McAdoo urges soldiers to maintain government life insurance
Former Treasury Secretary McAdoo issues a call to officers and men to keep paying premiums for U S Government life insurance. He says about four million service members are insured with a grand total near thirty seven billion dollars and warns that lapse would bar reentry. Government policies offer ordinary life, twenty percent term and endowment plans at government rates through the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to protect families in peacetime.
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Demobilization of American Army Advances Faster Than Britain
Washington reports that demobilization of the American army proceeds at more than twice the rate of Britain. By January 10, 693,889 soldiers discharged in the United States, 47,028 officers back to civilian life, and eleven divisions remain in occupation roles in Germany and France with several divisions skeletonized for home convoys or replacements.
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Legislature Opens With Endorsement of Constitutional Convention
The Thirty-Sixth Texas Legislature convenes with nearly all members backing a constitutional convention, per Senator McNealus of Dallas. Other top agenda items include changing homestead laws issuing bonds for irrigation and roads, and women related legal reforms. A veteran carpenter recently returned from service in the Army Veterinary Corps reports travel from France.
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Market Talks at Agricultural Meeting
S F Harrill and Mr Mark discuss market factors at a Wof Agriculture meeting with farmers. The conversation covers questions about farming economics and the role of the Ey A. & M College in market analysis and education.
Vernon to hosts cotton marketing office discussion
Local Vernon officials plan a public talk with business leaders and farmers about establishing a cotton marketing office. The event, coordinated by the Bureau and the State Department, aims to improve price realization for Vernon cotton by aiding classing and reducing foreign buyer discrimination.
Nine States Ratify Dry Amendment This Week
Washington reports nine states ratified the nationwide dry amendment, bringing total to twenty four with more expected. States listed include Arkansas Colorado Idaho West Virginia Maine Michigan Ohio Oklahoma and Tennessee with California and Michigan also approving. Anticipation grows for final ratification as discussions and potential penalties proceed amid mounting state actions.
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Devil's Auction at Central Christian Church
A Sunday night event titled The Devil's Auction drew parishioners at Central Christian Church. The informal gathering featured sketches and readings intended as a cautionary tale about temptation, with attendees asked to reflect on moral choices.
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Theat Pictorium Film Lineup and Local Reactions
The theater presents a program including Hawtrey Burke in a spy melodrama about British wartime work and Allied secrecy, Madge Kennedy in A Perfect Lady where Lucille Le Jambon faces moral committee resistance, and a Japanese Nightingale tale. Mary Miles Minter stars in Rosemary Climbs the Heights as a country girl in New York intrigue. George Barr McCutcheon’s Green Fancy is adapted as The Mystery Girl with Ethel Clayton as a princess-turned-soldier era tale.
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Mary Miles Minter
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George Barre McCeteleons
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California Syrup of Figs advertised as child laxative
A deprecated 24 tf advertisement explains that California Syrup of Figs cleanses a child’s stomach liver and bowels and may reveal illness by tongue coating. It urges mothers to use the fruit laxative when a child is irritable feverish or has stomach issues and warns against counterfeit products.
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California Pig Syrup Company
Tis Bombed Wife and a City Romance
Thursday Metro presents a melodrama set in New York society about Doris daughter of a copper king who flees fortune seekers to Athletic City under an assumed name. She falls for a clever architect who learns her true identity and initially refuses marriage but they are eventually happily wed as her craving for wealth causes tension.
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World spanning wireless link reported by Carnarvon station
On October 1, 1918 the Marconi wireless station at Carnarvon Wales established direct contact with Sydney Australia, a 12 000 mile link. The feat is described as the first complete radio message encircling the earth in every direction with signals entering from all compass points.
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Wireless range grows as receivers grow more sensitive
The article argues that a lack of atmosphere would make radio transmission extremely efficient, yet the real gains come from modern receivers. Electronic valves with six stage amplifiers boost signals over one million times, allowing less sending power as sensitivity improves. Future advances may send world spanning messages with minimal power. Dallas News.
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