Mexico City Eyes Move to Prohibit Maguey Plant
The Mexican government under President Obregon faces growing pressure as planters and wets fear a decree banning maguey planting. The move would eradicate tequila mescal and pulque, while taxes on alcohol rise and prohibitionist figures Calles and de la Huerta loom large in criticism.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Republic
Obregon
Maguey
Interior Calles
Sonora
Treasury
de la Huerta
Marketing Bill Passes House To Senate for Presidential Approval
By a 276 to 8 vote the house accepted senate amendments to the farmers cooperative marketing bill and sent it to the president. The measure, long before Congress, would permit organization of marketing associations among farmers for cooperative dealing.
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Washington, D. C
House
Senate
Congress
Father of 17 at 70 in Star City West Virginia
John W. Dysenberry of Star City West Virginia is celebrated at age 70 as the father of his 17th child born to his second wife who is 50. He remains in good health and works eight hours daily as a carpenter.
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Star City
W. V
John W. Dysenberry
Dope Dumped From Sewer After Police Busts
Police seized narcotics over 18 months in New York including opium morphine heroin and cocaine and dumped the confiscated drugs into a sewer. The destroyed value was conservatively estimated at 3.5 million dollars.
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New York
Hotel Fire Toll Rises to 12 in Richmond Area
Four more bodies were recovered from the Lexington hotel ruins, bringing the death toll to 12 after a fire last week. Three guests remain missing.
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Richmond
Lexington Hotel
Lexington
These Women Not Cry Prohibition Vote Spoke Few Women
At a New York meeting of the woman's democratic club only one of over 30 members rose when the chairman asked for a rising vote in favor of prohibition.
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New York
Woman's Democratic Club
World News Briefs Highlight Treasury Taxes And Treaties
A 2 percent tax on undistributed corporate profits and higher parcel post rates were approved by a Ways and Means subcommittee. Proposals also tax gasoline stamps autos cigarettes admissions gum and smoking tobacco to fund a soldiers bonus. President Harding spoke of progress beyond the agricultural crisis as farmers attend a Crookston Minnesota show. Other items include judicial appointments and various federal actions spanning from Wilmington Delaware to Bermuda.
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House
Ways and Means
Harding
Red River Valley
Crookston
Minn
Ways and Means Committee
Washington
Russia to seek indemnity at Genoa conference against France and England
Berlin diplomatic circles say Russia will present a bill at Genoa for indemnity or reparation that may equal or exceed its prewar debt to France and England. Other notes include Irish disturbances and a Cork railway seizure amid Irish railroad dispute discontent.
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Russia
Genoa
France
England
Berlin
Iowa News in Review From January Grain to Court Rulings
January grain receipts at Sioux City rose to 2133 bushels against 879 in January 1921. Obituaries include Enoch Beery and Senator J A Fitchpatrick. A Dallas Center farmer, Clyde Black, won the state corn show acre yield with 736 bushels, tied to last year’s 948. Grand totals cover church plans, hospital bids, road taxes, a new water tower in Storm Lake, a Gray fire loss, and a wrongful motor commission judgment in Clark County. Des Moines and Waterloo projects are noted alongside a desertion vindication for Major General Omar Bundy and the withdrawal of the charge.
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Sioux City
Enoch Beery
Pleasant
John Hendricks
Logan
Lake City
Clarinda
State Senate
Story-Boone
E. M McCall
Leonard Ellsworth
Council Bluffs
Highland Park Des Moines
Storm Lake
Clyde Black
Dallas Center
Taxpayers In Mass
Marion County
Derelson Becker
Mike Larkin
Waukon
Legislative Tax Committee
Thirty-ninth General Assembly
State House
Iowa
Allen Memorial Hospital
Waterloo
Rolfe
State Highway Commission
W. W. Shinn
Creston
Farmers ‘Co-operative Company
G O. Smith
Oelwein
James LaVere
Ellsworth Richardson
Pella
Farm Federation of Iowa
John Cronenburg
A. Cronenburg
Cedar Falls
Omar Bundy
George W. Turner
War Department
A Sweet Little Baby Boy Park Rapids Testimonial
Mrs Johnson of Park Rapids Minnesota praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming it helped her conceive a healthy child and restored health to her and her sisters. The letter urges others to try the remedy for pre pregnancy and postnatal wellbeing and to publish her photo.
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Park Rapids
Minnesota
Lydia
Pinkesham
Wm. Johnson
Box 155
Minn
Lydia K. Pinkham
Lydia BE. Pinkham
Johnson
Cuticura Aids Sore Hands In Home Care Ad
Promotes Cuticura Soap Ointment and Talcum for toilet uses. Recommends soaking hands in hot suds, drying, rubbing in ointment, then removing excess with tissue. Presents Cuticura as a multi purpose regimen.
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