Split in Republican ranks over cotton tariff schedule
Washington July 13 A real split arose in Republican Senate ranks over the administration tariff bill during consideration of the cotton schedule. Ten committee amendments proposing higher rates on yarns sliver and roving were defeated. Lenroot led the opposition with 12 Republicans voting against the measures on the initial roll call 22 to 24. Democrats largely voted against the proposed increases. The debate touched on potential cuts for lower grade cotton cloth and the schedule’s future handling next week. Senator Lenroot argued against higher yarn and cloth rates while Smoot backed them for industry protection. Democratic critics called the rates indefensible.
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Washington
Senate
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Borah
Capper
Cummins
Jones
McCormick
Nelson
New
Norbeck
Sterling
Townsend
Willis
Finance Committee
Republican Agricultural Tariff Bloc
United States
Smoot
Utah
Simmons
North Carolina
Underwood
Alabama
Smith
South Carolina
Army Private Faces Court Martial Over Kidnap Bid
Private Joseph Kerwin of the U S Army is under arrest at an Army Base in South Boston on charges of scandalous conduct and theft of an Army automobile. He allegedly aided a kidnapping attempt on Wilfred Sharpe in Putnam Connecticut, involving Mrs Annie Evelyn Monk Sharpe of Providence. The plan targeted Sharpe's 21 year old husband. the escape included a flight into Rhode Island and a shooting incident. Lieutenant Eliot R Thorpe interviewed Dr Harry Sharpe, and Major General Edwards ordered the investigation and arrest pending court martial.
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Joseph Kerwin
South
Boston
Annie Evelyn Monk Sharpe
Providence
Wilfred Sharpe
Putnam, Conn
Wildwood Pavilion
Putnam
Eliot R. Thorpe
Harry Sharpe
Sharpe
Edwards
Kerwin
Army
Rhode Island
Auto Train Tragedy Leaves Three Dead in Roslindale
Mrs. Fannie M. Elridge, 63, died after a Lawson flier struck her car at a Plymouth bound crossing. Her son David Foster Elridge and his wife were seriously injured. Alfred Cowett, 34, of East Weymouth, survived with head injuries. The crossing tender was dismissed after reporting no signal or bell alert.
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Fannie M. Elridge
Cannerbury Street
Roslindale
David Foster Elridge
Cotton Street
Quincy Hospital
Alfred Cowett
Kensington Road
East Weymouth
Lawson
Elridge
Cowett
Elridge Machine
Quincy
Swift & Co
Elridges
Braintree
Cape
Chatham
David Elridge
Freight Run Goes Over Mountain S Safety Track
A runaway freight train plunged down Saluda Mountain after running on the safety track, near Saluda Mountain North Carolina. The despatch gave no details on the crew's fate.
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Spartanburg
S. C
Saluda Mountain
Saluda
N. C
Debs Suffering Nervous Breakdown in Chicago Sanitarium
Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, pardoned last December by President Harding after over three years in federal prisons for seditious utterances, is reported to be suffering a nervous breakdown and will be treated in a Chicago sanitarium after arriving from Terre Haute, Indiana.
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Chicago
Eugene V. Debs
Harding
Debs
Terre Haute
Ind
WILD ALARM ALL IN VAIN
Mr and Mrs Merrick Adams of Reading went blueberrying in North Reading yesterday. The woods grew thicker and Mrs Adams was separated from her husband. He alerted police and fire departments who searched for an hour and a half before locating her calmly picking berries. She declined a ride home and planned to fill her pail before leaving.
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Merrick Adams
Reading
North
Twelve Die In Scotland Coal Mine Explosion
Twelve men were killed and five injured in a fire damp explosion at the Plean colliery near Stirling Scotland today.
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Stirling
Scotland
Plean
16000 Elks Parade Concludes Grand Lodge Meeting
In Atlantic City on July 13 the 16,000 Elks paraded as the grand lodge meeting closed. The pageant lasted two hours and was described as the most pretentious ever staged. Philadelphia Lodge No. 2 led with over 1000 in line and the convention ended with the installation of Grand Lodge officers.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Elks
Grand Lodge
The
Philadelphia
Gould Bride an Old Friend of Financier Gould
Reports detail George Gould's marriage to Mrs. Alice Sinclair after she left for Europe with her two children. Neighbors recall visits to Sunnybrook in Doansburg where Gould’s affair with Sinclair thrived. servants and a press portraitkeeper add fragments about the couple's plans and travels.
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Gould Bride
Sunnybrook
Westchester
Deansburg
Brewster
Gould
Miss Sinclair
Europe
Georgian Court
Lakewood
N. J
William Ahmling
Manursing Island
Rye
Sinclair
Ahmling
Carl
Fred
Edith Kingdon Gould
Sunnybrook Place
Colonial Mansion
Ohio
George Grossmith
George J. Gould
West Seventyfourth Street
Manhattan
Doansburg
George Gould
Alice Sinclair
Paris
London
Elfman brothers receive added punishments in assault case
At Central Court yesterday Charlie and Louis Elfman of Bradford street received added sentences for assaulting neighbor Louis Seigel. Louis Elfman drew two months for defiant grin at sentencing, while Charlie Elfman got one month and two months respectively, with family members present for the fifteenth time.
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Charlie
Louis Elfman
Bradford Street
Central Court
Louis Seigel
Elfman gang terrorizes Bradford street bootlegging ring
Witnesses describe the Elfman group of seven to eight involved in a Bradford street bootlegging operation. They allegedly beat rum merchants, threaten residents, and exact loyalty through force, with Rose Elfman boasting of profits while accusing others of betrayal. Police and court officials intervene amid ongoing violence.
Police eye Elfman theft ring as arrests rise
Officers consider a growing pattern of thefts tied to the Elfmans as more cases accumulate. Police circles anticipate further jail time after numerous incidents linked to the family.
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Elfmans
Doctor Says Germans Refuse Gold Money
Lawrence July 13 Dr John C Banker of this city noted traveller and reputed to be the most widely travelled member of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain has just returned from a four months tour the itinerary of which brought him to the Near East along the Mediterranean Sea and Germany.
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Lawrence
John C
Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain
Near East
Mediterranean Sea
Germany
Traveler laments wartime gold trade barriers in Germany
The narrator recalls Oberammergau and the shock of not exchanging American gold for German money. In four towns, shops hotels and banks refused gold. An intelligent banker explains Germany bars gold to avoid paying war debts to France, making gold an unacceptable currency.
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Oberammergau
Germany
France
For Value Received to Appear in Boston Sunday Post Magazine
The Married Life feature by Edith Bernard Delano titled For Value Received will run in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine, highlighting a personal story of relationships and moral choices.
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Edith Bernard Delano
Boston Sunday Post
New romance in Filmland Larry Semon and Lucille Carlyle
Los Angeles July 13 announces the engagement of screen comedian Larry Semon and his leading lady Lucille Carlyle. They have not fixed a marriage date. In Philadelphia many young women enter nursing as a believed path to matrimony.
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Los Angeles
Larry Semon
Lucille Carlyle
Philadelphia
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