Plenty Coups Profile in New Indian Autobiography
A 1922 portrait of Chief Plenty Coups of the Absaroke who placed the unknown soldier’s bonnet at Arlington. The piece reviews American The Life Story of a Great Indian, Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crows, and reflects on his views of white law and religion, his war deeds, and the buffalo’s disappearance shaping his people.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Arlington Cemetery
United States
Plenty Coups
John Day Company
The
Crows
Frank B. Linderman
Linderman
Montana
Coups
Jehildhood
Mr. Linderman
Tians
General Crook
Rosebud
Watertown Prepares for Bank Robbers With Firepower
Watertown South Carolina readies for thieves from the Northwest by mounting a police machine gun at a central bank row and storing a second at headquarters. Eight local marksmen with rifles organize to aid police and deputies in defending the banks.
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Watertown
S. C
Northwest
Olson
Poles Urged to Bathe Weekly Prompting Mockery in Paris
Paris columnist Clement Vautel mocked a Polish bill requiring weekly baths as a step toward state control. He compared bath enforcement to democracy and warned Poles might long for czarist liberty given the proposed measure and scarce bathhouses in Poland and Paris.
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Paris
Clement Vautel
Paris le Journal
Poland
Tipsy Negro to Sing Tenor in Choir in Paulsboro
Paulsboro officials order a drunken man to join the Second Baptist colored church choir as punishment after a $5 fine. Mayor Wert, acting as police recorder, says the man has a good tenor voice and should sing to stay out of trouble. The defendant agrees to try the church choir.
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Paulsboro
N. J
James A. Wert
Harry Harris
Second Baptist Colored Church
Rooster Hatches Guinea Chicks After Guinea Egg Plan
In Kinston North Carolina Edgar Trotman placed guinea eggs under his barred Plymouth Rock rooster. The bird hatched two broods of chickens last summer and now has six young guineas as offspring. The rooster reportedly resented the plan but proved motherly despite being a hard boiled bird.
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Kinston
N. C
Edgar Trotman
Plymouth Rock
Trotman
Cane Auction at Hornby Castle Fetches Modest Sums
In Leeds England a walking stick once owned by Charles I sold for 6 guineas about 30 dollars. Canes attributed to Lord Byron and the king of the Sandwich Islands each brought 2 75. The sale of the Duke of Leeds Hornby castle contents yielded the modest totals.
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Leeds
England
Charles I
Lord Byron
Sandwich Isles
Hornby Castle
Bee Expert Captures Swarm on Busy London Street
Bee expert Ernest Melrose stepped from a bus on Oxford Street as thousands of bees swarmed a street light. After borrowing tools from several shops he secured most bees in a box and gathered hundreds inside his coat and trousers amid cheers and a single sting.
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London
England
Ernest Melrose
Oxford Street
Electric Light Company
Rats Cost Americans Four Dollars Per Capita In Tax
In Food Industries a U S Public Health Service expert notes the rat menace costs the United States about 500 million dollars annually. He cites 200 million for feeding rats and 300 million for damages and spoilage, equating the burden to a per capita tax of over four dollars. Rats travel widely and are nocturnal, with the black rat harder to trap than the brown rat.
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New York
United States
C. V. Akin
United States Public Health Service
Doctor Akin
Swedish Flapper Bobs Hair at 103 Years
Swedish centenarian "Mother" Karna Alm, widow of a Swedish soldier, lives at Wetherod Home for Aged near Col Charles A Lindbergh's ancestral home. She has bobbed hair, reads without glasses, walks daily, sings old love songs, and plans to live many more years despite being 103.
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Lund
Sweden
Karna Alm
Wetherod
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Times
Karna
Five Year Old Girl Sees With Two Pupils
Shirley Wylie, five, has two pupils in one eye after a screen door spring cut the eyeball. The injury healed and left two separate pupils the girl can see through.
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Fort Collins
Cole
Shirley Wylie
Tolva County Hungary Introduces Third Child Bonus
Tolva county in Hungary begins a motherhood bonus program paying a grant for each child after the third to encourage larger families and counteract signs of declining births.
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Budapest
Tolva
Hungary
Castoria: A Gentle Remedy for Children’s Ailments
A vintage ad touts Castoria as a safe pure vegetable remedy for infants and children. It claims to ease colic spurts and fuss, soothe crying babies, tackle diarrhea and constipation, and prevent system clogging during colds or illnesses. The genuine product bears Chas. H. Fletcher's signature in drugstores.
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Chas. H. Fletcher
Sunday School Confusion and Adversity Quote
A Sunday school teacher asks Jerry who his companion is and he says the girl is his sister not a friend. The text presents a pun on adversity and a remark on wisdom about making a word suffice.
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Jerry
Reykjavik Initiates Natural Hot Spring Heating System
On the recommendation of the Icelandic Engineering Association, Reykjavik will inaugurate a city heating system using natural hot springs. A pumping plant at Wash Springs will push hot water through insulated pipes to public buildings, with many slated for winter use.
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Icelandic Engineering Association
Reykjavik
Wash Springs
Ended Long Family Line Nuss Brahe Dies Ends Swedish Nobility
The first noble Swedish family ends with the death of Count nus Brahe. In the burial rite the 500-year coat of arms was broken on the coffin and the archbishop cast the key to the vault into a nearby lake.
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Sweden
Nus Brahe
Quick Quips on Weighing Fish and Speaking Time
A playful exchange asks how much a fish weighs and suggests using scales to know. It hints that delaying talk lets friends express themselves first. The piece also questions art as self expression and notes self-control often feels futile.
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Chie Plenty
U. S
Castoria
DR. C. H. Berry Co
Wigan Ave
Chicago
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Arkansas State Farm
K-R-O
K-R-O Co
Springfield
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