Landslides Wipe Villages From Face Of Java Island
Java tremors kill about 300 with many missing as landslides wipe native towns in Kedu district. Wonsobo health resort buildings collapse. Pampong river mud channel with bodies. Dessap Badjangan and Leksono district houses vanish. Kalut volcano past eruptions cited for deadly seismic history.
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Batavia
Java
Kedu
Wonscbo
London
Morning Post
Amsterdam
Pampong
Leksono
Dessap Badjangan
Pring
Mageling
Malay Archipelago
Dutch East Indies
Vioent
Sismo
Kalnut
Besches Kalut
Soloms Rebuked by Club Women
Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs reports attack on general assembly criticizing lawmakers for not passing the Sheppard-Towner act and the children’s code commission bill. It praises highway department work and notes a proposed Joel Chandler Harris birthday state holiday. Student aid foundation records show $39,941.25 loaned to 283 girls over 15 years.
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Atlanta
General Assembly of Georgia
Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs
Department of Education
Felton Jones
Rome
State
Children’s Code Commission
State Highway Department
Committee On
Alonzo Richardson
W. H. Griffin
Joel Chandler Harris
Georgia
Student Aid Foundation
Farm relief bill will not be pressed in new Congress
Senator McNary of Oregon announced that the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill will not be pressed for enactment when the next Congress convenes. The statement came from the Oregon senator, one of the bill’s framers, in Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
McNary
Oregon
Official Figures Give the G. O. P. 245 in the House
Washington November 14 Official figures from the 2th Pennsylvania district confirm a Democrat win, altering the House party balance. Final tally shows Republicans 245 Democrats 185 Farmer-Labor 3 Socialists 2. Current House with vacancies filled lists Republicans 2238 Democrats 209 Farmer-Labor 1 Socialist 1 Independent 1.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
House of Representatives
Farmer-Labor
Cotton Census Report Shows October Cotton Use
Washington announces October consumption figures for the cotton trade. CCT reports 582,629 bales of cotton and 55,095 bales of linters used in October, with September totals of 532,629 bales of cotton and 49,976 bales of linters. The 1923 October totals include 543,280 bales of lint cotton and 50,491 bales of winters.
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Associated Press
Washington
Census Bureau
Bomb Explosive Wrecks Grand Rapids Post Office
Federal agents pursue a possible bombing at the Grand Rapids main post office that killed three and injured 13. A threatening letter found in Ensign Harold McDonald’s car bears the words disaster and death, with a man’s picture. investigators seek the suspect. Vos Annatyn, a postal employee, remains in critical condition as12 others recover.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Harold McDonald
United States Naval Reserve Force
Vos Annatyn
Post Office
Hospital Authoriies
Democrats to contest Butler appointment in Senate race
Boston November 14 William M Butler former campaign leader for Coolidge will occupy the Lodge seat but faces possible challenge from the Democratic state organization over the validity of the appointment under a statute change. The Dems seek to strike the 2 year wait for direct senate elections and argue the temporary appointee exceeds constitutional limits.
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Butler
Boston
William M. Butler
Coolidge
Republican Committee
United States
Henry Cabot Lodge
Democratic State Organization
Cox
Charles H. McGlue
Democratic State Committee
Democratic Party
Wealthy New Yorker Weds Cabman Daughter
New Rochelle wedding details reveal Leonard Rhinelander 22 and Alice Beatrice Jones, daughter of a cabman, wed in city hall on October 14. Rhinelander recently inherited 300000 dollars. Family and press dispute the romance via sensational coverage. the couple’s whereabouts are unclear after the ceremony.
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Associated Press
New York
Leonard Kipp Rhinelander
Alice Beatrice, Jones
New Rochelle
Mayer Scott
Rhinelander
Kipp
New Amsterdam
Lie
Jones
Harold Forbes
Lloyd George Denies Clemenceau Duel Challenge
London report states David Lloyd George rejected a claim he was challenged to a duel by Georges Clemenceau at the Paris peace talks. He called the account in Wickham Steed’s memoirs a stupid invention with no basis.
