Government Sets Rules for Medicinal Alcohol Access
The bureau of internal revenue公布 detailed permit system to regulate sale of intoxicating liquor for medical use. Physicians may prescribe spirits up to one pint within ten days and obtain six quarts per year for emergencies. Pharmacists with permits fill prescriptions. hospitals and industries can obtain liquor for medicinal use in emergencies.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Bureau
Roper
What They Owe Uncle Sam
Accrued interest on loans to European countries totals about 325 million dollars. Great Britain owes 144,440,837. France 94,021,749. Italy 54,256,629. Russia 16,832,662. Belgium 13,465,278. Czecho Slovakia 1,668,083. Serbia 917,299. Elumania 609,873. Liberia 548.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury Department
Great Britain
France
Italy
Russia
Belgium
Czecho- Slovakia
Serbia
Elumania
Liberia
Kolchak Escapes Redo Hybrid Hideout Report
A Tokyo dispatch to Nippu Jiji reports Admiral Kolchak has escaped Bolsheviks and is in hiding in Manchuria, with details circulated by the Japanese newspaper.
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Kolchak
Redo
Honolulu
Hawaii
Admiral Kolchak
Manchuria
Tokyo
Nippu Jiji
Big Drop in Flu at Chicago
Chicago reports a sharp fall in new influenza cases, marking a lower rate since the epidemic peaked last week according to health department reports.
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Chicago
Health Department
Wilson names Meredith agriculture secretary as Houston moves to treasury
President Wilson nominates Edwin T. Meredith of Iowa to be secretary of agriculture replacing Houston who becomes treasury secretary replacing Carter Glass. Meredith telegraphed acceptance from Miami and has prior roles at Successful Farming and Farmers' Tribune. Glass to succeed late Senator Martin. Cumming expected to be surgeon general after Rupert Blue's term ends January 15.
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Washington
Edwin T. Meredith
Iowa
Wilson
Houston
Secretary of the Treasury
Carter Glass
Meredith
Miami
Fla
White House
Des Moines
Farmers’ Tribune
United States Senate
Senate
Glass
Senator Martin
Virginia
Hugh S. Cumming
Hampton
Rupert Blue
Public Health Service
Doctor Blue
Doctor Cumming
Glass Declines Aid to Europe in Reconstruction Talks
Secretary Glass states the US government has done all it deems advisable to aid Europe and warns that an international conference of financiers and leaders would only create confusion and revive disappointing hopes for further loans.
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Washington
Europe
United States
Prisoners Perish in Siberia War Toll Reported
Geneva reports 375000 of 500000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners taken by Russians have died in Siberia from smallpox and typhus. Remaining prisoners survive mainly due to aid from Japanese American and English medical teams along the trans Siberian rail line. East of Lake Baikal Chinese doctors also assist amid Bolshevik incursion.
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Geneva
Siberia
Vladivostok
International Red Cross
Lake Baikal
Senate army plan Could mobilize 2,000,000 in five years
Washington February 2 mobilization of an army of 2,000,000 men would be possible within five years after passage of the senate army reorganization bill, according to Chairman Wadsworth of the senate military committee in a report.
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U.S. Navy
Washington
Senate
Wadsworth
Senate Military Committee
Dublin Celebrates Sinn Fein Municipal Victory
Dublin reports the new city council dominated by Sinn Fein members was greeted by massive crowds at its first meeting as the republic flag was raised in a show of renewed national pride.
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Dublin
Sinn Fein
Farmers' Plight Warned By Post Office Official
Washington January 31. James I Blakslee warns of decreased farm production next year and higher living costs due to farmer dissatisfaction. A Wood report explains many farmers plan to quit or cut production while city wages and ease rise. Extension of rural parcel post urged to help farmers sell directly to urban buyers.
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Washington
Senate Post Office Committee
James I. Bilakslee
George L. Wood
Division of Rural Mails
Mr. Blakslee
Parcel Post
Ban on Public Funerals in Chicago Influenza Era
Chicago news reports that public funerals and wakes for influenza and pneumonia deaths are barred by Health Commissioner Robertson. Only relatives and close friends up to ten may attend, to prevent contagion and reduce funeral processions. city hearses are in short supply.
