Navy bases in Pacific inadequacy cited in report
The Navy states current bases are insufficient to wage war in the western Pacific. Pearl Harbor is the most advanced yet lacks major dry docks and storage. Building new bases on the Pacific coast and in Hawaii is urged, with Parks McKean recommendations totaling 157.74 million dollars across multiple ports.
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Ashington
United States
Western Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Hawaiian Islands
Navy Department
Pacific Coast
Pacific
Atlantic Coast
Congress
Hawaiian Island
Senate
House
Parks-McKean Board
Bremerton
Wash
San Francisco
San Diego
San Pedro
Columbia River
Port Angeles
Keyport
Housing costs cited as top problem by Labor Secretary
Secretary of Labor Davis says high rents and housing shortages threaten morale and the social framework. He urges emergency legislation to curb rent gouging, notes 500000 Chicago residents in poor housing, and cites rising illegitimate births and sickness. Davis calls housing the keystone of recovery, with many people living in automobiles.
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Labor
Davis
Congress
Supreme Court
Chicago
Caty
House Favors Army Size Of 150 000 Men
The House, allied with Democrats, amended the army bill to 150000 amid debate over World conditions. Weeks urged no reduction below 175000, but Kahn and Mondell failed to win support for higher totals. The vote fixed the next year's army budget at 72000000, down from 88000000, with Byrnes's 150000 plan adopted 109 to 82.
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House
U. S. Army
Washington
Weeks
Representative Kahn
Representative Fish
Kahn
Byrnes
South Carolina
Mondell
Congress
Jess
Secretary of the Fine Arts movement forms in New York
The League of Artists supports creating a cabinet post for the arts. J Mason Rhino proposes to President Harding urging tangible arguments. Goals include constitutional mention of fine arts, better artist support, and national art education.
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League of Artists
J. Massey Rhino
New York
Harding
United States
How to Grow an Acre of Potatoes in Club Work
United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin 1190 guides boys and girls clubs to grow bigger potato yields. It covers soil choice gravelly or sandy loam well drained and moist, land preparation fall plowing spring disking seed bed care seed treatment planting rates 15–18 bushels per acre versus 8.6 national average, seed size cutting seed pieces, cultivation depth and timing, pest control with fungicides and insecticides, and selecting seed tubers for the next year.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Road markers costly and public property
Writers complain road markers on the Lincoln highway cost $7 each and are public property. The highway commission says destruction is punishable by law. Next summer a hunter might shoot an extra sign during tours, leaving others without guidance.
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Own Highway Commission
Freezing Fruit Promoted for Preservation Practices
The United States Department of Agriculture recommends freezing surplus fruit in regions with adequate cold storage. Strawberries raspberries loganberries blueberries currants and cherries are being frozen and stored in market crates at about 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Frozen fruit must be thawed and used promptly to avoid rapid decay and molds are suppressed only by storage temperatures.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Middle Western
Pacific States
Office of Preservation of Fruits and Vegetables
Bureau of Markets
Treatment of Broody Hens
A farm flock loses productivity when broody hens linger on nests. Prompt removal to a comfortable coop with good feed and water typically breaks broodiness quickly. The suggested coop is pine built with a shallow floor and slatted sides for ventilation.
Cultivation Is Important for Timely Garden Care
The text urges timely soil cultivation as essential to healthy vegetables. It argues delaying work wastes time and yields poorer crops, stating cultivation is as vital as other farm tasks and more important than most.
Deterioration Risk From Pastured Woods Described
The article explains pasturing as a major cause of woods deterioration. Damage severity depends on stock numbers and woodland size. Heavily pastured woods show little young growth, often limited to small ragged patches of broken scrub.
Breeding Flock Care Guidance From USDA Bulletin 1116
The United States Department of Agriculture advises careful watching of breeding fowls to keep them in good breeding condition. Farmers' Bulletin 1116 covers selection and care of poultry breeding stock, including checks for lice or mites and inspections of birds and houses.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Roses and jewels showered on London crowd during peace rejoicings
During a London peace celebration several guests at a West End restaurant tilted upper windows to fling roses to the cheering crowds below. A woman tossed bracelets rings and hair ornaments while an elderly man hurled spoons forks and an apple. Treasury notes followed as she signaled she had nothing more amid the roars of the crowd.
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London
West Hind
Treasury
Architect of castles in Spain stays put in hotel choice
The exchange cites a person who plans to remain in town and compares a chosen hotel to buying a $7,000 automobile years ago for a European tour. The Birmingham Age-Herald frame implies a humorous boast about travel plans and investments.
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Spain
Europe
Birmingham Age-Herald
60 Ways to Cook Potatoes Mentioned in Quiet Debate
A playful exchange imagines Mina and Nell discussing the many methods to prepare potatoes. One suggests trying one of the other sixty ways, framing it as a lighthearted experiment.
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Nell
Babes in the Wood founder tied to Fifteenth Century crime
A note on the origin of the play Babes in the Wood linking its creation to a Fifteenth Century crime. The clue is placed as an inscription on a mantel shelf in an old Norfolk house.
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Norfolk
England
Tigers Useful in Sumatra
A Paris Figaro report notes Sumatra bans tiger hunting to protect plantations by keeping tigers from eating wild boars. It portrays tigers as utilitarian predators aiding local agriculture rather than symbols of exotic wildlife.
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Sumatra
M. Clemenceau
Kipling
Paris
Beyond Cure in a Western Way
Steve arrives late to work almost every day and faces a stern warehouse manager who hopes a rebuke will “cure” him. The manager questions Steve about punctuality and aims to compel an explanation, but Steve responds with evasive humor about his wake-up time.
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Steve
Los Angeles Times
Sympathy for the man with the hard job
A chauffeur and a doorman share a brief exchange about sympathy and ambition. The chauffeur notes the other man’s hard work to earn his own success, implying a critique of social roles and personal drive.
Fortunate Man and Early Example of Uprightness
A Thackeray quotation speaks of fortune tied to education that shapes fate through early uprightness and honorable training, highlighting moral formation as essential to character.
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Thackeray
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