Peace Notes and Global Turmoil Highlight 1926 Briefs
The summary compiles diverse 1920s items: Japan plans 500 million yen naval budget with eight battleships and eight cruisers. Greece and Albania tensions. Latvia and Russia possibly at war. ongoing League of Nations actions. U S labor leaders and political shifts. economic price changes and disasters from fires to floods. notable deaths and transport of war dead. and European diplomacy movements including Ireland and Central America.
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Fiume
Gidlitti
New Tariff Bill Goes to House
Washington reports the administration unveils a permanent tariff bill after six months of consideration. The measure, 346 pages, may raise revenue estimates up to 700 million dollars yearly. The bill shifts many rates higher and adds oil taxes, placing 35 cents a barrel on crude petroleum and 25 cents on fuel oil.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Ways and Means Committee
House
Unusual Washington meeting on federal budget reform
President and cabinet plus bureau heads gathered in the Interior Department auditorium for a rare health check of government ills. Charles G. Dawes led the session as he prepares to install a federal budget system within thirty days.
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Washington
Interior Department
United States
Charles G. Dawes
Harding
United States declines invitation to League Geneva conference
Washington refuses an invitation from the League of Nations to attend the white slave traffic conference at Geneva. The action signals the Harding administration’s stance of not participating in League affairs.
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United States
Washington
League of Nations
Geneva
Harding
Vast Turco Bolshevist Plot Uncovered in Constantinople
Allied authorities report a large Turco Bolshevist conspiracy in Constantinople with numerous arrests. The alleged ringleader, identified as Augenblick, is among those seized as investigators pursue the breadth of the plot.
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Constantinople
Augenblick
Landis Ends Building Tie-up in Chicago
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis ends the city building trades lockout that had halted more than 100 million dollars in construction for two months in Chicago.
First Civil Marriage in New England 1621 Details
The 1621 marriage of Susanna White to Edward Winslow is described as the first civil marriage in the New World. Both widowed recently after Pilgrim deaths, the couple wed in Plymouth less than two months after William White’s death. Josiah Winslow, their son, later became Plymouth governor.
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New England
Susanna ‘White
Edward Winslow
Susanna
Plymouth
William White
Susanna White
Elizabeth
White
Winslow
New World
New York: Herald
Bradford
England
Oral
Canterbury
Josiah Winslow
Plymouth Colony
Peru revives Order of the Sun by supreme decree
The historic Order of the Sun created by Gen Jose de San Martin is revived under a supreme decree. Gen Simon Bolivar abolished it in 1825 for not conforming to the republic's constitution. The decree allows Peruvians and foreigners who merit distinction to receive it with the president as grand master.
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Order of the Sun
Jose de San Martin
Simon Bolivar
Peru
Republic
Expert Smokers in Belgium Pipe-Lighting Contest
A London workman recalls a Belgian pipe-smoking contest where winners received prizes such as 500 francs. Competitors were given tobacco a long churchwarden pipe and matches and timed to see who could keep a pipe alight longest. The winner, a solemn Flemish peasant, smoked for over two hours aided by beer refills.
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London
London Morning Post
Belgium
Star point counts differ by seal and coin depictions
The U S mint director clarifies star points across seals and coins. Five pointed stars appear on the great seal and presidential seal, while the House seal uses six pointed stars and half and quarter dollars feature six pointed stars on the obverse and five pointed on the reverse, reflecting colonial and heraldic origins. The flag stars trace to the Washington coat of arms.
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United States Mint
United States
House of Representatives
Washington
Clock Tells All Times
Consul Breed at Prague reports a German clock that records many measures beyond time. Shown at a fair it can indicate seconds, minutes, hours, day of week, week of month, month, season, and Earth’s position in its orbit, all for the...
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Breed
Prague
Commerce Department
Missouri House debates dirt road plan and auto license funds
Missouri lawmakers consider diverting about 1 million dollars yearly from automobile license fees to drag dirt intercounty post roads. The measure, backed by Reps Dunlap and Haas, would tax or reallocate funds if needed and faces opposition tied to a proposed 60 million dollar road bond plan.
Recommendation to raise auto license taxes in Missouri
The Associated Engineering Societies of St. Louis through its Public Affairs Committee proposes a higher automobile license tax to fund road maintenance and bond interest on the $60,000,000 road program. Senators Ralph Proctor and Bowker back various increases, including a potential doubling or higher charges by horsepower.
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Associated Engineering Societies of
Ralph
Senate Roads and Highway Committee
Missouri
Proctor
Kansas City
Roy F. Britton
State Highway Board
Fifty-first General Assembly
W. W. Bowker
Tentative Missouri redistricting plan reshapes St Louis area
A draft redistricting bill from the House Redistricting Committee moves St Louis into three districts and reassigns counties including St Louis County to the Ninth, Gasconade to the Eighth, Franklin to the Thirteenth, with Kansas City areas split and projections based on sixteen districts pending Congress action.
