News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers
Coast guard bids open for up to ten 100 foot steel patrol boats for the ram patrol. Grain exports last week total 2 857 000 bushels versus 5 289 000 prior week. Mussolini charges deemed forgery or blackmail by ambassador Caetani. Coolidge commends Ritter for charitable stock gift. House passes large treasury post office supply bill 763 million dollars. U.S. reassesses Franco debt, shows toward show down. War secretary Weeks approves rewards for world flyers and promotion increases. Memorial thanks Coolidge and Tinges for stance on Japanese situation sent by Federal Council of Churches.
Diverse 1924 U.S. and World News Highlights
Chicago figures show 2799 ships entered the Chicago river and 1023 visited the Calu river in 1924, with $15 536 966 58 collected. Wisconsin workmen compensation benefits totaled 8 862 729. Wheat topped 1.81 at Chicago with May at 1.81 and December 1.77. Countess Dalsy di Robilani plans to return to Italy after threats. William White, 64, former major leaguer, died in Belleaire Ohio. Kid McCoy found guilty of manslaughter in Los Angeles. 1 to 10 years. Supreme Court asked to rule on DC bonuses constitutionality. Train robbery murder near Chicago. messenger Russell Dickey died saving valuables. Mrs Kenneth Clark, 18, of Indianapolis injured in crash. Moon path world campaign reported ahead of January 24 eclipse. McCormick alienation suit seeks 500000 damages. Len Smail and successors’ packers notes ruling in Illinois. 86600+ autos ferried across Mackinac Straits. Arkansas poultry embargo ordered. Typhoid cases decline in New York. Iron puddlers’ wages cut. Four children burned in Oklahoma farmhouse fire. Dr Ernest Fluegel killed in New York taxi crash. John D Rockefeller Jr. donates 1 million in Standard Oil stock to Met Museum. Vanderlip recovering from typhoid. Francis J Dyer, consul at Coblenz, died in Cologne.
Wide range of 1920s world events reach readers
A Tokyo private institution for the insane reports 13 bodies found and 10S inmates missing after a fire. Other items note a massive Chinese military execution at Kalgan, severe floods in England, Rome’s Christmas shrine visitation, Trotzky's arrest, a Berlin rifle depot discovered, a Laredo train attack, French refunding talks, Cardinal Glory's death, Mexican voting rights bid, Poland’s loan decree, and Japan’s naval squadron in the Panama Canal zone.
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Tokyo
Unclear OCR fragment on Constand and marriage
Fragmentary text mentions Constand and a marquis with references to war service and a divorce. Details are unclear and names are inconsistently presented in the damaged source.
Empire plans telephony between Angora and Constantinople
The report notes a plan underway to provide telephone service between Angora and Constantinople. It also mentions a dry sugar process, a photographic mount patent, a human map at Wembley, and a large Florida clam bed with low digging due to weak demand.
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Angola
Constantinople
Wembley
England
Australia
Florida
United States
Iowa News Highlights From Des Moines and Statewide
A collage of Iowa topics reports rail borrowing totals and tax talk for January, a world trip planned by Governor and Mrs Kenduly, a proposed $400000 six story Des Moines building, and rabies quarantine in Johnston County. The piece notes women at a farm federation convention, Rolfe Sunday movie votes, and rail proximity claims. It covers a new 33 000 volt line, Des Moines fire records for 1924, and state department divisions in agriculture. It lists high farm census figures, hunting licenses in Polk County, railroad investment vs. income, Rotary cottage radios, plumbing code tweaks, and nut and fruit cultivation optimism.
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Towa
War Finance Corporation
Mra
N. B
Kenduly
Des Moines
New
York
Bankers ‘Association
Hippey
Sixth Avenue
Mulberry Street
Des. Moines
Scott Township
Johnston
Township Board of Health
Farm Bureau Federation
Rolfe
Deepla
Iowa
New House
Faville
Congressional Committee
Mississippi
Park Buckley
Shiwberry Point
Service Co
Red Oak
Lewis
Avoca- Maine
Emergencc
Desnes
State Department
Agriculture
Dairy and Food
Weather and Crop Bureau
United States Department ‘of Agriculture
Polk County
Carper
County Recorders
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Eldora Rotary Club
State’ Training School For
Commissio Fonér
Ustaa
Webster City
Pega
Util
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Washington
The
Coast Guard
Ram Patrol
Washington Dispatch
Caetani
Mussolini
Coolidge
William M. Ritter
W. M. Ritter Lumber Company
Columbus
Ohio
House
France
Paris
Weeks
Army World Flyers
Lowell H. Smith
Wade, Nelson and
Arnold
Tinghes
Federal Council of Churches
Chicago
Chicago River
Calumet River
Wisconsin
Madison
Wis
Dalsy di Robilani
New York
Italy
Wiliam White
Bellaire
White
Charles A. Comigkey
St. Louis Browns
Los Angeles
Cal
Kid McCoy
Normian Selby
Theresa Weinstein Mors
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Viking
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Russell Dickey
Milwaukee
Kenneth Clark
Indianapolis
Oaklandon
Ind
Globe
Aiew 3 Haven Dispatch
Cyrus H. “ McCormick
Reaper
Great McCormick Fortune
International Harvesters Company
Edwin Jacobs
Jacobs
McCormick
Len Smail
Vernon Curtis
Edward C. Curtis
Small
Frank W. Burton
Sangamon
Springfield
Charles G. Briggle
Straits of Mackinac
Marquette
Mich
Arkansas
Monaghan
Youngstown
Caddo
Okla
Ernest Fluegel
Cornell University
Frederic St. Coudert
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Standard Oil Company of California
Metropolitan Museum of Art
A. Vanderlip
Scarborough
N. Y
Francis J. Dyer
Coblenz
Cologne
China
Kalgan
Chang
London
St. Peters
Rome
Church of Rome
Leon Trotzky
Soviet
Russia
Kremlin
Berlin
Daily Telegraph
Inter-Allied Control Commission
Echo de Paria
Germany
Laredo
Mexico City
el Cobre
Clementes
Oreste Glory
Palazzo Altemps
Holy Roman Church
Senorita
Emalfinda Carrillo
Nogales
Sonora
Poland
Manuel C. Tellez
Panama
Mexico
Canal Zone
Columbia University
Half Moon Inn
Ziegfeld
White House
Goggs
Boys’ Court of
Edgar A. Jonas
Boy Scouts of the
Jerusalem
Constand
Butler
Alder
Elwas
St.udy
Constance
Cora
Louie
East St
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