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Waterloo
Iowa
Associated Press
United Press International News
Audit Bureau of Circulations
RC TT ET
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Story
Brooks & Finley, Representatives
Anti smoke campaign urged by United States papers
A national anti smoke effort argues public opinion must awaken to action. W A Ireland of the Columbus Dispatch praises press resolve, noting selfish interests and apathy hinder progress. The Courier quotes his challenge to readers to persist for years if needed.
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United States
Jts
Courier
Columbus, Q
Dispatch
Ireland
Extraterritoriality and American Oil Interests in Mexico
European observers warn that enforcing extraterritorial rights would complicate U.S. influence in Mexico. Walter Tippmann argues for a square deal for American oil operations while avoiding escalating tensions with foreign powers.
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China
Rome
States
Mexico
Iowa Road Plan Aims To Fix Muddy Gravel Routes
Reports from Iowa towns describe roads as muddy and slippery with only one area offering any encouragement for motorists. The piece notes an unusually early spring and bad dirt and gravel roads, urging a state highway system to ensure safe communication across regions regardless of season as the General Assembly develops a road program.
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Es Dozen
Lowa
Atlantic
Chariton
Clarina
Safety engineer could cut industrial accidents costs
A safety engineer is urged as essential to reduce accidents and costs across American industry. The piece notes 25 percent of incidents are unavoidable, while the rest could be prevented with better safety practices. It cites workmen’s compensation incentives and a California estimate of 150,000 spending yielding 6,009,000 in saved premiums.
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Ufe
California
Unrestricted Handling of Poison in Public Health Critique
The author denounces lax controls on poisonous substances amid gun violence and ill regulated patent medicines. It condemns statute gaps that allow strychnine in cathartics and tonics, highlighting an Omaha child’s death from poison and urging stricter sales records and physician reporting to prevent such murders for profit.
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New York
Albany
Nostrum
Health Qs and As on nervousness blues and lead pipes
Reader asks why lips and eyelids turn blue and heart beats quick with no heart issue. Dr Brady cautions many symptoms come from medicines used for nerves or pain containing acetanilid phenacetin or antipyrin. Also notes tooth decay from poor nourishment and lead in municipal water posing poisoning risk if water sits overnight. run water first, if in river water.
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The Decalogue of Science by Glenn Frank
The essay presents ten commandments on the spirit of science attributed to Rev David Rhys Williams and discussed by Glenn Frank. It argues science’s truths demand humility, refusal to idolize fixed dogmas, ethical conduct in research, and openness to new ideas. The piece frames the challenge as teaching results while failing to teach the spirit of science.
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David Rhys Williams
Williams
Truth
Sinai
Intelligent criticism of a woman's hat proposed
The Baltimore Sun quips about spring fashion and married life. It notes wives compare husbands reading the hat and asks men to offer a simple compliment. The piece mocks reluctance to praise with clear examples and suggests easy phrases to use.
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Baltimore Sun
Washington Fest and the push for criminal prosecution
The public will not boycott improper productions. Prosecuting crime is seen as the only method to suppress state vice. A small share of potential audiences seeks indecent entertainment, yet accessible shows entice the curious and evil minded and profit from it, undermining community morals.
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Washington
New York
Harlem gambling, charm sellers, and stage district shift
The piece details Lenox Avenue gambling and the numbers game in Harlem, with risks for sellers and big prizes. It notes the migration of Metropolitan Opera House from midtown to the north, the fading of older stage stars, and reflections on Broadway era changes.
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New York
Lanox Ave‘nue
Harlem
Clearing House
Dlika
Lenox Avenue
Metropolitan Opera
Eighth Avenue
Seventh Street
Rialto
Empire
Casino
Knickerbocker
Forty Second ‘Street
Herald Square
David Belasco
Joe Weber
Lew Fields
David Warfield
Louis Mann
Lillian Russell
Unclear Squiggler bug tale leads to bonfire plan
A fragment from an old tale describes two Squiggler bugs, Squiggy and Jiggy, who plan a bonfire in the woods. They discuss using matches, avoiding damage to their wings and trees, and consider asking a lightning bug to start the fire. The text is incomplete.
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Oncaea
Squiggy
Jiggy
Squigey
Nighttime adventures of Jiggy and Squigey about a bonfire
The tale follows Jiggy and Squigey, two bugs, as they pretend to be scouts by a smoky campfire. Sammie Littletails the rabbit boy arrives and questions their red knots, while Sauirgy and Digger defend the fire's glow and their playful antics.
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Jigey
Sammie
Uncle
Dumple
Jiggy
Saquiggy
Mr. Longears
Wigsily
Dumole
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Squigey
Sammie Littletails
Rabbit Boy
Sauirgy
Digger
Burroughs Nature Club Notes
Burroughs Nature Club Notes offers readers a questions column inviting general nature inquiries. Readers are directed to send questions to the Nature Notes Department for publication answers in the column.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Nature Notes
Questions for Tomorrow's Nature Notes
Why does a water bird get wet while swimming but remains dry when alive. Are lumper eels poisonous. How many rings does a raccoon have on its tail and do all have the same number. These are noted for tomorrow's Nature Notes.
Do bumble bees wax and a wintering finch query
Bumble bees use abandoned nests to form a small wax chamber for brood and food but do not construct a full wax comb. A garden bird, likely an oldfinch in winter plumage, feeds in a cosmos head garden, yellowish olive with white wing bars, active and flighty, may stay if given seed. Readers asked for lawn reading references and several gardening books are recommended, including Parsons Landscape Gardening and Downing Landscape Gardening revised by Waugh.
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Cnsmos
Samuel Parsons
Downing
F. Waugh
Cray
Putnam's
Henderson
The Gray Phantom's Romance Continues in Locked House
The Gray Phantom is under suspicion for murder as patrolman Pinto confronts a hidden tunnel, a revolving window trap and psychologist Doctor Bimble pushes theories. The Phantom questions Pinto's guilt while a planned sleep suggests more clues await in a suspenseful chapter.
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Sylvanus
Gage
Pinto
Helen Hard- Wick
Doctor Bimble
Jerome
Bimble
Vanardy
Pinel
Columbus buggy industry fades with charter cancellation
At Columbus Ohio the Scioto Buggy company cancels its charter. Once a center of buggy production it is turned into a repair shop and the buggy manufacture is abandoned. The piece notes moonlight nights of 40 years ago cannot return.
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Midwest Review
Columbus
Detroit
Scioto Bugsy Company
Abe Martin on beauty doctors and narrow minds
Abe Martin comments on the uncomfortable age for narrow mindedness. He notes beauty doctors are multiplying at an alarming rate, yet he sees no recoveries or change in attitude. The piece uses humor to critique societal vanity and resistance to progress.
AVORITE AMERICAN BIRDS Part IV The Canary
UNCLE RAY describes canaries from the Canary Islands, noting their high voting ranking in a contest and detailing wild and tame varieties. The piece covers nesting habits, egg color, breeding, handling birds gently, cat risks, diet including seed and greens, and occasional pepper during molting. Tomorrow preview: The Mockingbird.
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