State lawmakers move to fund schools by county grants
Columbus March 7 Enactment next week of legislation shifting school funding from districts to counties will save about 1 million dollars biennially in state aid. The bill carries a budget of district finances and lets county boards levy taxes to meet needs, with inspections for finances ending. The plan aims for earlier adjournment after a last working week and a two week recess in mid March with a final session in April.
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Columbus
Silver
House
Williamea
Takeco
Donahey
Coolidge Wields Grip in Senate Foreign Relations Panel
The shift places Butler on the foreign relations committee, boosting isolationist influence. Wadsworth leaves the panel for administration goals as Capper joins for a second term, while Reed the Missouri Democrat and Harrison of Mississippi join the ranks. Watson becomes Interstate Commerce chair, bypassing La Follette under party discipline.
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Enders
Butler
Coolidge
Kellogg
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Wadsworth
New York
Capper
Kansas
James A. Reed
Missouri
Reed
League
Harrison
Mississippi
Watson
Indiana
Interstate Commerce Committee
la Folette
Wisconsin
Dawes and Coolidge Clash Over Senate Episode
The article contrasts Dawes's outspoken opinion with Coolidge's calm stance in the Senate. It notes Dawes upset the senate with his remarks while Coolidge remained composed in the chamber. Dawes represents the hinterland view, Coolidge reflects presidential experience as he explains why he signed the bill increasing the way of both and repre.
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Dawes
Senate
Coolidge
Washington
Congress
Gen. Dawes
Mr. Coolidge
American actor jailed in Cuba over attempted kiss
Ernest Hilliard, American film actor, was jailed in Matanzas after a Cuban girl, not pressing charges, accused him of trying to kiss her during a Mardi Gras parade. He was held 180 days before a pardon amid questions of court procedure and bribery attempts.
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Canton Daily News
Havana
Ernest Hillard
Matan
Matanzas
Hilliard
James V. Whitfield
Cuba
Zayas
Star Chamber
Nell
President Coolidge Signals Cooperation Over Pay Bill
The president seeks congressional cooperation on a pay bill stressing shared responsibility for its fate. He plans to outline his stance in written recommendations while avoiding unilateral veto, urging Congress to act and to balance tax reduction goals with fiscal pressures. The vice president advocates firmness, yet the Senate remains hopeful the government will endure.
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Congress
Capitol
Treasury
White House
Senate
Mrs Angeline Shotwell Dies At Home Aged 68
Mrs Angeline FE Shotwell, 68, widow of Samuel G Shotwell, died Saturday night at 1404 Perkins Ct NW after seven months of illness due to a complication of diseases. Survived by three sons Frank H Shotwell New Philadelphia Grant S Shotwell and Samuel Shotwell of the home a daughter Florence Shotwell four sisters and four brothers in Pennsylvania West Virginia and California. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and to be announced later.
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Angeline FE. Shotwell
Samuel G. Shotwell
Perkins Ct
Frank H. Shotwell
New Philadelphian
Grant S. Shotwell
Samuel Shotwell
Florence Shotwell
Cynthia Sutherland
Rea
Sarah L. Fulton
Hanlin
Irish Vote Set Amid Winds of Siege and Strife
Dublin reports prep for 500 meetings across Ireland ahead of bye elections next Wednesday. Republicans forecast gaining five seats. Tense events include a man shot in County Clare and clashes as guards confront discharged workers and peasants resisting tax seizures on Capt Arthur estate. four farmers arrested after a pitched battle.
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Dublin
Free State
Ireland
County
Clare
Elme
Capt
Arthur
Devil Couldn’t Live With Wife In Bigamy Case
New York report describes John Smoth ergill former Sunday school superintendent who left his 14 year marriage to wed Irma Marie Steele a University of hi CARD graduate. Steele was arrested on a bigamy charge after meeting Smoth ergill through a newspaper advertisement. He says a devil couldn’t live with his first wife.
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New York
John Smothergill
Irma Marie Steele
University of
Miss Steele
Alk
Germany Revives Industrial Drive Amid Dawes Plan Gains
The article reviews Germany's postwar recovery with reduced unemployment, a stabilized currency, and renewed production driven by the Dawes plan. It notes higher coal output in the Ruhr, currency on a gold basis, and a shift from isolation to freer trade, signaling healthier industry and potential export expansion.
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Germany
Rhine
Jermeany
Lorraina
Alsace Lorraine
Ruhr
Lorraine
Global industry and power growth after 1923
The excerpt notes half the tonnage in 1923 with new ships, expanded plants, rehabilitated transport, and rising waterpower. It argues world markets like Russia offer buying capacity and future growth, but success hinges on aligning political and business relations amid complex economic factors shaping international relations.
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Russia
New Citizens to Receive Papers at Canton Ceremony
Certificates of citizenship will be presented to 101 new citizens at a Thursday evening ceremony in the McKinley high school auditorium. The Americanization committee of the Canton Chamber of Commerce chairs the program with the Canton Chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution and Judge Abram W. Agler to distribute certificates. H Rosa Ake delivers the principal address on The Constitution and Our Responsibility to It. A historical film The Declaration of Independence and a high school string quartet accompany the event, with public attendance invited.
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McKinley High School
Canton Chamber of Commerce
Canton Chapter
the Daughters of American Revolution
H. Rosa Ake
Abram W. Agler
Common Pleas Court
E. J. Landor
Chamber Americanization Committee
Munetc
America
High Abool
E. C. Vermillion
Canton Pub Nc Evening Schools
E J. Landor
Chamber of Commerce Americanization Committee
George W. Ake
Elsie Maury
St H. Ross Ake
Chamber of Commerce
Pd. A
Senators Split as Expulsion Plan Triggers Party Row
The fight over expelling insurgent senators sparks a heated Senate clash. La Follette faces loss of chairmanships on manufacturers and interstate commerce, Todd loses Public Lands, Borah criticizes the move as unwise and unfair to Republican states. Watson and Norris clash, discussion postponed to Monday.
