Country Boys Beat City Men in Health Figures
Washington March 6 The Crowder annual draft report compares city and rural health. Cities show higher rejection rates for physical reasons while the countryside yields lower rejections. The data suggest country boys have better sight and feet, cities better heart and bone health, with the Midwest and Northwest the most healthful regions.
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Washington, D. C
Crowder
Aker
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Seattle
St. Louis
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Middle West
Northwest
Windbar Makes First Voyage for Admiral Line
The steel freighter Windbar formerly a flagship in Northern cannery traffic sailed on her first voyage as an Admiral line vessel. She carries miscellaneous freight to Oriental ports.
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Windbar
Admiral Line
Oriental Porta
Bagmen Shot by Bolsheviks Stirs War Era Controversy
Special to The Star reports in Warsaw on March 6 that Russian bagmen who moved goods from peasants to cities faced brutal tactics from Bolsheviks. Old networks dwindled as licenses restricted trade to workers' committees and penalties rose for hoarding grain.
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N. B.A
Warsaw
Russia
Kerensky
Army
Police
Courta
Holoheviks
Undertaker Faker to Blame She Says
Mrs Jessie Lynton says a man posing as a funeral collector duped her into paying $200 for the funerals of Mrs Gypney Hayward Severence and Mrs Carrie Shropshire. She is jailed awaiting a hearing and disputes the receipt she gave to the impostor.
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Angeles
Jessie Lynton
Lynch
Lynton
Gypney Hayward Severence
Carrie Shropshire
Funeral burglar active again in San Francisco
The so-called funeral burglar dressed as a mourner and entered the San Francisco home of Mrs. Anna Kohler during her mother's funeral. He used a passkey to steal a phonograph a gold brooch and a pair of earrings while a neighbor mistook him for a mourner.
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San Francisco
San Francis
Anna Kohler
Pitt Cabinet Met In Bedroom During Gout Bedrest
Historical note recalls William Pitt the Younger holding cabinet meetings in his bedroom while confined by gout. He lay bedfast with bedclothes piled atop him yet the room often lacked a fire, creating a striking image of governance in constrained circumstances.
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Pitt
Figured Curtain Madras for Bedroom Use
Soft-hanging, easily laundered fabrics in rose blue and yellow on self-patterned cream grounds add charm and brightness to bedrooms. Harmonize with cretonnes and furnishings, an inexpensive color touch. Thirty-six inches wide priced 65¢, 75¢ and 85¢ per yard. Third Floor.
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HESE
Daintily cool and sanitary vegetable fiber rugs
Daintily cool sanitary fiber rugs for sleeping chambers offered in plain-ground effects with tinted colors and water proof stenciled borders. Sizes range from 4 6x7 6 to 9x12 ft with prices from 7.00 to 20.00. Third Floor.
Pendleton Sioux and Cayuse Indian Robes on Display
Pendleton Indian Robes come in scarlet green purple gray brown and white from Pendleton Oregon priced 13.50. Sioux robes offer intense color and warm felt bind at 10.50. Cayuse robes are intricate and bright priced at 8.75. First Floor.
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Pendleton
Oregon
New Cretonnes on Display in Upholstery Section
In soft tones, cretonnes suited for library and dining room furnishings are showcased on the Third Floor in the Upholstery Section. Thousands of yards have been opened in the past ten days and are offered at 65 cents to 2.75 dollars per yard.
Vulcan Cabinet Gas Range Featured by Basement Store
The Vulcan range is described as a finely finished work of art with white enamel door panels and a smooth black body. It has four burners and a simmerer with efficient adjusting valves, suitable for baking, broiling, or roasting.
Three Tasteful Patterns 32 piece Dinner Service
Low priced at 6 75, this semi porcelain 32 piece dinner set offers three patterns. Features include a French bridal rose pattern copied from an old Limoges design, pink rose and green foliage, and a two gold band motif all as open stock. The service includes six dinner plates six 4 inch plates six sauce dishes six cups and saucers one vegetable dish and one platter.
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Limoges
Foreign Money in Russ Industry Bigger Than Home Capital
A study of prewar and wartime finance shows thousands of foreign dollars flowing into Russia from France Britain Belgium and Germany with France contributing about 2.5 billion dollars up to 1912 and England about 873 million. Foreign capital funded large factories and sparked a boom with 774 new companies from 1911 to 1913 alone.
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Russia
Sweden
Norway
France
Stockholm
Ures
England
M. Ischchanian
Germany
Belgium
Poesia
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