Russian Dancers Thrill Cincinnati Exposition Crowd
Shadarskaya Ballet, brought from the New York Hippodrome by John Robinson, opens August 25 at the Fall Festival and Industrial Exposition in Cincinnati for 15 days. The troupe features nymphs fauns and fairies with dramatic Dance of Death history attached to Lara Shadurshaya who survived a Red Officer and aided other nobility.
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Shadarskaya Ballet
John Robinson
Ity
New York Hippodrome
Lara Shadurshaya
Big Agriculture Show At Cincinnati Great Fall Exposition
The Cincinnati Fall Festival opens August 25 for 15 days featuring a massive three city equate five acre agriculture exhibit. Highlights include a model village powered by a newspaper plant electric light plant miniature railway and farming machinery displays from large western to small Moderate farm gear. The event also showcases progress from primitive days to modern farming, plus home goods like motor driven churns for farmers wives. The festival spans more than 20 acres with a $50,000 Electrical Spectacle and hundreds of exhibits. John Robinson leads the entertainment program with 15 bands providing concerts on the grounds.
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Cincinnati
John Robinson
Is the International Harvester a Trust
Attorney General Daugherty seeks a court decree in St Paul to dissolve the International Harvester Company into at least three independent firms. The petition claims the 1918 Sherman decree failed to restore competition and urges breaking the company into McCormick, Deering, and steel coal subsidiaries to curb alleged continued restraint of trade.
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National Harvester Company
Daugherty
United States District Court
St. Paul
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
International Harvester Company
Osborne, Champion
Milwaukee
McCor
Mick Harvester
Deering
Harvester Company
United States
Senator Brookhart urges recognition of Soviet Russia in Washington
Senator Smith W. Brookhart returns from a Europe trip to press Secretary Hughes to recognize the Soviet government of Russia and revive trade relations as a first step. He opposes entanglement in the League of Nations and calls for an extra session, targeting middlemen he blames for high prices. He cites 7 million farmers and 9 million workers against 1 million middlemen.
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Smith W. Brookhart
Iowa
Europe
Washington
Hughes
Russia
United States
America
League of Nations
World Court
Brookhart
Johnson’s Wife Hesitates Over Washington Move
Minnesota’s Magnus Johnson, newly elected senator, may have to live in Washington next winter. His wife Maria Johnson, a farmer and former school board clerk, says she has no plans to move with their six children and prefers family life on the Meeker county farm.
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Magnus Johnson
Minnesota
Washington
Meeker County
St. Paul
Capital
Mrs. Johnson
Magnus
Manuel Quezon Might Return to Washington in Independence Effort
The article discusses Manuel Quezon potentially visiting Washington as a Philippine independence envoy. It notes his past roles as Philippine commissioner and senate president, his clash with Governor General Leonard Wood, and a possible mission with Sergio Osmena aimed at appealing to President Harding. It mentions a legislative resolution seeking a Filipino governor general or immediate independence.
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Washington
Manuel Quezon
Sergio Osmena
Independence Mission
Leonard Wood
Council of State
Quezon
Senate
New Collectivista Party
Osmena
House of Representatives
Harding
Weeks
Wood
Philippines
General Feland Promoted in Devil Dogs Brigade
Gen Logan Feland of Virginia is named assistant to Maj. Gen. John A Lejeune as Marine Corps leadership shifts. Born 1869 in Hopkinsville Kentucky, he graduated from Massachusetts Tech in 1892 and served in Cuba the Philippines Panama and Santo Domingo before commanding the Fifth Marines in France from July 1917 to the armistice. He earned multiple decorations including the Croix de Guerre and Legion of Honor for leadership and combat success at Bois de Belleau Champagne and Soissons.
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Logan Feland
Marine Corps
John A. Lejeune
Hopkinsville
Massachusetts “Tech
Kentucky
Cuba
Philippines
Panama
Santo Domingo
France
Marines
Bois de Belleau
Champagne
Soissons
Spire in Beacon Lights Up Philadelphia Church Tower
The glass spire of Mutchmore Memorial Presbyterian Church on Eighteenth Street and Montgomery Avenue will be lit nightly for two to three hours as a memorial to Elizabeth Funston Bolton. Architect Charles W. Bolton installed 500 watt projectors to illuminate the iron copper and glass tower, creating a beacon visible for miles and promoting Christian love and peace.
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Mutchmore Memorial Presbyterian Church
Eighteenth Street
Montgomery Avenue
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Charles W. Bolton
Matchmore Memorial
Bolton
Elizabeth Funston Bolton
Samuel Alexander Mutchmore
Cohocksink Presbyterian Church
Fanny Smith
Mutchmore
North Philadelphia
Mr. Bolton
Doctor Mutchmore
Doctor Matchmore
Philadelphia
Barber vows to quit over lack of vacation
A Detroit News quote portrays a barber complaining after seven years without a vacation. He critiques the trade’s “hustle for chicken feed” and recalls prices of ten cents for shaves and fifteen cents for haircuts, concluding he plans to quit next week. He suspects return to the shop is uncertain.
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Detroit News
Best He Ever Had
Five years ago I taught school in Montana. On Christmas I received a string of red beads from one of my old pupils. His reply thrilled me: five years is not a long time to remember the best teacher you ever had who taught you a lot and still let you have a good time.
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Montana
A Floating Demonstration Leviathan Displays Electrical Might
A sizable floating exhibit named The Leviathan showcases electrical equipment aboard a vessel. It features around 20,000 lamps for illumination, 700 fans for comfort, an electrical kitchen with six ranges, five ovens, six griddles, seven hot plates and two broilers, plus a duplex radio telephone system with a telephone in every stateroom.
Five Cent Hair Cut Ambition Boasts From Suburban Youth
A suburban boy boasted to his cousin that he earned money for a haircut with horse clippers by picking potato bags for his father. He paid a neighborhood horse trader five cents for the work, according to the Detroit News.
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Detroit News
Black Alkali and the San Luis Valley Fertility Crisis
Investigations show near total fertility loss on 40 000 to 50 000 acres in Colorado's San Luis valley blamed on black alkali mainly sodium carbonate in valley waters. Subirrigation brings it to the surface. remedy involves converting carbonates to sulfates with gypsum and washing via surface irrigation to flush the alkali away.
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San Luis Valley
Colorado
Aspirin and Bayer Branding Cited in Advertised Claim
An old advertisement urges buyers to look for Bayer on aspirin packaging to ensure genuine product. It touts aspirin for cold, headache, toothache, and other pains, noting tablet counts and low price.
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Bayer
Oh That Funny Feeling Hikes End With Five Girls
A Sunday school class of five eight year old girls and their teacher set out on a short hike. The walk extended from a quarter mile to one and a half miles with a lunch stop en route. All ate their share, and the return journey was completed safely though one girl remarked she felt unwell.
Doctor and Child Exchange A Grim Tongue-Tied Exchange
A doctor urges the child to stick out the tongue and go further, but the child protests the task is impossible as the tongue is fastened at the other end. The dialogue conveys a stark, surreal medical scene.
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