The Great Black Way and Coffee Praise Unite
A mixed bag of opinions, notes, and opinions on prohibition, Broadway weather, and coffee research. Mentions George Harvey and Vermont family history, and laments the shift from the Great White Way to a Great Black Way. Also discusses Spain beans, Woodrow Wilson’s views, and the League of Nations as a path to peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helm Ny
Hughes
Prohibition
George Harvey
Vermont
George
The Future of Farm Organizations
The House passed the Volstead bill to ease penalties on farmers cooperatives, allowing federations to engage in interstate and foreign trade. Proponents cite Wisconsin cheese and California fruit groups as successes, arguing organized farms can reduce middlemen and stabilize prices without becoming predatory. Foreign competition and limited farmer reach limit consolidation, and keeping farmers on the land is a national goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
Siberia
American Beef Trust
Orange and Lemon
California
Pagilc Northwest
Federated Cooperative Cheese
Wisconsin
Sanity Inquiry Opened Into Heiress Anna Wright
A New York lunacy commission opens a inquiry into the sanity of Miss Anna Wright daughter of the Countess del Sera of Italy and New York now confined in a Connecticut sanitarium. Her inherited property is valued at about 215000. Reports from Italy last year claimed she was held prisoner in Florence by her mother. The Countess del Sera petitioned the New York Court to appoint the commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Newsy
New York
Anna Wight
Countess del Sera
Italy
Ebon Wright
Miss Wright
Connecticut
Florence
United States
New York Court
Miss Nilsson Promotes Beauty Secret Verwillo
Actress Anna Q Nilsson endorses a toilet preparation called Verwillo as a quick path to rosy white skin. The ad claims it lasts longer than powder, resists rubbing, and suits many facial blemishes. Readers are urged to obtain Verwillo at drug or department stores and await Miss Nilsson's next article.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Q. Nilsson
Alsace Lorraine Reunification and Rule Change
A leading essay recalls Alsace Lorraine under German rule and the French effort to restore governance after 1870. It notes administration, language shifts, schooling, and the mixed local sentiment, with deportations cited and industry rebuilding lagging behind prewar levels. It discusses potash gains and coal/iron declines amid reconstruction halted by reparations uncertainty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alsace-Lorraine
Sagan
Commissariat General
Europe
Alsace
France
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
The Daily Mail Information Bureau provides brief Q and A style entries on diverse topics. It covers Phoenix legend origins, the punaluan family term, wireless signal meaning, explosives production in 1920, Paris seconds pendulum length, and Wellington’s appearance and nickname iron duke.
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Daily Mail Information Bureau
Frederick J Haskin
Washington, D. C
The
Inquirer
Phoenix
Arizona
Hawaiian Islands
Save Our
P. NM. A
Bureau of Mines
Paris
F. J. HH
Naval Observatory
Duke of Wellington
Iron Duke
W. H
Brought Back to Life After Near Suicide Attempt
Washington reports Thomas B. Warren, 45, of Indian Head Maryland, who reportedly cut his throat with a petcock in an attempted suicide, was revived after respiration ceased and doctors at the hospital restored breathing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas B. Warren
Indian Head
Tha
Spring Cleaning by Berton Braley
A light verse depicts a household in the throes of spring cleaning. Mothers in calico, weary of suds and ammonia, chase dirt as rugs are beaten and furniture piled outdoors. Children fear chores while fathers retreat to clubs, and the home becomes a maze of clutter until the cleaning ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newspaper Enterprise Association
What Is All About in This Life and World
A speaker suggests the central question is how to make the world better within our brief lives. He argues the world’s goodness comes from individual attitudes and actions, not grand, impossible changes. Life moves forward, and each person should strive to contribute more good than they take.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tech
Washington
Alsace-Lorraine
Germany
France
Europe
African Women Study Styles in London Fashion Scene
London May 25 African women will soon wear The latest English and American fashions as London hosts native students. Several young women travel from Africa to study dressmaking, since local gown production failed to meet tastes, prompting entrepreneurial efforts to train as madistes.
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International News
London
Europe
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Jonathan Street
Ioe
Sear Eee
Swieten
Knill-Burkd Inc
Kan
42Nd
Broadway
York
Michigan Ave
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Mall
Berdathe
Hawerepe
Hagerstown Post
Samo
Samo Diggbere
Pera
George Aa Harvey
Elyria
Spain
Bays
Fia Vanguardia
Woodrow Wilson
Clemenceau
League of Nationa
Hague Tribunal
League of Nations
Miss Nilsson
Fatty
Saxtertie
Haskin
Strasbourg
University of
the Duke of Wellington
Arthur
Berton Braley
Willie
Father
Sublime
William E. Barton
A. J. Kummer & Co
Hagerstown, Md
Temme
Firestone
Yingling Auto & Carriage Works
Lee and South Sts
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