German loan plan sparks first year clash at premiers conference
At the London meeting Premier Mussolini unveils a reparations plan tying Germany’s obligations to economic control. France presses for Ruhr occupation while Britain debates backing French demands and a partial debt cancellation. Belgium’s Theunis mediates as concerns rise over a joint Franco British stance.
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David M. Church
London
Germany
Great Britain
Sir George
Mussolini
Italy
Theunis
Belgium
France
Ruhr
Poincare
Entente
Berlin
Rhineland
Ma Greenstein Aids Chicago Hoboville Bum Shelter
In Hoboville near South State Street Chicago Ma Greenstein runs Mother’s Restaurant offering free breakfast and a Christmas feast to homeless men. Santa figure Ma comforts elderly and jobless patrons while sharing her personal story of eight children and emigration from Russia.
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Ma” Greenstein
Hoboville
Windy City
South State Street
Greenstein
Nick
Weather Outlook For Ohio Valley And Tennessee
Weather outlook for the period ending December 14 indicates considerable cloudiness across Ohio Valley and Tennessee. Rain and possibly snow are expected at the week’s start and again toward the end, with temperatures below normal.
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Washington
Dev
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Cafeteria Chicken Dinner at K of P Hall
A community event announces a cafeteria chicken dinner at the Knights of Columbus hall on Tuesday December 4 from noon to 7 PM. Proceeds support local activities.
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P. Hall
Don the Wagging Mascot Finds His Master in Quebec
A wire-haired terrier named Don, once Billy on the Canadian wharf at Quebec, hunted sailors and longshoremen to find Major W. C. Lamson of the 26th New Brunswick battalion. The dog, famed as a war mascot, is now happily housed with his former commander in Minto N B after a wartime reunion.
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NEA
Minto
N. B
Billy
Quebec
Don
W. C. Lamson
New Brunswick
Tramp
Major Lamson
Farm Labor Interests Seek New Measures for Relief
Delegates from the Mid-West press for government action to solve tax, transport, and marketing issues through the Norris Sinclair bill, aiming to empower farmers and laborers by public cooperation with a $600 million capital to buy and sell farm products. Leaders argue for direct farmer influence in prices rather than third-party parties.
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William J. Huske
Cleveland
Norris-Sinclair Bmt
Congress
Mid-West
United States
William H. Johnston
International Machinists’ Union
J. B Laughlin
Rockchipp
Oklo
Farmer-Labor Organization
International News Service
Norris-Sinclair
Another Cold Snap Presses East This Week
Washington dispatch reports a cold snap that has gripped the eastern United States for 24 hours will break today. Weather bureau experts say another cold spell will follow on Wednesday, extending the stretch of wintry conditions.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Great Ghaitmad Shipment Of Sweet Potatoes Discovered
In Cincinnati on December 11 a barrel breaking revealed four thousand quarts of old Kentucky bourbon from James Davis Seabrook to Gordon Brothers Storage Chicago. Workers fled with the liquor but were stopped by railroad detectives after a man was shot. Federal prohibition agents arrived to investigate.
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Cincinnati
James Davis
Seabrook
Gordon Brothers Storage Company
Chicago
Fire Attacks Target Free State Officials Homes in Dublin
In Dublin on December 11 republicans renewed arson attacks against homes of free state officials. A manifesto issued by republican extremists threatens more violence claiming peace will not come until the Irish free state is destroyed. Homes belonging to Mrs. Wyes Power of the free state senate and J. J. Walsh of the free state post office department were among those burned.
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Dublin
Free State
England
Theft Records Missing From War Fraud Cases
Rep Knutsen of Minnesota charged on the house floor that records of war fraud prosecutions were stolen from the Department of Justice before Harding took office. He said the theft hampered cases pursued by Attorney General Daugherty.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Harding
Knutsen
Minnesota
Daugherty
Break Comes in the American Peace Meeting
Washington December conference on Central American affairs sees Costa Rican delegates led by Dr Jose Coronado and Dr Octavio Beeche resign. The resignations halt talks and postpone further conferences for one week.
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Washington
Harding
Jose Coronado
Octavio Beeche
Medina County Agricultural Society aims to borrow 1500 dollars
The Medina County Agricultural Society announces it must borrow 1500 dollars to cover a deficit. Officers were all reelected.
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Medina
Medina County Agricultural Society
Drought Threatens East Coast Anthracite Coal Mines
Frantic coal operators face a 20 million ton shortfall as drought drains water for steam usage across the anthracite region. Mines shut or crippled, water trains run day and night, and discarded coal piles are opened to supply the mines with scarce water amid looming shutdowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottsville
Philadelphia & Reading
Pennsylvania
Lehigh Val
New York
Lehigh Coal Co
Court Upholds Deportation Law for Undesirable Aliens
The U S Supreme Court today upheld the 1920 act authorizing deportation and denying readmission for certain aliens. In related notes, the Kohler Act of 1921 from Pennsylvania was declared invalid by the court, making it a crime to cause subsidence of surface structures through coal mining.
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Washington
The
Supreme Court of the United States
Kohler
Pennsylvania
United States Supreme Court
Largest insurance policy on violin set in Pomeroy
J B Downing secured a 210000 policy on his late father J B Downing's violin. The instrument, famous for the fid dling pilot record cited by Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi, had belonged to the Downing family for about seventy years and linked Twain to the elder Downing.
