World events brief highlights turmoil and progress
Disjointed world notes report Cork area arson and deaths after military ambush. US funds aid German children. France lists army strength. Albania earthquake kills hundreds. Canadian flag mercantile marine ensign adopted. Limrick council opposes truce. Bologna arrests on public order charges. Chile earthquake. Austria elects Hannisch president. Italian submarine crew mutiny incident. Athens recalls Constantine. US politics, disarmament, and finance topics. several accidents and deaths. labor wage cuts. Roosevelt and Cox meeting. Haywood case denial. South Dakota heirs ruling. textile mill wage reductions. fatal rail collision near Ravenna.
Washington Talks on Wilson Purchase of Rep Tuller Home
Negotiations at Washington over President Wilson buying Representative Alvan T. Tuller’s residence at 2241 Wy coming Avenue NW become public. A Senate transmitted special message details the peace commission’s total expenses abroad amounting to 4 figures, 1 651,191, as approved by the President.
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Henry Morgenthau
Turkey
Wilson
Armenia
Washington
Elkins
West Virgina
League of Nations
Disarmament Commission
Alvan T. Tuller
Massachusetts
Wycoming Avenue
American Peace Commission
Senate
Wartime law repeal advances in House vote
The House unanimously adopts the Volstead resolution to repeal wartime laws with 328 votes in favor. A Lever food control act inclusion is approved. Embargoes on certain grains and animals are proposed as part of the repeal package while tax hearings begin in the Ways and Means Committee.
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Washington
Dee
House
Senate
Johnson
Immigration Commmittee
New York
Adriatic
Lloffinan Island
Gloucester
N. J
Haverford
Frrench Senate
Republic
Paris
America
Communist’ Party of America
Representative Young
Rnep
North Dakota
Congress
Ways and Means
Thomas $. Adams
Treasury Deparment
Tle
Doctor Adams
Fordney
Garner
Dem
Texas
Senate Farm Aid Bill Backed to Aid Farmers
Washington reports the senate approved the agriculture committee plan to revive the war finance corporation as a means to provide relief to farmers. The move aims to stabilize credit and prices for agricultural producers amid wartime conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Agriculture Committee
War Finance Corporation
Swamp Root for Kidney Ailments Ad
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney liver and bladder ailments. It claims quick mild effects and promotes sample requests by mail with a ten cent offer. The note adds a separate caution about kissing being dangerous.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine Claims Cure for Catarrh
Advertisement states Hall’s Catarrh Medicine will cure catarrh and related deafness by a blood action on mucous surfaces. It notes internal use with no claims for other diseases and offers circulars free from EB Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. The final sentence remarks low salaries.
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EB. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
The Cuticura Toilet Trio Advertises Everyday Use
The notice promotes Cuticura Toilet Trio with soap for cleansing, ointment for soothing, and talcum for powder and perfume. It asserts the trio keeps skin clear and urges daily use, stating 2%¢ price everywhere.
Castoria Advised for Infants in Trusted Safety Claims
Advert explains Castoria is a long standing remedy for infants and children. It urges mothers to examine every bottle and ensure it bears the signature of Lete and notes use for over 30 years. Children cry for Castoria.
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Fletcher
Shakespeare Up to Date
Director offers a minor part to a dramatic star in a staged up to date jokey exchange. The star balks at a minor role while the director insists on a small part as a prince in Hamlet with Yorick as the star vehicle. Film Fun notes this broadside on showbiz expectations.
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Prithee
Hamlet
Yorick
Funny Man
Not Old Boy's Lucky Day
A sedate middle aged man enters a theater lobby mistaking it for a store entrance. He exits quickly and drops something on the sidewalk, which a newsboy retrieves. He and his wife walk away as a quip about an orchestra is heard.
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Burties
When Cholly Van Rox Proposed Me
A fragment from a Boston Transcript item notes Cholly Van Rox proposing, described as being too rattled to speak while his money did the talking. The dialogue centers on the proposer’s financial influence in the moment.
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Cholly van Rox
Boston Transcript
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Pilions Cross
Teerlin
France
Army Commission
Chamber of Deputies
Tunis
Fahry
Tepeleni
Albania
Aviona
Ottawa
Cnadian
Mercantile Marine
Limerick
England
Rome
Italy
Bologna
Chile
Santiago
Vienna
Michael Hannisch
Austria
London
No. 63 PN
Ade
Siume
London Daily Chronicle
Athens
Constantine
United States
Frank Hodson
China
Venperis Reaehine Constantinonto
Treasury
Manla Uka
Voller
Philippine Islands
War Department
O Wee
United States Navy
X of
Horace EF. Dodee
Ulm Beach
Tie
Theodore Roosevelt
Richard Derby
Reina Mercedes
Annapolis Md. Naval Academy
Admiral Scales
Ed A
Torbert C. Hoover
Marion
S Larding
Mr. Hoover
Europe
E. B. Lewis
First National Bank of
Montezuma
Lewis Banking Company
Montezuma, Ga
Teoree Bosko
BE. Co. Parks
Will Vinnier
Canon City
Colo
Country Club
Main Street
Ianpas City
Charles Miller
Trudson
American Sugar Refining Company of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cox
Columbus
Germany
Senator Lemont
Wisconsin
Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Big Bill Haywood
IT. W. W
District Court
Fleeger
Sioux Knals
Sdd
State of
South Dakota
Louis Nelson
Cchmmants
New England
New York State
Boston
Akrom Ravenna
Northern Ohio Traction Company
Ravenna, Q
U. K
Bellans
L-Al
BEL
Attlee
Old Boy
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