Washington News Roundup of 1921 Federal Actions
Major federal actions highlighted include a $75 million Townsend road bill passing the Senate, plans to ship cereals to Soviet Russia under relief, and a meat packing regulation signed into law. The report notes unemployment at 5,735,000 and talks of rail credit expansion, plus a push for a businesswoman on the disarmament commission and various legal and criminal cases in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Soviet Russia
American Relief Administration
Washington
Hoover
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc
Harding
Samuel Tilden Ansell
Army
Col
John E. Hunt
C. C. Cresgon
Grover Cleveland Bergdol
House
Ansell
White House
Secretary of Agriculture
Rains flood streets and injure many in Illinois
Illinois towns endure one of the heaviest downpours in years. Streets flood to depths up to three feet, cars stalled and people wade through water. A Knox county jail shooting in Tennessee wounds more than twenty, all white. guards injure several.
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Chicago
Knox County
Knoxville
Tenn
Frank Martin
Charles Lewis
Manila
P. L
Gibson City
Ford County Farms
Butreau
Rebrest Grove
Cairo
Annie Berkhigler
George Fredericl
Havana
Danville
Sewer Department
Pan
Terre Haute
Ind
Thomas I. Guliland
Madison County
Illinois
Jerseyville
Ilinois
Methodist Episcopal Church
Jacksonville
Thoma Nicholson
Waddams Grove
George J. Schudt
Harry Vance
John Moore
Springfield
State of
Lou
Steve’ White
Coffeen
Montgomery County
Bond County
Stickney
Cook County
Rock Island Arsenal
Ilinois State
Walker
Victor A. Olander
Peoria
Millinois Valley
Illinois River
Quiver Beach
John Deere
William Buttersworth
Marines Board Vessel for Panama Duty Aboard USS Pennsylvania
Philadelphia dispatch reports 400 Marines with full war equipment embarked from Philadelphia on the USS Pennsylvania for Panama service. A Quantico battalion was ordered to board a vessel for duty in Panama as part of U S military deployment. The note from Secretary Hughes to Panama discusses boundary issues with Costa Rica and Panama under the White award, indicating U S support for Costa Rican jurisdiction over the territory.
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Marines
Panama
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Quantico
Washington
United States
Republic of Costa Rica
Hughes
State Department
Costa Rica
Toosta Rica
Fordney tax bill moves to senate after house passage
Washington Aug 23 The Fordney tax bill approved by the house 274 to 125 advances to the senate where leaders plan to take it up before a tariff measure. It raises the married head of family exemption to 2500 and dependent exemption to 400 retroactive to 1921. It repeals excess profits tax and increases the corporate tax to 12 percent with top surtaxes capped at 82 percent for incomes over 66000. retroactive effect on these two clauses failed.
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Washington
House
Senate
Gould denies engagement to Miss Lacaz in Paris
Frank J. Gould refuted rumors of an impending marriage to Florence Lacaz. He stated clearly that he is not to be congratulated and not to marry Miss Lacaz, remarks made in Paris amid divorce speculation.
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England
Ireland
Eamon de Valera
Sinn Fein
Lloyd George
House of Commons
London
Frank Gould
Paris
Frank J. Gould
Florence Lacaz
Miss Lacaz
Bank Robbed in Kawkawlin. $4000 Taken
The Farmers' State Bank of Kawkawlin was robbed of about $4,000 in cash and Liberty bonds by a lone thief. The culprit forced the cashier to surrender the money. The incident occurred in Bay City, Michigan, on August 23.
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Michigan Bank
Bay City
Mich
Farmers' State Bank of
Kawkawlin
Evansville Teen Finds Relief With Vegetable Compound
In Evansville Indiana eighteen year old Stella Linxwiler describes months of irregular menstruation and debilitating cramps. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports improvement with fewer sick or drowsy days and encourages others to try the remedy. Her testimony is shared to promote relief for similar symptoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
Stella Linx- Wiler
Second St
Indiana
Miss Linxwiler
Real compliment and courtroom banter in a narrow exchange
A judge and others exchange sounds of mock courtesy and a quip about a button missing from a coat. The remark reflects a wry courtroom mood and social norm humor in a newspaper tone.
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Dub
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Townsend
United States Senate
Congress
William J. Burns
New York
Burns Detective Agency
Daugherty
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Commerce Department
Germany
Berlin
Diesel
Davis
War Finance Corporation
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Chicano
Railroad Labor Board
Fifi Potter Stillman
Harold F. McCormick
Lake Forest
Ill
Bud” Bridgens
Rockford
George L. Flanagan
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Diamondlake
Cassopolis
William F. Jennings
Illinois Grand Commadery
Knights Templar
Detroit
Cleveland
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
Commission
Chicago Live Stock Exchange
Centralia
Cal
A. D. Foron
Edmund Heller
Hoodoo Mountains
Yellowstone Park
Albright
Cheyenne
Wyo
Henry A. Greene
Alameda County
Oakland
J. 8. Crowell
The
Groans Publishing Company
Woman's Home Companion
Farm
Montess de Oca Y Obregon
Mexico
Michael J. Lavelle
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Tex Rickard
Dempsey-Carpentier
Federal
Jamieson
J. Walker
Russia
Angora
Anatolia
Athens
Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll
Eberbach
Baden
Switzerland
Benedict
Mgr
John Dunn
Vatican
Rome
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Balboa
Berlie
Picnie
Peoria County
Glen Oak Park
Joliet
Will County
Dellwood Park
Bloomington
J. M. Furstman
State
Freeport
Stephenson County Farm Bureau
United States Bureau of Animal Industry
Tolono
C.L. Meharry
Kankakee
J. B. Smith
Fay Motor Bus Corporation
Galesburg
Richard Thompson
Monmouth
Richard
Thompson
Lombard College
Devatur
Disciples of Christchurch
Jessie Coleman Monsor
Decatur
Taylorville
Lan Ding
Kincaid
Srg
Peabody Coal Company
Langley
Tovey
Jones
Kincaid Loan and Trust Company
Jerome Lockhart
Lockhart
General Assembly
State Treasury
Automobile Department
Secretary of State
William H. Jennings
Glen F. Coe
Dixon
W. R. Brown
East St. Louis
Polo
Republic
Bobbie
Idare
Loshdon Weekly Telegraph
Bright’s
Dean’s
Sam _ Alderman
Railroad St
Effingham
Dean
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N. Y
Durham
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