America i$ interest in banning war and aid to veterans
President Harding spoke during a northern circuit stop urging Congress to banish war from earth and to spread freedom and justice worldwide. He defended veterans compensation as owed to those who served, and stressed unity to keep America strong and whole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
America
Earth
Gorham
NTA
Linrdlinig
Atmerica
New Gaipstire Uwis
Amerion
Chew
North Stratford
Colemrook
Berlin
Onto
Aid
Kineen
Tila
Tilma
Republic
Als
Mohd
U S Wins in Shipping Controversy in London Conference
Washington reports an initial U S victory in the Deyphin case with Britain agreeing to allocate 50 percent of shipments of Egyptian cotton from Alexandra to the United States, per a cable to the Shipping Board.
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U. S
Washington
Bes
United States
London
Shipping Board
Alexandera
Fire at Tia Juana Theater Destroys San Diego Buildings
A fire started in the motion picture theater at Tia Juana, Mexico, sixteen miles south of San Diego, during a Dempsey Carpentier fight film showing. It destroyed three buildings including the gubernatorial and municipal offices and caused about $100,000 in damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
Tia Junon
Mexico
Here
Wine and goods seized from racehorse car at Horea Buffalo
Customs officials found bottled liquor in a car used for transporting a race horse. The vehicle also contained two bolts of cloth and two motion picture films. The owner KR A Smith will be contacted as the case awaits cargo clearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Caratogy
KR. A. Smith
Hawders
Regulations end wholesale liquor distribution
Washington officials announce new IRS rules removing liquor wholesale distribution from general channels. Only manufacturers and certain permitted imports may sell liquor wholesale. sacramental wines imported lawfully for religious purposes remain exempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Internal Revenue
Blair
Freight Rates Reduced on Ameltor Products to Baltimore
G W Luce of the Boulder Pacific announces reduced freight rates for ameltor products from Ari nonponte and Cananea Sonora Mexico to Baltimore and New York trade points. Effective Sept 12, rates drop from 21.10 to 17.00 per ton to New England, and from 20 to 10.00 to Baltimore. Products include copper and lead bullion.
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Smolter
Han Wranciaco
Arinonponte
Cananea
Harding rededicates Plymouth Rock for world brotherhood
President Harding rededicated Plymouth Rock during tercentenary ceremonies marking three centuries of Pilgrim settlement. He hailed liberty toleration and the English speaking race, linking the tribute to broader world peace goals and the nation’s fight for hissentment aserting faith in progress.
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Union News Service
Plymouth
Mass
Plymouth Rock
Harding
Naion
Hissentament
Criss
Coolidge
Sox Players Acquitted in World Series Conspiracy Trial
Seven former White Sox players and two associates were found not guilty of conspiring to defraud the public by throwing the 1910 World Series. The jury deliberated two hours forty seven minutes and returned the verdict after the judge was out of the courtroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Witte Sox
Hugo Friend
House OKs Farm Bond Interest Increase Bill
Washington action passes a Senate bill to raise the nominal interest rate on federal farm bonds from 1 to 4 percent. An amendment limits bonds issued after June 6 1928 to not exceed a stated rate, impelling a cap on new issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
Topeka Raids Target Stores Over Anticigarette Law
City and county authorities raided about thirty five Topeka stores suspected of selling cigarettes in violation of the state anticigarette law. Roughly seventy police participated in the surprise raids conducted without warning. Officials had warned two months earlier that enforcement would continue, with welfare workers reporting ongoing violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Fears of Hunger and War Tides Reach Petrograd Area
Western News reports severe famine threats in Volyn Russia with fires in villages and deserted crops. Petrograd is said to be spared major danger while food shipments arrive from Reval and Bjornesbourg. Reports claim mutinies in Petrograd troops and extensive preparations around the city. Briand proposes Allied relief with Britain and France at the Supreme Council as Upper Silesia talks continue.
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Volyn
Russia
George Chitcherin
Bolshevist
Vrennh
Petrograd
Iin
COMN
Bjyornebourg
Moscow
Helsingfors
Piris
United States
Briand
Supreme Council
Upper
Candy price cuts in New York lower wages for Loft staff
A New York candy firm led by George W. Loft announces a 38 13 percent price cut, following Miller Candy Company. Reports say Loft employees will see a 124 percent wage reduction amid the price move and profits cited.
