PictureSoue Days of Old Greenwich Village All Gone
AP reports Greenwich Village fades from New York as artists and bohemian quarters vanish under war flights, housing booms, and prohibition. Expensive apartments replace old studios and houses, the village shifts from open studios to upscale living while artists depart or adapt, leaving a symbol of changing America.
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Greenwich Village
Associated Press
New York
Des
Aneriea
Hias Syne
Broadway
Brooklyn
Bronx
Ives
Art and
Liberty
France
Paris
Park Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Eighth
Paradise
America
Ohio Education Director Advises Read Newspapers
Columbus dispatch reports Prof. Vernon Riegel state director of education urges Ohio superintendents to use newspapers in teaching. He cites newspapers as educational tools offering credible reports, world events, editorials, and civic context to support citizenship training despite sensational content.
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Columbus
Ohio
Vernon Riegel
Education
Schdgl
Riegel
Immoral Unmoral Useless New Books in Columbus
Miss Blanche C. Roberts librarian of the Carnegie Public Library in Columbus argues that the current literary market is dominated by immoral unmoral and useless fiction. She questions blame and action, noting a shift from fiction to nonfiction in readership and warning of potential censorship.
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Columbus, O
Blanche C. Roberts
Carnegie Public Library
Miss Roberts
Newest explanation of Jap earthquake sparks debate
Paris reports a theory by Adrian Guebhard that a mountain of kitchen refuse caused Japan's quake by disrupting the Earth's crust. He argues rapid Tokyo and Yokohama growth led to garbage buildup until one housewife's dumping toppled hydrostatic balance, a claim printed in the Journal Officiel.
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Paris
Japan
Adrian Guebhard
French Academy of Sciences
Tokio
Yokohama
M. Guebhard
iLike
Goebhard
Officiel
Artist claims six lives across history
British artist Henry G Massey principal of Heatherley School of Art says memory spans six incarnations. He recalls past roles including Isis priest in Egypt Phoenician gold worker and Greek philosopher. He claims subconscious paintings prove his past lives and recounts a Viking wife and an aqueduct project with Leonardo da Vinci.
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F. A. Wray
International News Service
London
Henry G. Massey
Heatherley School of Art
Isis
Egypt
Fsis
British Association
Cant. Pape
Massey
Altho
Leonardo da Vinci
Rome
Christmas Clearing House Mobilizes Co operation of Agencies
The council of social agencies plans a Christmas clearing house to coordinate aid. After an October agreement, a committee and newspapers will refer all families needing help to the Social Welfare League. Agencies and churches are urged to route gifts through this central point to avoid duplication and ensure broad charity.
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Council of Social Agencies
Fa Green
Dorothy Taylor
Social Welfare League
George B. Worthen
Home Service
Hed Gross
Samson James
Salvation Army
Oth‘rt
Social Welfare Teague
Explosion tears door at residence fire alarm hinged on gas stove blaze
An explosion of gas in a stove at the residence of W O Leyer on Ansborough and Black Hawk road at 5 pm yesterday tore off the door and scattered fire. An alarm was turned in but firemen were not needed. A pail of water extinguished a small fire at 426 Bluff yesterday afternoon.
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W. OH. Leyer
Ansborough
Black Hawk Road
Bluff
New York Mecca for Skin Games and Gold Bricks
A New York feature chronicles hustlers selling fake marks, canaries, fur pieces, and counterfeit Scotch, revealing how street schemes net hundreds daily. It follows a mark seller, truckman, canary vendor, and bootlegger to a Riverside flat, detailing profits from scams as high as 10, 1000 a day.
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Jack Carberry
International News
New York
Park Row
Peddller
Canary Islands
Bronx
City Hall
Columbus Circle
Daver
Nix
East Side
Base
Riverside
Avenue
Metropolitan
Broadway
U S Minister Calls Harding China Friend at Memorial
In Peking on December 18 United States Minister to China Jacob G Schurman spoke at a memorial tablet unveiling for the late President Harding. He quoted a 1922 Harding letter praising China and the Washington conference noting hopes for greater Chinese sovereignty and self rule with provisions that could be fulfilled soon.
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Peking
Harding
Central Park
Jacob G. Schurman
United States
China
Washington
Schurman
City Clerk Rufus Brewer Struck by Auto in Independence
Independence Iowa December 18. City Clerk Rufus Brewer aged 16 was struck and severely injured by an auto driven by Austin W Burt of Citizens Gas Electric Co at Fourth Ave and Main St. Burt swerved to avoid him but Brewer was knocked down unconscious. A physician attended and Brewer was taken home for examination. no serious results expected unless brain concussion. Brewer has held the post for 43 years.
