Kansas State Manager Keeps Institutions Within Appropriations
James A. Kimball, business manager of the Kansas Board of Administration, reports that despite prices doubling for state supplies, Kansas institutions stayed within the 1917 appropriations during the fiscal year ending. He oversees buying for 26 sites, noting no deficits and a small potential additional need around $200,000 for 1919.
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James A. Kimball
Kansas Board of Administration
Kimball
Capper
Kansas
Four-Room House Uses Concealed Beds to Save Space
William A. Radford explains a new four room plan that uses concealed beds to convert living or dining rooms into sleeping areas. The design allows six people to sleep in a 21 by 26 foot footprint, reducing construction costs while maintaining comfort.
New Explosive Material Demonstration in Capetown
Reports describe a demonstration of beohab tree fiber used as a substitute for cotton in explosive manufacture. Cordite-filled cartridges were fired at Maitland police camp Capetown, with the blast lessons claimed as similar to shell explosions.
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Capetown
South Africa
Maitland
Bank cashier arrested under Espionage Act in Sylvia case
F E Lang a 44 year old cashier of the Citizens State Bank of Sylvia was arrested on an Espionage Act charge and arraigned before United States commissioner O Q Glaflin Jr with a preliminary hearing set for August 5. At a state superintendent convention in Manhattan the plan to combine city and county sessions was approved and Topeka was chosen for the next annual meeting.
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James Rhodes
United States
Lee Bond
Leavenworth
Charles Robinson
Bond
F. E. Lang
Citizens State Bank of
Sylvia
O. Q. Glaflin, Jr
Manhattan
Topeka
What Flowers Mean to Mankind
Herbert Hubbard reflects on ancient prophecy about blooming deserts and a greener world, noting rising interest in gardening today. He argues gardening shapes better people and communities, linking horticulture to moral improvement and social progress.
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Assyria
Herbert Hubbard
Corpse Ship in Bagdad Delivers Bodies to Cemetery
A European visitor describes a Bagdad barge named the corpse ship piled high with native corpses. The decks hold straw-rolled bodies as Arab attendants play a domino like game. Some bodies are new, others old, depending on funds saved for transport to a cemetery near the prophet’s bones.
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Bagdad
Contribution of Barbarism and Civilization Vision
Quote from Augustus Thomas of the Vigilantes arguing that true civilization lies in resisting barbarism and its carnivorous, trophy inspired excesses. He condemns the sausage as a paradoxical emblem of barbarous appetite masked by garlands. The passage critiques zeal for conquest and dehumanization in pursuit of national progress.
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Augustus Thomas
Vigilantes
Husband Saves Wife Promoted by Herbal Remedy Ad
A Pittsburgh reader credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing backache headaches and weakness after husband bought three bottles. The letter urges other women with displacements inflammation irregularities or nervous symptoms to try the remedy and seek advice from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
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Pittsburgh
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jas. Rohrberg
Knapp St
Rohrberg
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Mass
Easy to Misjudge Children and Their Hidden Gifts
The piece argues many who seem stupid fail to reflect true potential. Defects or unsuitable schooling hide gifted traits such as artistic or philosophical insight. Parents and teachers often mislabel dreamers and poets as failures, missing the divine spark in children.
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Maximilian PL EL Groszemanny
Intended Effect. Critle Cas the Composer
A critic notes Critle Cas the Composer presents his latest work with praise and questions its chilling interpretive impact. Alt Vin agrees the piece achieves the intended effect as the wanderer encounters a hotel bill amid London pit bits.
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Critle Cas
Wanderer
London
No man is a coward who has been married more than once
A witty adage asserts that bravery in men grows with experience, noting that those who have married multiple times are unlikely to fear consequences. The quip uses humor to reflect on marriage and courage.
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State Council of Defense
C. W. McCampbell
Department of Animal Industry
J. BR. Fitch
Dairying Department
State Agricultural College
William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
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