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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1919
Page
3
A Denver newsroom mimeographed a drink policy for staff, prompting a drunken incident that led to the city editor being sent home and a new editor taking over the next day. The staff then toasted the days of prohibition with renewed gusto.
President Carranza bans bull fights and replaces arena with grand opera and performances. In a famed spectacle the bull El Bonito charged three horses and injured several, but Picador Miguel Ballo offered sugar, calming the animal which licked it and spared him.
A plan envisions a 24 mile underwater tunnel from Lancashire to Antrim or nearby Ireland. It would shorten Atlantic routes by about two days and aid Irish cattle trade and perishable goods like fish. Estimated costs range from 80 to 85 million dollars.
A Bangor News anecdote tells how a wary farmer refused a sewing-machine pitch. An agent boasted of the Wonder Worker stitching thick shingle, but the farmer claimed a neighbor’s wife used a Mechanical Marvel to sew boards edge to edge. The farmer quips he sewed the agent up and vows to save copper.
M A Cramer Auburn city forester unearthed a buried Indian village at Cato Cayuga county New York while digging after a woodchuck. The site, dated about 500 years ago, yielded skeletons and bones believed to be of Iroquois origin.
John H. Finley writes in July Scribner's about a meandering journey from Aleppo to Damascus Jerusalem Haifa Beirut and Herina toward Tarsus in Asia Minor following ancient routes and stopping in freight cars a trawler and a British destroyer. He notes the lack of direct modern travel routes in that region and mentions the Damascus street Straight earning its name.
The Huguenots, likened to Puritans of France, faced severe persecution from Francis I onward. From 1562 they endured wars under Coligny and Henry IV, with 20,000 to 80,000 dying in the St Bartholomew massacre of 1572. The Edict of Nantes in 1598 granted rights, but later revocation by Louis XIV in 1685 led to mass exiles to Prussia, Holland, Switzerland, England, Scotland, and America.
The ministry announces restrictions to curb tobacco use across China. No one under eighteen may smoke, military personnel face punishment, and government schools must ban cigars and cigarettes. The move aims to curb perceived national harm and follows circulars sent to regional authorities.
An Argentine deputy proposes a bill paying members by the day rather than monthly. If a member misses a roll call or regular session, they do not receive pay for those days. The reform targets deputies who rely on public salaries but fail to attend constitutional sessions.
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