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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1926
Page
2
President Coolidge airs hopeful talk as the National Crime Commission pushes a nationwide drive for local crime commissions and public cooperation. New York cites rapid trials and tougher policing. Chicago faces graft and violent crime amid reform debates. The Treasury reorganization bill passes, and France offers a new debt plan while Germany and Russia plot a regional corridor shift.
Senate ratified funding arrangements with Belgium Latvia Romania Estonia and Czechoslovakia and the president signed the Italian debt funding bill. London reports bankers weighing a plan to liquidate intergovernmental debts by using German rail bonds to settle reparations and war debts. Germany and Russia sign a mutual amity and neutrality treaty.
D Rodrigo Octavio of Brazil and Fernando G Roa of Mexico, members of the Mexico American special claims commission, ruled against the United States in the Santa Ysabel massacre case. Judge EB Perry dissented saying the ruling lacks binding force. Mexicans react with anger. Federal Judge Wilkerson ordered the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad sale in Butte Montana with dates and upset price to be announced. The railroad is valued at 750 million. Khan, once a private soldier, crowns himself Shah Pehlevi of Persia amid pomp. Observers think he may modernize Persia and establish a strong government.
Joseph Young Cheney of Orlando a public utility owner manufacturer and prominent business figure has long devoted himself to the American Legion. Elected national vice commander at Omaha in 1925 he is praised as a thorough Legionnaire with a career spanning post state and national levels. His service began in 1917 with the Seventeenth Infantry and he left as a first lieutenant in 1919. He also holds the Forty and Eight title of grand chef de gare in Florida. His wife leads the Florida Auxiliary.
Thomas W. Miller of Delaware, former Fidac president and American Legion leader, named international chair of the Fidac scholarships committee by British official George Crosfield. The panel plans student exchanges among nine allied countries with national subcommittees and about eight scholarships per country for next fall. Essays will determine scholarship winners.
A $50 donation for the American Legion endowment fund for disabled veterans and orphans of the World War reached national headquarters in Indianapolis. The gift was given by Louise A. Barnes, a missionary formerly of Pasadena California, who wrote best wishes and a blessing for the Legion.
An old advertisement promotes California Fig Syrup as a safe laxative for babies and children. It claims quick relief from constipation and gas, notes no cramping, and urges asking a druggist for genuine California Fig Syrup with directions on the bottle.
A playful reader remark from the Buffalo Evening Times notes a visitor stopping at a car display sign that proclaims The Finest Body in the World. He quips that the model is likely in Philadelphia this week.
Diamond Dyes offers 15 cent packs with simple directions so any woman can tint delicate shades or dye permanent colors on lingerie silks ribbons skirts waists dresses coats stockings sweaters draperies hangings and coverings. Instruct your druggist to confirm wool silk linen cotton or mixed materials before use.
A customer complains about a leaking seven dollar fountain pen bought for nine cents. A salesman offers patented rubber writing gloves for thirty five cents and promotes Cuticura Soap for shaving and skin care with multiple claimed benefits.
The exchange asks how many people a car can hold and the answer describes typical capacity as the neighbors plus occasionally the narrator’s wife and self. It reflects a lighthearted domestic view of vehicle loading in a casual dialogue.
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