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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1920
Page
6
London observers note an uptick in girls under 21 ordering wine in West End restaurants and pubs. A social worker blames late meals and fatigue, while calling for age restrictions on liquor sales to under twenty-one, urging better food, exercise and rest.
Greenock Scotland—American rye whisky imported here is described as the shock variety by the chief constable who filed a report. He compares prewar whisky with three-year bonded stock to recent whiskies saying their effects are terrible, causing poisoning madness and nervous depression after intoxication. The local label for these whiskies is snake bite.
In Vanceburg Kentucky Ivan Saunders brought a pot with half cooked chicken and feathers into court to prove W Lan ters and H Bloomfield stole his chickens. The only proof found was that the men had eats chicken for dinner and the charge was dismissed.
George Alexander, seventy, watching a parade in Cincinnati, slipped and broke his leg. Police took him to an artificial limb factory where a new leg was fitted for him.
National movement denounces high prices and inferior clothes as shoddy garments flood the market. LeGrace Maloney explains the push for a Congress bill requiring fabric makers to stamp exact virgin wool, shoddy, and cotton content on textiles to ensure prices reflect true material value.
George Tremain, a Lassen county soldier injured in the Argonne fire, endured 12 hours exposed before rescue. He faced leg amputations anticipated for a year, then healed enough to walk with crutches. He recently visited his parents after leaving Letterman General Hospital.
In Bellewood a tornado left the Kraft family and their nine members living with fowls in a chicken coop after their Chicago flat was destroyed. Red Cross workers offered housing, but Gustav Kraft protested they preferred the coop.
In Mount Vernon Kentucky officials require vaccination proof or a scar to enter churches, attend movies, or enroll in school citing smallpox as the cause. The town imposes strict access limits until health concerns are addressed.
Henry P. Davison urges immediate U S action to aid Central and Eastern Europe after a Geneva Red Cross conference. He proposes a $500 million plan administered by a nonpolitical American commission, with liberal terms, no local interference, and global cooperation to restore normal conditions and peace.
A notice invites storekeepers to join a Wednesday afternoon closing schedule from June 9 to October 6, excluding holidays. Signatories include A Hayward Sobey, A J Pilling, B W Douglas, Russell Lang, Clara Paine, Benj Drew, F Swett, H F Rich, Geo Nickerson, Peter Pan Store A Gallivan, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co Center Store Ed Hayden, Albert Miller, F P Martin, Winthrop Hardware Co, Sweeney & Rich Coles Sisters Ginter Store L MacMillen John Otis Simson's Market Nash's Store Rose Sterling Shop Wesley Tibbetts Benj Schreiber Joseph Petrucci Clarence Wardwell and others.
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