Federal road funds largely available for 1922 programs
Washington reports $24,375,000 of $75,000,000 federal highway aid now available with $48,750,000 to follow on Jan 1. Combined with $65,500,000 unexpended from prior acts, total federal aid for 1922 exceeds $250,000,000, with grand total near $450,000,000 including non federal road work. Secretary Hoover urges governors to let contracts to spur winter work and job relief.
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Washington
Arthur Woods
Bureau of Public Roads
Hoover
Department of Commerce
Esys Colonel Woods
United States
War Offenders May Be Freed for Christmas Clemency
Attorney General Daugherty reviews recommendations to President Harding to extend clemency to about 197 war law offenders so some may be free for the Christmas holidays. Debs’s case may be included. governors may hold conferences in their capitals. The plan aims to shift more law enforcement to states while the federal government handles its share.
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Washington
Daugherty
Harding
Eugene V. Debs
Home remedy promises relief for catarrhal deafness
A home preparation using Parmint mixed with hot water and sugar is claimed to ease catarrh related deafness head noises breathing difficulties and sense disturbances. The ad suggests noticeable improvement after one day and asserts most ear troubles can be overcome by this tonic.
Mormon lands in Sonora sold to Mexican government
El Paso bishop O P Brown says Colonia Morelos and Colonia Diaz lands totaling about 23 000 acres will be sold to Mexico for around 100 000 dollars and delivery expected after January 1 1913. About 800 Mormons at Morelos and 650 at Diaz left in 1912 amid revolutionary unrest and now live across the United States.
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EL Paso
Texas
Colonia Morelos
Sonora
Colonia Diaz
Chihuahua
O. P. Brown
Morelos
Plutarco Elias Calles
Obregon
Millard Haymore
Agua Prieta
Mexico City
Bishop Brown
Douglas
Ariz
Brown
Chi‘huahua
Diss Colony
Colonia Moreley
United States
Southwest
Railroads seek six month stay on rate cuts and 10 percent farm price cut
Alfred P. Thom for the Association of Railway Executives asks ICC to suspend six months the recent grain and hay rate reductions and test a nationwide 10 percent cut on farm ingredients, excluding New England. Kansas utilities chief Clyde M. Reed calls the plan a snare. western railroad commissioners urge limits on federal power. The same day a congressional agricultural inquiry panel submits 13 recommendations including legalization of cooperative marketing, lower freight rates for farm products, and agricaltural attaches in Europe.
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Washington
Alfred P. Thom
Association of Railway Executives
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
New England
Thom
Clyde M. Reed
Kansas Utilities Commission
John B. Benton
Federal Commission
Joint
Congressional Commission of Agricultural Inquiry
Senate
Reduced excursion fares for holidays on the Chicago & North Western
Holiday season excursion fares cut in half for round trips to all points with end way fare at $25 or less. Minimum excursion fare $2.50. Half fare for children. Tickets valid December 22 to 24 with final return January 4, 1922. Inquiries at any Ticket Agent. Chicago & North Western Railway.
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Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Dust Shooting Pistols Used On Insect Game
New York on December 16 Raulipped with dust shooting pistols to bring down high flying insects not netted. Jesse Williamson and John Strohm retired army captain sailed from New York on the Steamship Polycarp for the jungles of Brazil to obtain uncaptured specimens for university collections.
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New York
Jesse FL. Williamson
John W. Strohm
Polycarp
Jungies
Brasil
Sclericp
University of Michigan
Mobilization in Peru Denied by Peruvian Envoy
Washington December 16 reports from Dr Frederico A Penzet Peruvian ambassador deny Bolivia La Paz telegrams that Peru has decided to mobilize seven regiments in Tacna. The ambassador calls such stories false and insists Peru maintains no wartime mobilization.
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Washington
Associated Preas
Deniel
Frederico A . Penzet
Buenos Aires
la Nacion
la Paz
Bolivia
Peru
Tacna
Chile
Government denies plans for military action statement
A fragment notes a government assurance that force by army is not contemplated, as voiced by a spokesperson identified as Powet. The brief quotation frames a denial of potential military measures in the current political context.
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Powet
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