Cordial Liquor Debate Under Prohibition Act Rhetoric
The passage discusses liquor access under license, likening blackberry cordial to a deadly trap and branding it a sin. It invokes the Volstead act and its promoters, arguing that salvation or damnation is not the fault of prohibition measures in a moralizing tone.
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William Allen White
Wilson
Bozeman Chronicle
Associated Press
Eastern Business Office
Prudden
King & Prudden
Firth Ave
New York
Steger Bidg
Chicago
Globe Bidg
Boston
Reflections of McAdoo on primaries and money in campaigns
The article notes former secretary William Gibbs McAdoo speech at a New York dinner where he condemned the corrupt use of money in campaigns. He criticized presidential primaries as costly and flawed, urged a nationwide primary, and favored funding national elections from the federal treasury. He argued old conventions had fewer evils than modern primaries.
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United States
San Francisco
McAdoo
National League of Masonic Clubs
New York
Mr. McAdoo
National
Women Dominate San Francisco Delegation In 1924 Race
The San Francisco women outnumbered and outworked the Chicago contingent with 92 delegates, 35 single and 57 married. Women led honorary committees and supported nearly every candidate, signaling an active role in national politics. notably few from New England and Texas led the Southern bloc.
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San Francisco
Chicago
West
Middle West
Old
New England
Texas
Solid South
Carnival of the Malcontents at Chicago Third-Party Meet
The piece describes a Chicago convention scene where disaffected Republicans Democrats and various reform groups plan to form a third party. It notes debates over Debs and socialist platforms, mentions La Follette Walsh Frazier and Hearst as potential leaders, and hints at multiple party efforts and a possible combined effort with the American Constitutional Party.
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Chicago
Forty-Eighters
League
Labor Party
Robert M. la Follette
Glenn Plumb
William R. Hearst
Eugene V. Debs
Leaguers
la Folletters
United States
Debs
Johnson
Hiram
Reed
Missouri
Jim
la Follette
Frank Walsh
Lynn J. Frazier
North Dakota
American Constitutional Party
Hearst
America
Prohibition Agents Move to Seize Blackberry Cordial
Officials vow to remove blackberry cordial and related spirits from public access after reports of illicit tasting. Government action targets anise oil bitter orange and tincture of lavender as part of enforcement.
Independent elements join in scattered fashion at Chicago
The various independent elements in Chicago may meet up in a loose fashion today. The alignment would not be so inseparable as to need great effort to separate them later, suggesting a tentative collaboration rather than a firm union.
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Billings
Billings Gazette
Chicago
Political jabs and fortunes in a vice of party talk
The piece mocks figures like Bryan Harding Cox La Follette and Hiram while noting delegates gratuities and postmasters. It blends satire on nominations finances and campaign tactics and ends with a jab at the national Republican committee’s fundraising in a presidential year.
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Harding
Cox
National Republican Committee
German War Material Scrapped From July 1919 to January 1920
Berlin reports detailed scrapping of military stockpiles by the German Defense Ministry. Field pieces reach 4,100. cannon barrels 3,000,000. artillery shells 25,000,000. fuses 32,000. powder 10,000,000 pounds. unloaded shells 1,000,000. cartridges 3,500,000. small arms 1,000,000. hand grenades 8,000,000. machine guns 21,000. cartridges 87,000,000. sabers and lances 1,000,000.
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Berlin
Junk Man
Herr Gessler
Husband and Wife Sit on Same Kalamazoo Jury
In Kalamazoo Michigan a likely first recorded case saw Aaron Westevere of Schoolcraft and his wife Mrs Westevere on the same jury. Aaron served on the regular panel while his wife, waiting, was summoned as a salesman. The question arose whether she could deliberate independently of her husband. She answered yes with emphasis.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Michigan
Kalamazoo Court
Aaron Westevere
Schoolcraft
Mrs. Westevere
Two's Company, Three's Crowd in Politics
A short opinion asserts that a third party in politics is similarly unwanted as a disruptive third party in society, implying such a group would be in the way and not welcome in Philadelphia Ledger discourse.
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Two
Three
Philadelphia Ledger
She Learned to Laugh on a Visit Keeps Woman Young
A serious woman returns from a visit transformed by simple joy. She looks younger, smiles easily, and finds pleasure in nature, books, and good company. The piece notes she shed stern overthinking for laughter, a vacation of the mind that revived her. The contrast with her former self is striking and humorous.
Humor of the Day snippets from presses across the era
A collage of short syndicated jests and quips from papers including the Cornell Widow London Tit-Bits and Birmingham Age-Herald. It features city contrasts jokes about New York skies and London weather, marital nicknames and home seating, a tractor meal expense gag, and a Mars talk line reflecting social chatter in Yonkers Statesman.
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Jobbles
Birmingham Age-Herald
Mars
Publicity Quips Across Papers Signal Political Snags
A collage of editorial blurbs from papers like the Columbia Record Houston Post Chicago News Knoxville Journal and Tribune Detroit Free Press and Pittsburg Dispatch critiques on publicity and political figures. The quips touch Cal Coolidge Edwards thirst La Follette and the non-partisan league in sharp, snappy phrases.
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the Press of Montana
MR. M’adoo
Woman
Republic
Lewistown Democrat News
Herbert Hoover
Missoula
Helena
Prince of
Good Fellows
Australia
Hutch
Montana
Great Falls
Gibson
Livingston Enterprise
Standard Publishing Company
Publishers and Proprietors
Anaconda, Mont
Anaconda
Butte
North Main Street
Mr. Bryan
Missouri National
Europe
William RR. Hearst
Winifred Black
Newspaper Feature Service, Inc
Casey
Arry "Awkins
Lunnon
Crabshaw
London
Cal Coolidge
Columbia Record
Houston Post
Chicago News
Bob
Knoxville Journal and Tribune
Detroit Free Press
G. O. P. Burn
Frisco
Pittsburg
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
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