La Follette defeats Kohler in Wisconsin governor race
Edward W Pickard reports Wisconsin Republicans break with Walter Kohler to nominate Philip La Follette son of the dynasty founder. La Follette campaigns on unemployment and factory votes, carrying 71 counties and pushing La Follette congressional candidates in most districts. Opposition from Democrats includes Charles E. Hammersley. Hoover era politics and espionage accusations also touch the scene as Hoover names three tariff board appointees with Senate opposition anticipated.
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Wisconsin
la Follette
Philip F
Robert
Badger
Walter J. Kohler
Young Philip
Kohler
Philip
Mr. Kohler
Kobler
Hoover and Prosperity
Hoover
New Tariff Board
John Lee Coulter
North Dakota
Tariff Commission
FE. B. Brossard
Alfred P. Dennis
Maryland
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Henry P. Fletcher
Thomas Walker Fage
Virginia
Primary results reveal mixed dry and wet outcomes in several states
Across multiple states the primaries reflected the dry wet split with Butler winning Massachusetts Republican senate nomination while Coolidge stood wet for Democrats. Bayard won in Delaware Democratic primary, Rogers chosen in Connecticut for governor with Cross opposing. New York wets claimed some victories amid justice taps and looming Square deal, Tuttle resignation shocks scene.
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Federal Farm Board
Massachusetts
William M. Butler
Eben
Draper
Marcus A. Coolidge
Senate
Delaware
Thomas F. Bayard
Net
Daniel 0. Hastings
Repubicans
Connecticut
Er. E. Hogers
Aary
Rogers
Wilbur L. Cross
New York
United States
Charles H. Tuttle
Hoover Dam inauguration marks start of Boulder project
Interior Secretary Wilbur driven spike to inaugurate the 165 million dollar Boulder Dam construction in Nevada. He names the dam after a great engineer who started the project, while officials from Nevada California Colorado Utah New Mexico and Wyoming attend the ceremony.
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Wilbur
Nevada
Boulder
Hoover Dam
Giz Colorado
California
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
Wyoming
Rise of Fascists in German Elections Reshapes Parliament
Germany’s fascists win 107 of 576 Reichstag seats, led by Adolf Hitler. Coalition hopes with Alfred Hugenberg’s Nationalists emerge, while Chancellor Bruening remains in office with 60 Centrist seats. France fears Locarno’s end as European tensions rise and disarmament talks stall.
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Ermany
Adolf Hitler
Alfred Hugenberg
Bruening
Reichstag
von Hindenburg
France
Italy
Briand
Germany
Stalians
Europe
Great Britain to revert Welhaiwel to China
Britain announces on October 1 it will return Welhaiwel in northeastern Shantung to Chinese jurisdiction. The area includes Linkung island, surrounding islets, and mainland territory totaling about 285 square miles.
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REAT
Britain
Welhaiwel
Shantung
Linkung
Russia
Port Arthur
Great Britain
Assembly defers League plan as nations seek federation
The League of Nations plenary adopts a study committee for Erland's European federation proposal and invites non members to join talks, delaying action for a year. Kellogg wins a World Court seat. Argentina Peru Bolivia recognition moves. Canada imposes broad high tariffs to curb unemployment and boost protection.
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Etting
Assembly of the
League of Nations
Erland
League
Guatemala
Norway
Irish Free State
China
Frank B. Kellogg
World Court
Charles Evans Hughes
Kellogg
Pacific Flight Attempt Ends In Fog and Return
SECT. HAROLD L. BROMLEY and Harold Gatty failed their fourth nonstop Pacific flight in the City of Tacoma due to dense fog and high winds after an exhaust pipe broke. They landed safely on the northeast Japanese mainland and abandon the project for this year. Coste and Bellonte, French transatlantic flyers, began a goodwill tour across the United States to meet numerous cities, receiving strong honors.
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Harold L. Bromley
Harold Gatty
Pacifc
Tacoma
Japan
Coste
Bellonte
United States
Ilton Sills Dies of Heart Disease During Tennis Match
Ilton Sills noted screen and stage veteran dies at his Santa Monica home after heart disease struck him during tennis. Captain Karl Boy-Ed, once naval attaché at the German embassy in Washington, killed in Germany from a horse fall amid WWI-era propaganda expulsion.
