Germany Elections Fear Looms In Turbulent Times
A sprawling roundup of postwar notes reports Germany tense over its first constitutional elections, while Etiny Root sails to London for the League of Nations meeting. Pope Benedict urges Christian reconciliation, and Turkey asks for more peace talks time. France, Mexico, and the United States figures swirl in a broad world view.
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Germany
Etiny Root
Periaent Court of International Justice
League of Nations
England
London
Pope Benedict
United States
Widespread Wheat Harvest Aid Plans in Midwest
Five new United States employment service offices will open in Kansas Oklahoma and Texas with $25 000 for harvest relief and seventeen thousand posting notices to help recruit sixty thousand workers for eleven and a half million harvested acres. Kansas City will serve as main distribution hub with union station information bureau and farm bureau and Chamber of Commerce aiding to balance labor across districts.
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Kansas City
United States Employment Service
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
A. L. Barkan
Zone Charades Ott Ser
Federal
Department of Labor
Kansan
Penakotas
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Federal Employment Service
Bureau of Information
Union Station
Grand Avenue
Kansas Farm Bureau
Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
Pulitzer Prizes Awarded to Journalists and Playwright
John J. Leary Jr of the New York World received $1000 for the best reporter’s work in the last year for a series on the real strike last winter. Harvey E. Newbranch of the Evening World Herald Omaha earned $500 for top editorial writing. Eugene O Neill won $1000 for the best original American play of 1919 for Beyond the Horizon.
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New York
John J. Leary, Jr
New York World
School of Journalism
Columbia University
Harvey E. Newbranch
Evening World-Herald
Omaha
Neb
Eugene O'Neill
Defeated Villa's Bandits Clash Near Parral Battle Report
Telegram from El Paso reports Gen Ignacio Enriquez’s forces engaged Francisco Villa’s bandits for two hours and drove them toward the mountains of Durango after a clash south of Parral. The encounter aimed to halt Villa’s flight as Villistas faced state troops in pursuit. Also noted: rewards for missing person Ambrose Small and flooding in Homer Nebraska.
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el Paso
Chihuahua
Ignacio Enriquez
Francisco Villa
Luis Montes de Oca
Mexico
Parral
Enriques
Villa
Durango
Cure Rheumatism by Cleansing Blood Not Local Treatments
Old advertisements urge readers to treat rheumatism by cleansing the blood with S. S. S. blood purifier rather than using liniments or lotions. The copy claims the cause of pain is internal and promises relief by removing germ-caused toxins, directing readers to buy S. S. S. at drugstores and to contact the Medical Director at Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
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Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Lardner anecdotes and a doll tale from Exchange
The piece recounts a Philadelphia club anecdote about Chauncey M. Depew and the sport writer humorist Mr Lardner, plus a doll swap tale from Nancy to Betty. It finishes with a note about a niece’s doll replacing Nancy for company days.
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Chauncey M. Depew
Lardner
Philadelphia
Nancy
Dolly
Betty
Old Gentleman's Subtle Sermon Critique Revealed
The piece recalls Dr. W N Prottsman a Missouri Methodist preacher once famed as the Henry Ward Beecher of Missouri. It recounts his first Virginia backwoods sermon and an old parishioner's blunt reply preferring a small lump of sugar to a whole bucket of sap.
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W. N. Prottsman
Missouri
Henry Ward Beecher
Virginia
Boyhood tales spark elder wit and calf mischief
Earl recalled grandpa's boyhood stories as a calf kicked him in the barn bruising his cheek. Mamma sighed at the odd lesson, while grandpa joked that a fall gives a grandchild a tale worth telling.
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Earl
Art
Leap Year Quip Sparks Formal Offer of Double Duty
Miss Manchaser and Mr Skirtshy exchange humorous lines about love and labor. Miss Manchaser jokes that marriage would require twice the work, prompting Mr Skirtshy to declare his love for his wort and propose a union with extra effort.
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Miss Manchaser
Skirtshy
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