Father of President John Coolidge Dies in Vermont
Plymouth Vermont Col John Coolidge father of the President dies at 10 41 PM after a heart attack his son travels by special train to the bedside arriving at 10 10 AM next day to mourn with Mrs Coolidge and Deputy Sheriff MacAulay who has served as bodyguard attends the scene.
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Plymouth
John C. Coolidge
White Farmhouse
Col
John Coolidge
Albert M. Cram
Bridgewater
Colonel Coolidge
Rally For Life
Johnson
MacAulay
Huge Road Spending Totals For 1926 Declared
Washington reports that over 1.03 billion dollars will be spent on roads in 1926 for construction and maintenance. State highway departments plan about 598.6 million, counties and locals about 431.7 million, and federal aid amounts to 118.8 million. The program covers 29 216 miles of new roads and 234 582 miles of maintained roads.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Public Roads
Osage Oil Leases Bring Nearly Four Million At Auction
Osage field auction in Pawhuska Oklahoma drew bids in six figures on day two. Phillips Petroleum of Bartlesville paid 710000 for a quarter section, pushing total Osage leases bids to 3998185 versus 258300 on the opening day.
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Pawhuska
Osage
Phillips Petroleum Company
Bartlesville
Osage County
League of Nations reorganization prompt in Geneva
Statesmen meeting in Geneva move to refashion the League covenant after the veto of Brazil against Germany’s entry raises concerns over the institution’s future. The aim is to boost peace and international cooperation by restructuring the organization.
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Geneva
Brazil
Germany
Tremor Shakes Manchester and Nearby Towns
A 15 second quake rattled houses in Manchester New Hampshire and sent residents rushing into the streets. The tremor’s force was felt in several towns along the Loughen Valley. Crockery rattled as doors and windows shook. No injuries were reported in the readable text.
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Manchester
N. H
Loughen
Slavic Races in Chicago Plan Monument to Wilson
Chicago Slavic groups launch a national fundraising drive to erect a monument honoring the late President Wilson for his actions aiding Slavic self determination.
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Chicago
Wilson
Movement from Chicago predicted by engineers for next quarter century
Engineers completing a power reserve survey in the Middle West forecast a gradual population drift from Chicago to smaller cities and suburban areas during the next quarter century.
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Chicago
Middle West
Million for the De Molay Endowment Plan Adopted
Kansas City grand council tentatively adopts a million dollar educational endowment for De Molay members. Funds come from honorary life memberships for donations of 100 dollars or ten dollars yearly, with vocational training emphasis. Also notes 1927 Louisville session and a Manila execution of an Army officer in 1925. Washington reports two billion dollars in federal farm loans since establishment with last year’s loans totaling 127.355 million to nearly 39,905 borrowers.
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Kansas City
Order of de Molay
Grand Council
Ivanhoe Temple
Educational Endowment Fund Committee
John H. Glazier
New York
Louisville
Washington
Federal Farm Loan
Federal Farm Loan Board
House
League of Nations adjourns Germany entry question at Geneva
The League of Nations assembly agreed to adjourn Germany's entry until the September session after Brazilian envoy Afranio Mello Franco said Brazil would not vote a permanent council seat for Germany unless it received one too. Other notices from San Antonio Newport and Rochester report local incidents and medical advances.
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Geneva
Switzerland
League of Nations Assembly
Germany
League
Afranio Mello Franco
Brazil
World war to be a struggle for markets, says British envoy
Sir Esme Howard, the British ambassador, predicts the next world conflict will center on markets and be as bitter as past wars driven by hate and national jealousy. In Fairbanks a Detroiter three engine aircraft wreck damages gear and propellers. In Washington Ford bidding for Muscle Shoals lease term details sought. In Stockton John M Goins, facing family and legal troubles, is accused of killing six people.
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Chicago
Esme Howard
Washington
Henry Ford
Muscle Shoals
Bank Robbers Loot Nassau Treasury Vault Near Police Station
Bank robbers blasted open the treasury vaults in Nassau Bahamas just forty yards from a police station and escaped with about three fourths of a ton of gold and silver coins.
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Nassau
Bahama Islands
Martial law in Peking after student killings
In Peking virtual martial law is reported after the deaths of thirty three Chinese students during a demonstration against a foreign powers ultimatum. The crackdown follows the protest and the government maintains strict security measures.
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Peking
New York Study Shows Imports Competing With U.S. Farm Goods
The National Industrial Conference Board releases 1925 figures showing more than half of imported agricultural products directly compete with or displace American farm products.
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New York
National Industrial Conference Board
Family of Five Dead in Farmhouse Fire Near Carlisle
A fire destroyed a farm home near Carlisle Pennsylvania killing five members of the Trichel family. Mrs Lena Trichel died after attempting to rescue her husband and children from the flames. The tragedy left the community grieving for the loss and the survivors.
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Carlisle
Lena Trichel
Rhodes and Adalia Passages in the Near East Echo Old Plans
The piece surveys Rhodes and Adalia linking Italian interests in Asia Minor with WWI era plans. It details Rhodes history from classical planning to Crusader era fortifications and its later 1912 Italian occupation, demographics, and regional life from Lycia to Adalia with climate, agriculture, and local trades.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Great Britain
Italy
Asia Minor
Adalia
Rhodes
Kastelorizo
Lycia
Gulf of Adalia
Byzantium
Greece
Egypt
Syria
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Genoa
Venice
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Africa
Spain
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Hippodamus of
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Tokyo
Colossus
St.ohn
Christendom
Europe
Near East
Missouri Finance Commissioner Remains in Court Fight
Missouri Finance Commissioner C E French faced contempt charges from Judge James A Cooley for failing to produce papers in the Union Bank of Novinger civil suit and was jailed but saved from immediate imprisonment by a habeas corpus writ. The case tests the law preventing disclosure of bank information in civil actions and may require French to testify if the Supreme Court rules against him.
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C. E. French
James A. Cooley
Union Bank of
Novinger
French
W.F. Frank
Supreme Court
Jefferson City
Cooley
Union Bank
Bank of
S. E. Mitchell
L. C. Stevenson
Neosho
George Underhill
Earl Underhill
State
Ernest Underhill
Wilbur Underhill
Earl
Ernest
Gentry
A. L. Schweitzer
St. Louis
Cape Girardeau
Mabel Warner
Teachers’ College
Dayton
Ohio
Benton
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Mothers
Glasgow Kentucky mother of seven testifies that the remedy helped her through rough married life and restored her strength and ability to work. A New Orleans woman reports improved health after taking the product after childbirth. The advertisement notes the long popularity of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
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Glasgow
Lydia B. Pinkham
Indiana
Olis
MeLissa Barbers
Route 2
O. F. Steenbergen
New Orleans
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Mrs. C. Fall
Dauphine St
Housetinfe Smiles as Basket of Clean Clothes Is Shown
The advertisement notes Cross Ball Blue used to whiten laundry with a smiling housewife admiring a basket of clear white clothes. A grocer ad promises savings and today only offers.
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