World News Digest Highlights Wide Range of 1920s Events
Domestic and foreign items cover tariff battles, soldiers bonus debates, Harding’s Key monument dedication at Fort McHenry, Frantic court critiques, rail labor actions, ship subsidies, Prohibition issues, and a string of disasters from fires to storms. Key figures include Harding La Guardia McCumber Lasker and Kerby with events in Washington Cincinnati Des Moines and Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
Senate
Washington
Francis Scott Key
Fort McHenry
Congress
Key
Controversy Over Ship Subsidy and Prohibition Sparks Debate
Washington battles over ship subsidy policy and liquor on government ships. Lasker fronts opposition from Anti-Saloon League and Prohibition forces while Congress weighs tariffs and bonus plans. European talks at The Hague seek Russia policy amid Genoa-era tensions. AFL in Cincinnati targets child labor and ships subsidy critique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Lasker
Merchant Marine
Hague
Russia
American Federation of Labor
Uncle Sam
United States Shipping Board
Anti-Saloon League
Congress
Association Against Prohibition
Busch Family
Brewers of
St. Louis
Busch
Wayne B. Wheeler
Shipping Board
Haynes
Io Congress
Willis
Ohio
Prohibition Navy
Jones
Commerce Committee
Tanlac credited with restoring strength for Boston woman
Mrs Gelesta Fell of 82 Prince Street Boston says she gained eight pounds in two weeks and now eats sleeps and feels better after taking Tanlac. She had severe indigestion weakness and nervousness before the remedy and credits Tanlac with her recovery. Tanlac is sold by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Taniac
Tanlac
Moonlit Witchery and Moonshine Declared Diabolical
A fragment quotes two speakers warning of witchery in moonlight and denouncing moonshine as even more diabolical, reflecting superstition and fear attached to nighttime revelry.
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Declares Superior Quality
An advertisement claims Red Cross Ball Blue is the finest product of its kind and that every woman who has used it knows it. It promotes coupons as the real cutlets of the golden calf.
From Girlhood to Womanhood Health Claim Ad
A testimonial-style notice from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound pledges relief for women with common health troubles. The letter cites Emporia and promotes the remedy as a woman’s medicine made from medicinal plants to correct monthly and other female symptoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Also Mentioned on This Page
War Department
W. O. Potter
Eastern District of
Illinois
House Merchant Marine Committee
House
Ladd
Gressive
North Dakota
Ition
Mcbill
Repubican
McCumber
S. J. Kerby
J. C. Gappieo
C. C. Fox
Columbus
S. C
William Brazell
Columba
Lensville
Ministerial Pension
Augustana Synod of the
Lutheran Church
St. Paul, Minn
Francis Bowman
Califon
N. J
New York Central Lines
Toledo
Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Narragansett Bay
American
Hayward
New York
Walter S. Ward
Clarence Peters
Westchester County
White Plains
N. Y
Morschauser
St Joseph
Wis
Wisconsin
Central College
Pella
Clara Gilmore
Albay
P. L
Dre Beil Downs ‘Ridgeley
North Avenue, State Bank
Chicago
Rail Labor Board
Louis Holland
Kansas City
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
Milwaukee
A. F. of L
Cincinnati
B. M. Jewell
Arverne
L. I. Gt
James S. McCandless
Honolulu
Mystic Shrine
San Francisco
McCandless
Topeka
William Green
Oil City
Tex
Clinton and
Adams Streets
Ralph Broder
Stockton
Branson Millikin
William McGhee
Millikin
Hamlet
N. C
J. S. Jones
Pontiac (Jr.) Reformatory
Byron Corbridge
Jacksonville, Tr
Devereaux
Springfield
Thomas A. Edison
Rutgers College
New Brunswick
William Prestage
Old
Floyd
Monroe, la
Herman Tuholske
St. Louis, Mo
Walter Allen
Prairie Grove
Ark
Camp Pike
George K. Fisher
St. Louis County
Col. H. D. Loveland
Public Utilities Commissioners
Belfast
Joseph Cooper
William James
Dublin
Peace Palace
The
Samsun
London
Molla Bjurstedt Mallory
Beckenham
England
Miss McKane
Southern Pacific
Mexico
Princeton Battle Monument
President Harding
Princeton
N. Dd
Young America
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Boston Common
Edward W. Pickard
France
America
Trident Harding
House Committee On Merchant Marine
White House
NCE
Germany
Great Britain
Europe
Genoa
Karl Radek
Hoover
Hughes
Poincare
Expefsin
Friends of
Austria
Peru
Aasis
State Hughes
Zayas
General Crowder
Gompers
Chicago Federation of Labor
la Follette
Supreme Court
Reland
Ulster
Oe “Tv
Poe
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