Petersburg Park Opens as National Military Shrine and Classroom
A crowd in Petersburg Virginia gathered to dedicate a new national military park that honors the siege of Petersburg and offers a battlefield for study. It highlights Fort Gregg Fortified lines the Crater explosion and Fort Stedman as key moments in the 1864–65 campaign and links Civil War tactics to modern warfare.
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Petersburg
National Military Park
Petersburg National Military Park
Fort Gregg
Richmond
Lee
Grant
Appomattox
Marne
Engish Channel
Argonne Forest
James River
Wise
Home Guards
Ekants
Union Generale
Jeffry Montagne
United States Army
Burnside
Ledlie
Pleasants
Mahone
Democratic Prohibition Plank Demands Immediate Action
The Democratic platform at Chicago calls for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and immediate Volstead Act modification. It urges Congress to propose a repeal via constitutional amendment and supports state measures to regulate imports and temperance while maintaining federal supervision.
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Democratic Party
Chicago
Gilbert Mr. Hitchcock
Nebraska
Resolutions Committee
Congress
United States
World Court
Farm Board
Pradneta
State Department
Freault
H Me Mieten
Senate Passes Bill Cuts Coast Guard Prohibitions and Raises Rural Service Funds
The Senate approved the Treasury and Post Office appropriation bill with a two million dollar curtailment of the coast guard prohibition activities. Savings were offset by raising rural postal service funding from 200 to 3,000,000 and by retaining customer surveyors and processors as the House had rejected. The bill's total carries 1,056,488,983 dollars.
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Senate
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Hoover
Coast Guard
Treachry and Post Office
Farm Board questioned over 15 million bushels wheat sale to China
Congressional critics demand full explanation of the Farm Board's fall sale of 15,000,000 bushels of wheat to China on long term credit. They question why China bought on credit while paying cash to Canada and Australia, and note a surge in Chinese exports to Russia, Japan and Korea.
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Elliott
Meade
Grant
Burnside
Petersburg
Porrero
James H. Ledile
Ledie
Lecie
Ferrero
Ledile
Leciie
Pleasants
Inez
Internia
Jacob Douty
Henry Rees
LA Guaindia
Federal Farm Board
New Yorker
J. C Stone
China
Farm Board
Nanking
Ching
Russia
United States
Japan
Korea
Stone
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