Grapes Shipments Jump Despite Six-Year Rise
California grape shipments rose steadily over six seasons reaching about 28 000 cars in 1922 per USDA reports. The three leading eastern states New York Michigan and Pennsylvania each shipped well above their averages with New York 7 484 cars vs 5 584, Michigan 5 835 vs 2 912, and Pennsylvania 1 14 vs 737.
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California
United States Department of Agriculture
New York
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Dee
Stock Increases In Next Year Loom For Utilities
State public utilities plan capital stock raises during 1923. United Illuminating Co announces rights offering for 9,805 shares at $100 par with staged payments through Oct 1924. Southern New England Telephone to issue about $200,000 stock next year, with a $15,000,000 base capital and $2,000,000 additional authority. Both systems expect growth to meet rising Connecticut demand. stock trades around $129 per share.
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Lalted Illuminating Co
Southern New England Telephone
United Illuminating Co
Aed
Sai
Southern New England Telephone Co
United States
New England
Connecticut
Public Service Corporation
Thitedlluminating Co
Iarest
Insects disrupt rail service in French region
Cable dispatches report destroyed crops and massive insect swarms blocking train service between Niort and Fontenay le Comte for over thirty miles. Crews used special tools to clear tracks as trains were stopped repeatedly. A reported rum runner vessel from the Bahamas, 77 tons with auxiliary engine, carried nine crew, no liquor found, crew not held, papers deemed irregular by Federal officials.
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Niort
Fontenay-Le Com
Hartford
Bahamas
Europe's Greatest Drug Vendor Sent to Prison
Paul Ismand, 43, described as central Europe s top drug peddler and cocaine expert, was sentenced by a Geneva tribunal to six months hard labor under a new law. The magistrate called him a dirty reptile who ruined many young lives and hoped the case would curb German dope inflow.
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London
Europe
Paul Ismand
Geneva
Daily Express
Ismaud
Rraristrate
Prisoner Accuses Cruelty. Reports Poetry Readings
An inmate at the national penitentiary claimed cruelty by the governor in a letter to the newspaper 4 Nacion. A reporter visiting the prison was met with cordial reception as the governor denied mistreatment and admitted reading parts of his own verses to the inmates, explaining the source of the inmate's accusation.
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Buenos Ayres
National Peniten—Ry
Ea Nacion
Hadley
Shaw proposes blood test election of statesmen at Covent Garden
London reports G S Shaw at King's Hall Covent Garden advocates a blood and secretions test to measure capacity for governance replacing popular vote. He imagines a No. 1 Man for finance or foreign policy but lacking other knowledge. A London crowd heard the lecture as a radical, theoretical remedy.
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London
G. 2
Shaw
King’s Hall
Covent Garden
Westminster Gazette
Eulctions
Panghof
Furth
Mr. Shaw
Wionce
Let Mail Workers Have Their Xmas Plea from Department
A department urges postal service workers to maximize Christmas day mail processing to allow employees to dine at home. It asks first and second class post offices to report success in spreading the effort and urges patrons to mail early and finish transactions early.
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Christman
Feel Good Health Solves Troubles With Keen Brain
A promotional line asserts that troubles fade as health improves and promises sale of the product at all druggists for 25c and 50c, emphasizing user ease and mental clarity.
Suspected Rum Runner Seized in New London Harbor
New London December 22 The schooner William A Morse at anchor in the harbor for 12 days has been seized on a complaint issued by United States District Attorney Chen. The seizure follows a suspected rum running case and marks a decisive action by federal authorities in the whaling city’s harbor.
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New London
William A. Morse
United States
Chen
Rome Considers Automatic Speed Governor for City
In Rome narrow streets and steep hills make motoring precarious and there is no room for speed. An automatic water sensor governor to limit speed within the city is being seriously considered. The invention relies on a governor type and stems from the labors of Messrs. Fragano and Ilia.
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Rome
Messrs. Fragano
Scientific American
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