Revenue officials study legal status of beer content
Washington March 19 Internal Revenue Bureau officials examined existing statutes and rulings to define when beer is legally intoxicating and taxable. They considered a 23 4 per cent alcohol level and noted potential conflicts with President orders and the Food Act. New York brewers’ plans to resume 23 4 per cent beer prompted questions on enforcement and tax treatment. Milwaukee and Connecticut responses echoed cautious stances toward altering brewing practices.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Bureau
Palmer
Roper
New York
Acts of Congress
of Revenue Bureau
Revenue Bureau
New Haven
Conn
Connecticut
Connecticut Brewers Association
Milwaukee
Wis
J. Wi. Stark
Pabst Brewing Company
British Pilot Plans Atlantic Flight in Sopwith Plane
London March 18 British aviators prepare for an Atlantic crossing. Harry Hawker pilots a Sopwith two seater with Royal Navy navigator Commander MacKenzie Grieve. They depart from St Johns N F aiming to win the Daily Mail prize of 10000 pounds. The craft sits low in water and runs on 375 hp. Hawker predicts about nineteen and a half hours for the trip after a successful 900 mile test.
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Associated Press
London
Atlantic
Harry Hawker
MacKenzie Grieve
Royal Navy
England
St. Johns
N. F
Daily Mail
Hawker
Willard Dempsey Heavyweight Clash Plans Revealed
New York March 19 informal conference among Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey managers with promoter Tex Rickard set July 4 for the title bout. Willard trains at home in Lawrence then moves to the fight site. Dempsey plans Palm Beach rest and New Jersey farm training as sparring partners are lined up. Rickard will not announce site or referee until April.
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New York
Jess Willard
Jack Dempsey
Tex Rickard
Willard
Ray Archers
Dempsey
Jack Kearns
Manaager
Lawrenece
Rickard
Palm Beach
Freehold
N. J
Hines Granted Fifty Million for Railroads
Astington March 19. A loan of fifty million dollars was extended Tuesday to the railroad administration by a war corporation to replenish funds nearly exhausted by heavy demands and lack of congressional appropriation. The loan bears six percent interest and was secured by railroad bonds and notes. The administration plans to apply the funds to its most pressing obligations.
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Astington
Eeeraul Pines
Railroad Administration
Matron of Children’s Home Sentenced for Cruelty
Naomi V. Campbell head of the Home for Children in Marietta Ga was sentenced after court found her guilty on two charges of cruelty to children. She was ordered to serve a prison term on the farm and to be censured for actions at the institution. The judge noted punishments included placing a four year old on a hot plate, whipping a child, and rubbing salt and pepper into wounds after removing clothing.
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Marietta
Naomi V. Campbell
Chidren
Nurse Denies Hospital Love Affair Testimony
Baltimore March reports nurse Miss Sute Jacobs testifying that Dr. Norbu Ishida claimed a love affair with Dr. George Wolff led to Wolff killing Wolff. Jacobs says no assault or affair occurred and Ishida harassed her with improper advances and jealousy.
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Baltimore
Sute Jacobs
Sheppard and Enochtratt Hospital
Norbu Ishida
George T4
Wolff
Ishida
Wolff Had Interfered In An Alleged Love Affair Between Her and Dr. Ishida
Miss Jacobs
Dr. Wolff
Dr. Ishida
Edward Monague? Elected chairman of peace conference finance
Edward B. Montague British secretary for India was chosen chairman of the financial commission of the peace conference. The panel will report on currency debts and other financial matters to be included in the peace treaty.
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Paris
Edward 8. Montague
India
Financial Commission
Crowder Arrives in Cuba After Cuban Election Law Visit
Maj. Gen. Enrich H. Crowder, judge advocate general of the U S Army, arrived in Cuba from Key West by hydroairplane to review election laws at the invitation of the Cuban government. He boarded the American cruiser Cincinnati after landing.
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Crowder
Cuba
Navana
Enrich H. Crowder
Lawa
Kew West
Cincinnati
War costs exceed value of North America says Baker
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker told the Commercial Club in San Francisco that wartime expenses totaled 197 billion dollars, 11 billion more than the value of all North American property. He cited 7.3 million battle deaths and 9 million total army deaths. He warned a League of Nations is needed to avert global anarchy and credited American forces with Germany’s defeat.
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San Francisco
North America
Newton JD. Baker
Commercial Club
League of Nations
Baker
Germany
Nationwide search for missing Long Beach doctor
A nation wide manhunt is ordered for Dr Walter K Wilkins of Long Beach charged with his wife’s murder on February 27. He vanished about 36 hours before the warrant. A detailed description and his photo will be broadcast nationwide as 15 New York detectives scour the eastern states.
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Long Beach
N.Y
Walter K. Wilkins
Lone Beach
New York Police Department
Miners Push Five Day Week and Shorter Day at Conference
The Usted Mine Workers of America policy committee endorses a six hour work day five days a week and higher pay for tonnage day work yardage and dead work. International President Hays defends the movement against Bolshevik labels and aims to address unemployment through shorter hours and weekly work.
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Indeanadolis
Ind
Usted Mine Workers of America
Hays
New Rate Schedules In Effect April 1
Washington March 19. Competitive passenger rates over circuitous routes in the western states and from the Midwest to the Pacific coast will be eliminated April 1 by new rate schedules issued by the railroad administration. The new schedules set fares on the basis of the nationwide increase. they do not change the circuitous route.
