Better Times Coming in September Says Board Review
The federal reserve board released a daily optimistic summary of September a marked improvement in credit conditions. Higher cotton prices boosted liquidation and wholesale and retail trade, while employment edged up slightly across districts. Railroads expanded staff mainly in the West as manufacturing and building activity showed gains. agriculture shipments moved, prices rose for most commodities though livestock quotes slipped locally.
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Washington
Federal
Recive Board
Sein
Atieturhig
Death by Hanging as Carl Wanderer Sings on Gallows
In Chicago Carl Wanderer, condemned for murdering his wife unborn child and a hired accomplice, was hanged at the county jail. He walked to the scaffold with a steady step and, after a brief prayer, sang the tune Old Pal Why Don't You Answer Me before the trap fell.
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Chicago
Carl Wanderer
Jake Holdup
Wanderer
Ney
Irish Conference Set With Lloyd George in London
Eamonn de Valera accepts Lloyd George invitation for a London conference on October 11 to address the Irish question, signaling a major effort to resolve the long-standing dispute between Ireland and Great Britain.
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London
Eamonn de Valery
Lloyd George
Trelind
Great Britain
Wife Offers to Sell Self for Two Years in Arkansas
Madeline Taylor, 25, of Success, Arkansas, writes from no letter to the Arkansas Gazette offering herself into servitude for two years. She seeks a hospital for her invalid husband and funds for an operation. Her husband, a former Navy serviceman, was injured overseas and has been helpless since. She specifies the worker must be a respectable party and define the labor.
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Little Mock
Ark
Madeline Taylor
Success
Arkansas Gasette
Navy
Kingie
Aince
National Censors Urged Board to Rid Objectionable American Films
The National Council of Women in Sheffield adopted a resolution calling for a national board of censors to remove objectionable American motion picture lines. Speakers attacked American films for topics including divorce, death by self harm, murder, and infidelity.
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Sheffield
Eng
National Council of Women
Seasion
National Board of Censors
Great Britain
Fes
Two Mexicans shot dead near Goshen Junction
Officers report two Mexican men were shot and killed at Goshen Junction eight miles south of Visalia after they attacked N T Greene a Southern Pacific Company special officer. Greene had asked them to leave the freight train during a switching operation and they leaped at him prompting the shooting.
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Visalia
Calli
Goshen Junction
Here
N. T. Greene
Southern Pacific Company
Greene
Plan for Organized Reserve of the Army Detailed
Washington reports a comprehensive plan to create an organized reserve of 27 infantry divisions linked to the National Guard and regular army areas. Major General Harbord says the framework enables mobilization within weeks, with 46 000 officers from the officers reserve corps and thousands of enlisted personnel to be assigned by July. The reserve would not be used except in national emergencies, backed by the skeleton regular force and National Guard. The scheme aims to boost civilian training camps and reserve officers in colleges with defined future assignments.
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Westar
Union News Service
Washington
Organized Reserve
Army
General Staff
Congress
Harbord
Aris ii
National Army
National Guard
National Land Defense Forces
Mabtl- Sandon
Women Held as Booze Runners in Des Moines
Des Moines detectives arrested three women alleged to be liquor runners. The suspects gave names Mia Muttle Manka age 80, daughter Margaret age 17, and Jonnie Davis age 24. They claimed residence in Sioux City and reported driving to Des Moines with a carload of liquor.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Mia
Muttle Manka
Margaret
Jonnie Davis
Sioux City
Chicago Pays Strike Damage
The 1904 Debs era strike damages were settled when Chicago paid $180,000 to Pennsylvania Railroad. The city had been awarded $105,000 for property damage, and after appeals the amount grew to the final settlement with interest.
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Chicago
Eugene V. Debs
Atlanta
American Mallway Union
Pennsylvania Railroad
Eity
Ite
Negotiations advance on ratification of postwar treaties
Senate in fortnight considered ratification of peace pacts with Germany Austria and Hungary as Democratic and Republican leaders discussed a broad consent agreement. Lodge Underwood voiced optimism while Watson opposed entangling Europe. Berlin Reichstag committee backed ratification and urged formal approval of the peace treaty with the United States.
