Dollar Year Trouble Colorful Plot at Washington
Defense chiefs quietly move to curb One Dollar men amid graft concerns. McKellar proposes bans and probes while officials reshuffle to advisory roles and non commercial posts. Include notable figures Hop kins Kimball Wickenden Pott Stratton and Whitney as Latin America graft warnings. Taft brothers feud over defense policy post lease lend debate. Merry go round notes Steelman hours and odd budget items.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
One Dollar
Defense Organization
Office of Production Management
OPM
Ernest M. Hopkins
Dartmouth College
Dexter S. Kimball
Cornell University Engineering School
William E. Wickenden
Case School of Applied Science
W. S. A. Pott
Elmira College
S. 8. Stratton
Harvard
Senator Barkley
Mr. Smith
South America
John Hay
Jock
Whitney
Rockefeller
National Defense Commission
Senate
Latin America
U. S
State Department
Norman Armour
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Armour
Great Britain
California
United States
Taft
William Howard Taft
Bob
Charley
Roosevelt
America
Hunters and beasts in royal Indian hunts depicted
A wartime photo montage shows a tiger and cheetah hunts on the Maharajah of Gwalior estate in India. Dogs, elephants, and trained big cats assist hunters as British Viceroy Lord Reading attends the event, with stalkers guiding deer for sport and entertainment.
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Gwalior
India
Lord Reading
Notes of a New Yorker reminisce on press scoops and era figures
The column recalls UP culture and 1917 war declaration shock, nods to rhetoric about Hitler and predeath obituaries, and quotes anecdotes about Wilson aide Tumulty, Father Divine, Goering, Broadway actors, and Japanese visitors at Curtiss-Wright. It blends media lore with satirical portraits of public figures and a Broadway persona.
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United Press
Bob Bender
White House
Joe Tumulty
Wilson
Tumulty
Bender
New York
Father Divine
Patterns Sewing Circle waist cinching back sash for slim fit
The pattern offers a comfortable home style dress with a back sash belt to draw in the waist. A high-cut skirt slim to hips and waist and a gathered bodice create a rounded bosom line. Pattern No. 8876 fits sizes 12 to 40 with yardage details and a sew chart.
Prunes Soaked Stew and Household Hygiene Tips
Practical household hints for cooking and upkeep include stewing prunes in their soaking water, leaving a gas oven door open briefly to prevent rust, spacing dining place settings from 24 to 30 inches per person, sugar-dusting scissors to cut marshmallows, and coating a catsup bottle cover with paraffin to avoid discoloration.
Quiz Questions and Answers Snippet
A fragmented item lists trivia questions and partial answers. It includes questions about state borders magnet types cardinal winds boundary with Canada odors of war gases currency, diamond sizes, and a quote attributed to Ulysses S. Grant. The text also provides brief answers such as Twenty and 58-facet stones.
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United States
Canada
Ulysses S. Grant
Boundary dispute with Canada finally settled in 1925
The text notes the U S Canada border was not fully determined until 1925, about 142 years after the treaty with England. It mentions winds from all compass directions and compares chemical scents: mustard gas to garlic, lewisite to geraniums, and phosgene.
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Maine
United States
Canada
England
Could Dickens Foresee War's Calamity In 1854
The note cites Charles Dickens writing on December 30 1854 warning that war is a dreadful calamity caused by one man against all mankind and urging that peace and justice figures not be darkened by his interposition.
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Dickens
Duty Toward Health Duty to win and keep health urged
A exhortation to use every effort to protect health and sustain well being, framing health as a civic duty alongside honesty. The quote by T F Seward encourages proactive care and personal responsibility for public welfare.
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T. F. Seward
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Merry
John R. Steelman
U. S. Conciliation Service
Animal Kingdom
Roehl
Notes of A
New Yorker
Hitler
Broadway
Cholly Adler
Goering
London
Joseph Clark Baldwin
Kenneth Simpson
Jimmy Dorsey
Hollywood
Curtiss-Wright Aviation
Paterson
N. J
Shere
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Big Cannon
la Bruyere
Pascal
Theale Coon
Doan
Gihern
Dean
Oscar Wilde
Peta
Dick Durrance
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