Fire Destroys Havana Importing Company Building
A three story brick structure housing the Havana Importing Company cigar manufacturers burned for an undetermined origin. Loss estimated at 150000 dollars.
06 Jan 1921
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1921
Page
1
A three story brick structure housing the Havana Importing Company cigar manufacturers burned for an undetermined origin. Loss estimated at 150000 dollars.
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Excavations by the British School of Archaeology at the House of Atreus in Mycenae Greece reveal a bath later used as a coffin. The find is linked to the legendary murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and her lover upon his return from Troy.
A bill S.4554 seeks to amend a 1920 act creating a federal power commission and to regulate water power in national parks. Senator Jones of Washington introduced it, pledging action after the recent water power act. Secretary Payne protests, warning park permits should require congressional action. Women activists protest, with memorials and petitions from Rhode Island to California.
Senator Knox introduces a 10 member special committee to study reorganization and creation of public works and public welfare departments. Senator Jones promotes a joint five five committee to investigate all departments and report by December 1923. The Knox plan would restructure the Interior department as public works.
Representatives from eleven national organizations join a congressional committee in Washington to push passage of measures including the Sheppard-Towner bill for maternity and infant protection. Notable members include Ethel Smith, Lida Hafford, Maud Wood Park, and Jeanette Rankin, with large organizational backing and a flood of petitions signaling broad support.
South Dakota lawmakers urge Congress to reimburse landowners flooded by government artesian wells at Lake Andes. The resolution asks federal funds to compensate owners rather than drain or lower the lake, preserving its beauty and public enjoyment while noting ongoing landowner lawsuits seeking drainage aid.
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