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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1921
Page
2
A flurry of items spans tax revisions in Washington with a spirits levy hike. Taft elected U S Protestant Union head. parole options for Debs debated. Panama Canal changes proposed. U S attorneys reshuffled. Also reports of bank robberies, shipboard thefts, fires in railroad shops, a hotel drive for Marion President Harding, and international incidents in Paris Lisbon Tokyo and Riga.
U S officials seize all books records and assets of Hal Parker s 19 million cooperative enterprises including subsidiaries and grocery stores after a federal order signed by Judge Evans. Receivership follows claims of large assets and limited liabilities amid disputes over 18 million in beneficial certificates. A Great Western Securities affiliate and Rochdale Wholesale were also taken, with the court directing possession of all estate assets and personnel.
Prohibition agents report $300,020 in rare wines and liquors stolen from Joseph E. Leiter’s Virginia country estate across the Potomac from Washington. Authorities say an organized bootlegging gang using an acetylene torch to breach a three inch steel door carried out the theft, the largest liquor haul yet noted since the Volstead Act.
Lesson outlines Pauls call to unity in Corinth with focus on the more excellent way of love. It details love’s pre eminence over tongues prophecy faith and charity, its attributes and permanence including patience humility generosity and resilience, and notes love as the abiding perfecting power tied to God who is love.
The piece reflects on mankind's age old quest to know God and the hunger of heart and mind. It recalls Phillips Brooks guiding Helen Keller who, in isolation, asked for knowledge about God in a single grave question.
Squire Ley questions neighbors in Seneca county about his former neighbor Tittsworth’s two boys. The farmer says Bill acts in films and Tom operates as a cataract surgeon. The exchange reflects pride in past hopes fulfilled.
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