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New York
George W. Loft, Tne
Miller Candy Company
Loft
New York Movie Censors Kill First Picture
New York state film censors have killed their first picture marking a new commission asserting control over what artists may present. The disapproved studio film started with ordinary appeal but drew growing unease, prompting a final chorus of No Cut and disapproval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Liquor Imports Rise in U S Fiscal Year
Washington reports intoxicating beverages imported into the United States valued at over 5 million dollars for the fiscal year, a sharp rise from the prior year. Wine led the list with more than 2 million gallons imported, up from about 28 thousand a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Commerce Depaartment
Enforce Child Labor Law Debate Moves to West Virginia
The national child labor committee asks the government to send an agent to West Virginia to decide if federal enforcement should replace state action. The committee claims state laws are violated and that hundreds of children are being lawfully employed under a special permit system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
West Virginia
Woman to Witness Execution at Butte Trial
Mrs. Stephen J. Prenatt a California resident arrived in Butte to witness the execution of Steve Byrne and Theodore Chronos for the December murder at the Prenatt home. The men face execution on August 26 and evidence at trial showed a break in with intent to steal whisky.
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Butte
Mont
Stephen J. Prenatt
Oakland
Calif
Steve Byrne
Theodore Chronos
Tinaban
Prenatt
Are
Prenutt
California
Conference Prospects Brighten as Britain Accepts November Talks
Washington reports Britain accepts November armament conference and drops push for a preliminary meeting, clearing a path to a general plan. Debates continue among foreign representatives and US secretary of state as progress in agenda and topics unfolds. In Tokyo the Asahi lists twenty one topics to be excluded from the Far Eastern conference including Yap Shantung and Siberian occupation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union News Service
Washington
Great Britain
United States
The
Asahi
Yap
Shantung
Siberia
Death of World Opera Star Enrico Caruso in Naples
Italian tenor Enrico Caruso died at the Hotel Vesuvius in Naples after a rapid decline from a subphrenic abscess and peritonitis. He had been brought from Sorrento where he hoped to sing again, and Rome operation plans were deeming impractical. Four physicians diagnosed his critical condition as he weakened and passed away.
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Naples
Enrico Caruso
Vesuvius
Sorrento
Bay of
Carusy
Rome
Arctic expedition advances from Seattle toward Arctic
Vilhalimur Steffansson leads an advance party sailing from Seattle aboard the Victoria to Nome where the Orion is being outfitted. The group plans to reach the Arctic by late August and will winter on one of the Canadian islands.
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Vancouver, B. G
Vilhalimur Steffansson
Seattle
Wash
Victoria
Nome
Orion
Arctics
1400 Bodies Returned to New York From France
Army transport Cantigny docked with 1400 American soldiers' bodies returned from French battlefields. Total retrieved since disinterment began reaches 31,657, with 13,000 more to be transported. About 4,000 perished remains allowed to stay blurred in France per relatives’ wishes.
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New York
le Army Transport Cantigny
France
Diamond Found in Canary During Autopsy in California
Mrs George Simpson of San Francisco bought a pet canary from a local bird importer. The bird died and an autopsy found a gizzard abscess containing a one fourth carat diamond, left by the owners condolence to Mrs Shupson for the loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willows
Calif
George Simpson
San Francisco
Shupson
Boy Killed as Bomb Explodes on Staten Island Grounds
A twelve-year-old boy from Brooklyn, Frank Cafaro, was killed when a bowl containing a bomb exploded on federal quarantine grounds on Staten Island. His two brothers were seriously injured, one struck with a hammer during the incident.
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New York
Frank Cafaro
Brooklyn
Staten Island
Toussaint Sentenced to Death in Texas Murder Case
J Toussaint of Washington DC found guilty in Wichita Falls District Court of murdering his father a Washington contractor shot February 6 and he pleaded insanity.
