Prohibition Will Be Enforced Says Prohibition Sermon
A Leslie's Weekly investigator claims bootlegging in the Detroit river area is a highly organized, rampant traffic with trucks boats and warehouses. He notes widespread home stills, rising arrests for drunkenness, and twenty million quarts of whiskey entering via Canada. The author argues the public will support law enforcement and the outlaw bootleggers will face inevitable downfall as the nation remains dry.
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Leslie’s Weekly
Detroit River
Middle West
Canada
Leslie
New York
Chicago
St Louis
Cincinnati
San Francisco
United States
Philadelphia
Detroit
Picking a Cabinet for the President-Elect
The nation reviews Harding's likely cabinet as the president elect prepares to form his administration. The piece stresses fitness over political service, endorsing party sponsorship and a cabinet of high capacity with the vice president's involvement contemplated in the republic’s governance.
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Harding
Republic
Republicans Consider Cabinet Choices For Key Posts
Senate names potential picks for secretary of state secretary of the treasury and head of interior among others praising figures like Knox Lodge Lowden Hoover Hays Wood Sutherland Weeks Exch with public sentiment still forming on agriculture and labor chiefs as capable to meet duties.
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Knox
Pennsylvania
Lodge
Massachusetts
Lowden
Ilinois
Treasury Department
Herbert Hoover
Buties
War Department
Leonard Wood
George Sutherland
Utah
West
Helping Idaho Youth To An Education
The federated women's clubs of Idaho raised a fund to advance up to 150 for students at the University of Idaho to finish their final year, repayable after securing employment. They favor state funding to cover railroad fares for distant students to Moscow Lewiston Albion and Pocatello schools, but propose repayment and tied completion of study.
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Federated Women's Clubs
Idaho
Moscow
Lewiston
Albion
Technical
Pocatello
South Idaho
Gold standard and gold reserve in finance debate
The article discusses the gold standard as a government promise to redeem money in gold, the need for a large gold reserve to maintain confidence, and the conflict with bankers who oppose legislation to boost gold production amid limited supply and falling output. It notes proposed legislation to encourage gold production and the bankers' association opposition.
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Bankers’ Association
Soviets Target Southern Negroes for Revolution Propaganda
The piece reports John Reed’s influence and a planned Soviet propaganda push aimed at U.S. blacks in the South to advance revolution. It argues such emissaries will be detected or rejected, noting African Americans’ wartime loyalty and warning of harsh consequences for sedition.
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John Reed
Russia
South
Reed
Lenine
Trotsky
America
Eel
Willy
Attitude of Banks on Increased Gold Production
The Engineering and Mining Journal criticizes bankers for refusing to pay out gold while opposing laws to raise gold production. It cites Commercial Trust of New York refusing a ten dollar gold piece and Corn Exchange Bank granting a twenty dollar piece, questioning banks on reserves versus public access to gold and currency value. The piece argues banks should support higher production if reserves matter.
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Commercial Trust Company
New York City
Corn Exchange Bank
Early Proprietary Drugs in History
Atlantic Monthly recalls how cures for old plagues filled public print space with claims of genuine medicines like James' fever powders. The piece notes apothecaries and surgeons overadvertised remedies, from Dover's powder to strange mixtures such as syrup of snails and a broth of spiders ground with opium, reflecting harsh ancestral constitutions.
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Atlantic Monthly
James
Oliver Goldsmith
Horace Walpole
Dover
It Might Have Been Poem Commentary
The piece argues against surrender to fate and champions self effort and achievement. It asserts that people shape their paths and should not lament missed chances. The speaker calls for perseverance, rejecting phrases that lament what could have happened.
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Tle
Admiral Benson Responds to Shipping Board Revelations
Admiral Benson assures fellow countrymen that no wrongdoer connected with the shipping board will escape punishment if brought to his attention. The Walsh committee hearings reveal extensive corruption, with inflated costs, duplicate bills, and mismanaged contracts, prompting public demand for accountability.
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Harvey
Admiral Benson
Charleston
Shipping Board
Fisher
Richardson
Fisher-Richardson
Abner B. Clements
Savannah
White House
Norfolk
Division Shipping Board
United States
Aamtral Benson
Benson
DANGER FROM GAS IN CALAVERAS MINE ACCIDENT
A mine fire at Calaveras Copper in Copperopolis Cal led to gas buildup after fires in the Union shaft area. An ex soldier with an army gas mask failed to reach the 1200 level of the Discovery shaft and two rescuers fell ill from gas. The piece warns masks are useless against carbon monoxide and urges use of oxygen apparatus by trained personnel.
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Engineering and Mining Journal
Calaveras Copper Company
Copperopolis
Cal
Union Shaft
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Wallace
Wallace Printing Company
Es! Elks Temple Building
Bank Street
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J. Dunn
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