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House
St. Louis
St. Louis County
Cleveland A. Newton
St. Charles
Warren
Lincoln
Pike
Montgomery
Callaway
Gasconade County
Eighth
Sid C. Roach
Franklin
Jackson County
South Side
Kansas City
North Side
Clay
Ray
Platte
Missouri
Amendment links car license to tax on motor cars
A proposed amendment would require a license tax on each motor car owner and tie it to the automobile license fee. An August 2 vote seeks to allow interest and principal on 60 million dollars in bonds to be paid from license fees, but maintenance costs are excluded from the amendment.
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Feaur
Malang Plan Road Bill Introduced in House
Representative T. J. Whitehead of St. Joseph introduced a bill based on the Malang plan. Dirt road advocates denounced it as a peacock lanes proposal. The plan outlines primary and secondary roads and marks their location, developed by John Malang of Joplin, former State Highway Board secretary.
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T. J. Whitehead
St. Joseph
Income Tax Bill Lowers Rate for Rest of 1921
The Senate engrossed two revenue measures one cutting the income tax and altering the inheritance tax. The proposed tax plan lowers the last half of this year’s rate from 1 percent to one half of one percent with married exemptions rising from $2000 to $3000 and child allowances up from $200 to $400 annually. A 15 percent reduction is allowed for charitable contributions under the federal tax.
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Senate
Senate Passes Blind Tax Reduction Bill
The Senate approved a bill from Senator Gray of Jasper to cut the tax on pensions for the blind from 2 cents to 11 cents per $100, aiming to ease relief costs. Senator Lysaght of St. Joseph proposed $7,500 for entertaining Marshal Haig and other dignitaries visiting to honor the American Legion gathering in Kansas City on October 21.
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Senate
Gray
Jasper
Lysaght
St. Joseph
Marshal
France
Marshal Haig
England
Harding
Europe
American Legion
Kansas City
Fraud probe on medical college referendum in Missouri district
Investigators examine petition fraud in the Fourth Missouri District covering St. Joseph and Buchanan County as Fred Essen pressed the law at the Legislature. Only 844 signatures were filed for suspension though 3513 were required, risking failure of the referendum if the district cannot be counted. The law allows court review if the State Board of Health denies examinations for licenses. two Kansas City schools and the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons were excluded from recognition.
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Medical College
Missouri
St. Joseph
Buchanan
Jefferson City
Fred Essen
St. Louis County
Buchanan County
State Board of Health
St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons
Kansas City
May re enact the agricultural law in Missouri
Gov. Hyde considers re enacting the agricultural consolidation law halted by a Democratic referendum. He may seek reenactment or creation of a separate Marketing Commissioner to administer the farmers law. The suspension also killed an immigration department proposal to counter rural population loss.
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Gov. Hyde
Office of Marketing Commissioner
Missouri
Kirksville Tax Commission Secretary Named
John Waddill of Kirksville will succeed E N Zevely as secretary of the State Tax Commission on July 1 with a salary of 2400 dollars. Waddill a Republican, Zevely a Democrat, resigned. Gov Hyde said appointments hinge on an appropriation from the extra legislative session.
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John Waddill
Kirksville
Hackmann
E. N. Zevely
State Tax Commission
Waddill
Zevely
Hyde
Tax Commission
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Council of the League of Nations
Albania
Greece
Jugo
London Times
Berlin
Riga
Latvia
Russia
Lettish
American
State Department
Dr. Nansen
Soviet Russia
Ways and Means
George A. Forsee
Frelinghuysen
Stanley
Kentucky
Lee K. Frankel
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York
Post Office Department
Census Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Curtis-Bentley
Oklahoma City
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Coal Miners’ Union
Gompers
Lewis
Federal Farm Loan Banks
Joseph Kroski
Railroad Labor Board
Charles J. Bonaparte
Roosevelt
Cook County Real Estate Board
Wheaton
Antwerp
Denby
William S. Sims
Sinn Fein
America
San Angelo
Tex
Pierce ‘Oil ‘Corporation
Pablo, Gonzales
Fran‘cisco Murgilia
Tamaulipas
Laredo
San Antonio
Oatman
Arizona
Eldorado
Ark
A. W. Bruton
Lawrence
John W. Gilreath
Arkansas
D. A. Boyle
United States Reclamation Service
Poland
Warsaw
Ismid
Sea of
Marmora
Lloyd George
Eamonn de Valera
Federation of Central American Republic
Central American Union Committee
House of Commons
Belfast
Ireland
Queen Mary
Linn Fenners
Dundalk
Order of the Cincinnati
ASK
Fred I. Dunlaps
Daviess
John J. Haas
Werth
State
Dunlap
Dunlap- Haas
Dunlap-Haas
House Roads Committee
Edward Meyers
St. Clair County
William Hirth
Missouri Farmers’ Association
Hirth
Walter EK. Bailey
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