Western blunders and shocks headline postwar note
News roundup from Western Newspaper Union covers deep water salmon banks off Cape Spencer near Juneau, calls to resubmit the eighteenth amendment and repeal the Volstead act, California arson and sabotage damages, a deadly plane crash in Nebraska, a bank vault attack in California, a mastodon skeleton find near Spokane, Hawaii population stats, planned naval maneuvers off Panama, army size approval, deportation warrant cancellations, railroad income guarantees, and February foreign trade shifts.
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Cape Spencer
Juneau
Gross Sound
Milwaukee Common Council
Foreign troops ready for emergencies on Rhine report
Major General Allen said American troops along the Rhine are prepared for any emergency amid the chaotic German situation in Coblenz. The retinue of news covers trade gains in Canada, security details around former Emperor William in the Netherlands, a Le Mans car race, and various U.S. and New Mexico notes.
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Rhine
Germany
Allen
Coblenz
Customs Department
William
Bentinck Castle
Brussels
M. Hymans
A. J. Balfour
League of Nations
Wieringen
Holland
Plan for New Bolshevik Offensive Targets Proskurov
Warsaw reports Bolshevik forces renewed attacks along the Polish front as preliminary spring offensives. About 900 Bolsheviks were taken prisoner in two days of fighting with Poles repulsing the assaults. Desertions by Bolshevik officers hint at a broader plan to recapture Mozir Rovno and Proskurov.
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Warsaw
Mozir
Rovno
Proskurov
Nikolai Lenine
Russia
Poland
Turkestan
U S Agents Arrest Mine Workers Leaders in Coal Case
Terre Haute Indiana United States marshall arrests district 11 leaders Ed Stewart and William Mitch and eighteen others on conspiracy charges to raise coal prices linked to a special federal grand jury indictment in Indianapolis.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Ed Stewart
William Mitch
United Mine Workers of America
United States
Indianapolis
Rob 25 Deposit Boxes in Layton Bank Heist
Twenty five safety deposit boxes were robbed at a Layton bank after the deposit box room door was forced open with explosives. Bank officials said the total loss will be determined once renters recover their contents. Authorities provided no suspect details.
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First National Bank
Crows Landing
Modesto
Calif
Western
Union News Service
Mountainair
Manzano
Bank of Florence
Florence
Ariz
Masonic Temple
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Department of Education
Ogden
Utah
Layton
Here
Agitation for Central American Union Rises in Guatemala
Washington reports revived talk of reuniting the Central American republics into a single nation. President Cabrera opposes the plan while El Salvador and Honduras push for union, Costa Rica favors it, and Nicaragua opposes.
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Washington
Guatemala
Cabrera
Salvador
Honduras
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Standard Oil acquires 99 year lease on Welles Building
The Standard Oil Company has bought a ninety-nine year lease on the nine story Welles Building at 14 20 Broadway New York. The lease and plot will yield a frontage of 528.10 feet on Broadway and rent for the full term is nearly 25 million dollars along with ongoing negotiations for adjacent holdings.
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Ministerial Alliance
Grand Jury
New Mexico
Cooney
State School of Mines
Socorro
M. Cooney
Charles F. Williams
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
United States
Dyer
Standard Oil Company of California
Charles Howe
Standard Oil Company
Arizona State Tax Commission
Las Animas Peak
New York
Broadway
Financial District
China Adds To Demon List In Modern Beliefs
Dr. W H Hudson of Kashing, lecturing in Shanghai, notes five new devils in Chinese lore malaria opium red match railway and gunshot He describes charms prayers and banners used to banish or appease them and contrasts native methods with foreign doctors skepticism and spectacle.
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China
W. H. Hudson
Kashing
Shanghai
San Francisco Chronicle
Hudson
Young boy comments on vaudeville act guest
A four year old visiting his aunt attends a vaudeville show and, while enjoying the performance, loudly exclaims about a performer in black tights. His remark about the stuntwoman leads to laughter from the surrounding audience.
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John
First Brazilian woman earns doctorate in agronomical engineering
Maria Ade laida Pinto de Magallanes Quintanilla, born in Portugal and descendant of Magellan, becomes the first Brazilian woman to receive the doctorate in agronomical engineering. She is the third sister in her family to earn doctorates, with elder siblings in law and pharmaceutics, and has studied tropical plants and conditions.
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Brazil
Maria Adelaida Pinto de Magallanes Quintanilla
Magellan
Miss Magallanes
Embarrassing Moment Shared Over a Studious Visit
A student hiding in a clothes hamper to avoid a talkative friend explains a prank gone awkward. The sneeze betrayed the ruse and the chatterbox left, never to be seen again, leaving the narrator with a lasting embarrassment.
Folklore says broken tumbler reveals secret about you
A common belief holds that breaking a drinking glass or tumbler foreshadows the discovery of a hidden secret regarding a person. The superstition frames the fracture as a clue to upcoming revelations or true nature.
Colorado settlement prices for metals
Bar silver priced at $1.22 per unit and copper at 19 20 cents per pound. Lead quoted at $9.25, spelter at $8.72, and tungsten at $6.50 to $12.00 per unit.
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Colorado
Chicago Livestock Prices Show Mixed Beef and Pigs Market
The report lists Chicago hogs with heavy and packing sow categories bidding from about 12.50 to 16.30 and pigs around 13.40 to 15.25. Cattle prices span beef steers 10.00 to 15.50, cows 5.00 to 12.00, veal calves 17.00 to 18.25, and feeder/stocker steers 7.50 to 12.00. Sheep and lambs range from 5.75 to 19.10 with downweights around 16.75 to 19.10 for Lambs.
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Denver
Lima
Colo. Oe
Colo
H. H
Chicago
Cash Grain in Chicago
Chicago markets show wheat No 2 hard at 2 48 per bushel as traders watch futures and demand. Prices for nearby grain steady amid mixed buying and storage outlooks at regional elevators.
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F. C. B. Denver
Cash Grain IN
Chicago
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Supreme Court
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Detroit
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Daniel G. Reid
Finch
Supreme Court of New York
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M. M. Crocker
Foster
Bonney
Lordsburg
N. M
State Treasury of
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Alexander and
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Arizona Congress of Mothers
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