Interurban wreck and varied world news in brief
Three killed and over a hundred injured when an interurban car from Beaumont to Port Arthur turned over. Nebraska Supreme Court upholds language curtailment law. Hill Land Corporation buys 250000 acres Montana grazing land and 25000 cattle. Arizona presents a 100 piece silver service to battleship Arizona. Train carries 185000 gallons gin to New York for Havana, Cuba. Elk ranch planned for Yellowstone Park herd development in Park County. Idaho calls one day session to ratify suffrage amendment. Japanese yards build two ships for shipping board to launch in March. United Americans organization forms with leaders Gibbons Rahm Willard Westinghouse Hill. Tests show motor fuel beats gasoline in economy. November exports rise for breadstuffs, fall for meat and dairy. France’s credit loan over-subscribed on first day. Shipping Board considers sale of former German ships under American flag.
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Beaumont
Texas
Port Arthur
Nebraska
Peoria
Ill
New York
Havana
Cuba
Yellowstone Park
Park County
Park
Livingston Enterprise
Stephen Mather
National Parks
D. W. Davis
Idaho
Shipping Board
Washington
Harima Company
Osaka Company
United Americans
Cardinal Gibbons
Otto H. Rahm
Daniel Willard
H. H. Westinghouse
David Jayne Hill
France
Paris
London theaters and culture census reports 568 venues
The unofficial census tallies 568 London theaters music halls and cinemas. Other items note births in London Princess Patricia and Ramsay marriage in February and royal navy links.
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London
Lady Ramsay
Princess Patricia of
Connaught
Patricia
Alexander Robert Maule Ramsey
Royal Navy
Yves le Trocquer
Chamber of Deputies
Paris
Premier Nitti
Italy
Nitti
Mamontoff
Chernokoff
Staromensk
Moscow
Cascarets Claim Quick Relief From Stomach Woes
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a laxative cure for indigestion biliousness and sour stomach. It promises a night cleanse to remove sour food bile and waste and claims users feel great by morning while they sleep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eatonic
Shrine of a Snake Charmer Revered by a Queer Boy
An old Birmingham Age-Herald quote recalls a boy’s attraction not to bareback riders or trapeze artists but to a mature snake charmer, sparking reflections on identity and social labels.
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Mr. Grimpkin
Birmingham Age-Herald
Danderine Ad Claims Quick Cure for Dandruff and Hair Loss
An advertising blurb promotes Danderine as a remedy to remove dandruff and halt hair loss with a few cents per bottle. It promises new life, vigor, brightness, and thickness for every hair after several applications. Also includes a humorous exchange about a girl and a boy discussing living conditions.
Coal Operators Fight Any Wage Increase Beyond 14 Percent
Illinois Indiana Ohio and western Pennsylvania coal operators meeting in Chicago reject any wage rise above the 14 percent granted in the strike settlement. They say if the Wilson commission recommends more, the cost impact would fall on the commission. A. M. Ogle notes they seek facts on production costs and may limit further cooperation. Washington reports preliminary steps by the Wilson commission to study wages and prices, while Hines relaxes coal export restrictions allowing up to half October export levels from Baltimore and Newport News with plans for other ports.
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Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Wilson
Thomas T. Brewster
St. Louis
A. M. Ogle
Terre Haute
Washington
Henry M. Robinson
Pasadena
Cal
Rembrandt Peale
John P. White
Department of Labor
Hines
Baltimore
Newport News
Woman readers urged to try Swamp Root kidney remedy
Article claims thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble and may not know it. It asserts Swamp Root restores kidney health and offers a sample bottle for ten cents by mail to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, NY, with larger bottles available at drug stores.
Burglary Surge Strikes New York in 1919 Losses
Officials from 32 burglary insurance firms report 1919 as the most disastrous year in their history with New York City experiencing 10 000 thefts. Crimes rose over 30 percent from the prior year and the value of stolen goods nearly doubled reaching about 25 million dollars.
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New York
Neighbor Remarks Prompt Fashion Talk
Avery wears a new suit as a neighbor compliments it. Donald, busy building a block house on the floor, quips that he will not get new clothes until Avery outgrows his suit and ma can remake it for him.
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Avery
Donald
Metal prices in Colorado markets show varied metals
Report lists bar silver at 1.3 dollars per ounce, copper at 18 to 19 cents per pound, lead at 6.75 dollars per hundredweight, spelter 8.27 dollars, tungsten 7.50 to 12.00 dollars per unit in Colorado markets.
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Colorado
Suits Filed Over Longshoremen Strike In New Orleans
Two separate federal suits totaling 51 660 84 by Holland America Line name the New Orleans chapters of longshoremen's unions. They claim the unions refused to unload the fertilizer laden steamships Indier and Amsterdijk unless demands for 90 cents an hour were met. The unions allegedly sought an extra 10 cents an hour, citing the cargo value and a National Adjustment Board award as justification.