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Pomeroy
J. B. Downing
Downing
Mark Twain
Mississippi
Twain
Mr. Downing
Moonshiners Hold Off Prohibition Forces in Kentucky Stand Off
Desperate moonshiners armed with high powered rifles hold off prohibition forces in Menifee county Kentucky on Slate Creek east fork battle rages for three days. Two government agents killed in Saturday and Sunday raids. Dave Treadway mortally wounded. Bob Ballard and son Jeff Ballard named as ringleaders. Authorities expect another moonshine stronghold invasion as governor is notified.
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Mount Sterling
Slate Creek
Menifee County
Kentucky
Morrow
Prohibition Forces
UO. 4
McFarland
Louisville
Ben Wells
Robert Duff
Duff
Prohibition
Atilla
Dave Treadway
Bob Hatlard
Win
Jeff Ballard
Outlawn
Germany's Money King Breaks with Chancellor
Hugo Stinnes Germany's leading industrial financier openly breaks with Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno as his newspaper publishes the London proposals from the allied premiers conference. The move signals a brewing political crisis less than a month into the current government.
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Berlin
Hugo Stinnes
Germany
Wilhelm Cuno
Herr Stinnes
London
Stinnes
Cuno
Ohio Ever Inflation Checks For World War Vets
Ohio veterans will receive about 14 000 bonus checks totaling 1 800 000 dollars before Christmas. Director Roberts of the state department of adjusted compensation said speed squads will be sent to each county to assist county councils and post commanders of the American Legion in adjusting claims.
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Columbus
Ohio
Roberts
State Department of
American Legion
William Sullivan's Doll House on Court Street
Advertising copy for a shop offering dolls blankets pillow tops candies dogs razors cigars tobaccos lamp dolls and Xmay gifts. located on Court Street next to Bank of Ath ens and open evenings.
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William Sullivan
Bootleggers Face Dual Prosecutions Under Prohibition Laws
The Supreme Court ruled that a conviction under state prohibition laws does not bar prosecutions and convictions under federal prohibition enforcement laws for the same offense. The decision was delivered by Chief Justice Taft.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Taft
Train Derailment Kills Two at Welch West Virginia
Charleston dispatch reports two N to W freight train crewmen were killed and another severely burned when a freight train derailed at Welch after a split switch caused the wreck.
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Charleston
W. Va
Welch
Reported appropriations for labor and commerce
Washington Der 11 final year 1924 24 appropriations of 6 643 556 for the department of labor and 19 160 545 for the department of commerce carried in a bill reported to the house today.
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Washington
Der
Department of Labor
Department of Commerce
House
Six Firemen Hurt in New Bedford Fires
Six firemen were injured and 175 people were made homeless by two fires in New Bedford Massachusetts causing damage estimated at 115 thousand dollars.
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New Bedford
Mass
Dee 1
Pope XI Protests Zionist State During Rome Consistory
In Rome Pope Pius XI denounced a Jewish national state in Palestine during a consistory that created eight new cardinals. Twenty two cardinals attended as the Vatican reiterated protection for Catholic interests in Palestine while Benedict XV’s protest was renewed. Monsignor Bonzano, previously apostolic delegate to Washington, was named a cardinal.
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Guglielmo Emanuei
Benedict XV
Palestine
Monsignor
Bonzano
Washington
Clemenceau to Speak in Chicago on World Farmer Role
Former French premier Georges Clemenceau will address the American Farm Bureau Federation in Chicago this afternoon on “The American Farmer As a World Citizen.” He arrived from Cresson, Pennsylvania, and plans to sail for France on Wednesday after speaking.
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Chicago
Georges Clemenceau
France
United States
American Farm Bureau Federation
War Statesman
Cresson
Allegheny Mountains
New York
Ship subsidy battle hardens in Senate clash over policy
Washington December 11 Both sides dug in today for the senate battle over the ship subsidy bill with Republicans led by Senator Jane of Washington planning to move it to the unfinished business ahead of all other bills. Senators Borah La Follette Norris and Capper join Democrats in opposing the subsidy using various tactics to block passage. Senator Jones warned that failure would harm national defense and commerce noting urgent needs for refrigerating and other ocean carriers to serve agricultural and commercial interests. He cited British offers to build a fleet to carry the California grape crop and pledged about 200000000 dollars, while Washington state faces apple cart shortages from transportation gaps.
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J. Bart Campbell
N.S. Stall
Washington
Jane
Gene Ate Commerce Committee
Horah
Idaho
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Norris
Nebraska
Capper
Kansas
Httle
Republian
Jones
California
Senator McCormick Proposes Reparations Plan
London report says United States Senator Medill McCormick, in London, advocates a reparations scheme to cancel debts owed by France’s allies and to reduce the indemnity Germany must pay. The plan aims to ease postwar financial burdens through U S action.
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London
Cby
The
Evening Standard Today
United States
Medill McCormick
France
Germany
Mine injury fatal at Pipe Creek mine
William Delaney, 28, was killed when a fall of stone trapped him at a Pipe Creek mine. Dee 1L-Wil liam Delaney died from injuries sustained in the incident.
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Bradyside
Dee
William Delaney
Pipe Creek
Dance at Lamborns Pavilion Glouster
Dance notice for Lamborns pavilion Glouster on Wednesday December 1 featuring Jack's Melody Lads with six pieces. Organizer lists entertainment and event details for local residents.
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Lamborns Pavilion
Glouster
Jack
The School Child Health Booklet Promised by Washington Bureau
An American School Hygiene Association pamphlet offers guidance on protecting child health amid modern education. The Athens Messenger Information Bureau will send a free copy titled The School Child's Health by Frederic J. Haskin to readers who mail the coupon with two cents for return postage.
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United States
American School Hygiene
Washington Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
The
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D. C
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