Easter Egg of Death in Paris Sparked by Czar’s Gift
A Paris tale from years before the war recalls a jeweled Easter egg given to Russia’s late czar worth $10,000. In the same year a revolutionary sent an egg packed with dynamite timed to explode, but secret police opened it and stopped a tragedy.
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Paris
Czar
Russia
California Fig Syrup praised for children’s bowels
Advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a reliable remedy for constipation in children. It claims a teaspoonful clears toxins within hours, restoring a sick child to playful health, and warns to request the genuine product with clear labeling.
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California
No Happiness In Idleness Quote by Ruskin
The remark contrasts a working class that is strong and content with an idle class described as weak and miserable. It asserts happiness stems from labor and fills both rich and poor with a shared mission. The quote frames virtue in industry.
Women urged to seek help for kidney trouble through Swamp Root
Advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney and bladder issues in women. It claims back pain headaches and nervousness signal kidney trouble and urges immediate treatment with a sample offer by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co. in Binghamton New York and to mention the paper.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Solomon Wise Man Amid Domestic Turmoil
Uncle Eben jokes that Solomon was wise to endure many domestic complications and avoid divorce, reflecting a humorous view on marital strains in a regional dialect.
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Solomon
Eben
Diamond Dyes promise simple home dyeing for all fabrics
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as easy to use for wool silk linen cotton and blends to dye or tint dresses skirts waists coats stockings sweaters draperies and hangings without spotting fading streaking or running The copy notes to tell the druggist fabric type and promises guaranteed colorfast results Also included is a stray line about a boy and his dog.
Pimples Fades with Cuticura Regimen Advertisement
An old advertisement promotes Cuticura products to remove pimples and blackheads. It urges daily use of Cuticura Ointment and Soap with hot water for five minute washes and adds Cuticura Talcum to maintain clear skin. A quirky line about leftovers in a chicken croquette is included.
Time flies with Red Cross Ball Blue ad style
Advertisement promotes Red Cross Ball Blue claiming clean clothes free of ugly streaks and poor results. It asserts the product yields good bluing and notes it is carried by all grocers. The copy likens time to an arrow and months to a shuttle.
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Red Cross
Woman credits Lydia E Pinkham product for health recovery
Mrs Galloway of Carter's Creek Tennessee writes she spent years bedridden with a female ailment. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sonative Wash she recovered and has worked as a farmer's wife for two years. She urges other women to try the remedies.
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Carter’s Creek
Tenn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ny Galloway
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United States Bureau
Havana
Underwood & Underwood
Havana Harbor
Morro Castle
Aero-Marine
H Mitchell
PB. G. Rockefeller
Mn Eyee
Columbus Light, Heat & Power Company
Cozad Milling Company
Central City
H. W. Funk
York
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Scottsbluff
Gibbon
Duroc Jersey
W. H. Rasmussen
Norfolk
Henry Worster
Alliance Board of Education
Scribner
Valley
Association of American Medical Colleges
Irvin S. Cutter
University of Omaha
Sidney National Bank
First National Bank of Sidney
Henry E. Fredrickson
Fremonter
Omaha Automobile
Dan Swanson
Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Cozad
Fairmont
Public Service Company
Blue River Power Company
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Ette
Fceset Po
Adrian
Mick
Dress Better Co
Keeline Bldg
Nebr
Timothy
John Mulhail
Soo City
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