Sugar Price Up as Consumption Rises in Postwar Era
Sugar prices rise amid higher per capita intake in the United States from 1920 to 1922. Consumption averages about 114 pounds annually per person, with exports growing and absent competition from Germany and Austria-Hungary. Refiners warn prices may ease later if demand softens, but recent gains outpace supply.
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Germany
Austria-Hungary
Wreatha Linley
Leah Crumley
Ellisslewther Wilhite
Martha Bell Royal
Breuer
Europe
Japan
China
South America
Australia
Africa
Pacific
Austria- Hungary
Great Britain
Department of Commerce
Dublin Promoters Eye 10 Million Pound Plan For City
Promoters outline two costly Dublin improvements including a central railway near the ruined Four Courts and a new parliament building on Kilmainham site. Critics dispute funding, while the Free State senate sits in the Art Museum and Leinster House awaiting a future home.
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Central Station
Parliament Building
Dublin
Ireland
R P Ween
Trish
Free State Senate
Art Museum
Dail
Leinster House
Royal Dublin Society
Parliament
Kilnainham
Bank of Ireland
Grattan
Free State
Theobald Wolfe Tone
Shipbuilding Decline Tracks Lloyds 1922 Global Output
Lloyds reports 1922 world shipbuilding at 852 vessels totaling 2,467,414 tons, down from 1,377 vessels 4,341,679 tons in 1921 and 2,488 vessels 7,144,549 tons in 1919. U.S. output 119,138 tons. British yards 1,081,081 tons. Germany 575,264 tons. other nations show declines. Tankers launched 61 ships totaling 355,834 tons, Britain 42 ships 262,826 tons. U.S. 2 ships 14,440 tons.
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London
England
Lloyds
Mercantile Shipbuilding
United States
Germany
Japan
Holland
Italy
Denmark
France
Great Britain
Shines in London Ruined By Cleaner Streets
London’s red coated shoeblacks once numbered 2000 but now about 400 remain. Cleaner streets, less demand for shoe shining, and postwar finances curb their earnings as asphalt and macadam upgrades improve canvassed city pavements.
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London
City
West End
Northwest pack of dogs aids urban bear hunting in Seattle
In Seattle city limits Miss Thea Pwueston and her brother Melvin credit three dogs Louden Thunders and vate for keen olfactory senses with locating a bear den in a wooded canyon near the Great Northern tracks toward Everett They hunt within the city using a citywide launting Myers and trade notes on nocturnal fur bearers While other passages discuss pullet hatching deadlines and farm management the central tale centers on urban furbearer pursuit using trained dogs and city terrain as a backdrop.
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Seattle
Wash
Thea Pwueston
Melvin
Louden
Thunders
Vate
Great Northern
Everett
Miss Hueston
John Suiters
Irysville
Cantanam
Brace-Hergert
Lake Union
Wheelehan
Government Canal
Wishingtom
Wheeleban
Peasant Captures Full Grown Golden Eagle Alive
A 71 year old Austrian peasant in the Arlberg mountains captured a full grown golden eagle alive after it killed a roebuck. He found the bird near his hay stack and restrained it when it attempted to fly away, despite its violent struggles.
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Arlberg
Rubber cement death of Rochest er watchman
Thomas Cripps sixty died from suffocation after rubber cement sealed his mouth and throat. His body was found under an open faucet of a cement barrel pinned to the floor in a Rochester shoe factory building where the cement was manufactured.
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Thomas Cripps
Rochester
N.Y
Cripps
Blind Youth Wins Honors at Northwestern Law
George H. Weinmann, 23, of Chicago, blind since birth, earns two law school scholarships in the same term. He credits his mother for reading, uses Braille notes on a slate, and completes work with a standard typewriter.
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George H. Weinmann
Chicago
Northwestern University
Prisoners Free After Fines Cut in University City
Otto Dix a saloon keeper and bartender Harry Bisch er were jailed for violating the bone dry law in University City St Louis County Missouri. Judge A A Ladd reduced their combined fines from 750 dollars to 200 dollars enabling their release.
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University City
St. Louis County
Missouri
Justice A. A. Ladd
Otto Dix
Harry Bischer
Young Victim Watched Hunt For His Own Body
Jenkins Milam six years old of Ashland Kentucky watched two hours as searchers dragged the flooded Ohio River for his body after he disappeared from a bluff. Miss Wright his teacher raised the alarm and the boy was found peeping out from behind bushes as boats and men scoured the water.
