Berkeley Police System Seen as Nearly Perfect
Berkeley California police boast a highly integrated force with 32 officers serving 60 000 residents across nine square miles. Every officer carries an ambulance first aid kit and car is equipped with signal lights. Crime mapping highlights offenses by time and area while beggars and alms solicitors are barred.
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Berseios
Caul. Ve
Police Department
Berkeley
Cal
University of California
California
Dhar
Crop and animal values show sharp drop from 1919 totals
The Bureau of Crop Estimates reports total farm crop values at 19 856 000 000, down from 1919 by about 0 105 000 000. The decline hits crops like cotton, wheat, and tobacco, while oranges and sugar beets rise. Dairy gains offset cattle and swine declines. overall farm product value remains pressured by crop prices.
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Washington
Bureau of Crop Estimates
United States Department of Agriculture
Fay
Historic Priestley homestead eyed as borough landmark
Northumberland Pennsylvania reports the Priestley homestead the residence of Dr Joseph W Priestley discoverer of oxygen may remain as a borough landmark. State College bought the property two years ago and planned to move it to campus as a memorial but aging structure and feasibility doubts delay removal.
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Northumberland
Joseph W. Priestley
State College
Doctor Pond
Doctor Priestley
DIES PLOR HAS 10000 TOMB FOR PENNILESS LEADERSHIP
Samuel Collins age seventy five died penniless in an Newark hospital from pneumonia. His body will be placed in a $10000 mausoleum at Stroudsburg Pennsylvania he built for him and family years ago. Frederick Kerr an art dealer says Collins was a leading dealer and broker once engaged by J P Morgan to cater works of art. Kerr notes Collins handled art transactions near 500000 during his career. A bank book showing 87 cents was found in a furnished room where Collins lived and he lay unclaimed at the morgue for days.
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Newark
N. J
Samuel Collins
Stroudsburg
Binmers
Ugo
Frederick Kerr
Mr. Colling
Po Morgan
Alan Collis
Keer
Collins
Severit Thrys
London contest lights 103 candies burned fingers
A correspondent reports a Wal Sall Staffordshire confection contest where a woman lit 103 candies using a wooden safety marshal. She burned her fingers but no other contestant lit more than half her amount.
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London
Walsall
Mareh
City May Run Own Shoeshine Stands
Seattle officials consider municipally operated shoeshine stands to address unemployment and have recommended the city take over all stands as a public work program.
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Seattle, Wash
Seattle
Tehuantepec Tehuanas Noted For Clean Habits And Grace
A description of a Pela mother and child from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. It notes the Tehuanas as exceptionally clean, washing daily in pools and rivers, and describes the woman wearing the huipil dress with notable grace and bearing.
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Tehuantepec
Mexico
Silk Shirts and Silk Ties Ban at Sing Sing
Warden Lewis at Sing Sing orders convicts to abandon silk shirts neckties silk socks and linen collars. Uniforms will be plain sturdy prison garb to curb earnings from illicit money and keep yard orderly amid Jazz age fashion influences.
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New York Prison
New York
Lewis BE. Laves
Sing Sing
Woman Keeps New Year Vigil for Sailor Missing Forty Years
London report notes a wife who waited each New Year since May 1880 for her husband, who sailed from Charditt two months after marriage and promised to return for dinner on New Year’s Day. She continues the ritual, setting an empty place at the table.
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London
Charditt
Grand Jury In Session Names Local Members
The grand jury is in session to investigate law violations including recent mine riot cases. Members listed include Mesha Reynolds Gill Twp Fred Hall Fairbanks Jesse P Wilson Hamilton Robert R Robertson Jefferson Claud Behrenhardt Jackson and A E Weir Curry.
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Mesha Reynolds
Gill Twp
Fred Hall
Fairbanks
Jesse P. Wilson
Hamilton
Robert R. Robertson
Jefferson
Claud Behrenhardt
Jackson
A. E. Weir
Curry
Dean Chaney Appointed to Shipping Board Post
Dean Chaney of this city, son of Mrs. Minnie Chaney, has been appointed to a position on the Shipping Board. He will likely be stationed at a coastal location.
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Dean Chaney
Minnie Chaney
Shipping Board
Post Office Seeks Exam Date for Sullivan and Jasonville
The Post Office Department asked the Civil Service Bureau to certify a date for an examination for the appointment of postmasters at Sullivan and Jasonville.
