Missouri Population Shifts Noted In 1920 Census
Missouri census notes show black population rising to 178 241 in 1920 from 157 452 in 1910 while white population grows to 8 225 044. Foreign born whites total 186 026 with 300 064 native whites having foreign born parents. Includes local reports on Legion convention, murders, plant openings, tornado, frost damage, and civic projects across towns like Crocker Sedalia Kirksville and Springfield.
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Missouri
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jefferson City
The
American Legion
16Th District
Crocker
Sterling Baker’ Post
J. W. Hunt
Redtop
Dallas County
Springfield
World news wrap recounts Genoa talks and allied debt moves
A broad Perth Amboy of items covers Genoa conference hopes, Russian debt relief, and rumored Russo German ties. It notes the reparations commission scrutiny, Morgan’s European loan talks, and wartime policy shifts plus domestic economic hints and labor actions.
Noted Guests Flee Fire At New Willard Hotel
A blaze on the tenth floor of the New Willard during a Gridiron Club dinner forced about six hundred guests including Vice President Coolidge Senators and Representatives to evacuate. Firefighters fought the flames with water pouring through to lower floors but all guests reached safety. The origin may have been a cigarette stump under a rug. the alarm rang at 5:45 AM.
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Washington
Coolidge
Senate
House of Representatives
New Willard Hotel
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Harding
Gridiron
New Willard
Mr. Coolidge
Tourists Will Aid Europe Invasion Season
Europe prepares for an American tourist influx with England hosting May arrivals. Steamship agents forecast optimism while U S officials fear reduced numbers due to hard times at home. Estimates seek 50 000 to 200 000 visitors with 1000 dollars per person, aiding European merchants and hotels.
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Saline
Howard Counties
State Highway Commission
Jefferson City
Missouri River
Glasgow
Commission
London
Europe
England
America
Rail rates out of line with agricultural values
Washington reports that transportation rates on farm products and many other commodities are disproportionately high. The joint congressional commission of agricultural inquiry urges immediate reductions and calls for rate makers to consider commodity value, preserving high priced finished goods if needed to ease costs of basic materials.
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Joint
Congressional Commission of Agricultural Reports
Washington
Congressional Commission of Agricultural Inquiry
Anderson
Miss Hughes Weds Chancey Waddell in Washington
Miss Catherine Hughes daughter of the secretary of state and Mrs Hughes will marry Chancey Lochart Waddell of New York in Washington on June 10. The engagement was announced in March.
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Miss Hughes
Washington
Catherine Hughes
Hughes
Chancey Lochart Waddell
New York
Rescuers Die in Morgantown Coal Mine Collapse
In Morgantown West Virginia two rescuers were killed and two injured at Storm Coal Company Almena mine when a slate fall crushed them. Authorities investigated the mine accident and noted the hazard zone remains blocked.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Almena
Storm Coal Company
Wild Bird Sanctuaries Placed On Texas Gulf Coast
National Audubon Society leader T Gilbert Pearson spending weeks in the border region to study bird life and establish three wild bird sanctuaries Green Island North Bird Island and South Bird Island. He reports abundant wildlife including a dangerous peccary that roams the chaparral and can be triggered into a deadly charge when wounded.
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Lo Gulf Coast
Texas
T. Gilbert Pearson
National Association Audubon Societies
Green Island
North B Island
South Bird Island
United Stats
Mr. Pearson
Pearson
Hindus legend fire festival at Tiruvannamallai tale
In Tiruvannamallai South India a great fire festival recalls a Hindu legend. Siva and Paravati wander Kailasa and a playful moment leads to years of distress for humans until Paravati is sent on penance. Siva forgives when he appears atop the isolated peak signaling forgiveness.
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Tiruvannamallai
South India
Siva
Paravati
Kailasa
Hin Paradise
Elysium
India
Tiruvan Mallai
South
Ascot District
Gigantic Transformer Installed at Ti ford City Lab
A huge one million volt transformer, recently installed at the Westin house experimental laboratory in Ti ford City Pa, features unique winding design for very high voltage testing. It contains nearly 70 miles of wire in cylindrical coils with copper layers on insulating tubes, allowing higher output and more reliable service for electrical progress.
