Bonus Bill Passes as House Hints at Senate Clash
The House approved the four billion dollar bonus bill by 883 to 70 with suspensions of rules after a tense debate. President Harding returned from Florida and heard leaders push for or against veto, while Secretary Hughes pressed allied nations to honor Rhine debt payments. The article notes political maneuvering, budgetary concerns, and international finance friction surrounding postwar claims.
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Harbor fund raised as House votes to cut budget
Washington March 28 resentment to the appropriations committee surfaced in a 153 to 54 vote approving a move to raise the $28 035 260 appropriation for flyers and charters improvement to $42 815 001. The action signaled House disapproval of the budget system and insurgency against Floor Leader Mondell. The appropriation bill for State and Justice including the federal military totals $20 821 857 with the State department at $9 448 796 and the Justice department at $17 074 121, both reductions from the current year and requested amounts. The committee also rejected a $150 000 request for professional nonenforcement.
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Mondell
Department of Justice
Chamber seeks repeal of Seamen Act provisions on Great Lakes
Cleveland chamber report urges repeal of parts of the Seamen Act arguing it shifts ship traffic to Canadian registry. It notes no American passenger ships entered Great Lakes service since passage and cites 76 bulk freighters moved to Canada while American fleet tonnage rose only one percent and Canadian fleet grew 85 percent.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
Great Lakes
Chamber
Fire at Toledo Damages Nathani Brothers Stock
A blaze in Toledo on March 28 caused $190,000 in stock damage at Nathani Brothers Wholesale Novelty Co. ignition traced to celluloid toy fires from an unknown source. Fire occurred in the downtown area and preliminary losses reached $130,000 in property.
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Toledo
Nathani Brothers
Secon
Burch Murder Trial Opens in Los Angeles
The second trial of Arthur Burch for the murder of broker J Belton Keanedy of Heverly Glen began before Superior Judge Slaney N Reeve in Los Angeles on March 28. The case stems from the August 5, 1921, killing.
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Los Angeles
Col
Arthur €. Burch
J. Belton Keanedy
Heverly Glen
Slaney N. Reeve
Market prices for grains livestock and poultry
The page lists a wide range of commodity prices including hard spring wheat at short patents around 1597.40, hard winter wheat 6.00, white patents 1,066.7, 1,209.30 for dark varieties, and various hay feeds. Dairy buttercreamery prices, eggs, and mixed hay varieties are shown with scores and packaging details. Poultry and meat prices cover turkeys fowls ducks geese eggs and cattle, hogs, and sheep with unit prices and quality grades.
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Timothy Hay
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Kidney Liver Remedy Ad
A vintage advertisement claims Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is a pure natural remedy for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It emphasizes vegetable herbs, non stimulant action, and bottle sizes medium and large. Readers urged to send ten cents for a sample with the paper mention.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
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Ungoverned Ears The Family Rules His Car
A humorous exchange describes a father who teaches his child to drive and later faces the irony that his own movements are controlled by his offspring. The dialogue underscores household power dynamics where the parent seeks permission from his children to use his own faculties.
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Wilf
Must Have Been a Bostonian Riddle Rewritten by Teacher
A Boston English teacher posed a 9 sentence prompt asking for paraphrases of a line about a nod to a four blind horse. Some answers were decent while others failed, but one nearly caused fainting as it stated that closing the right eye is enough to see a blind horse.
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Tact lecture by London's chief magistrate Biron with grim anecdote
London chief magistrate Sir Chartres Biron lectured on tact and told a Scottish minister tale quoting a condemned man about the gallows. The Chicago Herald notes the grim anecdote as part of the address.
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Chartres Biron
London
Ones
Donald
Chicago Herald
Fragmented Sayings and One-Liners in a Humorous Chat
A garbled transcript features quips about speech politeness, vegetarian jokes, tutor remarks, and self-reliance. It includes misheard phrases like ex-tempore cotter and notes about dimples distracting a wise man. The piece closes with musings on self-reliance and poverty.
Dearest Jack I Have Gone to Have My Kimono Cut Out
A young husband returns from the city to find a note from his wife, panics at the hospital, and learns the note reveals she has gone to have her kimono cut out. The exchange ends with the secretary reading the note.
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Adv Vice
Jack
Sensible Narne Punchline From a Surgical Tale
The Chicago Journal notes how patients recall surgery with focus on the pain of waking, while a visiting woman learns the joke of a nurse saying you are not “coming ta” but “you’ta to” in a lighthearted exchange about recovery.
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Chicago Journal
Profiteer’s snobbish reply sparks culture clash
A pretentious young man boasted of multilingual skill to a profiteer who retorted about busy lives and culture. The exchange hints at social pretensions and a sharp humor, reflecting tensions in wit and class discourse.
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Bilingsgate
Drofiteer
A Fich as a Mousetrap catches trout in Canada
J B Barbour of Paterson New Jersey caught a large brook trout in St Johns river Gaspe Canada on June 20 1921. When opened the stomach held five large ringed mice indicating an unusual feeding.
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J. B. Barbour
Paterson
N. J
St. John's River
Gaspe
Canada
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