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Jenkins Milam
Ashland
Ohio River
New Record for Bible Reading at Siloam Church
Seventy members of the Siloam Methodist Episcopal church in Philadelphia set a reading relay record by reading the New Testament in seventeen and a half hours with relays of fifteen minutes each. The event aimed to encourage Bible reading.
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Siloam Methodist Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
Clock Marks 65 Years Without Stopping
Z A Orth of Kenton QC owns a clock that has run for 65 years without a stoppage. The timepiece sits in a fixed shelf spot for four decades and is wound weekly by Orth.
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Z. A. Orth
Kenton, QC
Orth
Insure Fertility of Eggs for Early Hatches
Advice on improving hatchability through open air breeding stock and early care. Emphasizes open front or scratching shed housing, freely exercised birds, liberal feeding with meat and bone, and debunks claims that mash fed hens reduce hatch quality.
Poultry Notes on Egg Laying and House Care
A guide on factors for laying hens to produce eggs, stressing light, uniform egg size, and clean conditions. Dampness harms fowls while dry quarters aid, and sudden temperature changes should be avoided. Oyster shell and grit are essential, with geese fattened by noodles for top markets.
Real estate transfers filed by Recorder Compton
A list of recorded transfers with buyers and sellers across Attica Portland Veedersburg Covington and surrounding counties. Considerations include amounts from $1.00 to $1,243.75 for lots and acreage in Fountain Vermillion Leavenworth counties and various additions.
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Compton
Mary E. Rohlfing
John Cline
Prospect
City of Attica
Charles E. Massey
John M. Hopkins
Town of Portland
Franklin P. Watts
Samuel S. Simmerman
Fountain County
Roach Wilson
Clarence C. Johnson
J. S Nave
South E.de
City of
Attica
Mary Brennan
Paul A. Boatman
Christopher Keeling
Old Homestead
Veedersburg
Andrew J. Gillogly
Samuel K. Bruner
Anna Lowe
Charles Layman
Lucas
Sterling
Charles P. Coats
Thomas Harrold
Charlie Bushman
Portland
Rex M. Mounts
Mary E. Hayes
Mary E. Hudson
R. E. Gavett
Vermillion County
A. D. McCullough
George A. Denholm
Leave
Ravine Park
Frank W. Coats
George McManigal
Olc
Philip Hunt
Thornton Hunt
Covington
Hattie Campbell
John W. Spencer
Christopher Keeliner
Chamberlains Tablets Aid Digestion and Constipation
Mrs. George Stroup of Solvay New York writes that prior to using Chamberlains Tab lets she suffered severe indigestion and loss of flesh. She says the tablets aided digestion and cured her constipation.
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Chamberlain
George Stroup
Solvay
N. Y
Adv
Engle & Evans Price Drop on Tires
Engle and Evans announce a price decrease on their tire line as others raise costs. Local customers can expect lower shop prices and potential promotional options at participating outlets.
Marriage Licenses Issued By County Clerk Bodine
The county clerk reports marriages of James K. Marana and Dosha Kinney both 27 of Danville and New Albany. Wilbur Woosley 21 and Helen A. Pitman 19 of Frankfort. Benjamine D. Seamel 24 of New Town and Bessie A. Fine Hillsboro. Merodle Wilson 22 Hammond and Hazel Coffine 18 Covington. George F. Dierdorf 43 Terre Haute and Margaret Davon 38 Clinton.
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RH. E. Bodine
James K. Marana
Danville
Dosha Kinney
New Albany
Hazel Coffine
Covington
C. C. Wert
George F. Dierdorf
Terre Haute
Margaret Davon
Clinton
Notice to Taxpayers on Bond Issue for Covington School
The School City of Covington Indiana will hold a May 5 1923 meeting to determine issuing bonds up to 28000 at 5 percent to pay debt from adding to the Hirth high school and repairing the current building. Taxpayers may be heard and appeals to the State Board of Tax Commissioners are described with filing details.
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Covington
Indiana
Hirth
Fountain County
State Board of Tax Commissioners
State Tax Board
B. M. Mayer
Lee Philpott
John LaTourrette
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Plymouth Rocks
Harriet Myers
Mr. and
Wdy Patterson
and Everett
Wallace Reid
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Engle & Evans
Castoria
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