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Ilton Sills
Santa Monica
Karl Boy-Ed
Washington
Germany
Coles
Cross Word Carry Ties Romance To Puzzle Match
Carry, bored with football beau Ted Conrad, teams with coder Braden in a $5,000 cross word contest. In a greenhouse meeting amid frost and flowers, they share clues and a budding affection as they aim to solve the puzzle and split the prize.
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Ted Conrad
Carry
Ted
Carly
Braden
Inter
High Cost of Weeds on American Farms
It is estimated that weeds exact an annual toll of 2,000,000,000 on American farms, a figure reflecting widespread agricultural losses.
Buy Buildings for Post Office Service Proposal
Postmaster General Brown backs buying more than 10 buildings now under lease to save about 310 million over 20 years. He plans to present a list of properties to Congress and probes rental prices as the Postal Service spends 18 million annually on rentals. Coleman defends current rates while exploring economy measures and a 2.5 cent first class rate increase.
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Washington
Brown
Congress Post December Ag
Congress
Senate
Coleman
Prussia Arms Cops With Gas Pistols
Berlin announces that all Prussian police will be armed with gas pistols. The weapon fires a gas bullet that explodes on impact releasing gas to irritate mucous membranes and render victims unconscious, though they recover within about an hour without lasting injury.
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Berlin
Beard Honored as Honorary President of Craftsman's Guild
Dan Carter Beard, national commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America, accepts the post of honorary president of the Craftsman's Guild, a new group aimed at promoting better craftsmanship among American boys.
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Dan Carter Beard
Boy Scouts of America
Craftsman's Guild
Botanist Donates 10 000 Specimens to Western Reserve
Nicholas Claasen ninety seven years old donates a 10 000 specimen botanical collection to Western Reserve University. The collection represents over fifty years of field work gathered during trips across Italy Germany and the United States.
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Ebotanist
College
Cleveland
Edo Nicholas Claasen
Western Reserve University
Claasen
Italy
Germany
United States
Girls Defeat Boys in Hunger Contest
Harpour Ten girl students of a high school challenged an equal number of boys to a hunger contest. The girls sat on one side of a table piled with food while the boys faced them. The side that abstained the longest was winner. The boys lasted eight hours, the girls abstained twenty six hours and forty six minutes.
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Harpour
One-man Peiping tobbaco factory from cigarette butts
In Peiping outside Chienmen gate an elderly artisan runs a tiny open air factory that makes cigarettes from discarded butts. He hires street children to collect ends, sorts by tobacco type, and rolls fresh cigarettes for customers on the spot. The open-air method draws curious patrons and rickshaw laborers alike.
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Peiping
China
Chienmen
Family Eats 50 Pounds of Flour at One Meal
Atlanta area family in the north Georgia mountains reportedly consumes 50 pounds of flour in a single meal. Deputy health commissioner Dr. Joe P Bowdoin has on record a fifty seven year old grandmother described as mother to 15 children including triplets and three twins. Grandchildren number six sets of twins with the oldest aged fifteen.
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Atlanta
North Georgia
Joe P. Bowdoin
Belnaing
Heirs Divide Fortune of Man Missing for 69 Years
In Montreal a court sided with nephew James Hughes and five heirs to share the missing man John Hughes’s estate. Hughes disappeared after his mother’s death in 1847 and was last heard from in 1861. a 25 year old letter later burned in a fire.
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Montreal
John Hughes
James Hughes
Joseph Archambault
Montreat
New York
Hughes
James Edward Hughes
Alichael Arthur Hughes
Edith Hughes
John Paul Ferland
Jerome Joseph Potrier
Tiny Asian wild tulips rival crocus in size
A fragment notes that some wild tulips in Asia are barely taller than crocuses. The account highlights their small stature and comparison to common crocus flowers.
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Asia
Pharmacist Fined for Illegal Practice in Chetles Case
Local medical association sued a pharmacist in Seine-et-Marne for treating a tubercular patient with a self made medicine. They sought 400 francs damages for legal competition. Witnesses claimed cure. court awarded doctors four cents and fined the pharmacist 4.16 francs for practicing without a license.
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Chetles
Seine-et-Marne
Legas
London Woman Tastes 300 Kinds of Tea a Day
Margaret Irving hies one of the most unusual jobs in England. She is a tea taster and the only woman employed in such a capacity in the country. Every day she samples nearly 500 different teas and can distinguish each one.
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London
Margaret Irving Hies
Englan
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