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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1920
Page
6
A Raleigh area reader praises Black-Draught for chills and stomach trouble, claiming tea brings quick relief and laxative benefits. The ad touts Thedford’s Black-Draught as a gentle liver medicine made from vegetables, plus Hall’s Catarrh Medicine as an internal cure.
A vintage ad touts Dr King’s New Discovery as a proven remedy for cold and cough and croup. It emphasizes long standing popularity, a fifty year track record, and a price of 1.20 dollars per bottle at druggists.
A compact roundup covers Rev. G Campbell Morgan in Syracuse, Goode outlining government spending needs, Dempsey and Carpentier boxing plans, Anna Manson deportation case, Bergdoll arrest, US Mine Workers arbitration, Palmer on food prices, Ukrainians enlisting in Cleveland, railroad car shortages, coal and shipping impacts, American soldier murders in Mexico, Austrian relief appeal, Versailles treaty reception, radical pursuit, Plumb plan circulation, and naval crew legal issues in Mazatlan.
Washington acts to purge communist groups amid raids while eight months of hardship is recounted by Mrs. Cora Lee Sturgis before a senate panel. Debate on farm loan act constitutionality, woman suffrage ratifications reach twenty four states, Congress reconvenes after a holiday with a busy agenda and looming elections.
An official report from Mexico City cites 2 000 casualties from a major quake centered near Orizaba. Teocolo garrison wiped out, 30 dead 60 injured. widespread destruction across Vera Cruz with towns submerged, Baranza and Calen Hualco among hardest hit. aftershocks and panic persist in Cordoba and Orizaba. Separate reports note anti dynastic unrest in Sofia. Dutch parliament considers inviting ex Emperor William to return home.
Washington reports the decision to withdraw American forces after repatriation of Czecho-Slovak units next month. The U S railroad commission will depart Vladivostok with Major General Graves’s troops as transports become available, leaving Japan to counter Bolshevik eastward advances. Similar actions spread to lodges in several states.
New York dispatch reports the last contingent from Brest arriving on the George Washington. The transport carried 287 officers, war workers, and civilians, plus 615 troops, marking final evacuation from the military camp at Brest.
New York. Violent storms in France have seriously interrupted telegraph service between France and foreign countries, the French Cable Company announced. Long delays are to be expected.
Selma Alabama a famed Confederate arsenal long used as a cotton warehouse burned last night causing an estimated loss of about 70000 dollars. The blaze wipes out a historic facility once central to regional supply and storage.
Norfolk Virginia faces acute water shortage. City sprinklers, railway tank cars, and private artesian wells are mobilized to supply the city while rationing remains in effect. Each family is allotted five gallons daily until supply improves.
In New York money continues to flow to support five socialists suspended by the state assembly. It is understood the group will seek to retain Charles E Hughes to argue their case before the assembly judiciary committee.
Wilmington Del Five thousand quarts of high grade whiskey valued at 75000 believed consigned to New York from Baltimore by motor truck were seized under a state law forbidding liquor transport in excess of one quart at a time Some whiskey dealers say the value reaches twenty dollars a quart.
Moscow issued a government statement claiming 25,400 prisoners captured between December 21 and January 9 along the southern front. The report also lists 650 cannons, 50 bomb throwers, 11 tanks, 850 machine guns, and large quantities of military supplies seized.
Chicago police say a two day drive halted many offenses with over 100 alleged criminals in jail and bonds posted. About 25 percent of those arrested had prior records, and no hold ups were reported from noon Sunday to midnight, with only five car thefts noted.
Greensboro was chosen as the convention location with March 3 set as the date by a 12 to 4 vote over Raleigh. Proponents argued Greensboro’s papers would print fair reports, while Newell and others contended major papers would belittle a Raleigh or Charlotte site.
An advertisement extols Boschee’s Syrup as a 53 year old solution for coughs bronchitis and colds. It claims influenza deaths exceed wartime losses and promises restful nights and easy morning expectoration. Made in America and sold widely.
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