Supreme court upholds federal power on intoxicating beer
In a 5 to 4 ruling Justice Brandeis sustains the Volstead act provisions banning manufacture and sale of beverages with 4/10 of 1 percent or more alcohol. Four justices dissent. Day’s unanimous opinion later notes indictments against Standard Brewery and American Brewing were properly dismissed for pre Volstead act manufacture of low alcohol beer.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Congress
Brandeis
Day
van de Vanter
McReynolis
Clarke
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon Rescue of America
Jacob Ruppert
New York
Standard Brewery
Baltimore
American Brewing Company
New Orleans
Treaty ratification set for January in Paris records
Paris reports tentative January 10 date for ratification of the Versailles treaty. Scapa Flow dispute settled with Baron von Leisner, yielding a final German surrender of 275000 tons of naval material, down from 400000 tons originally demanded, amid inventory disputes and allied concessions.
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Paris
Supreme Council
Baron von Leisner
Ity
Germany
Wets Ban Recedes as High Court Deals Final Blow
Domestic brief notes say prohibition enforcement weakens after high court ruling banning percentage beers. A New York red raid by federal agents and a Mexican bandit cruelty case are reported. Gov Lowden backs treaty ratification with reservations while Republican women push equal national committee representation. Wilson to greet Jackson Day Democrats. Chicago price controls criticized as unfair. Ten states report quake tolls rising in Mexico. Congress debates anti red measures. peace act debate continues. Berlin rent protests denounce tenement profiteers with diverse chants amid orderly march.
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High Court
New York
Virginia
Lowden
National Committee
Wilson
Chicago
Mexico
Washington
Congress
Happenings of the World Tersely Told
Two American sailors jailed in Mazatlan since November 12 for assaulting a Mexican will be released at once, the Washington state department advised. Parcel post sales from army stores resume January 1 after December 10 ending to ease Christmas mail flow. Labor union unity in Washington aims to block railroad return to owners March 1 and thwart anti-strike penalties. President Wilson’s industrial conference suggests a national tribunal and regional boards to settle labor disputes. Internal Revenue head Roper considers curbing illicit wood alcohol sales. Tingley Savings Bank robbed of 100000 dollars by yeggs using an acetylene torch. Alabama tax officials report equalized property value at 4 055700886. Three armed men robbed a Chicago woolen goods truck at departure from Mike Kohn’s store, taking merchandise and threatening the driver.
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Mazatlan
Mexico
State Department
Washington
Army
War Department
Ford plan to distribute 10 million bonus and bonds offer
Domestic Benny Ford and Edsel Ford announce a plan to distribute about 10 million dollars as a worker bonus while offering Ford investment certificates. Robbers fail to open Beattie bank in Elwood Alabama. Victor Berger criticizes the American Legion. Western Union workers get 15 percent raise from Jan 1. Firemen in Lowell withdraw from AFL. Mount Clemens sheriff arrests suspects in millionaire Detroit cigar maker’s son murder. Whisky in hay cargo seized at Vanceboro. Race riot near Camp Zachary Taylor. white woman killed. Logan ship departs Vladivostok with 842 soldiers. Bank robbery in Ottewe Lake nets 7,000 cash and bonds. Perth Amboy burglars take 7,500 in valuables. Vice Admiral Jones declines Distinguished Service Cross. Egg price set at 50 cents a dozen sparks local price stand. Camp Custer captain shoots wife and injuries others.
Bolshevik brutality and postwar clashes across Europe
Reports from Bern, Moscow, and Berlin relay brutal estimates of Russian Bolshevik executions in early 1919 and orders from Moscow. Soviet claims detail Narova region fighting and Esthonian shelling as troops retreat. Other dispatches note Allied and regional tensions including Gabriele d Annunzio in Fiume, German casualty figures, Kerensky’s London mention, and Cyrus of Versailles ratifications.
Notable Military and Public Figures Die or Fall Ill
Personal Major General Omar Bundy was bruised after a horse accident at Camp Lee Virginia. Rear Admiral John E B Pillsbury died at his home after retirement. Major General Thomas H Barry died at Walter Reed Hospital from crematic poisoning. Pauline Hall Long a famed opera singer died at Yonkers New York from pneumonia after forty years on stage. Boaz W Song newly appointed American minister to Cuba arrived in Havana from Las Vegas New Mexico. Sir William Osler, renowned physician, died in Oxford England after weeks of illness.
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Pauline Hall
Yonkers, N. Y
Boaz W
Song
Las Vegas
N. M
Guba
Arived
Havana
Mr. Long
Miss Theresa Long
Iowa wool growers and railroad progress in Iowa history
One hundred two Madison county wool growers shipped 35,000 pounds this season via the Iowa Wool Growers association. Iowa places with rail access grew from none in 1845 to a nine mile rail right of way for all regions. Hog cholera alarms in Buchanan and Black Hawk counties prompt Dr. Munger to intervene.
