President Harding Asks Bankers to Confer on Economics
President Harding plans a sequence of conferences with bankers and business leaders starting June 8 to discuss credits and conditions. Invitations go to domestic bankers, excluding the prior international group, with further talks planned to broaden input before summer.
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Washington
Harding
International
White House
Gary
Interstate Commerce Commission
Capitol Hill
Senate
Herter to Study Volga Famine Area in Russia
Christian A. Herter will travel to the Volga valley famine region in Russia for a month long study of conditions. He has overseen much of the American relief administration work for Secretary Hoover and will also represent the commerce secretary at a European departmental conference in Berlin in July.
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Christian A. Herter
Hoover
Russia
Volga Valley
Herter
Commerce
Berlin
Wood Alcohol Kills Two Men Aboard Philadelphia Steamer
Two men, John J. Donohue aged 33 and John Frées aged 50, died after drinking wood alcohol from a barrel found in the hold of the steamer City of Eureka in Philadelphia. Detectives say the men, unloading cargo at South Street Wharf, knocked in the barrel, drank multiple times, and fell ill on the street car minutes later.
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Philadelphia
John J. Donohue
John Frées
Methodist Hospital
Jordan
Donahue
Vlet No. 08 South
City of Eureka
Frees
Severa
Moonshine Girl of 10 Faces Court Fine in Springfield
In Springfield Massachusetts on May 20 Miss Sarah Javi ten, youngest ever brought on a liquor charge, admitted saving 1500 dollars while supporting several siblings from the moonshine business. She was fined 100 dollars and given a suspended reformatory sentence, and ordered to move from the home area linked to moonshine activity. In Chicago May 20, Bily Swift and Helen Morton Swift escaped a wreck when a stalled touring car was left behind as a fast train struck it, leaving the car a destroyed mass.
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Springfield
Mass
Sarah Javi
Chicago
Bily Swift
Swift & Co
Helen Morton Swift
Northwestern
Broken Down Woman Praises Lydia Pinkham Remedy in Letter
A Donovanville Louisiana woman writes of relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for female troubles. She reports improved strength and well being within a week and endorses sharing the testimonial with others. The note notes the product has sold on merit for fifty years.
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Donaldsonville
Lydia Trinkham
Eire
Lanpey
Miss. St
Mia
Landry
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia BE. Pinkham
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