Pershing Proposes Unknown Soldier Return to Arlington
General Pershing told the House Military Affairs Committee that one unknown dead soldier should be brought from France for burial at Arlington. He urged a 30 minute nationwide silence either April 6 or Memorial Day, and a national holiday from the body’s arrival in New York until interment.
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Washington
John J. Pershing
Committee On Military Affairs
House of Representatives
Pershing
France
Arlington
Germany
Capitol
Atlantic
New York
John A. LeJune
Marine Corps
Hamilton Fish Jr
Secretary of War
Early Morning Observations and Odds and End
A Dallas style miscellany notes various quips from The New York World on fashion, crime, politics, and society. It jokes about suits, a Memphis boy confessing to 13 robberies, a Milwaukee astrologer predicting twins, and social ironies from Congress to the kitchen scale. The column skewers reforms, jazz, and public debts while lampooning politicians and entertainers.
Do Not Borrow Neighbor’s Paper
A humorous tale warns a poor saver who borrows a neighbor’s newspaper. In the scramble to read it, a sequence of mishaps befalls the household, costing far more than the saved subscription, ending with a moral about paying for what one seeks free.
Nimrods Bay Drives 2300 Jack Rabbits in Texas
Lockhart Texas February 5 Twenty three hundred long eared jack rabbits were killed today in an annual drive in the Taylorsville McMahon area. Gunners stood 25 feet apart along a three mile square course as farmers and sportsmen directed the hunt. Rabbits were reported thick as the grass at center stage.
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Lockhart
Tex
Taylorsville-McMahon
The Fatal Metaphor Ends in a Departed Moment
A young man explains his attraction with a string of metaphors to his sweetheart. He compares her to a flower and himself to a bee then says he was a mouse and she a pie cheese. She leaves the room after the odd remark.
Tammany Faces Choice Between Funds for Education and Spending
The message argues there is not money enough to fund both Tammany interests and education simultaneously, urging action while funds allow. It notes a need to prioritize Tammany gains now, since future resources may be tighter.
Town protests 38 cents per 1000 gallons water cost
Citizens in a Texas town balk at a 38 cent charge per 1000 gallons of water while joking about paying $4 for a gallon of beer. The piece uses tongue in cheek satire to highlight local pricing frustration.
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Texas
I Am The Farmer
A rousing ode extols farmers as providers for all mankind and the backbone of America. The piece credits agriculture with national prosperity, energy, and civilization, praising the farmer’s work from dawn to dusk and noting the author James P McDonnell.
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America
James P. McDonnell
Waverly
Minn
Star- Tribune
Bird hunting hog suffers nervous prostration in Natchez
Natchez Mississippi February seven. Famous bird hunting hog owned by Tucker Gibson, famed Louisiana huntsman, is in serious condition with nervous prostration after training trials. Gibson had planned vaudeville act using the porcupine hog and trained birds, then left for several days and found the hog in distress upon return.
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Natchez, Miss
Tucker Gibson
Louisiana
Gibson
Local editor cuts Society column to boost sales
A small town editor boasts of a drastic move to raise circulation by cutting out a Society column paragraph. He claims this drew every woman in town to buy an extra copy to see what had been removed, amid a tale of mental strain and a peculiar hog anecdote.
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George M. Bailey
Houston Post
New York World
Memphis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Ohio
Henry Ford
Licker
Hal Sumners
Illinois
U. S
Ed Howe
Harding
Lincoln
New York City
Sun
Nimrods Bay
Ozarks
Old Settlers Park
Sherman, Texas
Poland
China
Duroc-Jersey
Berkshire
Eagle
Clansman
Col
Big Bob
Bob
Grayson County
Jerseys
The
Grayson County Live Stock Association
Col. J. Riley Green
Mr. Lively
Jersey
T. H. Lively
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