Federal officials admit national liquor dry likely impossible
A Chicago raid uncovered a large distillery producing about 3,000 gallons daily and earning an estimated $99,000 weekly at $17 a gallon. Officials including Mellon and Andrews said federal enforcement cannot dry up the nation, urging state cooperation. Washington eyes Volstead act modification via a joint committee claiming 6,000,000 voters. James Duncan of the AFL leads the panel.
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New York
Andrew W. Mellon
United States
Emory R. Buckner
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
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Senate
James Duncan
New Form of Insulin Gives Further Hopes
Dr John J Abel announced completion of experiments producing crystallized insulin at Johns Hopkins. The purified insulin can be produced in an absolutely pure form unlike the crude pig pancreas solution previously used. The advance may further knowledge of diabetes preventing chemicals and refine insulin as a therapeutic agent.
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Chicago
John J. Abel
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Chicago Institute of Medicine
Three Nevada Murderers to Die by Lethal Gas
State Supreme Court sustains death sentences for three Nevada killers. John Randolph, condemned for murdering his aged mother in Reno last June, faces execution by lethal gas. Stanko Jubich is sentenced for enslaving his sweetheart, and Gaudeloupeens ta is condemned for killing a deputy sheriff.
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Sas
State Supreme Court
John Randolph
Reno
Randolph
Nevada
Stanko Jubich
Gaudeloupeensta
Illness Reveals Doctor's Sex in Arkansas Biography
In Mena Arkansas a 74 year old doctor identified as Dr M V Mayfield has long hidden her sex. The disguise of being male was exposed after friends and nurses decided to bathe the physician revealing she is a woman after decades of practice.
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Ilness
Ark
M V Mayfield
Plans for Chicago municipal airport directed
Commissioner A A Sprague of the public works department orders engineers to start preparing specifications for Chicago's municipal airport.
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Chicago
Commissioner of Public Works
A. A. Sprague
Memoirs of Col. House reveal Wilson presidency secrets
The diary and letters of Col. House form an extraordinary history detailing the relationship between House and Wilson. The memoirs claim to expose true insights and state secrets, offering vital information about the Wilson era to the public.
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Wilson
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