World News Roundup From Capitals Across the Globe
A piecemeal digest reports French troops seizing rail hubs in western Germany and curtailing transport to unoccupied areas. Curzon expected in Lausanne to sign a Turkish peace accord amid Ottoman debt talks. Belgian crisis over Flemish language flares. government resignations follow. Reports of terrorism in the Ruhr and a Czech/German standoff, plus rail and trade shifts, loans, and harvest-related logistics across multiple nations.
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Curzon
Great Britain
Lausanne
University of Ghent
Senate
Federal tax reductions eyed after revenue surge
Secretary Mellon indicates possible tax cuts in his annual message as the government posts a surprising surplus for the year ending June 30. Budget chief Herbert Lord and President Harding will announce the figures at the annual fiscal meeting, with customs and internal tax receipts far exceeding original estimates.
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Washington
Mellon
Congress
Treasury
Harding
Herbert M. Lord
Pinchot Weighs Dry Fund Offer From W C T U
The Pennsylvania WCTU offered a 250000 dry fund to support a large corps of dollar a year prohibition workers to gather evidence against bootleggers. Governor Pinchot could not accept the money due to lack of a legal handling fund and warrants mechanism. He said a way would be found to use the money, though he would not discuss legal aspects.
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Harrisburg
Commonwealth
Capitol
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
British Halt Balkans War After Vienna Belgrade Talks
British intervention prompted Belgrade to soften its ultimatum to Bulgaria and the Little Entente to delay actions. Sir C Alban Young and British ministers in Prague Bucharest Athens warned that Britain and Italy would intervene if the ultimatum stood. Bulgaria’s overnight demobilization prompted the shift.
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Vienna
Belgrade
Little Entente
Bulgaria
Balkans
C. Alban Young
Patchitch
Great Britain
Italy
Prague
Bucharest
Athens
Council of Ministers
Oklahoma Boy Drowns Near Kingfisher Creek
Ellis Nichols seven year old son of F M Nichols drowned while swimming in Uncle Johns Creek near the city park. Elmer Coleman nearly drowned but was saved by a pulmotor.
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Oklahoma
Kingfisher
Crossing Crash Kills Three in Hobart Ind
Three people died and one was injured when a motor car bearing passengers was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train near Hobart Indiana. The accident occurred recently on a railroad crossing. Local authorities are investigating the scene and identifying the victims.
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Hobart
Ind
Pennsylvania
Here
Coincidence Brings Civil War Vet’s Reclaimed War Gear Home
Former West Virginia Governor MacCorkle recalls an 1893 meeting with a Civil War veteran who discovered his own name on a musket stock and a canteen among old army surplus. The man, moved to tears, hugged both items as proof of their journey from battle to remembrance.
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MacCorkle
West Virginia
France
One Bird Less on the Farm
Former Governor Fletcher narrates a Vermont tale of a housewife who draws the line on a cuckoo clock purchase. A rural couple in Montpelier sees the clock strike and the wife protests adding another bird to her duties despite the humorous scene.
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Fletcher
Vermont
Montpelier
Maria
Hezekiah
Building Aerial Way Connects Chicago to Cheyenne
Night mail will travel the 900 mile Chicago to Cheyenne aerial route with emergency landing fields every 25 miles. Beacons at each field include five million candle power searchlights visible 40 miles, wind cones and marking lights to guide pilots. Night flights aim to deliver letters across the continent in 30 hours.
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Chicago
Cheyenne
Liffey Set for Useful Power Harness Plan
The Liffey river is slated to be used for electric power generation. A scheme has been adopted with a company formed to carry it out. A private bill will be introduced to license the scheme and to seek government takeover of all or part of the enterprise on completion.
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E. H. ‘McReynolds
Jefferson City
Missouri Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau News
Missouri Pacific Railway
Farm Bureau Federation
H. G. Stevens
Paris
Monroe County
Sharter
Kemper Military School
Boonville
War Department
United States
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Louisiana
Ridgeway
Ill
Losing Her Hosiery
A shopper notices crowd at a hosiery counter then leaves when the sec ond stockings collapse on her. A passing woman points out she is already losing her hosiery as stockings snag across her arm.
Garden Peas Seed Production Rises in 1922
The 1922 commercial production of garden peas for seed reached 46.6 million pounds, up 75 percent from 1921. The five year average production sits at 54 million pounds according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
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Lake Geneva
Wis
Department of Labor
United States Department of Agriculture
Buchanan
Sudan
Missouri
Missouri Education Costs and Civil Service Debate Headline
Missouri education cost reports show about 40 million dollars paid by taxpayers for 1921 22 elementary and high schools with 900000 school children enrolled and 21 422 white teachers while 939 teachers served colored students. Civil service reform proposals were debated at Jefferson City with merit examinations and veteran preference for appointments and promotions.
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Missouri
Jefferson City
Charles A. Lee
Lee
C. H. McClure
Warrensburg
Army and Navy
United States
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