Missouri eyes tax boards and bootlegger crackdowns
Missouri and neighboring states announced a settlement to re license insurance carriers ending a threatened cross border insurance war. Jefferson City documents report state boards to equalize real estate values, while pursuit of bootleggers and enforcement of dry laws dominated a Jefferson City conference with Attorney General Barrett and federal officers.
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Indiana
Illinois
Ben Hyde
Chicago
Houston
McMurray
Jefferson City
Hyde
William Leary
Kansas City
Ben Stewart
Daugherty
Springfield
Branson
Hollister
Sam Lawrence
Humansville
Macon
Walter Grisham
Elks
Locomotive Department
Missouri Pacific
Sedalia
Leigh B. Woodside
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit
Lebanon
Alice Furtney
Columbia
France
University of Paris
Kirksville
H. B. King
Cape Girardeau
Washington
David Moore
Edward Moore
Mexico
Moore
Jesse W. Barrett
United States
Prohibition
John C. Dyott
Daugh
Global upheaval and treaties dominate week in world news
Across capitals, a provisional government forms in Fiume after an uprising and Italian factions drive out Zanella. Britain reports favorable Egypt talks as Abdel Khalek Sarwat presents a cabinet. Yap treaty ratified by the U S Senate. disputes over military and naval policy continue in Washington.
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Fiume
Zanella
Fascisti
British Foreign Office
Egypt
Lord Allenby
Great Britain
Eerry
Abdel Khalek Sarwat
Pasha
Charges boycott against farmers
Secretary Wallace files a formal complaint under the Packers and Stockyards Act charging St. Louis live stock exchange members and principal order buyers with maintaining a boycott against nonmember firms. About 110 defendants cited to appear in federal court March 10 in St. Louis to show cause why an order should not stop the illegal practices. The nonmembers include two farmer cooperative associations selling livestock at lower rates, with one firm targeted as Farmers Livestock Commission Company.
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Washington
Wallace
St. Louis
St. Louis National Stock Yards
St.Louis
Exchange
Thirtynine Commission
Commission
Farmers’ Livestock Commission Company
Legion Will Hunt for Jobs for Veterans
Chicago reports Colonel Hanford MacNider announces American Legion drive to find work for seven hundred thousand World War I veterans idle and in need. Local surveys to be completed before March 20 designated American Legion employment day with expected relief of one million men in thirty days. President Harding urged to proclaim the day and leaders nationwide to cooperate.
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Chicago
American Legion
Legion
Hanford MacNider
Illinois Department of the Legion
MacNider
Harding
Grain Growers Form Sales Agency to Open Branches
The U S Grain Growers Inc announces incorporation of its U S Grain Growers Sales Agency as a grain marketing subsidiary. It will open in Chicago Kansas City Omaha Indianapolis and Minneapolis and expects to begin operations soon. The contracted business volume reportedly makes the entity the largest grain selling firm worldwide.
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U. S
Steer Rampages Through Paddy’s Market in Times Square
A large Texas steer caused chaos at Paddy's Market two blocks west of Times Square. The frightened shopkeepers and peddlers faced overturned push carts and damaged vegetables as the steer created a topsy turvy scene in Bedlam New York.
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Bedlam
New York
Paddy’s Market
Times Square
At 61 Awaits 37th Child in Birmingham
The Alabama father of thirty six children at 61 years faces another birth near his Birmingham home. The well known paterfamilias is reported as the champion father of Alabama and possibly the nation as the stork circles his residence once more.
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J. S. Brenneman
Sedalia Capital
Sedalia National Bank
Charles L. Hanley
Brenneman
Caruthersville and
Kennett Electric Light and Power Company
Missouri Public Service Company
Jefferson City Light, Heat
Millersburg
Fulton
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Success Seekers Value Honesty and Industry in Business
A column urges aspiring entrepreneurs to surround themselves with honest industrious people. It argues profits stem from thrift sobriety and steady effort, recommending building a permanent network of reliable, moral contacts and avoiding wastrels to ensure stable, predictable business success.
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Don Marquis
New York Sun
Guile and a Comanche Indian yell end fraud case
William J Burns recounts a case where a doctor confronts a fraudulent claim about a schoolteacher beating a child. The doctor pretends to assess an ear injury with a mirror and whispers to his assistant, then asks for a knife to cut the ear, prompting the boy to flee and end the case.
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William J. Burns
Washington
Herod
Cow Moose Skilful Boxer
In Canada's northern and western forests moose form small groups to trample deep snow creating compact yards. These zones allow browsing yet expose the cow moose to predators as she fights with swift forefeet, using boxing like strikes.
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Canada
Planes Stop Using Cotton Waste In Canada Workshops
Cotton waste once used for cleaning machin ery in Canadian air service workshops is banned after engine overloads. Lieut. Col. E W Stedman explains small cotton threads left on parts cause engine stoppages, urging commercial firms to prohibit such use of waste.
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Canadian Air Service
E. W. Stedman
Air Board
Science Service
London’s Literary Nights For Youth Study
London county council runs literary evenings for persons over fourteen. Institutes offer courses in music dances folk songs astronomy biology history languages art and modern English literature. Schools operate on a co operative plan with student input and offer educational visits to places of interest.
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London
London County Council
Educationa
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