Panama Canal Strait Proposal by Bunau Varilla
Philippe Bunau Varilla outlines converting the Panama Canal into a limitless sea passage called a Strait of Panama. He argues the lock system is obsolete and would be rebuilt with no tax cost to Americans, funded by canal revenues from increased tonnage, projecting 135 million tons annually by 1944.
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United States
Panama Canal
Panama
Philippe Bunau-Vanilla
Paris
France
Commercial Club
Queen City Club
Bunau- Varilla
Bunau-Varilla
Culebra
Bunua-Varilla
Canal
Cincinnati
Panama Canal Zone
Nicaragua
Balcony Collapse at Brooklyn Armory Injures Dozens
A 100 foot balcony railing collapsed during a Thirteenth Coast Defense Armory track meet in Brooklyn. 300 spectators fell, about 60 injured, six seriously. police and medical staff aided chaos as 5 000 spectators fled.
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New York
Coast Defense Armory
Brooklyn
Sage
New Strecht
Commercial
Lahey
Gallagher
Noted American Journalist Charles H Grasty Dies in London
Charles H Grasty a renowned American newspaperman died in London after a long illness. He was managing editor of The Kansas City Times at 21 and later publisher of The Baltimore News. He led The Baltimore Sun 1910 14 and served as Associated Press director. He worked as war correspondent for The Kansas City Star and The Times roving editor for The Times. Born March 3 1863 in Fincastle Virginia he was connected with major papers including The New York Times.
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Kansas City Times
Charles H. Grasty
Baltimore
Baltimore News
Pioneer Press and Dispatch
St. Paul
Baltimore Sun
Associated Press
Kansas City Star
New York Times
Europe
The
Times
Lloyd George
Marshal Foch
Lord Northcliffe
General Pershing
Clemenceau
Mr Grasty
Fincastle
John Sharshall Grasty
Leota Rea, Paine
Ae Joseph
Petition for Referendum on City Manager Plan Circulating
The Charter Amendment Club plans to circulate a petition to place the city manager form on the November ballot. Miss Wilma McFarland reports the group renamed from Home Study Club to The Charter Amendment Club and aims to rally civic groups to back charter changes. Meetings will be held at members and supporters’ homes to spread the plan.
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Cincinnati
Charter Amendment Club
Wilma McFarland
Lytle Street
Home Study Club
Mg@farland
Henry Backus
Central Supply Company
Backus
Gertrude Folks
Social Science Department
University of Cincinnati
Eariette, Ryan
Vocational Bureau
Board of Education
Samuel Allen
Alfred A. Moore
Methodist Book Concern
Elizabeth Pratt
Gladys Myer
Lucy Payne
Cubans Drink Less Without Dry Laws Than Americans
New York January 19 Cuban Consul General Felipe Taboada said in night court that Cuba without dry laws is virtually free from drunkenness. He noted a dozen intoxication cases and added Cubans can get alcohol but seldom drink to excess, arguing visitors missee US citizens.
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New York
Cuba
Felipe Taboada
Charles Oberwager
Senor Taboada
United States
Government moves to ease Northwest bank credit crisis
President designates four officials to study western banks with a Chicago visit set to review credit strains in the Dakotas Montana and Nebraska. Grand Island National Bank in Nebraska closes as Federal Reserve and War Finance Corporation consider new funds and possible underwriting to tide smaller banks over.
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Washington
Northwest
Dawes
Mr. Dawes
George R. James
J. H. Cunningham
Federal Reserve Board
Eugene Meyer, Jr
War Finance Corporation
Chicago
Grand Island National Bank
Grand Island
Neb
Robertson
Tenth Federal Reserve District
Dakotas
Montana
Nebraska
Coolidge
Mellon
North
South Dakota
Police Chief Ends Life in Newark Explosion Tragedy
Robert Zergiebel former Newark Chief of Police killed himself by asphyxiation in his home which exploded shortly after neighbors visited Joseph Dry sustained severe burns and the blast hurled him from the porch Mrs Josephine Vogel Zergiebel’s sister in law discovered the scene Zergiebel 70 a German born former lawman served under Mayor Atherton until 1910 and widow of his wife who died a year earlier
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Newark, CO
Robert Zergiebel
Newark
Joseph Dry
Josephine Vogel
Zergiebel
Dry
Zergidbel
Atherton
Harmon
Germany
Physician Ended His Life in Cleveland
Dr Chester W Hurlbert 47 of Cleveland Heights shot himself in the right temple amid illness and palsy after moving from Minneapolis about two years ago. Police report the death occurred today in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Chester W. Hurlbert
Cleveland Heights
Minneapolis
Sermon Broadcast From Empty Pulpit At Bethel Church
In Hamilton Ohio on Sunday afternoon Bethel Church will hold services with no pastor organist or choir. The Rev H A Dickmann will deliver the sermon via radio from Doron Bros Station using a special receiving set installed in the church. This marks the first time in Hamilton history a sermon is broadcast.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton, O
Bethel Church
Hamilton
H. A. Dickmann
Doron Bros
Judge Allows Conspiracy Charge In Beazell Chatfield Embezzlement Case
Judge Thomas H. Darby overruled defense technical objections to the indictment charging William H. Chatfield Jr and George M Beazell with embezzlement and conspiracy. The judge said a general conspiracy can show criminal intent for the specific embezzlement and that Chatfield may be held accountable with circumstantial evidence. Ill juror George W Conley’s illness may delay resumption of trial.
