Local items note travel, sales, and arrivals in town
Miss Wanda Neiswanger and Miss Martha Maxwell leave for Champaign to continue studies at the University of Illinois. A large fire sale offers a $15,000 stock at the Fair Store with big reductions. Mrs. Mary Snare attends Mr. Warner's funeral. a grand son Albert Mundt arrives from Wisconsin. Ice wagons run on specified days and notices mention the Liberty Dress Form Set advertised by The New York Store.
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Wanda Neiswanger
Martha Maxwell
Champaign
University of Ilinois
Mary Snare
Decatur
Iowa
W. H. Warner
Warner
Clyde Warner
Wyoming
Mae Hopenwardner
Canada
Albert Mundt
Sullivan
Wisconsin
J. F. H. Taylor
California
Salt Lake
Delta
Denver
Lincoln
Omaha
Atlantic
Oskaloosa
New Sharon
Taylors
Love Beach
Pictorial Review
New York
Fire Sale Slashes Stock At The Fair Store
Local shoppers report extensive discounts as the Fair Store begins a fire sale on its 815,000 stock. Carload of army blankets arrives at The New York Store, prices range from 2.75 to 4.50. Several Harper residents, including Miss Margaret Levien and Mrs. Frank Smith, were in Washington yesterday shopping for bargains.
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Margaret Levien
Harper
Washington
Frank Smith
New York
Local flyer outlines travel and shopping sale
Russell R. Benton departed for Fairfield and will fly to Des Moines to work for the Curtis Lawn Airplane Corporation on Thursday Friday and Saturday. Wonderful bargains at the Pair Store during the Big Fire Sale.
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Russell R. Benton
Fairfield
Des Moines
Curtis Lawn Airplane Corporation
Lloyd George Meets Irish Leaders in Scotland
Prime Minister Lloyd George hosts Charry Boland and Joseph McGrath in Gairloch Scotland. They discuss points from the British government’s proposed conference with Linn Felt. McGrath and Boland head back to Dublin to relay Lloyd George’s views for Dail Eireann review.
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London
Lloyd George
Gairloch
Scotland
Charry Boland
Eamon de Valera
Joseph McGrath
Sinn Fein
Linn
McGrath
Beland
Dublin
Dail Eireann
Strikes Hit French Textile and Allied Sectors
In Lille on September 14 textile workers from Tille Roubaix and Turcoing led a strike against proposed wage cuts. Metal municipal street Moenners and restaurant workers joined. gas electrical and tramway workers stayed at work. About 60 000 strikers participated.
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Lille
France
Tille
Roubaix
Turcoing
Russia Can Have These Four Draft Obstruction Prisoners
The government offered to release four prisoners convicted of obstructing the draft if Soviet Russia agrees to take them out of the United States. The inmates are Mollie Stiemer Jacob Abrams Ramavel Litman and Hyman Lackowsky.
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Washington
Soviet Russia
United States
Department of Justice
Mollie Stiemer
Jacob Abrems
Ramavel Litman
Hyman Lackowsky
Plumbers Seek Unpaid Labor to Finish Speedway Hospital
Chicago report says members of the Plumbers' union will not work at 95 cents an hour for the Speedway hospital under Judge Landis. Union officials plan to recruit volunteers who will work without pay to complete the plumbing and ready the hospital for wounded veterans.
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Chicago
Plumbers’ Union
Speedway Hospital
Judece Landis
Berlin Electricians Strike Settled After Tying Services
Berlin officials announced the electricians strike ended today after it had tied up all electrical services on Monday. The settlement ends the halt affecting Berlin's power and public utilities with details released by the city administration.
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Berlin
Legion Holds Memory Hour at Fourth Annual Convention
The Service Star legion opened its fourth annual convention in Cleveland with plans for a uniform thrift education program for chapters nationwide. A memory hour honored fallen service members, and a children's pageant featured hundreds of students. Mrs. Newton DD Baker, wife of the former secretary of war, performed a solo.
