Veterans' Bureau to unify aid for former service members
Washington announces the Veterans' Bureau will consolidate all military relief under one head Col Charles R Forbes director promises end of dual responsibility and divided authority The bureau will manage medical facilities education guardianship of war risk patients and insurance operations with an $18 million hospital construction appropriation and plans for 6 800 new beds by January next year
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Washington, D. C
Agencie
Veterans’ Bureau
Charles R Forbes
Seattle
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Federal Board of Vocational Training
Public Health Service
Grid Men Urged to Study Official Football Guide
Des Moines Register notes football rules updates in the Spalding Official Football Guide emphasizing a safety play change to put the ball at the 30 yard line after a safety and stricter player numbering. It also clarifies free kicks after a fair catch near period end and related adjustments to the code.
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Des Moines Register
Spalding
Referee coin toss rule shifts to captains last year
The article notes the change where captains now choose goals by coin flip instead of the referee. It emphasizes players must study the rules as they stood previously to serve their team intelligently.
Jackie Coogan Stars in Peck's Bad Boy at Fox Theatre
Jackie Coogan six years old tops popularity charts in his first independent starring role Peck's Bad Boy at Fox Theatre Thursday and Friday released by Associated First National. The kid style performance rivals his Charlie Chaplin era The Kid with romance and thrills. Supporting cast includes Doris May Wheeler Oakman James Corrigan Lillian Leighton Raymond Hatton Charles Hatton and Baby Gloria Wood Queenie the canine star appears as Tar Baby.
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Jackie Coogan
Peck
Fox Theater
Associated First National
Jackie
Charlie Chaplin
George Peck
Irvin S. Cobb
Governor Peck
Doris May
Wheeler Oakman
James Corrigan
Lillian Leighton
Raymond Hatton
Charles Hatton
Gloria Wood
Queenie
Sail a boat taught in rustic sailor’s guidance
A boatman explains sailing basics with simple steps and warnings about handling main sheet tiller halyards gaff boom and hull during squalls. The tale also notes San Marco university in Lima Peru as South America's oldest educational institution.
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San Marco’s University
Lima
Peru
South America
Navy Eyes Continued Home Program for Airship Fleet
Washington reports naval officials expect to keep the rigid airship program after the ZR-2 loss. A Lakehurst facility and prebuilt materials, including helium stock and envelope components, exist for a ZR-1 sized ship with a 670 foot length and 12.2 million cubic feet of gas at an estimated cost of 2.5 million. Crews are equipped with parachutes and life preservers, and naval craft stand ready to assist across the Atlantic if needed.
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Washington
Naval Bureau of Aeronautics
Navy
America
Lakehurst
N. J
Naval
Fort Worth
Tex
England
Utah
Ohio
Wyoming
Arkansas
Brazos
North Atlantic
Teach Everything At University Of Iowa
The University of Iowa in Iowa City trains students in diverse fields from surgery and bridge building to pie baking, cost accounting, and drug prescription filling. The curriculum spans four years, with some pursuing postgraduate study, highlighting the broad range of skills taught.
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Iowa City
Iowa
University of Iowa
Vast Curriculum Shows Endless Study Possibilities
The passage notes students may pursue technical, cultural, or professional studies across botany geology history languages psychology philosophy chemistry political science mathematics biology art and more. It argues a student taking all current courses would need over a century of classwork and would repeatedly start anew as subjects expand.
Iowa Sweet Corn Silks Have Uses
Cedar Falls reports a Pfieffer Chemical company team collecting 5 000 pounds of sweet corn silk for medicinal prep at St. Louis lab. Silks must be in a precise state. over 3 000 pounds shipped this week. Company officers and many stockholders are Cedar Falls natives. Work to complete in a few days.
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Cedar Falls
Pfieffer Chemical Company
St. Louis
Pfieffer Company
Wyoming cattle men hit by distress in Wyoming
C L Owen former Reinbeck businessman visiting from Reinbeck Iowa reports severe financial trouble among Wyoming cattlemen. He witnessed high feed costs, bad storms that damaged herds, and ranges that are very depleted. Sheepmen also suffer with ewes selling for about 3 dollars in Douglas Wyoming.
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Reinbeck
Iowa
C. L. Owen
Wyoming
Omaha
Lusk
Wyo
Douglas
Minnesota Launches Expanded Public Highway Program Plan
Minnesota enacts an enlarged public highway program under the Babcock plan with a constitutional amendment approved by 626,928 to 199,608. The program aims to shift maintenance to the state, use federal aid, and fund about 26.3 million for trunk and county road improvements this year, building toward broader nine-to tenfold network expansion statewide.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Babcock
Charles M. Babcock
Washington
State of Ten Thousand Lakes
Highway Department
West Africans and the Dictionary
A Manchester man reports receiving odd letters from a self styled educated Weert African rivaling the Babu in using polysyllables. The letters ask firms in the directory to join in big business schemes ending with a formal sign off.
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Manchester
T. E. Atkins
Manchester Guardian
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