Reds Inflict Third Degree on Prisoners in Moscow Jails
Dr. Morris Zucker, Brooklyn communist, reports daily torture to force confessions in Moscow’s O V O prison. He says prisoners face revolver pressure to confess or be shot, with mental collapse and frequent executions. Zucker met twenty deported radicals and noted high-profile Bolshevik officials and revolutionaries among inmates.
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Reval
Esthenia
Moscow
Morris Zucker
Brooklyn
Zucker
New York
Jor
Ecommissar
Isoner
Doctor Zucker
America
Bellevue Hospital Leads World in X Ray Department
Bellevue hospital boasts the largest X ray department with twenty two rooms and plans a new cancer treatment room. Prof I Seth Hirsch heads the X ray labs and travels Europe for treatment methods. Germany has produced two new cancer treating X ray machines. The hospital shifted from two rooms fifteen years ago to mass imaging with over 36000 pictures in 1920 after an initial 400 in the first year.
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New York
Bellevue Hospital
I. Seth Hirsch
Bellevue
Europe
Germany
Mothers Education Group Opens Free Infant Clinics
Los Angeles physicians establish a mothers educational center offering free mental and physical examinations for babies. The advisory group assesses each child and recommends appropriate care, but sick babies are not treated on site.
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Los Angeles
Fisherman lands unusual twelve-pound junction river fish
Junction City residents describe Arthur Johnson’s Smoky Hill catch as a twelve-pound “combination fish” with a salmon like body, a sucker mouth under the jaw, and a round twenty inch form. Veterans say they have never seen such a creature in forty years on the Smoky Hill.
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Junction City
Kan
Arthur Johnson
Smoky Hill River
United States Pharmacopoeia Translated for China
The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science announces translating the United States Pharmacopoeia into Chinese to standardize drug formulas in China. The move aims to curb confusion from mixed German British French and American standards and to benefit American manufacturers while recognizing Philadelphia scientists for their role.
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Philadelphia
United States
Pharmacopoeia
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
Germany
China
Great Britain
Pharmaceutical Laboratories
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy Pharmacopoeial Revision Committee
WS. Fullerton Cook
Gull-wardenship by New York Millionaire on Vermont island
Edward Hatch Jr owner of Four Brothers island near Burlington Vermont hires a Harvard graduate as a private gull warden for the nesting season. The ad drew 1600 applicants from diverse professions reflecting Hatchs interest in public health and gulls as harbor sanitation guardians.
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New York
Edward.Hatch, Jr
Burlington
Harvard
Tribune Building
Thomas—A. Edison
Afr. Hatch
Lonely
Hatch
New York Harbor
Four Brothers Island
Time Enough in Detroits Times Quote on Wedding Plan
A Detroit Times fragment notes a man asking permission to propose to his betrothed daughter. He plans to discuss serious matters after the wedding, implying lighter talk before the ceremony and a future discussion of weightier topics.
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Cetang
Detroit Times
Bayer Aspirin Adverts Warn On Genuine Packaging
An advertisement warns buyers to look for Bayer on aspirin packaging or tablets to ensure genuine aspirin prescribed by physicians for twenty one years. It promotes aspirin for colds headache neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and pain. It notes inexpensive twelve tablet tins and larger packages sold by druggists. The copy also explains Bayer is the trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic acid. A second note briefly jokes about a bill of fare misreading stewed uppercuts as stewed apricots.
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Bayer
Noted Quips on Wit and Nobility in a Graying Exchange
A fragmentary dialogue remarks on cleverness and silence over an hour with T. Patents of nobility appear renewed through an American heiress. A man who lives unwisely bears indigestion while one buried in thought avoids funeral costs.
Rotation of Numbers List in Comic Prompt
The text presents a playful exchange about marriage vows and a quip comparing talkative politicians to a party platform. It then shifts to a humorous, escalating sequence naming number places from units to nonillions, suggesting a comedic tour through large figures.
Swiss Allow Unmarried Women to Serve as Clergy
Swiss policy now permits unmarried women to serve as clergy. Couples in marriage must resign from clerical roles if they wed.
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Switzerland
Polite Remarks Stir Quiet Neighborhood Reputation
A fragment recalls social banter about misinterpretation and reputational whispers in a calm neighborhood. The remark equates a teasing insult to a ‘boob’ while poet Lilly notes time’s fleeting wings.
Edith Vivacious Wit Shines When Others Sing
A line from the Boston Transcript praises Edith as vivacious and witty, noting her charm especially when someone else is singing, capturing a snapshot of a lighthearted remark about her personality.
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Edith
Boston Transcript
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