Music ban fuels reform protest in Yankton council vote
In Yankton South Carolina reformers push to curb late night restaurant music. A referendum showed six to one against the ordinance, proving the majority opposed the measure even as council argued from minority pressure. The piece argues morality rests with personal choice, not legal constraints. It also notes a Montana man sentenced to die in Nebraska for a tourist murder.
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Yankton
S. C
Montana
Parenas
Nebraska
Hinois
Colored placards for sin a bold sermon idea
Rev Harry B Truax of Mount Stone Methodist Baltimore advocates placarding homes with red or yellow cards to mark sin as contagious like illness. The Independent questions who would decide and enforce such lists, imagining a Helena campaign and who would issue and maintain the color coded cards.
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Harry B. Truax
Mount Stone Methodist Church
Baltimore
Baltimore Evening Sun
Mr. Truax
Helena
Prohibition Enforcement
Selena
Signs of the Times on Morals and Placards Across Town
A colorful proposal envisions placards on homes to mark moral failings and vices from gambling to drunkenness. It imagines red yellow and green signs, warns of a blanket flag regime, and notes objections from editors while reflecting on social norms and local hypocrisy.
Editorial Fights Indecent Saxophone Music In Washington
A dated Washington opinion rails against a revived statute labeling saxophone music immoral. The piece mocks moral panic, defends jazz as a cultural force, and urges focus on real crime rather than flirtations with prohibition in the capital. It argues personal righteousness cannot be legislated away.
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Washington
Old Crow
Johny Walker
Sun
Richard Washburn Child
America
Tea Wy-white
Mangosteen poised to enter American markets within decade
Washington reports that the agriculture department foresees the mangosteen, long described as the queen of fruits, reaching U S markets in about ten years. Experiments show it can be grown beyond the tropics, though frost still bars Florida and California. Cuba and Cuba-adjacent regions have yielded promising trees. Various cultivation methods are tested, with some trees bearing in seven years and shipments already moving from the Straits Settlements to Calcutta.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Victoria
Buckingham Palace
Sunda Islands
Mudloy
East Indies
Java
Sumatra
Saigon
Cochin- China
Malacca
Straits Settlements
Ceylon
Tropics
West Indies
Canal Zone
Tonduras
Costa Rica
Cuba
United States
Asia
Florida
California
Equatorial Belt
Somo
Samo
Cayton
Singapure
Angnal
JL ix
Trinidad
Washington, D. C
Cal‘cutta
Mat
Philippines
Lutes
Priscilla
Della Thompson Lutes
Bohtrs Merrill Company
Indianapolis
Dairy farmers urge Coolidge to keep hands off cooperatives
In Philadelphia 350000 American dairy farmers asked President Coolidge to influence government policy and refrain from regulating cooperative marketing organizations. A copy of the appeal was sent to the White House for consideration.
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Philadelpia
Associated Press
Coolidge
Swampscott
Book Notes on Modern Authors and Paris in Print
A survey of forthcoming titles and print runs. Thlaire Belloc’s The Road is discussed as a literary road history, with maps of publishing activity for AL Hamilton Gibbs Soundings. Robert Forrest Wilson’s Paris on Parade is highlighted for vivid depictions of Paris life and industry. Five robbers robbed Harry Kleiweis furriers, fleeing with valuables after ransacking safes.
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Thlaire Belloc
Mapers
Little, Brown & Company
AL Hamilton
Gibbs
Jane
New York
AssociatedPress
Harry Kleiweis Company
Uud
Chaos and a Creed by James Priceman reviewed
A critical reading of James Priceman’s Chaos and a Creed argues the author, writing under a pseudonym, questions miraculous acts of Jesus while accepting healings and salvation. The review notes the author’s sincere but divergent stance from traditional creeds and urges reading to test ideas rather than adopt a new creed.
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Edward Kimball
Christian Science Faith
James Priceman
Jesus
New York
Warper & Bros
The Sign of Evil by Anthony Wynne review
A Philadelphia review dissects The Sign of Evil, praising Wynne for doubleback-action plotting and ethnological flair. The tale hinges on a mysterious murder with a love plot and money motives, offering a fresh investigative approach within Scotland Yard lore.
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Scotland Yard
Astery
Anthony Wynne
Philadelphia
J.B. Lipe Pincoit Company
Margaret Wilson's New Novel The Kenworthys
Harper list praises The Kenworthys by Margaret Wilson as a major fall publication. Wilson, author of The Able McLaughlins, shifts from frontier themes to modern, brave, tempestuous lives. The Kenworthys debuts on August 7.
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Harper List
Kenworthys
Margaret Wilton
Able McLaughlins
Able McLaughlin
Miss Wilson
Spanish ex premier Ro manaries challenges General Rivers to duel
Paris Aug 7 Le Journal reports Spanish former premier and republic president Count Romarianes has challenged General Rivers to a duel. The challenge stems from newspaper remarks about the death of the count's son Lieutenant Romanaries who was killed recently in Morocco.
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Paris
Associated Press
le Journal
Lat San Sebastian
Count Rolmanaries
Republic of Spain
Prime Rivers
Lieut. Romanaries
Morocco
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