Connecticut House approves measures on licenses and prohibition
March 25 the legislature reports favorable action on bills to raise salaries for the New Haven common pleas court prosecuting staff, license fee provisions for saloons and saloon licenses, licensing milk distributors, and apiaries. unfavorable reports on milk pollution and anti-toxin injections. a state prohibition plan moves toward a 1922 effective date. Senate favors surplus distribution to the state prison or reformatory, and approval of measures transferring funds to Middlesex hospital, raising judge salaries, and highway damages. The house and senate also pass provisions related to traffic stopping near trolleys and the sale of state pies by the rivers, harbors and bridges commission.
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Forwarding mail to A E F France notice request
War Department guidance urges marking envelopes with Please forward addressee still in France to ensure mail reaches officers and soldiers left abroad when units return. The directive applies until card indexes confirm who remains overseas. The note ends with an unrelated sentence about a singer and understudy.
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Foley's Honey and Tar praise for cough relief
A Tennessee reader, E. B. McDowell of Arlington, credits Foley's Honey and Tar for curing a severe influenza cough in his son. The letter asserts the medicine stops harsh coughing and eases wheezy breathing, calling it pleasant and effective and noting it is sold locally.
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Captain Lemaitre Completes Toulouse to Casablanca Flight
Captain Lemaitre, French aviator, completed a two stage journey from Toulouse to Alicante then Alicante to Casablanca covering 1,180 miles in eleven hours flying time. The total voyage lasted twenty nine hours across two stages. Lemaitre, a famed aviation instructor during the war, is well known in the country.
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New Wars for Old in a World of Debts and Loyalties
A Chicago Tribune notes that French policy toward Bolshevist Russia hinges on repaying vast foreign loans, especially to French bankers. It argues Western governments oppose Bolshevism, while Britain wavered, and urges careful American involvement in European affairs, warning of League of Nations mandates to enforce debt. The piece cites Captain Kermit Roosevelt’s voyage home from France, grain market snapshots, and Iowa’s march of suffrage with the lower house approving the reform.
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Bolshevism Spreads in Hungary and Balkans
London reports bolshevik activity expanding in Hungary into Croatia, Bosnia and Slavonia with clashes between armed workers and Serbians in Southern Hungary. Hungarian soviets mobilize as Romanian troops advance into Transylvania, while Budapest seizes banks and national treasures.
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May Put Wheat on Market Under Law of Supply and Demand
Washington observers say substantial food price cuts are key to restoring normal peacetime industry. They expect Congress funds of 1 million dollars to back a 2.26 dollar wheat guarantee and push wheat products to a reasonable cost, with price differences charged to wartime costs. If President Wilson uses this approach, other foods may follow suit and industry could adjust quickly.
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Debate on the League and its Constitution
In a Springfield debate President Lowell of Harvard argued the league of nations draft needs amendment in places though its core structure and functions meet minimum expectations. Supporters and opponents alike say the constitution pleases nobody while noting U S history of imperfect constitutions yet preferring preservation over destruction. Boston reports emergency rudder fixes on the Melrose as Captain Rostad guides the ship toward Newport News with troops aboard.
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One Woman's Deduction
A Atchison woman who cared for her hair all her life notes her hair grayed early and jokes that the line about a woman's hair being her glory was written by a bald headed man.
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His Deceptive Appearance and Prohibition Humor Fragments
A trio of wry items from old papers. A playful exchange features J Fuller Gloom claiming a born mean disposition explains his look. Denver’s Colorado Prohibition piece jokes about penalties and deficits tied to a dry era.
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Dr Blake and Wife Plan Return to America in Autumn
Paris report says Dr Joseph A Blake and Mrs Blake formerly Mrs Clarence H Mackay will visit the United States in autumn. He gained fame as a surgeon during the war and is to give lectures before American medical societies. The Blakes wed in Paris in November 1914 after divorce suits that stirred the U.S.
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The War’s Moral Shake on Sex Standards
Henry Seidel Canby argues in the Yale Review that World War I has unsettled Victorian morality, especially regarding sex. He says the old order passes and chaos in judgment arises, but views it as possibly a temporary change and a blessing, not evil, though habits formed now will be hard to cure.
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Price To Be Movie President Of New Film Organization
Oscar A. Price announced in Santa Barbara that he will leave the railroad administration on April 1 to head the United States Artists' Corporation a new motion picture group headed by Mary Pickford Charles Chaplin Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith Price has spent two days in conference with W G McAdoo former Treasury secretary and adviser to the group known as the Big Four of filmdom
Sloan's Liniment Proclaimed Best For Rheumatic Pain
Readers urged not to neglect rheumatic aches and joint pains. Claims instant relief without mussiness as the largest selling liniment year after year. Recommends keeping a bottle on hand and asking a physician for Sloan's Liniment.
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