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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1923
Page
3
President Coolidge to urge tax cuts with no plan announced. Young Rep J Lister Hill, 28, set to be the youngest member in Washington. American Legion forwards outline to aid. Supreme Court case on gas industry debated. Women oppose 20th Amendment. discuss international women’s parliament. Budget, debt, and trade topics involve Smoot, Dickinson, Harris. Various court cases, fires, bankruptcies, and regional issues fill the week.
Personal Frank W. Foulds sixty seven millionaire head of the mercuront company bearing his name died at Waukegan Illinois. Anthony Caminello former federal commissioner of immigration died at his home at Jackson, California. George C. Taylor fifty four president of the American Express company and of the American Railway Express company died at his home in Pelham New York. Taylor was born in Ripon Wisconsin.
In the likely closest finish in American turf history, Zev, Derby champion and Papyrus conqueror, beat the English hero by a nose at Churchill Downs Louisville. The mile and a quarter time was 2:06 2-5.
Reporting from the Neu wies district describes a clash between separatists and peasants at Foreign At Himberg. Peasants armed with revolvers and hand grenades suffered fifteen fatalities as unrest spreads across Tokyo and Europe.
Edward W. Pickard reports on Hiram Johnson's bold bid for the Republican nomination and his pledge to challenge headpicked delegations in primaries. Ford and McAdoo gain momentum among Democrats. third-party talks surge in Chicago and Omaha. European diplomacy sees Poincaré and Lloyd George navigating postwar control in Germany, while Ruhr tensions flare and hunger drives rise in Germany and Oklahoma's ex governor Walton is removed.
Arengo Swift & Co and allied packers refuse a government order to place permanent auditors in their offices to inspect all books and records. L. F. Swift calls the demand an unconstitutional invasion of rights, arguing it exceeds state powers and threatens private business autonomy.
Governor McCray said he did not know the source of a $45,755.81 grain company charge from Chicago. He would need his bookkeeper to explain it. When asked about overlooking a $45,000 item in income, he replied that it wasn't in his income.
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor denounces William Randolph Hearst for urging recognition of Soviet Russia. He says Hearst is stoking agitation for the Soviets for personal gain, arguing recognition would serve art and other concessions in Russia.
Reports indicate a devastating earthquake in Shnoei province near Kaolan killing about 1500 people and damaging a wide area. The quake struck at 3:00 a m on November 13, 2000 feet northwest of Talquantu, the provincial capital.
Count Bont de Castellane files suit against American newspapers led by Hearst for 500000 alleging garbling and misquoting his memoirs. The action cites sensational Hengist articles as restricting social and diplomatic mingling in Europe.
A nationalistic farmer boycott in Silesia sparks unrest as unemployed residents set fires in multiple towns. Thousands of farmers congregate, and authorities patrol while looting and arson disrupt daily life in the district.
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