Returned soldiers and others seek farming via railway bureau
The omeseekers bureau of the United States railroad administration reports that in early 1919 about 14 000 people sought help to obtain farms. Among applicants are many war veterans and women, with town dwellers seeking rural life, farmers moving West, and some Canadians returning. Many want fruit growing, dairying, poultry, or general farming.
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Ashington
Omeseekers
United States Railroad Administration
Bureau
Canada
United States
Millions for Bonds but Not One Cent on Ice Cream
Washington residents resist a luxury tax, preferring quick painless payments. The revenue office shows people support bonds and tariffs but balk at daily luxury levies, accepting lump sums like income tax only with time to recover. The piece argues a luxury tax is fair but unpopular in practice.
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Washington
Revenue Office
Congress
Edith Cavell post leads American Legion effort for women
The American Legion forms Edith Cavell post for yeomanettes at Brooklyn Navy Yard with first charter granted to Brooklyn sailors. Washington follows with a Forty Rose post, others filing for Martha Washington Molly Pitcher Barbara Feletchle posts as women receive Legion membership. The era honors how American women faced submarine dangers and served in France, earning decorations.
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American Legion
Edith Cavell
Brooklyn Navy
St. Louis American Legion
Legion
James F. Goerlek
Brooklyn Station
Union
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Washington, D. C
Bexty Rose
Martha Washington
Molly Pitcher
Manhattan
Barbara Feletchle
War and
Navy Departments
France
Europe
Motion Picture as a Universal Trade Tool Across Lands
A piece argues that film is the real universal language, understood worldwide without study. It cites American exporters using movies to sell shoes to Asians and soup to natives who view water as a beverage, noting film aids hinterland tropics trade where natives fear new ideas.
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Tropics
Who Shall Build These Good Roads
The nation demands good roads and the question now is who will construct them. Chambers of commerce favor a federal highway commission, but state highway departments oppose it and Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson Houston resists removing supervision from the states. He says local conditions vary, roads should be classified locally, and the Bankhead act already coordinates 48 highway departments, meeting road needs effectively.
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Chambers of Commerce
Federal Highway Commission
Congress
Townsend
Houston
Department of Agriculture
Spirit directs finding of body in Milwaukee home
Milwaukee man F A Marth claimed a spiritualist wife, guided by a murdered doctor's spirit, led them to dig in a Walnut street basement. They found a rotted chest with quicklime and bone fragments, and police began a crime inquiry into the dismemberment and burial.
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Milwaukee
F. A. Marth
Marth
Walnut Street
Spiritualist Church of
Murth
Ilegal
Chicks Are Siamese Twins From One Egg In Ohio
Washington Courthouse reports two distinct chicks hatched from a single egg at Brownell Packing plant in a notable incubator occurrence. Both chicks stand and walk with one joined by an inch long cartilage under the wings. One chick is brunette and the other blond, sharing similar features and joint constraint.
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Washington
Ohio
Pont Trydom
Brownell Packing
Dows
Trust Me Try Dodson's Liver Tone Ad
An old advertisement promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe alternative to calomel. It claims calomel is dangerous mercury that harms bones and causes sickness, urging readers to use the vegetable tonic for relief from billousness constipation and sluggishness with a promise of a full refund if not better.
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Dodson
Calomel
Suitable After All at a Card Club
A young Frenchman, having improved his English in France, joins a U.S. card club as a substitute. He attempts a courteous speech but trails off seeking the correct word, accidentally saying I come not as a regular but as a cavalier. The moment highlights language quirks abroad.
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France
United States
Whale Fat Is Eaten Across Nations In 1919 Report
The Hist annual report of the United States commissioner of fisheries notes 2014 Denmark used 20,000 burrols of hardened whale fat for mut garlo industry and Norway plans similar use. It cites fat as good for lard and suggests experiments in the United States to determine human dietary suitability.
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Hist
United States
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic praised as blood purifier
An early 20th century tonic advertisement extols Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic for purifying and enriching blood, claiming to boost energy and vitality. It markets Quincke iron and quinine in syrup, appealing to both adults and children and touting decades of popularity and trust.
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GROVE
Nic
Frenchman on Princeton Staff Appointed Assistant Professor
Lieutenant Louis Cons, once a French government delegat e to the family of the former German emperor, is named assistant professor of French at Princeton University. He served in the French army intelligence unit after the war began and has taught at Bryn Mawr College.
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Princeton
Louis Cons
Princeton University
Cons
Bryn Mawr College
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