Japan Accepts Treaty With One Modification
Japan accepted the naval settlement plan 5-5-3 and signaled a four power pacific treaty with United States Great Britain Japan and France. A modification allows Japan to keep the new battleship Mutsu, scrap an older vessel, with potential reciprocal concessions by the United States and Britain. A separate treaty with Japan on Pacific mandates remains. Meanwhile Shantung talks stalled over financial settlements linked to the Kiang-Chow leasehold, as China and Japan met after many sessions with limited progress.
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Japan
America
France
England
Mutsu
United States
Great Britain
Pacific
Washington
Kiae-Chow
How to Resist Stolen Kiss at Northwestern
Northwestern University coeds are advised in a December nun issue to resist advances by contradicting cues. The guide suggests initial struggle then acting overcome, closing eyes, rigid posture, and flashing varied facial expressions to deter a repeat kiss. It cautions not to rely on force alone and to project emotions to dissuade the attacker.
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Chicago
Northwestern University Coeds
Nun- Evanston
Distinctive Menu Covers by Denver Firm
Luther Lee representing a Denver concern has spent the past week installing distinctive design menu covers in Beckley hotel dining rooms and at the Busy Bee Cafe. The Raleigh Register shop printed them, and the work has drawn favorable comment from local businesses and diners.
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Luther Lee
Denver
Beckley
Busy Bee Cafe
Consoling thought on war with Japan in wartime press
A fragment offers a consoling view that a war with Japan would be intense and decisive, implying editors believed decisive action could end the conflict. The remark suggests wartime optimism about clear outcomes despite the grim context.
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Japan
When Nerves Are Unstrung Gude’s Pepto Mangan Ad
A vintage advertisement promotes Gude's Pepto Mangan as a cure for nerves and fatigue. It claims improved blood quality, increased red cells, better sleep and appetite, and enhanced strength. The ad notes the product comes in bath and tablet forms and bears the name on the package.
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Gude
Bad Habits Haunt Rechristened Raider Moewe Sinking Lightship Planet
The former German raider Moewe now Green Brier rammed and sank the Planet lightship near Mersey bar after steering gear failure. Six crew survived as Green Brier returned for repairs. The vessel, once Punga, terrorized Atlantic routes under Capt. von Dohna-Scholodien, operated by Elders and Fyffe from Newcastle after the armistice.
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Moewe
Mersey
Teneriffe
Count Nicholas von Dohna
Scholodien
Grumblers Day: Domestic Complaint Courts Rise
A Manchester Guardian correspondent notes a couple once started half yearly complaint sessions. On a chosen day the husband and wife critique each other’s faults from the previous six months. Accusations are argued, misunderstandings cleared, and minor grievances prevented from becoming serious.
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Manchester Guardian
Beckley to Get Modern Common Battery Telephone System
Beckley plans a new underground and aerial system by Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co of West Virginia. Expenditures over 72000 dollars will replace magneto phones with common battery equipment, install 2400 feet of conduit and seven manholes, 4660 feet underground cable and 5600 feet aerial cable, remove 3800 feet of aerial wire, and set up a nine-section switchboard for 540 common battery lines and 30 long distance lines. Completion expected in eight to nine months.
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Beckley
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
West Virginia
Fayette Street
Prince Street
Main Street
Kanawha
Heber Street
Main
Neville Street
Raleigh County Bank
Court House
Music Aids Local Anesthesia In Surgery Says Doctor
Dr. Robert E. Farr of Minneapolis says phonograph music aids major operations using local anesthesia. He corrected a Milwaukee convention report noting music is not a substitute for anesthesia, but helps calm the patient while remaining conscious during surgery.
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Robert E. Farr
Minneapolis
Farr
Milwaukee
Swedish explorers report world’s largest Icelandic crater Svea
Two Swedish scientists crossed Vatnajokull on sledges and three horses in nine days to reach Kolar Fjord. They found a vast volcanic crater eight kilometers long and five wide with hot springs, naming it the Svea crater. It is considered the largest crater in Iceland and possibly the world.
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Iceland
Kolar
Lornar
Svea
Ghosts Deserted Him Doctor Lands in Jail in Chicago
Dr O W F Snyder claims to traffic in spirits rather than medicine and was arrested in Chicago on a mail fraud charge after George Arnold of Charleston, Th, paid $50 to have evil spirits driven from his wife. Arnold says the plan failed and Snyder kept the money. The doctor, with thirty years in practice, told reporters his ghosts abandoned him.
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O. W. F. Snyder
Chicago
Snyder
George Arnold
Charleston
Arnold
Romance lies in a Tristan da Cunha parcel carried by Quest
Mail for Lonely Island reports a sailor on the Shackleton Rowett Quest intends to forward a love parcel to a young woman on Tristan da Cunha in the south Atlantic. He seeks a photograph to be sent. other parcels note “The Oldest Inhabitant” and “The Principal Lady,” signaling a local moral ruler and a possible delicate conference.
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Shackelton-Rowett
Tristan da Cunha
South Atlantic
Salaries Cut By Raleigh County Officials
The Raleigh County Court in ses sion this week has cut salaries of most county clerks and employees. Stenographers face a $25 per month reduction and others on a lesser scale. Nearly all have been reduced. Court orders for this session will be published next week.
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Raleigh
Card of Thanks for William Edward Cooper family note
Out of a profound sense of gratitude we wish to extend thanks to our friends and neighbors for their kind help and sympathetic attentions showered upon us during the trial and suffering caused by the death of our son William Edward Cooper and family.
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Wiliam Edward
E. F. Cooper
Famil
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