San Francisco Hosts Democratic National Convention
San Francisco welcomes the 1920 Democratic National Convention with plans to accommodate up to 140000 lodging spaces and 60600 transient rooms in June. City officials pledge $125600 and a $506000 entertainment fund to host delegates families and visitors while promising top notch facilities and rail telegraph and hotel support.
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Coast City
United States
Pacific
Wilson
League of Nations
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Denver
Col
Baltimore
Hotel Association
Democratic Committee
Charles Fay
James Phelan
National Democratic Committee
Pacific Coast
Pacific Slope
Theity
Civic Center
Reading Course for Girls Readers Learn Duty through Books
The guide promotes a reading program for girls emphasizing practical value and lifelong learning through listed titles. It urges home reading, library access, and maintaining a record with summaries to earn a certificate from the U S Bureau of Education after completing all listed works.
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United States
Bureau of Education
United States Bureau of Education
Commissioner of Education
Home Education Division
Washington, D. C
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Louisa M. al
Reading List and Notes on Books and Texts
A catalog of classic works and authors including Mill on the Floss Evangeline and Idylls of the King. It lists novels poems and essays with authors such as George Eliot Sir Walter Scott Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Alfred Tennyson William Shakespeare Laura Richards Helen Keller and others. It also mentions shelf items and a note on ebony wood sourcing from Ceylon and the East Indies.
Italy’s war boom lifts population across major cities
Rome reports Italy emerged from the war with a larger total population, about 26 million, despite 500 thousand wartime deaths. Milan rises from 599,000 to 740,000. Genoa from 250,000 to 300,000. Naples from 600,000 to 800,000. Taranto grows to 180,000. Spezia to over 1090,600. Terni expands to 54,000, driven by industry and war work.
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Rome
Italy
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Venice
Florence
Taranto
Spezia
Terni
Financial Role in Americas Expands at Pan American Conference
Washington reports the Second Pan-American Financial Conference will discuss global credit, international cooperation, and currency reform as the United States enlarges its banking and trade role with Latin American nations. Delegates from 20+ republics attend with key U S speakers including McAdoo Warburg and Payne. An inspection tour to Hog Island shipyard will follow the sessions.
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Washington
United States
International Cooperation
International High Commission
States
John Bassett Moorey
Columbia University
Paul M. Warburg
New York
John Barton Payne
Shipping Board
Mario Diaz Irigar
Havana
Rio de Janeiro
United States Treasury Department
Frank A. Vanderlip
Argetine
Joseph P. Grace
Bolivia
Oscar T. Stosby
Warrenton
Secretary of the Treasury
Marshall
Lansing
John Barrett
Pan-American Union
Pan-American
Hog Island
Leap Year Matrimony Bargains Offer Justice in Peoria
In Peoria on January 23 leap year bargains from justices of the peace invite women to propose marriage to men over forty five free of charge. A graduated fee scale applies for younger brides who reveal the same proposal. A judge notes that women love bargains and cannot resist. In Koenigsberg also January 23 reports warn that wood alcohol harms sight and some German tobacco brands are causing chronic eye disturbances.
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Peoria
Tfil
Koenigsberg
United States
Boy of Eleven Raises Cotton in Nebraska
Stella Neb Jan 23 William Deckinger an eleven year old farmer son proves cotton can be grown in Richardson county. From his family garden crop seed from 1818 yields 1915 plantings and several hundred plants are raised.
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Nebraska
Stella
William Deckinger
Preston
Richard
William
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International High Commision
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