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Post Office Department
Civil Service Bureau
Sullivan and
Jasonville
Sangster Family Buys Filbeck Hotel in Terre Haute
William H. Sangster and son George W. Sangster acquire the Filbeck hotel in Terre Haute from the Meisel estate. Fred Sangster joins in the hotel venture as the family expands from Columbus to four Chicago hotels. The Sangsters previously operated the McCammon house until shortly after the Davis hotel opened.
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Sullivan
Terre Haute
William H. Sangster
George W. Sangster
McCammon
Filbeck
Ernest E. Meisel
Filbeck Estate
Fred Sangster
Hote
Sangsters
Columbus
Chicago
Majestic
Wilson-Clifton
Union
Madison du Norde
Davis
Funeral Games for Patroclus in Iliad Celebrated by Achilles
Description of the funeral games held by Achilles for Patroclus on the sea shore near Troy divine. The scene is among Homer’s celebrated passages outlining athletic contests and honored fallen comrades.
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Achilles
Patroclus
Troy
Weather of a Week Farmersburg Oct 9 report
Miss Glenn Yeager, cooperative weather observer for the county, reports a week ending Oct 9 with mostly clear and partly cloudy days. Temperatures ranged from 34 to 75 degrees, and rainfall totaled .53 inches on Oct 3 and 7.
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Farmersburg
Glenn Yeager
Co-Operative
Geod Writers of Cpinion
Ransdolph Borne comments on opinion writing praising instinctive discussion tone and atmosphere, arguing the best pieces mirror informal debate. He suggests writers engage with an imagined audience to sustain realism and immediacy in prose.
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Cpinion
Ransdolph Borne
Possible to Train Crows and Their Clever Tricks
The article describes crows as clever, easily tamed birds whose main habit is foraging for food. It notes their attraction to glittering objects and their ability to learn to transfer items. Pliny records a crow saluting Emperor Tiberius in the Forum.
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Pliny the Elder
Tiberius
Rame
Annual Rainfall Recalculation Reveals Global Depth
Scientists report a revised estimate of total rainfall across the globe. The land area receives about 291 inches of water, with 30 percent returning to the ocean and the remainder removed by evaporation.
Torrens Registration System Overview
The Torrens system of title registration, devised by Sir Robert Torrens, provides official examination and registration of real estate titles. It has been adopted in Australia, England, New Zealand, British Columbia and parts of Canada, with modified forms used in several U.S. states, Iowa, and the Philippines.
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Torrens
Sir Robert Torrens
Australia
England
New Zealand
British Columbia
Canada
Commissioner sale of Lot No 2 in Owens Addition Sullivan IN
Walter F Wood as Sullivan Circuit Court commissioner will sell Lot No 2 in Owens Addition Sullivan County at public sale October 29 1921 at 2 00 PM in his law office Sullivan Indiana. Terms cash and sale must bring at least two thirds of appraised value. Dated October 12 1921.
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Sullivan Circuit Court
Jane H. Kaulley
Bessie M. Mayfield
Walter F. Wood
Sullivan
Indiana
Sullivan County
Owen
Hall's Catarrh Medicine advertised cure claim
An advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine will cure catarrh or deafness caused by catarrh. It states the liquid is taken internally and acts through the blood on mucous surfaces to reduce inflammation. Druggists carry it.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Esquire Etymology Traced From Medieval Shieldbearer
The text traces the word esquire to ancient roots linked to shieldbearers in feudal times and notes the shift in meaning as feudal days passed, preserving notes on allied roles among correspondences and heraldic relations.
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Gatchies
Blond Types Vanish Across Generations in Tropics
An ethnological expert predicts that blondes will disappear in the United States and Australia as they migrate to tropical regions. Over three generations, blonde traits fade, yielding darker populations in the new climates and eras.
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United States
Australia
For Sale Barred Rock Cockerels and Boxes
Mrs Emery Drake of Carlisle Indiana offers Barred Rock cockerels for sale. Also available are all kinds of boxes suitable for fruit and vegetable storage or shipping. Cadwell Music House near street car station advertises Victor records Edison Recreations and Player Piano rolls for sale.
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Emery Drake
Carlisle
Ind
Cadwell Music House
Victor
Edison
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Billman
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Maxwell-Brown Shoe
Riggs Clay Product Company
Shelburn
J. BF. Scherb “Scherb & Insurance & BR City Property
Lyric Theatre
S. F. Holder
Woodman Hall
C. F. Walter’s
South Side
Russell A. Boles
Eagle Hosiery Company
Darby
Imoneath Thomson
N. Court St
Rock Road
Paxton
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