Americans Conquer Air Record Sparked Atlantic Flight Debate
The article lauds Read and Grieve for crossing the Atlantic in the first flight, contrasts American persistence with British skepticism, and notes the voyage broadens air travel prospects. It emphasizes American ingenuity, aims of practical outcomes, and the need for fair recognition of daring pilots.
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Hawker
Azores
Lisbon
Plymouth
British Isles
Sir Thomas Lipton
Read
Atlantic
Kingsley
Columbus
America
Soo
Health education helps school children through games
Padding the undersize and overweight children alarms educators. The Interior Department aims to weigh and measure up to 25 million students, with a Washington exhibition showing new health education methods. Dr Claxton says health interest should be playful, using records to track monthly weight gains and progress.
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Department of the Interior
Washington
Claxton
Commissioner of Education
Bureau of Education
Moving pictures to educate Nation and schools
The article argues for large public libraries of educational films to be used in schools and churches. It cites Thomas A. Edison calling for readily available films in any school, noting moving pictures can reach slow learners and vividly teach history geography and civics. It envisions film departments in public libraries and widespread, affordable film production.
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Thomas A. Edison
America
Boards of Trade
National call to build a comprehensive highway system
The nation awakens to the need for good roads as essential to farming and national production. The piece urges Congress to create a national highway system, creating thousands of jobs and uniting undeveloped lands with rail hubs and markets over the next decade.
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Congress
Candy replaces cocktails in Prohibition era shift
The article notes Americans spent nearly three-fourths of a billion on candy last year as sugar beet industry grows. It cites Utah-Idaho Sugar Co assets of 33 million with 3400 stockholders, taxes of 1.25 million in 1918, and 300 million pounds of sugar produced last season boosting local circulation.
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United States
West
Utah-Idaho Sugar Co
Airman Executes Rope Ladder Transfer Between Planes
At Atlantic City Ormer Locklear performs a daring midair transfer climbing a rope ladder between two speeding planes 2500 feet up. He grips the rope on the wing and waves to cheering crowds below in a dramatic stunt photographed just before the handoff.
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Atlantic City
Ormer Locklear
Exciting time with Russ Cossacks in Siberia
Major John Reifenider former Frederick Md now in Tokyo with the American Red Cross in Siberia escorts 1500 Czecho Slovak soldiers from Vladivostok via Suez to Trieste and Prague. He recalls tense moments with Cossacks who blocked trains at Krasnoyarsk and threatened American guards. The British command plan to send aid never materialized as the situation resolved itself.
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Tokio
Associated Press
John Reifenider
Frederick, Md
American Red Cross
Siberia
Vladivostok
Suez Canal
Trieste
Prague
Reifsnider
R. B. Teusler
Virginia
Siberia Red Cross
Russia
Red Cross
Omsk
Soberia
Sma
Krasnoyarsk
Good Roads Debate Prompts Shift To State Benefit
A proposal framed by A. A. A. Good Roads board chairman George C. Diehl argues highway funding should reflect each state’s contribution to national wealth. Using Idaho as example, the plan favors interior states supplying farm forest and mine products, boosting both national and state prosperity.
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Idaho
Congress
George C. Diehl
A. A. A. Good Roads Board
New York
Utah
Texas
Georgia
Interior States
Seaboard States
Basis for Foreign Loans and U S Financial Pledge
The article argues it is against public sentiment and precedent for the United States to extend loans to foreign governments or individuals. It warns that private banks will bear the burden of lending due to limited domestic capital and depleted government bond purchases. It suggests selecting high need nations with strong safeguards, citing the Chinese loan as a potential precedent.
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United States
Raw products bolster manufacturing states in the long run
The analysis stresses that while manufacturing states drive national activity, developing states that produce raw materials confer substantial long term benefits to the industrial regions as well. The emphasis remains on inter-state economic interdependence and mutual gain across sectors.
Wool Outlook Brightens For West Woolgrowers
A department of agriculture report notes favorable wool prospects with March 31 holdings down from December 31 1918 and manufacturers increasing stock in government auctions. Commerce data shows April exports reaching 715 million dollars, a new record, while imports totaled 273 million. Ten month export value rose to 5.705 billion, up from 4.884 billion. An Idaho Twin Falls note cites an unbiased newspaper project proposal veering into bias, with a Tribune view that forewarned is forearmed and a writer reflecting on accidents and poverty.
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Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
United States
Twin Falls
the Tribune
Stork Travels Slow in Alaska 1918 Vital Stats
Juneau report shows 42 deaths in Alaska last year with 61 births. Secretary of Alaska released figures noting the birth rate lagged behind mortality in 1918, painting a somber view of the territory’s population trends.
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Juneau
Alaska
Stork
Grim Reaper
Unclear Hepatic Health Aid Prompts Mixed Claims
An unclear, OCR damaged fragment discusses a product claim to promote a healthy liver and relieve fatigue. It mentions tablets described as excellent and references quick results and a general sense of abdominal or bodily relief, but the text is garbled and hard to interpret.
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Biliouanesa
Erection of College Postponed in Alaska
Alaska will not have a territorial college for two years at least though a Fairbanks building stands ready. A near term $20,000 appropriation failed as opponents argued Alaska youth prefer stateside colleges. EB J White noted the need for outside study and world view. Two years ago funds were set to build the college with federal upkeep conditional on territory funding.
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Seattle
Wash
Alaska
School of Mines
Fairbanks
White
Juneau
Resolutions Demand Removal of Postmaster General Burleson
Chicago June 3 resolutions demanding the removal of Postmaster General Burleson for autocratic management were forwarded to President Wilson by the executive committee and American Federation of Labor for adoption here yesterday.
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Chicago
Burleson
Wilson
American Federation of Labora
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