Senate approves large Prohibition enforcement fund
The Senate attached a 24 million dollar appropriation to the deficiency bill to bolster federal enforcement of prohibition, with 250 thousand dollars for Hoover's prohibition inquiry. The vote crossed party lines, prompting sharp exchanges over enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mellon
Senate
Harris
Georgia
Hoover
Mr. Mellon
Thomas Nicholson
Anti-Saloon League
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Church, South
KE. L. Crawford
Board of Temperance and Social Service
Bruce
Maryland
Senate confirms Roy O. West as interior secretary
On Monday the Senate approved Roy O. West of Chicago for secretary of the interior by a 58 to 27 vote. The opposition included radicals from both parties. In Miami Beach Hoover arrives for a rest period before his inauguration with Southern Florida officials and festivities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Jennings Bryan
Jack Dempsey
Hoover
J. C. Penney
Belle Island
Biscayne Bay
Stuart W. Crameer
Charlotte
N. C
Crameer
Mr. Hoover
Dwight Morrow
Mexico
Miami
Nassau
Florida Keys
House of Representatives
Henry S. Johnston
Senate
W. J. Holloway
Johnston
O. C. Hammonds
House
Roy O. West
Chicago
Interior
Ebrert Hoover
Milami Beach
Florida
Miami Beach
University of Michigan president resigns in 1929
R Clarence Cook Little announced resignation effective September 1 1929 with leave from June 30. He cited policy clashes with donors and administration as reasons and expressed a preference for focusing on research and teaching. The article also notes Afghan turmoil after Habibullah’s seizure of Kabul and Amanullah’s efforts to regain throne amid regional opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Clarence Cook Little
University of Michigan
Board of Regents
Little
Doctor Little
Michigan
Afghanistan
Habibullah
Kabul
Amanullah
Russia
Jalalabad
Lahore
India
Peasants League Demands Sovietized Mexico Reforms
A meeting of the Peasants' league of Mexico representing about half a million agrarians pressed resolutions calling for councils to replace the federal deputies senate and state legislatures with peasant and worker councils. They urged suspension of debts and illiteracy extinction and universal schooling and proposed dividing remaining haciendas among peasants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peasants’ League of Mexico
Federal House of Deputies
Senate
Revolts, tunnels, and a frozen Detroit shore
In Guatemala a rebellion in three provinces was crushed after government forces bombed Mazatenango and captured leaders who were executed. Parliament discussed reviving the England France tunnel plan with a Dover Calais bridge proposal also debated. Detroit’s river froze opening a rush of rum runners as customs chief Sleeper and guards quit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uatemala
Mazatenango
NCE
English Channel
England
France
Baldwin
Channel Bere
I den
Dover
Calais
Etroit
Sumner C. Sleeper
Detroit
Canada
Moscow declares war to the death on Trotzky faction
The Russian Communist party declares war on the exiled Leon Trotzky's party accusing it of an anti Soviet plot. One hundred fifty of Trotzky's followers are arrested and documents seized. Latvia dispatches report many captured men have been executed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ORD
Moscow
Russian Communist Party
Leon Trotzky
Trotzky
Latvia
Felt Hats and Cloth Coats Signal Early Spring Fashion
A 1929 Western Newspaper Union fashion note highlights midseason attire with cloth coats and straw touched felt hats. It praises furs as trims on tweed coats, vivid color tinting by dyers, and inventive hat brims, with notes on straw integration, fringe, bow details, and new cape collars as spring fashion moves in.
Milks Emulsion Restores Health Says Mrs Washington
Mrs Margaret Washington credits Milks Emulsion with breaking a five week bedbound cold and regain weight from 111 to 125 pounds in five weeks. She reports full recovery and daily work resumed at Winston Salem North Carolina. The ad promises satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded with Milks Emulsion Co Terre Haute Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Washington
E. 14Th St
Winston-Salem
N. C
Milks Emulsion Co
Terre Haute
Ind
Adv
Dr Caldwell’s Three Rules for Constipation
A 1930s health advertisement promotes Syrup Pepsin as a mild vegetable laxative. It claims constipation recurs despite good health, urges natural remedies over drastic purges, and offers a free trial bottle by writing to Syrup Pepsin Dept. BB Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caldwell
Dept
Monticello
Lydia E Pinkham’s Plant Toner Praised by Fairhaven Woman
Mrs Apa Besse of 196 Washington Street Fairhaven Massachusetts says Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound helped her during the Change of Life. She reports nervousness insomnia and fatigue improved after using the tonic as directed and urges others to try it for similar symptoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairhaven
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Apa Besse
Washington Street
Headache After Meals Notice and Remedy Offer
Stomach distress after meals signals poor digestion and discomfort such as headaches heartburn and gas. Readers urged to write H. C. Watkins Box 298 Scranton Pa for information about a chemist developed formula used with success for 17 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Watkins
Scranton
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Bob’s Bird Preserve
President Cooldge
Post Office Department
Dollar Line
President Garfield
Bahamas
Edward W. Pickard
Adicals
Fred Britten
Naval Affairs Committee
Britten
President Coolidge
Congress
Treasury
Coolidge
Curtis
Hale
Bellevue
Ohio
Atlantic
Virginia Capes
America
Dannedaike
Bermuda
Harles R. Crane
China
Basra
Howeit
J. C. Crane
Charles Johnson
Henry Bilkert
Ibn Saud
Crane
Irak
Great Britain
Kathryn Crawford
Western Newspaper Union
DR. Caldwell
Hanford
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