Washington Hearings Highlight 1920 Campaign Debt and Oil Deals
Will Hays testified before the probe panel that Sinclair agreed to donate 75000 dollars to erase the 1920 Republican campaign deficit. A Washington dispatch notes Coolidge plans, commissions for oil supply, helium land set aside, and stalled McNary Haugen action. Senate votes defer Sinclair testimony and new investigations unfold into bond duplication and the shipping board.
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Will Hays
Teapot
Washington
Sinclair
Multiple 1920s news items report arrests and incidents in brief form
A collage of short items notes 8000 arrests in Jersey City under a blue law, picnics in parks. 12 nurses suspended in New Orleans for bobbing hair. Alaska ports handling historic trade with 2559 vessels. pacifists in Evansville hissed at a war draft evader. Wisconsin inheritance law struck down. Carlo Fontana linked to a $150000 currency heist in Chicago.
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Jersey City
N. J
Mexican envoy Puni named US ambassador by Obregon
Albert J. Puni a minister in Obregon’s cabinet is designated as Mexican ambassador to the United States by a San Antonio dispatch. Separate actions include Oklahoma tax suit against Roxana Petroleum for over one million dollars in back taxes and the Bravo gunboat heading to Yucatan for rebel operations.
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Albert J. Puni
Obreguoy
United States
San Antonio (Tex
Collector of Internal Revenue For
Oklahoma
Muskogee
Okla
Roxana Petroleum Company of
Tulsa
National conven tion call and primary results headline
A national Farmer Labor convention is set for June 17 in St Paul Minnesota. North Dakota totals show Coolidge 47885, La Follette 34008, Johnson 80167. Washington counties back Coolidge in Republican primaries. New Mexico Republicans endorse Coolidge at Santa Fe but delegates remain un instructed.
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Farmer-Labor Party
St. Paul, Minn
Santa Fe
N. M
President Coolidge
Notable deaths sweep across professions and nations
Dr. Wm F Malone a Milwaukee surgeon collapsed during a major operation at Hanover hospital. Dr Alexander Dyer MacGillivray 50 a University of Illinois entomology professor died of heart disease in Champaign Ill. Capt A C Dale 83 a Jefferson Davis bodyguard survivor died in Nashville. Dr Thomas C Mendenhall 82 Ohio State faculty member died at Ravenna. General Nivelle 67 a former French army chief died in Paris. Barney Bernard 47 comedian famed as Abe Potash died in New York. Mrs Harriet Danks 82 inspired Silver Threads Among the Gold died in a Brooklyn rooming house.
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Wm. F. Malone
Milwaukee
American College of Surgeons
Hanover Hospital
Wis
Alexander Dyer MacGillivray
University of Illinois
Champaign
Itl
Thomas C. Mendenhall
Ohio State University
Ravenna
Harriet Danks
Brooklyn
World News In Brief From Paris Manila Bucharest Mexico City
Reparation payments from Germany totaled 8.411 billion gold marks with 1.903 billion marks in cash announced in Paris. A U S Bulgaria naturalization treaty ratified at Bucharest. Volcano eruption near Babuyan Islands feared dead in Manila dispatch. General Pershing heads home from Paris after collecting material for return aboard the George Washington. Romania accepts Hungarys wartime rights and drops 20 billion gold crown claims in Bucharest. Adolfo de la Huerta flees Mexico for the United States. A Free State lieutenant Kane is killed in Leitrim engagement.
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Germany
Rigen
Paris
Iowa towns reveal income ranks and civic plans
Grundy Center leads per capita income among Iowa towns with 2000 residents at 1.52. Iowa groups discuss gas bookkeeping, radio towers, the Iowa Memorial Union start in May, and WWII era child relief efforts.
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Grundy Center
Iowa District Gas Association
Sioux City
Liberty
Des Moines
Bankers’ Life Insurance Company
Iowa Memorial Union
Iowa City
Louis G. Lasher
Iowa
National Rifle Association
Camp Perry
Ohio
America
Mississippi
McGregor Heights
Old Fort
Wild Life
Germany
Iowa Pike
Osceola County
Sanborn
Rock Valley
Canadian Line
Oelwein
Harvey Ingham
Des Moines Register-Tribune
Lydia E. Pinkham Promise From Clinton Mother
In Clinton Wisconsin a mother recounts giving Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to her weak irritable daughter who cried at every little thing The product helped build her up and she recommends it for growing girls claiming it relieves common troubles and praises the remedy based on her experience.
