Journey to World Press Congress Begins Aboard Matsonia
Traveler recounts departure from Chicago to Mer Honolulu for the World Press Congress with a Grand Canyon stop and a Santa Fe special train. The voyage on the Matsonia from San Francisco to Honolulu covers about six days with island tours and onboard amenities including barber and valet service.
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World Press Congress
Merolulu
Athens
Greece
Chicago
Kansas City
Grand Canon
San Francisco
Gall
Matsonia
Honolulu
Congress
United States
Santa Fe
Cow Crash Haunts Poet as Car Recedes to Junkyard
Walt Mason laments a collision with a cow on the highway. The poem recalls childhood echoes, the cow’s fatal fall, and the poet’s damaged car and remorse. The mishap ends with the speaker nursing wounds and uttering oaths.
Press congress notes and Funston legacies in 1922 voyage
The narrator meets Iowa delegates Golthwaite and Medary aboard a world press congress voyage and praises the aim of world peace through international journalistic amity. Greek publisher Coutoupis is seen, while Frederick Funston Jr. prepares for a West Point exam as memories of General Funston loom large.
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Iowa
Golthwaite
Borne
Medary
Waukon
Panama
National Editorial Assn
World Press Congress
Coutoupis
Nea
New Greece
Athens
Greece
Japan
China
India
Egypt
Frederick Funston
San Francisco
West Point
Young Funston
Funston
Cuba
France
Boston Transcript
Youth and Old Age: A Conflict Across Lifespans
Health Hints discusses the ongoing tension between youth and aging, arguing mental attitude and intellectual growth sustain elderly vitality. It stresses that continued learning boosts mental capacity beyond physical peak and advocates simple routines to support aging bodies.
Second Funston It Is Just A Routine Announcement
A routine notice states that the president has designated Funston in a pledge or appointment, with minimal context and no further details provided. The announcement emphasizes official action rather than policy or dates.
Russian intelligentsia in village life and moral boundaries
M. J. Olgin reports from a rural Russia where four teachers, the minister, and a nurse form the intelligentsia alongside peasants. Despite limited state pay, teachers share land for crops and hold village votes, while clergy face shrinking influence as younger villagers seek theater and secular amusements.
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M. J. Olgin
Asia Magazine
Persia’s Drink Rewrites a Stone Toss Tale
An exchange claims Persia offers a beverage that grants men a motive to hurl stones. The note hints Persia as a poor land for greenhouse ventures and references NeXS as part of the commentary.
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Persia
Nexs
Radium Found Naturally In Minute Quantities
Radium occurs in nature in exceedingly small amounts and is never visible even under a microscope. The element exists in trace quantities, making direct observation by eye or simple inspection impossible.
Service costs absorb 49 cents of every dollar
Washington report notes service costs take 49 cents of each consumer dollar for goods. The Joint Congressional Commission on Agricultural Inquiry urges reform, arguing distribution needs reorganizing to reduce costs, while consumer and middleman roles shape pricing and perceived value.
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Washington
Sidney Anderson
Joint
Congressional Commission of Agricultural Inquiry
Congress
Mr. Anderson
Vamps Who Made History by James C Young
A historical vignette tracing Lola Montez Elizabeth from Ireland to fame and notoriety. From her English childhood to India Spain Paris and Munich. Her fall from grace, royal intrigue and final resting place in Greenwood Cemetery Brooklyn.
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Vamps
James C. Young
Dumas
Lola Montez
Elizabeth
Lord Byron
India
England
Spain
London
Hisses
Germany
Belgium
Warsaw
Lola
Paris
Munich
Ludwig
Lola Gue
Europe
New York
Australia
Greenwood Cemetery
Brooklyn
Wireless Messengers and the Power of Wires
A concise note explains how wireless signals traverse homes and bodies unseen, yet suggests that with a few wires a metal plate and a glow lamp arranged properly, wireless messengers can carry voice over thousands of miles. The passage reflects early curiosity about telecommunication devices.
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Brooklyn
Jamaica Recounts Roots of Name Kingston Spring Motif
The article explains Jamalea as a corruption of xnymamece a West Indian phrase meaning the country abounding in springs, reflecting Jamaica's nickname the Country of Springs and its symbolic springs motif.
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Jamaica
Jamalea
Pola Negri Stars in Passion Cast of 5000 at Graham
The Associated First National Pictures presents Passion at the Graham Theatre for a limited run. Pola Negri leads a cast of 5000 in a dramatic spectacle about a French milliner who rises to power and falls amid public hatred. The film promises sensational scenes and nonstop action.
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Associated First National Pictures, Inc
Graham Theatre
Pola Negri
Iowa Penal Population Reaches Record High
Des Moines reports the Iowa penal system at record capacity with 81 or 82 women in Rockwell City reform school. Senator A M McColl says postwar conditions and alcohol and auto crime drive the rise. Thirty inmates from the reformatory at Alamosa will move to Fort Madison this week A M McColl states the old cell house is the only available housing.
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Des Moines
Iowa
A. M. McColl
State Board of Control
M.nual
Alamost
Fort Madison
McColl
Reformatory
Rockwell City
Beautiful but Unusual Words From a Mile State Journal Lecture
The note lists striking words from a lecture on language beauty. It mentions no appeal for funds and features the phrase con nection with the lecture. The item reflects a newspaper quirk highlighting vocabulary.
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Mile State
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