Better Times Coming In September Says Federal Board
The federal relief board reported improved business conditions in September with gains in credit, liquidation, and wholesale trade, tied to higher cotton prices. Employment rose slightly in thirty days, while railroads expanded hiring in the West and building contributes reached a new share of the year. Agricultural shipping moved heavily to distributors and exporters, with prices rising though some stock quotations slipped due to local marketing conditions.
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Washington
Federal
Recive Board
Sein
Atieturhig
Wanderer Hanged After Singing At Gallows
Carl Wanderer, convicted of murdering his wife unborn child and a hired stranger in a staged hold up, faced the gallows in Chicago. He walked to the scaffold, answered affirmatively to a final question, and sang "Old Pal, Why Don't You Answer Me?" before the trap sprung and the end came.
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Chicago
Carl Wanderer
Jake Holdup
Wanderer
Ney
Irish Meeting October 11 London Conference Set
Eamonn de Valery informed Premier Lloyd George of his acceptance of the invitation for a conference in London October 11 on the Irish question. The move signals a momentous attempt to settle the centuries old dispute between Ireland and Great Britain.
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London
Eamonn de Valery
Lloyd George
Trelind
Great Britain
Arkansas Wife Offers Self For Two Year Servitude
Mrs Madeline Taylor of Success Arkansas writes to the Arkansas Gasette offering to sell herself into servitude for two years. She seeks a respectable employer to care for her invalid husband a former navy serviceman wounded overseas. She requests funds for his operation and a hospital placement in exchange for her labor.
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Little Mock
Ark
Madeline Taylor
Success
Arkansas Gasette
Navy
Kingie
Aince
Censor advocates move to curb American films in Britain
The National Council of Women in Sheffield adopted a resolution calling for a national board of censors to rid Great Britain of objectionable American motion picture lines. Speakers attacked American features including divorce, death by own action, murder, and infidelity.
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Sheffield
Eng
National Council of Women
Seasion
National Board of Censors
Great Britain
Fes
Officer Killa Two Mexicans Shot at Goshen Junction
Two Mexican men were shot and killed at Goshen Junction eight miles south of Visalia after they allegedly attacked N. T. Greene, a Southern Pacific Company special officer. Greene had asked them to leave the train during a switching operation. they reportedly leaped at him and the shooting followed.
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Visalia
Calli
Goshen Junction
Here
N. T. Greene
Southern Pacific Company
Greene
Plan to create organized reserve for national mobilization
Washington reports a general staff outline for an organized reserve to mobilize over 4 million fighting men within weeks. Twenty seven reserve divisions would mirror regular army and National Guard structures with decentralized command. Initial steps include filling reserve divisions with 46,000 officers from the officers reserve corps by July and enlisting thousands of men into regiments. The reserve would be used only in a national emergency, supplementing the skeleton regular army and National Guard.
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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
Three women believed to be liquor runners were arrested by Des Moines city detectives. The suspects Mia Muttle Manka, 80, and her daughter Margaret, 17, and Jonnie Davis, 24, claimed Sioux City, Iowa, as their home and said they drove to Des Moines with a car loaded with liquor.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Mia
Muttle Manka
Margaret
Jonnie Davis
Sioux City
Chicago Pays Strike Damage 1904 Settlement
Chicago paid 180000 to settle damages from the 1904 Debs era strike against the Pennsylvania Railroad. The city had been ordered to pay 105000 in damages originally, and after appeals the amount rose as interest accumulated until full settlement.
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Chicago
Eugene V. Debs
Atlanta
American Mallway Union
Pennsylvania Railroad
Eity
Ite
Negotiations for Treaties Stir U S Senate Vote Prospects
Washington hopeful of ratifying peace treaties with Germany Austria and Hungary within a fortnight after Democratic and Republican leaders discussed a proposed consent agreement. Senator Lodge signaled progress and Underwood said an agreement was practically reached. Debates on the treaties may yield to a temporary delay of the tax revision bill. Berlin Reichstag commission backs ratification noting the indefinite but comprehensive German accord and emphasizes future talks toward definite relations.
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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 at Indianapolis Encampment
The Grand Army of the Republic closed its fifty fifth annual encampment in Indianapolis with L. B. Pilcher of Brooklyn named commander in chief and Des Moines selected for the next meeting. National officers elected include I. W. McBride Indianapolis senior vice commander H. A. Johnson Washington junior vice commander M. W. Wood Boise surgeon general and G. B. Smith 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 Berlin
The Independent Socialist party in the reichstag introduced a bill to end monarchist remnants in Germany. It calls for confiscation of all property of former Emperor William and princes, and for dismissal without pension of civil and military officials who hold or tolerate monarchist views or refuse allegiance to the republic.
