Burnett Stoecker Die at Charles City Train Jump
Burnett Stoecker, 22, killed after leaping from a train at Charles City. Fort Dodge to be home for Judge Kenyon after extensive local review. Marriage anniversary marks sixty five years for Mr. and Mrs. Conrad. Maladministration case sees S. W. Campbell fined for $1000.
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Ernest Melberg
Amana
Bon Ton Millinery Company
Davenport
Victor O. Stroggs
Tripoli
Coe College
Earl Rawson
Sioux City
Zelda Whitehurst
William Featherstone
Centerville
Peru
A. Ray Maxwell
N. E. Kendall
P. C. Winter
Corning
Creston
T. J. White
Boone
Trenton
Daily Times
Horace Barnes
Democrat
Pioneer
Missouri
White
Judge Moffit
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Reinbeck
Eva King
C. D. Wheeler
Council Bluffs
Rockwell City
Robert Murray
Des Moines
Murray
King
Bryant
Keokuk
Alexandria
Mackley
Harvey Baker
Sigourney
Rock Island
Barnes City
Golden Eagle
Poland
John Jepson
Goldfield
Stephen Varga
Leon
Francis Farga
Presbyterian Church
Muscatine
R. S. McNutt
J. M. Kemble
W. F. Tobias
Abe
Industrial employment improves nationwide in February
The February industrial survey from the Employment Service reports gains across 44 of 85 cities with textiles showing declines due to strike activity in New England. Major sectors like food, iron, steel, metal products, and transportation shops rise, with 1.56 million workers in large firms employed. Sixty five cities show net payroll expansion from January to February.
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Washington
Employment Service
Department of Labor
New England
Francis L Jones
Sioux City
Omaha
Johnstown
New York
Detroit
Baltimore
Los Angeles
Denver
Indianapolis
Seattle
Wash
Portland
Newark
Rochester
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
New Orleans
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Manchester
N. H
Memphis
San Francisco
Kansas City
St. Paul
Youngstown
Louisville
Philadelphia
Chicago
Boston
Navy Cuts Scale Fleet as Fuel Costs Rise
Secretary Denby ordered 50 destroyers and about 60 auxiliary ships placed out of commission to save fuel. This adds to 100 destroyers and 92 other ships already taken offline since he assumed office. The Navy has sold 257 obsolete or auxiliary vessels and plans 36 more sales.
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Washington
Denby
Department In Battle
Dixon Illinois plant floods force power suspension
Water from the Rock River flood flooded furnace rooms at the Illinois Northern Utilities steam electric plant in Dixon Illinois. The plant, supplying Dixon Sterling Freeport Oregon Polo Ashton Nachusa Franklin Grove Forreston and other cities, suspended operations and Dixon sourced power from Joliet. Fifty families fled their homes.
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Dixon
Rock
Illinois Northern Utilities Steam Electric
Sterling
Freeport
Oregon
Polo
Ashton
Nachusa
Franklin Grove
Forreston
Public Service Company of
Joliet
Indiana coal operators reject statewide wage pact
Terre Haute March. Indiana coal operators will not seek to negotiate a single state wage agreement with the union miners. P. A. Penna, secretary of the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators' association, says.
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Pat
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana
P. A. Penna
Indiana Bituminous
Armored Cars Guard Limerick Streets March 8
Armored motor cars patrol Limerick on military orders to counter IRA units moving from Cork Tipperary and surrounding areas amid rising tensions in March.
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Limerick
Irish Republican Army
Cork
Tipperary
Final draft of bonus bill out
President Harding warned Congress that any soldier bonus bill must include the sales tax. Republican leaders halted a plan to push an insurance certificate in place of the bonus, prompting a reconsideration by the Ways and Means Committee. text of a bank loan provision for veterans outlines loan limits terms and conditions with details on repayment and beneficiary rules.
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Washington
Harding
Congress
White House
House
Capitol
Mondell
Fordney
Ways and Means Committee
Campbell
House Rules Committee
District of Columbia
Secretary of the Treasury
Brokers Owe 5 Million in Receiver Action
Kriebel and Co., Chicago investment bankers, were placed in receivership by Federal Judge George A. Carpenter. Creditors report assets at 4 million dollars and liabilities at 5 million 60 dollars.
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Kriebel & Co. of
Chicago
Kriebel & Co
George A. Carpenter
Air Tank Blast Kills Four in Kansas City
An explosion of a compressed air tank at the Kansas City Railway Company car barn on Ninth Street and Brighton Avenue killed four people and injured nine. The blast shook nearby buildings as responders rushed to the scene.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Railway Company
Ninth Street
Brighton Avenue
Flood Dams Fond du Lac Basements Flooded Citywide
Flood waters from melting ice in the surrounding highlands inundate three fourths of Fond du Lac Wisconsin. Basements flood and business operations stall. Local agencies report widespread damage and the city faces emergency conditions.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
4Is Ranch
Bolivia asks for conference representation in Washington talks
President Harding refused Bolivia's request to participate in the Ancon conferences between Peru and Chile. He cited exclusive bilateral consideration and said he could not initiate the move. The Bolivian president criticized the 1904 treaty ceding coast, calling it unjust and urging restoration of Bolivia's territory.
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Wassington
Washington
Peru
Chile
Harding
State Department
Bolivia
South America
New Question in International Law on War Time Church Goods
British prize court weighs whether funds from sale of church items seized as enemy prizes during World War I should be recoverable by American owners. Claims by Goetzel & Co. and Treffel allege sacred property exempt. Britain argues proceeds funded German war efforts. Case may proceed to full prize court or to Geneva/Washington- era international law bodies.
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United States
Goetzel & Co
Chicago
Germany
New World Court
Geneva
World
Cape Cod Canal Seizure Proposed in Congress
The Cape Cod Canal, cutting 65 miles from New York to New England ports, faces federal purchase at 11.5 million dollars after decades of construction and legal battles. The canal connects Cape Cod Bay to Buzzards Bay through Sandwich and Bourne, opening in 1914 with a 25 foot depth and varying width.
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Ncli. Sam
Big Ditch
Panama
Cape Cod Canal
Congress
Weeks
Hoover
Denby
New York Tribune
Cape Cod
Massachusetts
Sandwich
Bourne
Cape Cod Bay
Buzzards Bay
New York
New England
Golden Medical Discovery Praised By Dr Pierce Ad
Mrs Viola French of Danville New Jersey shares her experience with Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. She reports improved mood strength and vitality after treatment and urges readers to obtain the medicine from local druggists or request free medical advice from Dr Pierce in Buffalo New York.
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Danville
Viola French
N. Collett St
Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
New Liberty Calendar proposal sparked by 13 month idea
A movement led by the Liberty Calendar Association of America proposes a 13 month year of 28 day months with 52 weeks and 864 days and an extra New Year day. Rep Thomas D Schall introduces a bill. Easter fixed on March 14. leap year day adds one day between June 28 and July 1.
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Liberty Calendar Association of America
House
Thomas D. Schall
Minnesota
Schali
Minneapolis
Excelsior
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Ways and Means
National
It Capital Affairs
Uncle Sam
Railroad Administration
Wilson
Canal Company
Federal District Court
Eanal Company
Court of Appeals
Cape
R.A
MFG. CO. Consounatéq
Chesebrough
State Street
Bassett
John
Bellans
Mother Gray
Omaan
Mother Gray CO
Leroy
Palitz
W. F. Young, Inc
Temple St
Springfield
Mase
South Dakota
Alfalfa Reed
Price
Sam Piles
Brookside Farm
Piso's
Opia
Des Moines, NO
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