World News Mixed With War, Politics and Crime
A sweeping digest notes the death of former German chancellor Hollweg in 1856 born, and reports on cannibal attacks in Haiti, prohibition plots in Washington, and Wilson vetoes. It covers White House remodeling, postal rule changes, and ministerial nominations, plus taxes, lynchings, theft losses, strikes, and regional disasters across the United States and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theobald von Bethmann-Kohweg
Germany
Tabenfinnan
Terlin
Hollweg
Illinois Fire, New School Bonds, and State News
A fire at Bauer Ice in Henry caused $50,000 in losses. Freeport will host a $750,000 high school, financed by the district and parts of Harlem, Florence, Lancaster, and Silver Creek. Elgin voters decide a $125,000 waterworks bond on January 8. Illinois reports show 13 hangings and 360 felons sentenced in Cook County in 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bauer Ice Company
Henry
Freeport
Harlem
Florence
Lancaster
Silver Creek
Elgin
Illinois
Cook County
William R. Parker
Fred C. Dodds
Ilinois
Monmouth
Monmouth Stone Company
University of Illinois
Board of Education
Chicago
University Club
General Assembly
Dixie Highway
Barbara Standish
Daughters of the American Revolution
Hoopeston, Ill
Lowden
State Teachers’ Association
House of Representatives
Springfield
Eugene V. Debs
United States
Atlanta
United Mine Workers of America
Brother Debs
Dlinois
Tllinois
Fred FE. Sterling
Lockport
Peoria
Lincoln
Arrowsmith
Illinois Wesleyan University of Bloomington
Martha Buck
Decatur
Illinois River
Ilinois Chambers of Commerce
Ilinois Court of Appeals
Rock Island
Ilinois Agricultural Association
C. E. Durst
Illinois Central
New Orleans
Jake Scott
Greenville
Joe
Gilman
Kankakee
Pullman Company
Pullman
Employees’ Industrial Relations Committee
Edward D. Shurtleff
Marengo
Frederick H. DeYoung
Charles H. Donnelly
Woodstock
John P. McGoorty
Judge McGoorty
Judge Donnelly
Thinois
Carl Colvin
Bridgeport
Lawrence County
Blue Mound High School
Macon County
Diller-Roosa
First
Washington Streets
Open Letter to Women: Lydia E Pinkham Helped This Philadelphia Woman
Mrs J S Little of Philadelphia describes severe menstrual irregularity and long painful periods that left her unable to do housework. After seven months on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she recovered and resumed duties, endorsing the remedy for distressed women. It notes the product's forty-year health record for American women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Lydia E. Pinkham
J. S. Littie
Livingston St
Total Loss Dispute Over Helpful Clerk
A grocer explains a clerk was let go because he was too accommodating. The man reportedly opened canned goods to demonstrate to lady shoppers they were in a fine state of preservation. The remark appears in the Birmingham Age-Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham Age-Herald
Peace and plenty breed cowards in hard times
Quote attributed to Shakespeare noting that comfort dulls courage and resilience wanes when abundance persists, suggesting hardship fosters fortitude and bold action.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kenneth
Washington
Haiti
Naval Board of Inquiry
Seventh Day Adventists
Foreign Missionary Board
White House
Harding
Washington Dispatch
Peter Augustus Jay
Rhode Island
Roumania
Senate
Wilson
Antonio Pappano
The
Fuel Administration
House Appropriations Committee
Tuskegee
Ala
Institute
Municipal Street Railway of
San Francisco
Theodore Nelson
Geneva
Kane County
Des Moines
M. Z. Wade
New York
Cassell
City Housing Commission
Hich
American Federation of Textile Operatives
Fall River
Mass
Slamimond
Ind
Culver
Southern Illinois
Edwardsville
Atlantic City
Robert H. Ingersoll
Mays Landing
N. J
Joseph M. Dixon
Yelena
Mont
Tom W. Vickery
Jeff C. Couch
Fort Worth
Tex
Terre Laute
Inland Steel Company
Tatmmond
Oak
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Upper Great Lakes
Soo Canals
Isbert
Simos
Foreign Relations Department
Mexico City
Geological Society of IT
Hamburg
Hamburg, Zoological Gardens
Ise
Fernandes Alonzo
Republic of
Bolivia
Lima
Peru
la Vaz
Constantinople
Red Cross
Wrangels Urnt
Juarez
Mex
el Paso
Francisco D. Gonzales
Cork
Middleton
County Cork
Budapest
Mrs. Little
Watoere
Peggy
Mother
Kemp
Live Oak Co
Lacks & Knight
San Antonio
Texas
Assn
Tampa
Fila
Dean
R. IL
Brakeman
St. Centralia
Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N. Y
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