Agricultural bloc under fire sparks debate in Congress
Washington scene centers on farmers aid push as administration and party leaders clash with the agricultural bloc. Kenyon, Hale and others defend the bloc, warning of potential GOP losses and the rise of a third party appealing to farmers and labor. The debate signals tension over how to treat agriculture beside manufacturing and finance.
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Harry Hunt
Washington
Congress
New England
Lodge-Hale-Frelinghay
Dupont
Kenyon-Norris-Capper
Agriculture
Federal Reserve Board
Kenyon
Hale
Frelinghuysen
Republican Party
Farmers in Corn Belt Question Dollar Value of Labor
A speaker at the national agricultural conference laments that corn belt farmers and their families earned less than five cents an hour last year. He notes farmers now pay many bushels of corn for basic goods, urging a shift from dollar figures to commodity measures to grasp real value.
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National Agricultural Conference
Crowds flock to revived melodrama Pen Nights in a Bar-Room
Spectators flock to the revived old-time melodrama Pen Nights in a Bar-Room with some preferring Ten Bar-Rooms in a Night. The film’s historical value is highlighted as a ghost from the past drawing an awed public like Chinatown opium den relics. The saloon fades into history joining the hop joint.
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Chinatown
Women Wear Trousers At Boston Chamber Dance
About 140 women wore feminine trousers at a formal dance by the Boston Chamber of Commerce in North Conway New Hampshire. The piece notes knickers gaining eastern popularity for outdoor sports and observes this may be the first ballroom approval. It muses on future fashion shifts away from dresses, recalling historical men in long dresses and powdered wigs.
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Boston Chamber of Commerce
North Conway
N. H
Amundsen Prepares Polar Flight With Film and Wireless
Roald Amundsen plans a North Pole voyage using two airplanes to shoot moving pictures from around the world and stay in contact with family via wireless telephone. The piece notes polar exploration once romantic, but mechanized travel may soon strip it of thrill, like a trip to a cellar.
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Amundsen
South Pole
North Pole
Census paradox shows foreign-born residents without wives
The census reports 21,84,266 married males and 21,318,933 married females 15 years plus in America. Subtracting suggests many women would have two husbands. The explanation is that about half a million foreign-born residents have not brought their wives from the old country, creating the apparent discrepancy.
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America
Gender balance debate and future of sex selection
The article notes a national male female surplus among all ages and a larger male deficit among those 15 and over. It cites Prof Julian Huxley predicting future sex selection by science, but argues nature’s laws cap such control and that men and women serve distinct biological roles.
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Julian 8. Huxley
Professor McKinstry Attends Southern Photographers Meeting
Professor G P McKinstry has traveled to Atlanta to participate in the Southeastern Photographers association gathering lasting three days.
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G. P. McKinstry
Atlanta
Southeastern Photographers Association
Georgia River Islands In Boundary Dispute
The Supreme Court settles the Savannah river boundary between Georgia and South Carolina. It rules that with no islands the line is midway at normal stage, and with islands the line is midway between the island and the South Carolina shore. The river islands are awarded to Georgia.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Georgia
South Carolina
Savannah River
Muscle Shoals Contract Moves Toward Congress
Secretary of War Weeks will discuss Henry Ford's Muscle Shoals plan with President Harding before sending the contract to Congress. The contract, likely due to be submitted midweek, includes two key changes: a presidential commission to oversee compliance and a check on eight percent contractor profits, ensuring fertilizer production targets are met.
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Washington
War Weeks
Henry Ford
Muscle Shoals
Harding
Congress
War Department
Weeks
Henry
Ford
W. J. Harris
Georgia
British evacuation of Ireland accelerates amid Dublin exodus
Dublin reports rapid British evacuation of Ireland with daily troop departures from Dublin and other ports. Transition between governments proceeds quickly while criminal elements exploit confusion. authorities pledge vigorous action after a spate of crimes.
