Special Train Tour Highlights World War Artifacts
A midweek May 5 stop in Middletown outlines a German warfare exhibit tour from April 21 to May 7. The car train showcases weapons and a Hindenburg Pill display, with American soldiers explaining exhibits and a Victory Loan bond drive.
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Charles C. ‘Havep
Connecticut
Leithsprey
Hindenburg
M. M. Graham
Caps
State Loan Committee
Elforking
Show H. & H. R. BR
Stonington
Saybrook
Lyme
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Whole Corn Alone Not Profitable at Present Prices
National Crop Improvement Service notes that high corn costs make gluten feed a viable substitute. With corn short this year, farmers are urged to use by product feeds such as gluten feed with linseed or cottonseed meal and silage to cut costs and conserve human food.
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National Crop Improvement Service
EEF
Prohibition in Indiana shows mixed economic and crime effects
New York Evening Post notes Indiana’s dry year with 3,500 saloons 33 breweries and 15 distilleries closed. Revenue losses barely shook state finances as savings rose and businesses repurposed saloon buildings. Indianapolis police report fewer wife beating, burglary, murder and drunkenness arrests, but rising arrests for running blind tigers.
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Indiana
New York Evening Post
Indianapolis News
Indianapolis
Wife of Noted Scientist Sails for England
Mrs. Peter Coper Hewitt of New York wife of the famous American scientist and inventor is photographed aboard the liner Aquitania bound for England. She is accompanied by her son who will be placed in Eton College upon arrival.
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England
Peter Coper Hewitt
New York
Booth Tarkington Autograph Gaffe at Red Cross Fair
Novelist Booth Tarkington recalls strolling at a artists Red Cross Fair where two sixteen year old flappers asked for his autograph. After he signed in a morocco bound book they asked if he was Robert W. Chambers. He clarified I am Booth Tarkington then a flapper muttered to her friend lend me your rubber May.
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Detroit Free Press
Booth
Tarkington
Red Cross Fair
Robert W. Chambers
Booth Tarking
North Side Women Face Hard Luck in Belmont
In Belmont Wisconsin this week, Mrs Thomas Gugerty fell into a coal bed sustaining severe injuries. Mrs William Nodolf injured her hand after being caught in a washing machine. Mrs John Mates suffers a baffling rash. The Red Cross president also sustained a collar bone injury.
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Belmont
Wis
Thomas Gugerty
William Nodolf
John Mates
Red Cross
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