Republicans Uphold Senate Policy In 1920 Platform
The Republican platform defies the Wilson administration on the treaty and League of Nations, praises the Senate for resisting forced adoption, and backs opposition to labor curbs while supporting federal labor protection. It pledges a firm policy on Mexico and highlights woman suffrage gains and a permanent women’s bureau. Also notes sugar hoarding and Palmer’s market troubles.
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League of Nations
Versailles
Wilson
Senate
Department of Labor
Congress
Chicago
Palmer
Slavs Starve Report Highlights Soviet Policy Failures
Benjamin Turner of Britain's labor delegation to Rusela paints a grim view of famine in Russia under Lenin and Trotsky. He cites half of Shusela's population hungry and criticizes Soviet economic policy and governance. He notes British labor stance on Soviet favors and questions why Russia does not feed its own people. The piece argues Bolshevik rule harms a populous nation and mentions U.S. and British reactions.
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Benjamin Turner
Rusela
Shusela
Turner
Labor Party of
Great Britain
Russia
Labor Party
United States
Lenine and
Trotsky
World Suffrage Moves to Geneva Conference Seat
The International Woman Suffrage Alliance selects London as its permanent seat during a Geneva conference. It urges political liberty for women worldwide and credits wartime service with widening rights. Alleged sugar profiteers in West Virginia are fined $35,000. The public pays the freight.
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International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Geneva
Switzerland
London
Turkey
Great Britain
France
Italy
United States
West Virginia
Labor Vote and Party Alignments in U S Politics
The AFL splits over tactics with Gompers backing existing parties while radicals push for a labor party. Socialists loom as a factor. loyalty to American ideals and lawyering press the debate. Most labor members may still favor one of the major parties in the coming election. President Wilson is cited in the Republican platform. calls for fiscal restraint accompany political talk.
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United States
Congress
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Labor Party
Max Leslie
Optimism and concerns thread through postwar aviation and politics
The piece quotes Bishop criticizing U S aviation neglect after world war I while Europe advances in commercial flight and national defense. It notes Congress laxness toward aviation, praises American WWII era aviators, and comments on Democratic and Republican dynamics at the Chicago convention with reflections on leadership and optimism in politics.
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Courthand Bishop
The
Aero Club
American Flying Club
United States
Paris
United States Congress
Europe
Bishop
America
Just Stub Ends A Candid Reflection On Costs And Vanity
A reflective piece notes truth hurts to tell and epicurean costs rise. It praises sensible dress by a wife and warns about ground floor hopes ending in cellar. Tongue tests intellect, judges test patience, vanity survives indifference, and luxury cravings shape modern love.
Poem and Punchline Fragments From 1920s Reading
A collage of verse fragments and jokes from early 20th century papers. It includes Edgar A. Guest style impressions on boyhood, parental dynamics, and light humor about money and manners. The piece blends prose snippets from multiple papers and an advertising note about a correction to a publicity item.
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Edgar A. Guest
Pia
Haskin Letter On Live Topics JAILWARD HO
The piece satirizes a New York Police Department campaign using pretty girls as bait to arrest men for flirting on a holiday. It mocks moral uplift advocates and forecasts a national plan to enforce morality, including a Department of Conduct and expanded prisons, with social climbers argued to seek prison life as a new elite pastime.
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New York
A. Spoofinduffer
New England
Dr. Spoofinduffer
Department of
Department of Justice
Internal Revenue Department
Federal Organization
America
Heaven
Mark Twain
Hell
Calaboose
Mark
Hades
I Must Have Those Closets A Woman’s Conference Note
Ruth Cameron suggests a coping method for longing for home improvements. Reflect on past additions and recognize present comforts to ease impatience. She recalls how initial desires for spaces and devices gave way to appreciating what they now have.
Renovating Leather Furniture at Home
Instructions describe making a leather care cream from beeswax turpentine Castile soap and rain water. It covers color matching and a method to mend tears using fish glue bichromatic of potash glycerine and heat. A separate note states Greece bans home baking with dough sent to bakeries. corn flour unpopular with professional bakers.
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Greece
Vocabulary Quiz From Thompson Feature Service
A series of definitions and questions cover terms from culture and commerce to measurements and literature. Entries include hillbilly, commodity, oddity, shekel, Elsie Janis, warped, The Ambassadors, silk and cotton fashion shifts, and oar scull with multiple new prompts on terms such as turned coat and rostrum.
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Elsie Janis
Henry James
Wilfred T. Grenfell
Thompson Feature Service
Collection of aphorisms and notes from Chicago column
A mixed patch of quotes on daily life beliefs and humor. Items cover hats and elegance, eggs, marriage, opportunities, walking, music for nerves, French publishing woes, secret senate sessions and a jaw dropping quip about clothing buttons.
Holding a Husband
Adele Garrisoy presents a domestic drama focusing on Lillian and her child Marion as they host a visit by the narrator and her father. The scene centers on tea, family dynamics, and Lillian’s resolve against threats from Dicky while preserving a fragile happiness.
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A Husband
Adele Garrisoy
Allentea
Lillian
Thoroun
Lan
Tay
Gordon
Spencer
Marion
Pet
Adolphievoug
Zydian
Marion Atta
Betty
Dicky-bird
Dicky
Anniversaries and Birthdays Across Decades Snapshot
Readable fragments note historic anniversaries from 1726 to 1903 including Beauharnois Scarborough and Simms. Today's birthdays highlight Robert E. Coontz L O Howard John L. OConnor Jeanette Rankin and Charles Hollacher. The day’s news covers John W. Davis as a presidential nominee candidate and diplomat from West Virginia with long public service.
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Robert E. Coontz
Naval Operations
Hann Mo
L. O. Howard
Washington, D
American Association For Envancement of Science
Rockford, Ill
John L. O'Connor
Newark
N. J
Jeanette Rankin
United States Congress
Charles J. Hollacher
Louis
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