World News Chronicle Highlights by Late 1923
A broad sweep of international items includes Corliss Hooven Griffis's 21 month prison sentence for conspiring to kidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, German moves on Ruhr coal and rail networks, Berlin clashes with police and 10,000 demonstrators, aid talks on food credits, U S farm restoration plans, and political shifts in the United States and Europe.
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Corliss Hooven Griffis
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Mosbach
Germany
Coolidge Advocates World Court Yet Opposes League Pact
President Coolidge in his congressional address honors President Harding and calls for a world court of justice while rejecting the League of Nations covenant. He urges American restraint in foreign entanglements, supports arbitration, and outlines plans on tariffs, shipping, railroads, prohibition enforcement, immigration limits, and veteran care.
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League of Nations
Court of Justice
Washington
Coolidge
Congress
Harding
Fane
Hague Tribunal
World Court of Justice
Russia
Better Measure of His Own in Child Dialogue
A Boston Transcript cartoon caption shows Tommy requesting the cook prepare his lunch. The mother replies it’s no trouble, and the boy notes the cook has a bigger appetite than he does.
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Tommy
Boston Transcript
Point of Cure
Isolated quotation from H. Chajin noting a moral point that when evils become intolerable people seek a remedy or cure for social ills. The fragment reflects a historical view on collective action and healing society.
SQUIBS On camels age and urban vision in society
The note surveys camel lifespans reaching up to a century and observes more short sighted individuals in cities than rural areas. It also highlights Chilean wooden heel manufacture as an expanding industry and comments on product quality.
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Chile
Neighbor Exchange Over Thumb Injury Sparks Banter
A neighbor asks about a carpet project as Jones swears after hitting his thumb. Stifkins quips about laying a car pet while Jones explains he is putting in flooring beneath an existing carpet.
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Stifkins
Jones
Sounds Reasonable. A critic voices church xenophobia in Nashville
A Nashville Southern Lumber roan notes a critic claiming churches are dominated by a lot of aliens. The remark frames a debate over perceived demographic influence in local congregations.
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Nashville Southern Lumber Roan
Nine Die As Fog Shatters Century Limited Wreck
Heavy fog and a stalled motor car caused a three section Century Limited wreck near Forsythe New York. Nine people were killed and about twenty injured including William B Donovan of the Eastern League.
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Forsythe
N. Y
Century Limited
New York Central
William B
Wild Bill) Donovan
New Haven
Twentieth Century Limited
New York Chicago Flyer
New York City
Albany
U S inquiry targets Standard Oil gasoline price fixing
Washington reports charges of collusion in price fixing for gasoline and all petroleum products by Standard Oil from New York to California are under Justice Department investigation. The probe, begun last week, aims to be the largest action against the company since the 1911 Supreme Court dissolution. The move follows a spreading gasoline war starting in South Dakota.
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United States
Dicial Council
New York
Georgia
Circuit Court ‘of Appeals
Eighth Circuit
Washington
Standard Oil Company
California
Department of Justice
Standard Oil
Supreme Court
South Dakota
Workers with Defective Vision Cited in Major Industries
Eyesight Conservation Council of America reports that 25 million fully employed Americans suffer defective vision. In Ford Motor Company’s Detroit plant 29 thousand of 60 thousand workers are affected, with DuPont and Ford adopting eyesight conservation programs.
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New York
Eyesight Conservation Council of America
Detroit
Ford Motor Car Company
I. DuPont De.Nemours & Co
Wilmington
Del
Ford
Indians May Get Full Royalties From Federal Lands
Washington report says proceeds from timber sales surplus land and mineral lease royalties on all Indian reservations would go in full to the Indians if Congress passes a measure approved by Secretary Work.
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Washington
Congress
Work
U. S. and Germany Sign New Trade Pact
Washington reports at the state department that a commercial treaty with Germany has been signed to replace the wartime convention abrogated during the conflict.
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U. S
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