Reading raid seals 54 saloons as 2500 gallons of whisky seized
In Reading Pennsylvania on August 26 federal agents led by Director Devis and aided by state constabulary closed 54 saloons and hotel bars. About 2500 gallons of whisky 1000 gallons of gin and many barrels and bottles were seized and piled as spectators watched. A Pottstown raid followed while Reading expected to be spared.
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Reading
Devis
John T. Davis
Charles Marks
Prohibition Service
John 5.Wright
Carlson
Pottstown
Mquor
Philadelphia
Davis
Easton
General Convention Episcopal Church Opens in Portland
The triennial Episcopal church General Convention starts in Portland Oregon on September 6 and runs about twenty days. It will address Book of Common Prayer revision and a Nationwide Campaign begun in 1919 aiming to raise 28 million dollars for missions education and social service. Plans for the next three years include a graduated fundraising target totaling 21 million dollars. The event unites the House of Bishops and House of Deputies along with church organizations under one roof. The Right Reverend Walter T. Sumner of Oregon leads planning for the long gathering.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Episcopal Church
Portland
Ore
House of Bishops
House of Deputies
Detroit
Church Service League
Woman’‘s Auxiliary
Church School Service League
The
Daughters of the King
Girls’ Friendly Society
Church Periodical Club
Church Mission of Help and Seamen’s Institute
Woman's Auxiliary
United
University of Oxford
Walter T. Sumner
Oregon
Sts. Peter and Paul
Wallace Reids Ask Baby Adoption Petition Filings
Los Angeles August 26 Mr and Mrs Reid seek to adopt Bett Mummert a 3 year old with parental consent on file in superior court The filing notes the adoption petition and the child’s guardianship while Dorothy Thevenport is linked to Mrs Reid Car Owner 13227 dollars quoted in a separate dialogue about a car payment ending with a judge remark
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Bridgeton
N. J
Elizabeth Couch
Joseph W. Couch
Earl
Elizabeth
Bridgeton Hospital
Wallace
Reed Opposes Soldiers' Bonus in Senate Speech
Washington August 26 Senator Reed Republican of Pennsylvania opposed the soldiers bonus bill in the Senate He argued veterans who studied the matter favor debt reduction and tax cuts over the bonus and warned he would vote against it He said the value of battlefield service cannot be priced in dollars and cents and criticized paying for loyalty He noted higher wages for artisans at home contrasted with army conditions and warned of rising pension costs projected to total about 334 billion over 51 years according to War Risk Insurance Bureau estimates presented by Senator New Indiana.
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Washington
Reed
Pennsylvania
Senate
Congress
Soward Vettigris
War Risk Insurance Bureau
New
Republican
Indiana
Horrors of the Farm Woman Describes Menagerie Home
Mrs. Margaret Chamberlain, after ten months on a Sinking Valley farm, returns to Altoona with three children. She portrays the country life as a nightmare filled with bears at the spring, rattlesnakes in the woodpile, vipers, wildcats at night, and creatures crossing the porch, while noting loneliness. Union Pacific to buy eighty locomotives for 5.5 million dollars. fifty-five to be powerful engines, twenty-five for freight, passenger engines for the mountain division.
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Altoona
Margaret Chamberlain
Sinking Valley
Union Pacific
Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific Railroad
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Frederick, Md
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American Oil CO
Purina
C.S. Schermerhorn & Son
N. Market ST
Footer
DYE Works
America
Frederick
Agency
Mr. B. T. Marman
N. Market Street
Chas. Opel JR
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