Illiteracy, Bolshevism and Russia’s Fate Explored
Major Ossendorf and Russian officials discuss Bolshevik rule as illiteracy and crime, arguing a need for normal living conditions and stable governance. They note resource depletion in Soviet Russia, plans for agricultural reform, land distribution, and a constitutional assembly to decide peasant land rights while peasant uprisings challenge Bolshevik policies.
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Russia
A. Aldscidoffsky
Rus
Soviet
Council of National Commissiones
Soviet Russia
Siberian
Professor Ossendorfy
Omsk
Asia
Minsk
Notice of Stockholders Meeting at The Whitney Loan & Trust Co
Notice is given of a special stockholders meeting on November 22 1919 at 2 PM at the Atlantic Iowa office. The meeting will consider an amendment to Articles of Incorporation to increase capital stock from 460 000 to 100 000 in conformity with state laws. President G Whitney and officers are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitney Loan & Trust Company
Atlantic
Iowa
States of
Dares G. Whitney
Thomas H. Whitney
Enry W. Fulton
WN. M. Whitney
Irish Police Granted Higher Wages in Dublin and Country
Dublin reports government action to raise police pay nationwide to match English police. The move will lift annual police costs, excluding political offenses, to over £3,009,000.
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Dublin
Neglected Colds Warn of Danger in Early Stages
A vintage ad warns that neglecting colds leads to serious illness. It promotes Dr King’s New Discovery as a remedy for fever, sneezes, throat tickle, and lingering sniffles. Claims widespread use and price around 42 cents to a dollar, citing druggists as sellers.
Pills Claim Fast Cleaning Powers for Tired Bowels
A vintage ad proclaims Dr. King’s New Life Pills as gentle yet effective cleansing tonics. The copy touts reliable results and urges readers to purchase at drug stores, claiming quick, pleasing outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Bolile Ab
Governor Harding Proclaims Thanksgiving in 1919 Iowa
Governor W. L. Harding issues a Thanksgiving proclamation calling Iowa to observe November 27, 1919. He urges gratitude for harvest abundance, faith in divine guidance, and resolve to be brothers’ keepers, stressing unity, tolerance, and service after wartime sacrifice.
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Harding
Governor W L Harding Inaugural Seal Statement
W L Harding governor seal announces official actions with W C Ramsay as secretary of state authority. The document presents formal gubernatorial designation and signature lines.
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W. C. Ramsay
Secretary of State
French Railroad Struggles Amid War Toll and Deficits
Paris dispatch notes French railway traffic rose about fifty percent in wartime and peacetime. By 1918 military events and coal quality worsened track, stok e, and engine performance, breaking prior equilibrium. Rail deficits climbed from 63 million to 877 million francs as war costs strained finances.
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Special Dispatch Foreign Press Service
Paris
General Railroad Review
France
Demobilization Complete as French Army Heads Home
The five years reached 2 billion 430 million francs with 1910 estimates showing a fresh deficit of 1 billion 474 million. Demobilization is now practically complete in France. The last divisions of the English army will be sent home next month, with only American garrisons on the Rhine remaining. Between April and November 1919, France sent home two million men requiring 14,000 train coaches and 2,200 freight trains of fifty cars each, plus 6,000 military trains for victories. About 5,000 trains served the American army and a similar number the English, totaling about 30,000 trains in six months.
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France
Rhine
Bayer Aspirin Headache Tablet Ad
Bayer marketed aspirin tablets in a Bayer package with directions for headache colds pain neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. The ad notes Bayer as genuine aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years and mentions handy tins of 12 tablets costing a few cents.
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Tasigton
Bayer
Montenegrin Prisoner’s Wife Reunites With Husband in America
Mrs Rose M Struger once Miss Royse Webb of Tacoma Washington lived isolated for four years in Montenegrin mountains. Her husband Marco Struger, captured by Austrians, escaped to the United States where he sought aid. An American Red Cross mission located Mrs Struger who led relief work and learned her husband is now coming to join her in St Paul Minnesota.
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Podggritza
Montenegro
Rose M. Struger
Royse Webb
Tacoma
Washington
St.Paul
Minn
Marco Struger
United States
Ceklin
Podgovitza
Exira Woman's Mother Dies in Council Bluffs
Mrs Rosina Raum died at her daughter's home in Council Bluffs after a long illness. She was the mother of Mrs H C Petersen and Mrs Hansen, residents of Exira. Funeral arrangements were to be announced by local friends.
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Exira
News-Telegraph
Rosina K. Raum
H. C/ Peterson
H! Hansen Oth
Biytis
Lold Me
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Corn Products Refining Company
P.Q
New York City
Cyvern
Ons
Therepore
Hardig
Lowa
Tereunte
Des Moines
Kemp
Cougr
W. L. Harding
Genuina
Fantnesa
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