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Chicago
Robertson
Millerand Wins Confidence Vote in France Cabinet
Premier Millerand secured support from the chamber of deputies by a 510 to 70 vote after defending his entire ministry in a heated session. The decisive backing followed his formal response to the cabinet crisis.
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Paris
Millerand
Chamber of Deputies
Robbery at Sulix State Bank Net $12000 Bonds Seized
Robbers broke into the Sulix State Bank in Sulley Iowa about two in the morning and escaped with securities and bonds totaling $12,000 before being scared off by watchman John Oldridge.
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Iowa
Sulley
Sulix State Bank
John Oldridge
Hoover on Democratic ballot sought for Michigan primary
Petitions to place Herbert Hoover on the Democratic ballot for the presidential preference primary in Michigan were received by the secretary of state. The election is set for April 5.
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Hoover
Michigan
Lansing
Mich
Herbert Hoover
Secretary of State
Gompers Defends Labor Rights Against Bolshevik Compulsory Labor
Samuel Gompers writing in Federationist denounces bolshevism and the Soviet constitution. He cites dictatorship rhetoric, peasant disenfranchisement, and union suppression while warning that compulsory labor violates American freedom and must not be enforced.
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Washington
Federationist
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Soviet Russia
America
Gompers
Mr. Gompers
W. A. Appleton
International Federation of Trade Unions
Wilson asks loan aid to Poland Austria Armenia
President Wilson urged Secretary Glass to seek congressional authority to lend 150 million dollars to Poland Austria and Armenia to ease their famine. He called it unthinkable that the United States withhold relief from the stricken peoples by denying credit for food exports.
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Congress
Poland
Austria
Armenia
Washington
Wilson
Glass
Workers to share profits and losses at Barvard Knitting Mills
Wakefield Mass January 30 A plan by Winship Boit Co owners of Barvard Knitting mills proposes equal annual division of net profits or net losses between the company and its 1200 employees with provisions for workers to take over control. Employees who have received a 15 percent annual bonus agreed to accept the plan.
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Wakefield
Mass
Winship, Boit & Co
Barvard Knitting Mills
Death of B. J. Reynolds in Evanston at age 62
B. J. Reynolds vice president of United Cigar Stores died at his Evanston home. He was sixty two, born in Baltimore and moved to Chicago fifteen years ago.
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B. J. Reynolds
Chicago
United Cigar Stores Company
Evanston
Mr. Reynolds
Baltimore
Harry S New Sentenced for Second Degree Murder
Los Angeles on January 31 Harry S New convicted of murder in the second degree for shooting Miss Freda Lesser was denied a new trial and immediately sentenced to not less than ten years in prison.
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Harry New
Los Angeles
Cal
Harry S. New
Freda Lesser
Bayonne Woman Credits Pinkham Remedy For Pain Relief
Mrs Anna Sleva of Bayonne New Jersey says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound eased her period pains after marriage and helped her regain strength. She notes prior dizziness weakness and headaches and now recommends the medicine to friends. The ad invites women to seek information from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co confidentially.
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Bayonne
N. J
Lydia E. Pinkham
Escame
Anna Sleva
East 17Th Street
Mustarine mustard plaster substitute ad
An old fashioned mustard plaster claim advertises Mustarine as a non blistering prescription replacement for easing neuralgia rheumatic pains and sore joints. It urges use for sprains strains bruises sore muscles stiff neck swellings chilblains and frostbite symptoms with origin in Le Roy New York.
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Begg
S. C. Wells & Co
le Roy, N. Y
Giles Says You Ought to See the Other Guys
A boy named Giles remarks to his ill grandmother that she cannot understand the world. He returns home dirty and shabby, and she laments her inability to care for him. The boy’s blunt line reveals a child’s crude grasp of harsh reality.
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Giles
Favorite Prescription Endorsed by Elyria Resident
Mrs. J. T. Riblet of 236 Winckles St credits Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription with restoring her health and sleep. She says the tonic built her up and made her feel like a different person after selling run down and nervous symptoms.
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Elyria
Ohio
Manners and Napkins Sweep Brooklyn Banter
Dialogue shows residents from Flatbush Bensonhurst arguing over paper napkins. One critic dislikes them while another defends hygiene, noting slight neck irritation when folded near clothing.
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Flatbush
Bensonhurst
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