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Ireland
Dublin
Associated Press
Final plans begun for electing pope
Rome January 30 Final preparations were begun today for the convening Thursday of the solemn conclave at which the cardinals will choose a pope. Last minute ceremonials will be preceded by three solemn requiem masses, the first of which took place this morning with cardinals participating.
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Rome
Associated Press
Markets Am ersus Spot Cotton
Good middling harvest price noted at 15 3 4 cents per pound in Americus market report.
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Americus
Adjudication urged to settle railroad labor disputes
New York Jan 20 Ben W Hooper a US Railroad Labor Board member told the Civic Federation that the only practical just method to settle railroad labor controversies is adjudication by a competent tribunal with enforceable penalties. He outlined five propositions stressing public welfare uninterrupted transport and a duty to provide remedies other than strikes to protect the public from railway disruption.
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New York
Ben W. Hooper
United States Railroad Labor Board
Civic Federation
Hooper
Washington
Salvation Army skirts set to seven inches above street level
Chicago January 30 Salvation Army Commissioner William Peart ordered lassies skirts must not be more than seven inches above the street. He said shorter dresses risk germs and modesty, urging a back to normalcy drive to protect morals. The rule will apply to members in 77 countries and colonies, with possible exceptions for China and Japan where trousers are common.
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Chicago
Salvation Army
William Peart
Midwest
Peart
China
Japan
Shackleton Dies Aboard Quest During Antarctic Expedition
Sir Ernest Shackleton, the British explorer, died January 5 on the steamship Quest off the Grivicken stations while preparing a new Antarctic expedition. His body was brought to Montevideo aboard a Norwegian steamer and will be sent to Europe. Prof Gravel and the expedition party will continue the mission.
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Ernest Shackelton
Montevideo
Uruguay
Sir Ernest Shackelton
Quest
Antarctic
Gritvicken
Europe
Prof
Gravel
Enforceable law could stabilize railroad labor conditions
The piece argues courts and tribunals falter under incendiary rhetoric from labor demagogues. It says the Railroad Labor Board would promptly enforce rulings if empowered by Congress, benefiting employees and their families by stabilizing labor conditions and reducing hardship.
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Congress
United States
Railroad Labor Board
Mitchell Buys Wheatley Building in City Block Purchase
W. E. Mitchell completed a cash deal for the Thornton Wheatley block at the southwest corner of Forsyth Street and Windsor Avenue. He bought from Mrs. R. E. Cato and Mrs. Ada B. Hudson in equal shares for 25000. The three story building hosts stores on the ground floor, offices on the second, and a lodge hall on the top. This is the largest business property deal in months.
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W. E. Mitchell
Thornton Wheatley
Forsyth Street
Windsor Avenue
R. E. Cato
Ada B. Hudson
Windsor Hotel
Mitchell
Farmer learns of Chateau Thierry in odd wartime tale
New York farmer Henry Hustenden from Manorville four years behind the times discovers the world war via his German wife reading a stack of papers. He eagerly awaits each event, from sinking of the Lusitania to armistice reports, while neighbors anticipate a celebratory outburst in spring.
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New York
Times
Henry Hustenden
Manorville
L. L
Chateau Thierry
Hustenden
Lusitania
American Legion
Dressmakers Strike Over 25 Percent Wage Cut in New York
About six thousand women and girls in lower Fifth Avenue shops joined a strike by the Ladies Waist and Dressmakers Union. The wage cut of twenty five percent prompted the action. Union leaders said the remaining up to forty thousand affected would be called out tomorrow and Wednesday.
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New York
Lower Fifth Avenue
Ladies Waist and Dressmakers Union
Knickerbocker theater collapse toll rises to 108 dead
Washington mourns as 108 die and 132 injured after the Knickerbocker theater roof failed under heavy snow. Rescue crews, led by Brigadier General Bandholtz, continue sifting wreckage with officials cautioning it may take 24 hours to confirm additional victims.
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Washington
Associated Press
Knickerbocker Picture Theater
Bandholtz
Mary Forsyth
Edward H. Shaunessy
Chance
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