President Wilson Declines to End Merchant Marine Treaties
Washington Sept 25 formal announcement by the state department says President Wilson will not act to terminate treaties that block new import tariffs and discriminatory tonnage dues. The reply notes termination would breach 32 treaties and harm U S international obligations. Millerand receives ovation at Versailles as he is invested as the eleventh president of the Third Republic. A 62 year old Salem woman Lena Steiger is found guilty of assault with intent to kill her husband in an incident linked to a separate case involving Mullinix.
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Washington
State Department
Wilson
Congress
United States
Department of State
Merchant Marine Net
Srate
Salem
Ore
Lena Steiger
W. Stelger
Jesse Mullinix
Stelger
Here
Mullinix
Wealthy broker refused citizenship in federal court
Paul Tietgens, head of Paul Tetgens & Co. in Chicago, had citizenship refused by Judge George T. Page. The judge found no proven disloyalty but noted Tietgens waited 23 years to seek citizenship and was unsatisfied with his explanations.
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Chicago
Paul Tietgens
Paul Tetgens & Co
George T. Page
Tietgens
United States
Page
Japan Faces California Question After US Election
Western Newspaper Union reports that Japanese leaders urge patience as they oppose California land bills aimed at excluding Japanese from land ownership or leases. Viscounts Takaki Kato and Kentaro Kaneko warn against cruel measures while urging diplomatic channels and peaceful, practical resolutions.
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Union News Barvice
Tokyo
California
United States
Viscount Takaaki Kato
Foreign Minster
Syi
America
Cotton Goods Price Cut Shakes Manchester Mills
Amoskeng Manufacturing Company of Manchester announces a 944 percent cut in the price of manufactured cotton goods. The firm, employing 10,000 workers, currently produces 4,000,000 yards weekly. Officials fear the already unsettled cotton market may worsen due to heavy cancellation orders, echoing conditions that led to the woolen department’s closure.
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Manchester
N. H
Amoskeng Manufacturing Company
Jewels Recovered After Taxi Driver Arrest in Chicago
Mrs. J. M. Hixon valued at 25000 dollars reported jewels missing for over a week. A Chicago taxi driver confessed to keeping the jewels in his cab for a potential reward. He was released after Mrs. Hixon declined to prosecute.
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Chicago
J. M. Hixon
Los Angeles
Ford Cuts Prices in Prewar Rollback
Detroit reports Henry Ford announces immediate re establishment of prewar prices across Ford products. Price cuts range from about 14 percent on motor trucks to 5 percent on small automobiles.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
Navy Vessel Seizes Oil at Martinez Dock
The Kanawha anchored at Shell Oil Company docks in Martinez and appropriated 15 000 Darvela of fuel oil for Mare Island Navy Yard.
Counterfeiter William Smith Sentenced in San Francisco
In the United States District Court William Smith alias Robert Bossom a 00 year old counterfeiter pleaded guilty and received one year in jail and a one dollar fine. He was captured in San Jose California after allegedly passing counterfeit ten and twenty dollar bills hoping to be jailed for better treatment.
Hoover Urges Higher Rates to Boost National Savings
New York September 24 Therbert Hoover testified before the Senate committee on reconstruction urging government action to curb profiteering and pay about four percent interest on postal savings deposits. He argued current 1 percent returns drain savings and called for a reorganized payment method to benefit depositors and expand national savings. He favored a Farm Loan Bank model over mortgage tax exemptions.
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New York
Therbert Hoover
Senate Committee On Reconstruction
Postal Savings Bank
Post Office Department
Hoover
Postal Savings Banks
Tombstone Collapse Fatal to Child in Chicago Graveyard
A young child, two years old, died when a tombstone toppled onto him in a Chicago cemetery. The accident occurred as the mother and three older children prayed at the adjoining grave, the resting place of the father. A lamb of tomble the snow white tombstone piece was embraced by the boy moments before the tragedy.
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Chicago
John Borovicka
Lamb of Tomble
Livestock Credit Fight Pleads For Fed Aid
A Chicago producers bankers and packers committee urged the Federal Reserve Board to push reserve banks to ease loans for livestock raising and marketing. They warned denial would crush the West's livestock industry as farmers sell young stock due to tightened credit. Governor Harding said the Fed backs agriculture as essential but cannot direct bank lending.
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Union News Service
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve System
Chicago
West
Harding
Frank J. Hoegenbarth
Salt Lake
Pacific Northwest
James
New Mexico
Europe
Llarding
Girl Wins French Title in Honor of War Service
Paris honors Daisy Polk of San Francisco now Mme de Buyer Mimeure as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor for her wartime services to France.
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Paris
Mme. de Buyer-Mimeure
Daisy Polk
San Francisco
Legion of Honor
France
Infected Shaving Brushes Spark IL Public Health Alert
The discovery of an anthrax infection linked to shaving brushes distributed from Chicago to sixteen states including Colorado Illinois Iowa Oklahoma Texas and Missouri was reported to the U S Public Health Service by Illinois Health Director Drake. Investigations traced illness to a moss living at Ridgefield.
