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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
4
A collage of 1920s items notes 30 wars abroad and election chatter in Mexico. Debs resists public race entry while Harding projections color Wall Street bets. A Plattsmouth man eyed for postmaster counsels an alto horn. Remarks touch on Burns, Burns night, and a comic line about a prince and a car.
The text notes Franklin D. Roosevelt as a potential youngest vice president at age 35 and cites John C Breckenridge as elected vice president at age 36 years 1 month 14 days in 1856. Breckenridge later sought the presidency for slaveholding interests, lost to Lincoln, briefly joined the Confederate army, served as secretary of war in 1865, and died in Lexington Kentucky on May 17 1875.
The farm bureau plans to stabilize grain marketing by forming an overhead organization to control wheat from farm to manufacturer. A single buyer and seller model is foreshadowed, with labor and capital power split, as other industries move to unit action. Debates over free speech and political pressure are noted, with critics arguing for or against centralized power and government arbitration.
Radical protesters at Chicago denounce Attorney General Palmer over alien Reds policy. The heated sessions aired views on freedom and government action, highlighting tensions over civil liberties and economic concerns in the era.
In a Post-Dispatch interview Governor Cox recalls a 1914 defeat allegedly orchestrated by the Anti Saloon league with help from a Cincinnati Republican machine. The league boasted of tying dry votes to Cox’s defeat and later detailed its methods for pushing the eighteenth amendment.
The Duluth Herald argues Harding misdefines Americanism by linking League of Nations participation to loss of nationality. It notes many nations join to resist war yet preserve national identity and dismisses Harding as offering bunk.
John Richardson the ferryman faced a busy day as he repaired the road between the city and the ferry landing. He raised prices slightly to cover costs after a river rise and now reports the route in good condition for travelers to the town side and the new bathing beach visitors.
Io at Neck Bridge Baths Virginia reports his horse recovered from a run down condition after using Dr LeGear's Stock Powders. He credits the product with restoring health and appearance after only a few boxes. The ad promotes the powders for use on horses cattle and sheep with satisfaction guaranteed.
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