Million Train for Business Shows Growth in Curricula
Federal Bureau of Education reports over 1 000 000 young men and women seek business training in public and private schools and colleges. Enrollment rises in business courses across state colleges, private institutions, and corporate schools, with New York, Philadelphia and Boston leading in specialized programs.
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United States
Federal Bureau of Education
Federal Bureau
Cireles
Bureau of Education
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
A. & Swiggert
Building a Foreign Salesman for Broad Knowledge
The text argues a salesman must know customers beyond their needs to gain interest and friendship. A ten year course is being revised from recent trials, and the Bureau of Education promotes expanding business courses nationwide to prepare students for international markets.
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Bureau of Education
United States
Ties Victim in Bathtub at Memphis Hotel
J. Q. Hiers, a New York salesman and father of actor Walter Hiers, was found in the bathtub of his Memphis Hotel Gayoso room with a rope tied to the faucet. He reported an intruder entered, robbed him of cash and diamonds worth about 34 thousand five hundred dollars, and escaped after striking him on the head. Hiers remained conscious and gave detectives details of the assault.
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J. Q. Hiers
New York
Walter Hiers
Hotel Gayoso
Memphis
Tenn
Hiers
Island tattooing fades in Marquesas as master left
Dr Ralph Linton reports in Honolulu after ten months in the Marquesas that only one master tattooer remains. Once the islands boasted widespread, intricate designs including full body and intra nasal tattoos with shaved patches.
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Marquesas
Traveler
Marquesas Islands
Ralph Linton
Bishop Museum
Honolulu
South Seas
VAMPS WHO MADE HISTORY PAULETTE ANTOINETTE IN NAPOLEON ERA
James C. Young recounts Paulette, Napoleon’s sister, whose beauty and schemes surrounded the Corsican ruler. From forced marriages to Rome, Santo Domingo, and Elba, her life intersected with Leclerc Camilla Borghese and Canova. She boasted glamour, faced scandal, sold jewels, and died at forty four after living through Napoleonic upheavals.
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Napoleon
Italy
Paris
Paulette
Leclerc
Portugal
Santo Domingo
Camilla Borghese
Rome
Canova
Venus
Sné
Egg price plunge hits Chicago egg market
The wholesale price of eggs fell sharply as a 50 cent drop per dozen sparked a $900,000 loss among speculators. Cold storage seized 200,000 cases after margin and storage charges were unpaid, piling six million dozen eggs onto the market. Storage eggs may sell for 29 to 39 cents a dozen, with fresh eggs around 39 to 42 cents.
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Chicago
Fred H. Massman
National Tea Company
R. A. Dawson
Pigely Wiggly
Eges
Carton
Sol Westerfield
Retail Grocers Association
Four Chickens Escape From Parcel Post Pouch
Postmaster of East Greenville Pennsylvania reports four chickens emerged from a parcel post pouch when he emptied a second class mail bag. Officials attribute the strange sight to heat aging the eggs in the consignment, freeing the chicks during handling.
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East Greenville
Close shave ends stomach trouble after gray ordeal
Man recounts severe stomach pains and collapse after a Sunday meal. He credits Mayr's Wonderful Remedy with ending his gas and stomach woes eighteen months ago and notes a money back guarantee. Lemmon's Pharmacy promotes the product.
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Mayr
Lemmon’s
Advt
Tuberculosis Specialist Sentenced in Hamburg for Usury
A Hamburg tuberculosis specialist received six months in prison, two years of citizenship loss, and a 15 000 mark fine for usury after rendering excessively high bills to patients.
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Hamburg
Germany
First All Women Lunacy Commission Appointed in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia court appointed a lunacy commission composed entirely of women marking the first such gender specific panel.
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Philadelphia
Hard Times Then and Now Compared by Banker
Marshalltown Times Republican notes a banker comparing 1893 98 hard times with 1921. He cites land sales for pennies, widespread poverty in the West, bankrupt cattle industries, low wages, and the Atlantic Ocean as a dividing line to Europe.
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Marshalltown Times-Republican
Kansas
Nebraska
Mississippi
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
Franklin County
Countryman & Co
Return of Jane from Home for the Feeble-Minded
In Harpers, Mamie tells Anna that Jane, deemed subnormal after a doctor’s check, was sent away to be an idiot but could not pass and returned to the Orphans’ home. The account reveals gossip about institutional placement and alleged mental status.
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Janie
Mamie
Anna
Jane
Harper's
Disraeli Recounts Baum's Shifting Roles Across Years
In a talk with Sir Philip Rose Disraeli described Baum’s evolving relation over thirty years as a servant friend and finally master. He said the first five years he was excellent, the next five faithful and interesting, and the last five years indulgent.
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Disraeli
Philip Rose
Baum
Butter and Egg Board Breakup Fight Gains Steam
Committee's counsel said he would renew the effort to dissolve the Chicago Mercantile Exchange known as the butter and egg board. He charged the exchange with serving as a veil for egg gamblers. Egg prices fell nationwide with New York at 10 cents, Kansas City down 3 cents, and San Francisco sliding from 43 to 39 cents.
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Mittee
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The
Butter and Egg Board
New York
Kansas City
San Francisco
Carpentier Knocks Out Cook In Final Rounds At Hall
At Albert hall London on January 13 Carpentier used precise blows to the jaw at the end of the fourth round to drop George Cook Australia’s greatest fighter. Carpentier remained calm while Cook pressed the attack, then delivered finishing rights to floor the challenger, with 10 000 spectators loudly urging Cook to endure. The Frenchman seized the moment and prevailed in dramatic fashion using the same tactics he employed against Beckett two years earlier.
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London
George Cook
Australia
Albert Hall
Georges Carpentier
Cook
Tiploes
Carpentier
Beckett
NO AMERICAN QUEEN
Young King Boris of Bulgaria says he will not marry an American girl if he visits the United States with Premier Stambouliski next spring. He jokes that the idea is novel and notes he is busy with Bulgaria’s reconstruction. He adds his sisters will be married off before he marries.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Boris
America
Stambouliski
Leaders Agree on Bonus and Allied Debt Plan
Senate Republican leaders near unanimity on a legislative program for the current session. They consider a new plan to combine the soldier bonus with allied debt refunding bills to fund cash payments to veterans via bonds from allies. Key items include allied debt refunding, the bonus, tariff revision, postwar treaties, farmers cooperative marketing, and reclamation legislation.
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Washington
Senate
Harding
Farmers’ Co-Operative
Tanlac Proves Help For Three Children
Parents sing Tanlac’s praises after their children gain weight and return to robust health. Blanche Blair 13 Providence Rhode Island gained 10 pounds Regina McCabe 9 Scranton Pennsylvania gained 15 pounds Richard Leary Jr Philadelphia previously delicate now strong. Claims credit to Tanlac and notes free Tanlac Vegetable Pills aid digestion.
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Atwood Street
Providence
R. I
Tanlac
Taniac
Catherine McCabe
Dickens Ave
Scranton
Regina
Tanlae
Richard Leary
Palethorpe St
Philadelphia
Declaration denies Indian hung in France without trial
Forest Lemoine, a former soldier, sent a statement to Senator Irandegee denying a witness claim that an Indian from the Twenty-sixth Infantry was hanged in France without trial. Lemoine says the soldier was court-martialed and sentenced. charges were read at execution near Muencourt, France.
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San Antonio
Tex
Twenty-sixth Infantry
France
Watson
Iruandegee
Senate
Forest Lemoine
Federal Vocational School
Lemoine
Company L
Muencourt
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