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Springfield
New York City
Chicago
United States Public Health Service
Health Club Drake
Illinois
Ridgefield
Colorado
Balbriggan Devastation by Black and Tans In Ireland
The Balbriggan raid by the Black and Tans wrecked homes including those of Mrs. Andrew White and Lawrence Flanagan. About 1,000 residents fled to hay fields, returning at dawn to smoking ruins. Royal Irish Constabulary protected property. 400 workers lost jobs as a British hosiery factory burned, signaling a new phase in suppression of Sinn Fein.
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Dublin
Black and Tans
Balbriggan
Andrew White
Eamonn de Valera
Lawrence Flanagan
de Valera
Ireland
Royal Irish Constabulary
Burke
Gibbons
Larless
England
Sinn Fein
Mexicans Debate Free Love Amid Yucatan Unrest
Reports from Yucatan claim wholesale murders and a caste war threat. The state governor faces charges of surrender to a Soviet influence while two Yucatan Federal Congress representatives advocate abolishing marriage and promoting free love nationwide.
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Washington
Yucatan
Federal Congress
Republic
Speeding crackdown: Milwaukee man jailed for drunken driving
Milwaukee Wisconsin. Judge A Backus gave Nicholas HU 28 eight months in the house of correction after convicting him of driving 45 mph under the influence. He struck three women in a crash marking the start of a city wide campaign to curb reckless driving.
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Milwaukee
Wis
A. ©. Backus
Nicholas HU
House of Correction
Hill
Starving Chinese Take Poison, Honolulu, T. H.
Toklo cable advices to the Nippu Jil claim famine in Shantung drives Chinese families to poison themselves. A hundred million dollar fund is urged to aid starving districts per the report.
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Honolulu
T. H
Shantung
Toklo
Nippu Jil
Coffin Shortage in China Reported by Mission Society
A letter from Dr. Joseph Taylor in Chengtu dated August 10 reports severe cholera in west China. Citizens die in streets as coffin supply runs out. carpenters work around the clock yet graves fill trenches.
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New York
Weat China
American Baptisl Foreign Mission Society
Joseph Taylor
Cheng-Tu
Taylor
Cheng'Tu
Wyoming Briefs Highlight Fires and Floods Across State
Cheyenne adds a half million dollar Masonic Consistory cathedral at Capitol and Twentieth. Douglas man John R. B. O’Leary dies from injuries a month after a bizarre accident. Lusk home erupts in flames as a mother escapes with her infant. Ed wind Hoadly of Cheyenne dies in Denver from pneumonia after a nail obstruction. William Lewis’s car overturns near an unguarded bridge on a return trip from Superior to Rock Springs. Buffalo boy Burl Markett wins a 40 mile race in two hours 20 minutes with a $250 prize. Yellowstone gains popularity as a national playground with 72 121 tourists in 1920 through Aug. 81, up from 56 231 in 1919. Fred Royal at Wheatland survives after a crushing injury. Wyoming oil wells show 2 845 barrels daily in August. Casper hosts Wyoming Bankers Association with notable financiers from Denver and Omaha. Harry Cheeseman’s counties shift with county realignments. Lightning strikes hit a public school and three houses at Giverny. Midwest gasoline freight rate hikes affect prices. Francis Barrett’s preliminary hearing on a Utah murder case shows self defense as the verdict. Thomas Holland, former DOJ agent shot in Cheyenne, faces murder charges. Oregon subdiocese drills strike high grade oil near Cumberland at 400 feet. The find sits 12 miles from any prior oil discovery.
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Union News Service
Cheyenne
Capitol
Twentieth Street
John RB
O'Leary
Douglas
Dewey Kester
Lusk
Edwin A. Hoadly
J. Hw, Hoadly
Denver
Superior
Rock Springs
William Lewis
Burl Markett
Buffalo
Wyo
Buck
Clyde Sawyer
Sheridan
Clearmont
Yellowstone Park
Fred Royal
Chugwater
Wheatland
Royal
Wyoming
Wyoming Bankers' Association
Casper
Omaha
Richards
Hawes
American Bankers' Association
First National Bank of St. Louis
Harry E. Cheeseman
Sunshine
Park County
Johnson County
Wremont County
Big Horn County
Sunlight Basin
Big Horn
Cheeseman
Giverney
Midwest
Oklahoma
Francis Barrett
Aighley
Green River
Thomas Holland
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Yee Geow
John 8
Pederhan
Cheyenne Fire Department
Oregon
Ziller Ranch
Cumberland
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Western Newspaper Union News Service
Japan
Viscount Kentaro Kaneko
Japan-America Society of Tokyo
Japan Advertiser
Viscount Kaneko
Perry
Jinosaki Inouye
Bank of Japan
Ford
U. S
Mariakerke
Ier Ostend
Belgium
Walle Piesred
Cant Piiamnaa
U.S
Raps Postal Savings System
Tombstone
Western Newspaper
China
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