Lumber Price Manipulation Under Fire in Wartime Trade
The article exposes middlemen in lumber inflating prices after a surge in demand, detailing how rail cars and supply were cornered, profits inflated, and later stabilization attempted. It compares lumber practices to coal profiteering, noting high freight costs and ongoing price pressures across construction materials amid an economy adjusting from wartime highs.
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Saime
Western
Jupither
Dimension
Sailis
Farmers Dominate Discourse As Elections Loom Large
A national gathering stressed farmer support amid shifting political tides. Early frontrunners like Dawes waver as Mellon rises. weather brings unusual snowfall in Los Angeles, a rare event noted as unmatched in living memory.
Health Talks By JOHN R HUBER on public health
John R Huber A M D discusses how commerce and industry push sanitary progress. He argues ports with trade have better disease control, and stresses tuberculosis typhoid and other infections as major economic risks. Questions follow including nervous diarrhoea and inquiries to the Health Talks department.
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Gorgas Manson
Haffkine
Shiga
Ros
Huber
Eadeass
Shitor
Friend Wife By Roe Fulkerson
A fragment from a story shows Andrew at a dinner with Imogene and Sarah’s aunt in a tense, humorous domestic scene. Andrew comments on the feast while Imogene explains her absence and the note about a dying aunt. The dialogue highlights habit and appetite amid domestic strain.
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Wife
Roe Fulkerson
Andrew
Imogene
Sarah
Domestic Science 58 Cooking for Men at State College
Pennsylvania State College will start a course in cooking for men from February 1. The class, titled domestic sciences cookery for men, covers nutritive value and preparation of simple foods with camping focus. Men will have a one hour lecture and three hours weekly in the women’s cooking lab.
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State College
Pennsylvania State College
Dr C M iedy to present spiritualist manifestations at Waterloo theatre
Dr C M iedy the medium will conduct a series of spiritualistic demonstrations at the Waterloo theatre Sunday night. The audience is promised many intriguing phenomena on a brilliantly lit stage including floating tables, slate writing, visions, thaumamity, and materialization.
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Waterloo Theatre
Eddy
Ddy
The Wideawake Little Star
Gentle South Wind helps a lone star wake the other stars in the sky. Old Father Moon Man seeks a cloud to sleep, but Wide Awake Star peeks out and rouses the entire constellation. Clouds protest as bright stars twinkle all night, while Moon Man wonders who caused the mischief.
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Old Father Moon Man
Father Moon Man
Moon Man
Mr. Moon Man
Brain Tests and Medical Confusion From a Faded Page
A scrap of a 1920s style puzzle and medical gobbledygook shows glitched phrases about admonitions to act children and unnerving hints of “more activity” as doctors advise. It mentions an attempt to seem youthful, disjointed notes about making oneself young, and a garbled line about stationery and ties.
Old Friend of Providence by Frank L. Stanton
A verse in the voice of a rural observer, claiming weather sense from wind and moon and a wary stance toward government. The piece references Providence and planning for planting times, with a brother Williams version adding a moral quip about taxes or tickets.
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Providence
Nature Questions and Answers in the Freeman Journal
Burroughs Neer section prints readers questions about nature and answers, including bears signaling via tree marks, waterfall power, and thrush feeding. It cites prior questions about chestnut burrs on roses, Grand Canyon erosion, and hawk prey evasion, referencing multiple papers and local notes.
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Nature Notes
Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon of Colorado
Webster City
Freeman-Journal
The Testing of Brenda Ends in Town Hall Turmoil
Brenda Nielsen a native of St Toomas becomes American and studies in New York. On a boat she draws the attention of an underworld woman triggering a confrontation at a town hall where a speaker accuses her of indecency. Brenda resists, nearly strikes the accuser, and is escorted away by Coleman Barlowe and others to safety as a crowd threatens action.
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Calder
Senator Calder
New York
Canners
Sarah
Darktown
Imogene
Andrew
Lady Shepherds of Kingdom Come
Brenda Nietses
St. Toomas 'Teland
United States
Roger Daly
Brends
Daly
Roger
Russia
Brenda
Gordon Lee
L&i
Barlowe
Coleman
Ethel Downs
Jean Griffith
Nat
Nielsen
Ethel
Downs
Miss Griffith
Rcing
Coléman
Jean
Ieee
Earth
Ethel Hastings
Cain
Bart Dow
Korein Co
Station X
Farmer Demands Fair Pricing From Board of Trade
Iowa editors urge farmers to take control of pricing, ending reliance on bankers lawyers neighbors or packers. They argue the producer of the livestock and crops should shape prices through organization and intelligent action, not accept arbitrary rates. The piece stresses fairness and self-reliance for farmers in market dealings.
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Rock Rapids Review
Board of Trade
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West Park Wave
John C. Hartoian
Miter
ALW
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Trens
Gen
Waterloo
Iowa
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Audit Bureau of Circulations
Washington, D. C
Munrer
G. Dougherty
Philadelphia
Chicago
Story
Brooks & Finley
Rep
Jimming
Canada
Argentina
Australia
Natered
Dawes
Los Angeles
Wes Ry
John R Huber, A. M
M.D
Sandman
Old Freend OF
Frank L. Stanton
Brother Williams
Man Purauss
Burroughs Neer
Council Bluffs
Marshalltown Times-Republican
America
Des Moines Register
Europe
Davenport
Senate
Dill
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