Colorado Oil Shales to Save the World Day
Dr. David T. Day of the U S Bureau of Mines told 200 delegates at the Colorado chapter American Mining Association meeting that Colorado’s oil shale beds hold vast wealth and could supply gasoline and byproducts for the world. He urged prudent development and noted three men who spurred shale industry, calling for a memorial shaft to honor them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Colorado
David T. Day
Division Petroleum Research
United States Bureau of Mines
American Mining Association
House of Representatives
State House
Dr. Daye
James Doyle
Verner Z. Reed
Fisher
Gelorado
West
Muir Building
J. B. Meyers
J. R. Sherman
Letters From Soldier Boys From Camp Dix 1918
A wartime letter discusses July events and daily life for soldiers at Camp Dix New York 1918. It notes Fourth of July celebrations meals and tents, mosquitos and fruit drops, and mentions comrades Keegan Prokup and Skinnem who died from wounds. It ends with hopes of homecoming and news of a relative’s health.
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Sam
Kaskaskia
Keegan
Dix
N. Y
Skinnem
Caspari
Dodge
Frank
Krat Lodge
Christmas in the trenches and drill with the corporal
A personal wartime letter recalls Christmas at home and dinner with friends, then describes drill practice and urging soldiers to focus. The writer, Connie Parker, speaks of blood in his eyes for a fallen comrade killed by the Huns and prays for revenge. He offers sympathy to Mrs. O Berta for her son’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O’berta
Connie Paker
Land Monopolist’s Motto and Theft of Common Land
A fragment from a 19th century discourse condemns private land ownership as a sin against God and humanity. It contrasts theft of resources with the moral crime of selling birthright, invoking biblical references and a Coulson attribution to warn against land monopoly and commodification of people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Wesley
Jesus Christ
Lloyd eGorge
Moses
Adam
Satan
Isa
Coulson
Show Work of Labor Bureau
The United States Employment Service will explain its full war labor role to LaSalle manufacturers and workers on July 30. Nicholas Van der Pyl of Oberlin will address the Illinois Valley Manufacturers' Club at 6 30 P M and outline centralized recruitment of unskilled labor for war production. He has toured industrial centers promoting cooperation and clarifying the national labor program. F L Montgomery of 538 First Street, LaSalle, leads the local bureau and has earned many friends through his efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Employment Service
Department of Labor
Wilson
War Labor Policies Board
LaSalle
Nicholas van der Pyl
Oberlin
Ohio
Illinois Valley Manufacturers’ Club
van der Pyl
Information and Education Service
Federal
Empinent Service
Wildork
S . Employment Service
Boston
F. L. Montgomery
First Street
Montgomery
Oldest Love Letter Found by Pennsylvanian Archaeologist
Dr. Stephen Langdon of the University of Pennsylvania unearthed what is claimed as the oldest love letter written on clay. The inscription, from Babylonian times, asks for barley meal and bean flour while noting affection for sisters Kaka and Mirsha. Langdon also revived what may be the oldest map, dated to about 1500 B C, showing a Babylonian suburban district linked by canals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Herbert Langdon
Museum of Art and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Abraham
Kaka
Mirsha
Shamashepiri
Langdon
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Princess Tarakanova Death Reattributed by Art Piece
The London Sphere illustration casts new light on the fate of Princess Tarakanova once linked to Peter and Paul Fortress. It suggests she died of tuberculosis two years before the 1777 flood, altering the fortress’s tragic narrative long blamed on Catherine the Great.
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SS. Peter and Paul
Petrograd
Russia
Prince Kropotkin
Madame Breshkovsky
London Sphere
Flavitsky
Tarakanova
Catherine the Great
In Praise of Music
A call to support music in public schools and choirs. The essay extols music’s value, urges fundraising and participation, and praises a traveler who noted quiet fields but music in birdsong. It champions home musical atmosphere to enrich American life.
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America
Essenkay
Hint to Mothers About Shared Interests and Growth
A Pittsburgh Dispatch note urges mothers to share their child's interests. A teacher notices a boy collecting caterpillars and engages with him, teaching and learning in return. The mutual curiosity transforms the boy from inattentive to engaged, suggesting many benefits from shared passions.
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Loke
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Practice Handwriting Becomes Business Urgency
A business leader surveyed his female clerks handwriting and found only six with truly legible writing. He lamented that readers will not take time to read a business letter unless it is clearly written.
New Food Regulations Extend 70 Percent Flour Rule
The Food Administration issues orders to bakers and officials nationwide. The 70 percent flour governing most bakery products remains in force and extended to September. Rye may substitute up to one fifth of the substitute requirements for victory bread, with other rules largely unchanged.
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J. C
Death claims inventor of "Big Ben" clocks
Mr. George Kern, inventor of the "Big Ben" clocks and key figure at the Western Clock plant, died at 4 o'clock Saturday morning at People's Hospital in Peru after an operation for appendicitis performed Thursday evening. His work aided the plant's growth and the city's prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Kern
Great Western
Peru
People’s Hospital
Franklin Grove Father Kills Son In Truck Backing Incident
A Franklin Grove man backing his car out of the garage unintentionally ran over and killed his five year old son Herbert four hours after the family learned of the birth of a baby girl to Mr and Mrs Samuel Smith who reside a mile west of the town. The tragedy followed an earlier joyful event as the household awaited medical aid for the expectant mother.
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Franklin Grove
Samuel Smith
Herbert
Man Grows Younger by Three Years in 1917 18
Leon Fosdick a Whitefield Corners farmer was arraigned as a slacker after failing to register. He claimed to be 18 to draft officials yet 21 for a marriage license, claiming birth January 17 1900, prompting an exemption board inquiry.
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Elisafion
Leon Fosdick
Whitefield Corners
Fosdick
Princeton
Jefferson
Indiana
Youthful Groom Avoids Consent By Proving Draft Age
A young man married without his mother's consent, but after proving he was under draft age Fosdick was released. He returned to the farm at Whitefield Corners where he works for his widowed mother.
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Fosdick
Whitefield Corners
Woman killed by mower blades near Prophetstown
Mrs. Pentland living south of Prophetstown died last Friday after alighting to clean oats clogged knives on a binder as horses started. Charles Obel of near Ohio suffered near-severed left foot when his mower’s guard caught and the team bolted. doctors treated him at Spring Valley hospital with hope to save the foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Obel
Dewey
Ohio
Mr. Obel
Obel
Spring Valley Hospital
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Kitchen
OF Labor Bureau
U. S. Food Administration
G. N. Heinemann
Washington
the Food Administration
Illinois
Tracy C. Drake
Blackstone Hotel
Chicago
U. 8 Food Administration
E. R. Dickinson
Prophetstown
Globe Land Company
Louis de Filippi
Spring Valley, Ill
Liberty
Women’s Department of
Our Air
Bureau County Fair
M. E. Cadwalader
Chas. L. Trimble
A. H. Ferris
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