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Clinton
Wisconsin
Lydia E.pinkham
I. A. Holford
Lydia E. Pinkham
Village youth seeks Saturday off to dig garden
A village youth visits the city and asks the manager for Saturday morning off to tend his garden. The manager notes Jones claimed the youth had no garden. The youth retorts that someone must have removed it from the window sill, and the tale ends with his comical city visit.
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Manaager
Golf Talk Turns Into Language Lesson Says Houston Post
A humorous exchange notes that learning golf lingo is the remaining hurdle after familiarity with the sport. The Houston Post mocks the idea of mastering specialized terms as the final step to proficiency.
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Houston Post
Diamond Dyes Advertisement Claims Easy Home Dyeing
Diamond Dyes promises guaranteed successful dyeing even for beginners with druggists offering all colors and directions included in each package.
The Generous Doctor Refuses a Company Gift
A doctor praised an aerated water to help humanity and faced a surprise when a company sent him a hundred as thanks. He refused, calling the gesture inappropriate, then found the page ends with a line about distributing their circulars.
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Ile
Iere
A good doctor makes a friend of a new patient
A proverb notes that a physician gains cooperation by befriending a new patient first, so the patient follows the doctor's guidance thereafter.
Trichinosis Warns Against Undercooked Pork
Health officials warn that the tiny trichina parasite can infect pork without visible signs. Thorough cooking is the only sure method to prevent the disease.
Cuticura Talcum Ad Promotes Trio 25¢ Each
An advertisement urges readers to buy Cuticura Talcum as part of the Cuticura Trio of Soap Ointment and Talcum. The powder promises skin care for face baby and dusting and is priced at 25 cents each everywhere.
A Matter of Time at the Office
An office boy asks to take time off at noon to go skating. The boss urges him to speak quickly, then learns the request is for a short absence. The exchange unfolds with humor as the boy explains his aim.
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Boston Transcript
Carter
Cole's Carbolic Salve praised in ad copy
Burning skin diseases are relieved and healed by Cole's Carbolic salve. It leaves no scars and is advertised as essential for every medicine chest. Available in 30c and 60c at druggists or from J. W. Cole Co. Rockford Illinois.
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Cole
J. W. Cole Co
Rockford, Ill
Digestible feed solids yield by livestock reported
The document states that from 100 pounds of digestible feed nutrients a dairy cow yields 18 pounds of human food solids, a hog 15.6 pounds, a steer 2.8 pounds, and a sheep 2.6 pounds, followed by a humorous remark about not expecting fun from a funnel.
Castoria Endorsed For Children By Doctors Over Generations
A vintage advertisement touts Castoria a trusted remedy for children with over 30 years of use. It lists Castoria's ingredients Castor Oil Paregoric Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups while noting no narcotics and proven directions on each package. Physicians widely endorse Castoria for infant and child care.
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Fletcher
Castoria
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Hubert Work
Washington Dispatch
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Aircraft
Davis Elkins
Rep
W. Va
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Harry Sinclair
Irwin B. Laughlin
Pittsburgh
Greece
Special House
United States Shipping Board
The
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Daugherty
New York
Robert S. Polk
Union and Planters’ Bank and Trust Company
Memphis
Tenn
Charity Hospital
New Orleans
Alaskan
Juneau
Ee As
Evanston
Ill
Zimmerman
Dane County
Madison
Carlo Fontana
Harvey
Chicago
Bravo
Yucatan
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
North Dakota
LaFoilette
Johnson
California
Washington State
Calvin Coolidge
A. C. Dale
Jefferson Davis
Nashville
Nivelle
Barney Bernard
Abe Potash
National Assembly
Bucharest
Babuyan Islands
Philippines
Japan
Manila
General Pershing
George Washington
Romania
Hungary
Mexico City
Adolfo de la Huerta
Kane
Free State
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Leitrim
Hawkeye
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