Prohibition Office Calls for Cooperation in NYC Circuits
The federal prohibition director's office invites vaudeville, film, and hotel managers to cooperate on enforcing the eighteenth amendment. Thomas D. Green of the New York Hotel Association is asked to confer with Lellowley on hotel related violations. Costs, penalties, and seizures cited reflect strict national enforcement.
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Voice of the People
Prohibition Department
Washington
Sellowley
Thomas D. Green
New York Hotel Association
Prohibition
United States Treasury
New York City
Vast Universe Revealed By New Measuring Methods
Dr Harlow discusses a vast expansion of the known universe in a Mentor Magazine piece. He cites Betelgeuse at 240 million miles across and NGC 7006 at 1 200 quadrillion miles distant, with the Milky Way surrounded by spiral nebulae and star clusters moving through space.
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Rt Wilson Observatory
California
Earth
Garrett P. Serviss
Mentor
Michelson
University of Chicago
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Milky Way
What Really Happens When a Person Dies
Scientists explain death as a process with convulsive movements being nervous reflexes. The brain may endure after apparent death for up to thirty minutes while the heart can beat 24 hours with continuous oxygenated flow. Drowning is described as like falling asleep and the dying hour sequence includes sense loss from smell to hearing.
Iowa corn selling for 1.25 a bushel in Denmark
Atlantic Iowa farmer Carl Hald of Kimballton reports Iowa corn selling for 1.25 a bushel in Denmark after returning from a visit there. He says friends received shipments and paid nearly a dollar more than in Iowa. He notes Danish farmers are prosperous and hogs fetch 20 cents a pound.
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Iowa
Denmark
Carl Hald
Kimballton
Hald
Ivory Handies and Woodpile Anecdotes From The Observer
A fragmentary item cites the Observer of Events and Things recalling ivory care with baking soda and drying, warning against water darkening ivory. It quips about a man on a woodpile telling a joke that failed to elicit laughter, from the Yonkers Statesman.
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Yonkers Statesman
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