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William H. Chatfield, Jr
George M. Beazell
Thomas H. Darby
Beazell & Chatfield
Adelaide
Ottilia Leonard
Lafayette Avenue
George W. Conley
Bank Street
Chatfield
Darby
America mobilizes eight ships off Vera Cruz amid Mexico unrest
Eight U S ships including the cruiser Omaha and six destroyers are ordered toward Vera Cruz to safeguard American commerce amid Mexican rebel pressures. The Richmond flagship and the repair ship Prometheus accompany the force as Washington warns rebels to avoid blocking Tampico.
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Washington
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Omaha
Panama Canal
Richmond
Prometheus
Magruder
State Department
Denby
Mr. den
Shi
Tampico
Washington Administration
Informa
Girl Bandits Hold Up Merchant In Hunger Strife
Chicago report. two young women robbed a dry goods store chief, Mary Anderson 19 and Irene Ramuel 16, hungry and homeless. Elder dropped loot in street. police say first two-woman Chicago hold up. Other items note robbers with badges and safe cracking in New Jersey and Illinois suburbs.
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Chicago
Mary Anderson
Irene Ramuel
McNurney
Two Robbers Take Payroll from Cashier in Kansas City
In Kansas City on January 19 two Black men stopped E. N. Daniels, cashier of the Drying Pitt Manufacturing Co. as he rode from the First National Bank in a taxicab and escaped with a payroll amounting to 13 521 dollars.
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Kansas City
E. N. Daniels
drying-Pitt Manufacturing Company
First National Bank
Bailiff Shot To Death On Liquor Raid
MT. STERLING Kentucky January 19 Special Bailiff of the Rowan Circuit Court App Perry age 60 was killed during a moonshine raid on Dry Creek. Melvin Smedley age 30 is alleged to have fired the fatal shot. Fraley and a pursuing posse hunt the slayer as Perry's widow and daughter mourn.
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The
Commercial Tribune
MT. Sterling
Perry
Rowan
Morehead
Melvin Smedley
Alf Fraley
Dry Creek
Fraley
Smedley
Lost collie Prince spurs two girls’ grief as search begins
Two young girls Louise and Christie mourn a two month old collie named Prince reported missing or stolen. The Want Ad column lists a nurse seeking work, household gear for sale, an office to rent, a gas heater, a dry goods store for sale, a loom wanted, a billiard hall for sale, and a draftsman sought for structural steel detailing.
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Prince
Louise
Christie
Zangwill at Cincinnati centennial warns on democracy and war
Dr. Israel Zangwill urged a return to a sane outlook at the Bene Israel Congregation centennial banquet in Cincinnati. He warned democracy risks decline and called for a guiding aristocracy, arguing Judaism provides a refuge while noting reform Judaism weakens spiritual vigor.
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Israel Zangwill
Bene Israel Congregation of Cincinnati
Hotel Gibson
Mr. Zangwill
Farmer Labor convention could tilt 1924 balance of power
Special Correspondent reports the Farmer Labor party may hold a national convention May 30 in St. Paul or Minneapolis. J A H Hopkins cites this as a new factor, with delegates from multiple states backing a progressives coalition to abolish special privilege and influence the electoral outcome.
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Farmer-Labor
Lawrence
Washington
Cleveland
New York
Farmer-Labor Party
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Ptakesacnér-Labor Party
Democratic Party
Minnesota
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Senate
J. A. H. Hopkins
Committee of Forty-Eight
Chicago
Bencat
Era
New Party
Nebraska
Ohio
Indiana
Idaho
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Wisconsin
North Dakota
California
Iowa
Delaware
New Jersey
Exploration With View to Annexation Of Polar Regions
Secretary Denby told the House Naval Committee the Shenandoah polar flight aims to explore Arctic regions for annexation to the United States. He warned of rival powers mapping the area within a year if the flight is not attempted, noting costs around 183000 dollars and the crew’s readiness for the adventure.
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Polar
Shenandoah
Denby
Washington
Jan
House Naval Committee
Arctic
United States
J. Denby
North Pole
Peary
Lakehurst
Robert A. Bartlett
Navy
Couzens Seeks Mellon Details On Personal Tax Benefit
Senator Couzens demands Secretary Mellon disclose his personal gain from proposed income surtax reductions. He questions securities, ownership amounts, and potential benefits, while urging a public debate on tax reductions as hearings proceed.
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Couzens
Mellon
Washington
Mélion
Rep
Mich
Michigan
House Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Huge Robert E. Lee Head Unveiled on Stone Mountain
On Stone Mountain Georgia the head of General Robert E. Lee was unveiled. Governors, Confederate veterans, and military representatives witnessed as granite statues fell into place and flags rose. The memorial will later include about 700 figures across a large carved granite scene.
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Gen
Robert E. Lee
Stone Mountain
Associated Press
Helen Plane
Atlanta
Army of
Confederacy
David C. Shanks
Army
James G. Williams
Charleston
S. C
Navy
Daughters of the Confederacy
Lee
Boy With Tack In Lung At Penn Hospital
Cletus Moore an eight month old from St Louis arrived in Philadelphia with a nurse and a tack in his lung. He rested quietly at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and was expected to undergo surgery Monday to remove the tack. Dr Chevalier Jackson, professor of bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy, would perform the operation.
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Philadelphia
Cleus_ Moore
St. Louis
University of Pennsylvania
Cletus
Chevalier Jackson
Graduate School of Men
University
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