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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1920
Page
7
Fragmented OCR text reports price increases in Great Britain touching cigars tobacco and other goods. Mentions potential wage reactions and government action on postal charges and living costs with uncertain details and garbled phrases. Includes references to home secretary and postal rates amid broader market tension.
Melbourne reports explorer David Lindsay, born 1856 in Australia, discovering arable land in northern Australia once labeled desert. He notes shallow water, successful cotton growth, and cotton fields expanding. Lindsay previously found a large auriferous area in Western Australia in 1890, leading to major gold fields.
An old advertisement extols Dr King’s New Discovery as a long trusted remedy for colds flu and coughs. It claims relief for hoarseness coughing and congestion across all ages from infants to grandparents, touting safety and continued high quality with a price of 60 cents and test packages.
An old advertisement promotes Bi s New Life Pills claiming they cure constipation and relieve headaches biliousness and nervousness by cleansing the waste from the body. The ad emphasizes daily use and overall well being.
The funeral of our late Brother and Post Master Henry T. Snyder will be held from the Kirkendall chancel on Thursday morning February 19 at 10 o'clock. Brethren should be present at 9:40. The W. M. requests your presence. POE. NICHOLS, Secretary 2948
Memorials engraved in France have arrived in Ogden for next of kin of soldiers sailors and marines who died in world war. Post 9 of the American Legion presents these keepsakes bearing deceased names and President Poincare’s signature. Families listed include Connell Jesperson Ruby Cobb Cobb Fowera Miller Jones Stallings Johnston Draper Seknalz Ferguson Mongar and others with a number of Ogden youths named as casualties.
In Rome a papal sketch for a Bosphorus monument honoring the pope for wartime charitable work has been approved. Funds were raised by a Constantinople committee and sculptor Quattring will carve the statue and also work on a Cardinal Rampolli monument. In Toledo Ohio Canadians’ money was discounted with large Canadian dime collections reported, and Polivia made the United States a dollar legal tender.
The piece reports Hoover opposing private operation of roads and railways, arguing government control may curb inefficiency and protect public interests. It cites remarks about modernization, the danger of bureaucratic delays, and the need for managed expansion, with references to political figures and a wartime context.
Memorials will be presented by the American Legion on February 22. Chairman J Holther is arranging the program which will be announced during the latter part of the week.
A horse hitched to a debt ran away near Twenty third street on Washington avenue injuring Mrs. W. J. Rommerill and her eight year old daughter. The incident halted traffic briefly as bystanders assisted and ambulance personnel attended to the wounded.
Mrs W J Taylor and her four year old son were thrown from a vehicle in a hogshead crash. Police report the man suffered a fractured right arm and the boy a deep gash over the right eye. The horse bolted onto the sidewalk and rammed the buggy into a pole before Officer Ezra Farr stopped it. The accident occurred at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
DETROIT Feb 13 Reverend Thomas I G Sykes pastor of the Grosse Pointe Protestant church, noted as one of America's wealthiest congregations, resigned stating his salary was not sufficient to provide property for his position.
The family of Dr. Syken, who served as a chaplain with the rat division in France, plans to enter business. The narrative notes his wartime service and hints at a postwar career shift toward entrepreneurship.
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