War Comes To New York As Finnish Money Dispute Unfolds
The piece describes a financial war reaching New York over a $14.5 million Finnish deposit, with competing Red and White Finnish factions claiming rights. It explains the bank’s inability to disburse funds amid conflicting government claims and predicts legal battles ahead as the ultimate conflict shifts from the battlefield to courtrooms.
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America
New York City
Cape Cod
Gulf of Mexico
Bank of Finland
New York
Themoney
New York Bank
Finland
United States
Red
American Food Administration
Reds
A Great Touring Year Forecast by Auto Men
Automobile men predict an unprecedented touring boom in North America this summer and fall. They cite war cutoffs for rich travelers and new accessible routes from New Mexico cliff dwellings to Niagara Falls. Expanded auto organizations promise guidance and repair help even in remote areas.
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North America
New Mexico
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Niagara Falls
Yosemite Valley
Motor touring gains steam as parks lure travelers
Automobile clubs report a surge in route information requests as Americans plan spring migrating trips by car. May through fall openings at Yosemite and other national parks frame a season of westward and coastward travel with fishing, bathing, and scenic routes.
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America
Franklin K. Lane
Interior Department
Soldiers prefer light songs over highbrow verses, says English pianist
A London chalk talk notes soldiers favor simple, upbeat tunes over lofty poetry. An English pianist who played for troops discovers that as her repertoire shifts from highbrow pieces to livelier songs, her audiences grow. Soldiers marching in World War I era prefer jaunty, easily singable numbers to complex literary music.
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London
Misprints in Cotton Goods Versus Newspapers Spark Debate
A discussion notes misprints in textile printing rivaling newspaper errors, warning that wrong prints ruin cloth and cost mills thousands. Experts say textile misprints are detected before sale, unlike newspaper errors, while countering wartime shortages with cautionary editorials and opinions from sources like New York World and Cincinnati Times-Star.
The Reprobate and Miss Spring in Cold Refusal
A playful verse from Callatin Missouri Democrat laments winter’s end as Miss Spring teases a stay. The speaker dismisses the Season’s advances, blaming a heartless reprobate for Autumn’s heartbreak and winter’s chill, vowing to nip such romancing in the bud with plain, humorous menace.
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Spring
Callatin
Margaret's Rise From Slums to Suburban Harmony
Margaret, a factory worker, pursues self improvement through night school and a rise to private secretary to a company president. She charts a plan to marry well and build a dignified life for her widowed mother and sister, ending in a hopeful engagement for her sister while she faces personal doubts about her own future.
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Margaret
Tenth Street
Mamie
Ater
Melloyd
Columbia Dress Supply Co
Vanwen Campshire
Mrs. Meldoyd
Little Minnie
Hye
Harry Payne
Payne
Harry
Clarry
Margaret Fulfills Family Duty in Quiet Resolve
Margaret confronts fatigue and fate, realizing her place as family linchpin. She accepts her role, easing her mother and father’s burden while bringing happiness to young Mannie. The dawn brings a light philosophy: happiness comes from making others happy, and Margaret finds fulfillment in service.
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Margaret
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Mannie
Lie
Coffee Grounds as Flour Substitute Trials at KU
Historical notes describe experiments by Dr. Sayre, dean at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, using pulverized coffee grounds as a flour substitute in bread, cookies, and pastries. Cookies with 25 percent grounds reportedly palatable. analyses show protein near flour levels and crude fat about 13 percent. Sayre cautions results tentative and notes molds precautions. Also includes a courtroom exchange about a breach of promise, with humorous misinterpretation of sincerity.
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Lawrence
Ikas
der. L
Sayre
School of Pharmacy
University of Kansas
Doctor Sayre
Houston
Kansas University
San Antonio
Grande
Ant
Old Webb
Majestic Theater Ends bill by Sam Mann and Willis Weston
Today closes the Majestic Theater bill headlined by Sam Mann and Company in The Question and Willis Weston the inimitable character singing comedian. The act list includes Lovett's Concentration with George Lovett Mme Zenda and Jazz Band, Jim and Betty Morgan, Catherine Powell, Barlowe and Durie, and Pete the circus mule with a superstitious donkey.
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Hemdliners
Maestic
Majestic Theater
Sam Mann and
Willis Weston
Sam, Mann
Wile Weston
George Lovett
Mme
Zenda
Jim
Betty Morgan
Catherine Powell
Barlowe
Durie
Pete
Hill and Ackerman at the Royal Theater bill
The Royal Theater closes the week with Hill and Ackerman in Snowsense and a lineup of entertainments including Burns and Lynn Descriptive Display, Channel Nonrce and Company, Bill Pruitt Montana Cowboy, The Court Room Girls, The Chim with Wdith Storey, Althoff Sisters at the Princess Treater, The Six International Tourists travesty on tramp life, May and Billie Earle comedy skit Love Me Love My Dog, Fisher's Circus, and the feature film Humdrum brown starring Henry B. Walthall.
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Royal Theater
Hill-Ackerman
Burns and
Lynn
Nonrce and Company
Bill Pruitt
Montana
Chim
Wdith Storey
Althoff
Princess
May
Billie Earle
Fisher
New Key Pouch Gains Favor Over Traditional Key Ring
A Brooklyn Morning Herald account notes evolving women’s ease with multiple keys and introduces a soft leather key pouch. The six-key snap straps lie inside, letting the pouch fold flat and fit like a wallet. Separately, Norwegian engineers plan consolidating small waterfalls into a single hydroelectric plant delivering 260000 horsepower.
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Brooklyn
Southern California Echoes and War Time Nonsense
A jagged column of kiosk-style notes and quips reflects wartime mood. Items mock clocks changing time, speculate on Willard Fulton Cuba plans, joke about Liberty Bonds in pockets, praise defense spending, and lampoon sugar conservation. Odds and ends in a satirical, period voice anchor the piece.
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California
Jess Willard
Fred Fulton
Cuba
Father
Los Angeles
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