Hermit trio of Missouri pioneers dies at home
Aunt Betty Elliott and her brothers Perry and Jordan lived 2000 acres of rough Missouri pasture, never rode a railroad, avoided towns, and kept wealth secret. They valued simple farming, shale fences, and coal beds beneath, while living frugal and rooted in Protestant faith.
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Macon
Missouri
Moberly
Huntsville
Betty” Elliott
B. Rice
Jacksonville
Elliot
Perry
Jordan
William Elliot
Kentucky
Miss Eliot
College Mound
Elliot Brothers
Betsy
Ellilot
Nature
Two Story Crop Proves Success in Orchards Farm
Vancouver reports the “two-story crop” system at Orchards near Fourth Plain where chicken ranches fertilize prune orchards. Renny pioneered the method, now about 500 chicken farms in the district with over 50 on many ranches. The boom makes Orchards a major poultry area near Vancouver and Portland with growing fruit profits.
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Vancouver
Fourth Plain
Orchards
Hudson’s Bay Company
Hudson Bay
R. J. Renny
Mr. Renny
Benny
Renny Place
Orfewards
United States
Petaluma
Cal
Wash
Portland
Ore
Device That Copies Suns Rays From Violet to Ultra Violet
Washington reports scientists and physicians develop artificial violet and ultraviolet ray sources to aid medical treatments. The quartz mercury vapor lamp shows similar total UV intensity to sunlight but with a different spectral quality and shorter wavelengths, suggesting ultra violet light may not need the very shortest waves to be curative.
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Washington
Pears
W. W. Coblenitz
Bureau of Standards
American Electrotherapeutic Association
Coblentz
Boy Clings to Tree Five Hours During San Antonio Flood
A twelve year old Mexican boy held onto a tree for five hours amid the flood in San Antonio Kentucky as rescue crews battled wreckage. He was battered and unconscious on arrival at a hospital but survived unharmed.
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San Antonio
Lex
Dairy Product Value in California in 1920
California dairy products were valued at 95,152,000 dollars in 1920, reflecting strong production and market demand across the state. The estimate highlights the importance of dairy farming to California's agricultural economy during that period.
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California
Grain losses and civic plans fill Nebraska notes
Fire destroyed 16 000 bushels at T B Hord Grain elevator in Chipman and partially gutted Luteavish pantatorium in Arapahoe. Beatrice to fund a new Nazarene church edifice costing about 510 000 as farmers report corn 21 cents and wheat 81 cents per bushel amid low prices statewide.
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T. B. Hord Grain Co
Chipman
Arapahoe
Hord Company
Chapman
Church of the Nazarene
Beatrice
Gage County
Hamilton County
John T. McIntosh
Sidney
Internal Revenue
Nebraska
Iremont
Central Liber Union
Long Pine
Burlington Railroad
Thedford
O'Neill
Sioux City
Billings
Chauteuqua
Lincoln
C. O. Bruce
Intermountain Railway Light and Power Company
Scottsbluff
Lexington
Scotts Bluff
Henry Toneray
Torrington
Toneray
Leo Stuhr
State Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Iowa
North Platte
Nebraska Women’s Educational Club
Omaha
Fairbury” Commercial Club
South Oorth Street
Albion
Wig
Arechnallog
Islandon
Bigspring
Burlington
Community Club of
Lindsay
George H. Aller
Doane Conservatory
American Legion Post
Crete Commercial Club
MelKelgie
Fenton
State Penitentiary
Cheyenne
N. S. Scott
John Butterfield
Franklin
Berry A. Selver
Nonpartisan League
Merrick County
A. W. Woodrough
Wilfred H. Osgood
Field Museum of Natural History
Dale Bun Stead
Oak Park
Ill
Wood Lake
Grant Welker
League of Women Voters of
United States
League
Tor
Charles F. Sked
Carrie Chapman Catt
Hemingford
Potato Belt
Dakota Reservation
Alliance
Wyoming Goshen
Ole County
Gering
Fairbury
Blue River
Chamber of Commerce
Oliver Gardner
Ernest Harry
Union ‘Pacific No.16
Barnett
William Thurston
Hyannis
Douglas Frye
Simple Insomnia Cure by Focusing on the Top of the Head
An old insomnia remedy cites gas as a cause and promotes a simple trick from a diary excerpt. The narrator recalls counting sheep and restless nights before reporting a curious method: focus the eyes upward, think of the top of the head, and sleep will follow.
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Robert Cortes Holliday
The Chords of Harmony and the Stradivarius Love
A reflective meditation on music and poetry comparing true harmony to fragile imitations like a rotchless instrument. The author cherishes a Stradivarius, praising its reliability and beauty as the source of soulful sweetness.
Narrow Escapes Told After Factory Fire
Smith and Brown gossip about a Johnson Street factory fire claiming there were narrow escapes. Smith reveals the firemen brought the escapes down with them, hinting at trickster humor and a social tease.
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Smith
Brown
Johnson Street
Eld Chappie
Russia’s Three Soaps and Class in Soviet Distribution
M Alexander Schwartz recounts a trip to Russia and his book The Voice of Russia. He describes three government distributed soaps used to distinguish roles: a cake for commissars, a rough gray chunk for assistants and officers, and a small black cube for workers. If you are below proletariat rank you receive none.
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Russia
M. Alexander Schwartz
Voice of
Mr. Schwartz
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound helps Roxbury mother
Maude E Taylor of Roxbury Massachusetts reports chronic backache dizziness and heavy monthly periods improved after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound She says sleep returns and she can care for five children while working and recommends the remedy to others facing similar female complaints.
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Roxbury
Mass
Jor
Lydia EB
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Maude E. Taylor
St. James. Place
Cuticura Toilet Trio Promises Baby Skin Care
An advertisement touts Cuticura products for babies with red irritated skin. It urges hot baths with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, plus using Cuticura Talcum powder for fragrance and protection, as part of an indispensable trio.
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Cuticura
Red Cross Ball Blue Laundry Advertisement
Snowy linens are the pride of every housewife Keep them in that condition by using Red Cross Ball Blue in your laundry. 5 cents at grocers.
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Betty
Lake Torpedo Company
Bridgeport
American Legionaires
Versailles Palace
American Legion
Paris
Louis XIV
Great Palace
Versailles
George E. Johnson
Capitol Commission
Goodhue
New York
Johnson
Henry Massinger
Gus Hyers
Lee & Prentiss
Atkinson
Holt County
Hauser
F. G. Hartman
Nelson
Hartman
Quibiem Oy
Holland
Hunt
A. B. Richards Medicine Co
Sherman
Texas
London
Lucky Strikf Cigare
Burley Flavor
Enslow
KOD
Dept. K, A
Inco A
Loral Co
Lincoln, Neb
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