Prices spike as Boston housewives lead potato boycott
In Boston amplified by a short crop in Aroostook Maine, housewives boycott potatoes as prices rise from 55 cents to 99 cents per peck. Eugene Hultman investigates Massachusetts Necessaries of Life Commission amid embargoes and rail yard blockages. Farmers defend their role while merchants blame surging costs.
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Boston
New England
Eugene C. Hultman
Massachusetts Necessaries of Life Commission
Boston and Maine Railroad
Aroostook
Maine
United States
Couge
Meanest Man Is Hog Thief Reported in Marrysville
A hog thief, dubbed the meanest man, is being hunted after stealing fifteen fat hogs from the county home. The hogs weighed 225 to 300 pounds each, valued at about $600, and were intended to feed inmates.
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Marrysville
Dee
Watchman Damages Rare Tazza Farnese Treasure
Dec 2 Naples reports the Tazza Farnese, a premier Greek period gem of the National Museum, damaged by a reprimanded watchman who struck it with an umbrella. The cup split in two. repairs possible. Specialists from Florence summoned. watchman arrested. The piece, once Vatican, famed for its cameos, is one of the world’s largest single-piece works.
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Naples
National Museum
Florence
Vatican
Industrious Dolly the chicken remembered in Sacramento obituary
Dolly Gray, an incubator raised hen known as Some Chicken, died after a life of laying 3359 eggs from Thanksgiving 1916 onward. She belonged to Miss Etta W. Wilkerson of Auburn California and is buried in a small stone grave with a headstone proclaiming she never uttered a misleading cable.
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Sacramento
Dee
Dolly Gray
Lfe
Dolly
Neer
Etta VW
Wilkerson
Auburn
Cait
Birmingham M E church Events and Local Social Notes
Birmingham Ohio area social column covers church activities led by Rev. C J Hagar on December 7 with Sunday school at 10 15 and service at 11 30. Includes numerous visits from residents to Elyria Vermilion Norwalk and Amherst, basketball game ahead against Huron, bazaar and chicken supper slated December 3, plus Thanksgiving gatherings and family visits.
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Birmingham
M E
C. J. Hagar
Harold Moore
Ruth
Martin Ruth
South Ambers
D. E Pierce
Cleveland
WP. Funk
Glen Senet
Vermil
Saturda
William Davidson
Doana Davidson
Slavia
Mildred
Lucille Snellenberger
Els- Tra
Glenn Senett
Virginia
Pho Avimit
C. W. Larrrence
Elyria
Leon Hopkins
Huron
Flora Brooks
G. R. Kunlnan
Co. Wirth
Kuatherimea Heimsath
Leon Hopkirs
Earl Sweet
Amherst
Ray Lawrence
Wakeman
Nelson Howe
Marion Mae Bates
Norwalk
Glenn Berkmeyer
Chaney Ryan
J. B . Dennison
Len Hopkins
McClure
Runtlett
Wood County
Tompson
Fred Parker
Clarence Perham
G. W W. Snider
Barnecey Snyder
Abs
Bert Sanders
Herold
Bobbie
Jarrey Hill
Henrietta Hall
George Adams
Georgia
Lorain
Ale. Hardin
Lammey
Sandusky
Orin Reid
Earl Sanders
Dorothy Kutl
Ella Mae Reid
Brownhelm
Edith Brucker
T. K. Early
P. C. Robertson
Peter Robert
Radio War Lawnac and Opera Concert Dates Listed
The item lists radio events including RADIO war LAWNAC 2803 at $200 and CHICAGO GLS 3446 concert date July 15 with Baroness Olga Von Roke performing opera songs. Also noted are JEFFERSON CITY 3409 program September 21 and NEW YORK WIZ 4543 pianist Alexander Brachachi at 10:30.
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Chicago
Olga von Roke
Jefferson City
Wos
New York
Alexander Brachachi
Part of Heart NavED for Man honor to Dr Bachmann
Dr George Bachmann physiology professor at Emory University was honored by a heart feature named after him the bundle of Bachmann. He explained the pathway from the sinus node to the left atrium in an article in 1916. Dr Bachmann resides in Atlanta Georgia.
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George Bachmanns
School of Medicine
Emorr _aesersus
Bachmann
Bachman
American Journal of Physiology
Atlanta
Muff Sorn By Town In Days Of Walpole
Vintage fashion note reports that muff wearing returns for winter in London with debates on male muff style. Horace Walpole described sending a small muff to George Montagu in December 1769 noting its modest cost of fourteen shillings.
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Walpole
Tondon
Falmon
Horace Walpole
George Montagu
Man Arrested for Abusing Family in Canton Case
Peter Schultz was arrested after police answered a call to his Canton home. He allegedly drank, drove his family from the house, and cursed at them. A Crabbe act violation and family abuse charge were filed. Officers found a half gallon of corn liquor and an emptied jug at the residence.
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Canton
Peter Schultz
Schultz
Crabbe
Sneezing Relieves Old Steel Drill Injury
Harry Hutchinson of Paradelphia Pa recalls a 12 year old steel drill wound in his nose from a fight. The embedded steel fragment loosened during a violent sneeze while being massaged by a barber, restoring sight and ending prior head pains.
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Harry Hutchinson
Paradelphia
Yiddish Language Traced Its Roots and Evolution
The article traces Yiddish origin to the German phrase jud ich, notes judisca means Jewish, and explains Yiddish as a dialect spoken by many Jews. It estimates about 7 percent Hebrew and 10 percent Slavic elements, with Hebrew characters used in writing, and ties origins to fifteenth century Jewish migration from Germany into Russia.
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Speakix
Germany
Russia
Warm Jail Not So Bay in Winter
In New Lexington on December 2 a man named Jesse Harris from Crookaville turned himself in at the jail after learning officials sought him for unpaid liquor fines. He arrived at the daily and requested to be taken into custody.
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New Lexington
Jesse Harris
Crookaville
Dail
Defiance County farmers lead Ohio poultry production
Twelve Defiance County farmers exceeded the statewide egg production average set by more than 460 demonstration stock owners in September. Mrs. Taylor English of Delaware Township owned a flock averaging 18 eggs per hen, with E. P. Benecke of Adams Township second at 17.5 eggs. Other notes mention dinners, sickness, and visits among local families in the Defiance area.
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Defiance, O
Defiance
Ohio
Defiance County
Taylor
English
Dela Ware
E.P. Benecke
Adams Township
Secon
Motor hearses replace shoulder carried burials in Constantinople
In Constantinople a motor hearse replaces the old custom of a coffin borne on the shoulder by a relative. Prefect Emre Bey initiated the change to ease hardship. The first motor funeral was for Halid Beray, a Turkish bank director who died in an automobile crash.
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Constantinople
Ste Bert
Haldar Ber
What Price Freedom for Turkish Women in Emancipation
Report discusses Turkish women facing costs as new emancipation rules take effect. Regs impose fees on freedoms once exempt, with bachelors hit by higher taxes than married men. Chinese officials fear love marriages and Western dress trends, while a land transfer in La Grange lists Blanche Ilines et al to Pardue Prosser for $2,500.
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Tave
China
Tae
L Blanche
du Prosser
la Grange
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