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Newspaper
Brook Reporter
Location
Brook, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1920
Page
3
Edward W. Pickard reviews the Cox Harding/Cox campaigns, noting senatorial probes into campaign fundraising, accusations of illegal contributions and labor support. Gomperas AFL backs Cox, while mining strife, rail wage actions, and Irish and European turmoil frame a tense political landscape.
Report from Constantinople and Sebastopol says Wrangel evacuates Ta-Whi Peninsula as Bolshevik forces suffer severe losses across the Dnieper. Counterattacks decimate Eldemann command. Bolsheviks regroup on the Taman peninsula while Wrangel masss 60,000 troops in Taurita and Kuban with two armies.
Chicago hosts the 60th annual American Chemical Society meeting where experts discuss liquid coal as a future home and industrial fuel. More than 3,000 chemists from across the United States attend symposiums comparing data on a colloidal fuel aiming to replace coal.
At Horseshoe Falls a five ton slide on the bridge to the Cave of the Winds dropped 180 feet, killing A Hartman 37 Louise Hartman 36 and Sarah Faust 22 of Pittsburgh. Two others T W Lee of Pittsburgh and Frank J Erling of Detroit were injured. a sixth person escaped unharmed. The shale mass shattered the bridge and carried victims into the cave below.
Mexico City reports Gen. Alvaro Obregon of the Liberal Constitutionalist party won a decisive nationwide presidential election. His challenger Alfredo Robrey Domwinguext ran for the National Republican party. Voting was described as light, with no reports of disturbances.
Enoch Williams, leader of the Insurgent miners in district No 1 of the United Mine Workers, called for a vacation by mine workers. He announced the vacation could end after a miners’ meeting in Wilkes-Barre, with about 100000 workers involved in the anthracite fields.
A juvenile Marian persists in thumb sucking despite parental effort. When a baby sister arrives the father warns against the habit but Marian coolly defies him saying she will suck her thumb with her back to the baby. Also mentions Cutburn powder ad copy.
A London Answers anecdote recalls a boy in training who answers a quizzing old dame about bravery. Asked what he would do if the king's coach sped toward a cliff, he coolly replies he would shut his eyes and sing God Save the King, showcasing mock patriotic resolve.
Mrs Green complains her husband did not return home last night fearing he is dead after being left with only 100 dollars. The note ends with a moral line about men and belief from Carlyle.
A baymen group in a Little oyster shack on Great South Bay asks what they would do if they had 1,000,000. Zeb Banks, the ne’er do well, says he would pay off his debts first, then help others, as the others discuss endowing schools or aiding the government. The tale appears in Saturday Evening Post.
A man oversleeps and wrecks a car while backing out of his garage after his wife arrives by the 4 a m train. He crashes through a neighbor's yard, startling the sleeping family as neighbors gather amid the scene of a early morning mishap.
A little girl at the foot of the stairs calls Bere Fido and a passing man jokes he heard Fido. She explains in playful tone that she knows it is a cat but pretends it is a dog. Source: Yougdtown Telegram.
Farmer Comtessel rebukes a hired man for declining effort. The worker replies he tries less because he feels treatment by the others makes effort seem futile, reflecting tensions between employer and staff.
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