West Indies real estate linked to Panama Canal defense
The article surveys who owns Caribbean islands and the potential for U S purchases or transfers to secure the Panama Canal. It notes Britain France and the Netherlands hold colonies, cites past acquisitions like the Virgin Islands, Alaska, and Hawaii, and discusses strategic reasons for keeping the canal open in a rising world-power era. It asks how Monroe Doctrine policy applies if Germany or others claim islands.
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Panama Canal
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France
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United States
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Luxembourg
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The
Formula for Household Budget Is Applied to City Governments
CHICAGO. Women in 50 communities have begun surveys to measure efficiency of municipal governments. The National Consumers Tax Commission says surveys compare city methods and expenditures for economies, with exchanges of ideas between cities to improve services and reduce waste without cutting essential functions.
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Chicago
Melville Mucklestone
National Consumers Tax Commission
Mucklestone
Midwest
Pirates Continue To Copy Fashions At State College
Professor Kenneth D. Hutchinson of Pennsylvania State College concludes in a new study that no producer of new styles should hold a monopoly. He says all styles are imitative and chosen to resemble leaders, noting fashions need not be beautiful and often are ugly as long as they imitate trendsetters.
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U. S
Panama Canal
State College
Kenneth D. Hutchinson
Pennsylvania State College
Hutchinson
Homer Berry
Rich foods blamed for bilious headaches column
Dr James W Barton notes headaches often stem from eye strain stomach and liver issues and bilious headaches arise from persistent overeating. He cites Epso m salts flush of the gall bladder with a right side rest for 30 to 45 minutes and pure bile salts three times daily for about two weeks. Regular small Epso m salt doses weekly can prevent bilious headaches.
Handy End Table Made From Spools
Ruth Wyeth Spears explains how to create rigid end tables from spools using curtain rods as legs. Each spool is glued between others and to the shelves, with a sketch guiding the construction. The article promotes Book No. 3 offering 32 home project ideas for 10 cents.
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Ruth Wyeth Spears
B. P
Hearing Loss Linked to Stammering In Early Life
A new finding suggests stammering stems from nervousness or defective hearing rather than tongue or vocal tract issues. Doctors Harms and Malone report most hearing loss occurs by age seven or eight, and stammering rises with partial hearing loss while rare in complete deafness.
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M. Arline Harms
J. Y. Malone
Milwaukee
Harms
Malone
Question Box: Bright's disease and twitching muscles
Question box answers describe Bright's disease nephritis with albumin and few casts in urine. It notes twitching muscles at sleep can come from nervousness a run-down condition infection or vitamin deficiency and may share cause with arthritis.
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Bright
Mrs Ruth Wyeth Spears Drawers Bedford Hills item
An item lists Ruth Wyeth Spears of Bedford Hills New York instructing to enclose ten tents for Book No 3 and provide a name and address for correspondence.
Justice in Rebellion Quote by Carlyle
A reflective quotation attributed to Carlyle on how people resist only when a cause justifies defiance and dissent. It notes that men rarely rebel for trivial reasons and act with deliberate consideration before opposing what does not merit rebellion.
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Carlyle
Free book offer on piles and fistula by Dr Coe in St Louis
An advertisement from Dr C M Coe at 503 Pine Street in St Louis Missouri promotes a free valuable book for sufferers of piles or fistula alleging financial reward for writing. The brief notice emphasizes medical guidance and a commission style incentive.
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C. M. Coe
Pine St
St. Louis, Mo
Idleness a Tomb Sepulcher of the Living Man
A compact aphorism notes idleness as the tomb of vitality. It frames inactivity as dangerous to life, urging purposeful action and mental engagement to preserve vigor and health. The line echoes moral cautions against sloth and advocates productive use of time.
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