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Cleveland
Service Star Legion
Legion
Newton Dd, Baker
Secretry of War
Forbes warns Philippines unready for independent government
Manila reports Governor General Forbes says the Philippines lack sufficient resources to sustain a separate government without protection. He urges development of natural resources to strengthen nationality and says any permanent link with the United States must be mutually agreed and satisfactory to both peoples.
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Manilla
W. Cameron Forbes
Harding
Philippine Mission
University of the Philippines
Forbes
Scalp Injury from Washer Sparks Death in Denver
Mrs. Lee Dickerson, once of Scalped by her hair in a power washing accident at a Sheridan Wyoming home, died in a Denver hospital after two hundred stitches and skin grafting. The tragedy followed extensive facial and scalp injuries.
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Farragut
Lee Dickerson
Sheridan
Wyo
Denver
Businessmen Read Bible at Sac City School Opening
SAC CITY September 14 An innovation at the opening of the Sac City public schools was the appearance Monday of all city business men in each room to read Scripture selections. The plan, inspired by Earl G Stonebrook and R R Cobb from union services in Monument park, impressed pupils with the Bible as history and moral guide.
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Sac City
Earl G. Stonebrook
R. R. Cobb
Monument Park
Curfew Laws Track Juvenile Behavior Change
The article notes curfews tracing to medieval bells and shows modern use in the United States. It cites about 9 000 towns with curfew ordinances and reports notable drops in juvenile delinquency in some locales since enactment.
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United States
Hammurabi Code Details and Its History
The Code of Hammurabi, created by Babylon king Hammurabi circa 1058 to 1916 B C, was discovered in 1001 A D in a stone eight feet high. It includes 280 sections covering bribery, home intrusion, and the famous eye for an eye principle predating Mosaic law.
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Hammurabi
Babylon
B. C
Powerful Appeal From Phoebe Me Een
A quotation extols a lively warm-hearted girl as a strong moral guide for young men aged eighteen to twenty-five emphasizing beauty brightness and steering toward truth and piety by Phoebe Me Een.
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Phoebe Me Een
Poker Origins Traced From Persian and New Orleans Roots
The article traces poker to Persian origins and its arrival in the United States via New Orleans. It notes a link to the French poque and a possible mispronunciation of the term as poker, with Italian and French ties shaping the name and game form.
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United States
New Orleans
Cable of Human Hair Links a Tokyo Temple
A Japanese custom saw churchgoers donate hair for temple construction. A hair rope stretched 4528 feet, seven inches thick, weighing 847 pounds, with about 350000 contributors. It supported beams and rafters in a stre c ture at Tokyo.
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Japan
Tokyo
Lipman patent uses pencil end eraser to avoid loss
Philadelphia man Hy men L Lipman observed erasing rubber vanishes during writing and devised a device where the pencil butt holds a small eraser so it cannot disappear. He patented the idea and reportedly earned a fortune.
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Philadelphia
Hymen L. Lipman
Mr. Lipunn
The Bedouin of the North in Forests
The Indian living entirely in the northern forests appears odd yet fitting as a woodsman. He embodies the wilderness as a wise guide, a Bedouin of green deserts, whose faithful care benefits city folk seeking guidance.
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Effie Haines
Kate Ackley
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Lemmon
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W. W. Wilson
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S. B. Thompson
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Ray Stewart
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Dailey’s Taxi
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the Royal Cleaners
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Will Keyes
C. D. Wood
Carl Comba
Sterling White
Homer Birney
Alma Miller
Nita Nicholson
Ww. A. Vinton
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Prank Chilecte
Wes Regan
D. F. Macon
J. A. Young
J. Dean
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J. A. Warley
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Hinsky
McElhinney Drug Co
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Malani Ana Ha Makani
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Mee
Russia
U. S
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Lyle Thompson
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Young Thompson
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Otto Huako
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Dollie Varien
Lew Cody and
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