Bureau Seeks Seven Branches for Veterans Work
Washington figures show over 514 million dollars in wartime veterans costs including 64.6 million for war risk term insurance 81.7 million for government life insurance 161 million for retroactive allowances and 31.5 million for administration salaries and expenses. Colonel Forbes deducts 5.7 million to be paid from government life insurance claims as a self supporting branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Aviich
Forbes
Waterway Link Between Rhine and Danube Could Alter Europe
Article discusses a proposed deep water route across Europe linking the Rhine and Danube via Mainz Bamberg Kelheim Offeningen and Mannheim Neckar. It argues completion would position the Rhine Danube corridor among the world's great commercial waterways, comparable to Panama Suez and Mississippi Amazon channels.
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Shington
Mississippi
Miss
Danube
Rhine
National Geographic Society
Black Sea
Europe
Germany
Turkey
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Sayt Slarty
Mainz
Bamberg
Itz
Ludwig Canal
Muhl
Canat Keiheim
Frankfort
Main
Ratisbon
Regensburg
Main Brankfort
Kelheim
Uibe
Wurzburg
Nuremberg
Mannheim
Neckar
Offingen
Panama
Amazon
Missouri
Montana
Gulf of Mexico
Surprised House Cat Hatches Out Chickens
In North Baltimore Ohio Mrs. Fred Loomis reports her house cat hatched two baby chicks found in the cat’s nest. She believes a hen used the nest and the cat incubated. Neighbors praise the unlikely maternal feline.
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Baltimore
Fred Loomis
Perrysburg
Matrimony Ad Fills Rome Theater Box Spotlight
In Rome a theater ad by tenor Umberto Rota stirred a crowd of women who arrived to see a debut. The ad asked for a marriage partner, dowry unnecessary, and led fans to the Adriano theater where the empty boxes drew attention to Rota in his first performance.
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Rome
Sig
Umberto Rota
Adriano Theater
First Bible Printed in the United States Two Centuries Ago
The Newberry library holds the first American Bible and the English act that funded it. Eliot led the Massachusetts Indians translation print run in 1663 in Cambridge after a Parliament funded project in England and Wales to spread gospel among New England Indians. The Cambridge Bible bore a formal title page noting England's corporation for the gospel among Indians. The effort followed Eliot’s earlier Bay Psalm Book work in nearby Massachusetts.
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Chicago
United States
England
Wales
George B. Unley
Newberry Library
Massachusetts
John Eliot
New England
England and
Red Brother
Elot
Hemisphere
Cambridge
Mass
Eliot
Mines Bureau Reports January Coal Death Rates Decline
The Bureau of Mines notes 146 deaths this month versus 197 a year ago. With an estimated 43 955 000 tons mined, the death rate fell to 83.82 per million tons, down from 4.13 in January 1921. Fatalities declined in West Virginia and other states, with increases in Alabama and Ohio.
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Bureau of Mines
West Virginia
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Wyoming
Indiana
Alabama
Ohio
Golden Eagle Captured Near Anderson In Vague Report
A seven foot wing span golden eagle was captured by Winfrey P. Blackburn near Van Buren between Glensboro and Lawrenceburg. The bird, a rare specimen, was not injured and attracted attention at Blackburn's home where it was exhibited.
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Anderson
Waterborne farm poultry disinfectant recipe from USDA notes
United States Department of Agriculture outlines converting kerosene emulsion into a disinfectant for poultry houses. Mix one half pound hard tinny soap with one half gallon soft water, heat until dissolved, then stir in two gallons kerosene. To use as a lice killer dilute one quart emulsion in ten quarts water. For disinfection add crude carbolic acid or cresol. a 50 percent cresol solution in ten quarts water, or a 65 percent carbolic acid solution, provides effective disinfection when sprayed over houses or ground.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Essentials of Incubators by the U S Department of Agriculture
The guide describes optimal incubator setups in homes and dedicated houses. It covers room temperature stability and ventilation, insulation for above ground houses, and the advantage of double walls for mammoth machines. It notes above ground rooms, clean cement floors, and muslin window screens to avoid drafts and sun exposure.
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United States Departments of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Experience Forges Mastery of Modern Incubators
Modern incubators bring great benefits but demand operator understanding. True ease comes from thorough knowledge of principles and repeated use, building a farmarity through experience.
Shining-up Days 36 And Kitchen Coupons Feature
A fragment shows a domestic scene with Mrs Simpkins and a new boarder, a sculptor who jokes about carving fowl. The page also mentions pickpockets in New York using pins, plus brief quips on symbreals and borrowing trouble.
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Martin & Martin
Chicago
Prove all things and hold fast to that which is good
A short exhortation urges discernment and steadfastness in choosing virtue. The statement emphasizes testing beliefs and clinging to what is beneficial and sound.
Red Cross Ball Blue Laundry Aid Ad
Glance at an advertisement touting Red Cross Ball Blue to keep linens gleaming white and promising dependable results available at all good grocers.
Heartbeat on the Edge in Odd Speech Snippet
A fragment shows a speaker noting the heart seems to miss a beat and an aside about an engine being tumbling. the line hints at a quirky, unsettled moment with playful wordplay.
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Veterans
Bureau
Blilionto
Mposite
Re‘hief
States
Ols
U.S
Uncle Sam
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
W. N. Berg
United States Bureau
Washington
Cresol
Spade
Dorge Pele
Walt
Wrigley’s
Wrigley
United
New York
Shaw Desmond
Mr. Desmond
Bayer
Ascirin
Mare of
Beyer
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