Youths Question Standards and Embrace Modern Pleasures
Virginia H. Corbett notes two alarm flags among youth: questioning old conventions and craving entertainment. She argues modern amusements like movies and cars educate the young, helping them face contemporary dangers with greater understanding, and remain capable of meeting age demands.
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Virginia H. Corbett
Colorado Agricultural College
Martin Luther
Better Take the Bromo Before the Headache
The piece warns against repeating 1919-20 profiteering with rising costs from labor and materials. It argues inflation stems from business excess and optimistic banking, urging cautious, conservative conduct by individual businesspeople and recalling 1921 lessons to avoid overproduction and crops remaining ample.
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Symptons
Federal Reserve
Eastern inventor outs device for prolonging sleep
Eastern inventor unveils a sleep prolonging device claimed to automatically activate when the dreamer next experiences a falling sense of loss of wakefulness. The inventor suggests the mechanism could happen the moment one dreams of inheriting a trillion dollars.
Joe Boyle Last of D Artagnans dies after a life of daring
Canadian adventurer Joe Boyle of Woodstock and Toronto, dubbed the Canadian D Artagnan, died at 47 after a string of wartime exploits from Russia to Romania. He organized a Yukon machine gun battery, saved armies by moving trains and flour, led chases for the czarina, and earned honors from Britain Romania France and Russia before dying of a heart attack in England.
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Toronto
Joe Boyle
Woodstock
Canada
d’Artagnan
Boyle
Yukon
Klondike Boyle
London
Russia
Tarnopol
Bessarabia
Maniekovski
Moscow
Rumania
Jassy
Rune
Black Sea
Sebastopol
Czarina
Marie
Crimea
Ferdinand
Romania
Yalta
Queen Alexandra
Royal
Order of the Crown and Star of
France
Order of Vladimir
Order of St. Stanislaus
Charlie Boyle
Joe
America
Woodstock College
New York
Wallace
Isle of St. Helena
Indian
Cape of Good Hope
Bombay
Traine
Frank Slavin
Slavin
San Francisco
Laperriere
Chilcoot Pass
Ottawa
Royal Dutch and Shell Transport Company
Mosul
Caucasia
Near East
Tiflis
Hampton Hill
Middlesex
England
Joseph Boyle, Jr
No Word From Arctic Explorers in Two Years
Nearly two years have passed since a four man Arctic expedition led by Lorne Knight on Wrangell island north of Siberia sent a last letter dated September 15, 1921. A rescue attempt by the Teddy Bear last summer failed. the party’s fate remains unknown as another effort is planned.
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Wrangell Island
Siberia
Lorne Knight
Stefansson
J. I. Knight
McMinnville, Ore
Knight
Teddy Bear
Nome
Pole
Allan Crawford
Toronto
Frederick Maurer
Ohio
Milton Galle
Texas
Altoona Woman Pays Five Cents Income Tax
A young woman filed an income tax payment of 5 cents with the Altoona internal revenue office. Her reported income was just over $1,000 for the previous year. The payment arrived by postal money order costing 8 cents. Additional receipts showed 8 cents and 10 cents paid.
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Altoona
Internal Revenue Office
Wit and Wisdom Snippets from a Lyrical Lineup
A fragmented collection of humorous maxims and quips on life work love and society. The text blends observations about habit optimism failure and social roles with playful metaphors and aphorisms.
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Onzarsetree
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Heaven
Abnegation