Juice relief for farmers of cork belt in Iowa
A Des Moines conference by the Iowa Bankers Association gathered bankers, farmers, and leaders to seek relief for corn surpluses and low prices. Resolutions urged export corporations, fair-pricing legislation, and removal of discriminatory rules, with calls for a corn belt conference and federal marketing bonds. Farmers Union challenged the event as unrepresentative, citing production costs as the core issue.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Congress
Iowa Bankers Association
Farm Products Export Corporation
Farmers’ Union
Lowa
Hammill
Meredith
Ele Ment of Culture
Emil Wesr
United States
Cummins and
Brookhart
Senawor Srodauas
Wall Street
Cummins
Neiple
McNary-Haughen B
Senator Borah Dinner Guest at White House
Chairman Borah of the Senate forearm relations committee dined at the White House. President Coolidge discussed the world court disarmament agriculture and other issues with Borah, following a prior dinner with Senator Curtiss of Kansas, the Republican leader.
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Washington
Borah
Senate
White House
Coolidee
Curtiss
Kansas
Citrus crops largely spared in Florida frost
Government meteorologist A. J. Mitchell said temperatures did not drop low enough to harm most Florida citrus crops. Northern Florida saw some damage to fruits and early vegetables, but southern Florida remained largely unaffected. The day’s low was 27 degrees.
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Jacksonville
Fla
A. J. Mitchell
Florida
M S Kemmerer Dies After Long Illness in Wise County
Mahion B. Kemmerer of Atlantic City died after two years of illness at eighty seven. He built holdings in Wise county including the New York Mining and Manufacturing Company the Wise Coal and Coke Company the Norton Water Company and owned the Old Dominion Power Company until two years ago. He helped found Whitner Kemmerer Company and was a major anthracite operator with extensive coal interests in Pennsylvania Wyoming and Virginia. His son John L. Kemmerer and sister Mrs S B Thorn survive. all Kemmerer plants close Thursday for the funeralwith only the First National Bank remaining open until 10 PM
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Norton Va
Mahion
Kemmerer
Atlantic City
Kemenerer
Maughchunk Pa
Wise County
New York Mining and Manufacturing Company
Wise Coal and Coke Company
First National Bank
Norton Water Company
Old Dominion Power Company
Virginia Coal and Iron Company
Virginia
J. 8. Wentz
Stonega Coke and Coal Company
S. B. Thorn
Wich
Conn
Gasoline compressing plant destroyed near Metz West Virginia
A gasoline compressing plant of the South Penn Oil Company near Metz, about twenty miles west of Fairmont, was destroyed by fire late today causing a loss of several thousand dollars. The plant supplied about 1,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily to Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company, which may obtain gas from Carnegie Gas Company if shortages occur during the cold wave. Origin of the Metz fire is not known.
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Fairmont
W. Va
South Penn Oil Company
Metz
Here
Monongahelia
West Penn Public Service Company
Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company
Carnegie Gas Company
First Opera Written Indian Point of View
Chicago December 29 the Indian opera drama by Charles Wakefield Cadman a Hollywood composer described as the first opera written from the Indian point of view The libretto by Nellie Richmond Overhart and Francis La Flesche uses sixty Omaha themes with gourd rattles sand rattles drums and flageolet and includes genuine Omaha airs.
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Chicago
Charles Wakefield Cadman
Hollywood
Calif
Washington Opera Company
Cadman
Nellie Richmond Overhart
Brooklyn
Francis la Flesche
Washington
Elks Lodge Opens New Fairmont Home Amid 250 Members
The Fairmont Lodge B P O Elks held a special session to inaugurate its new home in Fairmont West Virginia with District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler M Boyd Wilson from Sistersville in attendance. The modern clubhouse cost 110000 dollars and 22 candidates were initiated tonight.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Fairmont Lodge
B. P. O. Elks
M. Boyd Wilson
Sistersville
Miller Rubber declares dividend for no par stock
The Miller Rubber Company stockholders meeting in Akron Ohio declared a fifty cents per share dividend on the no par common stock payable January 25 to stockholders of record January 5. This replaces the $100 par value stock and equals a $2.60 dividend on the old stock.
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Akron
Ohio
Miller Rubber Company
Theompany
Denunciations Rise at Nickel Plate Merger Hearing
Intercity commerce panel hears fierce opposition to a five railroad merger linking Chesapeake and Ohio Erie Nickel Plate and others. Critics call plan harmful to rates and competition while noting control by Van Sweringens and promoters.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Q P
van Sweringen
Ohio
Hocking Valley
Erie
Pere Marquette
H. W. Anderson
Chesapeake and Ohio
Rumani a accepts role in league disarmament talks
Geneva December 29 Romania notified the League of Nations of its acceptance as a member of the league's preparatory commission for a disarmament conference. Romania will be represented by its minister to Switzerland with no high ranking military officers.
