31 Jul 1919
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1919
Page
1
The ordnance bureau of the War Department offers 18 million yards of cartridge bag silk as a novelty for ladies dresses. The fabric, made for cartridge bags and valued at two to three dollars per yard, is demonstrated by a dress made for Colt E. Garrison’s secretary to prove suitability for dress use.
In Venice the Women’s club gathered with talk on spring attire and whether present costumes are underdone. A member quips about underwater visibility amid submarines, sparking discussion on censorship of suits.
Martha recalls a circus parade at dinner describing a giant hippopotamus, many leopards, elephants, and white men as children play crack the whip, in a vivid family memory with father’s questions clarifying her fancy.
January notes survey farming methods with Australia in wheat harvest season. Northern Indian labor uses flocks of sheep as beasts of burden carrying twenty pound loads in rural work.
The United Kingdom reports brick production at 40,000,000 per week. The Co-operative Wholesale Society of Manchester has decided its 30,000 employees should join trade unions.
Discussion notes a potential Supreme Court role if the Senate does not ratify the League of Nations treaty. It posits that a ratified covenant would require Congress to fund a Geneva secretariat, prompting taxpayers to sue over constitutional compliance. Hannis Taylor is named among those prepared to file such a test action.
Observation of snow tinted yellow in Madison Wisconsin and dusty reddish snow in Florence New Hampshire, with similar reports to Vermont and New Hampshire, traces a fine dust carried from the Southwest. Government scientists confirm dust from Arizona New Mexico and Kansas traveled hundreds to thousands of miles, tied to large air movements and preceding Southwest sandstorms.
Washington plans to remove more than 15 000 alley dwellers after peace with Germany. Congress to appropriate six million dollars to build 3 000 sanitary homes. Evacuation date extended from July 1 1918 due to wartime congestion. Officials say alleys will be repurposed for garages stables and warehouses while improving health morals and city beauty.
The Bureau of Education urges young Americans to study Russian language geography and trade to seize Russia as a vast future opportunity. Russia’s chaos is temporary and its 180 million people need railroads factories and Western traders and capital.
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