Trusts Controling British Industries Investigators Find
Government investigators report trusts and rings dominate almost all major British industries during the war, with shipbuilding as the exception. The finding prompts consideration of a Trade board tribunal to handle abuses by combines, while rights in the air raise questions of sovereignty and international flight.
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Peagenpeed
Trusts
Great Britain
Sir Auckland ‘Geddes
Sir Auckland
Board of Trade
Handley Page
Germany
Legislators Near End of 1919 Pennsylvania Session
Both chambers adjourned for a week and will enter the final session week with a busy calendar. Key measures include general appropriation mothers pension woman suffrage compensation and ballot bills. The Senate cleared its calendar while the House adjourned with 180 bills pending and a plan to adjourn next Thursday.
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Pennsylvania
Senate
House
Spangler
Governore Sproul
Third Class City Bill In Fight
The Senate passed 108 to 11 a bill allowing third class cities to surrender charters and become boroughs amid debate. Other measures included forestry land condemnation, workmen's compensation reforms, and amendments to the fish code. The House concurred on Senate amendments and two bills were defeated. The session saw conference panels named for West Side Hospital funding and various bills awaiting action.
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Senate
Wallace
Lawrence
Hollingsworth
Chester
Coatesville
League of
Commissioner of Forestry
Workmen’s Compensation Bureau
House
Powell
Luzerne
Messrs. McCaig
Ramsey
Flynn
West Side Hospital
Scranton
Mines Committee
Highway Department
Conneaut Lake
Alexander
Delaware
Commissioner of Insurance
Mothers' Pension Funding Debate Expands to 750000
Lawmakers led by Senator Crow and Representative Vickerman push to raise the Mothers' Pension appropriation from 500000 to 750000 amid epidemic driven need. They cite wait lists, variations by state, and growing beneficiaries, with a Senate bill now pending and related machinery already passed.
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Friends of the Mothers’ Pension Fund
William E. Crow
John W. Vickerman
Appropriations Committee
Mothers’ Pension Boards
New York
Massachusetts
Philadelphia
Senate
Vickerman
Mothers’ Pension Fund
M. G. Leslie
Pittsburgh
Scientists dispute claim hats make men’s heads appear bigger
Psychologists and anatomists at the University of Pennsylvania challenge hatmakers’ assertion that hats make men’s heads appear larger. They call the claim unfounded and urge caution in marketing exaggerations.
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University of Pennsylvania
Minister Thankful Recovery Fuelled by Mayr Remedy
A minister credits Mayr's Wonderful Remedy for ending years of stomach trouble constipation and gas. He states a single dose convinced him and promises money back. He cites relief from fever and inability to work and mentions general digestive improvements. The endorsement appears from H C Kennedy and Clark's druggists and stores.
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Mayr
H. C.kennedy
Geo
A. Gorgas
Clark's
Men’s heads grow larger says university experts
Dr. R Tait McKenzie denies a growth in male head size calling it rot and joking it reflects from Germany. Dr. Lightner Witmer doubts the fact while other professors joke that fashion may force hats to sit lower. An ad for McNeil's Cold Tablets appears.
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Lightner Witmer
Bayer Cross on Genuine Aspirin
The Bayer Cross marks genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with directions for relief of headache toothache ear ache neuralgia colds and pain. Handy 12 tablet tins cost only a few cents at drug stores with larger packages also available. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic acid.
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Bayer
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