The Doctrine of Necessity in a Prairie Love Knot
Marion defies her sister’s pressure choosing to leave for independence with Jim Dale. They face hardship and a few missteps as their bond strengthens while a stray dog guardian and a minister’s offer shape a fragile new life amid a troubled moral landscape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Joe Scott
Mrs. Green
Jim Dale
Bert Green
Bert
Uty
Green
Herby
Jim
Crank
Dales
GUILDS ABUSED THEIR POWER
Explanations trace the guild origin to a Middle Ages voluntary association for mutual aid. Two classes emerge the guild merchant with retail monopoly and the craft guild regulating trade for workers. Monopolistic aims dulled trade and spurred decay led to journeymen guilds and later capitalist employer companies in London becoming livery companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kraft
Journeymen’s Guilds
London
Arch Bishop Canterbury Receives Old Family Mail From Abroad
An American correspondent claims his great grandfather Brown married a Watson in the Church of England and asks the archbishop to look up the trace. A second US letter addressed to the Arch bishop of Canterbury, London, bears the note Not known at Canterbury Music hall.
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England
Jones
Smith
United States
Canterbury
Name of Brown
Watson
America
Canterbury Music Hall
Foot-Piano A Pedal Keyboard For Hands Free Music
A new instrument called the foot-piano sits near the floor with pedals replacing keys and a compact three inch depth. It measures under three feet tall and two feet wide with nine treble and nine bass notes that can be set to nine keys.
Louvre Accuses U S Dealers of Art Frauds
Paris charges say American dealers hoodwinked Louvre officials into buying fraudulent masterpieces. About 180000 francs paid for works worth around 200 francs each. Purchases included The Wise Men and the Annunciation of the Shepherds from Twelfth century pieces and sculptures, per the French Art Protection office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louvre
Paris
France
Spur Foud
America
Hume Becomes Most Decorated U S Army Officer
Major Edgar Erskine Hume U S A Medical Corps holds 28 war medals after receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from Secretary Weeks. His honors reflect bravery under fire and risk of deadly diseases. He served on the Italian front in World War I and later in Siberia organizing sanitary service and fighting typhus. The War department notes 80 percent of Siberia’s doctors were killed by the fever. Nations awarding honors include United States Siberia Russia Montenegro Greece Poland Romania Panama Italy Czechoslovakia Great Britain and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weeks
Edgar Erskine Hume
U. S. A. Medical Corps
United States
Hume
Siberia
American Sanitary Service
War Department
Major Hume
Russia
Montenegro
Greece
Poland
Romania
Panama
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Great Britain
France
Italian Women Win Right to Vote and Hold Office
Premier Mussolini shifted stance on universal suffrage as Italy grants women voting and office rights with restrictions. The International Woman Suffrage alliance held a Rome convention with delegates from many nations and Carrie Chapman Catt led sessions before declining re election.
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Mussolini
Italy
International Woman Suffrage’ Alliance
Rome
Carrie Chapman Catt
United States
Alliance
Great Organization
Prohibition Advocate Bishop Nicholson Heads to Britain
Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chicago and Mrs Nicholson travel to Great Britain to describe how United States prohibition works. He will report impartially on eighteenth amendment enforcement and Volstead Act effects, armed with facts from his rise in the Anti Saloon League since 1921. He was born in Woodburn Ontario in 1862 and educated at Northwestern University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Nicholson
Chicago
Methodist Episcopal Church
Great Britain
Nicholson
United States
Board of Bishops
America
Woodburn
Ontario
Northwestern University
Evanston
Ill
The
Anti-Saloon League
Manville Alleges Black Art Case Tainting Oil Investment
Charle B. Manville of New York, a wealthy nanogenarian asbestos maker, lost a $21,000 suit to Dr. Alonzo B. Austin. He asserts a counterclaim for $20,000, claiming Austin lured him into worthless oil stock with the aid of a spiritualist medium labeled black art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charle B. Manville
New York
Alonzo B. Austin
Dr. Austin
Manville
Buelah Thompson
Austin
Tiffany
Silvering Glass by Mirror and Silvering Formulas
The Scientific American presents a two part method for silvering glass. A reducing solution uses Rochelle salts and nitrate of silver. a silvering solution combines nitrate of silver ammonia and alcohol. Mix equal parts of both parts, apply on cleaned glass, and allow two to three days for settling before use.
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Scientific American
Rochelle
Cherry blossoms as Japan’s symbol of happiness
Nature Magazine notes Sakura as a national symbol of joy in spring. It highlights Japan’s artistic view of blossoms, the festival atmosphere, and centuries of scientific care culminating in Tokyo gifting 3,000 trees to Washington in 1912 as a friendship gesture.
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Japan
Norman C. Mcloud
Nature Magazine
Washington
Tokyo
The Shrine of Greek Genius in Varied Light
Henry Nelson Coleridge extols Greek genius as universal yet personal, flexible and enduring, recounting its breadth from Homer to Demosthenes. He praises its mind touching speech across languages and its vivid, picturelike expression akin to gossamer films of summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aeschylus
Thucydides
Plato
Demosthenes
Henry Nelson Coleridge
Real home worker notes the value of small comforts in homekeeping
A writer on home economics praises the woman who elevates indoor living through practical touches. She highlights convenient tables, cheerful lighting, soft shaded candles and well placed mirrors to brighten corners and reflect personal style, enhancing livable comfort and homelike atmosphere.
The Kind He Wanted Pen Keepsakes in the South
Diogenes Gates, a colored newspaper worker in the South, admired the editor’s pen. While buying stationery he asks for such a “trenchant” pen, and the dealer obliges with a pen like the boss uses.
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Diogenes Gates
South
Diogenes
de Boss
Magistrate's Advice to Thefts Convict Sparks Joke
A western magistrate after sentencing a thief offers wise counsel. The prisoner replies that keeping straight is hard when trying to make both ends meet, prompting a wry exchange about balancing finances and ethics.
Judge Finds Solace Beyond City Limits
An aging judge leaves petty town politics to live near nature on the town’s edge. He clashes with younger legal lights who condemn his eccentricity. He retorts that he is just as close to the sun, moon and stars as they are, highlighting his independence.
Tax Without an Income Punchline in Courtroom Joke
A quip from Everybody's Magazine features Mandy challenging a judge about income tax legality on a husband with no income. Mandy jokes that forcing him to pay tax would force him to work to earn an income to be taxed. The banter highlights comic social critique of tax obligations.
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Mandy
Everybody’s Magazine
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Martha Williams
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Foot
Piano
United States Copper Company
Hanover
N. M
Cherry Blossom
Wrigley
Lioydiess
Ept
Menominee
Michigan
Lathrop’s
Haarlem
Holland
Tars
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