Granaries urged to avert grain car shortage on North Side
The North Side grain outlook shows over 54 000 acres and a potential 4 600 000 bushels with railcar shortages. Elevators total 200 000 bushels capacity, threatening storage and shipping. Farmers urged to build granaries costing about 125 dollars per thousand bushels to hold grain and secure loans. Government and local lumber yards offer plans, while a bountiful crop with high prices is anticipated.
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Unite Bian
CAF
Interstate Commerce Commission
North Side
North Site
Roosevelt praising Harding and Republican unity
A collection of quotes from St Louis Times Philadelphia Telegraph and other papers lauding Harding and Coolidge while praising Roosevelt, Lincoln and American democracy. Includes remarks from Brownsville Pa Telegraph and Minneapolis Tribune on labor, nationalism, and the party’s chosen ticket. Mentions Ty Hirvin Johnson and Ty Cobb in a playful anecdote about a Senate visit.
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Harding
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican Party
St. Louis Times
Coolidge
Ohio
Abraham Lincoln
God
Brownsville
Telegraph
Pon
Hirvin Johnson
California
Jim Phe- Jon
Walter Johnson
Ty Cobb
Senate
Phelan
Eddie Halsey
Senate Star
Halsey
Cobb
Johnson
Embarrassing Moment With Marie and Red Sweater Lint
A Chicago Tribune anecdote recounts a man and Marie Hemming sharing a park dance where red sweater lint rubbed onto his coat. In a rush to catch a train, he forgot to brush it off as Mrs Hemming and his father sat nearby. She leaned over and picked lint from his sleeve, creating an awkward moment.
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Marie
Custom of Utagaki First Mentioned in Fifth Century
A fragmented historical account describes the Japanese Utagaki poetry gathering tradition from the fifth century. It explains how gatherings united young women and men to compose verses, judge performances, and select couples, with outcomes ranging from romance to arranged unions, and notes its persistence across centuries despite social constraints.
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Yuryaku
Yaumite
Mount Uutenki
Suliars
Origins of tennis name and ancient roots discussed
A discussion traces possible origins of tennis terms from ancient Greece Romans and French sources. It notes early forms like phennis and tophedium and suggests racquets may derive from the old French word rachette. It mentions Chaucer Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth as observers of the game in England.
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Steels
Tennois
Chaucer
Shakespeare
England
Queen Elizabeth
Flag return plan for Helgoland harkens Hedger’s recall
The suggestion to again raise the British flag over Helgoland calls on Henry Hedger, a Herne Bay verger who hauled down the Union Jack in 1890 when the island passed to Germany. Now in his 60s or 70s, Hedger’s family recalls life on the island when British officials and residents departed as Kaiser Wilhelm visited, the pier festooned with bunting.
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Helgoland
Henry Hedger
Herne Bay
Kent
Eng
Hedger
Island
Prussia
France
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Aden Eagle
Roosevelt
Wilson
San Francisco
Minneapolis ‘Tribune
Ailo
Detroit
Senator Harding
Labor
Lafayette
Ind
Journal Courier
Maurice Tourneur
Robert Louis Stevenson
Paramount Artcraft
Benton Inn
Shirley Mason
Lon Chaney
YS Psg Phet
Japan
Albert E. Smith
Alice Joyce
Drury Lane Theatre
London
the Baugh
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