Exported Booze May Flow Back
New York reports that over 300 million dollars of U S spirits shipped abroad before the January 16 1922 start of Prohibition may reenter under the Willis Campbell act. A gin shipment valued at 3 million reimported from Cuba with 112 empty barrels puzzling officials. Prohibition agents note the law's broadened reimport provisions could extend liquor availability and call for strict permit scrutiny.
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New York
United States
John D. Appleby
New Jersey
Cuba
Washington
Ralph A. Igay
Aerial Camera Designed For Fast Mapping
S. M. Fairchild has created an electrically driven automatic camera capable of producing aerial maps at 50 square miles per hour, enabling rapid survey work from the air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. M. Fairchild
Berlin Imposes Luxury Dog Tax on Owners
Berlin officials classify owning two or more dogs as a luxury and levy extra taxes under a new schedule. Authorities estimate 140,000 dog owners must pay 50,000,000 marks for four licenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Five Tribes Pay Their Own Way in Education
Muskogee Oklahoma reports that the Five Civilized Tribes support schooling for Indians in Oklahoma largely with tribal funds under the interior department. The system includes nine boarding schools seven contract schools and 2306 public districts industrial work featured. H C Calhoun, supervisor of the Five Civilized Tribes schools, says these schools form the largest single supervision unit in the country.
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Muskogee
Okla
Oklahoma
Department of the Interior
H. C. Calhoun
Five Civilized Tribes
Turkestan
New England
Bureau of Plant Industry
China
Agricultural Department
United States
Dog Tows His Master to a Cake of Ice
In Red Wing Minnesota eight year old Pierce Seebach fell into the Mississippi River and surfaced twenty feet from shore. His dog swam to him and then pulled the boy to a drifting cake of ice where onlookers rescued him.
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Dog
Red Wing
Minn
Pierce Seebach
Mississippi River
Boarded Schools Dominate Five Civilized Tribes Education
The five civilized tribes Cherokee Choctaw Chickasaw Creek and Seminole rely on three school phases with nine tribal boarding schools seven contract schools and public day schools. Each boarding school offers industrial and academic programs, farms, kitchens and dormitories, while contract schools mix industrial and academic curricula often under denominational or state control.
Aged Couple Quietly Wed After Month-Long Secret
Joseph B. Hostetler aged 73 and Lizzie Y. Hostetler aged 70 surprised family and friends by announcing their marriage a month after tying the knot. They were wed by Rev. John K. Byler, an Amish preacher living near Belleville.
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Lewiston
Joseph B. Hostetler
Lizzie Y. Hostetler
John K. Byler
Belleville
Lone Star State Seeks Sea Supremacy On Maiden Voyage
New York reports Keen competition for oceanic dominance as the Lone Star State steamship sails on its maiden voyage to Bremen. Built under government safety standards, the liner boasts thirteen watertight compartments and claims unsinkable status. Captain Burkhart promotes a Filipino orchestra of twenty two players and promises deck dancing and luxury service aboard the two class ship.
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Lone Star State
New York
One Star State
United States Lines
Bremen
Ior
Lone Star
France
Frank T. Burkhart
United States Navy
Mail service to Russia expanded by U S and Britain
The Post Office department announced an agreement with British postal authorities to deliver regular mail matter and parcel post packages to various points in Russia. First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett said tons of parcels, mainly clothing, are forwarded weekly and reports show 75 percent reach the intended recipients.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Russia
Bartlett
Bonus Bill Debate Signals Veto Risk and Revenue Gap
Washington lawmakers weigh the ex service man bonus bill amid party lines and revenue questions. President Harding may veto without a sales tax or tariff support, while Senate and House maneuver over timing for tariff consideration and conference.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
Harding
House
Congress
Republican Party
Officer's intrusive patrols stir crew dread on cruiser
A shipboard officer’s habit of inspecting quarters at unseemly hours angers the crew who enjoy nightly revelry. After a late visitation a sailor quips that the intruder may be crawling from a grave when Bugler Gabriel toots for the general resurrection.
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Gabriel Toots
Senator Sorghum on Civil Service Reform
A reformer asks in a public exchange if he supports civil service reform, and Sen Sorghum replies that he favors reform but aims to avoid hindering his worthy friends from obtaining favorable positions.
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Senator Sorghum
OHLINGER A VALUABLE MAN
Gustavus Ohlinger, a former US Intelligence officer, is praised for breaking up German wartime societies and disrupting propaganda networks. Toledo native and Legion commander, he defends Americanism, dating back to ties with Theodore Roosevelt and travels.
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Gustavus Ohlinger
Intelligence Department
United States
Toledo
American Legion
Legion
China
Theodore Roosevelt
South Africa
Gus
Hoosier Legionnaire Debuts With 32000 Circulation
Hoosier Legionnaires gain a voice through the Hoosier Legionnaire launched by Philip B. Stapp of Greensburg. Stapp, former editor of the Hour Glass, leads the Indiana publication as editor after serving 26 months in World War I rising from back private to commissioned officer in field artillery. The weekly paper reaches every Indiana Legionnaire.
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Didina
American Legion
Hoosier Legionnaire
Philip B. Stapp
Greensburg
Hour Glass
Destroyer fleet leaves active service after hard battles
Out of commission notices mark the end of nearly a dozen destroyers once famed for zigzagging the North Sea and Atlantic subzone. Stars on their stacks testified to sunken German subs as ships like Shaw and Jacob Jones face the scrap heap, while the aging fleet loses a storied era.
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North Sea
Atlantic
Parker
O’brien
Cummings
Porter
Davis
Navy Department
Navy
Davy Jones
Shaw
Aquitania
Jacob Jones
Tanlac Restores Los Angeles Man’s Health
Williow T. Hardin of 1409 Garden St Los Angeles credits Tanlac with curing rheumatism and stomach problems after years of weakness. He says a prior recovery proved Tanlac’s effectiveness and he bought more to regain strength and energy. Tanlac is sold by all good druggists.
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Meyer
St. Petersburg
China
United States
Himalaya
Asia
Taniac
Los Angeles
Williow T. Hardin
Garden St
Calif
Human fly climbs building as crowd watches
A man scales the side of a tall building while a crowd in the street watches in alarm and asks why he does not use an elevator. An elderly observer ponders the daredevil stunt and the risk involved.
American Museum Acquisitions Add Wisent and Uros Skulls
Two prized items join the American Museum holdings an incomplete European bison skull and a fine urus skull and jaws from Europe. Both came from Cambridge Museum of Zoology England and are linked to the ancestral stock of domestic cattle.
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Europe
Cambridge
England
Museum of Zoology
Scientific American
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