Dixon discusses democracy tools at chautauqua by Frank Dixon
Frank Dixon, economics authority, argues true self government is threatened by absolutism and oligarchy. He contends social hysteria and panic risk eroding gains won in France, presenting facts and arguments in his lecture The Indispensable Tools of Democracy.
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Frank Dixon
Dixon
France
America
Republic
Thomas Dixon, Jr
A. ©. Dixon
Spurgeon Temple
London
Frank Dixon, Jr
Frank Guisaume
Chicago
Mrs Preffer Returns From Sioux Falls Visit
Mrs Carl Preffer returned Monday from a visit with her mother in Sioux Falls.
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Carl Preffer
Woek
Sioux Falls
Local notices of residents and travel in Delmont and vicinity
E W Wilcox rents the Gano residence and moves in today. Numerous visits and travels are noted across Delmont area including Wittmayer, Miss Katherine, Mrs W B Robinson, Miss Helen, Louise Trutnovsky, Rev Sattler, Mrs Ed Krause, F L Wheeler, and others visiting relatives or attending events. Local incidents include a wreck delaying No 6, Emil Gross recovering from dental surgery, a hospital visit for Miss Kuk, farm relocation talks, sunshine park opening, a heavy rainstorm easing drought, and a small fire at Sunshine Pharmacy caused by a kerosene stove with no major damage.
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Louise Trutnovsky
Springfield
Normal
Henry Schorzman
North Dakota
W.D. Griffiths
Eleanor
Billy
Sioux Falls
Scotland
Emil Gross
Sacred Heart Hospital
Miss Grimes, Daugher
Chas
Grimes
Olivet
Ella Grimes
Wessington Springs
Free Methodist College
Murder Made Easy Matter
Lunchtime talk at the national physical laboratory in Teddington turns to crime with a wave of murder methods. Scientists note typical killings are dull and detectable, while a chemist claims a way to dissolve a body so it could be poured away, becoming the ultimate disposal.
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National Physical Laboratory
Teddington
Great Britain
Made Their Own Oil Well by Barefoot Brothers
Two underage brothers, eleven and twelve, earned about 4500 dollars in a week by salvaging crude oil from a broken pipeline in the Burkburnett oil field. They dammed a ravine with dirt, hauled oil in a donkey wagon, and sold 3000 barrels to the oil owner for salvage at a dollar and a half a barrel. The owner praised their pluck and paid for the oil.
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Oil Weekly
Dallas
Texas
Burkburnett
It Still Coffee Two Youths Entice Acquaintances
Two young men on Chestnut Street invited two well dressed acquaintances to a high class restaurant. After a meal they offered a demi tasse which the girls mistook for a sundae. The scene ended with coffee being requested and both sides showing amusement.
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Chestnut Street
Philadelphia Record
Pearls in Rice Bags Spark Old Beliefs on Reproduction
The English press notes a long standing practice of placing pearls in bags with rice to test their reproduction after years, a belief tied to Boetius de Boot era. The observed rice pecking suggests familiar traits, while speculation that these pearls are vegetable from Malay states challenges Boetius’s era explanations.
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Boetius de Boot
Boetius
No Time to Lose in a World War IIer Themed Piece
Fragmentary OCR item mentions demobilization papers and the line Here’s another five million years attributed to a Wingior or similar name. The text is unclear and several words are garbled, but it suggests wartime context and military demobilization.
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Joye
Wingior Aru
Grave of Four Dynasties seen from the Sirlo a distant Balkan wall of a cemetery
The scene aboard the Sirlo as it sails toward the Adriatic at 20 knots shows the Balkan mountains as a looming cemetery wall for four great empires. An Italian historian notes Austria, Russia, Germany, and Turkey all fell from their dominion after trying to shape the restless lands beyond the Balkan range. Powell in Scribner's Magazine frames the moment as a postmortem on empires long buried.
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Adriatic
Balkan Mountains
Austria
Serbia
Russia
Germany
Turkey
Crescent
House of Osman
Balkans
E. Alexander Powell
Scribner's Magazine
Tricky Coppert Trick in Philadelphia Tests Height
In Philadelphia a police recruit height rule favors men over six feet. Applicants suspected of cheating stand on two metal plates under a slide. When both heels touch, a lamp stays lit. lifting a heel breaks contact and extinguishes the lamp, revealing fraud.
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Philadelphia
Hix
Russia Painters Thriving Under Soviet Council
Russian art enjoys a boom as the government pays 7 000 rubles for every approved painting. A seven member council controls the field with four futurist adherents, promising equal pay for long works or quick daubs. The system has drawn more artists to the scene.
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Russia
Town Sells For 10000 Dollars In Moneta Wyoming
The entire town of Moneta in Wyoming sells for 10000 dollars with buyer John Goodman receiving title from A Kanson founder of Moneta twenty years ago. The parcel includes a forty lot townsite an eighteen room hotel a five room cottage three two room cottages a large livery barn a railroad eating house and several outbuildings. Chicago and Northwestern retains right of way frontage and a small depot building.
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Moneta
Wyo
John Goodman
A. Kanson
Goodman
Chicago and Northwestern
Christian Science Monitor
Largest uncut black opal found in the country
An enormous flawless black opal, proclaimed the largest uncut precious stone, was discovered recently and is now in a Washington government office. It measures about 21 cubic inches and weighs 2 572 982 carats, valued at 250 000 dollars by its owners, eclipsing the famed Viennese opal of 1 658 927 carats which contains flaws.
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Washington
Railroads Return to Private Ownership Satire Reflection
Farmer Corntessel voices relief at railroads returning to private control and notes he can speak freely to the station agent without fearing criticism for relying on government aid while comments reveal social tensions and rural resentment toward public assistance.
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Corntessel
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