Mint boom and bust rules South Bend mint crop
Mint oil once worth 80 dollars a pound collapsed to about 3 dollars with growers facing costs around 2.50. Two years of volatile prices fed by long term contracts, plant shortages and quality issues. Michigan and Indiana account for 85 percent of acreage while demand grows for uses in dentifrices confections gum and drugs.
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South Bend
Michigan
Indiana
Oregon
Washington
California
Mrs Mollie Kaplan Obscure Elderly Scholar in Brooklyn Class
Elderly scholar Mrs Mollie Kaplan sixty year old grandmother of thirteen is shown at her desk in Public Evening School No 150 Brooklyn New York in a descriptive caption from the era.
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Mollie Kaplan
Public Evening
Brooklyn
N. Y
Army increases rations provide fresh foods for soldiers
Washington reports a 44 percent rise in ration costs under President Coolidge enabling fresh fish fowl vegetables fruit and milk rather than canned varieties. Maj. Gen. Cheatham says funds from post exchanges will not be needed to augment subsistence and can be used to improve enlisted comfort.
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Washington
Army
Cheatham Bald
Navy
Marine Corps
Early keys reveal partial rotation in metal locks
The fragment discusses how metal keys, unlike wooden lock keys, produced only a partial revolution. It suggests that these early metal keys foreshadow spring rock mechanisms and imply a milder, incomplete turning compared to full-circle operation in wooden-lock systems.
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Hercutaneum
Dipping into Science The Coconut Crab
A large coconut crab lives among the roots of coconut trees near the supply and yields up to a quart of gill from its coconut diet. The piece notes the crab’s size and habitat in a brief science tableau published in 1927 by the Western Newspaper Union.
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Western Newspaper Union
Unscrupulous Man Seeks Work in Baltimore Ad
George Boppe of Pimlico described himself as thoroughly unscrupulous with no references and said he received 25 job offers within hours after an advertisement. He, a former East Orange, New Jersey resident and college man who had held many trades, explained he sought work that did not require references.
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Baltimore
George Boppe
Pimlico
East Orange
N. J
Boppe
Keeping Your End Up
A 1927 Western Newspaper Union piece recalls a school readers lesson about everyone keeping up their end of the load. The essay laments citizens shifting responsibility to others in schooling church politics and law enforcement, urging personal duty.
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Western Newspaper Union
Origins of Language Families Spread Across Regions
Experts propose that all languages originated from dialects of a single common tongue. Its home is conjectured to lie between the Baltic and Caspian seas. Migrations spread the language, with admixtures forming distinct languages and dialects over time.
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Baltic
Caspian
No Spats Possible in Manila Matrimonial Oddities
A sardonic look at marriages in the Philippines where language barriers keep couples silent. Wives and husbands speak different tongues, yet two couples illustrate how quiet unions avoid quarrels and miscommunication while raising multilingual children.
Ancient scroll reveals schoolboy sums at British Museum
An ancient leather scroll in the British Museum once thought a scribe’s reckoner is now identified by S R Glanville as a sheet of schoolboy arithmetic from 4000 years ago. The image shows addition sums with a wrong digit, debunking the traditional view.
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London
British Museum
S. R. Glanville
The Great American Bird and the Everyday Hen
A quotation extols the barn yard hen as practical and prolific, claiming she lays 729 eggs per second in mass production. The piece labels the hen Biddy as the best and cites the Savannah News as the source.
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Biddy
Savannah News
Sizing Up Scio as Washington
Anthropologist Dr. Arthur MacDonald plans to measure U S congress members to gauge the nation’s physical and mental status. He aims to compare legislators from 80 nations and later classify state legislatures for international comparisons. The study seeks to link congress physical data to national health and potential legislative ability insights.
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Washington
National House
Senate
Congress
Arthur MacDonald
MacDonald
Alo
State Department
Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound touted by mother and daughter
Mrs. Frank Sellers of Vinton Iowa shares how Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped her recover from childhood illness and enable her to raise six children. The advertisement notes generations of mothers and daughters using the remedy and endorses its benefits for women for over fifty years.
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Vinton
Iowa
Lydia H. Pinkham
Vega
Lama
Frank Sellers
7Th Avenue
Lydia EB
Pinkham
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W. Bauer
Holdridge, Neb
Naval Academy
Philippines
Far East
Japan
Air E. Express
A. Burrows
J. B. Taylor
Denver
Aileen Pringle
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -Star
Scio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bellans
Garfield
E. W. Grove
Bradkwell-on-Sea
Essex
England
Doan
foster-Milburn Co
M g.Chem
Buffalo
fThrey Piso
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