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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1920
Page
2
A World events digest notes March debt reduction to 24.698 billion dollars, a proposed three month congressional recess, census population gains in Wilkes Barre and Waterloo, and wage deals for coal miners and rail unions. Also listed are political actions in Delaware, New York gold transport, and natural events in California and South Dakota.
Personal Dr William Martin aged seventy one medical inspector of the United States navy retired and cited for his yellow fever work in Florida and Louisiana died in San Francisco. Charles H MecCulloch Jr president of Lackawanna Steel Company died in a Baltimore hospital as telegrams reach Buffalo offices. The engagement of Miss Helen Taft daughter of former President Taft and Prof Irederick J Manning of Yale was formally announced in New Haven.
Two men in a motorcar held up a Swift & Co. messenger on the Twenty-third street viaduct in Kansas City, Missouri, and escaped with a handbar containing 45840 dollars. The week’s news also reports union strikes, political expulsions, stock dividends, and wartime dispatch updates.
The article reports on Herbert Hoover as a potential Republican nominee if the party adopts a liberal forward looking platform on treaties and economic issues and is backed by proven leaders. It notes Hoover’s past alignments with Progressives and his stance against dictating party policy while urging broad support for issue based choices.
Soviet envoy Ludwig C A K Martens faces possible deportation as his trial before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee probes Bolshevik interference. State Department releases dispatches found on a courier at Riga urging violence to overthrow the U S government, while the Justice Department declares a perfect case against Martens.
A Maine reader describes relief from backache bearing down pains and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The testimonial claims improved regularity digestion and able to work full duties. It cites safety and urges confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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