Germany Strikes Over Living Cost Bonus Demand
German workers in the Dusseldorf engineering and steel sectors strike demanding a 75 percent pay raise. Krupp Essen workers seek a 2000 mark per month living cost bonus amid rapid currency decline. Authorities abroad note widespread unrest tied to soaring food and clothing costs and export profits.
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Germany
Department of Commerce
Washington, D. C
Dusseldorf
Krupp
Essen
Laugh On Burleson: Old Oats Arrive From 1916 Shipment
Henry Shade, a grocer from Popular Bluffs, received oats shipped by a St. Louis firm that were ordered in 1916. The firm claimed compliance with a postal card order, but Shade noted his horse died four years earlier. The card was postmarked June 1916 and the oats arrived October 6, 1921.
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Burleson
Henry Shade
Popular Bluffs
St. Louis
Shade
St. Louise
Are You Right Eyed
A note explains a quick test to determine right eye dominance. Sit, look at a distant object, hold a finger to the object, then close eyes sequentially. If the finger aligns with the object when the right eye opens, you are right eyed and likely right handed due to brain hemisphere dominance.
Clever rules used by gem thieves bared
A handbook from the Jewelry Security Alliance outlines subtle theft tricks. It warns of a thief using fruit to hide stolen gems and of disguises like umbrellas and sleeves to conceal the stealing hand, with confederates to retrieve stolen items.
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Jewelers’ Security Alliance of the
United States
Neenah Man Wins Rhodes Scholarship
Wisconsin's Kevin Larson of Lawrence College Neenah earns a Rhodes Scholarship. He joins 31 others selected from 506 candidates to study at Oxford University starting in October 1922 with a 1750 dollar annual stipend.
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Neenah Man
Rhodes
Frank Aydelotte
Swarthmore College
Rhodes Trust
Oxford University
Wisconsin
Kevin Larson
Lawrence College
Neenah
Wis
Forty five thousand packers threaten nationwide strike
About 45,000 union workers in packing plants nationwide plan a strike to protest wage cuts averaging 10 percent. The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America authorized the action under the shop representation plan in the packing industry.
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Amalgamated Meat Cutters,and Butcher Workmen of
North America
Former Kaiser to wed amid royalist denials
The former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany is believed to be planning a remarriage after his 63 years. Royalists deny he is engaged to a widow of a high officer from Danzig killed in the war, despite German papers claiming otherwise.
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Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
Danzig
Gypsy Band Barricaded in Park Falls Jail
A group of twenty Gypsies were confined in Park Falls city hall Wisconsin charged with a robbery of 26.50. They declared innocence, refunded the money, and paid a $100 fine with eight members fined $3 each for city ordinance violations. The band appeared well supplied.
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Park Falls
De Luxe Rum Caravan and Cargo Taken
Sheriff C H Buehler recovered a motorized rum caravan in Green county on Monday. The haul included five prisoners named as Chicago bootlegging leaders, three stolen high powered cars, ten thousand dollars in whisky, and numerous firearms.
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Green County
C H. Buehler
Outfit
Chicago
Babe Ruth Punished. May Be Reinstated After Forfeiture
Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees faces suspension with a May 20 deadline before reinstatement can be sought. He must forfeit his share of World Series money amounting to 3362.26 due to playing in exhibition games after the series ended. Teammates Bill Piercy and Bob Meusel also forfeit their World Series winnings.
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Babe Ruth
New York Yankees
Landis
Ruth
Bill Piercy
Bob Meusel
Yankees
Piercy
Meusel
JAP Delegates Seek Decision On Posture In Pacific
British accept tri partite plan with United States and Japan while Tokyo cables for navy and cabinet guidance. Dr Tyau of the Chinese delegation resigns amid belief justice for China will fail. Japan gives up certain rights and abrogates the Tsingtao agreement under twenty one demands. J H Earle of Portage demonstrated a fire truck in a near city. fell from a bump and was not found until return.
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Baron Kato
Japan
Tokio
Navy Department
Diplomatic Advisory Council
Cabinet
Tsingato
China
Tyau
America
London
J. H. Earle
Portage
Cheever's Will Leaves $25000 to Daughter
Walter H. Cheever, Normal School professor, left $25000 to his daughter Mrs. W. Magie in a Milwaukee probate filing dated December 29, 1916. The will adds to a prior will that left the estate to his wife who died in an automobile crash. Cheever was known among Sauk County teachers and residents.
Rockefeller Borrowed Suit For Tokyo Imperial Visit
John D. Rockefeller Jr, one of the world’s wealthiest men, disclosed he wore a borrowed frock coat to an imperial garden party in Tokyo. He had just returned from the Orient and found attire a barrier to entry, noting the garment fit “pretty well” but was not worth bringing.
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Japan
Rockefeller
Orient
Tokio
Senator Smoot’s Tax Return Questioned by Revenue Experts
Senator Smoot of Utah, a taxation expert, prepared a 1917 income tax return then had a treasury expert and a finance committee adviser review it. A later Internal Revenue Service expert informed him the return was not properly prepared and he owed about 3000 dollars more.
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Smoot
Utah
Finance Committee
Treasury Department
McAdoo
Internal Revenue Office
Exide
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Baraboo
Seneca
Royal
Senate
Conner
4Th St
J. B. Donovan
Ranchais AS
FISE
A. Friedman
Prop
J.L. Cramer
Third Ave
Tarnutzer Garage
Dodge
Weed
Montana
John Ruskin
I. Lewis Cigar Mfg. CO
Newark
N. J
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