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Geneva
Rumania
League of Nations
League
Switzerland
Wheat Prices Rise to New Highs on Chicago Markets
Wheat prices surged to season highs on the Chicago Board of Trade as reports linked flour costs to $10 a barrel. May wheat advanced about 1.5 cents to roughly 1.584 a bushel, corn gained about 0.4 cents, and oats edged higher at session end.
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Chicago
Chicago Beast of Trade
Ing
Dismissal of Wheeler Indictment Likely Ends Case
The District of Columbia Supreme Court dismissed the Wheeler oil and conspiracy indictment against Senator Burton K Wheeler of Montana. The ruling ends the 1924 prosecutions tied to Justice Department actions under Harry M Daugherty, unless an appeal is filed.
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District OF Columbia Supreme Court
Senator Wheeler
Washington
Burton Keeler
Montana
Department of Justice
Wheeler
Harry M. Daugherty
Department
Flsh
Einstein theory may be modified by ether drift findings
Kansas City dispatch reports Dr. Dayton Miller of Case School of Applied Science presenting at the AAAS meeting. Five year Mount Wilson observations suggest ether drifts with Earth at about ten kilometers per second, implying solar system motion and Earth dragging ether may adjust relativity concepts.
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Kansas City
Mount Wilson Observatory
Inifornia
Dayton ©. Miller
Case School of Applied Science
American Physical Society
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Miller
Pinstein
Cleveland
Michaelson
Honor for Sounder Cease Firing Order
Paris honors Bugler Selier who sounded the cease firing order on Armistice Day 1918 and names him for Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in recognition of his service.
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Sounder
Paris
Selier
Csase
Legion of Nor
Pershing to Leave Arica for Dental Treatment
Washington reports confirm General John J. Pershing will depart Arica for the United States for dental treatment. Officials deny any political or diplomatic significance to the move and say the Tacna Arica arbitration will continue as planned.
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Washington
State Department
General Pershing
Arica
United States
Tacna-Arica Ebisctary Commission
Pershing
Department
Commission
Chile
John J. Pershing
Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission
Court rejects odious conception in nun injury case
In Saint Quentin France Sister Marie Saint-Martin was crippled when struck by a car. The court called the idea that a vowed life has no value odious and awarded her 20,000 francs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saint Quentin
France
Marie Saint-Martin
Marie
Oil Merger Talks Under Way In Large Industry Convergence
Wall Street reports negotiations for a merger among Barnsdall Corporation Simms Petroleum and Waite Phillips Company with U S banking firm Blair & Company engineering the deal. Possible inclusion of Associated Oil and Pacific Oil plans noted though not confirmed. Blair & Company recently bought Waite Phillips for about 20 to 25 million dollars. The Barnsdall group led by Robert Law Jr holds assets over 42 million. Simms Petroleum totals about 20 million in assets with around 38 500 stockholders. American International Corporation major holder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wall Street
Barnsdall Corporation
Simms Petroleum Company
Waite-Phillips Company
Blair & Company
Associated Oil Company
Pacific Oil Company
American International Corporation
Simms
Barnsdale Refining Company
Okahoma
Wall Street Deliberates Possible Chase and Mechanics Merger
Wall Street watchers report a potential merger between Chase National Bank and Mechanics and Metals National Bank, with rival banks denying consolidation talks. Officials caution no definite negotiations are under way, though Chase reportedly sounded out Mechanics directors. The possible union would create a banking powerhouse with resources over 800 million dollars.
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New York
Wall Street
Chase National and
Mechanics and Metals National Banks
National Park
Chemical National
Central Union Trust Company
Chatham and Phenix Natonal Bank and Trust Company
Mechanics and Metals Natonal Bank
Chase National Bank
Mechanics and Metals
Chase Bank
Chase and Mechanics and Metals Banks
Financial District
French Premier Sidesteps Cabinet Crisis in Paris
Paris Dec 29 Premier Briand averted a cabinet crisis by accepting radical ministers resignation with regret but without despair. Radicals supported Doumer’s financial measures, delaying the decisive issue until the chamber resumes in January. Bills raise about 330 million francs in revenue and aim to stabilize the franc, with Doumer asserting depreciation risks would be curbed.
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Paris
Briand
M. Doumer
Herriot
Chamber
Locarno
M. Briand
Bank of France
Chamber of Deputies
Manifested in Blood
Dr L H Snyder of North Carolina State College reports that blood chemistry reactions may identify unadulterated European Orientals Filipinos and American Indians, potentially aiding lawsuits over annulment and disputed parentage. He cautions mixtures of races complicate identification.
