Reinstatement of Miss Mary McDowell as a New York teacher
Mary S. Mc Dowell, a Quakeress who was dismissed in 1918 for conduct unbecoming a teacher over antiwar views, is reinstated as a Latin instructor in a Brooklyn manual training high school. Education officials acknowledge the punishment was too severe and public sentiment has shifted toward her stance and charitable war work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary S. McDowell
Red Cross
Brooklyn
Miss McDowell
Apparatus at Central Department Tested by Townsfolk
Citizens at Broad street and Hast avenue found a damaged fire warning box. The note urged breaking glass to grab a key and use a phone, but no glass or key existed and no fire was present. Observers question if the fire department apparatus is kept in order and worthy of respect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broad Street
Hast Avenue
Fire and Police Department
Westerville letter tests stand with Harding on Prohibition
A Westerville message urged Republican leaders Charles Filles and George K Morris to back President Harding and state enforcement of the Volstead Act. Morris refuses to be dictated by the Anti Saloon League while Hilles submits his reply, suggesting splits in party lines and possible Democratic support to balance. The piece ends with assorted musings on progress and skepticism.
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Westerville
Charles D. Filles
George K. Morris
Republican State Committee
New York
Harding
Morris
Anti-Saloon League
Hilles
Yesterdays in Ohio and Todays Anniversaries
A compilation of notable births and deaths arranged by year with references to figures such as John Paul Jones Benito Juarez and Michael Davitt. The list notes anniversaries and historical events including Fort Wagner and the Fenian movement. A regional note remarks on local politics and civic concerns in Ohio.
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John Paul Jones
Pans
Scotland
William White
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
M C. D Borden
Fall River
Mass
Oceanic
N. J
Fort Wagner
S.C
Michael Davitt
John Wilson
Benito Juraz
Mexico
Stefan Stambuloff
Sofia
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Accident insurance note from a quirky home scene
A garbled reminiscence describes taking advantage of accident insurance by picking cherries while on a rocking chair and a lively Ike Lark home scene with Imogéns aged fifteen painting and going after a sack.
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Uday
Imogéns
Komical Telegrams and town booster dreams in verse
A humorous town booster exchange imagines a future with a general store banked by the boys and a train stopping for arrivals. It riffs on saloons and cider, a Rice cheese factory on the old Willis Overland site, and locals like Stankard as constable and Bob Rogers as village blacksmith.
Bert E Haney Takes Seat on U S Shipping Board in Oregon
Bert E Haney of Portland has just taken office as a member of the United States shipping board after a lengthy confirmation process. Born in Lafayette and 44, he rose from farming and teaching to law school at the University of Oregon and served as United States Attorney under Wilson. The vessel case tied to him ended in his favor, with owners renaming the ship the Bert E Haney in his honor.
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Bert E. Haney
Portland
Ore
United States Shipping Board
George E. Chamberlain
Haney
Chamberlain
Oregon
Democrat
University of Oregon At
United States
Wilson
London and Paris to Van? in Next War Says Editor
W L Warden, managing editor of the Continental edition of the London Daily Mail, arrives in the United States and urges France’s need for reparations. He warns of a near future war with rapid air and gas attacks, predicting London and Paris would be wiped out in a night and civilians would suffer greatly.
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Londox
Paris
Fara
France
United States
W. L. Warden
London Daily Mail
Great Britain
The
Mall
Frac
Ruhr
Germany
Spain
London
Birthday for an elderly city resident and local events
Ellen Mathews, aged 93, celebrated her birthday. Gentry’s Pony and Animal Show attracted a large crowd. George L. Weller earned a patent for a wood fibre cutting machine. A disastrous collision occurred near Cot t esbrook injuring twenty-one and killing E. L. Garvin of Oberlin. The city council approved a Massey avenue bridge project and opening the street to West avenue. Dr. H. Nelson Jackson crossed Elyria en route east. Old Court Street frames were torn down for the Turner block.
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Massey Avenue
West Avenue
Worthington Company FURNISHED GOLF BALLS AT Milwaukee Tournament
Des Moines reports female detectives posing as flappers trapped 115 automobile mashers in a single day, illustrating a crackdown on theft and related offenses.
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Worthington Company
Milwaukee
Des Moines
Wordsworth Quests For Inner Heaven On Hearthbound Walk
A Wordsworth fragment dwells on a traveler choosing inner beauty over external scenes. The speaker longs for a sustained inner heaven where thought and love accompany the journey, even as senses waver and the outward world fades in the distance.
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F. Sured
Matter
A.C. Rudhuty
Menage
Migria Postoffice
Audit Bureau of Oriculation
Bureau of Advertising
American News- Super Publishers Association
A. E. Clayden
Fifth Ave
Chicago
Jobs W. Hunter
Phoyes
Patie
Alaska
Smafis
Ohio
Maryland Court of Appeals
Prince Victor Napoleon
Richard Derby
Ethel Roosevelt
New York City
Albert O Brown
New Hampshire
Northwood
Samuel W. Stratton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Litchfield
Atlantic and St. Lawrence
Monttreal
Michael J. Gallaagher
Detroit
Lord Athelstan
Sir Hugh Graham
Montreal
Virginia Intercollegiate
Richmond
Old Dominion
Obregon
Benito Juarez
Supreme Convention
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Saratoga Springs National Editorial Association
Rand MecNally
Leonora F Ross
Illinois
Abe Martin
Fitae
Komical
Jim Armitage
Stankard
Cleveland
Willis-Overland
Bob” Rogers
Oberlin
Elyria
Boosters
Bert E Haney
Belle Hurst Bes
Southern’ California Baseball Mas
Ontagers’ Association
Harry H. Smith Company
Ellen Mathews
Gentry
BIG Pony and Animal Show
George L. Weller
Cottesbrook
E. L. Garvin
H. Nelson Jackson
Pacific Coast
Court Street
Turner
Treines Virion Moat
William Wordsworth
John Murbach
Elxria
Times & Commercial Wien
Erihne Enti
R & V Motor CO
East Moline
Hines
the Melody Music Shoppe Co
FAY CO
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