Higher Idea in Chivalry Emphasizes Shared Household Duties
Mary Fisher Torrance, Barnard graduate and magazine writer, argues that true chivalry today means men share dull chores like washing dishes and cleaning the stove. She says educated men must perform household tasks to support their wives especially when help is scarce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Raleigh
Greenwich Village
Mary Fisher Torrance
Barnard
The
Sun
New York Herald
Water buffaloes studied by Chinese gentlemen at Canton college
A China focused piece notes Chinese gentlemen at Canton Christian College study and improve water buffaloes. The former view of manual work as degrading shifts as students see agriculture as China’s future, with buffaloes guided by a boy while plows and harrows toil in swampy rice fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Canton Christian College
Asia
Che
Chris- Uan Science Monitor
Gas From Straw Moves Toward Practical Fuel Use
United States Department of Agriculture experimental farm at Arlington Virginia reports gas from straw distillation tested for motor fuel cooking and lighting. About fifty pounds of straw yield roughly 800 cubic feet of gas, with liquefaction and condensation work in progress. By products from gas manufacture also prove valuable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Arlington
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
Office of Development Work
Bureau of Chemistry
Bees in Manitoba Harness Big Honey Boost Through Disease Fight
Bee experts say Manitoba will flood the world with honey as disease control lifts hive output. Last year’s average around 45 pounds per hive is expected to rise due to hundreds of large apiaries spread across the province. The cure for clustered ailment is swift medical care and vigilance in the honey belt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Canada
Brooklyn
Engte
Accidents Peak Late in Day Says Berlin Expert
Dr E Guth of Berlin argues in Zeotrilbintt fuer Gewerhehygiene that accidents rise in the last working hours and tend to be more serious. He notes increased accidents with reduced output and concludes both workers and employers have an interest in shortening the workday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Guth
Berlin
Arso
Nine Thousand American Bodies Returned From Europe
The United States grave registration service reports nearly 9,000 American soldiers’ bodies shipped home from France with 1,800 more awaiting transport. Exhumation began September 15, finishing in 17 cemeteries, with Brest Bordeaux and St Lazare complete. About 60 percent of officers and enlisted men will be returned, and operations will continue through next summer across Belgium and Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
United States
Bony
Great Britain
Germany
Luxembourg
America
Belgium
Brest
Bordeaux
St Lazare
War Memorials Council
Originator of Jazz Claim Stirs Early Musicians Debate
A brief note asserts an ancient Egyptian musical figure as the originator of jazz and the shimmy, likening his pose to that of late 19th century performers known for lively movement and dance. The passage presents a speculative link between ancient rhythms and modern dance forms.
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Egypt
Vision of rapid Atlantic flight from a Dutch aircraft pioneer
New York guest and inventor AnH G Fokker predicts transatlantic crossing in under a day within five to ten years. He cites future night and bad weather flying enabled by directional wireless, plus the need for planes that can land on small areas like building rooftops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
A. H. G. Fokker
Rotterdam
Mr. Fokker
Germany
Atlantic Ocean
Travels of a Wallet in Morgantown Seeks Honest Thief
Twelve years ago L. E. Friend, a Morgantown photographer, carried a wallet with $100 in cash and checks to the bank. The same wallet, found recently, contains the papers but the cash is gone. Police believe the thief who kept the wallet from the past era acted with savvy, discarding the currency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
W. Va
L. E
Anderof
Dutch Seek To Bar Bolshevik Influx At Frontiers
Rotterdam reports Holland has four frontier cordons to block Bolshevik agents entering from Germany. Heavy guards guard crossings and highways. suspects risk being shot. Soviet operatives reportedly move via an underground railroad into Holland and toward America, aided by sympathizers and deserters from Polish forces. A special bureau in Poland and on the European front is said to plan repatriation of such emigrants to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotterdam
Holland
Germany
Amsterdam
Canada
Hamburg
Russia
Ruhr
United States
America
Pilsudski
Warsaw
Deer Rescued From Dog Battle in Stream
Harrisburg report states a mongrel dog seized a six prong deer along Cold Spring run. Charles B. Baum, game protector, arrived and shot the dog, allowing the buck to retreat into the forest. Baum, aiding Pine Grove reserve work, heard the chase and saved the exhausted deer as it hid in the stream.
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Harrisburg
Charles B. Baum
Baum
Pine Grove
Lied to Save His Mother Paroled from Kentucky Jail
Willie Knuckles of Frankfort Kentucky, who at sixteen confessed to killing his stepfather Graven Crews and exonerated his mother, is to be released on parole after a jury found his testimony exculpatory. Mrs Crews received a life sentence but was pardoned years later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Willie Knuckles
Knuckles
Graven Crews
Fort Wayne Girls Barred From Rouge Skirts in School Rule
Striking at human liberty in Fort Wayne Indiana, local school bans rouge use and skirts over ten inches from the floor. The rule also targets square tecked dresses and puffed hairstyles. Girls object to the restrictions as an infringement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Human Liberty
Fort Wayne
Ind
American Legion Women Elect Minnesota Leader
Dr Helen Hielscher chosen state president of the Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion at the first Minnesota convention in Minneapolis. About four hundred delegates from across the state, representing 6,000 members in 113 units, adopted a state constitution and pledged to the Legion's cardinal principles. Kansas will hold its convention January 10 and 11 as other states plan similar steps.
