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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1925
Page
8
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A. W. Pravitch, retiring agent, reports Para rubber trees flourishing in southern Luzon despite typhoons. He inspected Albany and Camarines Sur, noting mature trees and many self planted saplings from seeds distributed in 1912. The government promoted rubber growing. trees endure storms and counter the myth they won’t thrive in typhoon regions.
Kansas census rounds begin with wide questionnaire list. Officials stress the census is distinct from the annual tax assessment and should include all residents and agricultural data. Questions cover home ownership, names, ages, birthplaces, occupations, schooling, reading and writing ability.
Berlin reports that 1924 liquor consumption fell to about 1,000,000 hectoliters, far below prewar levels, with farmers often making their own spirits. Officials in Germany and Austria discuss restrictions on drunks and support for prohibition, while U S temperance progress is noted by Vorwaerts. A Bonn rector links liquor crimes to almshouses, and a new long bus route in England opens.
The French war department reports beating all records in compiling its first World War documents. It took 40 years to finish the 1870 war history, but this time the collection was completed in roughly one tenth the time. Documents fill four floors of the Babylone Warracks in Paris, with General Girard directing the effort and anticipating larger quarters.
London reports the lifting of wartime restrictions as of March 5 per Associated Press, signaling renewed civilian life measures and policy easing across the capital.
The last wartime postal limits in England were lifted in February. The postmaster general announced that the money order service between Great Britain and the Duchy of Luxemburg, suspended in August 1914, has been resumed, essentially on the same basis as eleven years earlier.
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