Everybody's President Hoover Emphasizes Unity Over Partisanship
The Telegraph notes President Hoover seeks to be president of all the people not just Republicans. It highlights his reputation for limited politics and his cabinet choice of Democrat William D. Mitchell as attorney general, praising independence in governance and a citizenry that supports honest officials.
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William D. Mitchell
Minnesota
Department of Justice
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No Change in Policy on War Debts Amid Hoover Proposal
The New York Sun says U S policy on war debts remains intact despite Hoover's holiday suggestion. The paper notes the moratorium would temporarily burden the United States and France, with Congress reportedly willing to test the idea while Hoover stresses he does not endorse debt cancellation and reparations remain separate. France objects to delaying $100,000,000 annually.
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New York Sun
United States
France
Senate
House
Congress
What We Were Doing what We Were Doing Twenty Years Ago Today
ER Ford Collins of Pittsburgh was named manager of the Bluefield office of Western Union Telegraph. Mrs Mildred Rebecca Hoy of Bluefield died at Saunton Virginia. Mrs L J Barbee of Graham was visiting in Canada. Miss Dainese Holroyd of Athens married Glyde Michell of Spencer. The Bluefield Rotary club staged a contest in the Billy Sunday tabernacle for boys work. The Goodship Bluefield known as the 3 C Nectar was heavily damaged by fire.
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ER. Ford Collins
Pittsburgh
Bluefield
Western Union Telegraph Company
Mildred Rebecca Hoy
H. I
B. D. Shot
Saunton
L. J. Barbee
Graham
Canada
Dainese Holroyd
Athens
Glyde Michell
Spencer
Billy Sunday Tabernacle
Goodship
Hoover debt moratorium stance seen as US aid not world policy
The piece weighs reparations and fears of a bankrupt Germany turning to Bolshevism. It argues Hoover aims to aid American business and protect investments, not shift US policy or add to deficits, warning a year moratorium would not radically alter wartime debt policy.
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Germany
America
Hoover
United States
NO MAN ABOVE THE LAW President Hoover at Lincoln tomb
President Hoover speaks at the tomb of Lincoln praising Lincoln's words on keeping the national heritage through obedience to law. He mounts the case that no one, by position or influence, stands above the law and that governance rests on a system of ordered liberty safeguarded by law. The address honors Lincoln’s eternal principles of truth justice and right as guiding the nation.
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Tomb of
Lincoln
Republic
Four Year Old in Jail Sparks Police Chief’s Promised Reform
Annapolis boy Roger Perry Jr. was jailed after his mother could not control him. Police Commissioner R Lee Waller condemned the action and vowed no more children will be kept in cells overnight. The piece also questions Nautilus polar voyage credibility after its troubled run.
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Annapolis, Md
Mr. Waller
Waller
France Prefers Debt Holiday Over Vacation for Collections
France would like it better to have a holiday on debts she owes but to take no vacation whatever so far as her collections are concerned.
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France
Sonnet Echoes of Love and Faithful Pain
Dorothy Kissling in the Chicago Tribune presents a sonnet about lovers who seek lasting heartache through multiple loves. The speaker laments not loving for a single hour but cannot avoid repeating tender betrayals, torn between faithful restraint and impulsive passion.
Editorials Clash Over Tax Policy and Coal Usage
A string of editorials voices skepticism about federal taxation of gasoline and autos, praising state tax rights and criticizing Pat Harrison. West Virginia papers urge cities to curb smoke from coal use, advocate modern combustion to reduce pollution, and call on the university to demonstrate cleaner burning in homes and industry. Regional notes report high divorce counts in Cabell and Morgantown, with statewide totals and a dip from the previous year.
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Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
Pat
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Morgantown Post
Fransenstein and Poe Adaptations Roil Hollywood Makeup
Hollywood previews reveal Bela Lugosi will be massively obscured as an eight foot Frankenstein rival in Franzenstein with only chin and eyes showing under heavy grease paint and padding. Lugosi’s shoes gain inches to sell the giant effect while Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue is reshaped by Leo Birinski into a romance driven adaptation. Directors chase strange camera angles from cranes to stairways to trick the eye while audiences glimpse a studio era obsessed with spectacle and mythic scale.
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Throwing The Harpoon War Story Briefs
The report notes preparations and rationing tied to Sing Sing prisoners found with a wine vat. Dr Harlow Shapley, famed astronomer, is studying ant life and reflects on earthly matters as he returns to downward bring.
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Earth
Old New York Ties: Swans, Picnics, Expediter Roles
In New York politics, summer picnics and family outreach faded as war altered voter outreach. Sheriff Farley eyed reviving gatherings with ice cream and rides, while nostalgia recalls Central Park swan boats. The piece notes the role of expediter figures in Tammany circles as they fix access and protect interests, strengthening political ties despite changing times.
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New York
Central Park
Transatlantic flight lands after Bremen trip
Across the ocean, a CopenhagenHilligHorris flight completes a long transatlantic journey, landing in the city following departure from Bremen Germany. In Chicago, dancer Andreas Pavley falls 16 stories to his death from a hotel. In Irkutsk Siberia roundtheworld fliers Post and Gatty reach Nova Subirek after a 1450 mile flight from Moscow. In Detroit four people are believed drowned in a heavy windstorm on the lakes. In Cleveland a wind and rain storm kills four and injures several across Northern Ohio. In Detroit twenty three people are rescued after being blown out on the lake in boats by the storm.
