Prohibition Agency Meets Policy Clash on Home Brew
A dispute spills from the Prohibition Bureau over home brewed beverages asCommissioner Williams maintains the agency will prosecute unlawfully manufactured alcohol while Kramer and his advisers argue about the scope of the Volstead act. Officials cite differing interpretations of allowed sales for home use and the role of malt extract hops and other materials.
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Williams
Interval Revenue Bureau
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Kramer
Advivera
Williama
Peaceful settlement ends major league baseball feud
On November 12 the sixteen clubs reached a peace agreement over pro baseball reorganization. They unanimously appointed Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as supreme administrator with a limited civil role via a committee, setting his pay at 42500 a year as chair and 7500 as federal judge, totaling 50000.
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Chicago
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Lasker
Judge Landis
League of Tiles
Landis
Inneball
Mooney Convicted Over Plot In 1916 Bombing Case
San Francisco reports claim Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings were found guilty and sentenced on charges tied to the July 22 1916 preparedness explosion. An officer involved in prosecution described the case as a sensational conspiracy with testimony spanning weeks.
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San Francisco
Thomas J. Mooney
Warren K. Billings
Murdar
Draper Hand
French Oppose Germany Joining League of Nations
Parke Brough indicates strong opposition to Germany's admission to the League of Nations. He states the government would not join if Germany were admitted, arguing the move could threaten the League’s integrity and France’s security. The remarks appear amid broader debates on postwar diplomacy.
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League of Nations
Germany
Parke
Brough
Bntaan
Truncated Text Review of Washington Event
Reading reflects garbled OCR with multiple misspellings and unclear entities. The fragment mentions Washington and Hallway, but lacks coherent events, dates, or identifiable organizations to form a concrete news item. No verifiable persons or actions can be established from the text as provided.
Unclear historical notice on prisoners and divorces
Fragmentary OCR reveals names like Charles Chaplin and Kilpatrick with references to prisoners and a divorce decree. Details are garbled, locations and dates unreadable, and no coherent event can be established from the text.
Desert Watering Places Guide Aids Safe Travel
United States Geological Survey and California University engineers map the Southwest desert water holes, roads, and watering places. The report covers about ten thousand square miles in California, detailing routes, logs, and maps to aid travelers from Imperial to Riverside and San Diego counties, with free reproductions by the USGS.
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United States Geological Survey
Coopera
California University
Washington
Southwest
Georgg Wy Parsins
Los Angeles
Cal
Parana
California
W. L. Watts
Parsons
Congress
Department of the Toreror
Department of Englivering
United States
Mexico
Arizona
Imperial County
Riverside
San Diego
Washington, D. C
Indian Chief Sells Land For Plane Show Crash in Kansas
Heap Big Chief Hiawatha Harri gan Connell bought an airplane in Kansas City to display, toured his hometow n with scores of redsking eager to see him fly, but the plane crashed as he prepared a flight. Connell invested 9700 in the machine and later sold it to an old Texas man for 100 dollars.
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Kan
Harrigan Connell
Kansas City
Gonfel
Chief Connett
Texas
Cholera Increases In China Amid Troop Movements
Prof Daniel B. Dye of West China Union University warns in a letter that frequent troop movements in Szechuan have spread cholera more widely than in two decades. He cites severe outbreaks in Tungchwan Chungking and Chengtu and smaller villages, noting Americans and Europeans are largely immune due to better food prep and hygiene.
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New York
Szechuan Province
West China
Daniel 8. Dye
West China Union University
W. T. Taylor
American Baptist Foreign Miasion Society
China
Tungchwan
Chungking
Chengtu
Moving pictures teach new technique in surgery study
The New York Homeopathic Medical College celebrated National Homeopathic Day with a film demonstration by Dr. Bred A. Kelly showing hermatury under local anesthesia and hernial rupture repair, followed by electrocardiograph tests by Drs. Laldiew and Raisheck. The event highlighted the educational value of motion pictures for students and surgeons.
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New York
New York Homeopathic Medical College
Kelly
Greece Hospital
Detroit
the Moving Picture
Georges. Laldiew
Milton J. Raisheck
Miles Awey
Honored as Great Teacher Euclid and His Legacy
Euclid, Greek likely born in the third century BCE, flourished in Alexandria Egypt, famed for his Elements of Geometry. The text notes his influence on geometry and arithmetic while remarking on historical and educational significance.
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Euclid
Alexandria
Alnd
Lige Parsons Tale Behind a Kentucky Shootout
A vivid Harper’s Magazine vignette recounts Lige Parsons and a courthouse scene. Guns fire near a pasture, townsfolk fear for children, and Parsons clutches his Bible as the neighborhood mutters on. Four men vanish as dawn reveals the aftermath.
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Morrow
Kentucky
Lige Parsons
Borris
Harper's Magazioe
New Style of Ignorance at Breakfast Table
A family scene unfolds at breakfast as Mary explains her new companion and the others pepper him with remarks. Father asks why Dale worries, and Mary admits uncertainty, blaming either her pew style or plain ignorance.
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Mary
Father
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Crusade
Stamp Out Home Brewing
Nnternal Revenue Bureau
Seer
Bale
Mooney
Hun
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Asi Elistiant
Red Crown
Rede
Pari
Kilpatrick
Paris
Charile Chaplin
Mhitrod Harel
Hind
Strobeck
Salton’ Sea
Prospector
Dye
Beelen
Castoria
OHN Medical Company
Hiram
Postum Cereal Co. Inc
Aetle Crook
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