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Madison County
Iowa Wool Growers’ Association
Iowa
Buchanan
Black Hawk
Jesup
Munger
Cedar Rapids
McNabb
Carroll
John Glass
Town State College
Oakland
East Pottawattamie County
Dew Company
P. E. McClenahan
T Hs State
Davis County
W. G. Warner
Hall
Clay County
Farm Bureau
C. W. Martin Bays
Hancock County
Klemme, Britt, Garner
Kanawha
Don E. Fish
Henry County
Kildea
Iowa State College
Wayne Dinsmore
Percheron Society of America
Animal Husbandry Department of
Town
State
Colles
Farm Bureau Exchange
Jones County
Johnson's Castor Is In The Ring For 1920 Nomination
Senator Hiram Johnson of California declares candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. He seeks an independent campaign free of organization aid and vows to carry the Right into direct primaries, opposing the peace treaty and foreign entanglements.
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Hiram Johnson
California
Theodore Roosevelt
Johnson
Far West
Chicago
Senator Johnson
Republian
Aid
Siberia
Burroughs Visits Pasadena Adored by Chicago Fans
Old-time naturalist John Burroughs, with white beard, arrived in Pasadena after a Slabsides sojourn, meeting admirers at a North Shore hotel dinner. He boasted of never drinking coffee or smoking, provoking debate about wilderness rituals. Despite city noise, admirers in Chicago prize his persona and his instinctive nature writing.
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John Burroughs
Slabsides
Pasadena
Chicago
North Shore
Burroughs
We Must Grow Into Ship Habit
John Barton Payne, chairman of the United States Shipping Board, urged the Southern Commercial Congress that the nation must embrace a ship habit for a viable merchant marine. He called for public discussion, passage of a mortgage bill to stimulate ship investment, and American participation in ship insurance, urging all Americans to unite.
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John Barton Payne
United States Shipping Board
Southern Commercial Congress
Congress
Greene Bt
Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee
Garfield And The Coal Situation
Dr Harry A Garfield the fuel administrator may remain in the public eye as he opposes a settlement that would place one mine operator one coal miner and a public representative on a commission to set prices. He argues such a body could fix coal prices and dominate the market, predicting higher costs for consumers.
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Harry A. Garfield
Garfield
Federal aid on intercounty roads a rising policy
The plan favors using federal highway funds only for roads within defined intercounty systems. States like Pennsylvania Virginia Ohio Indiana Illinois Wyoming and Washington push to confine aid to intercounty roads, with the American Automobile Association urging a national obligation to support less developed areas and maintain state funding beyond bonds.
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Pennsylvania
Virginia
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Wyoming
Washington
David Jameson
American Automobile Association
Signal at busy crossing warns motorists with revolving arm and gong
A danger signal at a three street crossing near trolley line number 4 activates as cars approach. The arm rotates to an outstretched position and a gong sounds, with the signal painted in camouflaged colors like a camouflaged ship, per Popular Defence Monthly.
Gift Accelerates Lincoln Highway Gap Filling
A $100,000 donation finances improvements to two Nevada stretches of the Lincoln Highway, filling remaining gaps in the first transcontinental route. The donor prefers state and federal support but funds the project to present the road as an object lesson for America and highlight its educational value to the public.
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Nevada
Muddy Roads Develop Dust and Erosion Comments
The text notes that muddier roads create more dust as they dry, with sides ground to dust. A roadbed kept wall crowned and smooth offers no place for water to stand, reducing rutting and dust.
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Justries
Organized Labor United
National Industrial Tribunal
Daniel C. Roper
Internal Revenue
Tingley (Laws) Savings Bank
Sini Securities
Yeges
State Tax Commission
Springfeid
Mike Kohn
Chicaga
Benny Ford
Edsel Ford
Ford Motor Company of
Detroit
Mich
Ford
Beattie Bank
Elwood
Victor L. Berger
Milwaukee
American Legion
Capitel
United States
Western Union Telegraph and ‘Telephone Company
Lowell
Mass
American Federation of Labor
Vanceboro
New Brunswick
Camp Zachary Taylor
Kentucky
United States Army
Logan
Vladivostok
People's Bank
Ottewe Lake
Herman Rothfuss
Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Company
Perth Amboy
N. J
Hilary P. Jones
Newport
R. 1
Simson
County Fair Price Commission
Topeka
Kans
Cant
BR. G Potter
Camp Custer
Battle Creek
Venice Beach
Cover City
Cal
Russia
Moscow
Bolshevik Organsvestin
Bern
Narova
Narovaiver
Rakhmut
Novo Nikolaevsk
Admiral Kolchak
Alexandrovsky
Gabriele d'Annunzio
Fiume
Rome
Berlin
Clemenceau
Echo de Paris
Alexander F. Kerensky
London
Gregory Zilbourg
Kerensky
Qdessa
Constantinople
Exchange Telegraph Company
R. B. Russell
Winnipeg
Ruussell
Vancouver World
Sydney
New Zealand
Commission On War Damages
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Holland
Balheg
Syria
Cairo
Quai d'Orsay
Omar Bundy
France
Camp Lee
John EB. Pillsbury
Thomas H. Barry
Central Department
Department of the East
Walter Reed Hospital
William Osler
Oxford
England
Iowa State News
Castor
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