A Mixed Bag of Postwar Riffs and Reforms in 1920
A column of satirical observations and economic notes critiques postwar life in 1920. It lampoons prohibition debates, fashion costs, whiskey and songs, transport tariffs, labor wages, and rising prices, while noting gasoline and rail trends, the influx of gold, and public utilities adjusting to new rates, with references to figures and places like Monroe City, Budapest, and Petrograd.
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United States
Europe
Federal Reserve
Robbery at North Missouri Lumber Office documented
Burglar entered the Shelbina Lumber Company office on Monday night stealing about 40 dollars in cash and 80 dollars in checks from a steel box in the safe. Entry was via Walnut Street doors. the right front lock opened and exit followed. Local knowledge of the office suspected. City Marshal Revercomb and Night Watch Bates investigate.
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North Missouri Lumber Company
Shelbina
Walnut Street
Revercomb
Bates
Shelbina Democrat
WANTED two girls for restaurant work at Christians Cafe
Notice seeks two experienced girls for restaurant jobs at Christians Cafe Monroe City Missouri. The fragment also references a historical remark about transforming a nation from noncombatant pride to military pride.
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Christians Cafe
Monroe City
Moe
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Newport
Budapest
Congress
Mexico
Germany
Prince Charles of
Roumania
Petrograd
Church of the Brethen
H.C of
National Clothing Manufacturers’ Association
Italy
United States Senate
Methodist Church
Scapa Flow
Belle Johnson
Lulu Dickerson
Eva Bannister
Stoutsville
E. C. Walker
Quincy
John Abbott
Laura Boulware
Perry
James and
Ollie Boulware
Fair Grounds
W. J. Meeker
St. Clair
Fred Crow
Sergt
Ben Frederick
Camp Sherman
Ohio
Jane Abbott
Hannibal
Evan Smith
E. P. Ely
Harry
Pine Bluff
Ark
Walter Dierks
Austin
Mich
Miss Bertha Dierks
Shelby County
Edna and
Daphia Crawford
Paul Maddox
St. Louis
C. E. Smith
Palmyra
Mrs
T.E. Dye
W. P. Youell
Peoria, Ill
Price Youell
Thos. Barbee
D. R. Davenport
Ruby Umstattd
University At Columbia
E. J. Trosper
Virginia Marshall
D. H. Stevens
Mra HB
Chillicothe Business College
Reese Fitzgerald
D. F. Fitzgerald
Nelson
Jacksonville
Ill
Jas, Ryan
Holy Rosary
Forest Hill
St Joseph
Indorse
Order of Odd Fellows
Treasury Department
Grand Lodge
Missouri
Order of Rebekah Assembly
Odd Fellows
Ben Weidle
I. O. O. F. Lodge
Lodge
Weidle
Monroe Overland Company
P. N. Jones
Philip Arnoldy
Case Kerosene Tractors
Babe
Case
Bristow & Longmite
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