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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1920
Page
3
The ad claims cold and grip germs target weak, run-down people and that Father John's Medicine builds energy to resist illness. It highlights a gentle laxative effect to cleanse impurities, soothes breathing passages, and promises no alcohol or dangerous drugs. It notes 60 years of use.
President Wilson denied any agreement with Britain over the ex German liners held by the United States. He said no understanding existed about sale or disposition of the ships, while a Paris tentative agreement suggested Germany would be credited for excess value if Congress approved. Senate and House committees weighed shipping policy and bond actions in court-ordered delays.
The war department announced that the interior of tanks used in WWI has been made more comfortable by removing engine heat from inside the fighting compartment. Soldiers faced veritable infernos as engines and guns produced heat and fumes.
German Minister of Justice Schiffer told Zweelfuhr Blatt that preliminary proceedings have started in several cases against Germans accused of violations of war laws. He said documentary material is being collected and the accused will be tried at Leipzig by a court of seven judges.
Iron River Michigan reports show no real intent to resist federal action over prohibition. Alarm spread through Tren county and Iron County as villagers poured home distilled wine and prepared for government move, though no organized opposition formed. Local leaders traveled to lumber camps to calm frightened foreigners amid widespread rumors.
The 1920 census announcements show Washington at 437 414 people, up 106 345 or 32 1 percent since 1910. Cincinnati reports 401 158, up 37 567 or 10 3 percent. Senate Republicans split with Hodge to defeat a Lodge amendment on League withdrawal notice. Government operation of former German liners urged for routes to South America Europe and the Orient. Passport fees to Cuba Bermuda the Bahamas and Mexico tentatively agreed by conferees. Senate committee opposition notes sale of 30 former German passenger ships by the Shipping Board.
Congress approved the Cummins Esch measure returning railroads to private owners with a 47 to 17 Senate vote and a 240 to 150 House tally. Republicans backed the bill while Democrats split, with labor concerns and wage protests voiced by railroad brotherhoods at the White House.
Washington reports a bill by Representative McFadden Pennsylvania proposing cooperative farm credit based on personal security rather than mortgage loans. Loans would be secured by farmers through community banking associations funded by farmer members.
The Settleman’s Journal reports a new martial law regulation amid mourning on the border and condemns its severity. The Irish Times backs the measure as needed for police protection, arguing Dublin returns to post Easter rising conditions.
The Senate adopted the original Lodge reservation on withdrawal from the League of Nations after rejecting Hitchcock and Lodge amendments. The 45 to 20 two thirds vote marked a rare majority on a treaty question but did not signal broader support for Lodge’s overall reservation plan amid Republican and Democrat factional splits.
New York report details Mrs. Kennett Cowan suing widow Mrs. Florence Steuber Gaines Harkness for a 20 million dollar estate. Other world items note a hydrophobia death in Montgomery after a dog bite, Chilean coal price disparity, heavy snowfall in Jerusalem prompting relief, a Des Moines payroll theft, and a Washington move to establish League of Women Voters HQ under Maude Wood Park.
Theresa Coventry of Newark says Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved eight years of organic trouble and back pain. She credits the remedy and Blood Medicine with enabling home duties and recommends the products to friends. She praises the company for confidential women’s advice from Lynn Mass.
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