29 Sep 1922
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1922
Page
1
The piece argues heredity has limited role next to environment in shaping humans. It compares Burbank style claims to produce six foot, 460 pound men or face beautified women with uncertain results. Emphasizes environment shaping character and warns against eugenic overreach while noting Turkish example and broader scientific limits.
The President signs the Fordney McCumber tariff described as a policy coffin for potential prosperity, doubling taxation burdens on Americans, with the wool schedule cited as a major levy. Senator Underwood condemns the bill for shifting tax power to the President and warns of long corruption, while noting political excess in New Jersey campaigns and a discredited infant talking story.
In March 1922 the Ways and Means Committee proposed paying World War veteran bonuses from excess profits taxes on big wealth. Republicans in both houses opposed, having already voted to repeal excess profits taxes and raise overall levies. The debate cited profiteering by major corporations since 1916 as a revenue source for the bonus, arguing for taxing the rich instead.
A garbled, nostalgic collage of social commentary and cultural riffs. The piece wanders through politics, Prohibition, architecture, and entertainment with scattered phrases about cigarettes, coal deliveries, a coach on a football field, and imagined future shocks. It reads like a fragmented editorial riff from a bygone era.
Frederic J. Haskin reports on nose print experiments at the University of Minnesota and by detective Fred Sandberg in Washington. Prints from cows and potential tests with dogs are described, noting procedure, variability, and potential use in ownership and sale records, with discussion of costs and registry implications.
A poem reflecting on humanity’s flaws and ambitions. It contrasts meek and mighty crowds with proud and discontented agitators. The speaker notes repeated missteps and hypocrisy while acknowledging stubborn progress through trial and error.
Mrs Mary Huchonyn of Hampstead offers a testimonial praising De Pierea Golden Modied Discovery and Sage Catarrh Remedy for long standing catarrh and feminine troubles. Readers are urged to obtain Dr Marco's remedies at local drugstores or mail for information.
A reader asks if gunpowder and firearms were known before guns. The answer cites historians W. A. Older and Guttinuy noting gunpowder predates firearms, with Greek origins and gradual development. It mentions Anabians around 128 AD and Bertholl Schwartz’s attribution of gun and cannon invention about 1312 AD, with gunpowder artifacts in 1340 and 1344 and English use at Crecy in 1248.
A jumble of questions and answers covering topics from expelling objectionable persons under law to world fairs dates from 1854 to 1962. It cites the Crystal Palace 1854, Exposition Universelle 1855, and a 1876 Atlabula wreck, plus trivia on falcons age and royal names, with mixed historical notes and playful queries.
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