Wyoming Briefs Highlight Crime Politics and Road Plans
A collage of local items from Wyoming cites a clothing cost protest, a university death, a store robbery threat, Thermopolis camp funding, a trainmaster’s death, bank embezzlement plea, a fatal shooting, good roads day urged, gas production grows, Casper lodge project, a conductor’s funeral, no daylight saving in Cheyenne, a defamation suit, and an alcohol poisoning death.
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Olive Carl
Griffin
Thermopolis
Pleasant Smith
Smith
Big Worn
Park, Washakle and
Hot Springs
Carey
Biks Lodge
Casper
William Matheson
Woming
Union Pacific Railroad
Cheyenne
Laramie
Matheson
Wyoming
Green River
Cheyvenne
Denver
Lavivile
Init Radiv
Vor
Hoyt
Keating
Hhoshanl
Dannwiges
Werdimage Aid
Dineen Joseph Gayvell
Cusper Sheet Tren Works
Halt Extravagance Urged by Bankers Conference
Washington May 12 bankers and Treasury and Federal Reserve officials plan a major conference to curb credit for nonessentials and divert capital to necessities. The talks aim to check inflation, guide financial reconstruction, and restore normal conditions after wartime excesses.
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Union News Service
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Houston
Federal Reigerve Board
United States
Iran
Federal Reserve Board
Plotters Sentenced in Venizelos Plot Trial
Athens court martial sentences General Dolbritis Colonels Derleres and Karapateas and Captain Kannhouves to life in prison for leading the December plot against Premier Venizelos. Fifteen to twenty year terms were imposed on other officers, while twenty four suspects were acquitted.
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Athens
Dolbritis
Derleres
Karapateas
Kannhouves
Mite
Venizelos
Hite
Wit Feen
Paving Contract In Portland Amounts To 84 Million
A county board in Maricopa announced a highway paving contract to Twohy Brothers of Portland. The project value is 84,000,000 with 140 quotes noted in the filing and trade office records.
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Portland
Marivopa County
Arry
Twohy Brothers
Prohibition raid targets Tropical Mood Products in New Orleans
Authorities report a large operation linked to the Tropical Mood Products Company in New Orleans and the Gulf coast states. The raid seized hundreds of malt cases hops and numerous so called prescriptions claimed to teach home brew and high alcohol production.
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New Orleans
Gulf Coast States
Tropical Mood Products Company
Mexican Revolution Expands in Jalisco Colima Strong
In El Paso on May 15 reports say Jalisco and Colima are in rebel hands after Gen Manuel Dieguez surrendered with about 5 000 troops. Rebel forces total 7 000 under Renteria Laviano Estrada plus others. Villareal backed provisional presidency as Obregon and Gonzales work together in Mexico City.
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Union News Service
el Paso
Texas
Jalisco
Colima
Manuel M. Dieguex
Carranza
Guadalajara
Sefior de Oca
Dieguez
Jose Renteria Laviano
Enrique Estrada
Zacatecas
Guadalupe Sanchez
Vera Crag
Obregon
Rinconada
Puebla
Revolutionary Teater
Washington
Pablo Gonzales
Alvaro Obregon
Mexico
Mexico City
State Department
Villareal
Nuevo Leon
Orly
Mall Official Killed In Air Crash Near Oskaloosa
William J. McClenchias superintendent of the Chicago Omaha aerial wall division was killed when the airplane he rode collided with a tree four miles south of Oskaloosa Iowa. Pilot El W Johnson of Fremont Ohio was injured.
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Oskaloosa
Towa
William J. Mc. Clenchias
Chicago- Oamaha
Here
EL W. Johnson
Fremont
Ohio
Tax Stock Dividends Debate in House Committee
Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee near agreement on a tax plan to fund soldier relief legislation. The proposal centers on imposing a levy of a percent of the value of stock dividends, with varying rates and dates considered.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Rail traffic tied up by floods across plains
Torrential rains and melting snow disrupt lines of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy and Northern Pacific. Washouts block bridges between Alliance Nebraska and Edgemont South Dakota with repairs possible in one to two weeks. Detours reroute passenger trains via Billings and Casper as lines suffer across Wyoming Montana and Idaho.
