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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1920
Page
2
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The author warns that gambling has grown in the country and shifted from wrestling boxing horse racing to baseball. Legislation and publicity exposed other sports, but gamblers now target baseball, confident public suspicion will be slow. The piece calls for investigation, punishment, and breaking up betting rings to end the menace.
Washington Oct 1. The Soviet government sets a cap of one pair of shoes and one suit of clothes per person. The limit aims to ration essentials amid shortages and is part of a broader distribution policy across the country.
Fragmentary report describes coordination with state channels for new army supplies, night searches of officers dwellings, confiscation of surplus clothes and food, and tension between officers families and civilian servings. Claims about Russian recruits and vehicle shortages appear distorted and incomplete.
In Houston tonight more than 8 000 attendees attend the 39th annual reunion of the Nile Confederate Veterans. Veterans, though aged and frail, show enduring spirit as they relive Civil War memories, their marches and tunes like Dixie echoing on the streets. Many rely on younger relatives for help while their strength wanes.
A string of visitors from Bell, Kimberly, Hansen, Buhl, Wana, and Oakley visited Twin Falls and nearby districts on Wednesday afternoon for business and social calls. Notables included Mr and Mrs Wolfares, Mr and Mrs J F Winckley, Henry Seavers, James Barns, Mrs Grace Slick, Mrs Annie Toby, and Jay Pack who planned a future trip. Local residents hosted and shopped in the downtown district.
Toronto October 6 This Speaker manager of the Cleveland American league club known as the Indians will be made a real Indian chief of the Mississauga tribe during his annual hunting trip to the Kawartha lakes district. The Mississauge Indians near Peterboro are following the series closely and today started plans to make Speaker a homerary chief of the tribe.
Polish foreign minister Sipleha rushes from Warsaw to Riga for armistice signing between Poland and Bolsheviks. Expected arrival Thursday or Friday. Talks center on Poland gold restitution and boundary settlement amid terms similar to Riga declaration.
San Francisco reports score details with teams and players from Portland Oakland and Seattle. The item lists batteries and players including Gardner Sweeney Baldwin Brown Thomas and Wallace among others, indicating a midseason game recap in a noisy OCR fragment.
Ceremonies mark the opening of the Danish Rigstag in Copenhagen with Schlosswie representatives attending for the first time since 1864. King and queen lead divine services and host a royal dinner for Rigstag members and the diplomatic corps before a Royal theater performance. The king hails victory powers for undoing 1894 wrongs and notes Denmark's good international relations and inter-Scandinavian cooperation.
The fifth session of the executive committee of the International Labour Bureau opened today in Geneva with 22 government representatives, six delegates of workers, and six of employers. Topics include adding German as an official language, and a budget of 26,000 pounds. Debate focused on ratifying conventions from Washington and Germany’s eight hour day hoped soon.
The Confederate Veterans opened its annual reunion in Houston Texas with two sessions led by Governor W P Hobby Mayor Amercan and Texas Veterans representatives. They welcomed attendees from affiliated groups as officers voting to follow.
Federal justice department announced that a Russian gold shipment received last week was imported for an entirely proper commercial purpose. The gold, valued at about 339,686 dollars, came from Reval Estonia to a commercial agent of the Estonian government with knowledge and consent of American officials.
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