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Independence
Rufus Brewer
Austin W. Burt
Citizens Gas & Electric Co
Waterloo
Burt
Brewer
Fourth Avenue
Main Street
Bure
Prince of Wales Plans Busy 1924 Africa Tour and Ireland
Provisional plans show the Prince of Wales keeping a full schedule in 1924 with a likely state visit to South Africa after the new governor-general, the Earl of Athlone, is installed. The itinerary covers British East and Central Africa, Kenya, the Sudan, Egypt, and return by the east coast, plus a late summer trip to Ireland visiting Dublin and Belfast and a host of public duties in England. Gener Jan Smuts coordinates the South Africa leg.
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London
Hugland
Prince of Wales
South Afeiea
Earl of Athlone
British East Africa
British Central Africa
Kenya
Sudan
Egypt
Gener Jan Smuts
Treland
Diablin
Belfast
England
Goodyear to Build Zeppelins at Akron From German Patents
Akron O Dec 18 The arrival of German aeronautical experts will launch the worlds largest lighter than air program Goodyear will purchase all German patent rights to zeppelins and develop commercial use for transcontinental and transoceanic flight Experts say German technicians will lead most development while Goodyear handles assembly at Wingfoot Lake field near Akron Officials claim government support and aim to create ships larger than the Shenandoah for freight and passenger service
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Akron
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Goodyear Artictals
P. W. Litchfield
Goodyear Company
Germany
America
Litchfield
Wingfoot Lake Field
United States
Marker Planned for John Brown Cave Hideout Site
Nebraska City Neb residents plan a marker over a cave once used by John Brown to hide enslaved people. The Daughters of the American Revolution chapter sponsors the monument, first in a regional series. The cross shaped cave sits near a weathered cabin and a nearby well, with concealed passages linking to escape routes heading north.
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Nebraska City
Neb
Bec
John Brown
Daughters of the American Revolution
Pny
Shorter Hours in Steel Attract College Graduates
Cleveland finds a new applicant mix as steel mills cut shifts from twelve to eight hours. College graduates, previously around office and retail jobs, now apply to clean blast furnaces and join the shop floor. Mountain workers from Kentucky and Tennessee also enter the labor pool, signaling a shift in skilled labor and hiring.
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Cleveland, O
Cleveland
Kentucky
Tennessee
Hardy
Adjudged Sane Woman Backed by Court in Texas Case
In Amarillo Texas Mary Blackburn was brought before the county court on a charge of being crazy after her husband accused her of infidelity and giving money to other women. Her sister also said she was crazy for marrying him. The court ultimately adjudged her sane. the husband, a teamster, had sought to place her in an asylum.
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Amarillo
Tex
Dee
Mary Blackburn
Strict Marriage Laws Prevail in African County
Charles A. Smptil reports on African tribes with strict marriage prohibitions including polygyny and intermarriage. Explorer Migood observes varied customs such as double marriage among the Moon and Munushio, elder-run family councils delaying unions, unique twin-naming traditions, and tomb shaft burials.
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Migood
Benue
Migeod
Betwen
Plans for Expansion at Westcaster Presbyterian Church
The church outlines a multiyear expansion plan tied to a $10,000 fundraising drive starting February. Purchases of adjacent property for school quarters trigger assessment of past debts, with stock at $1 per share offered to fund the project. Payments extend over 40 months, with anticipated costs around $8,000 and potential adjustments for vesting and shrinking. Any surplus would be returned to a building fund.
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Cituzen
Westcaster
Nedlyh
Lome
Ice Cops
Varreine A
Colby Address at Cedar Falls on World Court Merit
Everett Colby of New Jersey urged world court participation by the United States in a Cedar Falls lecture at Teachers College aidatorium. The event drew a large audience during a publicity campaign by the League of Nations Nonpartisan Association. Colby was honored at a dinner with about eight dozen attendees on the grounds.
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Colby
Cedar Falls
Yate Degede
Unittal
Everett Cilby
New Jersey
Teachers College Aiditariuma
Labor Unions Seek Expulsion of Chinese in Lower California
In Mexico City on December 18 labor unions in Lower California petitioned the federal government to enforce Article 33 of the 1917 Constitution. They call for immediate expulsion of Chinese residents, citing alleged harm to native labor and society as the basis for action. The article notes penal judges’ stance that deportation is the only effective remedy to crime.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Republic
Lower
California
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