World events brief from 1920 include deaths and policy shifts
President-elect Tierding planned an inaugural address in Miami, Harding retired as Marion Star Publishing president, and Arthur Sifton died in Ottawa. Ford underwent appendectomy in Detroit. Ward Copper executive found frozen near Teller Alaska. Immigration deportation without passports considered. U.S. 1920 trade reached 18.5 billion with exports 8.2 and imports 5.3 billion. White House luncheon hosted by Mrs Wilson. Borah resolution urged talks with Britain and Japan to curb naval builds. Rockefeller Foundation named Norma Stoughton and Margery Egleston as secretaries. Corn donation offered to ease overseas famine accepted. Girl Scouts led by Cheat elected president. Ostrich skin shoes weighing in for Boston market. Ford loan talks reportedly active at 50–75 million. Executions and killings noted in North Carolina and Kansas City lift. Public notices on pardons and bank robbery risks frame state actions.
Foreign and Civil Unrest Across Europe and Asia
The California alien land law is denounced as unjust by Viscount Uchida before the Japanese diet. An epidemic of hiccups is linked to sleepiness by Paris doctors. In Breslau five children die and twelve more are critically burned as a school panic follows a fairy lecture. In Ireland and Dublin, eight men including constables are killed in Sinn Fein engagements. In Vienna a new party seeks restoration of Charles and reunion with Austria. Berlin reports 70 billion marks in foreign paper money and 25 billion in securities. A Galway ambush wounds seven, four civilians die, and a Black and Tan patrol is involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Viscount Uchida
Tokyo
Illinois Happenings Crowd Fire Burns Hatcher Garage
Springfield log of events notes a fire destroyed the Hatcher Automobil e Company office and garage with losses exceeding 200000. Other items include Sterling clerk Jacob Echternach's 55 years at a Sterling dry goods store and a granite memorial for Pan a soldiers erected in Kitchel Park.
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Hatcher Automobile Company
Springfield
Jacob Echternach
Sterling Dry Goods
Pana
Pana Township
Kitchel Park
Edward Starr Mulliner
Illinois Grand Commandery
Knights Templar
Quincey
Chicago
William H. Wesley
Guy Kyle
Free Methodist Burch
United States
Mount Vernon
Illinois
T Edward J. Brundage
Mlinois
Carl Colvin
Colvin
American Legion
Ilinois
William R. McCauley
Illinois Legion
Tlinois
State Division of Highways
Cwl
Huard
Inllinois
John Y. Clinnin
Sixth Infantry
I. N. G. T Winois
France
Clinnin
Prairie Division
Abet Pavis
Milton J. Foreman
Joseph Sanborn
Chinese Laundry Complaint Sparks Harsh Collar Clash
A man complains to the Chinese laundry about ruined collars that cut his neck and look shabby. The laundrer replies with a blunt remark, saying the customer should buy more collars, implying the laundry offers no remedy.
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Lee Sam
Garfield Tea Ad Claims Natural Cure
An advertisement touts Garfield Tea as a natural remedy as readers are urged to reject drug cathartics and embrace herbal treatment for health.
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Nature
Garfield
The Day After The Neighbor Compliments A Mother
A six year old, Fiverett, recalls being left with a neighbor while parents attended a theater. The neighbor remarks on the mother's appearance and attire, noting she wore everything new from Christmas except for her percolator to Cartoons Magazine.
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Fiverett
Mamma
Papa
Everett
Cartoons Magazine
Batonic Aids Longtime Stomach Sufferer Finds Relief
An unknown speaker, C. W. Burton, touts Batonic for stomach trouble after 20 years of suffering. The ad claims Batonic targets acidity and gases, offering relief from sourness belching indigestion and repeating meals after each meal. A big box is affordable with a druggist guarantee.
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C. W. Burton
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Tierding Plang
Miami, Fla
Frederick W. Upham
Marion Star Publishing Company
Marion, C
Harding
I. A. Ziegler
Allentown, Pa
Arthur Lewis Sifton
Dominion
Ottawa
Welsel B. Ford
Ford Motor Company
Detroit
Thomas Ward
The
Ward Copper Company of
New York
Teller
Alaska
Nome
Washington
State Department
Department of Commerce
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Great Britain
Japan
Rockefeller Foundation
Norma Stoughton
Margery BH. Eegleston
Herbert
Hoover
Arthur
Boston
South Africa
Alfred Williams
Plummer Bullock
Warren County
Warrenton
N. C
California Exclusion League
San Francisco
State Board of Pardons
Austin
Tex
M. Nett
Association of Suburban Bankers of
Kansas City
Rockaway
Moose Factory
Ont
Topeka
Kan
Loraine J. Wooster
Frank J. Tracey
Burlington Transfer Company
Burlington, Iowa
Wallace Ringle
Pittsburg
United Roofing Contractors’ Association of America
National Association of Roofing Contractors
Associated Roofers of America
Wilbur J. Wiis
Ins
Council Hill
Thompson
Matthew Linaugh
Madison City
Carl Jandorf
University of Wisconsin
Jefferson
Wis
Paris
London
Breslau
Germany
Austria
Republic
Vienna
Clarke
Glenwood
Six Mile Bridge
Dublin Castle
Budapest
Julius Andrassy
Charles
Treasury Department
Berlin
County Galway
Ireland
Huber Memorial Hospital
Forrest Everett Weaver
Corn Belt Farmers’ Co-operative Association
Bloomington
Chicago Building Trades Council
University of Mllinois
Asia
Europe
Logan County
Logan County Farm Bureau
Jacksonville
John A. Hoffman
Peoria County
Pottstown
J. R. Fleming
University of Ilinois
I Ilinois
Fleming
House Rules Committee
House
Downstate
William T. McCoy
Chicago Schools Committee
State Board of Health
Omar Wright
Robert Medill
Cimed
Harry Luehrs
Bright’s
Doan
Iowa
Chas
St. Atlantic
East Ronn
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N. Y
Batonic
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