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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1928
Page
4
Across 48 states sentiment favors ending liquor restriction while 16 states hold firm. The question remains whether prohibition is a passing episode or a lasting policy shaping national law and culture.
In France with the American Army I obtained a noted French prescription for rheumatism and neuritis. The writer says the prescription has helped thousands with wonderful results and asks nothing in return. Send your address by postal to receive the prescription. Paul Case, Dept M202, Brockton, Massachusetts.
The piece surveys Jefferson Davis life from Transylvania to the Confederacy and his wife Varina Howell Davis. It contrasts Davis with James Calhoun and recalls figures like Andrew Jackson and political elites. It notes Davis’s era, Reconstruction, and Varina’s experiences as Davis’s wife and widow.
The passage recalls a child’s exclamation upon hearing of Mrs. Jefferson Davis as a heroine, illustrating reverence for Confederate memory through a small schoolgirl's perspective. The tone reflects wartime era admiration and public sentiment surrounding female figures linked to the Confederacy.
The Near East Relief marks twelve years since its start with a goal of 100000 dollars and 87000 raised. United States food aid through the organization reached about 12000000 in value, with additional government support totaling near 105000000 in assistance to over a million people. The committee currently aids about 30000 children and seeks five million dollars more to finish its mission.
A questionnaire of 1000 leading industrial and mercantile concerns shows near unanimous endorsement for a 13 month or 28 day calendar. The plan faces a clash between tradition and efficiency, but business executives back it strongly and several large firms have begun implementing it in their operations.
The text outlines a 13 month calendar adding a Sol month between June and July to include solstices in both hemispheres. It suggests New Year’s Day as a holiday on Jan 0 and a 364 day year with leap year adjustments designed by a fisher. It reads as a speculative reform concept for global timekeeping.
A private firm seeks six fast liners to cross the Atlantic every four days with a 94 million federal loan request while Berlin airplane makers push a flying boat plan carrying 165 passengers and 13,000 pounds of freight in 24 hours. Officials worry about funding slow freight projects if speed dominates.
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee unanimously calls for an investigation into labor and industrial conditions in Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia coal fields where about 80000 miners and families face distress. The effort is unlikely to advance beyond prior fact finding reports from two to three years ago.
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