Bus Schedules for Washington to Chicago and Iowa Plant
Daily eastbound service from Washington to Chicago lists multiple departures: 5:37 am Bus 9, 8:50 pm Bus 7, 3:49 pm Bus 2, 4:02 pm Bus 6, 8:48 pm Bus 10, and 10:19 am also eastbound. Tickets available at Bus Depot and North Side Square Candy Kitchen for full country trips. Iowa Ordnance Plant departures from Washington at 6:20 am 1:20 pm and 9:20 pm.
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Omaha
Chicago
Washington
Washington Oo
Candy Kitchen
North Side Square
Loreal
Cantoni
Sullivan Bus Lines
Iowa Ordnance Plant
Gotham Glimpses of Celebrities and City Life
A busy collage of New York scenes and personalities. An out-of-town lieutenant asks a passenger where to get off for Governors Island while a gang of boys hurries away with bundles, followed by notes on James Melton, Gertrude Lawrence, Greta Garbo and others. Hudson Center sees flags of the United Nations on Rockefeller Center, with U.S. flags nearby amid khaki cars. Debs collar sailors at the Stork. Hoover and a colonel dine at the Mayan. Various entertainers attend theaters and eateries, with anecdotes from radio, film, and stage circles, and light sketches on notable figures and gossip from the era.
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Gotham
Governors Island
James Melton
Gertrude Lawrence
Greta Garbo
Rockefeller Center
United Nations
United States
New York
Debs
Sherman Billingsley
Herbert Hoover
George Jean Nathan
Julie Hayden
Leone's
Fred Allen
Olney Inn
Madeleine Carroll
Hayden
Tin Can Plays Important Part in American Life
A United States Steel News article titled The Tin Can Boon to Man highlights tin cans as essential to daily life and food supply. It cites Roy Chap man Andrews in the Gobi desert and notes uses from armor to cremation ash transport in San Francisco and Manchukuo.
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United States Steel News
Roy Chapman Andrews
Gobi Desert
Inner Mongolia
Manchukuo
San Francisco
China
Frisco
30 Billion Spent On Arms in 23 Months
Washington reports show the government allocated more than 30.6 billion dollars to armaments war plants and armed forces over 23 months. Expenditures include Muay’s record 3.853 billion dollar addition.
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Washington
Muay
Pretty Is as Pretty Bues Garden Prophecy
A garden article urges readers that a well cared for space has a fine chance to become beautiful and offers simple steps to help the flowers or vegetables flourish. The piece emphasizes action to fulfill the forecast of beauty.
Sunshine and teeth: Texas county units show low decay
Deaf Smith county Texas, with 3000 hours of sun annually, reports 43 native-born individuals aged two to mid adulthood with no cavities. A Texas health report links high soil calcium carbonate and phosphorus in local flour and milk to strong teeth, suggesting minerals in sunlit areas aid dental health.
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Texas
Deaf Smith County
American Dental Association
Edward Taylor
Texas State Department of Health
Castor Bean Trials Highlight WWI Lubricant Use
Castor beans gained prominence in World War I as a lubricant source for aircraft engines. In 1918-19 Texas tests across multiple locations showed highly variable yields from 0 to 62 bushels per acre at Troup for the best variety, suggesting potential but uncertain prospects for the crop.
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Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Troup
Scotch New Year Bible Superstitions Card
On New Year’s morning people consult the Bible kept from old times. A finger points to a verse predicting happiness or misery for the year. Other beliefs warn that a death may occur if a candle is removed on New Year’s day and misfortune follows anyone discarding anything on the holiday.
Gypsum Proves A Strong Fertilizer In California Crops
California agriculture classifies gypsum as an agricultural mineral yet alfalfa and Ladino clover growers in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys see it as an effective and economical fertilizer and soil amendment. Extension tests in a county showed 500 pounds per acre of gypsum ranked near the top in both crops.
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California State Department of Agriculture
San Joaquin
Sacramento Valleys
California
Extension Service
Great Sport Bobsledding Practiced Like Parachuting
The remark compares bobsledding to parachute jumping as a safe sport. It notes that once athletes start down the hill they expect to land somewhere.
Populist Party Nominating Convention 1892 Overview
A retrospective look at the 1892 Populist convention, nominating Gen. James B. Weaver for president. It traces Weaver’s career from Civil War brigadier general to Greenback and Populist leader, his vote tallies in 1876 1880 1884 1888 and 1892, and notes Mary Ellen Lease famed campaign orator who urged farmers to raise less corn and more hell.
