Proposed constitutional amendments aim to shift election dates
The Batesville Tribune reports Rep Clifton McArthur of Oregon sponsors amendments to move congressional and presidential dates. One plan sets representatives and senators to begin in December, ending short sessions and speeding seating. The other assigns electoral vote canvassing to the House and allows direct House voting for president if no majority is reached.
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Clifton N. McArthuu
Oregon
Congress
House
Senate
Harding stance praised amid anti strike bill vote
Labor leaders in Marion Ohio send rumblings against the anti strike bill despite Senate passage and Harding support. The piece recalls Harding's prior vote for the anti strike amendment and his defense that public rail service must be guaranteed and just treatment provided to workers while preserving collective bargaining in private enterprise.
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Senate
Marion
Ohio
Senator Harding
Harding
Congress
Just Government for Railway Workers Urges Nationwide Justice
The speaker backs full justice for organized railway workmen and government tribunals to award it. He argues the plan could foster industrial peace and fair treatment, and invites alternatives only if a superior system exists. He endorses the measure as the best yet offered for the country’s good fortunes.
Poland Relief Efforts Highlight Poland Belgium Comparison
Dr Vernon Kellogg, American Relief Administration official, reports Poland faces severe hunger and disease similar to wartime Belgium. Starting January 1919 from Warsaw, food imports through Danzig aided four million people plus one million plus orphaned children receiving daily meals. Eight organizations form European Relief Council to fund care for 3.5 million children in Eastern and Central Europe.
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Poland
Belgium
Vernon Kellogg
American Relief Administration
Warsaw
Kellogg
Hoover
Danzig
European Relief Council
Europe
American Red Cross
American Friends Service Committee
Quakers
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
The
Knights of Coumbus
W. Goa
Polish Gray Samaritans Aid European Child Relief
The Polish Gray Samaritans, part of the YWCA, oversee food distribution and kitchen operations for 4500000 starving European children under American Relief Administration. American-born Polish-descent volunteers staff stations across Poland outside Warsaw, feeding and clothing children since 1918 and training local helpers to sustain winter relief efforts.
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Women's Christian Associations
United States
Europe
Polish Gray Samaritans
Poland
American Relief Administration
Warsaw
America
Young Women's Christian Association For Overseas Service
Paying for Em Now What Became of the Old Fashioned Man
A garbled Dallas News fragment questions the fate of a man who bought a gown to sleep in and the meaning of the purchase. The piece hints at social norms and personal choices amid the era's dress and behavior expectations.
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Dallas News
New Year's Day Across the World in New Traditions
The article surveys New Year customs from Belgium France Russia Madrid and China. It notes Belgium children hide keys, France calls the day le jour de l An, Russia holds house visits with peas and wheat, Madrid hosts high mass and gifts, and China performs rice cakes prayers, door gods, and worship of wealth god to welcome the new year.
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Numa Pompilius
Janus
Claudius
Belgium
France
Franfort-on the-Main
Russia
Madrid
It Is Not Glittering In The Gloom This Year
A poem fragment describes a muted mood with no cheerful gleam or inviting glow. The setting features hid lights and decor meant to amuse, but the branches remain laden with tasks instead of festive charm, concluding with a restrained, somber note.
Europeans Pleading For Their Children Amid War Torn Europe
Desperate districts in eastern Europe seek aid for orphanages as war depletes resources. The European Relief Council unites eight American agencies to raise 33 million dollars for relief, aiming to protect millions of children from starvation and disease this winter.
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Wartorn
Europe
Poland
America
European Relief Council
American Relief Administration
American Red Cross
American Friends’ Service Committee
Quakers
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Knights of Columbus
Township Trustee Announces Weekly Office Day in Batesville
E C Timmermann announces weekly office hours at the First National Bank Building Batesville for parties with township business. The notice specifies Tuesdays as the day for contact and inquiries with the township trustee.
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First National Bank
Batesville
E. C. Timmermann
Township Meeting Schedule At Morris Sunman And Home
A notice lists transact township business on Morris on the first Saturday each month Sunman on the second and third Saturdays and at home on the last Saturday of each month for public sessions and decisions.
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Morris
Sunman
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad with Reward Offer
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a 35 year trusted remedy and offers a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh. It claims blood action on mucous surfaces, health improvement after short use, and urges readers to bend for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
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N. E. Gregory
Batesville, Ind
Harry Schwier
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