Washington Debates Delay in Esch Transportation Act
Washington officials report chairman Cumming will postpone introducing the Esch-Onmiming transportation act amendment until the next congress. Other items note a decline in the national death rate in 1921, calls for Germany relief credits, a large educational exhibit shipped to Chicago, and growing Navy needs to expand cruisers and submarines. Additional stories mention Panama Canal traffic projections, prohibition enforcement concerns, a bank closure in Kinball, indictments tied to a $600,000 New York bank failure, and a fatal ax murder in Bristol, with other regional updates and notable deaths.
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Cumming
Senate Interatate Commerce Committee
Washington
Executions Shake Athens as Greek Ministers Die at Sunrise
Reports state former Greek cabinet ministers Mesare Gounaris Bal strategy Stratos Theotokis and Proto Papadakis along with General Hadianentis were executed at dawn near Athens for wartime failures to Turkey. Britain breaks relations with Greece, while Italy protests over naval disarmament and Rome plans Italian consular replacements.
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Gounaris
Baltaxsi
Stratos
Theotokis
Proto Papadakia
Hadianentis
Outakiite
Athens
Messrs
Gounaria
Protopapadekis
Turkey
Rome
Italy
France
Irish Rebels Executed After Attacks in Dublin
Dublin December 1 government reports executions of three rebels captured October 30 after attacking Orie house, head of the criminal investigation department. Executed were Joseph Spooner, Patrick Farrell, and John Murphy, all tried by court martial on November 14. Minister Mulcahy said documents show irregulars planned to destroy communications across Ireland within six weeks, including blocked routes and wrecked rail facilities.
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Dublin
Doll Elreant
Orie House
Criminal Investigation Department
Joseph Spooner
Patrick Farrell
John Murphy
Mulcahy
Dail
Free State
Ireland
Canala
England
Dubin
Lord Leutenant
Vast Iowa notes of industry and crime from Des Moines to Cedar Rapids
A miscellany of local news items: a radio equipment project worth $1,000,000 for Town City. a cider press at Greyheath near Bonapart. Tolman couple celebrate 50th anniversary in Eldora. hotel proprietor A Thompson grows produce in Harvey. ten Knoxville men sentenced for robbing box cars. Jacob Hubler of Marshalltown dies. weather and economic notes. D A R monument on Lincoln farm near Denison. George Bentley dies after bull attack in Marathon. I W W seeks Sioux City offices. Clay county hog market tops Chicago. Raquel Johnson confesses to theft in Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids urged to pledge $400,000 to Coe College endowment. Farmers and Grain Dealers Association convention upcoming in Des Moines. cattle struck by storm near Nevada. October income from Rhode Island Red flock near Muscatine. record $50,000 strawberry plant sale by Harlow Rockhill of Conrad. wool sales in Iowa. dairy output up in SE Iowa. embezzlement case against James Merron in Des Moines. state printing board awards journal contracts. marriage of Colonel Baker and Mrs Placek. Des Moines street closures for welfare bureau actions. Lt Edwin Shrader Iowa-born aviator buried in Iowa City. seven-year-old Marjorie Markie barred from Draka Conservatory concert. Lady's Little Teawel 278188 junior four-year-old champion on record. milk and butterfat totals. $968,000 short-term bonds sold.
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Parryaia Pines
Town City
Greyheath
Bonapart
George H. Tolman
Eldora
A. Thompson
Harvey
Knoxville
Jacob Hubler
Marshalltown
Cam Ita
Abraham Lincoln
Denigon
Jurgen Jepson
George A. Bentley
Marathon
Sioux City
Owder
Clay County
Chicago
Ftyerson
Raqael Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Masis
Coe College
Iowa
Des Moines
Farmers and Grain Dealera Association
F. ©. Sutherland
Traiz
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Rhoda Island
Mra
A. Laxe
Muscatine
Harlow Rockhill
Conrad
Iowa Fleece Growers Association
Ottumwe
James H. Merron
Pittsburgh’ Plate
Company of Des Moines
State Printing Board
Fortieth General Assembly
M. Baker
Soldiers
Nducy Placek
Public Welfare Bureau
Bureau
Edwin Shrader
Virginia
Towa
State
Iowa City
Marjorie Markie
Perry
Draka Conservatory
Marjorie Brown
Sherman Nuraé Company
Charles
City
Car Loads Biggest Known This Year In New York
New York reports show the car service division of the American Railway Association stating that for the week ended November 18 total loadings of all commodities reached 969,004 cars, up 178,742 from the same week in 1920 and 15,181 more than the week ending November 11 amid Armistice day and election day disruptions.