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Clemenceau
London
David Lloyd-George
Georges Clemenceau
The
London Times
Steed
Evening Prayer at Calvary Church Tonight
Evening prayer will be said in Calvary church tonight at 7 30 o'clock.
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Calvary Church
Women of Politics Tie Home Making to Power Wins
Three American women rise to state chief executive roles and one to Congress, balancing public duty with homemaker skills. Miriam Ferguson governs Texas while Nellie Ross becomes Wyoming governor, Mary Norton wins a House seat in New Jersey, and Nellie Cline earns a Congress bid from Kansas. All emphasize home life as a foundation.
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Miriam Amanda
Ma” Ferguson
Texas
Pa” Ferguson
Wyoming
Nellie Taylor Ross
William B. Ross
East
Mississippi
House of Representatives
M. Mary T. Norton
Jersey City
N. J
Thousand Families Homeless After Jersey City Fire Disaster
A massive Jersey City blaze from the Richardson Chemical saltpetre plant and the American Sugar Refining complex left almost a thousand families homeless and scores injured. The four hour fire, aided by explosions and glass, spread to nearby factories and tenement rows, drawing fireboats from New York and extensive ambulance response.
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Jersey City
Richardson Chemical Company
American Sugar Refining Company
Colgate Soap Works
Hudson River
New York
Crippled barber kills four then takes own life in Memphis
In Memphis Tennessee on the night of November 14 Henry Weber a crippled barber shot and killed four people at his home including his wife Bessie Weber and two couples Mr and Mrs E A Shader and Mrs Thomas Alexander then killed himself at his barber shop minutes later He left two notes indicating plans to kill his wife but not naming others authorities say he had been mentally unbalanced after a Sunday quarrel.
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Mempris
Tenn
Henry Weber
Weber
Bessie Weber
A. Sheader
Thomas Alexander
Shader
Webers
Dr Frederick A Cook Seeks Sentence Reversal
In Fort Worth Texas on November 14 attorneys for Dr Frederick A Cook Arctic explorer sentenced to 14 years for mail fraud will face a federal judge to argue for reversal. The case stems from offering for sale by mail certain oil lands. The hearing finishes soon but a decision will take several days to announce.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Texas
Frederick A. Cook
Cook
Gen Walter Harris to get UDC cross at Savannah convention
Mrs. Frank P. Harrod, president general of the United Daughters of Confederacy, announces that General Walter Harris of Macon has been chosen as one of two World War heroes to receive crosses of service at the Savannah convention next week. General Frank Parker of South Carolina is the other recipient for special service to the country.
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Frank P. Harrod
United Daughters of Confederacy
Walter Harris
Macon
Savannah
Frank Parker
South Carolina
Leesburg to Sumter line gravel road project announced
The State Highway Department will gravel a 14 mile section on the Dixie Highway from Leesburg to the Sumter county line. Estimated cost is 70000 dollars, funded half by the federal government and half by the state and county. Work begins next week while traffic flow remains uninterrupted.
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State Highway Department
Cobb Milner
Leesburg
Sumter County
Dixie Highway
Highway Department
Mr. Milner
Americus
Albany
Alleged Kluxers Guilty in Petty Larceny Case
In Burlington Vermont on November 14 a jury found William McCreedy and Gordon Wells guilty of petty larceny. The defendants, alleged Ku Klux Klan probations, were accused of stealing vestments and other articles from St. Mary's Cathedral on August 8.
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Associated Press
Burlington, Vt
William McCreedy
Gordon Wells
St. Mary's Cathedral
Old-fashioned girls and a horse theft arrest in Arizona
A report notes a group of old-fashioned girls with one member arrested in Arizona for stealing a horse. The incident highlights rural crime dynamics and law enforcement handling of livestock theft in the region. Leaders and community responses are mentioned in passing.
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Arizona
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Cabman
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Crousseau
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Marian Hale
NEA
Petre
DR. Cook
Arctic Explorer
U. D. C. Cross
Lee County
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