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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1920
Page
2
A New Jersey inventor offers a frame with grooves to hold fly paper taut against wind. The device slots sheets securely and can be mounted in any location where it stays prominent and visible. It also serves as an embroidery frame or cloth stretcher per Popular Science Monthly.
In a family scene, Patricia admits she took her older sister Helen's elf from a closet to calm it as it cried. Helen scolds her for taking the doll without permission, while Patricia explains the doll needed comforting.
An advertisement extols Freezone as a revolutionary remedy from Cincinnati that removes corns and calluses between the toes without soreness or irritation, promising relief for rough skin on feet.
An Indianapolis high school teacher, beloved by pupils, received many presents for her birthday after students learned of it. A freshman boy brought in a large box labeled Randy and joked that she would have to kiss him for the gift as she playfully replied she might have to kiss him.
Ferdie-Don't you think travel broadens one Miss Bright-Yea, you should take a trip around the world. Trip (Soap, Ointment, Talcum). Adv.
In letters from France printed in the Atlantic Monthly a humorous episode recounts a German captain who claims officers never surrender. A sergeant stops to press a joke, noting the captain’s watch leather puttees and purse, suggesting a quick shot to save his honor, then offers to escort him. The captain remains uninterested.
The piece notes the extreme difficulty of finding housing in Manhattan with rents high and scarce. It highlights that cellars are rented in the Bronx and skylight rooms in ramshackle buildings fetch about 70 a month. The tone satirically laments the housing shortage and the urge to move out of New York.
In Missouri a 29 to 12 vote upheld Jacob L. Babler as Republican National Committeeman after a bid to rescind failed. Delegates Nat Goldstein Bobby Moore and others backed Babler. Spencer and Crossland abstained or were absent. In Chicago the split over the League of Nations surfaced as irreconcilables demanded a anti League plank. Senator Watson sought party peace.
Governor Edward Edwards calls for removal of the Volstead Act and asks the American people to pass judgment at the polls. He cites the Eleventh Amendment and argues for constitutional interpretation through electoral process and public referendum. He contends voters should decide how Prohibition laws are applied nationwide.
A small blaze at the Lutheran Ladies Seminary in Red Wing caused fear and smoke. About two hundred students escaped in their frantic exit, while the Jere Was estimates at around ninety dollars. No major injuries reported, and authorities say the building sustained minor damage.
Long Beach jail released Jack Dew known as the love pirate after a four in the jail yard, where he watched a pile of fervid love letters burn and blow away. Dew said he would leave for Albany to enter college. In Louisiana, the senate rejected ratification of the federal suffrage amendment by a 2 to 1 vote.
In San Antonio Texas B Second Lieu John H. Wilson of Charlotte North Carolina stationed at Kelly Field dropped from 10 400 feet with a parachute. The maneuver is claimed to break the world record for a parachute drop.
Emma Barbara Wilson, aged years, died in Toledo when she tried to rescue a pet chicken from a water tank. She lost her balance and fell into the tank, authorities said.
Robbers looted jewels valued around 60 000 to 100 000 dollars from Enrico Caruso at his East Hampton residence. A burglar alarm triggered, two thieves fled in a speeding car, leaving a damaged steel casket and a broken bedroom window as police guarded the exit route. Caruso has endured prior thefts at villas in Italy and an art relic theft in 1912.
Boston mass reports a $700000 shortage in the New England Order of Protection accounts by Joto P Sanborn Newport RI who resigned after 29 years as supreme treasurer. Bond coverage of $100000 anticipated. Also brief note of Ecuador Indians uprising near Rio Bamba with police clashes and hostile mounts.
Decatur reports a $125,000 gift from the Rockefeller Foundation to Millikin University. In San Francisco a local advertisement about dogs in the city pound facing gas cages provoked a mob. they paid fees and removed all dogs within half an hour, including purebreds. Chicago notes the city council approved daylight saving time from June 13 to the last Monday in October.
Secretary Houston reports treasury operations show a balanced budget for the year ending this month with surpluses in Q2 and Q3, and a fourth quarter expected to be in surplus. The gross debt fell from 1919 to May 31 1920, with reductions in public debt and certificates.
New York reports widow of a former Chicago banker, Mrs J Cileason, arraigned on charges of stealing an $1800 diamond bar pin from Mrs Chester M Curry. Police say she admitted taking jewelry valued at $1500 from Curry and another guest at a card party. Her husband died seven years ago leaving a $20,000 annual annuity.
Hayes National Bank was robbed by masked bandits who locked the cashier in the vault, seized $6,100 on the counter and Liberty bonds, and fled in an automobile. The blast of this incident follows two air tragedy reports from San Antonio and Sydney describing fatalities in aviation accidents involving cadets and diverse individuals.
Lightning hit two unmanned kite observation balloons of the Atlantic fleet off the Chesapeake Capes. In New York Allan A. Ryan, for his client, filed a summons in a suit against William H. Hemick as NYSE president, with Semich's attorneys filing a notice and demanding service of all papers. Miss Helen Carter of Carterville Community High School graduates after a 12 year career.
Senator Reed rebuts President Wilson on high living costs and the need for broader power. He argues Congress enacted wartime laws already giving government control and accuses Wilson of seeking licensing to regulate interstate commerce. Reed contends only a few in Congress would back such licensing and warns of sweeping government reach if applied to most businesses and farmers.
In Chicago the Republican platform dropped Irish sympathy planks amid subcommittee and full convention debate. Proposals on woman suffrage and Irish policy failed, while notes on recognizing Ireland and impartial law enforcement were defeated. Separate Atlantic City action saw clergy decline tobacco concessions at the General Synod.
A contract on the New York Cotton Exchange closed at 2100 dollars, down 2500 dollars from the previous sale, reflecting a sharp decline in the market.
Secretary Baker authorizes public auction of available Camp Dodge buildings to relieve housing and facilities shortage in Des Moines. Auction aims to provide family use housing at the military site.
Berlin praises the American Society of Friends the Salvation Army and other charitable bodies for relief work among the Berlin poor in a warm official resolution.
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