Ten Million to Die Famine Shock in North China
New York reports E S Glines, an American engineer, says about ten million Chinese will starve this winter and spring unless food is rushed to famine districts. He cites crop failures since 1919 in five northern provinces and notes affluent provinces cannot aid due to limited surplus. Proposes big irrigation, flood control, and transport improvements with American aid to revive China’s agriculture.
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New York
Tientsin
China
E. S. Glines
Chili
Shantung
Shansi
Shensi
Henan
Mr. Glines
Pekin
Mongolia
Manchuria
Glines
America
Silken shirts and prices fade in hard times
Poem by Walt Mason laments vanished prosperity as silken shirts once bought for fifteen dollars shrink to rag. Included line ad notes selling eggs from Thompson's Imperial Ringlet Strain Barred Plymouth Rocks at $1.00 for 15 eggs and $1.25 delivered. Also a seed ad for Sudan Grass Seed at $4.50 per hundred pounds and $3.90 for second grade. tf SUDAN Grass Seed, recleaned, double sacked, certified free from Johnson grass, highest grade, $4.50 per hundred pounds delivered by freight to Texas points, second grade seed, $3.90 delivered. Mail checks to Farmers Seed Co. Box 383, Lubbock, Texas. 5m11
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Walt Mason
Thompson
Plymouth Rocks
Kate Fulton
Bells
Texas
Sudan
Farmers Seed Co
Lubbock
Ely and Enterprise Local Notes and Society Sketches
Mrs G W Smith and daughter and Mrs E Harrison and son are at Ike Booker’s bedside near Ravenna. Ely basketball teams won at Randolph, girls quitting early. Marguerite at Allen Hospital Bonham. Denison visit by Cecil Smith. Social mentions and light local items fill the page with brief names and travel notes.
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G. W. Smith
E. Harrison
Ike Booker
Ravenna
John Wharton
Paul Ellis
Sherman
Clarence Wade
Capeville
Ely
Randolph
T. D. Booker
Marguerite
Allen Hospital
Bonham
Frank
Tom Whitworth
Near
Pilot Grove
John Lewis
Jim Russell
Vernon Fox
Cecil Smith
Denison
Moonshiner Irrigations Engineers Text Joke
An amused tourist questions a lanky mountaineer who proudly retorts that since prohibition arrived they call themselves irrigation engineers. The Sun notes the witty self description in a lighthearted local tone.
Figures Never Lie Card Plot Echoes In Dialog
A dialogue quirk contrasts medical certainty with grim statistics as a doctor claims a 100 percent recovery rate while revealing nine out of ten die from the disease. The scene includes an offer to print calling cards or have them engraved.
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Plymouth
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John Bailey
East Whitewright
D. A. Ray
Kodak
J. K. Magers
Canton Walker
Ira Kirkpatrick
Savoy
W. H. Harper
Mary Hestand
P. A. Short
Whitewright
Gallaher & Son
Oscar Lyons
Rhode Island
Nice
Rowden
Lester Haile
Parker
John Parker
Sun
Kelley Writer Paper
the Sun
Emerson
Walter Johns
M. Fain
Roberts Garage
Pioneer Garage
Manning & Clark Hardware
ELY and Enterprise
Syracuse Herald
Boston Transcript
Doug Fairbanks
Kansas City
North
Portland
Swifts Premium
Denver
Sioux City
ST. Joseph
Panh
Kansas
Paul
Iomana
Swifts Premium Acon Dainty
St.louis,ilt.louis,mo
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Cano
Swift & Company
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