Congress to expand Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress moves to increase the Interstate Commerce Commission from seven to nine members and split it into three divisions to handle valuation work and other duties. Senator Newlands introduces the bill after lengthy urging, citing the vast docket growth from informal, special, and formal proceedings and the need to defend valuation principles in court.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Newlands
Nevada
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Roper
E. E. Clark
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Religious beliefs of Guiana Indians reveal funeral cannibalism practices
A Bureau of American Ethnology report by Dr. Walter E. Roth details Guiana Indian rites including consuming parts of the deceased for spiritual power and immortality, bone distribution for witchcraft, and belief systems lacking a sole supreme being while exploring myths, heroes, creation, spirits, omens, and origins.
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Bureau of American Ethnology
Walter E. Roth
British Guiana
Guiana
Demands an East St Louis official find a husband
John Hallahan assistant superintendent of the Illinois Free Employment Bureau in East St Louis has received a letter from a California woman asking him to find her a husband. She says she is lonely an orphan a good cook and hopes to receive a Christmas present of a husband. She mentions being Christian careful and willing to consider a Southern gentleman or a Democrat if proper references are provided.
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London
The
Daily News
Francis Joseph
Brussiloff
Gorlice
Tarnow
Lemberg
Brest-Litovsk
Lutsk
Hungary
Carpathians
Vienna
Petrograd
Americanizing the immigrant a new federal effort
The Interior Department's Bureau of Education expands immigrant education into an organized program. It promotes English and civic classes, distributes the American First poster in multiple languages, and coordinates with chambers of commerce, local schools, and state agencies to head off illiteracy and boost citizenship training.
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Bureau of Education
Interior Department
Frederic Ernest Farrington
Department of the Interior
Washington
Immigration Commission
America
Uncle Sam
Chambers of Commerce
United States Chamber of Commerce
National Safety Council
Bureau of Immigration
New York State
Redfield
Department of Commerce
Delaware
Wilmington
Melrose Park
Bureau
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Tamanacs
Caribs
South America
Turner
Lusitania
Washington Star
Louisville Courier-Journal
Czar
Italy
Pathfinder
PAC
Atlantic
the Pathfinder
San Diego
New York
California
Sacramento
Salt Lake City
Denver
Colorado
Kerney
Nebraska
Walter A. Weidely
Weidely
Cicero Auto Company
Southwest Texas Distributors
Main Avenue
San Antonio
Hertzberg’s
Houston and
St. Mary's Sts
Buick Automobile Company
San Antonio, Texas
Pennsylvania State Department of Education
Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry
United State Bureau of Immigration
Pennsylvania Cosioner of Labor and Industry
Division of Immigration
Pennsylvania Bureau of Employment
Fundam
Travis
Central Tire CO
New York City
Our
Information Bureau
Albert
Coreniy
R. B. Hurst
Southern
Mas
Subway Express
Newton Snr
Sect ‘Way
95Th St
River Breezes
E. H. Man
Ning, Mer
Marie Antoinette
Manhattan Square Hotel
Uth
Museum of Natural History
Central Park
ST. Andrew Fostny
Hotel Chelsea
Hotel Flanders
West 47Th St
Hermitage Hotel
Square
Broadway
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