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New Haven
Conn
Leonard
Kip) Rhinelander
Casean
L. H. Snyder
North Carolina State College
American Society of Naturalists and Joint Genetica Section
Yale University
Snyder
Barney Oldfield Remarries Hulda Braden in San Diego
Barney Oldfield former automobile race driver wed Hulda R. Braden of Beverly Hills in San Diego on December 29. He listed his age as forty seven and she as thirty. each indicated it was their third marriage. Earlier in the day a final divorce decree was issued for Oldfield’s second wife in Los Angeles.
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San Diego
Calif
Barney Oldfield
Hulda R. Braden
Beverly Hills
California
Cary Are Oldfield
Oldfield
Los Angeles
Earnings crack train sets records for 1925 revenue
New York December 29 preliminary figures show the Twentieth Century Limited earning over 10 million dollars in 1925. The New York Central crack train ran nearly 2,000 sections on its overnight New York to Chicago run.
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New York
Twentieth Century Limited
New York Central Railroad
Chicago
Cherry Tree Blooms Against Harsh Winter Near Waterloo
A single cherry tree on John Michaelson’s farm two miles west of Waterloo defies winter odds. After a 15 below night, it bloomed and bore fruit last summer, with the surviving tree now in blossom despite the season.
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Waterloo
John Michaelson
Sutherland Named to Alien Property Custodian Post
Former U S senator from West Virginia Oward Sutherland is appointed by the President to head the alien property custodian office and oversee pending assets and claims for the government.
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Oward Sutherland
United States
West Virginia
May never again have use of legs
Plymouth Vermont December 29 Colonel John C Coolidge the president's father was reported very comfortable by his physician Dr Albert W Cram He sat up in a wheeled chair for half an hour but has lost use of his legs due to faulty blood circulation The condition is described as a form of paralysis and unlikely to improve The cause is attributed to old age and lowered vitality with no immediate fear of paralysis elsewhere The physician said no plan for Major James Foupal to visit was discussed
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Plymouth
John C. Coolidge
Albert W. Cram
Bridgewater
Cram
James F. ‘Oupal
Washington
Three Bids For Air Mail Route In Washington
Three bids were received today for the Chicago St Paul and Minneapolis air mail route. Charles Dickinson Chicago offered forty eight percent of revenue, Hamilton Aero Milwaukee seventy five percent, and National Air Transport Chicago four fifths. Cheyenne Denver Pueblo route had no bids and will be re advertised.
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Washington
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis
Post Office Department
Chicago-St. Paul
Charles Dickinson
Chicago
Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company
Milwaukee
Wis
National Air Transport, Inc
Cheyenne
Confidence in Argentine crop reporting system cited
Washington December 29. L M Estabrook director of the agricultural census for the International Institute of Agriculture said the accuracy and integrity of the Argentine crop reporting system remain sound. He returned to Washington to confer with Agriculture Department officials on census plans and noted his role in establishing the Argentine system before turning it over to Buenos Aires officials.
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Washington
Chicago
L. M. Estabrook
International Institute of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Estabrook
Department
Buenos Aires
Sudden Rise in German Unemployed Receiving Relief
Berlin reports a sharp rise in unemployment aid in early December. On December 1 the relief rolls stood at 672,000 and by December 15 had grown to 1,057,000, signaling a significant economic strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Giants Sail for Florida Gridiron Clash
Eleven members of the New York Giants, with Coach Bob Folwell, departed on the H. F. Alexander bound for Miami to play against a professional Palm Beach representative team in Florida competition.
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Florida
New York
New York Giants
Bob Folwell
H. F. Alexander
Miami
Palm Beach
Markle plan fails to end anthracite strike in joint conference
New York December 29. A joint conference of miners and operators adjourned at midnight without agreement on a settlement plan for the anthracite strike. Alvan Markle of Hazleton proposed a nine member fact finding panel and arbitration based settlement, but miners opposed arbitration and the plan was not accepted. The conference resumes tomorrow amid continued discussion of various plans, including Governor Pinchot's earlier proposal.
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New York
Markie
United States
Joint Committee of
Alvan Markle
Hazleton
Markle
Jeddo-Highland Coal Company
Pinchot
Harrisburg
Union League Club
Sldes
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Certified Public Accountants
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Iowa Union
Emil Weebles
Federal Reserve Bank
A. B. Cummins
BE. T. Meredith
Cole
Senator Borah
M.S. Kemmerer
Fairmont Elks’ Lodge
Rowest
Anderson
Nicke
Plate and Erie
Mr. Anderson
Thomas B. Gay
Newton D. Baker
Nickel Plate
Pennsylvania
Secord
Mr. Gay
van Sweringens
Aie
Prre Marquette
Roumania
Col. Coolidge
Ses
Sion
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