Prohibition Conference Aims at State-Federal Co Operation
President consults fifteen governors on enforcement while Maryland’s Ritchie leads opposition to the Ku Klux Klan and National Guard units are dispatched to Morehouse parish. President Harding plans another meeting. senators argue ship subsidy and tax exempt securities amendment stalls in the House.
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Ritchie
Maryland
Europe
John M. Parker
Louisiana
National Guard
Mer Rouge
Rastrop
Morehouse Parish
Maj
Watt Daniels
Thomas Metcher Richards
Ku Klux
Jena
la Salle Parish
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Parker
Harding
House
Mellon
Farmers to gain up to two billion in higher crop value
Secretary Wallace says U S farmers will receive 1.5 to 2 billion dollars more for their crops this year than last, even as agricultural prices lag behind other prices. Is this true for you locally.
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Ecretary OF
Wallace
United States
Govs Clash Over Prohibition Enforcement At White House Lunch
President and 14 governors urged strict Volstead Act enforcement while Maryland's Robert Ritchie denounced the prohibition as federal overreach. He urged returning the issue to states to honor local option and rights, citing lawlessness and loss of local authority.
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Harding
White House
Ritchie
Maryland
Aera
Ladd Introduces Nicaragua Investigation Resolution
Sharon Ladd of North Dakota introduces a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee resolution seeking a full inquiry into U S actions in Nicaragua. The measure questions American occupancy since 1910 and links between New York firms and the Chamorro government. It argues no war state justifies permanent military quarters without Congress.
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Sharon Ladd
North Dakota
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
Nicnaragua
Republic
New York
Nicaragua
United States
Executive Department
Congress
American effort to settle reparations without debtor relief
Ambassador Harvey returns from London as the administration seeks a settlement of reparations without canceling allied debts. Europe doubts an American loan, especially France and Germany. Lamont of J P Morgan opposes a German loan but notes possible conditions. Poland faces political upheaval after the murder of Gabriel Narutowicz. Stanislaus Wojciechowski chosen as successor. Denver reels from a $200000 currency theft by seven masked bandits, a gun battle at the mint, and a suspected link to Roy D. Sherrill.
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Germany
Paris
France
Poincare
Rhineland
Berlin
Mbassador Harvey
England
United States
Europe
Harvey
Lamont
Gabriel Narutowicz
Poland
Haller
National Assembly
Stanislaus Wojciechowski
Paderewski
Denver
Denver Mint
Reserve Bank
Mint
Roy D. Sherrill
Leavenworth
Monkey Saved the Crew Mascot Revered After Fire
The crew of the S. S. S. Carolinian owe their lives to Mme Allablaba the ship mascot who saved the crew by giving amanma as a sulphur cargo fire broke out far at sea. She was gassed during the blaze and treated at a San Francisco hospital after arrival. She is a native of the Himalayas.
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Mme. Allablaba
San Francisco
Himalayas
Archduke Betrothal Alters Hungarian Monarchist Factions
Archduke Albrecht and Paulette Horthy marriage unsettles Hungarian monarchists opposing Archduke Otto. The alliance with estate owner Stephen Fay weakens anti Karlist blocs though Mile Worthy favors personal love over political peril and Habsburg ambitions.
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Paulette Horthy
Hungary
Stephen Fay
Paulette
Archduke Albrecht
Hapsburgs
Archduke Frederick
Archduke Otto
Charles
Mile. Worthy
Irish Free State stamps issued as first government act
When the Irish Free State came into being the new government issued postage stamps. One of the stamps is highlighted as a fine example of artistry in the collection shown.
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Irish Free State
Young Chicago woman joins Illinois bar as youngest ever
Miss Blanche B. Aronin of Chicago, twenty one years old, became a member of the Illinois bar the other day, the youngest woman ever admitted to practice in that state. She graduated last June but could not take the bar exam until reaching the required age.
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Blanche B. Aronin
Chicago
Hlinois
Bully Mrs. Dorage Acquitted in Education Case
Mrs. Margowski of New York, mother of sixteen, was brought before Magistrate Alexander Brough on a charge of violating the compulsory education law as her fifteen year old daughter had recently missed school. The judge commended her effort to rear a large family and acquitted her, saying he wished Colonel Roosevelt were alive to award her a medal.
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Dorage
New York
Marstrate Alexander Brough
Margowski
Colonel Roosevelt
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Thrace
Coolidge
Victor Murdock
Kansas
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Copernicus
Thorn
Nikolaus Copernicus
Edward W. Pickard
Senate
Norris
McKellar
Tennessee
King
Utah
Shipping Board
Department of Commerce
Lausanne
Techitcherin
Dardanelles
Lord Curzon
Engishman
Ismet Pasha
Turkey
Ismet
Angara
Raouf Bey
Assembly
Angoera
Chester
Anatola
PBR
Monell
Monkey
Archduk
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Culver
Culver Military Academy
Indiana
General Pershing
T. R
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