President Wilson declines to terminate merchant marine treaties
Washington notes President Wilson will not act to terminate treaty provisions allowing discriminatory tariffs and tonnage dues on imports carried in American bottoms. State Department statement explains he sees no constitutional power to end existing treaties without mutual consent, citing thirty two treaties and mutual obligations. Millerand Invested at Versailles amid ovation as Deschanel illness precludes normal ceremonies. In Salem, Lena Steiger is found guilty of assault with intent to kill her husband, linking to a separate case with Jesse Mullinix who received seven years. Steiger admits intimacy but denies conspiracy.
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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
Chicago broker refused citizenship in federal court
Wealthy Chicago broker Paul Tietgens, head of Paul Tetgens & Co, was denied citizenship by Judge George T. Page. The judge found no proved disloyalty but noted Tietgens waited 23 years before seeking papers and was not satisfied with his explanations for the delay.
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Chicago
Paul Tietgens
Paul Tetgens & Co
George T. Page
Tietgens
United States
Page
Japan must be patient on California land issues
Western Newspaper Union News Barvise in Tokyo reports Japanese leaders urge patience after the U S presidential election as California weighs a referendum to bar Japanese from land ownership and leases. Viscounts Takaki Kato and Kentaro Kaneko warn of deep strains while others urge diplomatic channels and gradual reform to avoid war.
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Union News Barvice
Tokyo
California
United States
Viscount Takaaki Kato
Foreign Minster
Syi
America
Viscount Kentaro Kaneko
Japan-America Society of Tokyo
Japan Advertiser
Japan
Viscount Kaneko
Perry
Jinosaki Inouye
Bank of Japan
Cotton Goods Price Cut In Manchester Factory
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester announces a 944 percent price reduction on manufactured cotton goods. The firm, employing 10,000 in cotton departments, currently produces 4,000,000 yards weekly. The move comes amid a unsettled cotton market with heavy cancellations, raising fears of a market condition similar to the woolen department shutdown.
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Manchester
N. H
Amoskeng Manufacturing Company
Jewels Recovered After Taxi Driver Held Reward
$25,000 value jewels belonging to Mrs. J. M. Hixon missing for over a week were found after police arrested a Chicago taxi driver. The chauffeur claimed he kept the jewels for a potential reward after Mrs. Hixon left them in his cab. He was released when she declined to prosecute.
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Chicago
J. M. Hixon
Los Angeles
Ford Cuts Prices in Re opening of Prewar Rates
Detroit Henry Ford announced immediate price reductions at Ford Motor Company restoring prewar levels. Reductions vary by product, about fourteen percent on motor trucks and smaller percentages on small automobiles.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
Navy Ship Seizes Oil at Martinez Dock
The US Navy vessel Kanawha drew alongside Shell Oil Co docks in Martinez California and appropriated 15,000 barrels of fuel oil for Mare Island Navy Yard.
Counterfeiter William Smith Sentenced in San Jose Case
In United States District Court William Smith alias Robert Bossom, a 00 year old counterfeiter, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year in jail and a $1 fine. He was captured in San Jose after allegedly trying to pass counterfeit $10 and $20 bills, reportedly hoping for better treatment in jail.
Hoover urges higher rates on postal savings deposits
New York September 24 Therbert Hoover told the Senate reconstruction committee that ending profiteering and paying about 4 percent quarterly on average postal savings deposits could boost national savings. He argued government profits from postal savings were high in 1918 and that depositors received little interest, urging redistribution of earnings to depositors and justice in the system. He favored a Farm Loan Bank style institution over tax-exempt mortgages.
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New York
Therbert Hoover
Senate Committee On Reconstruction
Postal Savings Bank
Post Office Department
Hoover
Postal Savings Banks
Mutual
Farm Loan Bank
Tombstone Fails On Child At Cemetery Scene
A toddler named Little John Borovicka, about two years old, died in a cemetery when a snow white tombstone piece toppled onto him as his mother and three siblings prayed at the graveside of the father. The accident occurred during the same funeral procession.
