Indiana Governor Goodrich Sees Progress and Plans Next Four Years
Indiana Governor James P. Goodrich reviews four years of state progress in his final message to the General Assembly. He urges regular appropriations, balanced budgets, and avoidance of deficits while outlining capital programs for hospitals, reformatories, and mental health needs. He calls for tax and fee adjustments, consolidation of state agencies, and a streamlined government structure.
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Indianapolis
Indiana General Assembly
James BP. Godrich
Goodrich
Indiana
Board of Veterinary Examiners
Department of Conservation
Department of Banking and Insurance
Livestock Sanitary Commission
Highway Commission
Coal Commission
General Assembly
Public Service Commission
Sporting Life humor at a quiet bookshop exchange
A brief humorous exchange shows a customer asking for a Sporting Life and a clerk replying the shop isn’t very stocked, highlighting a quiet, light moment in a bookstore.
Political Echoes of the Past Hint at Rural Roots
A quotation contrasts oldtime candidates living near the soil and log cabins with modern ones belonging to country clubs, suggesting evolving image and credentials in political life. The exchange emphasizes rural origins versus elite associations in candidacy.
So They Say and Soap as Good Deeds
A string of aphorisms notes political risk in public life and links soap use to virtue. It contrasts old myths with modern education for women and hints at social ideals.
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Bacchus
Mount Olympus
Sinn Fein
Ballykinler
County Down
Maud Younger Reaches Washington After 3500 Mile Solo Trip
Former San Francisco society girl Maud Younger arrives in Washington as legislation chair of the National Woman's party after a long 3500 mile journey from the Pacific coast. A dog named Sandy accompanies her on the cross country trek.
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Maud Younger
San Francisco
National Woman’s Party
Washington
Pacific Coast
Sandy
Miss Younger
Behrin Sets New World Shorthand Speed Record
Nathan Behrin, official reporter of the New York County Supreme Court, established a new world speed record by taking 279 words a minute at a contest of the New York State Shorthand Reporters' Association, surpassing his prior 278 wpm mark set in 1913.
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Nathan Behrin
Supreme Court of
New York County
Behrin
New York State
Preservation of National Parks Against Commercial Water Power
Secretary Payne argues parks and monuments must be preserved from commercialization. He cites a proposed six foot dam at Yellowstone Lake mouth as a warning that any park water development sets a dangerous precedent. He warns larger dams would follow, threatening timber hot springs and scenery.
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Ashington
Payne
Interior Department
Congress
West
Yellowstone Lake
Yellowstone National Park
Montana
Cost of War and Peace Expenditures Detail Report
Secretary Houston fixes the war cost at 24.01 billion dollars as the adjusted expenditure for the period from April 6, 1917 to June 30. A Senate-transmitted special message lists the peace commission's expenses totaling 1.65 million dollars from December 1, 1918 to December 4, 1920 with actual outlays of 1.70 million and exchanges reducing by 52 thousand. Major items include travel and subsistence, salaries, hotel costs at the Crillon, rents, food, and missions to Russia Germany and other regions. EK M House Henry White received 1000 dollars monthly. Robert Lansing and Gen Tasker Bliss had expenses paid. Returns include small refunds for Rome and other expenses, and confidential expenses credited to Doctor Grayson.
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Houston
Treasury
American Peace Commission
Senate
Wilson
Hotel Crillon
Russia
Germany
Posen
Turkey
Holland
Armenia
EK. M. House
Henry White
Robert Lansing
Gen. Tasker H. Bliss
Rome
E. M. House
Lansing
Grayson
Prohibition Policy Debated At House Ways and Means
The House Ways and Means Committee reviewed enforcement options for the Volstead Act. Prohibition advocates urged a $500 a gallon tax on whisky and stock medicating while Commissioner Kramer proposed concentrating liquor in Kentucky warehouses guarded to deter illegal withdrawals. Fordney floated selling stock to buyers as a possible, controversial end to the issue. Tilson opposed extraordinary enforcement efforts in resistant communities.
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United States
House
Ways and Means
Joseph R. Fordney
Michigan
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Prohibition
John F. Kramer
Kentucky
Fordney
Bureau
Kramer
Tilson
Connecticut
Uncle Sam on Air Power and New Aircraft Plans
The War Department may call for bids on 300 airplanes built from army aviation designs with about 6 million dollars to be spent. Congress faces pressure to cut military costs while naval aeronautics progress and leadership changes are discussed. Experts say the United States lags behind Europe in aviation readiness and equipment.
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Uncle Sam
War Department
Army Aviation — Section
Air Service
Congress
Military Affairs Committee
House Military Committee
Bureau of Naval Aeronautics
Navy Department
William A. Moffett
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Tennessee
United States
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Highway Department
Supreme Court
Purdue University
Indiana University
Central Hospital For
Newcastle
Butlerville
Long Hospital
State Bank Department
State Oil Department
Indiana State Normal School
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Tax Board
Ralston
State Farm
State Reformatory
Tax Law
State Highway Department
Hospitals For
Committee On
Commission On Child Welfare and Social Insurance
Middle West
Lafayette
Marion
University Park
Blind Asylum
Division of Mines and Mining
Govrnmental
Sinn
Canada
Banff
Outdoor Relief
County Charities of
Los Angeles
School of Shoemaking For Women
Lichtenberg
Morton Gould
Richmond Hill
New York
Morton
James Gould
Sam
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