World News Highlights From Capitals and Conflicts
A week in review covers diplomatic moves at a global conference, opium policy shifts, war debts talks in Paris, U S tax and trade actions, Hoover speech on agriculture, and domestic incidents from crime to disasters. Key figures include Salisbury and Coolidge with nations such as Britain France Italy and Germany noted.
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League of Nations
United States
Paris
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Japan
Poland
Greece
Portugal
Jugo-Slavia
Czecho-Slovakia
Romania
President Coolidge opposes raising battleship guns plan
President Coolidge frames opposition to elevating naval gun calibers as a return to old international arms race. He argues the spirit of the Washington treaty matters more than its letter and seeks to keep pact integrity while Congress holds fire on related legislation.
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Coolidge
Interstate Commerce Commission
Curtis
Hoch
trans-Mississippi
Washington
White House
United States
Washington Conference
Congress
America
Senate
House
Veterans press for Bursum bill relief in Congress
One thousand sixteen disabled World War I veterans urged passage of the Bursum bill granting retirement pay to disabled emergency army officers. Senator Bursum pledged to push the relief bill at the first opportunity, after the measure stalled in the house two years earlier.
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Congress
Washington
Bursum
New Mexico
Senate
House
Washburn-Crosby Loses Trade Mark Suit Over Gold Medal
New York The Washburn-Crosby Company was enjoined from the trade mark Gold Medal after Judge Francis A Winslow ruled it infringed the France Milling Company pancake and buckwheat flour mark used since 1905. The ruling marks a major victory for Cobbleskill New York plaintiffs in a long and bitter trademark battle.
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New York
Washburn-Crosby Company
Francis A. Winslow
United States
Great Minnneapolis Milling Corporation
Winslow
France Milling Company
Cobbleskill
N. Y
Tuberculosis Threatens Health of Young Women
A Philadelphia Bulletin summary reports Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk warning at a national education conference that modern young women facing self confident defiance of tradition risk shorter lives and poorer health. Tuberculosis remains the leading danger, aided by diet and late hours among working women, with a remedy seen in restoring home life and stronger church and school guidance.
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Eugene Lyman Fisk
New York
Philadelphia Bulletin
Pest Becomes Aid in Pacific Northwest Forest Study
At the Portland Oregon Pacific Northwest forest experiment station director Thornton P. Munger notes a Bureau of Entomology finding. Beetles are used to loosen bark on pine trees by girdling near the ground in late summer, aiding pulpwood production before logging destroys the pests.
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Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment Station
Portland
Ore
Thornton P. Munger
F. ©. Craighead
Bureau of Entomology
Southern Lumber Company
Opportunities in China for Foreign Experts and Engineers
The article argues China offers vast openings for foreign skilled workers as electricity expands nationwide. It notes 100 new power plants in ten years and a potential rail network growth from 7,000 miles to support a 400 million population. Demand will rise for electrical gear, transportation, highways, water works, factories, power plants, and river harbor projects.
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China
America
United States
Nobel Prize Writer Wladislaw Reymont Career Overview
Wladislaw Reymont, 1924 Nobel laureate in literature, began as a telegraph operator at a small railroad station. He later traveled with a theatre troupe, worked as a railroad worker and farm hand, and once sought monastic life at Czestochowa. His first stories appeared in 1893, and his novel Peasants in four volumes is widely translated. He owns an estate near Posen.
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Wladislaw Reymont
Czestochowa
M. Reymont
Posen
Counterfeit U S Money In China
Shanghai police in the French and international settlements arrested six Italians two Poles and a Russian woman charged with counterfeiting American twenty dollar bank notes in the daytime raids proceeding in the city districts.
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U. S
China
Shanghai
I Mineig Bug In Ditch Two Dead
Galesburg Illinois two Monmouth men killed and two others injured when a bus veered into a ditch during morning hours authorities identified Edward Kiesick among the victims with details incomplete from the report
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Galesburg
Monmouth
Edward Kiesick
Propeller Ski Gear Opens New High Speed Skiing
A German invention offers motorized back strapped propeller power for skiers. Popular Science Monthly notes enabling experienced skiers to travel on level ground at high speed. System starts and stops via a pneumatic device akin to a camera shutter.
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Popular Science Monthly
Germany
United States Tops Global Power Use in 20th Century
A historical note claims the United States consumes nearly as much electricity as all other nations combined, highlighting the scale of its power industry and utilities. The claim emphasizes the vast reach of electric service stations and the national grid during the era.
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United States
U S Crop Values Rise. 1924 25 Revenue To Surpass Prior Year
The 1924 25 agricultural income will exceed the previous year by about half a billion dollars according to the late Secretary Henry C Wallace annual report. Prices are high in four years and production costs have declined. Wheat and corn prospects favor grain producers while hogs and cotton show mixed futures across regions.
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Ashington
United States
Henry C. Wallace
Gore
Wallace
Census of Agriculture Aims to Count All U S Farms
The United States conducts a middecennial census of agriculture begun December 1 and ending in January. It will enumerate between 6.5 and 7 million farms with about 18 000 enumerators and 212 supervisors, costing around 3 500 000 dollars. William M Steuart leads the Census Bureau in this historic effort.
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United States
Bureau of the Census
Uncle Sam
Steuart
Federal surveys show abundant potash sources for U.S. farmers
A progress report from the American Chemical Society based on U.S. Department of Agriculture surveys says greensands in New Jersey, potash shales in Georgia, leucites in Wyoming, and alunites in Utah contain vast potash reserves. Recovery methods via byproducts and alumina for aluminum may unlock economical potash recovery, reducing foreign dependence and boosting domestic supply.
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American Chemical Society
J. W. Turrentine
Bureau of Soils
United States Department of Agriculture
New Jersey
Georgia
Wyoming
Utah
Slush Fund Inquiry Drops Effort Over Forged Telegrams
The Senate campaign fund committee ended its probe into a purported million-dollar Republican slush fund after finding no evidence. Telegraphs alleged to originate from Franklin National Bank were deemed likely forgeries by LaFollette counsel and committee members, with banks and telegraph officials denying any record of the messages.
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Senate Campaign Fund Committee
Western Reserve
LaFollette
Borah
Franklin National Bank
Washington
Telegraph Company
Senator Borah
Frank P. Walsh
LaFollette Counsel
Gal
L. M. Lewis
J. Moses Barrators
Chicago Office Postal Telegraph Company
John B. Cochran
Franklin Bank
Franklin Bank Reserve
San Francisco
Cipal
William V. Hodges
Easte
Sion
Western
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