Build Now movement urged for city growth and schools
The Dainty Whig urges securing a public aviation landing field and backing the Build Now drive to erect 200 dwellings next year. It calls for plans for a new high school, an owl car service for early trains, a hard road to Taylor Missouri, river terminals, and expansion toward Quincy's outlying areas before the next census. It cites Red Haskin on wood alcohol dangers and urges Congress action to curb its sale.
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Taylor
Quincy
Hoover for President by Dr Frank Crane
A 1919 critique urging Herbert Hoover as a nonpartisan candidate. The author praises Hoover’s proven competence, businesslike approach, experience feeding Europe, and readiness to govern with action over party polities, arguing he embodies real American business and public service. The piece dismisses partisan loyalties and hawkish rhetoric, emphasizing Hoover as the practical choice.
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Hoover
Frank Crane
Court rules separate weighing of meat and wrapping
A Chicago judge ordered butchers to weigh meat separately from wrappings after testimony that dealers overcharge Chicagoans for paper. The piece mocks the notion of weighing by thumbs and jokes about bones, gravel, and Christmas poultry scams, noting fowls and ostriches’ odd eating habits.
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Chicago
New York
Central coal operators clash over strike settlement stance
OAL operators in the Middle West and Pittsburgh district show variance in response to President Wilson's commission. Mr Penna of Terre Haute says a Nov 27 resolution is in almost perfect accord with the President's action, though details differ. Eastern operators deny a memorandum, but Penna asserts a unified yet nuanced position. The potential to ignite a scandal over the coal strike seems unlikely as attitudes diverge.
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OAL
Pittsburgh
Mr. Penna
Terre Haute
Middle West
Wilson
Penna
Editorial comment on opportunism in Seattle policy
Editorial argues that Seattle faces consequences of an opportunistic government. It laments leaders who chase present applause with hollow promises and fail to act as true statesmen, warning of broader societal costs. The piece reflects a critical partisan view of recent policy leadership.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Memory's Power Explains How Memory Surges Beyond Weakness
H Addington Bruce argues memory is vast and potent, often unreached by conscious effort. He cites cases of spontaneous recall from childhood experiences, including a servant who spoke Greek and Hebrew after years of fever and a man who felt deja vu at a castle gate. The article suggests memory can be tapped with future advances in psychology and self-knowledge.
Underground Travel Refuses to Progress Without Gas Tests
Washington December 25. Underground travel faces a serious obstacle to its growth due to deadly carbon monoxide gas. Engineers seek federal funding and Yale collaboration to test gas mixtures in a 30 by 30 by 12 foot chamber, with volunteers and animals to study air quality and safe limits before constructing long tunnels like the Hudson River link.
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Washington, D.C
New York
New Jersey
Pittsburg
Europe
Chicago
Hudson River
Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Congress
Yale University
Yale University Jr
Yandell Henderson
Cara
Senderson
We and Our World War Sacrifices and the Penalty We Pay
A speaker laments political choices that delayed entry into war until after an election. He argues soldiers died for one set of principles while leaders championed another, leaving the nation unprepared and calling for law and order. He warns of future costs from wasted wealth and broken international friendship.
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Lusitania
Save the pennies
An Omaha News piece notes a math professor’s claim that one cent invested since 1 AD at 414 percent with compound interest would yield 100,000 gold globes the weight of the Earth, reducing to a planet scale by 820 to the ounce. The moral urged is to save the pennies.
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Omaha
London street names and a Belgian tongue twister
The London Express notes street name lengths abroad, citing Paris Rue des Pretres Saint Germain, a Brussels example Ongeschildezilverencekemoot jestraat, meaning the street of the little unpicked silver nut, and mentions a Standard Oil plan to issue stock to employees as a reward for faithful service.
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London Express
London
Paris
Brussels
Fred Haskin's Daily Quiz answers and questions
A reader question column from The Whig Information Bureau lists quiz items on topics from government bonds to grammar, consular agents, U.S. coinage, oath wording, beard history, jewelry gifts, and piano cleaning. It notes responses come from Frederic D. Harkin and cites various factual digests including dates and figures.
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Whig Inmformation Bureau
Phrederic d. Harkin
Washington
Tuli
Ibanker
Jerry Muskrat Nurses a Sore Tail
Jerry Muskrat is caught in a cruel steel trap by his tail and fights to free himself. He first panics and struggles in water but realizes drowning won t help. He climbs out on an old log and, using his claws, gradually frees his tail as the trap jaws snap shut. He nurses the injured tail through the rest of the day and night.
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Jerry Muskrat
Jerry
December 28 historical events summary
On December 28 various historical notes are recorded: Mary El, queen of William of Orne, dies of smallpox after a three year reign. A machine forcemaking patent by Seth Royden on December 27. In 1895 General Alexander Thomson mass murdered near St Augustine during Seminole conflict. 1846 Town admitted to Connecticut. 1864 Woodrow Wilson born in Staunton Virginia and later became Princeton president, governor of New Jersey, and Democratic presidential candidate. 1899 Battle of Wounded Knee endures with heavy losses. 1917 US takes control of railroads by war measure authority.
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Mary EL
William of Orne
William Fr
James TY
Seth Royden
Alexander Thornson
Jackson
St. Auguatine
Tinton
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Staunton
Valle
Princeton
Atlanta
Princeton University
New Jersey
Roosevelt
Taft
Wounded Knee
Nelson Miles
U. S
Congress
The Worst War Ever Named by War Department
The War Department decided to call the four years of conflict ending November 11 1918 The Worst War. The question asks if the recent war has been officially named by the United States, and the reply indicates the designation The Worst War for the four years of fighting ending in 1918.
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Unite States
War Department
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