Prohibition debate by General Butler in 1920s echoes today
A historical note reviews General Smedley Butler’s views on prohibition. Butler argues temperance is essential for economic health and social order, citing experiences in Philadelphia and Shanghai. He criticizes both wets and drys and urges active enforcement and voter action to sustain prohibition.
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Iras Butler
Prohibition
Smedley Butler
Philadelphia
Prohibition Enforcement
General Butler
Daily Word Lesson On Apportion And Pronunciation
A compact note explains misuses and mispronunciations with emphasis on accuracy. It introduces today's vocabulary word Apportion meaning to assign in proper proportion and allot. An example shows how to use it in context.
League of Nations calendar reform chosen for final vote
Geneva reports the League of Nations conference selecting two calendar reforms from over 200 proposals the standed quarter and the 28 day month day plan aim to create a thirteen months year with twenty six days and a general holiday at year end. Chicago notes a plan by the National Furniture Manufacturers Association to shorten working hours to reduce unemployment and share hours with unemployed workers. Oklahoma City records a fatal explosion at a city field edge, killing Cap D. Paine and injuring others. Charles Bia ster Empire Gas & Refining employee identified.
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Geneva
League of Nations
International Conference On Transit and Communications
1 World
Chicago
National Furniture Manufacture Association
All Is
Isadore Teitelbaum
New York
Ty Furniture Retailer
Teitelbaum
Furniture Industry
Oklahoma City
the City Field
D. Paine
Alltary
Charles Biaster
Empire Gas & Refining Company
Festival Tug of War Recalled In Park Silly Fragments
Fragmented text recalls a park tug of war in the Southeast corner watched by a lone lady who quips about knives. The page mixes stray remarks on Freckles, jobs, critics, weathered anecdotes, and society notes with jumbled captions and jokes.
Turbulent Times and Oddities From Early News
A jumble of brief items reports fashion notes from Medway and Westphal, motion picture relief efforts in New York, a Forest City shooting, a Civil War pension honeymoon, a Boston revival decline, a Chicago bomb scare incident, a Wichita death from indigestion linked to a nail, and assorted local color from Oct 13.
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New York
United States
Owen D. Young Hhateman
Hoover
Forest City
Iowa
C.D. Montgomery
Vermillion
Kans
Des
John Potter
Potter
Indiana
Mlinois
Conv
Wichita
kKds
Clyde Smalley
Cornelle Bluffs
Towa
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Publishers News
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Washington
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Devine-Tenney Corporation
Des Moines
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John Oxenham
Demon Raven
Marine Corps
China
Shanghai
Marine Barracks
Quantico
Virginia
Mquor
Butler
Wets
Drgs
Old
Dall
Heo
Bear Institution
Rustin
Crawfordsville
J. 1
Crailty
Hnwavons
Mary
Westphal
Westphal Donesty Store
Anal Stone
Medway
Boston
Almes
Semple McPherson Hutton
Esas Aseer
Komps
Tin Mesener
San
Hup
Fel
Mesener
Charlotte Chao
Smalley
Cannonball
Racine Work
Leskin
Maydy
Mane
Tom
Winter Union
Hi Rock
Klein Klothing KO
Herman’ Funeral Home
West Main Street
Joe Palooka
Ham Fisher
Soner
TZ Mat
Boone
Boy
Wanertz
Eer
Klein
Yas’ Ato and
Fantier
Clothcraft and
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Hart Schafner & Marx
Hart Schaffner & Mary
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