Debate Over St Lawrence Waterway To Open Great Lakes Ports
The piece argues freight congestion at Atlantic ports and rail shortages threaten farmers. It cites deepening St Lawrence channels by dams and locks, creating 2,000,000 horsepower hydroelectric power, to permit oceangoing ships to reach Duluth Montreal and inland lakes.
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Congress
Great Lakes
North Central
Northwest States
Atlantic
Atlantic Ports
St. Lawrence
Duluth
Montreal
Gault Ste. Marie
Niagara Falls
New Welland Canal
St. Lawrence River
Galop
St. Regis
Canada
United States
Liverpool
New York
Buffalo
New York Barge
Northwest
Hunt for Francis Clark to claim $10,000 life policy
Des Moines January 25 Ten thousand dollars awaits the finder of Francis Clark the adopted son of an Iowa farmer. His brother George Washington Clark a sergeant in the ordnance department was killed December 8 1918. Insurance of ten thousand dollars was made out to Sam Switzer a farmer on Route 2 Ames Iowa. Switzer took Clark from an orphans home in New York state without legal adoption papers and cannot benefit. The government seeks Francis Clark as next of kin and will pay ten thousand nine hundred dollars upon identity proof.
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Francis Clark
Des Moines
Clark
Iowa
George Washington Clark
Ordnance Department
First Army
Sam Switzer
Ames
Switzer
New York State
Sugar Not For Sale In Central African Village
In a Central African village sugar is not purchased but the people sustain themselves with year round fruit and children chew sugar cane or sweet maize stalks instead.
How to Petrify Wood Steps and Materials
Instructions describe mixing gem salt rock alum white vinegar chalk and peebles powder in equal quantities. After ebullition, submerge wood or porous material in the liquid to turn it to stone in four or five days.
Reel L y Vyknow on Style and Screen Fame
In a review style rumination the author praises Bob Warwick and James J Corbett for their screen presence and looks comparing them to a modern manikin. The piece notes Warwick's sartorial flair and Corbett's enduring performance power despite changes in fame.
Ingomar ends evening with praise for Ethel Clayton
The speaker compliments Ethel Clayton for her performance in The Ladder of Lies and notes admiration for her photo work. They praise Forman the boy director and remark on the well posed Meredith Fillmore and Cummings before signing off for the evening.
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Ethel Clayton
Fox
Forman
Meredith
Fillmore
Cummings
Ingomar
The Housewife of 1921 and the Woman Suffrage Reality
The passage notes that women's suffrage makes the American woman a voter and citizen in the busy world. It urges women to maintain health and to consider E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound when ailments specific to their sex arise, claims a long history of use.
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E. Pinkham
Health Restorative Adverts Standby for Women
A vintage advertisement extols a health product as a forty year standby for American women restoring health and strength. The line emphasizes a trusted long running remedy marketed to female consumers.
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Advt
Proposing in Siam Deemed Simple Courtship Guideline
A historical note describes proposals in Siam as simple acts such as presenting a flower or offering a light for a cigarette. The guideline suggests even shy youths need not fear the moment, framing courtship as nonthreatening and easily navigated.
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Siam
Tn Sint
Fifty Fifty and the Candy Tag Exchange
A brief exchange describes Little Homer and his mother walking together. He asks for candy, she buys some but omits the tag. He cries, and she asks who paid while he responds with a question about who cried for it.
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Homer
Record speeds of wind in hurricanes and tropical storms
The article notes that a wind speed of ninety miles an hour creates a hurricane, and mentions records of tropical storms with winds exceeding six hundred miles per hour in historical accounts.
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International Commission
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New York City
R. 8. McElwee
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Washington
Detroit
Jersey Meadows
Manhattan
New Orleans
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Lake Cities
McElwee
Lake Ports
Hamburg
Norfolk
Baltimore
Central West
Movienews
Ingoima
Graham Theatre
Pathe
Jack London
Ife
Martin Eden
Sailor Burke
Mahlon Hamilton
Pippin
Lillian Rich
Syd Ainsworth
B. F. Campbell
N. Marion Ave
Bob Warwick
Globe
Skookum
Field
Ringside
Mr. Warwick
Corbett
Sally
Fitz
Jeff
Jim
Albert Davis
Columbus Junction
Winfield
Lawyer
Swit
Die
Pathfinder
Sensation
Orion
Great Wonder
Orion Jack
Jack
Orion Cherry
UISU
John H. Davis
D. F. Macon
J. P. Jones
Buick
Tucker & Eicher
Washington, Iowa
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