World news highlights from capitals this week
A roundup of international items including Otto Wiedfeldt meeting President Harding as envoy of the German Empire and Republic. Lloyd George surviving a confidence vote in Britain. Italy and Soviet Russia negotiating a trade pact delayed for port state approval. Also notes on reparations talks, coal prices, railroad rate cuts, and various diplomatic and domestic incidents overseas.
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Otto Wiedfeldt
Harding
German Empire
German Republic
Empire
German “Republic
Italy
Soviet Russia
Moscow
Southwest Money Eases With Low Loan Rates
May review from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City notes plentiful funds, easy money, and low loan rates in the Tenth District. Capital floods government securities real estate and new enterprises while farm machinery demand rises. Market prices strengthen boosting overall activity with higher bank deposits and reduced unemployment.
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Kansas City
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Genoa Conference Verdict Divides London and Commons
London editorials condemn Prime Minister Lloyd George’s Genoa speech with most papers labeling the conference a failure. The Times notes the debate added little and the conference failed, while the Morning Post says Americans refused Genoa participation and the gathering would have declined into politics.
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London
Lloyd George
Genoa
House of Commons
Times
the Hague
The
Morning Post
America
Rail Wage Decisions Soon From U S Railroad Board
Chicago reports the United States railroad labor board will issue wage decisions affecting more than four hundred thousand shop crafts and maintenance of way workers independent of interstate commerce commission cuts. Board chairman Ben W. Hooper said some scales were formulated before the commission’s ruling and all decisions will be announced simultaneously.
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ben W. Hooper
Interstate Commerce Convision
Hooper
Ten Killed in Mine Blast at Margaret Mines Near Birmingham
Ten miners died in a gas explosion at the Margaret mines of the Alabama Fuel and Iron Company twenty miles east of Birmingham. Reports said the blast occurred and bodies had not yet been recovered.
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Birmingham
Ala
Margaret
Alabama Fuel and Iron Company
Here
Doiges Heavy Alimony Bill in Kalamazoo
William Love land, a Kalamazoo paper magnate and twice divorced, is remarried to his first wife in Kalamazoo Michigan.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
William Loveland
Swelled Head and Humility at Dinner Parties
A witty reflection on the vanity of recognition as a person may rise in status. The piece cites anecdotes about Swinnerton Shackleton Conrad and a Broadway play, and notes a dowager clinging to trivial recollections while praising arts she did not follow. It ends by saying swelled head is hard to endure yet oddly entertaining after the war.
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Parnassus
Swinnerton
Iowa
Shackleton
Bar Harbor
Conrad
Cosmo Hamilton
Spur
New York
Trade That Touches All
George E Roberts of National City Bank explained global interdependence at the Export Managers club in New York. He noted Russia's tea trade, India's tea and cotton roles, and how disrupted markets ripple to Manchester mills and Southern cotton farmers. He cited connections from England to Argentina and Philadelphia payrolls.
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George E. Roberts
National City Bank
Export Managers’ Club
New York
Russia
India
Manchester
England
New England
Argentina
Philadelphia
Metal replaces wood in homes and industry
An historical note describes how Americans a century or two ago lived with mostly wooden chairs, wagons, and furniture. It explains that metal has largely replaced wood in modern construction, bridge and sidewalk materials, reducing wood consumption by about one third and signaling progress in civilization.
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America
Negotiation over medical treatment terms and fees
Mrs. Ponderosa and Dr. Slimmer discuss a reducing treatment. Mrs Ponderosa balks at steep terms while Dr. Slimmer insists the fee in advance is essential. The exchange hints at financial strain and dietary consequences of the plan.
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Slimmer
Proves It Patience Accuses Percy of Unobserved Paint
In Yonkers Statesman dialogue Patrice claims Percy is not observing, while Patience says otherwise. He reportedly told Patrice that you have twice as much paint on one cheek as on the other.
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Percy
Patrice
Yonkers Statesman
Do not statue memory says Senator Sorghum
Senator Sorghum questions posterity and caricatures in public life. He argues that after a politician has endured caricatures the modern sculptors should leave him alone.
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Posterity
Senator Sorghum
Two Queens Boys Duel with Rifles. One Killed in Camp
In Queens a 16 year old and a 19 year old fought rifle duel in a camp with two witnesses. The younger killed Jacob Kabotz of Brooklyn with a head shot after ten minutes. Victor Janculi dieh faces homicide charges as detectives secure confessions.
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York
Queens
Jacob Kabotz
North First Street
Brooklyn
Victor Janculi Dieh
Victor
Kabotz
Leo Lyoskowski
John Zawantowski
Jacob
Leo
John
Would I Want Her to Marry a Farmer?
In a national survey of 21 000 rural women, about 94 percent would want their daughters to marry a farmer. They cite freedom of farm life, shared business, health, and moral uplift from nature, plus factors like better communication and mobility through rural telephone and cars. The survey by Farmers Wife of St Paul aims to show the brighter side amid previous reports of farm life burdens.
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T. Paul, Minn
Farmer's Wife of
St. Paul
National
Farmer Women’s Magazine
D. A. Wallace
Henry C. Wallace
Department of Agriculture
Minnesota
Mid-West
Chicago Centenarian Sees a Century of Change
James H. Kirkley, aged 100, celebrated his birthday at home surrounded by family. A famed mechanic, inventor and student of science, he has witnessed steam locomotives, electricity and the rise of airships, and he hopes to reach 101 with mind clear and curiosity keen. He believes future progress will outpace past leaps.
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James H. Kirkley
Kirkley
England
Stephenson
Puritan Massachusetts Divorce Case Tops Supreme Court Docket
In Dedham the Superior court handles Florence R. and Leon G. Morrill in a counter suit over love and neglect. Florences and Leon Morrill present claims of spousal neglect and infidelity with testimony from maids and doctors noting her confessed affection for two men. The case, ongoing six months, features dramatic courtroom testimony and ethical questions.
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Leon G. Merrill
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