World record hunger as Austria faces famine during winter
An article notes a historic hunger record as deaths in Austria outpace births due to food shortage. It describes 350000 Vienna children with only 7500 nourished, calls for $23 million to aid 3.5 million under seventeen across Central Europe, and praises Hoover in humanitarian relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
American Relief Commission
Childern
Vienna
Germany
Dresden
Herbert Hoover
Government policy brings housing surge as Dems come
ABE MARTIN notes that government action is rapidly increasing home availability and Mrs Safe Bud supplies are flowing, but warns readers to expect a house wait even as Democrats approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Safe Bud
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason
An aged poet reflects on aging while watching youth pass by. He recalls troubled youth, failed dreams, and a life of fevered hopes, contrasting it with a quiet evening and wine as the day ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walt Mason
Distress Over Child Health Prompting Relief Efforts
A recent report highlights severe child malnutrition and disease in the city. Only 4,500 of 54,000 examined children are in normal health, with 83 percent tuberculosis rise and widespread undernourishment. Rickets and stunted growth plague many youngsters. specialists fear long term social costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josef Pooner
State Department of Health
Friends Unit
Vienna
Kellogg School Chief Arrested in corporal punishment case
Owen Bishop superintendent of Kellogg schools was arrested on a charge of assault and battery after five boys aged 10 to 13 said he whipped them with a rubber tube on school grounds. The boys Ruskin Loupee Donald Foster Theodore Birchard Barl Weber and Roy Howell named the alleged incident. Bishop pleaded not guilty and posted $100 bonds with a court date set for December 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop
M. J. Carey
Wireless telephony and distant transmission foretold change
The article discusses wireless progress linking global markets and daily life. It foresees the wireless telephone becoming a major economic factor in international relations and commerce with real-time access to speeches, messages, and even photographs across continents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Melbourne
Paris
St. Louis
Madrid
Atlantic
Virginia
Eiffel Tower
Navy Department
Washington
Honolulu
San Francisco
Hils
Pacific Coast
Congress
United States
Memphis
Boston
Dallas
Boise City
Wireless phototelegraphy and its far reaching prospects
The piece discusses early telecommunication breakthroughs including wireless sight transmission by Dr. M A Low and Belin’s telephoto methods. It notes military and commercial potential, from naval navigation via magnetic cables to broker order transmission and future warfare changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Low
Atlantic
Brunswick Plant To Resume Full Force After Jan. 1
Dubuque officials deny reports of 12 workers. About 200 men are at work now and will steadily return to a full 1,100 over the next weeks, with 400 laid off during shutdown and 500 in earlier rounds. Operations resume after an inventory, as floor stock and machinery are overhauled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick Company
Dubuque
Brunswick Balk Company
Chicago
Los Angeles
Release of Many Convicts Arouses Nebraska Citizens
Omaha Neb Dec In a bid to clear space for an anticipated flood of bootleggers and moonshiners the Nebraska penitentiary released a large mix of criminals including thieves murderers rapists auto thieves and bank robbers. The releases prompted swift protests from state and local groups with officials vowing secrecy.
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Omaha
Neb
Nebraska Penitentiary
Lincoln
Nebraska
Paroled Criminals Released Across Nebraska Counties
A list shows Charles Joiner Harry Knight George Alexander Roy Slack and others paroled after offenses from forgery to robbery. The report notes the ranges of crimes and counts of released prisoners, stating 11 grand larceny 5 auto theft 5 robbery 3 burglary 4 forgery 1 theft 1 shooting and 3 rape among the fifty three released with bootleggers favored outside. It closes with a comment that ads function as news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Joiner
Omaha
Harry Knight
Lincoln
Liberty
George Alexander
Roy Slack
W. E. Foster
Box Butte County
Frank Delbridge
St. Louis
Cedar Rapids
Pardon Board
Frank Rogers
Harry Thompson
Anamosa
Fred B. Byam
Louisville
Neb
J. L. McCollester
St. Joseph
Ralph Carpenter
Richardson County
Nebraska
Halls Catarrh Medicine Ad Patterson 1900s Style
An old advertisement describes Catarrh as a nasal illness and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a remedy. It claims the medicine cleanses the system and reduces susceptibility to colds and catarrh, taken internally to affect mucous surfaces. It lists price and Toledo, Ohio manufacturer details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pere
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
First Congress Authorized Penny Found at Dover Homestead
A Franklin penny, the first coin authorized by Congress, was discovered on the homestead of a Dover area settler in Massachusetts. The find highlights early American numismatic history and local archival interest.