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Wastiington
Middlewest
Pacific Coat
Cleve land Railway Restricts Women Employment After March
Cleveland Railway limits female workers to before March 18 following a War Labor Board order. President John J. Stanley confirms the company will honor its agreement with the city and carmen, ending after the three day streetcar strike settlement.
Quinine Tonic Laxative Ad Claims Bromine Quinine Safety
An advertising note promotes LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS as safe for all adults without nervousness or head ringing. It asserts there is only one Bromo Quinine and features E. W. GROVE'S signature on the box with a 30 cent price.
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E. W. Grove
Wanted ads and film show notices from Fourth and Jersey area
Classified items seek bicycle trade for talking machine, specific hatching birds and contact details. Also notice recruiting Hoys and girls for free movie tickets with educational entertainment and a Life of Christ screenings at Fourth and Jersey street Baptist church and Habitat church with 6 and 10 cent prices.
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Wanthid
Christ
Jersey Street Baptist Church
Jersey Street Hapitat
Neutrals Propose Major Reforms to Paris Text
A Berne conference of sixty associations from Europe and beyond sends a telegram with amendments to the Paris league text. Proposals include an international parliament elected by people, a world tribunal, complete disarmament, abolition of tariffs, equal rights, and guaranteed minority protection under a world constitution.
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Associated Press
Paris
Committee On the League of Nations
International Conference of the League of Nations Societies
Berne
England
Italy
Germany
Austria
Denmark
Holland
Hungary
Sweden
Switzerland
France
United States
Russia
Bulgaria
Egypt
Esthenia
Greece
India
Lithuania
Macedonia
Rumania
Turkey
Ukraine
Council of the Society of Nations
Society of Nations
Robbers Grab Purse From Elderly Woman in Alley
Mrs Mary Kopp an elderly widow reports two young men snatched her pocketbook near the mouth of the alley on South Eighth between Washington and Jefferson just after 10 pm. They fled down an alley with 40 cents taken in the theft.
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Mary Kopp
South Eighth Street
South Eighth
Washington and
Jefferson
Kipp
al‘ Rey
Quincys Pulse For Peace Disturbance Charge
Mrs. Gus nie Davney of Second and Locust street was arrested for peace disturbance after neighbors complained of a quarrel with her husband Charles Davney. Police noted the woman appeared to be the primary source of the disturbance.
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Gusnie Davney
Second and Locust Street
Charles Davney
Plague Death Reported in New York Child
Another death from epidemic coma or sleeping sickness was reported in New York on Tuesday, the fourth death to date. The victim was a 9 year old girl.
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New York
Drunken disturbance leads to arrest in city incident
George Horner was arrested by Chief Louis Melton on a charge of being drunk and disturbing the peace after causing a boisterous scene. He has frequently been in police custody.
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Dr. Green
Occidental
George “Yellow” Horner
Louis Melton
E. Burnham College
Chicago
Standard Oil Company (Ind
Twelfth
Hampshire St
Vermont
Red Cross
C. W. Gethmann
Shawnee, Okla
J. E. Wellemeyer
Quincy
North Central Association
Henry Hoener
Adams Street
la Grange
Walter Ackerman
Camp Gordon
Local Returning Veterans And Community Notables
Charles Bunting has returned from St Louis where he served as government inspector during the war and resumes his former post with the Quincy Elevator Company. Burks Oakley leaves Tuesday for Toledo Ohio to join R H Randall topographical engineers and then work in Akron. William Draper of Bluffs visits on business. Irene Werley at 7214 Maine Street is ill at home. Frank Stull of Augusta recently back from service with the 329th artillery visits. Clarence Dickson seeks treatment at Norbury Institute Jacksonville after illness. Frank Dick, just released from service, is home from Champaign and Chicago after recent travels.
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Charles Gaddis
Burlington
Carl Sultz
H. F. Lafler
State Bank
Dorothy Dunlap
J. M. Dunlap
Dunlap
Roy Johnson
Letser
Red Cross
Frank Mennel
Jefferson Street
C. O. Aulgar
Willa Muldrow
Palmyra
Quincy
A. J. Ryan
Milan
Charles Bunting
Ronge
St. Louis
Quincy Flevator Gate Company
Burks Oakley
Toledo
Ohio
R. H. Randall Topographical Engineers
Akron
William Draper
Bluffs
Irene Werley
Maine Street
Frank Stull
Augusta
329Th Artillery
Clarence Dickson
Norbury Institute
Jacksonville
Frank Dick
Champaign
Chicago
Major General Seeley Sets 172 Mile Flight Record
Major General John E B Seeley of the British War Office flew from Folkestone to Paris a distance of 172 miles in 74 minutes establishing a new record for the flight.
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Paris
John E. B. Seeley
British War Office
Folkestone
French study plans on Channel Tunnel debate
Paris March 18 The French commission examining a tunnel under the English Channel reached no decision yesterday on whether to pursue laws for a tunnel under a Franco British agreement.
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Paris
English Channel
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Cail
Beale—Kellerstrass
Hampshire
Royal
Rom
Quincy Gas, Electric & Heating Co
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