Dry Margin Increases as Michigan Defeats Beer Legalization
Detroit April 8 Michigan voters defeated a constitutional amendment to legalize beer and wine sales by a margin larger than in 1916 with incomplete county returns showing about three fourths of the vote. Prohibition leaders predicted the dry majority would top 100000 as the Republican ticket won big and a 50 million highway program was approved. Detroit United Railways street car buy plan was decisively rejected.
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Detroit
Michigan
Detroit United Railways
Lydia E Pinkham Ad Highlights Rural Health Gain
An Oregon Illinois reader notes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound improved her health after suffering organic troubles. A farm wife, she raises 600 chickens yearly and credits the remedy with enabling her to work full time again. She urges others to try the product as testimonials from women nationwide support its merit.
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Oregon
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
D. M. Alers
R. R
Newspaper Men complain of quiet American peace delegates in Paris
Boston Post notes American delegates kept largely silent during World War I peace talks in Paris. It contrasts their reserved approach with frank British and French officials, highlights friction with French delegates, and recalls attempts by reporters to glean the American position through foreign press contacts.
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Mr. Balfour
Monsieur Pichon
Foch
France
Rhine
Sarre
Paris
United States
Russia
French Foreign Office
Foreign Office
Wilson
Lloyd George
Hair Care Advice From Old Time Soap Tips
A historical health note warns soaps and shampoos are too alkaline and dry the scalp. It favors refined coconut oil as a mild cleanser, advising one to two teaspoons rubbed through damp hair to cleanse and leave hair soft and shiny. The text promotes cocoanut oil as cheap and long lasting for family use.
Par mint remedy for catarrhal deafness and head noises
A home remedy claims to relieve catarrhal deafness and head noises. Mix one ounce of Par mint double strength with four percent pint hot water and sugar, take a tablespoonful four times daily. It is said to open nostrils ease breathing and stop mucus drip.
Get Rid of That Persistent Cough
Stop that coughing with Eckman's Alterative the tonic and upbuilder of 20 years' use. Prices 80c and $1.50 per bottle. Available at Liggett's Riker Jaynes Stores and other druggists or from Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia.
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Eckman
Liggett
Riker- Jaynes
Eckman Laboratory
Philadelphia
Want Lower Rates on Coal
The transportation committee of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts at a City Club meeting directed filing a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission to secure a reduction in coal rates moving by rail and water into New England. It urged cooperation with other groups if advisable, noting war costs have eased but manufacturing costs rise due to higher freight rates, threatening New England industries.
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Transportation Committee of the
Associated Industries of
Massachusetts
Interstate Commerce Commission
New England
Transportation Committee
Railroad Administration
Daughter of Original Little Eva Dies in New York
Mrs. Alice Cult, actress and daughter of Clara Reed who originated the role of Little Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin, died in New York in her 52nd year. She previously acted in Philadelphia stock, married Charles Cult, then moved to films. She leaves her son Andrew J. Cult.
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New York
Alice Cult
Clara Reed
Eva
Bolshevist barred from Rio de Janeiro
April 8 police prevented the landing of Ledimin Chinnut a Russian claimed to be a representative of the Soviet government from the Dutch steamer Gelina. The vessel continued to Buenos Ayres with the Russian on board.
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Rio Janeiro
Ledimin Chinnit
Buenos Ayres
Newspaper men seek peace conference concession misread
The text notes that no resolutions by newspaper men were required and observers mistook a formal move by American and British delegates to extract a concession from the French. In reality British and American delegations showed little interest in open peace conference sessions, and the petition by the newspaper men was granted but carried no real significance.
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Wilson
Paris
Henry White
Lansing
White
Mr. White
Mr. Lansing
Colonel House
General Bliss
Will Use All Surplus Cars To Support Government Work
Washington April 8 The War Department surplus in motor trucks and cars will be nearly fully consumed by government departments including Agriculture which plans to supply states for road building. Delivery on war contracts has peaked reflecting orders that could not be suspended after hostilities ceased. To store this material the War Department is constructing additional warehouses at multiple sites.
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Washington
War Department
Crowell
Department of Agriculture
Boston Buys War Finance Bonds Totaling 26.66 Million
Sales of war finance corporation bonds reached 185.693 million dollars with federal reserve district subscriptions listed as Boston 26.66 million, New York 74.088 million, Philadelphia 8.67 million, Cleveland 19.441 million, Richmond 3.327 million, Atlanta 1.785 million, Chicago 28.66 million, St. Louis 4.148 million, Minneapolis 5.714 million, Kansas City 2.687 million, Dallas 0.604 million, and San Francisco 10.058 million.
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Washington
War Finance Corporation
Federal Reserve Districts
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco
Curb Brokers Proposed Licensing in New York City
New York April 8 curb brokers would pay the city a license fee of 1000 dollars annually to operate. The ordinance introduced in the Board of Aldermen would require bonds of 25000 dollars to guarantee all financial obligations.
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New York
Board of Aldermen
Wartime earned efficiency of New York women urged for suffrage
Mrs. Marion Booth Kelley told the Boston Equal Suffrage Association that uneducated New York women managed budgets during the war and will drive reform after victory. She urged women to apply war-time fervor to current ambitions, saying combined action with men can achieve ideals and avert political disaster. Kelley chairs the legislative committee of the Woman's City Club of New York and has spoken in Boston on suffrage.
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New York
Marion Booth Kelley
Boston Equal Suffrage Association
Rose Dexter
Kelley
Woman's City Club of New York
Boston
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