Nation and World News Summary of 1920s events
Highway construction funds totaling about 8 million dollars are available in Nevada through 1921 from state, county, and federal sources. The Chicago National League baseball team heads to Pasadena for spring training beginning February 28. A fire at Lincoln destroyed fifty government trucks, causing an estimated loss of 200 thousand dollars. Federal Judge Landis sentenced Pan-Motors head Samuel Pandolfo to ten years and a 4000 dollar fine for fraud. Alaska gold dust worth around 400 thousand dollars waits in Seward for shipment to Seattle. A Cleveland fire in the National Tailors building caused up to 250 thousand dollars in damage. 4,236 Christmas baskets cost only 23 cents more than 1918. W Boschen’s ashes were scattered from Avalon. The urgency deficiency bill provides 33 million dollars for miscellaneous items, including 30 million for increased war risk insurance. The Fed advises delaying construction contracts and to wait in de aims. Sugar control legislation for 1920 is assured with a license extension to mid 1920. The Indian appropriation bill is reduced to about 18.13 million dollars. Forest green becomes official Red Cross field uniform color. The War Department will refuse disinterment requests except to inter bodies in European cemeteries. Three and a half million pounds of sugar seized from Utah-Idaho Sugar Co will be distributed at 10 to 14 cents per pound in western states. The War Department highlights free medical care for discharged service members through army or public health service facilities.
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Chicago
Pasadena
Calif
Nebraska Highway Commission
State Fair Grounds
Lincoln
Landis
Samuel C. Pandolfo
Pan-Motors Company
St. Cloud
Minn
Notable 1919 World Figures and Global Events
Sir John Jackson dies in London born 1851. John Alcock dies from injuries after an Atlantic flight. Rumors implicate Clemenceau as presidential candidate. Pogrom reports in Ukraine under Denikine. August Mueller to visit US to arrange German raw materials trade. Plague rises in Las Rosas Santa Fé. Former German emperor seeks Allied trial terms. Taiga captured by Bolsheviks. rail lines disrupted west of Taiga. Basle reports Millerand may become French premier. Pinchot considers retirement. Horatio Parker dies. L Berger to reclaim seat. Canada lands loans and acreage details. Ohio road bill increases mill levy. Milburn Wagon Co. fire in Toledo. Rising automobile fatalities in New York.
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Sir John Jackson
London
John Alcock
Rouen
France
Chamber of Deputies
Clemenceau
Ukraine
Denikine
Lemberg
Gazetta Wiscrowka
Ekaterinos
August Mueller
German Food Administration
United States
Berlin
London Times
Mueller
Germany
Basle
Paiga
Millerand
Stephen Pinchot
Arizona and New Mexico News Highlights 1920
The Arizona section notes the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers meet in Ajo January 5 6 1920. New Mexico and Arizona discuss war risk insurance aid and Legion anti I W W efforts. Duncan Mining in Grant county to start production. Marquis wheat proves viable at high elevations. NM hunter fleet tallies 155 predatory animals in November. J E Cass Arizona teachers directory issued. Miribal buys 170000 acres Valencia county land. NM bean yield and profits rise in San Miguel. Casa Grande to build a 125000 dollar high school. Arizona Good Roads Association to hold meeting January 19 in Tucson.
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Arizona
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
Ajo
Warren
M. R. Gonzales
San Miguel County
New Mexico
Casa Grande
Arizona Good Roads Association
Dwight B. Heard
Association
Tucson
Chamber of Commerce
Budget estimate of League of Nations payrolls listed
Senator Spencer cited F A Dolph's Washington estimate of the League of Nations annual budget. He tallied 170 tribunals and commissions and provided salary figures for first second and third class employees plus traveling, rent, and miscellaneous costs totaling 1 194 591 000 dollars a year.
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League of Nations
Germany
Two Decades of American Progress in Porto Rico
Governor Arthur Yager hails twenty years of American administration in Porto Rico highlighting vast public improvements in roads bridges buildings irrigation and education. He cites a rise in foreign business from 17.5 million in 1901 to 141.9 million in 1919 and notes tax system health and wages reforms alongside a drop in illiteracy.
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Porto Rico
Arthur Yager
Porto Ricans
Great Free Republic
Debates on Public Domain Mining Revenue Shown
Representative Andrews cites treasury deposits by states under the 1836 act, listing amounts for Maine to Arkansas totaling 28.1 million dollars. He notes 4 percent interest would reach about 121 million and proposes a joint resolution asking states to return the funds.
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House
Andrews
Nebraska
Treasury
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Vermont
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ohio
Missouri
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Arkansas
New Federal Crackdown on Interstate Car Theft Enforced
The new federal law against interstate trafficking in stolen cars is now active with prosecutions nationwide. Chicago began federal actions. District Attorney Clyne filed charges against three men, and bonds were set for Fred F. Lee of Indianapolis, plus Wilfred Louisberry and Carton Klorr of Kalamazoo as they face hearings for transporting stolen vehicles.
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Washington
United States
Department of Justice
Chicago
Detroit
Middle West
Clyne
Fred F. Lee
Indianapolis
Mark A. Foote
Muncie
Ind
Wilfred Louisberry
Carton Klorr
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Chicago Pallic
Change in Woman's Life in Fremont Ohio
A Fremont reader describes relief from climacteric symptoms at age forty six after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad cites heat flashes nervousness backache and irritability and promotes the root and herb remedy with promises of restored balance and confidential support from Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
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Fremont, O
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. M. Godden
Napoleon St
Fremont
Ohio
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Concrete ships test limits of stone freight carriers
The United States Shipping Board ordered halting work on a concrete ship at Oakland California. Some see this as the death knell for stone vessels as freight carriers. Yet the Faith demonstrated concrete ships can be built and navigated as steamers.
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United States Shipping Board
Oakland
Cal
Faith
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Claim
An advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Medicine builds up the system cleanses the blood and reduces susceptibility to colds. It warns repeated acute catarrh can become chronic and claims internal action through mucous membranes with a money back promise.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
A Light Razor Invented With Tiny Electric Lamp
Redd-I note an English inventor mounted a small electric lamp on the handle of a safety razor. Green-I remark the device seems to promise only a light shave.
Swamp Root Proclaimed Best Kidney Remedy
An advertisement touts Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root as the preeminent cure for kidney liver and bladder ailments. It promises quick, gentle relief from a vegetable compound and offers a two-size bottle option plus a sample by mail from Dr Kilmer Co. in Binghamton New York.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
A Frameup Dialogue On a Royal Marriage
A Louisville Courier-Journal snippet shows a joke where a suitor asks a father for his daughter’s hand in marriage. The father replies that the women in the family would blame him if the marriage failed.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Silly old hens frame fox’s reputation for shrewdness
A saying notes that it is the foolish hens who bolster the fox’s famed craftiness, highlighting how appearances influence perception of cunning. The line reflects a moral about judgment and consequence in rural life.
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Chicago Theological Seminary of Chicago
C. A. Strong
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Grant County
H. K. Spence
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C. R. Fillerup
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Ariz
State Council of Defense
J. E. Cass
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Langston
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el Paso
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Maurine Wright
Aphelia Hutchins
Bee Bonhanna
Ranchvale
Henry and
Marie McDaniels
Texico
Slater
Fire Draw
Irene DeLozier
Eugene Gallagher
Pleasant Hill
Sylvester Miribal
Valencia County
McKinley Land and Lumber Company
Wooion
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Hejaz
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