Braille Type Adopted for Universal Use in U S Schools
The Braille system has been adopted by all U S schools for the blind since 1919 no new book is embossed in other types. The Revised Braillets was chosen as a midway form and texts now use a uniform standard for music, math, and chemistry notations. Congress increased the American Printing House for the Blind grant to 40000 in 1919 enabling expansion and more books, aiding roughly 5000 pupils in 45 residential schools and expanding circulating libraries for the blind.
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New York
France
Valentin Dlauy
Congress
American Printing House For
Louisville
American Printing House
Edgar I. Allen
Verkins Institute
Massachusetts School For the Blind
United States
Chicago
Mule Kills Man as Mule Falls on Ditch Worksite
Clarence Melish of Greensburg was injured when a mule driven by Thomas Burton toppled onto him while digging a ditch. He was pinned under the animal until coworkers freed him. Melish sustained a hip injury and minor bruises.
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Greensburg, Ltd
Clarence Melish
Thomas Burton
Melish
Lilnor
Ancient script found in west Idaho caves hints at ancient writing
In Owyhee county Idaho a Boise taxidermist Robert Limbert reported inscriptions carved on lava rocks across a 30 acre sagebrush flat near several large caves. Archeologists note ideographic and pictographic carvings possibly dating far back with a third undeciphered system.
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Boise
Idaho
Owyhee County
Robert Limbert
Armenia Food Crisis Sparks Near East Relief Appeal
Cable from Alex endropol reports American relief workers finding severe starvation in central Armenia as winter break exposes bread substitutes like flax and sawdust. One fourth of adults are bedridden, 1,500 orphans need removal for survival, and seed grain for spring planting is urgently required to avert famine next winter.
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New York
Charles V. Vickrey
Alexandropol
Armenia
Myen Insal
Matmandehuk
Nenur Mast Retief
Vickrey
United States
Conductor Leaves Job Over Wages Then Finds Work
A humorous vignette notes a railway conductor quitting due to pay, then, while job hunting, stepping on the third rail. It asks if he was killed, answering that he was a honored conductor instead.
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Science and Invention Magazine
Cotton back to normal basis in world demand
World cotton consumption has returned to prewar levels as of April 1 with an expected consumption of 2,000,000 bales for the year ending July 31, 1922. The carryover is expected to normalize by August 1, 1922, but production face weather and boll weevil factors. In the Mississippi delta, levee protection work continues as 10,000 at district levees and 4,000 government workers are joined by 6,000 civilians shielding homes while church services pause for flood defense efforts.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Department
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Mississippi Levee
Dayton doctor who killed son shoots wife before death
Dr W P Allen of Dayton Tennessee who was acquitted last December in the Burch Gardenhire murder shot and killed his nine year old son W P Jr then fired at his wife and killed himself three miles south of Dayton after stopping the car during a ride. Mrs Allen reported no warning before the shooting. Sheriff Burnette investigated.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
W. P. Allen
Dayton
Burch C. Gardenhire
Tennessee
Rhea County
Captain Coleman Seeks Relief in New Bern Case
Arthur Coleman captain and owner of the British schooner Message of Peace was convicted of selling whiskey and jailed for six months by Judge H G Connor. He said he would seek bail with bond set at 2500 dollars and planned to sue for recovery of his ship and cargo.
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Coleman
New Bern
Arthur Coleman
H. G. Connor
John D
Emmett Bellamy
Wilmington
Five Children Injured When Truck Tips Near Rome Georgia
A curve in a truck route near Rome Georgia hurled 23 people from the vehicle. Ruth West thirteen of Lindale suffered a fractured skull and was not expected to live. Others named Trouston Sendricks Richard Bean Louise Mathis and Walter Green were hospitalized with serious or minor injuries.
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Rome
Ruth West
Lindale
Trouston Sendricks
Richard Bean
Louise Mathis
Walter Green
Marshal Joffre Bids America Farewell on Ocean voyage
Marshal Joffre leaves New York aboard the Celtic as a municipal band plays Auld Lang Syne. He stands at attention and waves his hat and cane before the ship slips away from the Statue of Liberty on the last lap of his world tour.
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Marshal Joffre
New York
Celtic
America
John F. Fylan
Master Thief Collins Confesses Loot Worth Vast Chicago Homes
Edward Collins alias George Williams, a well dressed Chicago burglar, confessed to police that he robbed more than 200 homes, yielding about 500000 in goods. Investigators recover 10000 in loot while linking a major dope ring, with Collins noting his method and tools.
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Chicago
Slyde Park
Edward Collins
George Wiliams
Twenty-first Street
Woodlawn Avenue
Patrick McCaley
Hyde Park
Fitzmorris
Collins
McCauley
Jimmy
Penny Bombs Seized by Police in New York School Discount Store
New York police seized toy bombs sold for Af penny after a schoolteacher reported disturbances during recess. Glass tubes caused eye irritation and about 1,600 bombs were taken from a store patronized by children.
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New York
New York City
Officer Discovers Daughter Drowned in Creek
Muskegon Michigan police respond to a drowned girl report and discover Officer Edgar Johnson’s five year old daughter in three feet of water at the scene. The accident occurred as responders arrived to assist.
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Muskegon
Mich
Edgar Johnson
Neighborgit
Little Mabel’s Pickled Remark Stuns Company
In a humorous vignettescribed scene a eight year old girl overhears the phrase well preserved for aged people and replies auntie isn’t Mrs Brown a well pickled old lady. The judge records the scene as a witty explication of cultural age language.
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Mabel
Lfe
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