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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1919
Page
3
A Denver daily city editor faced a drunken pay night aftermath as staff prank letters triggered a staffer scandal. The chief editor was sent home stewed, and a new city editor arrived the next day amid staff revelry, echoing early prohibition days.
The Teatro el Toro, once a famed bullfighting venue in Mexico City, becomes a home for grand opera after Carranza orders bull fights halted. A famed bull named El Bonito charged three horses and injured several, until Miguel Ballo the Picador offered sugar, calming the beast and sparing him.
The article discusses plans for a submerged tunnel linking England and Ireland from Lancashire to Antrim or the Irish coast, about 24 miles long. It claims the tunnel would shorten transatlantic travel by at least two days and aid the Irish cattle trade and perishable fish shipments to England. Cost estimates range from 80 to 85 million dollars.
A Bangor News tale recalls a farmer who refused a sewing-machine agent who boasted of heavy work. The farmer challenged with a shingle, then joked his wife stitched boards across a nearby house, claiming he “sewed that agent up.” The couple then planned supper.
In Cayuga county near Cato Auburn forester M A Cramer dug after a woodchuck and uncovered a buried Indian village site dated about five centuries ago. Skeletons and bone implements are believed to be Iroquois in origin.
John H. Finley recounts an Anabasis style journey from the Euphrates toward Constantinople detailing routes via Aleppo Damascus Jerusalem Hadfa Beirut Helina and Tarsus. He notes travel by freight cars a trawler and a British destroyer while reflecting on biblical places and the lack of direct paths in the region.
The Huguenots, French Protestants, faced severe persecution under Francis I and successors, with 1572 St Bartholomew’s Massacre claiming 20 000 to 30 000 lives. Despite hardship they remained powerful, winning civil rights with Henry IV’s 1598 Edict of Nantes, then losing them after La Rochelle’s surrender and Louis XIV’s 1685 revocation, forcing hundreds of thousands into exile across Prussia Holland Switzerland England Scotland and America.
The interior ministry issued a circular via the Peking Daily News restricting tobacco use nationwide. It bans smoking for anyone under eighteen, punishes military or naval personnel who light up, and prohibits cigars and cigarettes in all government schools and colleges.
A Argentine legislator proposes paying deputies per day rather than monthly salaries to force attendance. If a member misses roll call or fails to attend regular sessions, no pay for those days. The bill targets those who receive public funds yet neglect constitutional attendance duties.
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