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Newspaper
Brook Reporter
Location
Brook, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1921
Page
7
German forces confront uprisings near Eisleben and Halle as communists attack transport networks and railways. Reports describe scattered fighting around Leipsic, Bitterveld, and surrounding towns with troops enforcing curfews, patrolling Wilhelmstrasse, and suppressing mobs amid limited communications and fragmented information.
Washington reports the Supreme Court held that increases in value of capital investments and corporate bonds originally bought for investment are taxable under the Revenue Act of 1916. The piece also notes a separate item about Lenin's Creed and a conference in Southport, England, touching on Independent Labour Party positions and an unclear international context.
Washington reports that a senate reconstruction committee forecast a 1,000,000 home deficit and calls for a federal housing program. It urges a 15 billion dollar investment mix for dwellings and transit, a new commerce department, and public savings reforms to fund construction and improve streetcar and rail services.
A chaotic dispatch reports Rene Vivi ani former premier of France aboard the steamship La Lorraine in Washington and New York events amid diplomatic salutes. It notes widespread crop and fruit damage across Oklahoma and neighboring states from freezing weather, with Oklahoma losses around 11 250 000 and broader regional impact on fruit yields and agriculture.
Treasury officials announce War Finance Corporation plan breaking Wilken policy to back exports of cotton and other raw materials to Germany. Director Angus W. McLean says the program marks a substantial shift enabling more finance for shipments currently tied up in warehouses. The initiative anticipates depositing 382 thousand dollars into the treasury to support this heavier export movement.
Chicago dispatch reports plans for a world federation alliance to foster an international friendship pact and armament reduction among nations. The meeting May 17 to 18 will feature speakers including former Vice President Thomas Marshall William Jennings Bryan and Edward Flieny of Boston.
Ford Motor company assets are listed at 384 million with total assets at year end December 31, 1920. Cash on hand and deposits amount to 15.56 million, credits owed total 54.50 million, liabilities of unsecured indebtedness run to 149.03 million. Major stockholders include Henry Ford with 95,821 shares, Edsel B. Ford with 71,911, and Mrs Henry Ford with 5,413 shares.
A strong temblor registered in San Juan Del Sur Nicaragua on March 2 lasting about two seconds. The quake was felt at approximately two o'clock with activity reported by local observers and no immediate damage confirmed.
Manila march 20 police armed with rat guns ringed all cigar factories hit by the cigar makers strike after complaints that workers seeking to return to work were threatened by strikers. Ten thousand men are idle as a result of the strike.
Mrs. George Vullman of Chicago dies in Pasadena at age eighty two after pneumonia. She supported charity work for slestirae children and war relief, gave 500000 to St Luke's hospital in Chicago, and funded arts and statuary restoration. Widow of George M Pullman, she left four children including Mrs. Frank C Lowden and Mrs. Hattie Carolan Sinker.
Washington March 20 Tohngan of Me house immigration committee announced after conference with President Harding that an immigration bill patterned after last session’s measure would be introduced early in the Congress session. Leaders would abandon a ban for a year and support Senate proposal. influx from European countries would be limited to one to three percent of the 1910 alien total.
Chicago manufacturers of men s clothing asked the arbitration board for a wage readjustment for about 40000 workers. They demand a 45 percent wage reduction, leveling of high-wage peaks, and more efficiency from week workers. Sidney Billman, national president of the Amalgamated Garment Workers of America, opposed the plan in his address to the board.
Chicago March 2 The United States railroad labor board dismissed appeals for higher wages filed last fall by 15 railway labor unions. The boards decision covers wage demands across the country and ends the near nationwide effort to boost pay.
A March 20 Houston Texas dispatch reports a blaze at Goose Creek destroying 1,400 barrels of crude oil valued at 100,000 dollars. The fire began when friction occurred during the withdrawal of pipe.
A bill pushing the death penalty faces consideration in Curzon City on March 29 as advocates urge harsher punishment and legal reforms. Officials and opponents clash over crime deterrence and due process amid a charged civic debate.
Moscow, March 20. The Russian soviet government rescinded its decision to abolish money as the medium of value. M. Leshavi says commerce will return to a money standard, with peasants and cooperatives handling exchanges, and foreign trade coordinated by cooperatives. Some claim the Berlin uprising signals a shift of headquarters for the world revolution from Moscow to Germany.
New York reports Charles Chaplin secured admission for his mother Mrs Mannah Chapnoy detained by authorities and sent to Ellis Island for examination after shell shock from German bombing. The board learned she had wartime trauma but Chaplin plans to care for her rest of life and arrangements were made in Washington for admission.
A tornado tore through Fonda and nearby sections of southern Minnesota on March 20, causing two deaths and fourteen injuries. Property losses reached about $300,000. The storm’s path near Worthington was eighty rods wide and about thirty-five miles long, with victims Lou Dahlberg near Rushmore and Mrs. Abe Anderson at Reading.
Boston on March 2 reports a missing or brief incident involving a person named Wiliam. The fragmentary item notes a connection to an airplane but provides few details about the event, participants, or location. Further readable context is needed for a fuller summary.
London reports a wave of incendiary attacks claimed by Sinn Fein as farm buildings burn near Newcastle and in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Scotland Yard mobilizes rapid response teams while special detectives guard 10 Downing Street and Bank of England. In Dublin, armed men raid post offices along coast towns to sever communications.
Seven people were injured when a Southern railroad passenger train from Louisville sideswiped a St. Louis and San Francisco suburban train as they pulled into Union Station. The locomotive and two cars of the incoming train derailed. all injured passengers were from St. Louis suburbs.
A fatal stove explosion in Warsaw Wisconsin killed twelve year old Lawrence Rew and injured his sister Margaret. The blast occurred in a hotel barn area near Winigmood village, causing severe injuries to several others and prompting an investigation into the accident and safety standards at the site.
The report lists broad prices for grains, butter, eggs, poultry, potatoes, onions, cattle, hogs, and sheep. It notes bids for prime steers, cows, calves, and stockers, with figures for receipts and market activity, reflecting a steady but varied demand across agricultural sectors.
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