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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1920
Page
3
Meeker warns that food and cotton or wool crops may be below normal this year. He notes the food budget dominates family costs at about 46 percent, predicting price rises until food costs fall. Clothing prices also look to rise, with broader shortages harming fuel and other essentials.
Delegates at large 41 and district delegates 63 will attend the convention with 308 total delegates including 39 alternates at large and 165 district alternates. Most on the floor are unmarried while others are wives or widows, and a note recalls the Solomon era price of about $300 for an Egyptian war fet.
New York June 26 Royalties from the song Dardanella top 250000 dollars for writer Johnnie Black. Madeion earns francs for French publishers with little for the composer. Mrs Thekla Hollingsworth Andrew of Joplin Missouri struck it rich publishing Kiss Me Heart after initial publisher offering provoked her to self publish. Eight thousand copies sold in a single neighborhood and more print runs follow while noting such successes are rare.
War department aviation officers report a global race to dominate South American air routes. Missions from England France Italy and the United States train crews and operate aircraft such as the Handley Page bomber and Vickers Vimy. Americans lay out Bolivian field and hangar sites with a $30 000 gold estimate, staging a dramatic flight to win support.
A testimonial ad from a Michigan reader at 270 6th St praises eee Gray for backache and kidney and bladder symptoms. The letter claims better sleep and reduced pain after use, urging afflicted individuals to try the product. A fragmentary line references a cartoon relic and distant remark follows.
Senator Warren Harding has nearly completed gathering data for his speech on the League of Nations Mexican affairs agriculture finance reclamation projects and other questions. He plans to draft the address for his first formal expression while facing the senate campaign expenditures inquiry and potential charges over campaign funds.
Democratic women in San Francisco endorsed area and labor plank suggestions for the national convention resolutions committee. Mrs George Bass of Illinois led the session with praise for Labor reform and a strong platform to back Democratic victory in November. The meeting supported female representation on the platform and discussed President Meajera his—a phrasing likely garbled in OCR—without naming a candidate.
Squeeze juice of two lemons into three ounces of orchard white. Stir, then apply to face neck and arms daily to fade freckles and soften skin. Grocers or drug stores supply lemons and orchard white for this complexion beautifier.
Berlin June 26 The cabinet situation remains unsettled with Feh Nacht renbach delaying personnel decisions for the new ministry awaiting socialists approval. Indications point to a provisional government until allied decisions and a Reichstag vote are resolved, drawing sharp comment from German and socialist papers.
London dispatch reports one thousand Turkish soldiers killed in a heavy bombardment of Turkish Nationalist lines on the eastern shore of the Sea of Marmora. British attacks were concentrated near Ismid and Bagdizjik with 606 Turkish casualties claimed. fleet bombardment described as violent.
Chicago June 26 Joseph A Hack vaudeville actor wounded on a theatre stage during Miss Gordon’s act Gordon’s partner took blame for the accident saying he left a live cartridge in the revolver believed to contain blanks He was released after doctors reported the arm injury slight Wilson said he carried the loaded gun off stage to protect Miss Gordon’s jewelry and exchanged cartridges before the act The shot occurred at the climax of a playlet featuring Miss Gordon and her partner during a vaudeville performance.
Hack, an athletic act member, declared today he intends to sue Wilson for damages after a burlesque style filming scene.
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