Plan for Rural Community Organization
Washington March 6 a scheme to organize rural communities for business and social needs. Ten committees five for business five for social aims plus a central executive committee to direct policy and manage funds. Committees cover farm production marketing supplies accounting corn and transport and education sanitation recreation beautification household economies. Emphasizes cooperative purchasing credit unions and self help with roads and telephones. Critics note urban benefits attract farmers despite profits, urging strong local cooperation and patriotism at home.
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Washington
Mar
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Aeri
Committee On Production
Committee On Marketing
Committee On
Co-Operative Society
Welehuur
Department of Agriculture
Christ Rose blooms amid Berlin front line trench tale
A Berlin guard regiment reports a Christmas rose sprouting in a trench torn by shell fire. Soldiers nurtured it despite danger, and a bloom appeared on Christmas Day. The emperor received the plucked flower and a poet’s verse from Richard Voss. Also notes long distance wireless and 6000 finger print identifications in London police court.
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Berlin
Richard Voss
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
London
Heroic Frenchman is Buried by the Germans
Paris reports the death of Mat 6 hero Captain Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu son of economist Paul Leroy-Beaulieu. A German surgeon confirms he died after bravely defending his artillery piece, wounded January 13 and killed by a bullet to the temple. Burial with military honors and a Catholic benediction followed in a German army cemetery.
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Servespenitence
Associated Press
Paris
Pierry Leroy-Beaulieu
Paul—Leroy-Beaulieu
la Cavey Etans
Aix’ la Chappelle
Strick
The Door Knocker and the Collector
A dramatic poem portrays a door rapped by a hustler claiming a lost rich uncle’s fortune. The hopeful heir faces a ruthless agent who presses debts, mocks hardship, and pockets what he can. The piece ends with the boastful agent offering no mercy as the soul questions fate.
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Klondike
Grafton OKs 110000 School Bond Issue
The circuit court of appeals upheld the $110,000 school bond issue for Grafton independent school district, enabling immediate sale and high school construction. Bank directors discussed receivership and reopening plans as a market house project proceeds in the Taylor County bank building.
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Grafton
Grafton Independent
Circuit Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals
Taylor County, Bank
Sailing Canal Benefits For 2000-Ton Vessel? New Tolls Analyzed
An analysis notes a sailing ship of about 2,000 tons could save about eighty days by using the Panama Canal between New York and San Francisco. It estimates canal tolls near 2,700 dollars and potential profits around 3,300 dollars after operating costs.
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Varkentine John Baa
New York
San ‘Francisco
Canal
Salk
Cape Horn
Panama
San’Francisco
San Francisco
Limon Bay
Pacific
Pacific Entrance
Col. Goethals
Locust Plague Fades as Plow Turns Its Tide
Mar 6 Toledo report notes the locust vermin of the plains diminishing after fall plowing exposes eggs and nymphs to sun and frost. Reproduction tied to soil near the surface. the plague recedes as fields resume normal farm work. GHETWOOD Mo reports Robert Stumpson, a teamster, dying after a fall from a platform eight feet onto soft ground near a mine.
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Toledo
Ani
Ghetwood
Robert Stiupson
AS Bo
Dress of Our First Settlers and Hunting Shirt Details
The fragment describes early settler dress including hunting shirts of linsey or coarse linen, deer skin accents, fringed sleeves, and a large cape. It notes moccasins with deer hair insulation, and belts, leggings, and absence of watches rings or diamonds. It mentions accessories like a suspended tomahawk and hunting knife in southern sheaths.
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Linsey
Railroads urged to repeal so called Pall Crew laws
A letter to Baltimore and Ohio stockholders urges repeal of "Pall Crew" laws expanding brakemen requirements on freight and passenger trains. It argues state laws raise costs, hamper efficiency, and could fund rail upgrades. cites Missouri 1913 vote and current public campaigns in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Baltimore
Ohio
New Jersey
Pénn
Maryland
Willard
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Baltimore and Ohio Company
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Missouri
Baltimiore and Ohio. Company
Arrest in Gloucester for passing bad coins
Police report a man, age about 50, arrested after being found with counterfeit coins at a saloon in Gloucester. He allegedly offered spurious coins to a clerk at a drug store run by Joseph Ayres, where officers recovered two coin moulds and a belt for altering coins. He had recently been released from a correctional house for drunkenness.
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Cloucester
Mass
Marshal Marchant
Joseph
Colin
Campbell
House For Correction
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