World News Roundup From Capitals Across the Globe
A broad weekly digest covers French public works talks with Britain on transport control, Luxembourg to Lithuania and Ruhr developments, German police disarmament orders, and inter Allied railway negotiations. It notes railway revenue gains, U S note to Britain over consuls, and ongoing political shifts in Porto Rico and Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. le Trocquer
Minster of Public Works
Rhineland
Paris
Fire at Manhattan asylum kills twenty two inmates and three attendants
A blast likely from Hell Gate dredging triggered a fire at Ward’s Island state hospital for the insane. Twenty two inmates and three attendants died as 1600 patients were evacuated in zero weather. Attendants Campbell Hill Billigan de Emp and Reiss died. others aided evacuations and containment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Hospital
New York
Manhattan State Hospital For the
Ward's Island
East River
Michael Campbell
James Hill
Patrick Billigan
George A. de Emp
George F. Reiss
Norris
Hell Gate
Elect
Campbell
Hill
Marcus Heyman
Row Over Indian's Riches In Okmulgee Case
Okmulgee Oklahoma guardian Carl J O'Hornett files in county court to adjudge his guardianship authority and seek recovery of estate allegedly disposed of illegally from Jackson Barnett the so called richest Indian The action challenges an Interior Department arrangement that split Barnett's wealth with his wife and promised him 50000 annually O'Hornett asserts information about more than a million dollars of the Indian's estate may have been misused.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okmulgee
Carl J. O’hornett
Jackson Barnett
Barnett
Interior Department
Postal Inspector L. C. Chance Shot Dead in Savannah Office
The body of L. C. Chance of Fort Scott Kansas post office inspector was found dead in his Savannah Georgia office. He had died from a gunshot wound from a .45 caliber pistol and appeared to have been dead about forty eight hours. Chance was a veteran of the postal service formerly attached to the New York division. The body was found upright in an office chair with the right leg over the desk corner. A search for Chance was started at the request of his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
L. C. Chance
Fort Scott
Kas
Chance
Postal Service
New York
Priest's Death by Own Action Shocks Town
The Rev. James J. Fitzpatrick D D pastor of Mary’s Catholic Church in Marshalltown Iowa took his own life with a gun in his rectory room. Ill health is cited as the cause behind the act and the tragedy shocked the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Ila
Jam. J. Fitzpatrick
Mary’s Catholi Church
Mary
Red Cross appoints Bicknell as vice chairman
Washington. Ernest P. Bicknell, recently American Red Cross commissioner for Europe, is named vice-chairman of the American Red Cross, succeeding Dr. A Ross Hill who has resigned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ernest P. Bicknell
American Red Cross
Europe
Amercan Red Cross
A. Ross Hill
Currency of the Lost Franklin Era Resisted by Flax and Fur
Governor John Sevier devised a colonial style currency using flax linen wool and cotton linsey along with beaver otto raccoon fox skins and various animal byproducts. The system faced counterfeiting when pelts were bundled with tails showing the wrong kind, enabling profits of four shillings ninepence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sevier
Franklin
Tennessee
Fourteenth Commonwealth
Pontiac
Massachusetts
Bay State
Hingham
Mass
North Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Sevier
Hundredth Anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen
The piece recalls Hans Christian Andersen’s first publication at seventeen in The Day and notes relics in the Odense museum. It discusses his schooling, early dramatic ambitions, Odense’s heritage, and Denmark’s history linking chivalry, conquest, and the Church of St Canute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hans Christian Andersen
Andersen
Odense
Hans Christian
Denmark
St. Canute
England
Long-Distance Wood Fuel River Trip