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Sidered
Watson
Indiana
Senate
la Follette
Committee On
Manufacturers
Interstate Commerce Committee
Todd
Public Lands Committee
Borah
Vetera
Calvin Coolidge
White House
Robert M. la Follette
Brookhart
Abe Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Norris
Bitter clash over Borglum ends as association drops case
Atlanta reports weeks of bitter wrangling over the Stone Mountain Memorial case. Gutzon Borglum faced larceny indictments after destroying models and fleeing to Greensboro and New York. Governor Walker urged dropping prosecutions to avoid work delays. Borglum welcomed a return if the south demanded it, while the Stone Mountain Memorial Association announced it was happily rid of him.
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Atlanta
Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Associaton
Gutzon Borglum
Borglum
Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial
Greensboro
N. C
New York
Stone Mountain Memorial Association
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Stone Mountain
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Stonewall Jackson
South
Stone Mountain Association
Our Mary Might Depart for Monte Carlo Opera Post
Chicago March 7 reports say Mary Garden could leave the Chicago Civic Opera after renewing her contract to direct Monte Carlo Company next season. Garden, now in New York, would rejoin the Chicago company on tour in Cincinnati Tuesday. Manager Howard Potter said rumors exist but no official announcement is made. Monte Carlo leadership, once limited to Frenchmen, may open as political friction changes at the head of the opera house.
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Chicago
Our Mary
Chicago Civic Opera
Monaco
Monte Carlo
New York
Miss Garden
Cincinnati
Howard Potter
Mary Garden
Potter
Baron Gunsbourg
American Girls Seek Court Presentation in London
Nearly 500 American debutantes in London vie for presentation at the court of the British monarch through Ambassador Houghton. About 40 will be chosen, 440 disappointed as presentations become a lucrative social business for London firms and hotels.
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London
Alanson RB
Houghton
James
London Modistes
London Hotels
Nevada Lost City ruins puzzle scientists over giant Pueblo worship
In St Thomas Nevada March 7 scientists excavating Pueblo Grande under the Heye Foundation probe the worship of a giant ancient people. They uncovered 20 room adobe houses circular courtyards burial mounds with seven foot skeletons carved shell jewelry feather robes and pottery. Evidence hints at fire worship ritual knives and possible human or animal sacrifice awaiting confirmation.
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Pueblo Grande
Hemisphere
Heye Foundation
M. R. Harrington
Museum of the American Indian
Harrington
Chicago Court Rules Against Murder Film Censorship
An appellate court in Chicago declared immoral and subject to censorship any west coast style films where a character kills for personal revenge. The ruling reverses a lower court’s restraining order on censors and condemns thrillers portraying gratuitous gunplay as murder.
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Chicago
Shears
Coolidge to Name New Ambassador to Germany
President Coolidge moves to select an American envoy to Germany with White House secrecy. Rumors point to Dr Jacob Gould Schurman or Frederick C Hicks, while Charlies D Hilles also appears in speculation. New York Republicans, long influential in patronage, show divided support for the candidates.
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Washington
Coolidge
Germany
New Yorker
White House
Charlies D. Hilles
New York
Jacob Gould Schurman
China
Frederick C. Hicks
Schurman
Japan
Peking
Cornell University
Hilles
Hicks
Alanson R. Houghton
James W. Gerard
Empire State
Chief Indicted in Huntington Conspiracy Case
Chief of Police C. A. Midkiff and Motorcycle Officer C. C. Johnson were indicted in U S district court in Huntington on a joint conspiracy charge to violate the prohibition law.
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Huntington
W. Va
C. A. Midkiff
C. C. Johnson
United States District Court
Archbishop Succeeds Moeller Seat Delayed in Cincinnati
Rome March 7 A new archbishop for the Cincinnati diocese to succeed the late Archbishop Henry Moeller will not be appointed until reports from consistorial congregations are received, it is understood.
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Rome
Cincinnnati
Henry Moeller
Anglo French German talks spark hints of security pact
March report from Paris and London cites Herriot and Austen Chamberlain in cautious talk over a possible Anglo French German security arrangement. No firm plan or decisions announced, though cordial exchanges hint at future talks after Geneva.
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PARIB
France
Herriot
Austen Berlain
Geneva
Rhineland
London
Foreign Office
Chamberlain
Jealous Wife Triggers Biloxi Rum Seizures Across States
Biloxi Mississippi reports say a jealous wife exposed a whiskey smuggling scheme linked to shipments hidden in oyster shells. Five railcar loads valued at about $80,000 were seized in Kansas City after being diverted from Biloxi routes. Investigations involve Louisville & Nashville officials and unnamed consignees amid rumors of Cuba bound liquor and broader rings based in St. Louis Chicago and British Honduras.
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Biloxi
Miss
March
Cuba
Bilox
Kansas City
B. H. Tardy
Louisville & Nashville
William A. Shreve
Tardy
Orleans-Mobile
Havas
British Honduras
St. Louis
Chicas
Gulfpet
Columbus Skyscraper Sparks Insurance Row
Wet Columbus reports the American Insurance Union story about the tallest building amid scrutiny by Attorney General Crabbe over legality. Disgruntled holders demanded a verdict, challenging whether erection met urgent needs and complied with state law on insurance panics.
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Columbus
American Insurance Union
Crabbe
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