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Westin House
Tiford City
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Bishop Museum Rep Bravely Scales 80 Foot Cliff in Hawaii
A Bishop Museum representative in Honolulu braved Hawaiian myths by climbing an improvised scaffold 80 feet up a cliff between Lanai and Puapehe, tethered by a camera tub, crossing the mythic wrath and proving the feat possible despite local beliefs.
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Bishop Museum
Hlulu
Lanai
Puupehe Island
Yore
Bird Returns on Schedule at Nebraska Nesting Site
An ornithologist from the state University of Nebraska states the brown thrasher arrives each year on the same date, April 19, regardless of weather. The bird nests in a back yard tree and has done so for several years, marking a predictable migration pattern.
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Pilot Grove High School
E. L. Hendricks
Central Missouri State Teachers’ College
Gifford
Macon
Burlington Railroad
Elmer
Retail Merchants’ Association of
Kirksville
New Cambria
Rose Hill
Manhart
Valley
Palmyra
Lar
G. C. Moulder
Lebanon
United States
Newark
N. J
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Sedalia
Marshall
Trent
Legionnaires
Missouri State Bonus Commission
Monett
Zone No. 3
Missouri
Carthage
F. E. Pressiar
Bloomfield
Doug Tuck
Frisbee
Tuck
J. D. Press
George Hackmanon
Nebraska
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Missouri News Nuggets
Tri-State Poster Advertising Association
Kansas
St. Joseph
W. W. Bell
F. Allen Frost
National Poster Advertisers’ Association
J. H. Brinkmeyer
St. Louis
Tri-State Association
L. W. Trester
F. E. Pattee
Amsterdam Enterprise
Amoret Leader
C. E. Ellis
Bates County
Kansas City Southern Railroad
Pattee
Republican Press
Butler
Montrose
John Bauer
Henrys. Waters
Bauer
Clifdale Quarry & Manufacturing Company
Brickeys
Missouri Utilities Company of Mexico
State Public Service Commission
Mexico
Tate
Poplar Bluff
Mountain Grove
Ozarks
F. F. Hatton
W. L. Quails
Crane
Gamble Brothers
Rocky Comfort
J. H. and
D. L. Miller
Daily Times
Trenton
Journal
Lee’s Summit
J. P
Federated Parent-Teachers’ Association
John Jenkins
Machlin Jenkins
Haywood Alexander
Frank Alexander
Benton County
Osage River
Warsaw
MacDowell Betts
Lake City
Flas
Betts
Burns
Commercial Club of
W. J. Rice
Fred Wilson
Penitentiary Hospital
Ava
Boonville
G. 8. Burney
Mansfield
Order of Eastern Star
Hazelton Cemetery
World News
Peace Notes
Entente
Russia
Genoa
Baron Maltzan
Foreign Office
Rome
Rapallo
de la Croix
Belgium
Associated Press
J. Pierpont Morgan
Germany
Reed and
Spencer
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Department of Labor
White House
Walter Burke
Kenosha
Fort Leavenworth
Milwaukee
F. A. Geiger
Calumet
Hammond
Ind
Congress
Allied Debt Commission
Roscoe C
Fatty) Arbuckle
Will H. Hays
Motion Picture Producers’ Association
Dun’s Review
S. W. Straus & Co
New York City
Police Department
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
J. Ogden Armour
Armour & Co
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Army
Navy
Marshal
Joffre
France
Weeks
Denby
State Federation of Labor
el Paso
Pawnee
Tom W. Cook
Alvis Fears
Harry H. Aurandt
Tulsa
Houston
Tex
J. M. Ray
Okmulgee
Allied Separations Committee
Paris
J. P. Morgan & Co
Financial Commission
Kansas City
Twoo Foreign
Saloniki
Houghton
Ebert
Poincare
China
London Daily Express
Pekin
Colima
Scapolan
Monastir
Serbia
Dublin
Omaage
Blaze
Gulf Coast
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