A West Hemisphere wooden fuel trek from Fort McMurray Alberta to the Mackenzie river delta covers about 3000 miles. Winter in the forest yields spruce and balm of Gilead logs. dry sap filled logs burn quickly while gum logs last longer. An elderly lone worker uses a self pulled sled to chop saw and stack piles, earning $4 per card for the company and leaving lasting monuments along the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort McMurray
Alberta
Mackenzie River
Superintendent visits village school in riddle tale
The superintendent tours the village school where every face shines with cleanliness and eager ears listen for each word. A student named Willie finally answers a lake riddle with a clever line claiming a hole in the kettle as the lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie
Walter Scored Confrontation Over insult at restaurant
The passage shows a quarrel where Walter questions the waiter's action calling it an insult to every calf in the country. The waiter hesitates then defends the cut as not meaning to insult. The exchange ends with a tense moment as the waiter speaks up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter
Missouri banks short in state funds driven to sue for breach
Missouri authorities consider damages after bank depositories failed to take over portions of state funds under 1921 contracts, leaving about $18.1 million at 5.1 percent and the rest at 3 percent, as lawmakers study reorganization plans amid multiple local incidents and public notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Barrett
Thompson
Jefferson City
Bank of Commerce of Kansas
Commerce Trust Company
Kansas City
Hyde
Senate
House Banking
Citizens’ Bank of Sikeston
C. EK. Dover
A. J. Stanfield
Board of Directors
Dover
Henry Koester
Excelle
Macon County
Koester
Moberly
Union
St. Louis
Joplin
Harry A. Richardson
Alllance
W. R. Crowther
Golden City
Farmers’ Grain Dealers’ Association of
Eldon
Byron Sarker
Cassville
Tina
Robert R. Wilson
Tina Herald
Alavon Aurora
W. H. Blackburn
Columbia
Schubert
Boonville
Menin
Original Kind of Touch Dialogue Sparks Local Gossip
Fragmentary exchange shows a wife asking for money talks and a husband reacting to loneliness. The overheard chat hints at financial concerns and shifting domestic dynamics in a small community setting.
Hate and Love Ode Recounted in Faithful Verse
A religious verse extols God and saints praising love over hate. It asserts hate may rise in a crowd but cannot defeat love, expressing gratitude to the Lord who rules and guides the faithful.
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Gaillius
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Ruhr
Belgium
Degoutte
Asquithian
Lloyd George
League of Nations
Reuter’s
Cologne
inter-Allied Railway Sub-Commission
Mont Riley
Porto Rico
Island
Harding
House
United States
Great Britain
Newcastle
Federal Coal Commission
Chicago
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Veterans’ Bureau
Representative Fish
William Edinger
Battle Creek
Mich
William J. White
Cleveland, O
H. R. Paxton
el Paso
Tex
Paxton
William T. Kemper
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad
J. Ogden Momo
Armour & Co
Dundee
Fla
John W. Muir
St. Joseph
Robert Kerr
Atchison County
Atchison
Maryville
Kerr
Missouri State Highway Commission
Jake L. Hamon
Frank L. Ketch
Ardmore
Ketch
Temple Lumber Company
East Mayfield
Beaumont, Tex
Howard G. Davidson
Brooksfield
San Antonio
Dawson Mine No. 1
Dortmund
Germany
Reichsbank
Bonn University
Fritz Thyssen
Bonn
Mayence
Nées
Havana
Cuba
Bartholomew Bacilieri
Verona
Rome
Cardinal Bacilieri
Mary MacSwiney
Free State
Annie
Cork
Miss MacSwiney
Guardian of
Oklahoma
Georgia
Missouri News Nuggets
Atherton State Bank
T. W. Bast
Clifford Johnson
Sedalia
State Tax Commission
Jeffson City
State Board of Charities Corrections
Homer Talbot
Louis
Board of Charities Corrections
Talbot
Board
Department of Tomology
University of At Columbia
Mishall
Sweet Sprit Elevator Company
Missouri P. Railroad Company
Parks
Vater Company
U. S. S. Maine
Havana Harbor
Vetera
University of
Little
Dewitt Eskew
Poplar Bi
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