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Senate
Germany
Auarrian
Hiigney
Lodge
Wis
Senator Lodge
Stoyubions
Underwood
Londes
Watson
Georgia
United States
League of Nations
Europe
Harding
Berlin
Foreign Affairs Commission
Reichstag
G A R Elect Officers After 55th Encampment Ends
The Grand Army of the Republic closes its fifty fifth annual encampment in Indianapolis with L B Pilcher of Brooklyn named commander in chief and Des Moines chosen for next meeting. National officers selected include I W McBride of Indianapolis senior vice commander H A Johnson of Washington junior vice commander M W Wood of Boise surgeon general and G B Smith of Minneapolis chaplain.
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Indianapolis
Grand Army of the Republic
Pilcher
Brooklyn
Des Moines
I. W. McBride
H. A. Johnson
Washington, D. C
M. W. Wood
Boise
May Seize Ex Kaiser's Estate In Germany Bill
Berlin The Independent Socialist party introduced in the reichstag a bill aiming to abolish monarchist remnants. The measure would confiscate property of former Emperor William and German princes and dismiss monarchist civil and military officials without pension for allegiance to the republic.
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Berlin
Independent Socialist Party
Reichstag
Germany
William
Internal Revenue officers arrest two in bribe and theft probe
Two U S agents held G Wickmel and Garnett Underwood as alert chief of the personal audit sector and another, taken into custody on charges of attempting to obtain bribes reveal confidential information and thefts of office records. The revenue bureau alleged both had attempted to enter negotiations with a Duluth taxpayer.
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Washington, KB
G. Wickmel
Alerant
Internal Revenue Bureau
Income Tax
Garnett Underwood A
Bureau
The
Revenue Bureau
Lnte
Duluth
Ming
Waterway plan to connect Great Lakes to Atlantic ports argued
Denver businessmen and Charles B P Craig outline the Tidewater Association scheme to inland ocean shipping. They describe Canada and U S studies, routes, costs, and a 250 million dollar fifty foot channel plan linking Montreal to inland lakes with a large power station. They claim major savings in grain and copper transport for western producers.
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Union News Service
Denver
Charles BP
Craig
Great Lakes
Tidewater Association
Council of States
United States
Canada
Atlantic Ocean
Montreal
Atlantic
Crale
Welland Canal
St. Lawrence
Lake Ontario
Ontario
Lake Francis
Colorado
Montanas
Pacific Coast
Panama Canal
Perth Amboy
N. J
Parents Held for Murder in Albany Slayings
Albany reporters say Gil Glenmore Hudson and his wife Mrs Bennie Hudson have been indicted for the murder of Mrs Hudsons two sons aged 10 and 4. The bodies were found by the stepfather on July 12 after the mother allegedly shot the boys in anger for cutting a watermelon despite a prohibition. The husband then accused his wife of the killings.
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Albany
Gil Glenmore Hudson
Bennie Hudson
Three Held for Big Theft In Toronto Firm Probe
The theft of $700,000 is among five charges against two officers and one employee of N. Brenner & Co., metals firm with New York and London interests. N. Brenner, Myer Brenner, Gordon Blackford are out on bail after arrest on conspiracy and theft charges.
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Toronto
N. Brenner & Co
New York
London
N. Brenner
Myer Brenner
Gordon Blackford
Jewelry trunks stolen at Salem station
Two jewelry sample trunks containing watches and other jewelry valued near 20000 dollars were stolen from the Northwestern Railway station at Salem forty miles east of here. The trunks were in the possession of A. J. Huer a representative of the A. E. Murdock Company of Minneapolis.
Arbuckle Released on $8000 Bond in Rappe Case
Fatty Arbuckle, held for manslaughter in the Virginia Rappe death, was freed from city prison on an $8000 cash bond. The murder charge was reduced to manslaughter by Police Judge Sylvain J. Lazarus, who ordered him to answer to the Superior Court for trial on the lesser charge from the San Francisco drinking party incident.
