President Harding to consult nationwide bankers on finance policy
Washington reports that President Harding will summon bankers from across the nation, with midwest leaders likely to be next. Financiers say the Federal Reserve Board holds the key to readjusting general finances, urging limits on rediscount rates and longer credits for agricultural paper to aid farmers.
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Washington
D. C
Harding
White House
Middle West
Federal Reserve Board
Board
Federal payments made to railroads total over six hundred million
Washington announces government payments to railroads in loans advances and reimbursements under the transportation act now total 601 406 896. Since the Winslow bill three sums are listed including 138 19 690 on such accounts and advances to carriers 263 231 874 awaiting ICC final entry. Other payments include reimbursement of deficits during federal control 1 807 144 final payment of guaranty 1 211 700 partial reimbursements 528 00 loan from revolving fund 196 603 987.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Interstate Commerce Commission
Abusive language allowed in phone use ruling
Jefferson City Missouri: Public Service Commission orders Carlow Telephone to restore service to George H. Oxford after an altercation lead to removal. A single abusive remark deemed insufficient grounds for disconnection. Eugene rancher Floyd Romane arrest near Roseburg. confession after being jailed, claiming he shot Givens.
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Jefferson City
State Public Service Commission
Carlow Telephone Company
George H. Oxford
Oxford
Carlow
Eugene
Floyd Romane
Roseburg
Starmer
Romane
Lane County
Givens
Chief Justice White Leaves Wife All Property in Will
The will of Edward Douglass White former chief justice of the United States left all his property to his wife. It was executed June 26 1915 and comprises two sentences totaling 51 words.
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Washington
Edward Douglass White
The
United States
New Bureau Is Proposed by McCormick in Senate
Washington Senator McCormick, Republican of Illinois, proposes an $8 bill to create a Department of Public Works and Public Lands. The plan signals a federal reorganization effort aimed at overseeing infrastructure and land management.
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Washington, D. C
McCormick
Mlinois
Creas Department of Public Works and Public Lands
French Wheat Embargo Off Cabinet Allows Wheat Imports
Paris reports the French cabinet has decided to authorize immediate unrestricted importation of wheat into France, ending the embargo and enabling open import flow to ease shortages. Officials say the move will stabilize prices and ensure steady supply for bakers and consumers alike.
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Paris
France
The Case of the Laughing Wife and the Great Detective
A visitor seeks help from Mr Sheerluck Bones about his wife’s odd behavior. She talks to herself, behaves strangely at home, and the husband fears harm. Bones suggests she may be rehearsing for a meeting of the National Women's Rulers of Home league, resolving the issue with a relief fee. The text also briefly notes the great white shark and its teeth.
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Sheerluck Bones
Sheerluck
Bones
National Women's Rulers of Home League
Jove
London
Varieties of Sharks Mentioned as Man Eaters in Kansas City
A fragment discusses many shark varieties and their tendencies toward man eating. It mentions dusky and sand sharks as not typically man killers but capable when the opportunity arises. emphasizes differences among families and traits.
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Kansas
Microbe Factory in London and Allied Supply of Bacteria
Biologists and bacteriologists serve humanitarian aims through authentic bacterial strains cultured by species. Until recently medical workers relied on foreign colleagues for disease microbes for experiments. Before the war, a vote to M. Binot of the Institut Pasteur in Paris was common to begin or add to a microbe collection.
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London
England
M. Binot
Lasteur Institute
Paris
Medico
Kral
Prague
Heartbreak and Physiology Say Emotions Mostly Break Hearts
Dr Strickisad Goodall a noted heart specialist argues in his experience that emotion rather than hard work causes broken hearts. He warns against temper increasing the heart's workload and notes the absurdity of overexertion in daily routines as a way to protect the heart.
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Strickisad Goodall
Dr. Goodall
A Son's Forecast
A humorous exchange between a father and son about aging and ambition. The son jests about leaving his father behind and moving on, while offering to help with printing butter wrappers.
Indians Near Extinction Warns Oklahoma Native Leader
John R Spurrier, Osage descendant, warns that intermarriage and Americanization threaten Indian tribes. He cites Osage wealth from oil lands in Osage county with 2200 members, 900 full bloods, average per capita income about 2500, and notes Osages as highly educated and physically strong. Pawnee adjacent tribe numbers 3600, also prosperous and educated.
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John R. Spurrier
Oklahoma
Spurrier
Mr. Spurrier
Buffalo Bill
Ducal Oath by the Peacock Amid Turko-Constantinople Crisis
In 1453 Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy vowed by the peacock to aid Constantinople after it fell to the Turks. A tournament and banquet at Lille featured a mourning lady on an elephant followed by a giant as Holy Church delivered a Jong poem invoking aid from the Knights of the Golden Fleece.
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Phillp the Good
Burgundy
Constantinople
Lilie
Holy Mother Church
Jong
Knights of the Golden Fleece
Philip
Assembly
God
Praed
Lawmakers Slang It and a Ghostly Peac ock Stage Turn
An Indiana meeting scene unfolds with a secretary’s slip as Mrs. Stella King reads a misheard line about a woman on the industrial board being killed. The gaffe stems from minutes misread, conflating a killed bill with the correct measure and prompting brief mirth among attendees.
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Industrial Board
Stella King
Legislative Council of Indiana
Legislative Council
Indianapolis News
France’s Oak Trees Threatened by Fungus Devastation
France faces widespread oak tree losses as a parasitic fungus, first seen in Champagne around 1907, targets young coppice shoots and seedlings up to ten years old. With 90 percent of forests under threat and no remedy yet found, the outlook for oaks is grim.
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France
Champagne
Carrots for Lunch Embarrassment at School
A student recalls a morning mix up as carrots intended for lunch end up in the bag too late for the school day. The incident, laughed at by peers, stands as a notably embarrassing moment from the Chicago Tribune account.
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Folsh
Chicago Tribune
Procrastinator and the Forest Meeting with The Man
Mariana, nicknamed the Procrastinator, delays packing for a seaside party. She longs to see The Man she adored, slips into the woods, falls asleep, and awakens in a forest encounter where a bear and Rover the cub appear, altering her expectations and fears.
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Mariana
Bettina
Mariane
Betty
Polly
Mariena
Mise Kent
Pessereby
Marlana
Bis
Smoky Brewster
Amelia
Markapa
Rover
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