Missouri House engrosses child code bills and reforms
Sixteen child code measures are engrossed in Jefferson City as the House advances bills to raise girls age of consent and majority, regulate maternity homes, and fund a state home for neglected children. Other actions include reorganization proposals for state departments, quail hunting limits, and a $180 annual pension for Missouri’s blind.
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Friends of the Code
Becker
Polk
Jones
Macon
Maxey
Bates
Bailey
Waring
Jasper
Cave
Callaway
Wagner
St. Louis
Chilren
Cave of Callaway
Fulton
Kasmann
Gasconade
Agriculture
Finance
Department of Trade and Commerce
Public Service Commission
Insurance
Missouri
Speer
Bollinger County
Peace Talk Details and World News Briefs Across The News
Conference announcements say no final decisions yet on peace terms with the League of Nations to be included in preliminary treaties. Other items note Grover Cleveland’s anniversary in New York, a New Jersey streetcar strike settlement, and various wartime and postwar developments including Mexican protections for Americans, railway and aviation news, and weather-related and disaster reports.
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David Lloyd George
M. Clemenceau
League of Nations
Robert Cecil
Lloyd George
New Jersey
Amy
War Labor Board
Food Administration
Everett C. Brown
Chicago
F. 8. Snyder
Meat Division
The
Washington
Andrew Bonar Law
House of Commons
Germany
Kansas City Leaders Urge Beardsley on Constitutional Convention Bill
The New Constitution League and Kansas City representatives urge Mayor Beardsley to attend Jefferson City to push a new constitutional convention bill out of the House committee. Representative Wilkinson notes five Democrats favor advancing the bill while six Republicans oppose it. Democrats are open to nonpartisan features.
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House
Judiciary Committee
Wagner
St. Louis
Kansas City
Commission
New Constitution League
Beardsley
Jefferson City
Wilkinson
Witnesses named for prison inquiry submitted to House committee
Representative Frank Farris of Rolla Keith of Iron County and Shouse submitted witnesses to the House investigating committee. Chalfant, committee chair, said subpoenas would be issued and the hearing would likely resume soon.
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Rolla
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Iron County
Shouse
Chalfant
Subpenas
Pawnbrokers Curbed by Judiciary Bill
Senate judiciary committee reported the Eider bill reducing pawnbroker interest from 2 to 1 percent per month. The measure also requires on the ticket the date of each interest payment and the date to which the payment applies.
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Senate Committee On Judiciary
Lodge and Lowell Debate the League Covenant in Boston
In Symphony Hall Boston Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Harvard President A Lawrence Lowell debated the League of Nations covenant. Lodge called the covenant porous and defective while Lowell defended its substance as a sound anti war plan needing clarification and automatic penalties for aggressors.
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League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Senator Lodge
Commission of the Peace Conference
Lowell
Symphony Hall
New England
Army
Lodge A. Lawrence Lowell
League
Advertising Would Help to Lift Economy Says Babson
Washington March 20 Roger W Babson director of the information service of the Department of Labor and a business authority urged larger advertising campaigns to spark a prosperity era He told big businessmen to increase the advertising appropriation for 1919 and stressed that prosperity hinges on the consumer and a market for goods. He argued wartime deprivation and a psychological shock keep demand low and business stagnant.
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Washington
Roger W. Babson
Information Service
Department of Labor
Babson
Mystery surrounds killing of Mrs. Greenwood in Oakland
In Oakland, March 20, investigators probe the death of Mrs. George Greenwood after an explosion at the banker’s home. Police report finding six small iron wires and brick fragments from the scene. A January 1918 extortion note demanding five thousand dollars may be connected.
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Oakland
Cal
George Greenwood
Greenwood
Patrick Joseph Hayes as Archbishop of New York
Archbishop Patrick Joseph Hayes serves as the leading church figure in New York, guiding the diocese and representing the Roman Catholic Church in the region during his tenure.
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Patrick
Joseph Hayes
New York
Cleveland Clothing Workers Strike in Cleveland
Four thousand men in forty factories in Cleveland walked off the job this morning seeking a 44 cent raise in wages as part of a union dispute. Local leaders stated the action would continue until a settlement is reached.
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Cleveland Clothing Workers
Cleveland
Ohio
Men’s Clothing Workers of
California Syrup of Figs endorsed for children's stomachs
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs for sick children with a coated tongue and signs of fever or constipation. It touts a gentle, tastily pleasant laxative that cleanses the bowels within hours, claims no griping, and warns to demand the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company to avoid counterfeits.
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Pal
California
California Fig Syrup Company
A Real Memory Test and Quick Wisdom
A quip about memory and trust warns against lending money to test recall. It notes haste to get rich makes fools and that many self-made men rely on a woman to finish the job.
Golden Medical Discovery Promises Vitality Boost
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a powerful blood purifier made from wild roots and barks. It claims to cure after influenza and winter colds, improve digestion, and restore vigor, with a trial package offered for 10 cents from Buffalo, New York.
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Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Invalids
Buffalo, N. Y
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