House Passes Bonus in House Senate to Shelve It
Washington dispatch notes the House will pass a soldier bonus bill while the Senate delays action for the session. Despite treasury and monetary officials opposing it, party leaders aim to push the measure again in 1924 with a sales tax possibility. President Harding appears to back Secretary Mellon, complicating Senate plans.
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David Lawrence
Copright
Bridgeport Telegram
Washington
House
Senate
the Treasury
Treasury
Congress
Mellon
House of Representatives
Melton
White House
AL. Hareng
Fordney
House, Ways and Means Committee
Gillett
Florida
Fordnoy
Mr. Harding
Yslorida
House ‘Ways and Means
Mousa
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Hodge
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Record Set In Sixty Foot Dive By Yale Swimmer
Middletown March 1 A new intercollegiate record for the sixty foot plunge was published tonight by M Guernsey of New York member of the Yale swimming team. His time was 152 6 seconds surpassing the previous record of 163 5 seconds by F J Meagher of the University of Chicago. Yale defeated Wesleyan in the meet 44 to
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Middletown
Wesleyan University
M. Guernsey
New York
Yale
F. J. Meagher
University of Chicago
Wesleyan
Hides Ad Valorem Duty Restored By Senate Panel
Washington March 15 Senators on the Republican Finance Committee approved a fifteen percent ad valorem import duty on hides as they rewrite the Wordney tariff bill. The duty would have applied under the Paine-Aldrich and Underwood acts and would remain under the Rodney measure.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Labor Secretary to Inquire into Anthracite Issue
Secretary Davis of the Labor Department left Washington for New York to address coal talks between mine operators and the miners union scale committee. He plans to meet with the Women’s Department of the National Civic Federation and will seek to engage with the coal situation. Government agencies took no action on a possible strike in the bituminous fields while protests over a proposed wage commission were filed.
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Washington
Davis
Department, of Labor
New York
Miners’ Union
Women’s Department
National Civic Federation
Frank Yarrington
Tllinois District Miners’ Union
Anthracite Miners Demand 20 Percent Wage Increase
New York March 15 Demands of the anthracite mine workers, including a twenty per cent wage rise, were presented to mine owners after a two and a half hour session. Miners left with nineteen demands and adjournment until Friday. Operators expected to reply then.
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New York
Tadax
New York Officer Fatally Wounded in Brooklyn Hold-Up
Patrolman John McMail was mortally wounded in a pistol duel with two robbers on Sutter Avenue Brooklyn Shmuel Cohen shot one assailant through the neck aiding Mrs Anne Hotrngcheck as the men attempted a hallway robbery The wounded bandit fled while Cohen pursued another into a tombstone yard where a pistol duel left one robber wounded The other escaped Patrolman Charles Brown later identified the wounded bandit as Tony Raholocowitz a feared suspect previously linked to a Boston police killing and a Belmont Avenue bootleg operation
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New York
John McMail
Sutter Avers
Brooklyn
Shmuel Cohen
Anne Hotrngcheck
Homs
Gonen
Cohen
Charles Brown
Browzisvilla
Tony Raholocowitz
Brown
Rabocowitz
Boston
Belmont Avenue
Orient Weary of White Man Issue Facing Great Britain
An article from London discusses unrest in the Near East and India over a proposed Turkish treaty revision. It suggests religious tensions among 70 million Muslims could impact British control, with Viceroy Reading and Montagu cited in policy debates. It notes allied ministers meeting March 2 in Paris to discuss treaty changes and quotes Mohammed Ali on religious pledges. A Texas man reflects on marriage practices after a 30 year relationship.
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London
Near East
India
Viseroy Reading
Montagu
Parle
Sevres
Mesopotamia
Egypt
England
Lloyd George
Mohammed Ali
Shakar al
Gets-It Ad Hints Doomed Quick End For Pain Relief
An old advertisement fragment touts Gets-It with grim promise of a rapid painless cure. It mocks long treatment and shows a gruesome image of a shriveled skin piece discarded, urging readers to purchase the product from Lawrences and Co Mfr cage.
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E, Lawrences and Co
Mfr
Cage
Policemen Foil Promising Duel In Street Clash
John Cashman and Frank Cousins, both of 364 Willard Street, arrived with knife and ice pick for a duel. Officers Lavin and Simpson from the Second Precinct spotted them. The would be duelists fled but were chased and captured. charged with breach of the peace and assault over a personal quarrel.
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John Cashman
Frank Gousing
wWillerd Streat
Lavn and Simpson
Second Precinst
Cashman
Cousins
Overwork Fatal Tax Assessor in New Jersey
Marek 3 Charles W. Gaudineer 60 president of a Manhattan printing firm died at home in Maplewood New Jersey his death blamed on overwork during a reassessment of South Orange property He is survived by two sons and a daughter.
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Maplewood
N. J
Charles W. Gaudineer
Manhattan
South Orange
Hin
Will Hays Bids Farewell to Washington to Enter Films
Former postmaster general Will Hays waves farewell after his last cabinet meeting and transitions from public service to the motion picture industry as he becomes a figurehead in the film world.
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Washington
Will Hays
Landis
Executed in Hartford speech by officials at banquet
Nashville Tenn May 16 Maurice Mays, condemned for the 1919 murder of Mrs Lindsey of Knoxville, was executed in the electric chair today after declaring he died to satisfy publican politicians. Mayor Fred Atwater and City Attorney John A. Cornel attended a Hartford banquet of Connecticut Mayors Association yesterday.
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Tenn
Mat
Maurice Mays
Prise
Waas
Girdle Lindsey
Knoxville
Fred. Atwater
John A. Cornel
Hartford
Connecticut
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