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New Orleans
Indier
Amsterdijk
Holland-American Steamship Line
National Adjustment Board
Chicago Livestock Prices Reported in Market Notes
At Chicago Hogs Bulk 13.50 13.75 top 14.00 heavy 13.45 13.80 medium 13.50 13.85 light 13.60 13.89 light light 13.00 13.50 heavy packing sows smooth 12.75 13.25 packing sows rough 12.25 12.75 pigs 12.25 13.25 Cattle Beef steers Choice prime 18.00 20.50 medium good 11.00 18.00 common 8.50 11.00 Light weight Good choice 13.00 20.00 common medium 8.00 13.25 Butcher cattle Heifers 6.25 15.00 cows 6.00 13.50 canners cutters 5.00 6.00 Veal calves 16.50 17.50 Feeder steers 7.00 12.25 stocker steers 6.00 10.50 Sheep Lambs 15.25 17.35 culls common 11.50 15.00 ewes medium good choice 8.00 10.25 culls common 4.50 7.75
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Denver
Biel
H. New
Chicago
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Offers Cure
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a internal remedy to build up the system and cleanse the blood to prevent frequent colds. It claims to counter acute and chronic catarrh and offers testimonials free with 75 cent price and a money back guarantee from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio.
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Pere Fons
Hall
Pat
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Japs Enter World Air Derby With 100000 Prize
Assurances that ten Japanese entries will join the aerial derby around the world were received by the Aero Club of America. The competition offers $100,000 in prizes as a committee tours thirty two countries to finalize preparations.
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Japan
Tokio
Nippon Jiji
Honolulu
Herr Huszar
Budapest
Hungary
Berlin
National Assembly
New York
The
Aero Club of America
Market Update from Chicago Creamery and Produce Prices
Chicago Butter Creamery reports 56 65 percent eggs firsts 65 66 cents ordinary firsts 541 464 per hundred cases included. Poultry prices show alive fowls 18 27 cents turkeys 40 cents. Potatoes arrivals 32 cars with Northern rurals and Burbanks around 3.20 to 8.35 and western russets jobbing at 4.00.
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Chicago
Burbanks
Complicated Accounts in a Soda Shop Exchange
A customer complains he cannot see value in a milk and sugar soda while the clerk emphasizes payment for labor and material. The dialogue pivots on the labor of making change versus making the drink.
Chicago Market Prices and Seed Lows and Highs
Chicago prices show mixed grain quotes with No 2 mixed at not quoted and No 3 mixed around 1.51 to 1.54 dollars. Oats No 2 white about 86 to 87 cents. Timothy seed listed at 8.50 to 11.50 dollars and clover seed from 30 to 48 dollars. Pork nominal, lard 22.90 to 23.00 dollars. Fib s 18.20.
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Chicago
Big Damage to Aero Plant in Douglas Arizona
Fire in the machine shop truck of Flight A at the 96th Aero squadron in Douglas Arizona destroyed equipment valued at about 100000 dollars. Nearby airplanes were saved. Exploding bombs stopped firemen from fighting the blaze. Chauffeur Anthony Jaroski and Private Emil Martin were seriously burned by gasoline ignition from the explosion.
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Douglas, Ariz
Flight A
Aero
Anthony Jaroski
Emil Martin
How He Vanished Engaging Ring Comment Sparks Mystery
London Answers recounts a family scene where Gwendoline, age eighteen, receives a diamond and ruby engagement ring from her sweetheart. A teasing remark about pearls from oysters leads her brother to joke about rings from lobsters, raising questions about the evening's fate and unexplained events.
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Gwendoline
Gwen
London
Important to Mothers Examine Bottles of Castoria Carefully
Important to Mothers: examine every bottle of Castoria, the famous old remedy for infants and children, and ensure it is genuine and properly labeled.
Poor Relations and Coal Woes In One Item
A Columbia State snippet mixes social quips about wives with a note on heavy laundry due to soft coal this winter. An ad for Red Cross Bag Blue promises stain removal at all grocers for 5 cents. A joke line about married women and a new chain follows.
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Red Cross
Domestic Life Quote Ends With Jail Sentence
A brief quotation notes Mrs. Jaggs expressing happiness in domestic life while revealing her husband has been sent to jail. The remark frames a domestic contrast between personal contentment and legal trouble affecting the husband.
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Home and Abroad
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Western
Otto Praeger
Department of Commerce
New York City
Jamaica Bay
Murry Hulbert
Hamburg
Copenhagen
Sir Horace Plunkett
Lloyd George
Ireland
John D. Rockefeller
General Education Board
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller
United States
Charles M. Wood, Jr
Dewitt Clinton High School
Senate
China
Mexico
Sonora
Sinaloa
Excelsior of
Mexico City
Sxora
A. E. McKeever
M. C
Toronto
Stratford
Ont
Herbert Tuchborne
Mt. Vernon
N. Y
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
South Park
Abu Murrain
Commission AT
Metal Markets
Derby
Cash Grain
Fletcher
Cascarab
Mr. Hill
Kle
Michigan Avenue
Netta Irey
Wellington, IL
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