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All | Parte of
Minnesota
Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion
Minneapolis
National Organization of the Auxiliary
Auxiliary
Legion
Helen Hielscher
B. A. Lewis
Myrtle Getz
C. B. de Laurier
George A. Barber
Pauline Curnick
Organization
National Headquarters
Kansas
American Legion post formed in Warsaw Poland
A new American Legion post with zero members has been formed in Warsaw to serve ex servicemen now with the American Red Cross. Charles Phillips of New Richmond Wisconsin organized the post in Warsaw and named H H Hall of McDonald Pennsylvania as commander Lee D Rowe of McAllen Texas as adjutant Frank BR McKennay of Richmond Maine as treasurer Hall served in France with the 307th supply train and heads Red Cross stores in Poland Rowe served in the medical detachment of train No 412 in France and later joined the typhus relief mission in Poland Posts are also forming in Jerusalem Palestine and in Peking China
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American Legion
Warsaw
Poland
American Red Cross
Charles Phillips
New Richmond
Wis
Red Cross
H. H. Hall
McDonald, Pa
Lee D. Rowe
McAllen
Tex
Prank BR
Prank Br, McKennay of Richmond, Me., Treasurer, Commander’ Hall
France
Rowe
United States Army
Legion
Jerusalem
Palestine
Peking
China
Marie Balzarini Named Most Popular at Windsor Terrace Carnival
Marie Balzarini of Brooklyn was voted the most popular girl in a carnival contest held during a Windsor Terrace post American Legion week. The popularity event, growing among Eastern Legion posts, boosts post finances and provides entertainment for members and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Balzarini
Brooklyn
Windsor Terrace
American Legion
Four Girls Plan A Love Letter Ruse In Park
A quartet of engaged girls stage a scheme using a photographed portrait to lure four men to a meeting at a park corner. The plan backfires as one man, Irving Delman, investigates and uncovers the deception. Madge returns letters and an engagement ring to Delman, and the other three brides learn the truth after the planned engagement ends in marriage.
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Western Newspaper Union
Dora Merrill
Madge Preston
Irving
Dora
Winnie Law
Blake
Orville
Stella
Madge
Clyde Burton
Wallace Templeton
Shirley Branston
Irving Delman
Clyde
Ned Merrill
Templeton
Branston
Irving Detman
Miss Page
Burleigh Gray
Tam
Ora
Wallace
Shirley
Winnie
Delman
Tessie
Pretty Girl
Clyde Barton
No Time For Blue Laws in American Legion Letters
Letters at national headquarters show many American Legion members oppose Blue Law agitation and want a firm stand against efforts to ban cigarette use. Officers emphasize adherence to the Legion's constitution while focusing on aiding the disabled rather than engaging in intolerance or controversy.
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American Legion
the Legion
National Organization of the Legion
Bame Probondal Employer-I've Had My Nose to the Grindstone
Duce Boy remarks on long years of effort in a Bos tom Transcript style exchange. The speaker reflects forty years of work and dedication in a period voice.
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Gating
Bostom
Master HP drawing on Walter Scott’s view of reform and feudalism
Robert Shelton Mackenzie discusses how Walter Scott used prose to portray the past through heroic, noble, and glittering feudal life. He notes Scott’s shift from poetry to narrative prose to capture distant eras as seen by those wary of the present and future, highlighting The Talisman Ivanhoe and The Fair Maid of Perth.
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Walter Score
Napoleon
Europe
Perth
Robert Shelton Mackenzie
Spain adopts modern view on juvenile offenders
The United States led with juvenile courts and Europe follows. Spain, last to act, treats delinquent children as victims of adverse conditions rather than criminals. A non judge heads the court with two advisory members. privacy is strict and the press barred from case details. Since Chicago opened the first Juvenile Court in 1899, many nations have established similar systems.
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United Stites
Europe
Spain
America
Children’s Bureau
United States Department of Labor
Commission For the Protection of Children
Chicago
England
France
Belgium
Holland
Denmark
Switzerland
Italy
Germany
Russia
Austria
Hungary
Navipendulum aids study of ship rolling experiments
The navipendulum is an invention to examine vessel roll by a pendulum rolling on a moving plate that mimics sea surface motion. By adding artificial resistance the same pendulum can simulate different ships of a given size. Used to study rolling of Italian battleships and other nations’ vessels.
Do Well Without Meat
The article argues that a third of the world should have three good meals daily while underfed continents of Asia and Africa may match Europe or America in work capacity. It notes world average meat consumption at 89 pounds per person, with Australia and the United States near 180 pounds and England around 120 pounds.
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Lea
Asia
Africa
Europe
America
Criticism of Oil Use By Dr White of USGS
Dr White of the United States Geological Survey called the use of oil “no less than an economic crime” and warned that oil supply was rapidly declining in the United States and elsewhere. He said a serious problem would arise in obtaining lubricants, the most important part of the stock-off business.
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Dr. White
United States Geological Survey
United States
Symbols of animals and their moral meanings
A fragment describing animals as symbols with traits: ant frugality. bear temper and uncouthness. bull straightforwardness. butterfly sportiveness. dove innocence. fox cunning. goose convert and folly. grasshopper obstinacy. owl wisdom. peacock pride. swan ghure.
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Wilslom
Building Concrete Heel Wall Core Construction
An English engineer proposes a one piece concrete house wall built around a central air space. He raises the core first and moves the outer shell upward as concrete is poured to create the wall structure.
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