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Chicago
John Borovicka
Lamb of Tomble
Relief pleas to federal reserve on livestock loans
Washington relief from possible destruction of the livestock industry due to tight credit was sought by a committee of producers bankers and packers before the federal reserve board They urged banks to extend credit for raising and marketing livestock noting that many loans mature this fall and that curtailment could force sales of young stock The board said it could not direct loans but has planned aid for agriculture nearing one billion dollars this year The producers argued eastern banks ignored livestock needs while Governor Harding defended the board s discretionary limits and stressed loans were for actual production purposes.
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Union News Service
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve System
Chicago
West
Catire
Harding
Frank J. Hoegenbarth
Salt Lake
Pacific Northwest
James
New Mexico
Europe
Llarding
Girl Wins French Title in Paris for War Service
Mme de Buyer-Mimeure formerly Miss Daisy Polk of San Francisco has been named a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in recognition of her services to France during the war.
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Paris
Mme. de Buyer-Mimeure
Daisy Polk
San Francisco
Legion of Honor
France
Infected shaving brushes spread to sixteen states
Investigation reported to the United States public health service by Director of Health Club Drake of Illinois. Disease linked to moss living at Ridgefield, Ti. Infected brushes distributed from Chicago to New York City and sixteen states including Colorado Illinois Iowa Oklahoma Texas and Missouri.
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Springfield
New York City
Chicago
United States Public Health Service
Health Club Drake
Illinois
Ridgefield
Colorado
Balbriggan Fire and Riots Strike Irish Town
The Black and Tans destroyed homes including those of Mrs. Andrew White and Lawrence Flanagan in Balbriggan Ireland. About 1,000 residents returned to ruined streets after a second terror night as shops and a hosiery factory suffered damage and 400 workers lost jobs. Royal Irish Constabulary helped prevent further fires. inspectors Burke Gibbons and Larless died, sparking inquest.
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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 Push Free Love Amid Yucatan Turmoil
Washington reports wholesale murders in Yucatan and accuses the state governor of surrendering to a Soviet faction. A caste war is feared as two Yucatan representatives in the Federal Congress advocate abolition of marriage and the spread of free love across the republic.
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Washington
Yucatan
Federal Congress
Republic
Milwaukee judge sentences drunk driver in speeding case
Milwaukee Wisconsin. The first step in the campaign to curb reckless driving began when Judge A Backus sentenced Nicholas HU, 28, to eighteen months in the house of correction. Hill was convicted of driving forty five miles an hour while intoxicated and struck three women.
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Milwaukee
Wis
A. ©. Backus
Nicholas HU
House of Correction
Hill
Starving Chinese Take Poison, Honolulu Report
Toklo cable advices to the Nippu Jil claim Chinese in the famine ravaged Shantung province are poisoning whole families to escape slow starvation. The dispatch also calls for a hundred million dollar fund to aid the starvation districts.
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Honolulu
T. H
Shantung
Toklo
Nippu Jil
Coffin Shortage in Weat China Reported
A letter to the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society from Dr. Joseph Taylor in Cheng-Tu dated August 10 describes a cholera outbreak in Weat China with marching deaths in the streets and a coffin shortage. Carpenters labor around the clock as bodies must be buried in trenches.
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New York
Weat China
American Baptisl Foreign Mission Society
Joseph Taylor
Cheng-Tu
Taylor
Cheng'Tu
Wyoming News Notes From Across the State
Brief items report on a $0.5 million Masonic Consistory cathedral planned at Capitol and Twentieth in Cheyenne, the death of John R. B. O Leary from a month-old accident, a Lusk home fire with a baby safe, and Edwin A. Hoadly’s death from pneumonia after a nail swallowed. Also noted are a fatal car crash near Rock Springs, Burl Markett’s 40 mile horse marathon win, rising Yellowstone Park tourism, Fred Royal's back fracture, oil well activity and production, Casper bankers’ meeting, Harry Cheeseman’s multi-county residency, lightning striking a Giverney school, gasoline rate impacts, Francis Barrett’s preliminary murder hearing, a Cheyenne agent shot, a Chinese suspect, and an Oregon drilling find near Cumberland.
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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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U. S
Mariakerke
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Belgium
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Cant Piiamnaa
U.S
Raps Postal Savings System
Tombstone
Western Newspaper
China
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