Cigarettes Mileage and Trade Shifts Highlight 1923 Tobacco Findings
Dr. Julius Klein reported at the Tobacco Merchants Association convention that U S cigarette production in January through March 1923 reached fifteen billion, up from ten billion in the same months of 1922, with total output and demand boosted by European demand and currency effects. He noted shifts away from Turkish tobaccos toward domestic varieties, price rises due to crop quality and inflation, and a strong export outlook aided by improved marketing and reduced foreign intermediaries as the Department of Commerce studies international tobacco trade.
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Globe
United States
Julius Klein
Tobacco Merchants’ Association of the
Kisin
Europe
Kentucky
Virginia
Nlu
Tobreco
Hicin
Chat
Mir Encorp
Department of Comrmrtre
Congress
Poor Italian boy rises with grit in London tale
A ragged Italian youth seeks fortune in London, staying at the Savoy Motel amid a bustling scene. The piece follows his ambition, meeting local characters, and hints at bets and purchases tied to a, possibly speculative, sale and a moving narrative through social ranks.
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London
Savoy
West
Civo
Dulee
Sahara
Ive
Spencer Churenily
Wilfeeit Meertos
English Hero Homes Fail to Provide Parlors in Wartime Homes
A fragmented 1918 British dispatch notes Lloyd George promised government built homes for heroes with parlors, but wives protested the lack of parlors. Government conceded parlors, yet public response remained skeptical and dismissive, reflecting weak support for the home-front project.
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London
Britain
Lloyd George
Theo
Indian lecture debunks prehistory of North America
Professor William H. Haas of Northwestern University argues no race on the North American continent preceded the American Indian in a May 23 lecture to students. He questions supposed Auntill finds in South America and notes if predators had not altered native cultures, the red man’s history would differ.
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Chicago
William H. Haas
Northwestern University
Haas
South America
al Skall
Rua
Pastor Defends Virgin Birth in Chile Sermon
Rev Philpot of Moody Church warned that attacks on the virgin birth threaten Christian faith and could usher in modernist decay and a broader attack on the Resurrection and Ascension. He urged affirmation of biblical fundamentals as essential to salvation.
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Columbis
Chile
Morgan
Rev Philpot
Moody Church
Russia
Jar. Philpot
Erica
Philpot
Christ
Jesus
Phupot
Taxpayer believes his Wabash lot was vacant
Oscar Nayvocker of Wabash went to the county treasurer to pay taxes on a vacant lot, was told a two story building existed, he left the lot fifteen minutes earlier there was no house, the matter was referred to the county, and officials sought to locate the supposed building.
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Wabash
Oscar Nayvocker
Oscar
Dessora
Asquith on Youth and Age in Paisley Journal
London May 23 Former Prime Minister Asquith writes in the Hospital Carnival Journal of Paisley about youth and age. He says youth would be ideal later in life and notes age gives calmer judgment and the hope to begin again, making people happier and perhaps more useful.
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Asquithan
Paisley
House of Commons
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