Legislators Again Urged Action Over Price Profiteering
Arkansas lawmakers urged by Railway Brotherhood official to pass remedial legislation against profiteering. The Conway session plan aimed at early next month to consider penalties and enforcement, with Frank Farris leading the effort and Governor running support. Prices, enforcement, and possible fines discussed amid broad state scope.
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Arkansas
Conway
Ciih
Frank Farris
Ernor Wereiselie
Wits Conway
W. P. Jackson
The
Brotherhood of Tymen
Lever Brough
Lee Fatature
Local notes span politics farms and wildlife across counties
Government officials review storage policies while foxes devastate poultry near Mountain Town. Tax talk and road funding proposals surface in Little Rock. County fairs list delegates, hog shipments resume in Hope, corn aided by rain. Bank Springs robbery ends with suspects fleeing in a car.
Bandits Rob Train In Tennessee Hold Up
Four outlaws escaped after stopping a L. and N. train in Tennessee with a heist involving a total of 560000 dollars. No injuries reported as the robbers fled the scene and authorities pursue leads.
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MATL
Tennessee
Mail Pouch Hold Upends Train In Wild Night Run
Four masked robbers derail a Nashville bound mail train near Columbia Tennessee. After looting the mails the bandits uncoupled the engine and fled as the locomotive sped through the night for more than twenty miles toward Wales Station. Passengers were terrified but unharmed. detectives pursue multiple crew suspects.
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Nashville
Treat
Columbia
Fryary
Widdie Tennesses
Gamage
Wales Station
Pulaski
Federal road fund aid proposal discussed at conference
Conference leaders urged Congress to appropriate 49 million dollars for highway construction to be shared with states over five years. Governors from Kansas and Oklahoma criticized current education funding and urged a shift toward stronger common and university systems, arguing poor local schools require reform.
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Salt Lake
Henry J Aten
Kansas
Congress
Kolchak Declared Outlaw Loudon
Disjointed report notes an outlaw declaration against Kolchak and mentions notable figures and places, including General Pershing and Missouri. It references anticipated visits, military roles, and an American arms champion event with J Rhine winning a national title amid a thunderstorm.
Army food sold at 63 New York City schools
Army rations go on sale in 63 public schools across New York City under the markets department plan. Officials estimate 15.44 pounds of food per resident, based on a city of 6.5 million.
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New York
Department of Markets
Palmer targets small retailers in profiteer crackdown
At the urging of Attorney General Palmer the House Agriculture Committee decided to include small retailers in the anti profiteer provisions of the Food Control Act. Offenders face two years in prison or a $5 000 fine. Fair price committees would set prices for wholesalers and retailers with juries determining profiteer status.
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Agriculture Committee
Washington
Palmer
House Agricultural Committee
Gene
Peace Proclamation Waits on Senate
President Wilson states he cannot declare peace by proclamation or consent to such action before a formal treaty is ratified by the senate. He wrote Senator Fall in reply to one of twenty written questions posed at the White House conference.
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Senate
Washington
Wilson
Fall
White House
Army shipments push tanks and rifles to border area
In Columbus, two more tanks were moved from the army reserve depot bringing the total to forty near the Mexican border. During the past week a hundred whippet tanks were sent to the border and about three thousand rifles were also dispatched in response to requests.
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Columbus
Army Reserve
Daylight Saving Law Repeal Moves Through Congress
The Senate sustained the house in passing repeal over President Wilson's veto. Wilson supported Article X of the League covenant in a conference with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A separate resolution by Senator Reed authorized a broader investigation into the newsprint industry to assess legality and pricing. Federal officers raid East Youngstown arresting 118 Russians alleged Bolsheviks.
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Senate
House
Wilson
Senate Foreign Relations
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Reed
Missouri
Youngstown
Publicity items reflect wide profiteering drive across states
Government and state officials push a nationwide campaign on profiteering amid sugar shortages. Arrests include Charles J. McBride in Litchfield and George W. Shehan of Chicago. Authorities halt shipments, summon major firms, and seek penalties for packers while noting price reactions in Canada.
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Charles J. McBride
South State Street
Springfield
St Louis
Hlinois
Chicago
Second
Arsenal Streets
St. Louis
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
George W. Shehan
Central Sugar Company of Chicago
Mstrict
Clyne Tampa
Jackson
Chantery Court
State Revenue Agent
Winnipeg
Canada
United States
Somnambuglistic Scrapper. Dallas-Jeffrey TD
Overseas veteran Hoy broke his arm in sleep while dreaming of throwing hand grenades at Germans. He awoke with the arm against a bed post, the bone broken in the incident.
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Dallas
Jeffrey Td) Hoy
Hoy
National Labor Party conference ends in Chicago plan
Representatives of labor groups from several states form a temporary executive committee to call a national convention in Chicago in November and set a date for the gathering. Lincoln Nebraska workers organize a cooperative store to cut living costs. Erzberger provoked protests in Berlin with calls to retire the finance minister. Alexander P Iswolsky, veteran Russian diplomat and France ambassador at the war’s start, dies at 54.
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Lincoln
Neb
Erzberger
Berlin
Alexander P. Iswolsky
France
WAGE DEMANDS HELD OFF BY PRESIDENT POLICY
Executive announces postponement of wage increases for railroad workers and others to study wage cost of living relations. Director General Hines and a committee will relay the decision to local unions for acceptance or rejection. Also notes grim London forecast for 1919 to 1920 and Germany forming a League of Nations. Three killed in Corpus Christi auto wreck.
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Washington
Wilken
Wilson
Hines
Hie
Jewell
Rathway
The
American Felation of Labor
London
General Federation of Trades Unons
Corpus Christi
Tex
C. P. Beard
Neuces County
Strike Ends As Carmen Workers Return Pending Arbitration
The Illinois Public Service Commission will arbitrate Carmen workers' demands after a 10 day suspension. The strike ended with workers voting to resume streetcar service in 16 towns near Louis.
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Louis
Strikimg Carmen
Linois Public Service Commission
England Imports US Cars Hit By Tiny Trade Volume
The Board of Trade Journal notes that in the last 11 years England sent 881 automobiles to the United States valued at $2,159.41 while the US sent 41.52 cars to England valued at $36. Toll.
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London
England
United States
Board of Trade Journal
Confederate Fund Overubscribed For Veterans Reunion
A fund of sixty thousand dollars for the entertainment of Confederate Veterans at their annual reunion was announced as oversubscribed. In unrelated news a soldier killed himself and two others in a Chicago incident, while a returned overseas soldier involved in a domestic tragedy killed his wife.
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Confederate Fund
Atlanta
Self
Chicago
EB Stewsart
Shoy
Kima Btart
Charles Schools
Hi Wolf
FTC Opens Probes Into Wild Cat Sales in Texas Oil Fields
The Federal Trade Commission began investigations into about 60 complaints alleging sales of wild cats off stock in Texas oil fields. Agencies focus on unlawful trade practices linked to crude operations and animal handling.
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Wanbinmeon
Texas
Federal Trade Commission
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