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Wichita Falls
Texas
J. Toussaint
Washington
D. C
Ils
Toussaint
Bill Aims to Curb Masked Bands in Texas
A Texas House bill by Rep Poiman of Cross County targets secret societies using masks. It sets penalties from 8500 to 5000 dollars and imprisonment from one to ten years for two or more conspirators harming threatening or oppressing a person, with the same penalty for disguises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Texas House
Poiman
Cross County
Mellon warns Congress to cut costs or raise taxes
Secretary Mellon told the House Ways and Means Committee that federal outlays must be reduced by more than 2500000 to avoid higher taxes. He estimated total outlays at 4550000000 this year and warned revenue will shrink further without substantial cuts. He noted July expenditures rose sharply versus last year, including 115000000 for military and naval needs and 82000000 for the shipping board, while Mondell urged tax cuts of at least 500000000 while preserving essential services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Mellon
House Ways Wind Means
Representative Mondell
To Receive Released Americans at Riga Frontiers
A detachment of the American Red Cross travels to the Russian frontier station of Rejitska to aid released American prisoners though official arrival dates are not yet known. The Lettish government offers quarters for relief officials to meet Soviet representatives. Two killed when gar skids in Rockford Alabama city area.
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Riga
American Red Cross
ReJitska
Lettish
American Relief Administration
Rockford, al
Clilvens
Camp Grantherve
Rifle Range
Townley to Appeal to United States Supreme Court
A. C. Townley president of the Nonpartisan League will appeal his Minnesota sedition act conspiracy conviction to the U S Supreme Court. The appeal seeks to stay the ninety day jail term imposed on Townley and co defendant Joseph Gilbert and upheld by the state supreme court.
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Townley
Minneapolis
Minne-A. C
Nonpartisan League
United States Supreme Court
V. A. Day
Coune Sel
Joseph Gilbert
Birte Supreme Court
Wyoming Briefs Roundup Highlights Local Deaths and Trials
Brief notes from across Wyoming report bound over for trial in Sundance for John Grove after a July 15 shooting death of Louis Ponson. Casper attorney Donald W. Ogilbee named American Legion Wyoming head at Thermopolis convention. Hanna honors W D Jones buried with full military honors. Sublette County seat contest file suit to overturn county capital choice. G Walker sues Burlington RR for 325 822.08 over Casper death from a 1920 crossing crash. Lovell sees a shooting dispute end with Mrs. McDonald jailed after injuring husband William. Fort D A Russell designated as Twelfth Brigade HQ. two infantry regiments to replace the cavalry. Prohibition agents in Glenrock report 27 violators caught. Greybull water bond election passes to fund city service upgrades. 300 Casper refinery boiler makers return to work under reduced pay. Grace Hebard named to American Viewpoint Society advisory board. Wyoming county attorneys called to Cheyenne to coordinate law enforcement. Four year old drowned on a Hudson ranch. Rudolph Peters on Greybull shooting declared justifiable.
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Union News Service
John Grove
Louis Ponson
Sundance
John Richards
Hock Springs
Bitter Creek
Donald W. Ogilbee
Casper
American Legion
Department of
Thermopolis
W. D. Jones
France
Hanna
H. B., Christmas of
Lincoln County District Court
Sublette
G. Walker
John Roberts
Burlington Railroad Company
Roberts
William McDonald
Lovell
H. Ralph Hall
Owen
Albany County
Philadelphia
Laramie
Rock River
Medicine Bow
Bosler
Hull
Glenrock
Roach
Sepths
Greybull
Burlington
Lincoln Land Company
Smith and Knode
Grace Raymond Hebard
University of Wyoming
American Viewpoint Society of New York
Robert D. Carey
Cheyenne
A. B. Hundry
Hudson
Rudolph Peterson
Greyiull
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Sonuse Gill
Wistert Newmaper
Merton
Tia Juana
Horea
Frank Schwartz
Greenwich Village
New York City
American Academy of Arts
Sox
Soviet Russia
Western Newspaper Union News Service
N. Y
Britain
Enrico Garuso
Bird
Bill
Henry Z. Osborn
Anatoma Leee
Los Angeles
Cal
Mondell
Wyoming
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