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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1923
Page
2
The author mocks peaceful cricket culture and favors loud American baseball fans. A vivid contrast is drawn between British etiquette at Victoria’s cricket games and an eager, ear-splitting American yell demanding umpire upheaval.
Brown, now wealthy, married Miss Thompson after his first wife died years earlier. He sought to study unemployed men by becoming a tramp and later planned to use his fortune to aid them. He authored books on unemployment including Broke and The Man Without 4 Dime. The couple will reside in Denver.
Three Milwaukee Coke and Gas Company workers Frank Spencer Walter Goodwin and Kurt Martin were burned to death when a benzol storage explosion ignited a blaze at Greenfield Avenue plant. The fire razed the benzol unit and spread to paint shops as flames were fanned by wind toward coal piles. Fire crews could not approach the intensity of heat from burning coal tar.
Dublin Aug 1 The Dail Eireann passed a public safety bill allowing the government to detain prisoners charged with opposing the Free State government. The action follows a habeas corpus decision by the Court of Appeals denying a state of war and granting a writ returnable tomorrow.
The Kansas corn crop faces severe stress from hot winds and high temperatures, except in the northeastern quarter where conditions are excellent. In extreme western counties near Seward the drought has caused irreparable damage, past recovery even with future rains.
President Harding shows steady but cautious improvement in San Francisco as doctors report normalizing temperature, reducing pneumonia concerns, and better lung condition. Visitors include Mrs. Remsenburg and Br g Gen Sawyer. plan is to travel home overland when fit, with baggage moved from the Henderson.
George B. Christian Jr. leaves San Francisco to act for President Harding in presenting the Knights Templar beauseant to the Hollywood commandery. Harding, ill and staying in Alaska, dictated the address for Christian to read at Hollywood Bowl ceremonies. Christian also conveyed a personal message to Grace Cathedral clergy praying for the president's speedy recovery.
Washington August 1 The Federal Council of Churches called members of all denominations to pray for the recovery of President Harding as he battles illness.
Massachusetts Democrat Benator Walsh arrived in Washington and renewed his push for an extra session of Congress. He urged consideration of many issues including the anthracite coal situation.
The Sport Club ball team edged the Dog Alley Cubs at Cinders 16 to 13. Captain Adolph Benjamin pitched well in pressure moments, with Benjamin and Jones as batteries and Flynn, Donoghue and Kelly supporting.
In well represented circles of government no agreement on the Berman question exists. Sir Clement Montague Barlow outlined relief plans for unemployment and warned winter conditions may worsen, while Sir Robert S. Horne urged attention to Europe’s economic peace and noted Germany and France as Britain’s main competitors and debtors. Paris reacts to Curzon reparations note with surprise at secrecy and unity between France and Belgium on Ruhr matters.
The article recalls 2,000 immigrants landing after repeated quota delays. Families passed the island, then Battery, as the father breathed relief. Fifty-three more Portuguese on the Vestris were rejected, queues surged at midnight when August quota lifted, and ships barely avoided collisions. Captain Martinelich of the Argentina reported ships grazing the Orizaba.
In Los Angeles on August 1 the superior court granted Marian Lillian St John an interlocutory decree from motion picture comedian Al St John. The ruling gives Mrs. St John custody of their 6 year old daughter Mary Jane.
Senator Robert M. La Follette sails from New York aboard the George Washington with four other senators and Rep. John E. Baker to attend the inter allied parliamentary union in Geneva. He aims to gain first hand information for constituents and to survey conditions in Europe while remaining open about his exact itinerary. He reports feeling well after a Michigan sanitarium stay and plans rest before resuming political duties.
New York and New Orleans report surge in cotton futures after USDA crops shows 67.2 condition, down 2.7 points, with October at 22.50 and December 22.42. Short covering and expectations push gains to 115 to 131 points. New Orleans notes smallest carryover since early South production, carry 2,573,000 bales and 12,631,000 consumption.
Columbus dispatch reports Governor Donahey and Warden P E Thomas headed to a fishing trip with the governor's six sons and the warden's son. Two convicts from the state prison served as cook and chauffeur. Canadian officials note they may deport criminals. Price Russell says there are no complications as the convicts are in custody of the warden and governor.
Governor Donahey of Ohio urged in Toronto that the press give less prominence to the claim that two convicts accompanied his fishing party in Northern Ontario as servants describing the situation as political banking.
Turkish and American experts debated a modification touching dual nationality and American naturalization laws. The change was not accepted and became a conference topic between Ismet Pasha and Joseph C. Grew along with other textual adjustments.
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