WHO FRAMED THE LEAGUE
Lloyd George disputes Wilson's authorship of the League of Nations plan and outlines drafts by Lord Philliore and Gen Smuts. Wilson reportedly supported the Smuts draft at Paris, though he did not originate the covenant. The piece argues Wilson aided Versailles negotiations but did not evolve the plan alone.
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League
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Lloyd George
Wilson
Lord Philliore
Gen. Smuts
Buckingham Palace
Paris
America
No Dealings With Reds Claims Editorial Tone
A North Carolina textile strike prompts debate over communist influence. The federal labor department initially mediated but withdrew when radicals directed the dispute, prompting editorials arguing government and unions must oppose revolutionary groups and defend lawful action.
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Federal Department’ of Labor
North Carolina
Labor ‘ Department
United States
How Juries Go Wrong in Modern Justice
A long critique arguing juries subvert the law in Helen Morgan’s acquittal. It cites a juror's claim that personal sympathy overruled legal facts, calling such nullification typical of today’s justice. The piece notes a looming Congress bill to curb securities lending on the NYSE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
New York Times
Helen Morgan
Miss Morgan
The
Times
Quick State of Mind Blends with National Affairs Cartoonish Observations
A collage of wry jabs on European finance versus American securities and Nevada archaeology. The writer jokes about Mayflower descendants, 1920s social tableaux, and a minister’s Sunday contrast with a baby in church. Tariff musings mix with Mexico City radio interference and odd free trade quips.
Dr Celia Mosher honored for women’s health contribution
Dr Celia Duel Mosher, medical adviser to women at Stanford, is praised for her work in personal hygiene for women. The article outlines her abdominal exercise from the book and stresses health improvements for young women, plus a notes section on yeast to prevent pellagra and a reader Q&A with Brady.
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DR. Mosher
Celia Duel Mosher
Stanford University
Dr. Masher
Mosher
Stanford University Press
Fogles
The Slavery of Success and its Hidden Bosses
In Glenn Frank's essay the lure of success is shown to bring new forms of servitude. He argues that higher ranks create broader bosses, from foremen to thousands of editors, whose approval habits shape every action and fear of failure persists as a daily burden. The piece portrays success as not freeing one from control but multiplying it.
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Stetlon
Althoit
Cam
United States
Fragmented Contorted Nation News and Satire Snippet
A garbled collage quotes readers and officials on politics postage stamps and a potpourri of opinions. It includes bemused lines about a Roma braves lumped with royalties, critiques of government stamp stickiness, and a jab at Mrs Gann, all in a fragmented, satirical newspaper voice.
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Wilbur
Word Type Test on Weapons and Armor Answers
The page presents a three minute word classification test from BRAIN TESTS. Readers must mark each item as firearm weapon or neither with answers to appear on the Society Page. The list includes muskets rifles scimitars maces bayonets poniards daggers cutlasses pistols swords helmets halberds shields and related gear.
Dusty city life in Waterloo over seven decades ago
Seventy years ago in The Courier, items from 1859 to 1909 touch on urban life. Notes include police uniforms from Cincinnati to Waterloo, local deaths and pioneer settlers, banking moves, a moved household, and civic plans. The column reflects community memory, public notices, and social details preserved from early Waterloo history.
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Tobias Wiley
Philanda White
Waterloo
Wiley
White
CG. K. White
Illinois
Miller's Creek
Sensational Hold Up at Little Gem Restayint
Abe Martin notes a bold midday robbery at the Little Gem Restayint. describes it as one of the slickest and most daring holdups in recent hours with a poor bomber failing to hit and a mention of a Mexican hat context.
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Little Gem
Wood shop drive aims to curb waste and train youths
Washington April 24 AP The Commerce Department will put over 1,000,000 boys to work this summer teaching carpentry and making 1,200 products from secondhand crates and lumber. Woodworking shops will be opened nationwide to reduce waste, backed by the National Committee on Wood Utilization. Thousands of copies of a booklet You Can Make It will guide youngsters and playground programs. Rep Sol Bloom of New York, a songwriter, recalls composing The Heroes That Sank With the Maine in the 1890s while traveling to his Chicago office.
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Helmert
Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
Department
National Committee On Wood Utilization
Plummer
Washington
Sol Bloom
New York
Maine
Chicago
Slums on New York streets shape drama and life
The piece surveys New York slum tenements as theater of daily existence, noting realistic portrayals in Street Scene and the vivid, persistent misery and resilience within crowded flats. It highlights women’s sacrifices, boys’ temptations, and surviving artists who emerge from the squalor, with scenes across Ninth and Tenth avenues, the water front, and cultural hubs like Carnegie Hall and West Forty-second Street flea circus.
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New York
Lower East Side
Ninth and
Tenth Avenue
Monumental Visitors Fill Washington as Easter Rush Breaks Records
The national capital swarms with visitors to the Washington Monument and nearby historic sites. Guides work overtime while Mount Vernon and other attractions draw crowds. Easter week set records with 39,480 visitors. 10,034 ascended the monument on Easter Monday despite heat.
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Washington
National Capital
Capitol
Mount Vernon
Washington ‘Monument
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Courier
Park Ave
Commercial St
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Wisa
Oewa
A.sbatches
Audit Bureau
Giroula
Tate
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
San Fran
Cisco
Story
Brooks & Finley
Representatives
Sgenera
Congress
New York Stock Exchange
Europe
Nevada
Mexico City
Personal Health Service
William Brady, M. D
Nat'l Newspaper Service
Weastern
Kentucky
Brady
William
Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Century Magazine
Mecluire
Festa
Piper
Megow
Gann Farr
M. B
Spokesman-Review
Wei
Bureau of Engraving
Wham, la
Ieae
N.Y
Evening Past, Inc
Moses Frank
Cincinnati
Middlesex
Springfield
Mass
Daily Union
John JW. Cook
Armory
T H R. J. Thompson
Albert Lea
George H. Cheever
Hardy
Humboldt
County
J. W. Arbuckle
Waterley
Citizens Sayings Bank
G. A. Doerfles
Mulberry Street
Cedar Rapids
Raek Me
A. N. Moritz
Mortimer B. Gleveland
Fourth
Bluff Streets
Walt H. Butler
la Porte City
Friends
Louie Baker
Lucius Smith
Mary Hayden
Fannie Goodrich
Minnie Lamb
Annie Lichty
Frank Watkins
Maude McMurray
West High School
John Pickett
Willard Howe
Garris Thayer
Helen Litchfeld
Carrie Reed
May Ayer
J. H. Lesgitt
Minneapolis
E. K. Ware
Ars .Ago
Ilinois Central
W. H. Mullan
First, Baptist Church
Waterles Choral Society
BE. D. Keck
J. W. Japfel
Olaf Brown
Charles Sindlinger
F. G. Platt
S. M. Bentley
A. Balliett
F. C. Platt
Pl. Arteman
Anna Detwiler
Mesdames Crouse
Weld
Mills
I. E. Munger
W. A. Braniger
RF. A. Doty
Shippy & Burke
Whittler Ward
Home Park
EB. Cowan
Third Avenue West
Frank A. Robinson
Cedar Falls
New Hartford
Abe Martin
Strena
IA & Jreva
Gil Geer
MR. Hemingway
San Diego
Grudé
Sixth Avenue
Farley-second Street
Celine
Duke
Cornell
Mark Twain
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Twain
Bermuda
Clemens
Katherine
Jean
Livy
Susy
Mark
Miss Boland
Jim
George Hernard Shaw
Mark Twin
Shaw
Topeka
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