Dawes plan ideals eyed for Allied debts
Charles E. Mitchell argues in the American Bankers Association Journal that the Dawes plan offers a blueprint for settling Allied debts to the United States. He warns against forcing every dollar and endorses gradual, sustainable taxation and payments to protect international trade.
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America
C. E. Mitchell
Dawes
United States
Charles E. Mitchell
National City Bank of New York
American Bankers Association Journal
Mitchell
France
Belgium
Italy
General Dawes
Idle land and poultry farming aid debtor farmer
He expanded grain and hay using idle land and grew his poultry flock. He cut auto costs and saved gasoline spending. Increased income and tightened expenses let him pay his hospital bill by year end while sounding farming success.
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Fla
Banker-farmes
Adversity A Stimulus To Good Farming
Dean Dodson recounts a Louisiana farmer nearly breaking even on cotton until family illnesses and a $2200 bill forced him to pivot. He milks cows for milk sales, feeds byproducts, markets excess produce, and adjusts crops after consulting merchants to cut losses and boost income.
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Dean Dodson
Louisiana
Riet
Post Office Letter Theft Solved by Perfumed Glue Clue
A Southwest letter theft case narrowed to six offices ended when an inspector sniffed a resealed letter. He used six perfumed mucilage samples, one per office, to identify the thief by the scent. The thief’s location was revealed, finalizing the investigation.
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Post Office
Witticisms from a Chemist About Spelling and Ceylon
A joke about Dr Cau Brown of Edinburgh reacting to an Indian medical student who misplaces letters in spelling. The student misspelled proceed with one e, prompting Brown to joke that the error comes from Ceylon and remarking that it explains the land of the Cingalese.
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Cau Brown
Edinburgh
Doctor Brown
Ceylon
His College in a London Omnibus Tale
A London omnibus encounter from Twenty Five Years in Six Prisons recounts a chaplain recognizing a former inmate as a client. The exchange hints at a mysterious “college” motif where the word college becomes a private joke, as onlookers cannot discern its true meaning.
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Eustace Jervis
London
Jack
London Times
Most Useful Tree Coconut Symbol Of The Tropics
The coconut, long a staple for Pacific island peoples, now serves temperate regions with cooking fats, soap, and a sweet confection. Nature Magazine says the tree provides food, drink, shelter, and numerous needs, ranking it highly among mankind’s most useful trees.
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Tropics
Pacific Islands
Nature Magazine
Land transfers and sales in Fairbury Nebraska listings
Sequence of real estate transfers and notices in Fairbury Nebraska listing multiple deeds. Gage County and Fairbury parcels show transfers to individuals and couples with prices from 1 to 7000 dollars. For sale items include old horse harness buggy and plow.
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Fairbury
Nebraska
Homer E. Fuller
Clarence E. Fuller
G. F. Wildhaber
W. D
Edna Brown
B. A. Woltkamp
Charlotte E. Brown
Hns
E. A. Woltkamp
L. M. Nelson
John Deere
The Silent Lake of the Cascade Mountains
A mysterious lake called the Great Sunken Lake lies in the Cascade mountains. Depth is unknown, walls average 2000 feet to the water, with water depth unseen. The lake spans about fifteen miles in length and four and a half miles in breadth, described as the deepest and most silent.
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Cascade Mountains
Thoroughbred Versus Purebred Use in Dictionaries and Breeding
Pathfinder notes that popular usage treats thoroughbred and purebred as synonymous, while scientists distinguish thoroughbred for registered horse breeds and purebred for pure blooded animals in general. Dictionaries largely ignore this distinction.
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Webster's International Dictionary
Discovery of Bruce Heart Vault in Dunfermline Abbey
Workmen in Dunfermline Abbey uncovered a vault containing a body wrapped in cloth of gold under lead sheets. The breastbone was sawn asunder, identified as King Robert the Bruce. His heart was reportedly taken to the Holy Land as ordered by the king, carried by the Douglas.
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Dunfermline Abbey
Scotland
Robert the Bruce
Holy Land
Douglas
James 1
Perth
Edinburgh
Dunfermline
Holyrood
Sunlight Essential for Growth of Children and Chicks
Experiments with chicks show natural sun exposure speeds development while sunlight filtered through glass causes rickets. Ultraviolet treatment cures rickets in affecteds. Observers note high summer birth rickets risk, with winter indoor light limiting babies' sun exposure.
Of Course Minister Had to Heed Flock's Opinion
The anecdote recounts Adam Wagnalls scolding a magazine editor for ignoring translations while praising native talent. A country minister is depicted as valuing his flock’s view over a renowned prayer, illustrating warded humility and the tension between elites and common taste.
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Adam Wagnalls
New York
Anatole Frante
Kaute Hansen
Gorky
Mr. Wagnalls
Farm Lighting and Radio Installations Offered by Agent
Lam markets farm lighting and radio outfits for transmission lines or individual plant installations. H D Bart offers radio sets, repairs, guaranteed work, and cash for false teeth and precious metals. Located in Fairbury Nebraska with phone 899.
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Pitioui
Allied Best
Fast’s Store
J. U. Fast
THE
Jansen News Office
Jansen Light & Power Co
A. J. Thiessen
J. Monroe Davis & Son
Rifty Duroc Gills
Beatrice
Phone Ofprize F.C. Crocker
Beatrice Nebraska
F. C
Byer
A. W. Crossant
P. O. Jansen
Plymouth
A. T. Loewen
B. O. Kroeker
Jansen
Magnus Callander
Geo. KF
Mollie Riddle
J. Smith Diller
Diller
L. O. Westcott
Wid
Don Westcott
Dist. Court of U
David Thomas
Herman A. Thiessen
Wf. T
Max Paul Ruhnke
Sud & Wi
Emma A
DuVal & Hus
Laura Basin
Louis C. Nightingale & Wf
Carl & Margaret Brown
Galbraiths
Margaret Brown & Hus
Louis C. Nightingale
Hiddie E. J. Jonker
Ethel G. Neff
R. W. Murray
Omaha
St. Joe
Denver
Omaha Line
Ng West
Beyoncca
H Mail
Ily
St. Joe Line
Ar’ound
Aes
Hoke Smelting & Refini
Otsega
Michigan
S.C. Boff
P. M. Fries
Henry
Prico
Carin Trade
A. T
Jansen Lbr. Co
Julius
Tre
Pei
Uji
Usu
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