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Copenhagen
Hillig
Commodore Jahncke a naval flavor for cabinet vows
Washington column notes that Assistant Secretary Jahncke asks to be called Commodore, sparking discussion on cabinet titles and naval flavor. It recalls Theodore Roosevelt’s use of Colonel and the historic rank swaps between army and navy officers, noting lingering title norms.
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Kirke Simpson
Washington
Jahncke
Navy
Adams
Secreary
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Teddy
Theodore
Jahneke
Arthritis Diets and Joint Inflammation Across Types
Dr Morris Fishbein summarizes rheumatic conditions noting diet rarely affects acute joint inflammations and rheumatic fever, while gout responds to dietary choices. A simple diet with milk cereals and liver supports anemia risk in fever. For chronic arthritis, nutrition should be rich in vitamins minerals and protein, with calorie control to avoid weight gain, especially in older patients.
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Morris Fishbein
MecLester
McLester
Censorship foes unite to fight book and media bans
A new national council on freedom from censorship arrays writers and activists to oppose state and federal censorship. It targets obscenity rulings, seeks to repeal unmailable laws, and backs radio and license-issuance reforms. Members include Hatcher Hughes, Mary Ware Dennett, Eugene ONeill, and Langston Hughes.
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Rodney Dutcher Ashington
Reed Smoot
Utah
Congress
Smoot
Senate
New
National Council On Freedom From
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Hatcher Hughes
Mary Ware Dennett
Post Office Department
James Branch Babell
Jurgen
John S. Sumner
Stewart Edward White
Harry Leon Wilson
Hoover
Customs Service
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Kansas
Virginia
Ohio
New York
Pennsylvania
Cutting
Senator Smoot
West Virginia Synodical League Elects President
Miss Maybelle Theil ing of Charleston elected president of the West Virginia Synodical Luthor league. Receivers appointed for Midland Natural Gas and Twin City Natural Gas. Earl Adkins waives hearing in neighbor slaying case over water bill. Mercury rises to 104 for the week. Miners at Wendell mine abandon tools. Valleys Camp Coal officials face warrants over tear gas. About 4,000 miners idle in Harrison, Barbour and Taylor counties. Aleen Gherk, 16, Grantsville, named healthiest older girl in four clubs. Twenty-five people plead guilty in federal prohibition cases.
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A. H. Jackson
R. R. Thomas
Midland Natural Gas Company
Twin City Natural Gas Company
Earl Adkins
Carl Dent
Mercury
Grafton
Wendel
Maryland Coal Company
Wheeling
Valley Camp Coal Company
Clarksburg
van A. Bittner
Harrison
Barbour
Taylor
Jackson's Mill
Aleen Gherk
Grantsville
West Virginia
Elkins
Robbers Torture Man Seeks Safe Combination
In Los Angeles two robbers bound J Amlin a machine shop night watchman to a lathe. They sought the safe combination and threatened him with the blades. A power outage interrupted the assault, and the robbers fled as another employee arrived for work.
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Los Angeles
J. A. Amlin
Amlin
Billy Sunday's Son Granted Marriage License
George Marquis Sunday 36 son of evangelist Billy Sunday obtained a marriage license yesterday to wed Mauryne Reichard of Los Angeles. Friends here say Reichard is Mauryne La Salle a Hollywood model named as the other woman in Sunday's divorce from his first wife last year.
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George Marquis Sunday
Billy Sunday
Mauryne Reichard
Los Angeles
West Virginia Contractor Low Bidder on Shenandoah Park Highway
Washington June 26 The West Virginia Construction Company Huntington W Va was the low bidder today on a 22 mile highway project in Shenandoah National Park. The bid of 171 002 covers construction from Big Meadows to Swift Run Gap Va.
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Washington
West Virginia Construction Company, Inc
Huntington
W. Va
Shenandoah National Park
Big Meadows
Swift Run Gap
Laval Seeks Chamber Mandate On Debts Policy Vote
France's Premier Laval led a heated debate demanding a chamber mandate to negotiate with Mellon, reading Hoover's proposal and the French memorandum as Stimson note gave Mellon full powers. Louis Marin argued the move aimed to protect American capital and world economy, while Finance Minister Plandin urged recognizing U.S. sacrifices for European solidarity.
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Sal
United States
Germany
Laval
Mellon
Hoover
Europe
Stimson
Briand
Plandin
Stimson Sees Hope in French Moratorium Talks
Washington reports growing optimism as Secretary Stimson sails for France to join Secretary Mellon in negotiating a moratorium on reparations and war debt payments. Paris backs the Young Plan while seeking adjustments to preserve relief aims and ensure funds flow through the international bank for German and central European loans.
Canada Ready to Accept One Year Debt Moratorium
Premier Bennett announced in the Ottawa house that Canada backs in principle a one-year moratorium on all government debts. Britain and the United States were to be notified. MacKenzie King joined in support. In Paris, Mellon will meet French officials to align views on Hoover plan. France expresses cordial accord but opposes extending the moratorium to unconditional annuities Germany must pay. France offers to place its share of non postponable annuities with the Bank for International Settlements, excluding funds needed to balance German credits and other central European credits.
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Stimson
France
Mellon
Hoover
Paris
Germany
United Stes
Bank For International Settlements
United States
White House
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Ottawa
Ont
Bennett
House of Commons
Great Britain
MacKenzie King
Andrew W. Mellon
the Treasury
MacDonald
London
Laval
Edge
Aristide Briand
Just obligeing fire alarm pranks in Cornwall ending in fine
Cornwall Ont Joseph Larose visited the fire station and was told to pull an alarm as a prank when it proved false. He was arrested and fined fifty dollars. He vows not to be so obliging again.
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Joseph Larose
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