Debate on District Representation and Chinese Exclusion Act
The piece critiques the DC's lack of presidential representation and discusses a proposed Chinese labor approach to ease a labor shortage. It cites the Chicago convention and The Times stance, weighing contract labor for Chinese workers versus permanent immigration, and notes American Federation of Labor actions and attitudes toward Japanese and Chinese workers.
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The
Washington Star
Union
Continental
United States
Star
Home made beverage clash over home production ruling
Washington reports a clash on home brewed fruit juices and ciders, with the prohibition commissioner urged to define fruits and alcohol for court proofs. Representative Igoe pushes an exemption for home produced beer to aid enforcement amid debates on definition and legality.
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Great American Desert
Washington
Prohibition
Century Dictionary
Igoe
California Turns Cheerful Eye to Chinese Labor
The Los Angeles Times notes labor shortages on the Pacific coast as farm work grows scarce. It recalls Dennis Kearney’s anti Chinese stance and credits the Chinese exclusion act with dampening cheap labor influx. The paper contends a new condition has emerged affecting farm labor supply.
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Europe
Land of
Plenty
the Times
The
Times
Pacific Coast
France
Los Angeles Times
California
American Federation of Labor
Montreal
Congress
Dennis Kearney
Asia
Los Angeles
Astrological Buzz Swirls Around Presidential Campaign
A humorous wide ranging column mocks occult profs and seers predicting the 1920 campaign. It notes astrologers claim cosmic signs favor Harding and Coolidge, while discussing political figures like Hughes, Wood, Bryan, Parker, Wilson, and Champ Clark, with San Francisco as a key stage.
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Billingsgate
Chicago
Venus
Harding
Coolidge
San Francisco
Hughes
California
Wood
Dr. Butler
Tom Marshall
Bryan
Parker
Wilson
Champ Clark
Fragments Spark a Patchwork of Political Quips
A collage of satirical lines from various papers mocks politics and reform ideas. References range from Samuel Gompers to Governor Allen and President Wilson, with quips on weather, prices, and public mood.
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Sam
Audi
Allen
Samuel Gompers
Detroit Free Press
Wilson
Congress
Washington Post
Supreme Court
Chicago News
John Barleycorn
Washington Star
Indianapolis
Bill Bryan
Columbia
Pittsboro Gazette-Times
Buffalo Courier
Deroit Journal
Woodrow Wilson praised for struggle and discipline
A montage of quotes from Montana papers extols Woodrow Wilson as always choosing hard tasks, with praise for his discipline of body and mind. The selection contrasts national policy questions and political commentary, noting Lodge and the Democrats in a charged era.
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Woodrow Wilson
Lewistown
Democrat-News
Noage
Lodge
Great Falls
Humorous Quotations and Penny-Stock Snippets
A collage of quoted witticisms and light lines from various papers. Jokes aboutlawyers costs trains prisons hunger strikes and social scenes appear as a humorous roundup with scattered remarks from Boston Baltimore Pael and Paine.
Dead Mother's Garden Echoes in Silent City
Poem fragment contrasts a departed mother with a city of poverty and decay. The speaker recalls her beauty and perfume, finding a sweeter flower in a green attic garden plot than the white rose above a squalid alley. A tribute to memory amid hardship.
Vice President Arrives in San Francisco for Interview Talks
The vice president arrives in San Francisco and tells interviewers he would not accept the new president on a silver platter. The briefing hints at ongoing political maneuvers and reactions to leadership transitions.
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San Francisco
Bolshevik Labor Draft and Industrial Army Policies
A New York Tribune excerpt analyzes bolshevism’s shift to militarized industry. It cites demobilization after Denikin and Kolchak, argues free speech vanished, and describes a plan to mobilize the industrial proletariat under strict discipline, drafting skilled workers to labor posts like the red army.
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The
New York Tribune
Red Army
Denikine
Kolchak
Communist Party
State Department
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Montana
Standard Publishing Company
Anaconda, Mont
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Butte
North Main Street
Taconda
AML
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Eastern Business Office
Prudden, King & Prudden
Fifth Ave
New York
Steger Bidg
Globe Bldg
Boston
District of Columbia
Tee
Peet
James Hamilton Lewis
Puy
Aga.n
Fur Witte Boru
Smets PO
Cuba
Elinia Star-Gazette
Palmer
Troy
Montana Press
Helena
Democrat
New
Suage Crum
Crum
Oliver County
American Legion
North Dakota
Silver Bow
George Pattullo
al Burleson
Mr. Volstead
Louisville Courier Journal
Tudge
Boston ‘Transcript
Jims
Baltimore American
Henry
Parkham
Pael
Zailk
Nawehin
Rhyme and Reason
Tom
Marshall
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