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Newspaper

Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 25, 1920

Page

8

Chaos and upheaval shadow Europe and US treaty fight

A wide survey notes Germany’s unsettled power struggle after a five day revolt led by Kapp and others, now frayed by rail and utility strikes. It weighs the Berlin crisis against the US Senate’s treaty action, Irish self determination, and the Minnesota primary as Hoover gains momentum. Constantinople is occupied by Allied forces to enforce treaty terms. Mexico’s unsettled politics loom as America eyes its mineral and food resources. Women’s suffrage stalls in Ohio Vermont and Connecticut pending court and legislative action.

E. F. Clipson Germany Kapp Luettwitz Berlin Ebert Noske Awith Adriatic France England Ludendorff Moscow Lenine Trotsky Neeme Kultur Whert Europe Saxony Kert Kaiser Holland Senate William J. Bryan United States Gerry Rhode Taland League of Nations Ireland Great Britain Thomas Colorado Japan Korea Townsend Michigan Williams Mississippi Illnois Wilson Nrgo Herbert Hoover Wood Minnesota Mnasaa~cies Turkey Constantinople George 1 Milne War Office Aigaing Allied High Commission Vermont Lkely Ohio Supreme Court Connecticut

Tax plan calls for safer levy and flat profits tax

Secretary Houston warns reduction of income and excess profits taxes would be unsafe and delay could devastate business. He urges simplification and a switch to a flat rate on distributed earnings, proposing 25 percent for 1921 20 percent for 1922 and 15 percent for 1923 with new rules on settlements and bond exemptions.

Washington Houston House Ways and Means Committees Congress Internal Revenue Bureau Personal Service Corporation Supreme Court Treasury House Ways and Menng Committee

Masaryk a Life President of Czecho Slovakia

Washington March 17 Dr Thomas G Masaryk first president of the republic of Czecho Slova kia will be permitted to continue in office for life under the new Prague constitution. Provisions disclosed by the state department limit future presidents to two successive seven year terms.

Washington Thomas G. Masaryk Republic of Czecho-Slovakia Prague State Department

Water on the Knee and a Tragic Transatlantic Tale

A waggled Neaponstian man claims his wife lacks imagination. At dinner he recounts a newspaper tale of a passenger who fell overboard at sea and was never found. The wife asks if he drowned. he quips the man sprained an ankle.

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Never the Same After That

A Monday morning encounter altered a friendship when a visitor walked in unannounced. The speaker recalls their embarrassed reaction and notes how the friend changed in demeanor afterward, a small personal incident captured in a brief anecdote.

Races Prompt Excitable Talk Amid Fiscal Caution

A dialogue between Mr Feathertop and his wife reveals nerves before a race event and a caution to guard money. A separate remark notes a scientist estimating Earth's mean annual rainfall at about 30 inches across the planet.

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