24 Feb 1921
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1921
Page
1
A social warfare between Senate and House women arises as Senate wives organize formal receptions by seniority groups. The planned use of the Senate office building as a grand setting could spark House objections, given the housing of such ceremonies under the Senate roof.
Farm crop values for 1920 show Texas at the top with 727.4 million dollars, followed by Iowa 459.191 million and Illinois 459.179 million. California rises to fourth, New York fifth, North Carolina drops to sixth, Pennsylvania advances to seventh, Kansas eighth, Ohio ninth, Wisconsin tenth, Missouri eleventh, and Georgia twelfth with 328.29 million. Other states listed by rank and value.
The Congressional Record quotes Senator Norris describing a mysterious insider labeled with a diamond-shaped mark. The unnamed figure supplied Packers with early information on legislation in Washington and was noted as highly influential and well compensated.
Debates note 11 nominations for major general led by James W. McAndrew Henry T. Allen and other corps commanders in France. 22 brigadier generals named. 5 534 pending appointments from colonel to second lieutenant for the emergency army selected under Pershing chairmanship per the 1926 army reorganization act.
Seidinger, a French master baker and amateur athletic figure, lifts 2400 pounds of flour sacks in a strength test. Seven men add their weight to the load as part of the demonstration in his town, shown in the photograph.
Arthur Appleyard of Newton Upper Falls Massachusetts presented a five weeks old deer from Costa Rica to the Boston zoo.
A humorous exchange in a Birmingham Age-Herald item shows a chair failing to act as the session stalls. One member objects to a motion and the chair replies with a soft defense about meditating, prompting wry commentary on decorum and attentiveness.
Chester Tucker of Kansas City learns on his deathbed foster mother Aunt Milly, who had cared for him since infancy, was his real mother Mrs Brooks of Enid Oklahoma. After years apart they meet in Enid and are united following his return from military service and his foster mother's illness.
Indiana university leads with 127700 volumes followed by Notre Dame 108000 and others in a state tabulation. Seymour directors adopt resolutions urging state highway funds from federal aid, keeping auto license funds with the highway commission.
A Panama case described by Drs. Watson and Desnoes in the Journal of the American Medical Association details a 29 year old woman who had a gauze sponge sewn into her abdomen at age 15. It remained asymptomatic for fourteen years before abdominal surgery removed it and restored health.
A convention of farmers' institutes in Victoria endorses importing war tanks from England and France to clear land in British Columbia. Delegates empower members to present the scheme to the government and back a wholesale house modeled on California systems.
Chicago woman hides name to seek help locating her admirer initials M J who met her at a cinema. He fixed a torn French heel then vanished after proposing via thought waves, according to her account sourced from newspapers.
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