Happenings of the World Tersely Told
Washington reports the Rhine army bill to be paid in twelve installments totaling 250 million dollars. Alien property seized during the war to be sold at advantageous prices. Pensions keep 41 War of 1812 widows paid after 108 years. FTC presses antitrust complaints against several tobacco firms and associates. National Forest Week proclaimed from April 22 to 28. Former Idaho governor Davis named special assistant interior secretary. Post Office to issue four more stamps on March 20. Ford Motor Co. sets new production record with 5,759 units. U S Army air planes complete a 16 day flight to San Juan Puerto Rico. An Indian woman Susie Canner dies at 126 in California. Navy tests show torpedo destroyers effective and need for more cruisers. Bethlehem Steel reports lowest earnings since 1914, net income 84.6 million. Tragedy as three drown in Monongahela after car plunges from ferry. Arkansas peach and strawberry crops harmed by a cold wave. President Harding plans to seek re election barring ill health. DuPont mill explosion kills three. Mobile Box plant fire causes 80,000 damage. Rioting at Royal Weaving mill requires police intervention. Henry J. Allen sails to Constantinople for Near East Relief inquiry. Steel industry at three year high with US Steel at 92 percent capacity. Bridgeport College in Alabama destroyed by fire.
Notable Early American Republicans Die In 19th Century
Personal Archibald M. Bliss former congressman from Brooklyn and 1867 mayoral candidate dies at his Washington home aged 85. Louis F Payn Republican leader dies at Chatham age 88. Delegate to every Republican convention from 1860 to 1920. Dr H A Gobin emeritus vice president of DePauw University dies in Indianapolis age 81. Former Queen Elena of Montenegro dies in Antibes France. Marquis Cholmondeley Lord George Henry Hugh Cholmondeley dies at Malpas England.
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Archibald M. Bliss
Congress
Brooklyn
N. Y
Washington
Louis F. Payn
Chatham
H. A. Gobin
Depauw University
Indianapolis
Gobin
Depauw
George Henry Hugh Cholmondeley
Marquis of Cholmondeley
Malpas
England
Labor party opens bid for public ownership order
The Labor party in Parliament begins a push toward replacing capitalism with an industrial and social order based on public ownership. Rioting by unemployed in Stettin escalates as mounted police wound several. shops close and troops are requested in Tokyo after clashes between political factions. A Buenos Aires bill extends rent protections. in Georgia Reds execute 200 political prisoners, and the Ranee sinking near Singapore leaves many dead.
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Labor Party
Stettin
Illinois News Briefs From Across The State
A snowbound farmer Fred Koppen walked 14 miles to report for jury service as trains halted. Illinois February employment rose 1.6 percent amid farm labor shortages. Springfield considers a $300,000 state education grant for crippled children. Bus routes Marion Centralia Odin Sandoval Junction approved. Marion County Transit denied. L. Foote named farm adviser in Union County Carthage. U of I loosened farm adviser requirements. Chicago bankers urge pay as you go road funding after a $60 million bond issue. Millikin hosts Pomona College debate on cabinet government. How to make jury service pleasant proposed by Chicago Industrial Club. Urbana botany lab under Prof. C. F. Hottes studies plant life and environment. Farm Advisers Conference dates set for Southern Central Northern Illinois. TB control drive planned by Illinois Tuberculosis Association with expanded health education and medical society collaboration.
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Farm Advisers’ District
University of Illinois At Urbana
Southern Illinois
Centralia
Northern Illinois
Chicago
Central Illinois
Decatur
Northwestern Ilinois
Galesburg
Springfield
Urbana
Hughes Rules Out Recognition of Soviet Russia
Secretary of State Hughes tells a delegation of women from several states that the United States will not recognize the Soviet government while it pursues repudiation and confiscation and spreads revolutionary propaganda. He insists Russia must abandon that policy and prove a basis for helpfulness through action by the Russian people and real industry and trade growth.
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Washington
Hughes
Russia
United States
Women’s Committee For Recognition
Women’s International League For Peace and Freedom
Trotsky
America
Dope Habit Tragedy Ends in Mother and Daughter Deaths
In Chicago on Wednesday night Mrs Edna Robinson thirty? forty years old a drug addict killed her mother Mrs Elia Woolson seventy two at 2317 Indiana Avenue in a rooming house then slashed her own throat ending years of narcotics struggle.
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Chicago
Edna Robinson
Elia Woolson
Indiana Avenue
Liquor violator sentenced to two years and $10000 fine
Federal Judge John M. Ixillits sentenced Joseph Biener of Pittsburgh to two years at Atlanta penitentiary and fined him the maximum $10 000, plus costs, after entering a not guilty plea.
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Cleveland
John M. Ixillits
Joseph Biener
Pittsburgh
Atlanta
Iowa Battleship Targeted by Modern Navy Exercises
The old battleship Iowa steered remotely with no crew aboard and was navigated by radio from miles away as it faced the firepower of the United States Navy in an exercise near Balboa Panama Canal Zone.
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Balboa
Panama Canal Zone
Iowa
Bob” Evans
Santiago
America
Four New Russian Munitions Plants Proposed
The war council approved Leon Trotzky's request for four new factories to produce munitions and war materials. In Moscow informed reports cite swift establishment forupply.
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Russ
Copenhagen
Russian War Council
Leon Trotzky
People’s Commissar For War
Moscow
Why Take Laxatives 7
An eminent authority warns laxatives provide only temporary relief and may cause permanent injury. Science offers a better option, Nujol, a natural lubrication that ensures regular movements without griping. Nujol is not a medicine and is harmless. used in leading hospitals. Obtain from your druggist today.
Grocery Mortality High In Store Ownership
Mc Clure's Magazine notes that in the US the typical grocery store changes hands every seven years. Of entrants, 5 percent succeed, 15 percent barely survive, and 80 percent exit within seven years.
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United States
McClure’s Magazine
Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims local relief and constitutional aid
The advertisement asserts catarrh is worsened by run down condition, and that Hall's Catarrh Medicine provides local relief with an ointment plus an internal tonic to improve general health. It notes the product is sold by druggists for over 40 years by J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
3. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
American Bullfrogs Sent to Japan for Propagation
American bullfrogs have been shipped to Japan to aid irrigation and drainage ditches and paddy fields. The imports are expected to thrive and help control injurious insects in paddy fields and truck gardens.
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Japan
America
Cuticura Campaign Promises Pimples Out With Routine Use
Advertisement touts Cuticura products for pimply faces. Apply Cuticuraointment and wash with Cuticura Soap and hot water in five minutes. Keep skin clear with daily use of Cuticura products including Talcum.
Grow Your Own
Howard asks where to get a family tree and Jay suggests trying a nursery. This Life snippet hints at gardening and family history themes.
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Howard
Jay
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Holland, Mich
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Bloomington, Nd
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