Reform Proposals After World Crime Wave Peak
The American Bar association study says the global crime peak connected to the war may have passed and urges reforms to quicken justice. Proposed federal crime stats, tighter pistol controls, grand jury revisions, removal of indictments’ technicalities, prisoner labor pay, and a new federal crime for revolutionary advocacy. Hearings occurred in Washington Joliet Chicago with judges, wardens, criminologists testifying.
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Washington
American Bar Association
United States
San Francisco
War Department
Chicago
Illinois
Joliet
New York City
Clock error nets Poplar Bluff restaurateur five dollars
A traveler in Poplar Bluff, Missouri blamed a wall clock for missing a train and losing a date. He left breakfast, paid, then returned angrily to demand a new clock, claiming the time mix up cost him a marriage chance and forced a long walk.
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Poplar Bluff
Ghost Town Alive at Old Hickory Faces New Life After War
Nashville suburb Old Hickory, born rapidly during World War I, lay dormant after the armistice but is now attracting permanent industry. The area hosts a massive steam plant once the world’s largest, 8,867 residences housing up to 80,000 people, 1,112 factories, and extensive rail and tram links. The government built power and industrial sites. in 1920 Nashville Industrial Corp bought the plant. Since then a pulp and paper mill, a motor works, a cement factory, and a starch plant were established, with many residences used year round or as summer homes.
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Nashville
Tenn
Old Hickory
Veterans’ Bureau
Fall Diast
Nashville Industrial Corporation
Some Little Traveler Built For Travel at Age Three
Three year old Helen Gallanter has logged fifty thousand miles of travel with her father Joseph Gallanter and mother in New York. She tends to sleep in a Pullman berth and shows a remarkable preference for moving across the continent, ready to start again once landing in San Francisco.
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Helen Gallanter
San Francisco
Joseph Gallanter
New York
Henna baths for olive skin charm London society women
A henna bath craze spreads among London's upper class, said to originate in France or America. Monthly dye baths impart a subtle tint to complement Oriental fashion trends. In Macedonia, Mrs Eliza Keast was buried in a dress bought 87 years ago in Cromwell, England, kept as a burial shroud.
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London
Old Dres Macedonia
Ian
Eliza Keast
England
Cromwell
Verdun Hero Talks With Rubber Tongue
Paris reports another surgical marvel as Verdun veteran Sergeant Viella receives an artificial rubber tongue and palate at Val de Grace hospital after losing his lower jaw in battle. Surgeons, led by Dr. Eugene Querelle, rebuilt his jaw and teeth first, then fitted the flexible tongue.
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Paris
France
Viella
Verdun
Val de Grace Hospital
Eugene Querelle
Milk and Its Uses in the Home bulletin issued
The U S Department of Agriculture releases Farmers Bulletin No 1207 to guide consumers, especially of milk for children. It stresses milk as essential for growth, bones, and vitamins A and B, advocates careful home handling and pasteurization, and notes raw milk benefits and risks from bacteria.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Farmers’ Bulletin
The
Bulletin
Old Broom Is Made Useful Outside the House
An old broom can be repurposed by cutting the straw, sharpening the handle, and driving it into the ground beside the walk. It will sweep dirt from shoe soles and sides, reducing indoor cleaning. A simple, practical upcycling idea worth trying.
Practical Household Hints From an Old Magazine
Portable fire extinguishers should be in every home. Rub mud from dark clothing with raw potato. Finish a Petticoat flounce top with entwined pink and blue ribbons. Bread crumbs beat cracker dust for frying to avoid sogginess. New rope becomes pliable when boiled for hours. Hang in a warm room. wring sheets from the side to avoid selvage wrinkles. A touch of benzine brightens copper cleaning powder and preserves shine. Lamp chimneys clean by passing over a simmering kettle and wiping with tissue.
Parker House Rolls Recipe Steps and Bake Time
Lift and mix white flour, baking powder, corn meal, sugar, and salt. Cut in butter, add egg and milk to form a soft dough. Roll to half an inch, cut rounds, place butter center, seal, brush with milk, bake fifteen minutes in a hot oven. Serve hot.
Way to wash handkerchiefs for silk care
To keep silk handkerchiefs from yellowing do not rub with soap or soda or boil. Use a hot thick lather from finely shredded soap. Rinse thoroughly in cold water and dry, preferably in the sun, after squeezing out most of the water.
Prevent Chicks Piling Up and Losses After Early Rearing
The article warns that baby chicks face the greatest loss after two to three weeks as piling smothers them at night. Sweating and feather loss from stress impede growth, risking stunted, worthless chicks during development.
Salt Fish Soak in Milk To Freshen For Use
A brief instruction explains soaking salt fish in milk to freshen it for immediate use. It outlines a simple preparation step to reduce the saltiness and improve texture before cooking or serving.
Death from Snake Bites Rare in U.S. Findings
United States Department of Agriculture survey reports venomous snake bites have a mortality rate just above ten percent, but actual deaths are rare due to limited encounters. Most venomous snakes inhabit sparsely populated, rocky or swampy areas and avoid humans.
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Biological Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
Harlequin and pit viper snakes listed in families
In this country Elapidae or Harlequin snakes and Crotalidae or pit vipers are noted, including rattlesnakes cottonmouths water moccasins and copperheads.
Small Birds Form Great Colony in South Africa
Tiny canary sized birds use collective nesting in a tree to build many mud nests each season. Thousands join the same tree, creating a growing canopy of structures until branches yield or space runs out. New colonies begin on nearby trees as trees collapse or become full.
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Little Society Birds
Snowflakes Are Hexagonal in Crystal Form
A science note explains that nearly all snow crystals exhibit hexagonal geometry, despite hundreds of distinct varieties. The article outlines how molecular symmetry guides crystal shape and why hexagonal forms dominate naturally.
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Houcchol
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Overland Country Club
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Ideal Pharmacy
Waechter
W. A. Young
Chronicle
Vander Linden
Rexall Store
Department of Agriculture
Columbian
BSA
Kuyper Lumber Co
Pella, Iowa
Knoxville
Iowa
Marion County
C. M. Gilson
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