West Getting Booze From Canada
International News Service reports Canadian liquor floods Seattle market. Prices dropped about 75 percent in two years. Canadian club can be bought for eleven dollars a quart though not sold openly in saloons. Prohibition agents struggle to guard the boundary across a chain of San Juan Islands. A Vancouver to Seattle train was stopped and sixty quarts unloaded. crew discharged and warrants issued for two others.
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International
Seattle
Federal
San Juan Islands
Vancouver
Prints to trap bootleggers in Huntington
Huntington police use a fingerprint system to catch bootleggers. Inspector M. R. Rose shows success by matching prints left on bottles and illegal liquor stashes to suspects, promising more arrests as the crackdown continues.
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International News Service
Huntington
W. Va
M. R. Rose
Po Uce
American women wear clothes best says widow Englishman
London dispatch reports Lady Henry widow of an Englishman and American born, arguing American fashion claims misread English style. She praises English women’s personality over clothes, notes postwar shifts, and contrasts traveling wardrobes with British street fashion in Strand and Bond Street.
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Lady Henry
International News Service
London
United States
England
Henry
Alway
New York
Strand
Bond Street
West End
Checkered Career Of Old Schooner Is At An End
The four masted American schooner Carrier Dove was wrecked on a coral reef off Molokai while en route from Tonga to San Francisco with 800 tons of copra. The ship broke up after hours of pounding. the crew was saved. This marked the final and third wreck in a history of prior adventures and incidents at Levuka Fiji in 1920 and near Shweishan in 1902.
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Molokai
Wiihie
South Sea
Tonga
San Francisco
Carter Cove
Levuka
Fiji
State Department
Phrates A
Car- Hex Cove
C. Jonsen
Dove
Bera
South
Afrca
Jen=sen
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British King Faces Financial Strain As Royal Expenses Rise
London dispatch reports King George V is a poor man under severe postwar conditions. Crown lands and privy purse total about 250000 annually, far below prewar needs as costs rose while income halved. Royal households insist on living in estates, needing large retinues, with Princess Mary’s dowry and taxes shaping further deficits. The king, like other royals, pursues strict economies instead of seeking parliamentary grants.
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London
Georges V
Victoria
Great Britain
Holyrood Palace
Scotland
Windsor Castle
Sandringham
Buckingham Palace
Jenane Perss
Prince of Wales
Duke of York
Princess Mery
Henry
George
Mary
Private Isle of Wight estate offered for sale by agent
The King previously bequeathed estates from private sources are being sold privately. The final Isle of Wight estate has sat with a real estate agent for two months and has received no offer to date.
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Isle of Wight
Canada Second Auto Owning Nation Revealed
Winnipeg December 23 Canada ranks second to the United States in automobile ownership with 9,211,293 motor vehicles in the U S and one in Canada for every twenty one people. New Zealand Australia Cuba British Isles and Liberia follow in lower ratios. Canada mirrors U S in farm use with high farm ownership of autos and widespread tractors and trucks on Western farms.
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International News Service
Winnipeg
Man
Canada
United States
New Zealand
Australia
Cuba
British Isles
Liberia
South Dakota
Prairie Provinces
Canadian National Railways
Minister Offers Reward for Prohibition Violations
Rev. John W. Neal of Kirkwood Presbyterian Church in Bridgeport announces a $100 reward to anyone who informs authorities of places in Bridgeport or Belmont County where the prohibition law is being violated. The offer was made to his congregation on December 23.
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International News Service
Bridgeport
Ohio
John W. Neal
Kirkwood Presbyterian Church
Belmont County
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