Organize and Build Modern City Infrastructure Plan
The Ouincy Whig urges an efficient modern Board of Health to oversee civic improvements. It calls for securing land for a public aviation landing field, backing the Build Now movement to enable at least 200 new dwellings this year, and planning a new high school. It proposes an owl car service for morning trains, a hard road to Taylor Missouri, and consideration of river terminals to attract a new barge line.
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Board of Health
Taylor
League Still Worth Having Says Hoover Vision for Covenant
In a public stance Hoover argues for a modified league as necessary to curb conflicts. He credits the league as a sentinel on watch and insists the American people share his hope for its positive role despite criticisms.
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Wilson
Germany
League
Hoover
Lincoln of Berlin: A Rogue in Wire Service Disguise
The article questions Ignatius Trebich Lincoln, a Berlin censor linked to the Kapp regime, tracing a tangled history from Hungary to Britain and Germany. It portrays him as a sought after operative for German interests, implicated in forgery and espionage, and criticizes his shifting loyalties and notoriety.
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Eaders
Germany
Ignatius T. Lincoln
Traws
von Luettwitz
von Alberts
Baers
von Kupps
Lincoln
Ignatius Trebich Lincoln
Hungary
House of Commons
Post Office
Secret Service
America
Berlin
Kapp
England
Brooklyn
Taxation and sinecures in Congress debate
A Texas representative cites a bureau chief claim of 40,000 useless federal clerks in Washington and discusses bonuses from 240 to 450. He argues Congress should cut such jobs to reduce spending while warning about labor union opposition and AFL pressure in campaigns. With a $3 billion floating debt and postwar appropriations, the piece urges ending soft government jobs.
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Congress
Blanton
Texas
Bureau of Efficiency
Washington
Organized Labor
Washington Dispatch to Universal Service Rushes Horticulture Discovery
Editorial notes an amazing find by local horticulturists about the Diffenbachia Picta a tall slender plant with spotted leaves and a yellow bloom. The piece references a long desire for government botanical garden support and hints at potent sap applications.
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Washington Dispatch
Universal Service
Government
Life And Danger By Dr Frank Crane
Dr Frank Crane reflects on the fragility of life noting the swift fall of Charles Butter from a skyscraper and a Bronx youth’s sudden death. He argues fate and mortality are constants, urging calm courage rather than fear or reckless bravado.
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Danger
Frank Crane
Bronx
Berlin
Hygienic Epilepsy Treatment Praised By Ohio Doctor
Ohio physician Dr C W King promotes a hygienic program for epilepsy focusing on fresh air country living light meals rest and daily exercise He discourages meat eggs and protein rich foods favors fruit and regular laxatives and cautions against bromides He cites thirty nine cases with significant improvement but warns results vary and not a cure
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Ohio
C. W. King
Dayton
Ning
King
Ife
Ohio State Medical Journal
The Mother-in-law Plant Legend at the Garden
A dusky laborer drinks sap from a plant called Diffenbachia Picta and becomes mute for nine days. He later jokes he wants to bottle it to quiet his mother-in-law for nine days, prompting officials to name the plant the Mother-in-law.
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Ife
Cardinal Logue Describes Crisis in Ireland Dublin Dispatch
UNHAPPY IRELAND Cardinal Logue voices alarm in Dublin about severe repression and a rigid military regime. He cites arbitrary arrests and deportations, contrasting with retaliation and rising lawlessness. He argues most Catholics oppose violence and condemns a few hotheads as misled or manipulated.
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Cardinal Logue
Dublin
Universal Service
Ireland
France
Belgium
Adoption boom in New York fuels orphan demand nationwide
New York adoption of infants surges as agencies field dozens daily from Fifth Avenue heiresses to dressmakers. Couples seek specific traits from curls to coloring, with many toddlers and even twins requested, while officials stress keeping siblings together and placing babies in homes over institutions.
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New York
Alaska
Texas
Solety
City Charities Department
Fifth Avenue
Charlie
City Charities Office
Samuel Butler
New York State
Fred Haskin's Daily Quiz Q&A from The Whig Information Bureau
Readers submit questions to The Whig Information Bureau directed by Frederic J. Haskin in Washington. Answers cover ambassador salaries, transpacific cables, state treaty limitations, cotton bale weight, and related facts with concise explanations.
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Whig Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D D. C
The
Inquirer
Granny Fox Scares Reddy on a Narrow Bridge
Granny Fox leads Reddy across a long bridge to escape Bowser the Hound. Reddy fears looking down and learns the trick was a scare, as Granny laughs and plans to return the lesson. The tale ends with Reddy learning the bridge crossing was a ruse.
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Granny Fox
Reddy
Reddy Fox
Mother Fox
Farmer Brown
Bowser the Hound
Granny
Redd
Bowser the Trouaid
Old Granny Fox
Granny Pax
Why is the ocean salty and passport validity
A Q and A explains ocean salinity from continual mineral runoff and evaporation leaving salt in the sea, making it increasingly salty. It also states U S passports are valid six months from issue and can be renewed twice for a total of eight months.
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EL B.C. A
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Rascal Felseeca
Maiden Lane
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H. Addington Bruce
Associated Newspapers
McKee
Donalad Mckee
Rho
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Fauntleroy
C. O D
Fred Haskin
Daily Quiz
Great Britain
United States
Auckland Geddes
Davis
Court of St. James
Page
London
Q. Tlow
Pacific
Orient
San Francisco
Japan
British Columbia
Australia
Department of Commerce
By Thornton W. Burgess
Wilken
French Academy
M. Ss
Academy
Marshal Joffre
Quenis Darthon
Alfred Baudrillart
Marshal Foch
Gerees Clemenceau
Jules Camben
Henr Bordeaux
Napoleon
Alexander I
Russia
Austria
Prussia
United States Patent Office
Konova
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