Global Political Moves Dot 1924 Washington Scene
Washington anchors shifting posts as Coelidga plans to appoint a new ambassador to Mexico after Warren’s resignation. US warns China over protection of Americans on Shameen Island while Ireland names a plenipotentiary to the United States. Panama land taken for canal protection, and internal revenue weighs replacing a prohibition chief. Also, Dawes to begin campaign in Lincoln, Wheeler as La Follette running mate, Wisconsin clubs rising and Des Moines GOP picks nominee.
Notable deaths and disasters cross 1923 news reel
The piece surveys a string of tragedies and incidents including the Cochran estate valuation after death in New York, a sisal monopoly suit in dissolution efforts, a fatal railroad accident near Ok Kurhin, Ohio, a fallen smokestack at Detroit, a movie theater trampling in Vera Cruz, and fatal crashes and assaults across the United States. It notes Ku Klux Klan activity in St Clairsville, a Chicago bank closure, MacArthur heading a court martial in Manila, and a Louisville Masons building project, among other events such as ship wrecks and rail fatalities.
Noted education figure Dr Dumey A Sargent dies
Dr Dumey A Sargent seventy five of Cambridge Massachusetts a leading authority on physical education and head of a school named for him died at Peterboro New Hampshire Samuel Chester Parker forty four professor of education at the University of Chicago died after an operation for appendicitis Marty H Tammen sixty seven former editor and part owner of the Denver Post died in Denver Colorado He also held a fortune of five million dollars
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Dumey A. Sargent
Cambridge
Masq
Peterboro
Samuel Chester Parker
University of Chicago
Deai
Marty H. Tammen
Denver Post
Denver
Colo
Post
Derby winner and placings noted at Kalamazoo event
Margaret Spangler a bay tame owned by Aldletorn stable inn and driven by Fred Hyde won the g05 0 pickg derby at Kalamazoo Michigan Miss Belwin a North Randall Ohio mare placed second Byron Worthy owner Syracuse North Carolina finished third An American tennia term achieved a clean slate in five Olympic events at Paris with a substantial lead in men and mixed doubles at Lew Tourenee plus a higher individual score than the other competitors
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Margaret Spangler
Bay Tame
Aldletorn
Fred Hyde
Kalamazoo
Mich
Miss Belwin
Ohio
Byron Worthy
Syracuse
N. C
Paris
United States Minister Schurman sails August 22
Foreign Minister Schurman and family will sail to Seattle aboard the President Jefferson on August 22. He said he will not participate in the Peking political campaign. The report of a $10 million U.S. gold fund to pay foreign debts was denied by the secretary of finance at Buenos Aires.
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United States
Schurman
Seattle
Jefferson
Peking
Fllunre
Buenos Aires
Glaas
Vancouver
London
Lord Burnham
Lou Holland
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
Fmaa
Davin
Court of St. James
Frank L. Polk
Me. Polk
Twleracs
Lonidas Folk
Oulafana
Leutenant
Mine Mountain
Omined Lafolle
Bryan
Democratic-LaFollette
Willight
Nebraska
LaFollette
Alexander Kahn
Jewiah
Forward
Chicago
Albert B. Fall
Interior
el Paso
Harry FF
Sinclair
Washington
Senate
Free State
Eamon de Valera
Charlen B. Warren
Mexico
Massanao Ianthara
Japan
Jules J. Jusserand
France
Prince of Wales
Dawes plan advances in London amid optimism
Edward W. Pickard reports on the London conference for Germany’s reparations under the Dawes plan. Owen D. Young agrees to three months as agent general and arbiter for reparations questions, potentially reshaping the reparations commission amid Morgan control concerns. The piece also notes Brazilian revolts, Olympic results, and assorted world events.
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Owen D. Young
Germany
Funens
Santos
Braz
Bao Paile
Frank L. Polk
Davis
London
Europe
New York
Dawes Commission
MacDonald
Premier Herriot
Washington
Paris
Young
Tic Lendes
Reparations Commission
Coolidge
Mr. Young
American State Department
Jp, Morgan & Co
America
Planes Used to Unload Liquor Rum Runner Letter Surfaces
A leaked letter from Robert Wylie Jr. describes a rum running operation off Scotland. It alleges a seaplane ferries whisky, with six trips daily delivering 19 cases per trip, involving aliens and multiple vessels including a motor launch named Bessie B. The letter was hidden aboard Captain Mastreet’s vessel and sent to Washington authorities.
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New York
Scotland
Shipa
Rusk
Washington
Robert Wylie, Jr
Glasgow
Mastreet
Bessie B
Rock+away
Wylie
Mrusk
Tunney Knocks Out Carpentier in Fifteenth Round
New York American light heavyweight champion Gene Tunney defeated Georges Carpentier of France by technical knockout in the fifteenth round at Polo Grounds. Carpentier was unable to continue after a late punch as the bell ended the fourteenth. Referee Andy Griffin did not call a foul on the prior blow and ordered the Frenchman to continue before collapsing in the fifteenth.
