Stricter USSR Lines Oppose Free Speech and Press
In a 1920 critique, the author argues Bolshevik rule in Russia tightens control from top down, gagging rights to free thought, speech, and press while praising open, representative government and citizen power to recall officials. The piece links Lenin’s early calls for free expression to later constitutional clamps on dissent.
Christmas Toys the Boys Can Make
A vintage guide describes making toy figures from cigar boxes and spools. It details constructing a small auto truck with wooden strips, screweye axles, spool wheels, a hinged end gate, a dashboard, steering wheel, canopy, and seat. It covers clown figures with wire joints, turning poles, and threading to simulate motion.
Message for Today From Ruskin on Labor and Wealth
The quote argues most suffering and crime in civilized Europe comes from people failing to grasp that wealth is tied to steady labor. It claims misery stems from hoping to eat where one has not sown and to stay warm without weaving, asserting the universal law of life requires effort and equity.
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Frank Comerford
Russia
United States
Europe
Ruskin
French Wheat and Flour Prices Raised to Millers
French minister of provisions Joseph J. B. E. Moulens told the credit committee the government will lift wheat price to millers from 43 to 75 francs per metric hundredweight and flour to 91 francs, ending the subsidy. The change raises the Paris two pound bread loaf to 90 centimes and provincial loaves to 95 centimes.
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Joseph J. B. E. Moulens
Credit Committee
Chamber of Deputies
Paris
Northern France Recovery and Resumption of Industry
Northern France is slowly recovering as production resumes in about half the factories in the region once paralyzed by four years of war. About 13 percent have been at work only a month, with the Associated Press finding 30,000 plants that employed 800,000 workers razed, looted, or disorganized by gunfire.
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France
Associated. Press
Austria Seeks Large Paris Loan For Monopolies Plan
Herr Roisin Austrian secretary of state travels to Paris to negotiate an advance of 150 million to 200 million francs. The loan would be guaranteed by the Austrian tobacco monopoly rental. An Anglo American group negotiates Vienna water power station project costing 80 million francs to supply electricity within three years.
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Austria
Paris
Herr Roisin
Vienna
Poles March Bolshevik Advance Barrier
Poland deploys its army along the Russian frontier to form a barrier against advancing Bolsheviks. The action signals a coordinated defense as Poland mobilizes forces to deter western aggression.
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Poland
Pen and spool top spinning described in technique
The fragment explains a method to finish a top by pushing the pen end over a pen cap and resting on a spool end. The top is spun by twirling the pen between the palms in alternating directions as shown in Figure 12.
Polish Cardinal Warns of Long Bolshevik Pressure
Cardinal Krawkowski of Warsaw tells Corriere Italia that Polish detachments are too weak to resist eastern pressure he estimates could last 20 to 25 years. If unemployment grows in cities, farm labor shortages may ease editorially as cities face fewer labor calls.
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Krawkowski
Warsaw
Corriere @Italia
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