Senate approves bill to regulate meat packers in packing industry
The Senate adopted by 45 to 21 a House-passed bill to regulate meat packers, sending it to conference after Senate amendments. Key changes include Kenyon’s recordkeeping requirements for packers and stockyard operators to standardize business methods, and removal of small butchers from coverage. The bill limits deceptive practices, price manipulation, and monopoly creation, while keeping federal oversight via the agriculture secretary.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Agriculture Committee
Sterling
South Dakota
Tericulture
Kenyon
Republiain
Towa
Secretary of Agriculture
la Follette
Wisconsin
Marshal Foch to Attend American Legion Convention
Marshal Foch of France accepts invitation to attend the national convention of the American Legion in Kansas City Missouri this fall. Telegram from Lemuel B. Bell Indianapolis confirms official notice to Albert E Hutchings convention committee chairman.
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Kansas City
Marshal Foch
France
The
American Legion
Lemuel B. Bell
Indianapolis
the Legion
Albert E. Hutchings
Marshal Moeh
Protest Drafting U S Citizens Against Greek Army Impressions
Informal representations have been made to the Greek government through the American delegation in Athens protesting the impressment of naturalized American citizens into the Greek army. The Greek legation here has also been informed, but no direct representations were made due to a perceived government desire not to pursue such policy.
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Washington
Athens
Department
Foreign Office
Discover Dynamite Plot Foiled at Camp Lewis
Intelligence officers at Camp Lewis Tacoma announced the discovery of more than 100 pounds of dynamite hidden within chimp units. They believed a plot would have caused heavy property damage and possible loss of life. The dynamite was found after a soldier noticed three men slipping away from a small building at the camp remount depot.
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Tacoma
Wash
Camp Lewis
Camp Remount
Boy 11 Elopes In Clever Kidnap Drama
Walter Linney of Centratia Washington, an 11 year old, allegedly kidnapped himself and set a ransom of 200 dollars. Grandparents found a note under the doormat offering return for 250 dollars. Police say he initially told a story of abduction in an automobile but later admitted he acted alone in a staged drama.
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Centratia
Wash
Walter Linney
Young Linney
Cat
House Passes Porter Resolution Ending War With Central Powers
Washington June 14 by a vote of five to one the House passed the Porter resolution to terminate the state of war with the Central Powers. The measure, a Republican alternative to the Knox resolution, cleared 805 to 61 after a bid to send it back to committee failed. Democrats backed the vote, Kell of Michigan was lone Republican opposing. The move aims to set terms for disarmament under the Versailles framework, with Senate rejection sending the question to conference.
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Werters
Union News Service
Washington
House
Porter
United States
Knox
Senate
Kell
Michigan
Representative Food
Democrat
Virginia
Germany
Foreign Affairs Committee
Bourke Cochran
New York
Kelley
Congress
Hve
Prince Can't Pay Taxi Bill in City Court
Prince Nicholas V. Bagalicheff, once Russian vice consul at Chicago, said in City Court he could not pay $2,400 in taxi debts. He sold his hotel room for $200, and his income as a stock salesman could not cover weekly expenses of about $70, forcing him to borrow from friends.
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New York
Prince Nicholas V. Bagalicheff
Chicago
Senate OKs Kenyon bill to raise farm loan rates
The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill amending the federal farm loan act to permit higher interest rates on bonds of joint stock land banks from 1 1 2 percent to 6 1 2 percent.
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Washington
Senate
House
Kenyon
Honda
Aviators Escape After Plunge in Lake Near Camp Lewis
Cadet Charlen W. Hillman and Raymond Wilkerson, pilots in Camp Lewis Flight B, Ninety-Second Aero Squadron, plunged into an American lake during patrol duty and surfaced fifteen feet below the surface to reach shore unharmed.
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Tacoma
Wiel
American Lake
Camp Lewis
Charlen W. Hillman
Raymond Wilkerson
Fight B
Aero Equadron
Fugitive Gardner Recaptured by Centralia Officers
Roy Gardner, sentenced to two twenty five year terms for mail robbery, was recaptured in Centralia by Louis Sandy a deputy sheriff. Gardner who had escaped twice from federal guards while en route to McNeil Island prison arrived Tuesday night on a freight train and was identified by Mrs Marian Howell hostess at a hotel. He wore a head bandage to disguise injuries and recognized Marshal Holohan of San Francisco who led the search. Gardner said accomplice Norris Pyron was surprised when he flashed a weapon during the escape and that he later greeted a California post office inspector who captured him there. Gardner has been taken to McNeil Island penitentiary.
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Wash
Roy Gardner
McNeill’s Island
Louis Sandy
Esty
Jal
Gardner
Castle Rock
United States
Holohan
San Francisco
Jalil
Marshal
Post Office
California
McNeil’s Island Penitentiary
Marian Howell
Standard OM Company
Indiana
Casper
Carl Smith
Rock Springs
Smith
Minnie Gnagnos
Lena Hausler
Cheyenne
Baltimore
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Margaret Grier
Samuel A. Underwood
Cheyennie
Underwood
Margaret Boriss
Denver
Durham
Sherif
Carrie Chapman Catt
University of Wyoming
Catt
Universalty
Katherine A. Morton
Eunice Anderson
Avery Haggard
Nelson
Hoyt Hall
Chester J. Chandler
Casper Post Office
M. P. Wheeler
United States District
Gasper
Chandler
Ralph Smirth
Five Die In Nebraska Wreck Near Whitney
Flood waters blamed by trainmen for a Chicago and Northwestern wreck near Whitney Nebraska as train No 600 plunged from a sagging trestle into a creek. Five were killed and about thirty injured. Thirteen sent to Hot Springs South Dakota and twenty one to Chadron. Baggage car and passenger cars were wrecked with one car buried and others scattered.
