Industrial unrest and wartime price controls blamed on unions
A long opinion piece argues wartime government interference under Woodrow Wilson and McAdoo harmed U S industry. It claims unions pressure managers, demand high wages and control hiring, crippling railroads coal mines and factories. The piece cites Akron tires and railways to illustrate perceived mismanagement. It warns of factory closures and rising charity needs amid falling prices and credit.
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Woodrow Wilson
McAdoo
Wilson
Akron
Ohio
Walkine
Lincoln
Harding
Congress
Community Charity Association
No title found in source text
No discernible news event or structured information present in the fragment. The passage expresses partisan rhetoric on taxation and wartime wages, invoking Woodrow Wilson and rhetoric about making the rich pay. No verifiable individuals, dates, or places suitable for a credible card.
Terre Haute Star And The Union One Year Subscription Price
A compact notice indicates a one year subscription option priced at three dollars and fifty cents. The item lists Terre Haute Star and The Union as titles included in the offer.
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Terre Haute
UNION
Wonders of America How the Brooklyn Bridge Shaped a City
This 1883 overview details the Brooklyn Bridge built from 1870 to 1883 at a cost of 15 million dollars. It spans the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, with a 272 foot tower, 135 feet clearance, five passageways, and four main cables of galvanized steel wires supporting a 15,000 ton load.
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East River
Long Island Sound
New York Bay
Manhattan Island
New York City
Brooklyn
Long Island
Manhattan
The Man with the Cut Off Leg Amos Chapman Medal of Honor
Amos Chapman served with Gen. Nelson Miles in the 1874 campaign against southern plains tribes. Surrounded by a large war party, Chapman ran through heavy fire to rescue Private Smith, losing a leg above the ankle. He and his comrades held the line until rescue and earned Miles' dispatch praise and a Medal of Honor.
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Amos Chapman
Nelson A. Miles
Billy Dixon
Hasta
Miles
McClelland Creek
Texas
Chapman
Smith
Dixon
Amos
The Government Billions Explain How Your Money Flows
The text argues the immense cost of World War I and ongoing government expenses, quantifying per person contributions and total outlays. It uses a hypothetical minute by minute spending scenario to illuminate the scale and asks readers to consider where their tax money goes and how it is spent.
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Treasury
Christ
United States
Jerusalem
Where Your Taxes Go Where Your Taxes Go
Edward G. Lowry analyzes the national budget and tax allocations, detailing how federal revenues are spent and the impact on commerce and public services. The article outlines government departments, programs, and mechanisms shaping fiscal policy.
Advertised Letters in Sullivan Postoffice January 11 1922
The Sullivan Indiana post office lists remaining unclaimed letters as of January 11 1922. Persons are urged to call for these letters within two weeks or they will go to the Dead Letter Office.
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Arminta Jones
Deacon Ebbersole
Job
Becky Jones
Becky
Jim Slivers
Doc Mc
New Orleans
Jim Spivins
Sullivan, Ind
Postoffice
Adams
Tressie
Brown
May
Bryant
Bertha
Haris
Grass
Helderman
Gladis
Marlow
Francis
Pierson
Alice
Rapp
Mary Ruth
Sullivan
Virginia Ann
Williams
Verna
Wortman
Helen
Miss Setzer Enjoys Weekend Visits and Basketball Game
Miss Lorene Setzer spent the weekend with friends in Terre Haute and Greencastle. In Greencastle she attended the Wabash DePauw basketball game.
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Lorene Setzer
Terre Haute
Greencastle
Wabash-DePauw
Muskellunge: The Tiger of Fresh Water Big Game
The muskellunge, dubbed the tiger of fresh water, is the nation’s most sought after big game fish. Anglers consider it a milestone to catch one, with its range limited to northern and central regions where numbers rise annually according to Farm Life statistics.
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Angiers
Latin Origin Words in English Language History
The text notes English has many Latin origin words, traces the influence from Anglo-Saxon before 1066, the Norman invasion bringing French, and the subsequent introduction of Latin vocabulary. It highlights the gradual integration of Latin terms into English.
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England
Fragmented excerpt quotes Victor Hugo on mortality
The passage cites Victor Hugo and Walter Pater, noting that everyone faces a death sentence yet enjoys an interval. It contrasts how people spend this interval from listlessness to intense passion, and praises art and song as wisdom among worldly youth.
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Victor Hugo
Walter Pater
Obituary of Oscar Corbin of Sullivan County Indiana
Oscar Corbin son of Harve and Candace Tague Corbin born March 30 1883 Sullivan County Indiana died January 7 1922 aged 88 years 9 months 7 days. He married Daisy Brown October 22 1904 and joined the Church of Christ at Sullivan April 19 1915. Surviving are his wife his mother one brother William Corbin one sister Mrs Davie Griffith of Terre Haute and many relatives. Funeral by Rev Mathes of Farmersburg at Poplar cemetery with many mourners.
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Oscar Corbin
Harve
Candace Tague Corbin
Sullivan County
Indiana
Daisy Brown
Church of Christ
Sullivan
William Corbin
Davie Griffith
Terre Haute
Mathes
Farmersburg
Yeats recalls church sign from boyhood in Dublin
In a Dial reminiscence W B Yeats describes his family moving from Dublin to Bedford Turkey. He notes not being a devout churchgoer but recalls a church porch sign about kneeling during prayers and kneelers hung on pegs afterward.
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Wiliam Butler Yeats
Dublin
Bedford
Turkey
Yeats
Heroic Poem Reflected In War and Life
A reflective note cites Carlyle on heroic poetry, contrasting a traditional life of a man with a poem shaped by war and memory. It emphasizes how verse preserves awe and moral struggle beyond ordinary biography.
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Carlyle
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Wonders OF America
T.T. Maxey
Western Newspaper Union
Brooklyn Bridge
By Elmo Great Scouts
Western Nespaper Union
Bloomington Star
Sam
Edward G. Lowry
Washington
Schloot-Gordon Furniture Co
South Side Square
Shelburn
James W. McHugh
Hymera
Walker McHugh
McHugh & Son
Poplar Cemetery
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