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New York
Car Service Division
American Railway Association
Britain halts scrapping ships after Washington pact
London reports Great Britain will not build any more warships until the United States and other signatories of the Washington treaty have scrapped their allocations. Commander Eyre Monsetl, assistant secretary to the admiralty, announced in the House of Commons.
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London
Great Britain
United States
Eyre Monsetl
Floundta
Admiralty
House of Commons
Man With New Glands Wins at San Quentin Meet
John Ross, 73, won the 30 yard dash for men past sixty five at the Thanksgiving Day track meet at San Quentin. Ross underwent a gland transplant last year. Say en men condemned to death witnessed the festivities.
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San Quentin
Cal. Dee
John Ross
Rosy
Sayen
Congressmen Mann Is Dead in Washington Home
Washington dispatch says Representative James R. Mann of Indiana died at his home at 11 35 Thursday night after a weeklong chill and pneumonia in both lungs. Mann served nearly 25 years in Congress and was floor leader of his party.
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Archia M.stevenson
Denver
W. H. Taft
Washington
James R. Mann
Iindy
Mann
Congress
Shipping Board to bid repair of two transatlantic steamers
Washington December 1 Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board said bids will be sought for reconditioning the steamships America and President Grant for the transatlantic trade.
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U. S
Washington
Lasker
The
Shipping Board
America
Grant
King George Granted Greece Campaign Permission
Paris reports King George has asked the revolutionary committee for authorization to engage in a Greek expedition. The request arrives amid ongoing strife and mounting tensions as authorities assess potential strategic moves.
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Paris
George
Revolutionary Committee
Greece
New Legion Commander Heads to New York After New Orleans Convention
The national commander Alvin M. Owsley, prominent orator and Denton Texas lawyer, travels from Denton to New Orleans for the Legion convention with the Inter allied veterans. He later heads to New York for meetings with foreign visitors and Peace conference delegates. Owsley, a Virginia Military Institute graduate and former Texas legislator, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Thirty sixth division and served as assistant attorney general of Texas before joining the American Legion conversion program.
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Harding
Aebistong Legion
Alvin M. Owsley
Indianapolis
Hobal
New York
Widge
Legion
New Orleans
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Denton
Tex
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Fox
Ownley
Texas
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University of and
Denton County
Leon Springs
Capap Bowie
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Meuse
Argonne
Camp Dix
Vexad
Vexan Shorty
American Legion
Radinest Woman Feared Heart Trouble Relief From Tanlac
Mrs J W Picking of Los Angeles credits Tanlac with curing indigestion nervousness and heart trouble after years of suffering. She says sleep returned and energy restored after using the remedy at her bookstore on Mercantile Place. The ad notes Tanlac is sold by all good druggists.
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Tanlac
J. W. Picking
Los Angeles
Mercantile Place
Tanlag
Be an Optimist Amateur Gardener Digging Weeds
An optimistic gardener toils in his potato patch fighting weeds with a friend urging perseverance. The dialogue mixes playful dialect and fragmented quotes, capturing a light moment in a garden vignette.
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Wheeler
Child Corrects Father’s Rhyme In Playful Scene
A girl three years old enjoys Mother Geotte tales when a father alters a rhyme about Little Bo Peep. She notices the change, corrects him with a puzzled look, and asserts the original line about sheep and tails.
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Géotte
Sheepstatee
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