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New York
Gene Tunney
Georges Carpentier
France
Polo Grounds
Carpentier
Andy Griffin
New Anesthetic Gemalfere Used By Doctor Parla
A new anesthetic called gemalfere, claimed superior to prior agents, is used by Doctor Fredet at Hospital de la Nouvelle Pitle. The French Surgical Society reports it produces complete anesthesia for long operations, leaving patients in torpor for 24 to 36 hours yet arousable for meals, with no sickness or kidney and liver damage noted.
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Parla
Fredet
Hospital de la Nouvelle Pitle
French Surgical Society
Trade Speculation Not Gambling, Court Decides
Judge Denis E B Sullivan of Cook County Superior Court ruled that futures speculation on the Chicago Board of Trade is not gambling under Tri Dola law. The decision states that offsetting purchases and sales under Clearing House rules constitutes delivery, removing gambling classification.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Denis EB. Sullivan
Superior Court
Cook County
Board of Trade Clearing House
Embezzlement Rise Reported by National Surety Chief
William B Joyce of National Surety predicts 1924 embezzlement costs to the American public will top 125 million dollars. He said losses by surety companies will exceed any prior year, reflecting a sharp rise in the U S embezzlement problem nationwide.
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New York
United States
William B. Joyce
National Surety Company
Sussex
Aged Couple See a Train Ride in Auto in One Day
Glasgow Kentucky report describes eighty year old Lewid Franklin and his seventy six year old wife taking their first train ride, then a motor car trip from their Beaumont farm after forty years of residence. Franklin sought a place to go to ride the train again.
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Glasgow
lLewid Franklin
Beaumont
Franklin
Don
Bankers pledge $1 million to Lorain reconstruction plan
A committee of Ohio bankers pledged one million dollars to rehabilitate Lorain in Columbus. The plan submitted by the Cleveland Bankers' association was adopted in under an hour, signaling swift support for the city’s recovery efforts.
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Lorain
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Bankers
Cleveland Bankers’ Association
Palmer Cox Dies at 84 in Granby Quebec
Palmer Cox, creator of the Brownie children stories, died Thursday at his Granby home after a short illness. The New York born author was 84 and had long been associated with his whimsical characters.
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Palmer Cox
New York
Brownie
Granby
Quebec
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Coelidga
Charles B. Warren
Shameen
Irish Free State
Fornister
Panama
Bert ©. Morgan
Internal Revenue Office
Federal Tract Commission
Pittsburgh
Khnlost Zadeh
Robert Imbrle
State Department
Ees
Treasury Department
Coolidge-Dawes Cluha
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Wis
Des Moines
Iowa
Lieu. Gov. Ete
LaFollette-Wheeler
United Hebrew Trades
Jewish Socialist Alliance
Charles G. Dawes
Lincoln
Neb
Beatrice
Burton K. Wheeler
Mantina
Progressives’ Fatiocial Committee
Senator LaFollette
W. Bourke Cochran
Nsult
Sisal Salers Corporation
Kurhin
Detroit
Vera Cruz
Mex
Leroy Honn
Arenta
Clark Univversity of
Worcester
Mays
Calvin Coolidge, Jr
Plymouth
Ner Heston
Newport
Los
Mound City
Lowden of Ninols
Leopold
Loeb
Cchicago
Lyon Fuller
St. Clairsville
Ku Klux Klan
John Sullivan
St. Louis
Cornell Bluffs
J. J. Rutherford
International Bible Students’ Aasociation
Columbus, Ohio
Ely
Enright
Security Savings Bank
Charlotte
N. G
State Corporation Commission
Douglas MacArthur
Manila
Grand Lodge of Masons of
Louisving
New Orlean
Inchiule
Kenosha
Fred Halone
Ferdinand Egger
Frankfort
Amertes
Lew Tourenee
Herge
Christlinia
Radikcal
Uberui
Mppon Yusen Kaisha
Matsuyama Maru
Goto Island
Kyushu
Brazil
Edward W. Pickard
Rio
Carlos da Campos
Sao Pauto
Artur Bernardes
Sao Fauly
Isidoro Diaz Lopez
da Campos
Dle de Janeiro
Santos TV
W. Goforth
Sao Paulo
Trazitan
New England
Suo Faute
Rio de Tunedo
Sentosa
Tt Han
South America
Merica
Olympic
Helesporta
Finland
Great Britain
Sweden
Winland
Italy
England
Australia
Springfield
Farmery
Armour Grain Company
Rosenbaum Grain Corporation
Rosenbaum Brothers
J. C. Shaffer Grain Company
Davis, Noland
Merrill Grain Company
Kansas City
Millard Myers
Ulnots Farmers’ Elevator
Oscar Ashworth
Mattoon
Ill
Gray Silver
West Virginia
J. W. Coverdale
Imy
Polk
Wiliam Randolph Hearst
Demoncrata
Morgan
Hylan
New York City
California
Hearst
McAdoo
Pacific Coast
Canada
San Francisco
Forcata
Ncle Sam
Santo Domingo
Horatio Vasquez
Dominican Republic
Uncle Bam
Brough
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Boston
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Greenling
Labrador
Nova Scotia
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