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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1920
Page
4
All 271 passengers from the disabled army transport Powhatan have been moved to the Northern Pacific and are en route to New York. Wireless messages confirm the transfer occurred late today under good weather, with no accidents.
A passenger liner Powhatan was trapped four days in a storm with no heat or light after a fire room flood. Rescue efforts by vessels from Canadian and American ports failed to reach the ship as lines snapped under heavy seas. Finally passengers are freed, among them Colonels Dunn, Worden, and nurses Edith Gardner and Dorothy Dunn.
Mrs. John H. White returned home after a three weeks visit with relatives and friends in Humphry Nebraska. She will make her home at the Rex Aring.
Mike Donlin and Chick Fraser, legends of old baseball, spent a relaxing Twin Falls afternoon with publisher H. Stevenson. They recalled era highlights, discussed the game, and shared stories at the Elks club, with Donlin showing a crushed finger from a Cincinnati game as Fraser watched.
Washington report states Homer S. Cummins chairman of the Democratic National Committee defended his attendance at an Edwards for president dinner in Newark. He said Bryan's Norfolk Richmond addresses misrepresented him and stressed his impartial neutrality toward presidential candidates.
In Greenville on January 22 William J. Bryan criticized Homen Cummings, chairman of the Democratic committee, for his impartial stance on candidacy and nomination, asserting concerns over neutrality in the process.
Soreness and aching joints are addressed by St Jacobs Liniment described as quick acting and safe for skin. The ad claims instant relief by rubbing a small amount into affected areas including head neck shoulders back legs arms fingers or any part of the body and promotes a trial bottle from drug stores.
Dispatches picked up in London claim Marshal Foch would travel to Warsaw within two weeks and forecast a possible Polish attack on Bolshevik Russia. The French foreign office denies the reports and Marshall Foch says he knows nothing about them.
Fragmentary notes indicate a discussion of sugar beets, pricing, and consumption trends. Mr Wilson cites Seaboard prices and a Falls tract, with references to growth maturity of bees and surrounding states.
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