Atchison Arrests Highlight Kansas Dry Paradox
A 1925 Atchison Kansas report shows 346 drunkenness arrests in six months, 23 per thousand residents, challenging Prohibition claims. The Balti gore Sun figures compare 1920 and 1924 arrests nationwide, noting Atchison’s high rate in a dry state and sparking debate over enforcement and morality amid broader city comparisons including Washington Chicago and New York.
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Kansas
Baltigore Sun
Atchison
Atchison, Kansas
Ed Howe
Nebraska
Missouri
Anti-Saloon League
General Andrews
Atchison Globe
Washington, D. C
Chicago
New York
Walf Point Merald Urges Masks and Maximaffencers
The Walf Point Merald notes society women wear masks to conceal expressions during poker games and suggests some Walf Point sports should be equipped with Maximaffencers.
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Walf Point Merald
Walf Point
Legion Stands Pat On Money Mobilization Postwar
The American Legion at its Omaha convention urges money to share equally with men in war obligations, arguing property rights should not eclipse human life. It anticipates next Congress considering a money and property mobilization law to correct the system and implement the theory.
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American Legion
Omaha
Congress
War time price control proposal hints at enforcement
The text cites President Coolidge urging possible federal price stabilization during war and questions why such power should be limited. It argues government price fixing could be enforced like the draft and contrasts this with a Maryland editor's trivial remark amid a domestic quarrel.
Register the aliens and the labor unions stance
A letter argues against alien registration as spying on unions but defends a universal system, urging capitalists to accept registration and workers to support immigration control. It cites Isbor as benefiting from the act and warns lax enforcement erodes protection for American labor amid holiday-town violence in Butte.
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American Federation of Labor
America
Isbor
Resignation of Weeks Cited as Courageous Public Service
The resignation of Secretary of War Weeks is praised as a rare example of courage and candor in government. He openly supported modifying the Volstead Act to allow beer and wine, criticizing evasive officials on the prohibition issue. His departure is seen as a real loss to the Coolidge administration and the public.
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War Weeks
Harding
Coolidge
Weeks
Congress
Bust-ed romance ends in divorce amid scandal and wealth
James Graham Phelps Stokes, the socialistic millionaire, seeks divorce from his wife amid allegations of misconduct with a hash house proprietor. The divorce caps a public romance once celebrated by radicals and social reformers. The wife, once allied with antiwar sentiment, blames laws for publicity and proclaims love beyond legal bounds.
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James Graham Phelps Stokes
Grossman
Stokes
American Home Gift To France Showcases Modern Living
A Brooklyn set model American home is to be presented in Paris as a gift to France for the International exhibition of household appliances. The two story ten room four bath house features authentic early American furnishings, modern labor saving devices, and a full heating plumbing gas and electric system. It aims to prove American ingenuity in making home life easier and more comfortable for French households.
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Washington, D.C
France
Brooklyn
United States
Europe
America
Albert Broessart
Department of Public’ Instruction
French Republic
Paris
M. Brossart
Metropolitan Museum
Model home exhibit linked to Paris Grand Palais display
A large, costly domestic model will be shown in Paris while a simplified version could be built in the United States. The exhibit aims to educate buyers, builders, and tradespeople by demonstrating how to combine beauty and usefulness in a home. The project may influence many Americans planning homes and commercial professionals involved in housing.
Forty Acres and a Mule Up-to-Date Swap Tale
Joseph Beach of Caldwell New Jersey swapped his mule Maud with John Gosman for a Florida property near Palm Beach. Beach plans to view the land, reportedly worth a small fortune. Maud died after the swap, a detail noted by the New York Herald Tribune.
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Caldwell
N. J
Maud
John Gosman
Gosman
Joe
Tod
Beach
Florida Way
Palm Beach
West Palm Beach
New York Herald
Tribune
Auction of Castiglioni Art Treasures Set for November
Amsterdam reports Camillo Castiglioni collection valued in the millions to be sold at public auction November 17 to 20. Highlights include Cor Temio’s The Marriage of St Catherine Tintoretto Portrait of a Venetian Nobleman Rubens The Fall of Phaeton and works by Van Dyck Titian and Franz Hats. Signor Castiglioni, an Italian banker, lived many years in Vienna. Cincinnati reports Thomas T Heath 91, Civil War brigadier, died. he was breveted for gallantry at Waynesboro Georgia.
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Amsterdam
Signor Camillo Castigliani
Cor- Tem@io
St. Catharine
Tintoretto
Rubens
Phaeton
van Dyck
Titian
Franz
Signor Castiglioni
Vienna
Cincinnati
Thomas T. Heath
Gerrisds
Waynesboro
Georgia
Why MaAn Women Prefer Autos to a Modern Home
New York reports that after a federation canvass on what women want, housewives favor luxuries like automobiles and telephones over home improvements. Findings show high car and telephone ownership despite limited indoor plumbing.
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New York
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
America
Federation
Mary Sherman
Woman's Home Companion
Sontinentaliere
Amy
Supreme Court upholds Volstead Act and more
National capital news notes the Supreme Court again upholding the Volstead law while the Arizona minimum wage law for women is ruled unconstitutional. Hearings on theNickle Plate merger resume before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Secretary Mellon proposes a 250 to 300 million dollar tax cut. Kansas City Southern valuation appeal to the ICC is denied. In Gresors South Carolina fire crews chase a stray pup that triggered the town fire alarm.
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Supreme Court
Arizona
Mellon
Loose Ways
All Means
Kansas City Southern
Interstate Commerce Commission
Gresors
S. C
Answers to Questions Answers to Questions
The Independent runs an information bureau offering expert answers for two cents. The page lists Q and A items on baseball innings, St Lawrence cargo ships, Big Dipper visibility, cobra bites, funeral sermons, Standards Bureau fees, language reach, patent extensions and reissues, and white versus black alkali soils.
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Semon
Horace Kephart
Bureau
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United States
Congressional
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Congress
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E. C. McK
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