Fifty French youths to tour United States in exchange program
Fifty young Frenchmen will visit the United States and Canada next summer to study American commercial methods in banks factories and shipping firms. They will tour New York Boston Montreal Chicago Washington Pittsburgh Philadelphia Baltimore and St Louis. An equal program will run Americans in France with travel costs shared by families chambers of commerce and a steamship line. A Franco-United States committee and American chambers will select participants. Jocko, intoxicated, slept off the beverage.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
United States
Canada
New York
Boston
Montreal
Chicago
Washington
Iron and Steel Works
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Baltimore
St. Louis
America
American Chambers of Commerce
M. Guisthau
Frank Vanderlip
Nerv-Worth Endorsed by Dave Hickman in Clarksburg
Clarksburg residents recall Dave Hickman of 1069 Pike Street praising Nerv-Worth for his wife’s five year sleep and nervous ailments. The testimonial claims relief from headaches back pain and dizziness with improved appetite and rest, urging readers to try with Burke's Drug Store backing.
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Clarksburg
Dave ‘Hickman
Pike “Street
Hickman
Burke's Drug
Diwshickman
Baboon Turns Prohibition Convert After Vinegar Sip
In Manthea on December 20 a police baboon named Jocko, keepered at Luneta station, drank a bottle labeled vinegar. The ape’s first gulp produced rapid changes from calm to lively, ending with a wild, transformed demeanor as if under a new restraint of prohibitionist insight.
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Jocko
Luneta
Ivinegar
Jan
Donatic
Boones ‘Itreatto Ioreniene
Shalucagestadpiauenmacn Teats
Dresses Better Than Son In Law Eh Perc
Chicago December 20. Police brought Max Speriing a soda fountain clerk charged with shoplifting into court carrying his entire wardrobe. The haul included ten suits, 125 neckties, 100 silk hose, 23 hats, 29 garters, eight extra trousers, 36 shirts, 6 shoes, 3 overcoats and two quarts of imported perfume from his dresser.
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Chicago
Tll
Max Speriing
Towns Saloon Funds Bay Point Road Improvements
Calif Dec 20 From the year’s profits of a municipal saloon in Bay Point the citizens have started street improvement work to the extent of $2,000. The saloon opened two years ago by a lumber company owning the town site was given to the citizens a year ago with the provision that they manage the bar. The entire proceeds go into street improvements.
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Clartinsz
Calif
Bay Point
Mule Kicking Result in Youth Near Death in Ingld Ky
In Ingld Kentucky in December 1920 a youth named Harlin Colling attempted to provoke a mule by kicking it. Delmer Dick refused, Collins acted, the mule kicked Collins in the side. The physician holds final hope for Collins’s recovery amid the incident noted with other broad references to deliveries and Russian salt fields.
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Ingld
Harlin
Colling
Delmer Dick
Caintown
Collins
Remarkable New Jersey man seeks annulment in tangled family ties
Robert Conklin of Haledon New Jersey asks a chancery master Francis Scott to annul his marriage after discovering he is his own uncle and neighbor to his wife’s children. The case outlines that his father married his housekeeper and later his wife became his stepmother, creating a complex kinship web. The wife offers no defense as the matter unfolds.
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New York
New Jersey
Robert Conklin
Haledon
N. J
Chancery
Conklin
Robert
Capitola
Tisk
Paterson
Samuel Percey
Jersey
Tlaose
Conkiln
Hog Loses Four Pounds Every Mile It Walks
Matt Hess pleaded guilty to stealing a 420 pound hog. He testified he drove the hog from St. Louis to Fenton about eight miles. On arrival in Fenton the hog weighed 388 pounds after a loss of thirty-two pounds, or four pounds per mile walked. The hog’s value was listed as twice the offered price. The butcher refused the sale and Hess’s guilt was established.
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ST. Louis
Matt Hess
Fenton
Hess
Return to Europe Drives 1.2 Million Tickets Sold
New York dispatch reports about 1.2 million Americans have bought steerage tickets to return to Europe as war ends. Remigration in a normal year is about 400,000. The article mentions foreign government agents and ticket agents linked to the movement.
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New York
United States
Europe
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Poner SS
Sia
New Columbia
Maria Barrientos
Lucia
Lazaro
Kathleen Parlow
Godowsky
Oscar Seagle
Vernon Stiles
Lucy Gates
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Fannie Brice
Reed Miller
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Flora Bella
Nannette Flack
Charles Sonings
Harrison
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Sterling ‘Trio
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Lola LO
Sterling Trio
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Ballet Russe
Columbia
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