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Berlin
Independent
Socialist Party
Reichstag
Germany
William
Bandits Hold Up Santa Fe Train Near Edmond Okla
Six masked men in black raided Santa Fe train No. 5 south of Edmond Oklahoma three miles south of the city, forcing mall clerks to throw off four pouches of mall then vanished into darkness with an unclear parting message.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Edmond
Here
Internal Revenue Bureau arrests two for bribes and thefts
Two U. S. employees, G. Wickmel and Garnett Underwood, held by Internal Revenue Bureau agents on charges of attempting to obtain bribes, leaking confidential information, and stealing office records. The bureau stated the men then tried 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 for Great Lakes to Atlantic ocean route
Denver business leaders back an Inland ocean link via a Great Lakes St Lawrence Tidewater plan. They advocate canals and deeper waterways to connect Lake Ontario with the Atlantic, arguing a 50 foot channel could cost 250 million dollars and save grain and copper transport costs for western states.
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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 Case
Gil Glenmore Hudson and his wife Bennie Hudson have been indicted for the murder of Mrs Hudsons two sons aged 10 and 4 on July 12. The bodies were found by the stepfather who said the mother shot them in anger after they cut a watermelon despite being forbidden. Later Hudson accused his wife of killing the boys.
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Albany
Gil Glenmore Hudson
Bennie Hudson
Three Held for Big Theft at Brenner Firm
In Toronto police detain two officers and a Brenner & Co. employee over a $700,000 theft. The trio, including firm head N Brenner, son Myer Brenner, and bookkeeper Gordon Blackford, face five charges pending, with arrest on conspiracy and theft. they are out on bail awaiting further proceedings.
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Toronto
N. Brenner & Co
New York
London
N. Brenner
Myer Brenner
Gordon Blackford
Jewelry trunks stolen at Northwestern Railway station Salem
Two jewelry sample trunks containing watches and other jewelry valued near $20,000 were stolen from the Northwestern Railway station at Salem forty miles east of here. The trunks were in the possession of A. J. Huer, representative of the A. E. Murdock Company of Minneapolis.
Arbuckle Released on Bail in Rappe Death Case
Fatty Arbuckle, held for manslaughter in the Virginia Rappe death, was released from a San Francisco city prison on $8,000 cash bail. A murder complaint against a suspect was reduced to manslaughter by Police Judge Sylvain J. Lazarus, who held Arbuckle to answer to the Superior Court for trial on the lesser charge tied to the drinking party death in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Roscoe
Fatty) Arbuckle
Virginia Rappe
Sylvain J. Lazarus
Dayton Airman Breaks Altitude Record At 40800 Feet
Dayton Ohio Lieut John A MacReady test pilot at McCook field soared to 40800 feet in the Sau Pere biplane, surpassing Rudolph Schroeder's 38180 feet record set in 1920. The one hour forty seven minute flight used enhanced supercharger tech and auxiliary oxygen tanks, ending with a safe glide after engine failure.
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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
Baltimore Seeks Test Bomb Weighing Four Thousand Pounds
Baltimore reports the construction of a 4,000 pound bomb at Aberdeen Arsenal. Experts plan to test the weapon in Maryland with a drop from an airplane into the bay. If successful, further coast defense developments could follow at Langley Field and off Virginia Capes.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Aberdeen
Arsenul
Langley Field
Virginia
Virginia Capes
Tenant Ousts Landlord in Rent Court Action
In Chicago a landlord was ousted by a tenant as Rent Court Judge Bernard Barasa approved the procedure. John Zuccarella, sued for possession of a flat by Alexander Gerrl, quietly bought the building and became Gerrl’s landlord. The court held Gerrl’s lease valid and ordered Zuccarella to vacate.
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Chicago
Bernard Barasa
John Zuccarella
Alexander Gerrl
Gerri
Zuccarella
Wyoming Notes Reflect Crime Plans and Growth
Farmers in Savageton south of Gillette built thirty miles of road. A colored man robbed two white men at Creston, taking $284 and a jeweled watch. Italian-born Charles Daniels, 25, was killed by a gravel train near Kemmerer. Rotary heard assurances on using art Mackenzie as a government hospital in Sheridan. Hereford Ranch Company formed in Cheyenne with $1,000,000 capital to take over Hereford assets. Robert Gladstone, 15, escaped an industrial school by jumping from a train near Lysite. Orville Jennings attempted a deputy sheriff hold up at Salt Creek but was stopped. Buffalo and elk hay supply for Yellowstone winter. 600 tons harvested. James Mickelson estate in Big Piney valued around $2,000,000 with ranches and cattle. Newcastle fire destroyed twelve businesses and lodge records. Mehmed Rudd Bey to receive $10,000 life insurance for son Amen Reehdi killed in action. A Greek claimant sought the dead soldier’s estate. authorities located the father via Near East Relief. Viola Farqua, 15, Sheridan, to attend Industrial Institute in Morrison after self-harm risk. Casper school enrollment up 65 percent. new seven-room grade building planned. Extradition bid for Ben Conley blocked by Illinois Governor Small. Senator Kendrick returns to Washington after cattle moves due to grasshoppers. Fort D. A. Russell burned, three-story building housing bachelor officers’ quarters destroyed. damage 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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Killa
Miss Margaret Gorman
Margaret Gorman
Stee
Atlantic City
U.S
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Union
Ens Sereien
Kaiser
Arbuckle
E. T. Williams
State Department
Western Newspaper Union News Service
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