27 Aug 1921
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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1921
Page
1
Subscription prices listed for Ly mail in Jefferson county and adjoining counties with annual and monthly rates. Various garbled lines reference marriages, divorces, Russia famine remark, prosperity quips, and odd reader pleas. The readable items mention readers and light editorial fragments with unrelated quips and misspellings.
The Justice Department plans a probe into coffin makers distributors and undertakers amid accusations of collusion and price gouging. Investigators allege Sherman Act violations as1, and profits from caskets cost from 3500 to 400 and 30 pounds to 600. The total profits cited reach into the millions over recent years.
Walter Lichtenstein of the First National Bank Chicago says profits should return 10 percent this year warning Congress has an inflated view of 1921 taxes. He asserts many businesses will lose 10 percent instead of gain and urges stepping harder on the economy brake.
The fragment notes a hindered report about a British event with incomplete details. It mentions efforts and a sense of trouble surrounding actions tied to a bomb incident and related security concerns.
A controversial prophecy from a Frenchman foresees women growing beards. The rumor prompts public chatter as observers interpret the odd forecast, while others dismiss it as a novelty from a quirky mind.
C. Be Risley, merchant tailor at 116 South Fifth Street, advertises ladies and gents suits cleaned and pressed for $1.25 with work called for and delivered.
U S G Welsh Western manager for the New York Tribune told members of the Advertising Club of St. Louis at the Statler Hotel that newspaper advertising rates would not drop sharply due to a paper shortage. He cited forecasts that world print-pulp will be exhausted in about 24 years, noted higher paper costs, and urged maintaining staff and overhead to avoid long-term losses.
Prehistoric peoples in New Mexico and nearby areas built extensive irrigation systems. Pueblo Indians alone left 217 miles of hand dug ditches with clay banks, and similar networks existed in Salt River valley of Arizona. Techniques included heating rocks to crack them and blasting away obstacles with large stones.
A reader is listed as a subscriber to the Stegister News and the NMA Servics Monture Pager, indicating continued service enrollments and delivery arrangements.
Vernon City schools set opening day for Thursday September with pupils to gather in their buildings at cancel time for book and supply collection and lesson assignments. Parents urged to buy books early, attendance emphasized to ensure progress and minimize grade repetition. All city teachers and cadets to convene August 31 at 9:30 in Franklin building assembly room.
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