Editorial Calls for Unified Effort to Boost Smethport
The Smethport editorial notes repeated questions at gatherings about how to improve the town and urges citizens to stop criticizing unless they can offer real plans. It argues collective effort and self sacrifice are needed, but suggests the community is not yet ready to make those concessions.
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Smethport
James Quirk & Son
Fenna
Ford
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
Ford Motor CO
Prohibition Debate Over Liquor Law in Smethport
A writer analyzes a Prohibition supporter who urged arresting liquor buyers, arguing the Volstead Act fails when elites protect their cellars while the less affluent drinkers evade the law. The piece condemns liquor’s societal harms and calls for strict enforcement to curb temptation and delve into the broader moral conflict.
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Smethport
Lisquor
Kipling
Mandalay
Fragmentary reflections on public opinion and vice
A curiously fragmentary passage critiques public indifference to misdeeds and gossip. It muses that drinking and a famed rake may appear morally clean outwardly, concealing insatiable cravings beneath a shrugging public gaze.
Greece's Venizelos Repudiated as Nations Turn Away
The piece laments Venizelos's repudiation by Greece and other nations after wartime leadership. It contrasts Wilson, Clemenceau, Orlando, and Lloyd George with Venizelos, arguing his policies built Greece's stature and could have restored Constantinople. It condemns monarchy restoration and predicts Athens' decline to a comic opera realm.
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Greece
Wilson
United States
Clemenceau
France
Orlando
Italy
Venizelou
Lloyd George
England
Venizelos
Constantine
Constantinople
Hellas
Pericles
Plato
Campanella
Athens
Rabion
Death notices mourn Chas. C. Melvin of Bradford
News of the death of Chas. C. Melvin of Bradford was received with sincere grief throughout McKean county. The world is better for the stay of Chas. Melvin and his goodness of heart will live in the memories of his acquaintances.
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Chas. C. Melvin
Bradford
McKean County
The Insoluble Problem in Ireland and Home Rule
The passage notes the final passage of the home rule bill looms like a funeral. Ireland remains divided and indifferent, with Sinn Fein bent on separation. British statesmanship is bankrupt as civil strife, murder, and arson threaten both Ireland and Britain.
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Ireland
England
Britain
Big Island
Olean Herald
Germany Celebrates Harding Victory Amid Cautious Conservative Warnings
News of Senator Harding's sweeping victors sparks celebrations across Germany while conservative press urges restraint, warning against assuming America has fully repudiated war aims. The mood mixes optimism with wary caution about postwar policy shifts and international reaction.
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Harding
Germany
America
Just Jottings by R. K. Knapp highlights amid jumbled chatter
The column rails at social ills from rising divorce talk to brutal football deaths and shifting prices. It notes millions view matrimony comically, fourteen football fatalities this season among untrained players, and pleads for better prenatal care of sport. It cites price drops in sugar and produce, warns of lower farm prices, and fears looming unemployment this winter.
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Samy
Rurner
Pri
New York State
Hardware Gifts Are Useful Gifts Card Front Item
Shop early for variety of hardware gifts including games coasters wagons skates velocipedes sleds air rifles friction toys trains and more. Descriptive ad copy emphasizes practical gifts and seasonal shopping appeal.
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