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San Francisco
Roscoe
Fatty) Arbuckle
Virginia Rappe
Sylvain J. Lazarus
Dayton pilot 40800 foot world altitude record
Lieutenant John A. MacReady, testing at McCook Field in the Sau Pere biplane, reached 40,800 feet in 1 hour 47 minutes, gliding down after the engine failed. The flight, aimed to test Moss improvements on the supercharger and high pitch propeller, surpassed Rudolph Schroeder's prior 38,180 foot mark.
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Dayton
Ohio
John A. MacReady
McCook Field
Rudolph © Schroeder
MacReady
Shroeder
5. A. Moss
G. 5. B. A. Hallet
Moss
Liberty
la Pere
United States
New 4000 Pound Bomb Under Construction in Maryland
Aberdeen arsenals experts build a 4000 pound bomb to be tested in Maryland. The weapon is designed to be dropped from an airplane into the bay. If successful, future development may extend to Langley field Virginia and off the Virginia capes for coast defense.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Aberdeen
Arsenul
Langley Field
Virginia
Virginia Capes
Tenant Ousts Landlord In Chicago Rent Court Action
In Chicago a tenant ousted landlord from a house and Judge Bernard Barasa approved the process. John Zuccarella, sued for possession of a flat by Alexander Gerri, quietly bought the building and became Gerri's landlord. The court upheld Gerri's lease and ordered Zuccarella to vacate.
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Chicago
Bernard Barasa
John Zuccarella
Alexander Gerrl
Gerri
Zuccarella
Wyoming Brief News Notes From All Parts
Summary of scattered Wyoming items: road work in Savageton area south of Gillette. a robbery near Creston netting $284 and a jeweled watch. a section foreman killed by a gravel train near Kemmerer. Rotary Club hears on government hospital use for art Mackenzie. Formation of Wyoming Hereford Ranch Co. with $1,000,000 capital in Cheyenne. a 15-year-old boy escapes while en route to Worland. a deputy sheriff thwarted by a suspect at Salt Creek. Yellowstone hay supply supports buffalo herds. James Mickelson estate valued around $2,000,000 with large ranch and cattle holdings. Newcastle fire destroys twelve businesses and lodge records. Mehed Rudd Bey to receive $10,000 life insurance for a son killed in WWI. a Greek claimant in Cheyenne is thwarted. Sheridan youth Viola Farqua to industrial school after life-risk intent. Casper adds seven-room grade school to handle enrollment rise. another new building planned. Extradition dispute over Ben Conley unresolved. Senator Kendrick returns to Washington amid cattle moves due to grasshoppers. Fort Russell fire damages three-story building. losses around $100,000.
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Union News Bervite
Savageton
Gillette
Creston
Rawlings
Wamsutter
Charles Daniels
Italy
Hodges Tunnel
Kemmerer
Art Mackenzie
Rotary Club
Sheridan
Frank W. Mondell
Hereford Corporation of Wyoming
Cheyenne
Wyoming Hereford Ranch Company
Robert Gladstone
Worland
Burlington
Lysite
Orville Jennings
Salt Creek
Jennings
Frull
Yellowstone
James Mickelson
Big Piney
Wyo
Green River Valley
Newcastle
West Motor Company
Mulcahy Tailor Shop
E. and M
Amen Reehdi Rafez
Meuse
Rafez
Near East Relief Association
Viola Farqua
Industrial School For
Morrison
Colo
Lve
Industrial Institute
Casper
South
Ben Conley
Deverter
H. L. Seidel
Linais
Len Small
Conley
Ilinois
Simall
John B. Kendrick
Washington
Kendrick
Montana
Wyoming
Fort
D. A. Russell
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Kaiser
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Okla
Edmond
Arbuckle
E. T. Williams
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Western Newspaper Union News Service
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