Tuberculosis Crisis in Greece Worse Than Most Europe
Greece faces the highest tuberculosis burden in Europe with no national control program. Athens shows a lung TB death rate of 294 per 160000, total TB deaths at 365 per 100000, and one in six deaths due to TB. Typhoid also plagues cities due to broken water and sewerage systems. Plans for modern water and sewerage exist but are delayed by war and rely on ancient aqueducts.
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Athens
Greece
Serbia
United States
Hadrian
Accidental Tool Sparks Idea for Flexible Writing Instrument
An old Birmingham craftsman, Joseph Gillitt, reportedly split a steel tool and used it as a pen while signing a receipt. The incident is said to have inspired the development of a new style of writing instrument, the flexible pen.
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Joseph Gillitt
Birmingham
Naoglind
Political Advertising Ends Meet with Broad Ticket
A dense political ad section lists candidates for President James M. Cox Roosevelt Porter Herring Cameron Sumner Rude Craven Walters and Corral for courts and various Iowa county offices. Local notices include guests and business notices from Washington and nearby towns with shop ads and transportation services.
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James M. Cox
Ohio
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
United States
Claude R. Porter
Centerville
Appanoose County
Clyde L. Herring
Des Moines
Polk County
Charles J. Cameron
Alta
Buena Vista County
Ruth VY. Sumner
Adel
Dallas County
John R. Rude
Marshalltown
Marshall County
J. EB. Craven
Kellogg
Jasper County
C. BK. Walters
Toledo
Tama County
Supreme Court
George B. Lynch
Adair
Adair County
John W. Anderson
Onawa
Monona County
Hubert Utterback
Seneca Corral
Ottumwa
Wapcello County
Congress
E. W. McManus
Keokuk
Lee County
W. M. Sutherland
Washington
N. E
Franklin Township
M. C. DeLong
R. H. McCarty
Vera Knupp Shoemaker
Board of Supervisors
Ed Kos
Jackson Township
Ed Jackson
W. P. Wells
Ouster Suit Dismissed by End of Term
Cedar Rapids Oct 20 The district court refused to sign a temporary removal order for Seth Hendryx county recorder charged with neglect. County Attorney H K Lockwood filed to dismiss the case since the court would not remove him and the state would not pursue the matter before the November jury. Affidavits from Percy E Smith and M B Wain were offset by Hendryx's defense and statements from Hibner and Lola Cornelius.
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Cedar Rapirs
John T. Moffit
Marion
Seth Hendryx
H. K. Lockwood
Hendryx
Altho
Percy E. Smith
Board of Supervisors
M. B.wain
Robert T. Hibner
Lola Cornelius
Recorder’s Office
Nine Points of the Law Proverb on Legal Tactics
The piece notes that success in litigation hinges on patience money a good cause a strong counsel witnesses a fair jury and a capable judge with luck completing the nine points of the law. It adds that possession is the tenth point and implies others may extract profit from it.
The Pacific Ocean and a Chilean Crackdown on Anarchists
The Pacific is described as calm cold and aloof with fogs that lack salt and sunshine that seems to exhale no breath. Chile begins a campaign against anarchists arresting 40 men and women allegedly backed by Peruvian agents.
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Pacific
Narrison Rhodes
Harper’s Magazine
Chile
League of Nations debate shapes 1920 US election view
Des Moines Capital notes that Democrats push the league issue while Republicans argue against binding covenants. The piece cites Lester Harding and Indianapolis speech asserting a Democratic president cannot bind America or mortgage its honor under Article ten, while Republicans favor an international association back by a united America and Europe.
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United States
League of Nations
White House
Senate
Cox
Wilson League of Nations
Lester Harding
Indianapolis
America
Paris
Sie
Republican Party
Europe
Des Moines
Ancient Etruscan dentistry on display at Corneto museum
A specimen from the Necropolis of Tare quinii features three teeth with four gold ring attachments. The display shows central incisors and a bicuspid formed from a single ox tooth groove to resemble two upper central incisors, illustrating ancient dental craft.
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Corneto
Tarequinii
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Allerton
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Havre
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J. W. Patton
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Keota
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Goodyeah
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