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Congress
Dover
Massachusetts
Armistice Day Shows Army Short by 70,000 at Peak Size
On armistice day this year the United States Army, which two years before had numbered more than 4,000,000 men, was still 70,000 short of its present authorized strength of 280,000 officers and men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Army
Wan Down East Sets Record for Future Heirs
A man from the East speaks his will into a phonograph, creating a lasting record intended to inspire his heirs to break his long standing achievement in the future.
One Room Schools Are Given Attention Cedar Falls
In Iowa a Teachers College extension worker, Professor John R. Slacks, will lecture at normal training high schools to aid single room rural schools. He plans about three periods daily at each site and will be away from campus for an indefinite period as he outlines modern rural instruction based on state observations and experiments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Falls
Iowa State Teachers College
John R. Slacks
Rural Department
Teachers College
Iowa
Slacks
Sac County
Teachers College Extension Department
Railway Time Table O H B L A Corrected to Nov 21 1920
Corrected timetable lists train numbers and schedules for O B & Q lines with daily and weekend exceptions. Includes departure and arrival times for local and express trains, notes on cancellations, and station agents signatures.
Masonic and Knights Templar Meetings Announced
Cyrus Chapter No 13 R A M regular meeting on the second Friday night each month with H T Carris and Secretary Arthur Goodin. Bethlehem Commandery No 48 KT meets on the third Friday with J D Glasgow and H Richards. Washington Chapter No 98 OE holds meetings on the second Thursday with W M Mrs Mary Lavada Kerr and Secretary Mrs Myrtle Speer. Visiting fraters welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Lodge
A. F
A. M
Charles Freding
W. M
Arthur Goodin
Myrtle Speer
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Evening Journal
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Shannon
Bruce Cowden
Washigton
Town
Mutual
Ives
Counre
Abe Martin
Yesteryear
M. A. Low
Edouard Belin
France
Newcastle
Indiana
Hen Marshall
Ben Marshall
Omaha Women’s Clubs
Sears
District Court
Marshall
MecKelvie
Frank Nelson
Nuckolls County
Nelson
Physicians and Surgeons
A. John Droz
M. Blig
Brookhart Bros. Law
Opera House
Mutual Phone
Irvin E. Huston
Southwest Corner Square
Lemkey
Washington, IA
Morrison & Morrison
Awyers
Orrison Bidg
North Side
Washington,owa
Ings
J. E. Edgington
M. D
F. & M. Bank
T. A. Michels
Temple Building
Ashington, Iowa
Black
C. J. Wilson
CO. O. Wilson
Wilson & Wilson
Journal
Real Esta
Dayton
Art Caerter
Ashington
Rsautpro
Barto
Mre
M. H. Sarter
Artor & Sartor
Klein Klothing
Austin Sutherland
R. A
Wilson
Kicher
Livingston & Kicher
LAW
Kington
Keeley
Lawyrd
Washington, Iowa
W. H. Butterfield
Craig’s
Wase'ngton
Etboalda Revivas
Sandau
H. W. Russel
Ewest Lim
Tracy
Calvert
Damascus Shrine
Moose Hall
Rose M. Reid
Mildred Rice
O. O. F.—Covenant Lodge No
Iowa Ave
Ray Boyer
Noble Grand
Roy Maple
Brighton
North
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