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Crawford-Edgemont
Wyoming
Montana
Edgemont
Ardmore
Alliance
Midgemo
Burlington
Billings
Mont
Casper
Wyo
Chicago & Northwestern
Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
Denver
Sioux City
Towa
South Dakota
Rutte
Reed Point
Livingston
Northern Pacific
Bitter Root Mountains
Idaho
Chicago, Burlington & Quincey
Hold up man shot by police in Chicago apartment duel
Holdup slaying concerns Horace Walton a 30 year old former postal clerk from St. Joseph Missouri. He was killed in a revolver duel with fifty officers after holding up an Illinois Central train car near Kankakee and escaping with mail bags reportedly containing 100000 dollars. The money was recovered. Washington notes a House Post Office Committee favorably reports a bill to extend existing second class mail rates to July 1 1921 and to delay automatic postage increases by one year each.
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Chicago
Horace T. Walton
St. Joseph
Kankakee
Washington
House Post Office Committee
Vessels May Have to Use Coal, Washington
A Senate Naval committee inquiry considers whether American naval and merchant ships could switch from oil to coal due to the oil situation. Senator Cummins of Iowa proposes a resolution to study government coal orders to guarantee fuel supply.
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Washington
Senate Naval Committee
Cummins
Lowa
President Warns Congress on Censorship in Appropriation Bill
President Wilson blasts a veto tied to the annual legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill saying a rider would muzzle officials with a censorship controlled by the joint committee on printing. Senate and House Republicans challenge the move while debates over the bill’s fate continue.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Congressional Joint Committee On
Senate
House
Smoot
Utah
Joint Committee
Representative Good
Town
House Appropriations Committee
Mainy
Lunatic Confesses Murder In Los Angeles
George Goldbach 28, once an inmate of an asylum, confessed to killing H. J. Robbins, retired banker of Shelton Nebraska, near Robbins residence after an alleged sidewalk dispute. Police found Goldbach with a ham sandwich and a long knife, taken into custody in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Cal
George Goldbach
H. J. Robbins
Shelton
Neb
Robbins
Goldbach
Freight Cars Tied Up Amid National Rail Congestion
Washington reports severe freight congestion at major railroad terminals, likened to a 1917 wartime strain. Insiders note bottlenecks as labor and power shortages hinder movement, with appeals flooding to the Interstate Commerce Commission the Railway Administration and Congress for relief.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Reairoad
Congress
Auction of German Imperial Treasures Promised in New York
A major New York sale offers the heirlooms of the German imperial family seized from Berlin and Munich palaces. Household effects of Kaiser Wilhelm, Empress Auguste Victoria, and others will be auctioned after the emperor abdicated and fled to Holland. May 22 is noted by a leading local art collector.
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New York
Kaiser Wilhelm
Kaiserin
Berlin
Munich
Danald Bille
Holland
Eastern Live Stock Prices From Chicago Market Report
Chicago market report shows cattle and calf prices with top yearlings at 14.10 and 18.78 for top heavies, fat cows and heifers 8.75 to 11.00, canners 7.50 to 9.75, bulls stronger, stockers steady, vealers around 11.00, hogs 14.00 to 18.60, sheep and lambs mixed with shorn lambs at 18.00 and ewes around 14.00.
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Gosling
Colo
Lima
Il Ag
Timoth
South In Park
Sane South Park
Charles Friend & Hene
Denver Price
Mamie EL Colorado
Chicago
New York Produce Prices and Dairy Terms Reported
A garbled pricing note from New York Produce shows scattered figures for Hutter Creamery items, cheese varieties, and poultry with many OCR errors. The fragment references extras, packing, firsts, and various percentages, but lacks coherent details or clear entities beyond generic product categories.
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New York
Hutter
Atoch
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Kenier
Moat
Legen
Tnve
James Lelie
University of Wyoming
Lavell
Invermont
Inince
Terry
Carlyle No
Eugene B. Cunninghim
Union Macitit
Rawlina
Rochester
Minn
Tunbinghan
Union Tack
Bernard J. Keyes
First National Bank of
Worland
Leavenworth
Bureau of Polite Roads
State Highway Department
United States Navy
Relief
Philadelphia Navy Yard
America
Gen
Mall
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Swepper Union
Denysr Mankets
Rooster Réah
Ade Qurkepa
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