Washington Sidelights on Alaska Resources Drive
Interior Secretary Payne leads a mission to Alaska with Dr. Alfred H. Brooks and Navy Secretary Daniels. The Alaskan advisory committee proposes consolidating federal control, creating an interdepartmental board, and funding a statewide road system. They seek copper ore smelting in territory and rapid pulp wood, timber, and water power development.
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Eeos
John Barton Payne
Peninsula
Alfred H. Brooks
Geological Survey
Payne
Navy
Daniels
Brooks
Seattle
Alaska
Dr. Brooks
H. Y. Saint
The
Shipping Board
Otto Praeger
RH. A. Sherman
Department of Agriculture
Joint committee on reorganization proposed for government
A joint committee on reorganization would be created with three senators and three representatives to survey administrative services. It would study powers, duties, overlaps, and distribution across departments to propose reorganizations for efficiency and economy, with final report due by December 1922.
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Senate
House of Representatives
White Salmon Tomatoes Spark Notable Trade Tale
Representative Summers tells a Washington House tale about tomatoes shipped from White Salmon to Portland and back, traced through multiple warehouses and merchants. The sequence shows how local produce moves across markets, ending with high home prices in White Salmon.
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Summers
Washington
White Salmon
Portland
Ore
Columbia River
Farmers Resent Being Classed as Books
A congressman denounces treating farmers as mere numbers, arguing price fixing by merchants manufacturers and middlemen harms farmers. Representative Layton of Delaware warns that if farmers are deemed lower citizens in national life, the nation faces decline and extinction.
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Congress
Ion
Benefit
Layton
Delaware
Commission
Speaker
Water Farming Could Boost Returns for Wildlife and Regions
The Biological Survey reports a rise in migratory wild fowl across the United States due to the migratory bird treaty. Advocates urge conserving inland lakes and swamps to support feeding and rearing, noting benefits from water farming including fish, fowl, fur bearers, erosion control, and recreation.
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United States
Biological Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
Friends of the Migratory Birds
Feisal yields to French pressure as Syria crisis eases
King Feisal of Syria accepts Gouraud's ultimatum allowing French troops to occupy the territory. Boulevards flare as Thrace tensions rise. Anatolia quiets while Kemalists hold. Poland, Russia, and Lloyd George clash over armistice and peace talks as Warsaw seeks direct contacts with Moscow.
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King Feisal
Syria
Watkins
Warding
Cox
Wilson
League
East Prussia
Reichswehr
Berlin
Germany
Ignace Paderewski
Paris
Lloyd George
Millerand
Pilsudsky
Baranowitz-Pinsk-Dubno
Great Britain
France
Poland
Warsaw
Beirut
Feisal
Gouraud
Damascus
Anatolia
Kemal Pasha
Thrace
Bulgaria
Jafar Tayar
Adrianople
Turkey
Turbulent Week in Ireland Sees Assassinations and Belfast Clashes
A lively week in Ireland ended with several British officers assassinated, towns looted and burned, and heavy fighting in Belfast. Sinn Fein opponents battled Orangemen at shipyards, leaving multiple deaths.
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Ireland
Belfast
Sinn Fein
Orangemen
Prohibition Nominates Bryan. Harding Accepts Republican Bid
Early this week civil war fighting near Peking ends with rebel defeat. Prohibition party at Lincoln convention nominates William J Bryan for president by acclamation. Rev Aaron S Watkins named for president after Bryan declines. Republican campaign opens with Senator Harding's acceptance speech in Marion stressing party governance and strong peace, opposing world councils and military alliances.
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Cox
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wilson
White House
League of Nations
America
Democratic National Committee
Columbus
Edmund H. Moore
Moore
George White
Marietta
Homer S. Cummings
White
San Francisco
Prohibition Party
Lincoln
Neb
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Aaron S. Watkins
Germantown
D. Leigh Colvin
New York
Harding
Marion
World Council
Sac
Oklahoma to forego ad valorem tax in 1921 state budget
Oklahoma will not levy ad valorem tax on real or personal property in the 1921 fiscal year due to a surplus of 82.9 million in the state treasury. The only tax will be a half mill per $100 of property valuation for roads and bridges, with remaining revenue from income, inheritance taxes, and oil production taxes.
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United States Railway Labor Board
Chicago
Grand Council
Order of Railway Telegraphers
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Frank ©. Carter
From Balaam to Scab: Lessons on Duty and Sheep Health
A sermon on Balaam contrasts divine will with human motive, warning against seeking reversals of God’s decree. It follows with a practical note on common scab in sheep, detailing its transmission, spread on western ranges, and need for prompt treatment to prevent outbreak.
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Balaam
Euphrates
Israel
Moab
Canaan
Balak
Moabites
United States
Department of Agriculture
Have a Purpose in Life Quote by Carlyle
A succinct quotation urges finding a life purpose to guide effort and strength. It compares a purposeless person to a ship without a rudder and a wharf, stressing resolve and exertion aligned with divine gifts.
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Carlyle
One Wish Realizable on Earth: Death
A compact reflection on mortality asserts Death as the sole perfect wish, noting uncertainty about its value from various circumstances and the absence of anyone to judge whether it is worth attaining.
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R. L. Stevenson
Scientific Feeding to Meet Animal Nutritional Needs
Scientific feeding aims to supply food in correct proportions to meet each animal's requirements while minimizing waste. It relies on studying feed composition and digestion in various animals under different conditions, considering the costs and adaptations of feeding stuffs in practice.
Better Sires-Better Stock Movement Gains Backing
The National Breeders and Fanciers' Association of America endorses the Better Sires-Better Stock plan to improve fur bearing animals raised in confinement and informs the U S Department of Agriculture. The group notes members also breed rabbits cavies and mice for pets and research, valuing purebred sires for prolificacy.
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National Breeders and Fanciers’ Association of America
United States Department, of Agriculture
Decline in Breeding Sows Across Several States
Breeding sows declined 9.9 percent in the year ending April 1 1920 per investigations by the Bureau of Crop Estimates. The same number of sows held in South Carolina and Georgia, with increases in Florida Texas and New Mexico. Largest drops appeared in Massachusetts Indiana Illinois Missouri North Dakota Nebraska Kansas Kentucky Tennessee Montana Wyoming Colorado Arizona Utah and Idaho.
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Bureau of Crop Estimates
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Texas
New Mexico
Massachusetts
Indiana
Tlinois
Missouri
North Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Kentucky
Tennessee
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Arizona
Utah
Idaho
Taxi Rides and Everything in Wellsburg Courtship Scheme
Wellsburg residents warn of a Gretna Green pattern where three to five taxi drivers at the station shuttle Pennsylvania couples around town to the courthouse then to a minister. Drivers collect fares, guide license steps, and enable quick marriages.
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Wellsburg
W. Va
Pennsylvania
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Camp Dix
John F. Moakley
Edward W. Pickard
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Red Cross
Cracow
House of Commons
Baron Wrangel
William K. Vanderbilt
Joachim
Kaiser
Peking
China
Moody Bible Institute
Lord
Jehovah
God
Moses
Jonah
Fanciers’ Association
Bureau of Estimates
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