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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1916
Page
4
The Petersburg Daily Progress lists subscription options and advertising costs. Rates include single copy delivery or mail, funeral notices, marriage notices, local lines, and display prices. Proprietor listed as E. M. Clements with second class mail status.
A 1916 news digest notes the Senate passing a literacy test immigration bill despite expectations of a presidential veto. It surveys stock slump linked to war news, a Alabama whisky raid theft, and a planned crop diversification drive. It covers Sir John French on rifle relevance, Moore’s retired president bill, and NY brokerage activity ending with a Christmas profit wipeout.
The piece surveys ifs and outs of a weary world. Roumanian attrition reduces forces from 665000 to about 100000 per Teutonic reports. Railways inch toward eight hour compromise with employees gaining demands while railroads stay financially stable. Hobson resumes anti liquor crusade in Chicago and Illinois under the Dry Federation. State Department officials anticipate an inquiry into stock dealings tied to the peace note, Lansing disavows stock knowledge. Postmasters to become Civil Service career officials under a planned reform affecting over 9200 posts. Global response to the President’s peace note ranges from cautious sympathy to outright rejection by certain nations, with full judgment delayed until early next year.
The U S transport Hancock arrived in Philadelphia with 466 Haitian expeditionary marines on board, including 29 officers and enlisted men wounded or ill, reflecting a day’s voyage from Santo Domingo and Haiti.
Advertisement asserts catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy that acts through the blood, offering $100 for any deafness it cannot cure and promising circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio.
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