World News Roundup of Conflicts and Commerce
Happenings in Washington and abroad include Ireland imports debate, Ypres memorial talks, a proposed Christmas truce linked to Sinn Fein and Catholic leadership. Salvador bans luxury imports, Brazil halts leather from the U.S., and Manila seizes opium shipments worth over 200000 dollars.
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Ireland
Roger N. Sweetmany
Sinn Pein
North
Wexford
Labor Commission
Commission
Irish Labor Party
Cardinal Logue
Republic of
Salvador
United States
Brazil
Association of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers
Rio Jantero
Manila
Amoy
Mindoro
Washington Tax Collection Tops 1900s Era Revenue Efforts
The revenue department reports 5.4 billion dollars in taxes and enforcement work under the prohibition act, highlighting record tax take and the creation of a nationwide anti liquor organization. Also notes arms talks invite, cabinet rumors, immigration bill, and other federal items through the period.
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Revenue Department
Williams
Hawaii
Porto ‘Rico
Alaska
Congress Plans Broad Business Relief Measures
Congress moves to restore normal business conditions with a conference of Ways and Means members to map a relief program. Bills cover tax and tariff reforms, agricultural relief, cooperative marketing, grain corporation revival, and unemployment investigations. Senate and House proposals include tax installment plans, mining claim relief, and rediscount policy changes.
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House
Ackerman
New Jersey
Capper
Kansas
McCumber
North Dakota
Congress
Christopherson
South Dakota
United States Grain Corporation
Gay
Louisiana
Smith
Arizona
Nelson
Minnesota
Harris
Georgia
Federal Reserve
Fight on Yellowstone Dam Presaged by New Measures
Washington lawmakers diverge on park power use. Senator Walsh of Montana proposes letting Montana dam the Yellowstone River and raise Yellowstone Lake within the park for irrigation with federal control. Senator Jones and Representative Esch push bans on water power or irrigation in national parks or monuments.
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Congress
Walsh
Montana
Yellowstone River
Yellowstone Lake
Yellowstone National Park
Jones
National Parks
Esch (R
Wisconsin
Legion Bans Prize Fighting in Fresno Indefinitely
Fresno officials of the American Legion Post No 4 voted to discontinue prize fighting in the city. They cited city permission and alignment with San Francisco police, which halted prize bouts over alleged crimes against women by prize fighters and their associates.
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American Legion
Legion
San Francisco Po Hce
Solons Buckle Down 10 Work
Washington December 8 Congress in brief session heard President Wilson read his annual message due to his physician advised absence. He limited remarks to domestic questions while crowd hopes of league of nations or retirement disappointed. He urged a national budget system and rigid economy to curb the floating debt and aid postwar recovery with new legislation.
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Congress
President Wilson
Wilson
Senate
House
League of Nations
Siegel
New York
Treasury
Arrest of Woods Suspect Ties to $80,000 Liberty Bonds
Arthur Bennett Smith, sought in St. Louis over the disappearance of about $80,000 in Liberty bonds, was arrested in Tone, Washington, yesterday by a Seattle detective representative. He will be taken to Spokane on the way to St. Louis. Smith was employed in nearby woods and had no bonds when arrested.
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Canada
Tex Rickard
Ottawa
Hull
Rickard
Pittsburg
Boston
John Hannagan
St. Paul
New York
West Virginia
Indiana
Montana
Allen
Kansas
Kansas Court of Industrial Relations
Minneapolis
Celtic
Atterica Mre
Muriel MacSwiner
Cork
Tone, Wash
Arthur Bennett Smith
St. Louis
Lberty
Seattle
Spokane
Smith
Market Wrap The Dairy and Grain Slump Deepens
Weakness persists in the dairy market with buyers shifting to lower grade butter and Danish stock. Storage butter sells at 48 cents. closing quotes show declines across New York Chicago Philadelphia and Boston. Grain remains volatile with wheat futures up modestly while corn steadies amid large exports and a campaign to buy flour.
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Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
Kansas City
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania Railroad
Omaha
Prairie
Minneapolis
Buffalo
St. Louis
Winnipeg
Farmers’ National Grain Dealers Association
Millers
Sinn Fein Spurns Peace in Ireland's Stand
Paris dispatch reports Sean O Ceallaigh denying any Irish government overture to England. The Irish Dail Breann rejects compromise on home rule, declaring Ireland a free nation and refusing negotiations as a subset of Britain.
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Paris
Sean O'Ceallaigh
France
Dail Breann
England
Ireland
Revenues in Montana Budgets Expected To Grow Sharply
Montana faces a looming revenue gap as budget estimates show running costs for 1921 exceeding projected income by 1.56 to 3.0 million dollars. Most state departments demand larger appropriations than 1920, with institutions like the State fair already overrun. A. A. Grorud resigns as assistant state attorney general. Carl E. Cameron to fill the post. Mrs Delt R Raub becomes the lone woman among 11 taking the state bar exam in Helena.
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Montana
State Capitol
State House
A. A. Grorud
8. C. Ford
Carl E. Cameron
Helena
Mra. ‘Delt R. Raub
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