Dainty Whig Essay Proposes Civic Modernization Projects
The page urges plans for a new modern high school building and a river terminal program while advocating early city infrastructure like an oil car service, hard road to Taylor Missouri, and street paving. It warns against class thinking favoring Americanism and unity, citing Ro PL Harris on labor, capital, and monopoly, and questions farm and landlord attitudes alongside public rights.
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Taylor
Quincy
Ro PL Harris
Champaign
Rotary Club
Harris
White House
Mirvin
Sanctity Of Contracts By Dr Frank Crane
Dr Frank Crane argues that contracts underpin civilization and warns that unions breaking agreements undermine society. He cites the October 7 New York longshoremen strike and broader reports of contract repudiation across industries and states, urging labor rights within law and condemning coercive force.
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Frank Crane
New York
Adjustment Commission
O'Connor
Longshoremen’s Association
Anyther
United Stats
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Ohio
Mims
Nebraska
Montana
Missouri
Maryland
Kansas
Connecticut
Massachusetts
California
Utah
Tennessee
Organization of Labor
Wiz
Porce
Lieaders
A Nation Aeting as One On Daylight Saving
A dramatic portrait of daylight saving as a nation turning back time in unison. The piece lauds the national coordination, highlighting how millions adjust clocks, change routines, and align with government timing, praising collective action and the power of unified citizen behavior.
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Bae
Congress
Ken
Ann Ie
Editorial Comment on Vienna as a Struggling Capital
New York World cites Burgomaster Reumann describing Vienna as a city of mendicants amid meat rations of three ounces weekly and scarce milk for babies. Hospitals close, death rates rise, many families trapped in one or two rooms, painting a grim picture of the once gay capital.
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New York World
Burgomaster
Reumann
Vienna
During The Incurable by H. Addington Bruce
A discussion on mind body links explores how mental state may influence disease. Anecdotes include a young woman with boils and hair loss improving when engagement announced, and a pernicious anemia case where a patient recovered after trying a healer. The essay weighs whether outcomes arise from mental influence or placebo.
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Sugeest
Hardship in Europe’s War Zone Demands Global Action
The piece argues that Vienna, like other capitals and industrial cities in the war zone, suffers extensive ruin in industry and transport. It notes Ludendorff’s account of Polish and other territories ravaged by retreating armies and urges coordinated government action to avert a winter of mass cold and hunger, beyond private charity.
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Vienna
Budapest
Warsaw
Petrograd
Herr Reumann
Senate
Europe
Mild Republicans Save Treaty With Reserved Safeguards
The Indianapolis News quotes the Springfield Journal praising mild reservationists among Republicans for saving the treaty with proper reservations. It notes earned respect from the people and calls for Democrat cooperation to safeguard rights without weakening the covenant. Also discusses mining strikes risking government control as officials in Washington aim to keep mines operating to avoid industry harm.
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Indianapolis
Springfield Journal
Washington
Capper of Kansas Emerges as Corn Belt Presidential Hope
In Washington a year before the 27A presidential campaign, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas is highlighted as a leading Corn Belt candidate. The article notes his farmer appeal, extensive press interests, and a personal polling method he uses to gauge public opinion, while detailing his Kansas governor and war service background.
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Washinton
D.C. O
Caf
Arthur Capper
Kans Corn Belt
Senator Capper
Wie
Topeha
Middle Uniteds
Alleghenies
Rockies
Serata
National Press Club
Tie
Kansas
Anc
Washington
United States
Garnett
Topeka
State Capitol
Eftor
Mississippi River
Capper
State Council of Defense
Council of National Defense
Hill Friends
Gov
Witinsas
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Selective Service
Middle West
Why Should a Man Be a Presidential Candidate
Hilis friends question why such a man should not seek the presidency of the United States. The remark raises a debate over qualifications and public service in a political climate.
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Wwe
Hilis
United States
Daily Quiz Q&A on Citizenship and Customs
Fred Haskin's Daily Quiz offers readers a chance to send questions with a two cent stamped reply. Sample Qs touch on citizenship forfeiture, English customs, census painter counts, lighthouse fuels, teeth whitening, barbed wire surpluses, gaff stand, and the Key of the Bastile in Mt. Vernon.
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America
Mt. Vernon
George Washington
Washington
Lafayette
Sammy Jay Forest Scout Stumbles On a Hunter
Thornton W Burgess presents Sammy Jay who wakes hungry and early. He spots a hunter with a terrible gun near Farmer Brown and suspects danger to wildlife. Sammy debates warning the Green Forest residents but acts to protect Lightfoot the Deer and others.
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Sammy
Farmer Brown
Hal
Hig River
Mrs. Quack
Aricrepatehn
Peter Stabbit
Grouse
Doe
Lightfoot
Sammy Jay
Green Forest
Grease
Early 19th Century Notions and Figures in Fragmented Chronicle
Fragmentary chronicle notes a series of historical events and figures. It mentions Cetuber year 256 severe diseases in a distant era, October crownings, Franco British wars, an admiral named de Montmorency, a French writer and a 22 volume works, and the deportation of convicts to Virginia. It also recalls the French king’s fate, colonial struggles in America, and John Adams as U S president and diplomat.
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Termin de Montmorency
France
Cretober
Virginia
Eivewick
Patlans
Tinh
Williams
Amerbes
James TI
Moglanad
William Oof Grange
Mary
Beverdena
America
Toln Adams
United States
Quilter, Maes
Adams
Harvard
Paris
Finland
Washington
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Deere
McKee
John We
Frederic J. Haskin
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Ronning
Beverner
Pelyst
Pla
Wideon
Kanes Eas
Fred Haskin
Daily Quiz
Washington, DC
Bureau Patil Rive Aidsie Con Medical
The
Inquirer
Great Britain
Pingland
Wales
Tuyt
C. A
Mom. A
Bureau of Lighthouses
Newport News
Amiv
Dcc
Thornton W. Burgess
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