Political realignments and Hoover era policy clashes
The piece surveys Republican dissidents led by Norris and Borah opposing a third party, notes Dewey and Pinchot as potential banners, and discusses attempts to reframe presidential choice. It outlines Wickersham report secrecy, looming prohibition battles, and a broad push for farm relief, tax changes, and drought relief funding. It also covers West Point expansion plans, railroad consolidation, and federal building acquisitions around Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
Dewey
John Dewey
League For Independent Action
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Norris
Borah
Doctor Dewey
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Power Trust
Democratic Party
Owen D. Young
Robert H. Lucas
Republican National Committee
Joseph RK. Nutt
Nye
National Committee
Lucas
Florida
Everglades
Plan to merge Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube halted
ADGE DAVID JENKINS of Youngstown Ohio ended the million dollar merger plan by granting a permanent injunction to minority stockholders. The ruling follows a six month legal battle led by Cyrus S Eaton of Cleveland, who charged fraud in the deal that would have created a large steel monopoly.
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Adge
David Jenkins
Youngstown
Ohio
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Cyrus 5. Eaton
Cleveland
Sheet and Tube Company
Callie Thaxter Defends Professor in Bull Charge
Professor Wilshire faced a charging bull in Bumgarner’s pasture. Callie Thaxter intervened with a wooden club, striking the bull’s muzzle and saving him. Tom Wilshire, watching, confesses love for Callie as the professor praises his daughter’s courage.
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Aaron Wilshire
Bumgarner
Buzcari
Wilshire
Callie Thaxter
Callie
Tucker
Tom
Tom Wilshire
Professor Wilshire
Dead Man’s Will Awarded to Irene Ban Despite Nephews’ Challenge
In Cleveland Common Pleas Court Judge McMahon upheld the 1994 will leaving about $100 000 to Irene Ban and her two children, saying an April 1926 affidavit by David Brown supported the bequest. The lengthy trial saw nieces and nephews contest the will amid dramatic testimony including gun threats and family scandal.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas
Walter McMahon
David Brown
Cleveland Heights
Naw
Tam
Rudolph
Blanche Ban
Irene Ban
John Ban
Ban
Irene
W. H. Schwartz
Brown
Schwartz
William J. Klotebach
Society For Sayings
Brown and Schwarte
Louis K. Birinyi
Mrs. Ban
Alfred Batley
East Eighty-third Street
Voter Jane Anne Jewes Casts Ballot in Hmnsworth Council Election
In Hmnsworth England Mrs Jane Anne Jewes walked to the polls to vote in the urban council election amid a bond issue.
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Hmnsworth
England
Jane Anne Jewes
Shark Fins and Whale Tails Shipments to Japan
Seattle dispatch notes that salt whale tails and pickled shark fins are popular in Japan for Thanksgiving. Twenty tons of whale tails and 200 barrels of fins were sent aboard the President Pierce to the Orient. Whalers at Akutan Alaska process tails, while shark fins are stored at Port Gamble leather tannery and fished as far north as Prince Rupert.
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Seattle
Wash
Japan
Orient
President Pierce
Akutan
Alaska
Potet Sound
France Has Two Towns With One Letter Names
Two French villages in Orne and Somme have single letter names O and Y. Other nearby places Eu and Ity in Normandy share the one letter theme. The Eu mail confusion arises as Etats Unis initials E U resemble Europe post routing once periods are dropped.
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France
Paris
Department
Orne
Somme
Ity
Normandy
America
United States
Etats Unis
E. U
African Belief in White Man's Medicine
A sensational account from Paul Hoefler in the American Druggist describes native African uses of medicine and curses. It notes snakebite remedies with ash and root, fascination with Western serums, and a belief that refusing medicine leads to a slow death. The piece also highlights cosmetics trends among Africans and a distinct body oil coating practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Africa
Paul Hoefler
Mr. Hoefler
Moon and Earth to collide says famed astronomer
London heard Sir James Jeans, renowned astronomer, forecast that in the distant future the moon will crash into the earth. He warned listeners that fragments would surround the globe and moonlight would fill the night as people dodge tiny fragments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Sir James Jeans
Sir James
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Wickersham
Congress
Edward W. Pickard
Wickersham Commission
Hoover
White House
Department of Justice
House
Senate
Watson
Indiana
Borahstisebe
Ate
House Committee On Appropriations
Ayde
Hyde
Hamilton Fish, Jr
West Point
Military
Army
John J. Pershing
William R. Smith
New York Central
Baltimore and Ohio
van Sweringen
Couzens and
Wheeler
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Reading
Jersey Central
Delaware, Lackawanna
Washington
Henry W. Keyes
New Hampshire
Capitol Grounds
Keyes
Senate Public Buildings and Grounds Committee
Vatican
Capitol
Supreme Court
Senator Keyes
Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
W. Wickersham
District of Columbia Coning
Cientists
Canada
American Association For the Advancement of Sefence
Robert A. Millikan
James Jeans
Millikan
Thomas H. Morgan
California Institute of Technology
Robert E. Vinson
Western Reserve University
William E. Wickenden
Case School of Applied Science
Franklin Roosevelt E
Albany
William N. Hackell
New York National Guard
William B. Franklin
Naval Militia
One Hundred and First Cavalry
Flynn
Roosevelt
Cabinet
Army and Navy
Diplomatic Corps
Turope
Monaco
Prince Louis
Monte Carlo
Louis
Pyrete
David J. O'Connell
Brooklyn
Kinichi Komura
Unisc
Dr. Millikan
Charles Sloan Reid
Garyright
Nate
Berlin
Rockefeller Radio Center
New York City
Newton D. Baker
Emer
Newton TD. Baker
Moon
Earth
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