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Omaha
Neb
Whitney
Chicago & Northwestern
Chadron
To Investigate War Contracts
Washington. Investigation by the Department of Justice of all major war time contracts with the government has begun. Attorney General Daugherty announced the work, with President Harding’s approval, and a special bureau is being organized. The aim is to sift wartime dealings of firms and individuals to punish dishonesty and clear those with clean records.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Daugherty
Harding
Clothing Prices Drop After War Peak in Chicago
Wholesale and retail clothiers report notable price declines in men’s clothing and furnishing goods from wartime peaks. A National Association survey shows 25 to 30 percent reductions across firms, with 41 percent noting 31 to 40 percent cuts, 11 percent reporting 40 to 60 percent depreciation, and only 5 percent at or above a 25 percent fall.
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Chicago
Naional Association of Retail Clothiers
Astor Home Looted in New York Jewel Robbery
The home of Vincent Astor at 840 Fifth Avenue was looted of jewelry and valuables valued between 10 000 and 20 000 dollars. The robbery occurred June 4 and was discovered within hours after police conducted a rapid search. The thief entered via the servants door and moved through the upper floors before leaving by the main entrance unseen.
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New York
Vincent Astor
Fifth Avenue
Durango Flood Rages Across Animas Valley
Western newspaper report details unprecedented flooding in the Animas valley with washing away of houses and acres of farmland. Rail lines washed out from Durango to Telluride, with limited train service and multiple bridge losses. Rivers Dolores and San Miguel breach banks, flood lowlands from Aztec to Farmington, and threaten Silverton mines and mills.
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Union News Service
Durango
Colo
Animas Valley
Animas City
American Smelting and Refining Company
Manlager R. BP
Reynolds
Rio Grande
Here
Telluride
Dolores
San Miguel
San Juan
Silverton
Eureka
Sunnyside
Mears Wilfley Mill
King Mine
Pikerton Springs
Animus
Aztec
N. M
Farmington
Shiprock
Rico
Mancos
Famine Reported in Kiev as Insurgents Besiege City
Dispatches from Ukraine describe a catastrophic famine in Kiev with mass deaths and 2,000 buried in a single day. Meanwhile secret nationalist societies allegedly harm Bolshevist leaders and magistrates, with several found dead by hanging or bullet wounds almost daily.
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Berne
Switzerland
Kiev
Ukraine
Woman Receives 1500 for Kindness in Chicago
Mrs. Joseph Peddicord of North Chicago becomes $1500 richer after a whim of kindness eleven years prior. George Foster Paddock, then penniless, sought aid at her back door receiving whisky, breakfast, and 50 cents to travel to Milwaukee. He later died wealthy in Watertown New York and remembered her in his will.
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Chicago
Joseph Peddicord
North
George Foster Pardock
Missing Calgary Cowboy Rumor Triggers $12 Million Reward
Chicago police report a Calgary rancher known as Ned Churchill disappeared December 24 1919 while transporting twenty ears of cattle to Chicago. He reportedly fell heir to the KC ranch after his father's death. A massive reward of twelve million dollars is mentioned in dispatches.
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Chicago
Sarvaht
Charles Holgar
Spencer Churchil
Calgary
Con
Ned Churchill
West Virginia War Renewed in Coal Fields
War erupts again in West Virginia mining country with combat in coal fields. Two strikers are killed and a state trooper is probably fatally wounded in the renewed unrest. Local authorities report mounting casualties as miners clash with troops amid escalating tensions.
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Williamson
W. Va
West Virginia
Threat to Marie Curie sparks police protection in Chicago
In Chicago Marie Curie spent her last hours amid enthusiastic Polish women but under police protection after a telephone threat. Police traced a caller believed to be a cancer sufferer who muttered that cancer cannot be cured and that she intends to kill Curie, promising to hear from her later.
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Chicago
Mme, Marie Curie
Mme, Curie
Arms Found On Ship Arms Stolen
In New York customs seized over five hundred machine guns and hundreds of parts found on the American steamship East Side. Hoboken police later took custody under a search warrant sworn by Hank Williams who said the arms were stolen on June 11. Investigations by customs, Justice, and Shipping Board officials unfold.
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New York
Ireland
East Side
Hoboken
Hank Williams
United States Shipping Board
Norfolk
Customs
Department of Justice and Shipping Board
Williams
Ad Clubs Meet In Atlanta City Chooses Convention Site Blocked
Proposals for the Associated Advertising Clubs of the world to pick a central city for a permanent convention place failed to gain approval at the Atlanta convention in Atlanta Georgia.
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Atlanta
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
Mob Burns Black Church During Georgia Violent Disturbance
In Autreyville Georgia a Black church and homes were set ablaze by a mob believed to include local residents. Several Black people were whipped and one struck as violence followed a brutal incident involving 12 year old Larena Wilkes. John Henry Williams, a Black man, faces charges over the serious case.
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Autreyville
Gaa
Larrena Wilkes
John Henry Williams
Frontier Days Events and Wyoming News Roundup
Annual Frontier Days set for July 26 to 29 in Cheyenne as national and local items roll in. Reports cover University of Wyoming ROTC camps, prohibition director appointment, theft arrests, a Kansas tourist seized in Cheyenne, and gas and oil prospects on Wyoming-Yellowstone lands.
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Union News Service
Cheyenne
Wyo
University of Wyoming
Laramie
Reserve Officers
Camp Lewis
Washington
Carl Jackson
Wyoming
Lloyd ©. Sampson
Howard Wright
St. Marys
Kan
Midwest
Golden Eagle Dome
Wyoming-Yellowstone
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