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People’s
James B. Weaver
Iowa
Weaver
Ohio
Ohio University
Cincinnati
Internal Revenue
Grant
National
Greenback Party
Greenbackers
Peter Cooper
New York
General Weaver
Chicago
Kansas
Nebraska
Congress
Greenbacker
Colfax
Mary Ellen Lease
Mary Yellin
Patrick Henry
Earliest Rome Newspaper Acta Diurna Described
The earliest known newspaper is the Acta Diurna, published in Rome several centuries before Christ.
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Acta Diurna
Rome
Christ
High Noon Origins and the Noon Timing
A concise note explains how high noon refers to the sun at its peak around 12 o'clock. It traces noon from Latin nonus hora to three o'clock, later shifted to 12 o'clock, becoming the canonical noon in common usage.
Jack Rabbit Girl Seeks Fate in New York Bureau
Chloe Cameron arrives at Samuels Bureau of Entertainment in Manhattan hoping for an artist’s break. Instead she becomes secretary while pursuing a possible future as a performer, while flashes of her Oklahoma past and a mysterious contact from Mr. Rann Sturgis hint at bigger opportunities ahead.
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Chloe Cameron
Samuels’ Bureau of Entertainment
Bureau
Miss Jepson
Chloe
Rann Sturgis
Strathmore
Gus
Oklahoma
Little Wahilla
Red Hills
Big Dave
Judge Cameron
Wahilla
Nate Barlow
Nate
New York
Nets Barlow
New Yo
Margaret Bell Manston
King Features Syndicate
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Canada
The
Dominion’s Department of National Defense
Federal Land Bank
Web
Thur
Washington DO
Natl Farm Loan Assn
Jeffrey's Bldg
N.W. Corner Sq
T. H. Huston
Pres
J. G. Loving
Met
D. C
Pettit, Secy
Treas
Washington Directory
Business City & County Officers
Theodore B. Bailey
Lean
W. Livingston
Attorney Contract Department
West Main St
Court House
George F. Morrison
J. C. Penney
Officers
Kity Bolietter
City Health
Stk
Bailey
Bran Lemmon
Lloyd Lytle
W. H. Fulton
F. Mack
Henry Bailes
P. L. Jordan
George Baker
Carl Handies
HK. Reistey Iy Ts. Griffithero
J. Ruth Ciurebhers
Marlapns
B. Millen
J. G
W. B. Dupuis
R. F. McFarlane
Clarence Jacobs
Harry Montgomery
City Library
Mire
Crace Uy. Stephen
Librerian
Mra
Ruth Byte
Assistays
DR. O. F
State Bank Conter
Washington St
Bherman
Wer
Main St
Spposita Geurt House
Optometrists
Lemmon
John W. Lemmon
East Side
John CG. Oweg
Lester B
Chiropractors
Chas, O
BROWN
Rea
Washington Independent School District
E. A. Ralston
Ee Harland W. Mead
Eae W. A. Ebre
Ethel McCreedy
Kenneth Freeman
Richard A. Stewart
Donald R. Dover
Harry Ramseyer
Downing
B. F. Best. Sick, Jr
Charlotte Balé
Tae
Lant As
U.S. Treasury Department
Long Beach
Calif
Jack
John
du Pont
Sitler Auto Parts Distributor
Washington Lodge No
W. M
A. W. Yard
Golden State Limited
Californian
Oskaloosa
Sodaceite Eemm
le Goods Ander, Ae
C. B
Co. F. Anderson
Davenport
Kansas City
Southwest Limited
Ciity-Davenport
W. C. Bell
Burlington Trailways
L. L. Stevenson
Ray Block
Fifth Avenue
Phil Baker
Broadway
Robins
Shubert Alley
Peter Kalischer
Julia Peardown
Lyceum Theater
Phillips Lord
Joan Edwards
Charles Martin
Linda Ware
Freddy Martin
Gene Tunney
John Hoystadt
Hi Brown
Ed Byron
Horace Heidt
Patty Andrews
Hollywood
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Sunshine States
Ki FM
David
CT Usissr
Pilgries
Manhattan
Wama
Houston
Chapter
Christopher §Treet
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