Administration scandal over naval oil reserves lease deals
Washington May 6 report on alleged secret leases of naval oil reserves in California and Wyoming to Standard Oil subsidiaries. Senators Kendrick La Follette and Smoot Curtis push for Senate inquiry into reserves No 1 and No 2 in California and Teapot Dome Wyoming, amid administration resistance and claims of military secrecy.
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Washington
California
Wyoming
Standard Oil Company
Congress
Standard Oil
Taft
Navy Department
Daniels
New York Stock Exchange
Sinclair Concern
Interior Department
Teapot Dame
Kendrick
Naval Reserve
Naval Reserves
la Follette
Republican
Wisconsin
Secretary of the Interior
Senate
National Conservation
Friends of
Special Privilege
Theodore Roosevelt
Farm Bloc
Smoot
Curtis
Fall
Naval
Atlanta Chamber offers prizes for Georgia grammar school essays
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce invites Georgia grammar school children in towns under 7000 population and rural districts to compete for prizes totaling 100, 60, 36, and 16 dollars. Essays on how cities and rural districts can cooperatively benefit must be submitted by June 5 with school and student names, addressed to B S Barker, Secretary.
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Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Georgia
Chamber of Commerce
B. 8. Barker
Barker
Third Division to convene at Woolsey Baptist May 6
The Third Division of the Fayette County Sunday School Association will hold its regular quarterly meeting at Woolsey Baptist Church on Saturday May 6 at 10 o clock A M. The day features preaching by the church pastor, followed by dinner. In the afternoon sessions, addresses will be given by Rev Chauncey L Foote Rev Geo P Gary and Miss Dora Snead representing the State Association.
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Fayette County
Mothers Day Observed At Ebenezer Methodist Church
The second Sunday in May at Ebenezer Methodist Church will be observed as Mothers Day. The community and those who honor their mother or remember a departed mother are invited to worship. Pastor George P Gary extends the invitation.
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Ebenezer Methodist Church
George P, Gary
Prohibition Agents Seize Whisky Outfit From Bud Harris
State Prohibition agents captured Bud Harris at his home on Friday morning. Ed Dixon Lon Sowell and Deputy Turner recovered a complete whisky making outfit including two gallons of whisky and a still worm hidden between the mattresss of his bed. Sheriff Kerlin arrested Harris on the following Saturday.
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Ed. Dixon
Lon Sowell
Turner
Bud Harris
Kerlin
Harria
Cannonaiding Rages Across Chinese Front Near Peking
News reports describe heavy artillery along the front from Machang south of Tientsin to near Peking. Chinese forces under Wu Pei fu and Chang Teo Lin clash with thousands killed or wounded. foreign observers and a U.S. rear admiral seek protection for aliens as fighting intensifies near Fengtai and Chang Sintien.
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Peking
China
Machang
Tientsin
Hun Ho
Wu Pei-Fu
Peking-Tientsin
Chang Teo-Lin
Manchuria
Great Wall
Hwangtsun
Wu-Pei-Fu
Pao Tingfu
Yantze
Shantung
Chang Tso-Lin
Chang Sintien
Legation Legation
Mason
Colorado
Chang Sintien Narowly
Wu Pile Fu
Chang
Fengtai
Women buy men's wear at UN Clothiers convention
Chicago notes that fashion leaders at the United National Clothiers Association say women are buying knickers hats shirts and collars for themselves. They mention athletic women using men's accessories for sport and suggest trousers may soon be worn by women as well.
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Chicago
Julius Caesar
Rubicon
United National Clothiers’ Association
W. L. Mohr
New Beveridge Race In Indiana
Early returns from 158 precincts split the Republican senate race with Harry S. New leading Beveridge by 9,083 to 8,010 votes. In Washington, a fire on the roof of the Treasury building caused an explosion of chemicals, with flames rising twenty feet amid a roof superstructure and four alarms within fifteen minutes.
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New Beveridge
Indiana
Indianapolis
Harry S. New
Albert J. Beveridge
Senate
New
Beveridge
U. S. ‘Treasury
Washington
Treasury
Many Louisiana towns face flood hunger crisis
Reports from Harrisonburg and scattered parishes in northern Louisiana describe 1000 residents and 50 refugees facing starvation as floodwaters isolate communities. Food supplies are critically low, with marooned farms and canned goods as the main sustenance, prompting refugee workers to urge rapid delivery to shelters and camps.
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New Orleans
Harrisonburg
Catahoula
Concordia
Louisiana
Ferriday
Lady Astor Urges U S to Embrace League of Nations
Washington reports Lady Nancy Astor Virginian rebel in Parliament urges the United States to unfurl a standard for a League of Nations. She praises Woodrow Wilson's world society and says the League will come, arguing America should join and not progress alone. She suggests calling it a league for peace.
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Washington
Britain
League of Nations
Nancy Astor
Virginia
Woodrow Wilson
World Society of Nations
Lady Astor
America
England
League For Peace
Great Heart of America
World Cotton Consumption Recovers To Prewar Level
Washington reports a commerce department survey showing world cotton consumption back to pre-war levels as of April 1. The study notes an indicated consumption of 21 million bales for the year ending July 31, 1922, about 6 million more than the crop year production.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Supreme Court Rules Emergency Fleet Corporation Not Suable Without Consent
The Emergency Fleet Corporation of the United States Shipping Board is not a governmental agency suable without consent, the Supreme Court held. The ruling is seen as crucial due to many cases pending before the corporation and its public role.
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Ship Board
Supreme Court
Washington
Emergency Fleet Corporation
United States Shipping Board
Russia Must Recognize Debts for Aid, Ultimatum States
Allied ultimatum issued by the political sub-commission demands that Soviet Russia acknowledge the Czarist and Kerensky debts to secure reconstructive aid. Agreement requires recognition of all old debts and renunciation of counter-claims, with potential future reductions debated by allied parliaments. Russians likely find terms unacceptable.
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Genoa
Italy
Soviet
Russia
Indictment Targets Morse and Allies Over Shipping Stock
New federal indictment charges C. W. Morse his three sons and twenty associates with conspiring to use the mails to defraud investors in the United States Steamship Company stock. Several named figures are described as former Democratic Party officials or former United States Shipping Board members.
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Morse New York
C. W. Morse
Morse
Democratic Party
United States Shipping Board
United States Steamship Company
Supreme court delays Red River riverbed ruling
Justice Van Devanter notes Oklahoma claim to the Red River bed is not well founded. Separate dispatch from Peking reports Wu Pei Fu and Chang Pao Lin clash on three fronts around the city with no decisive advantage for either side. Washington reports forfeit of about 9000 cases of liquor in a sweeping prohibition bureau decision tied to Scotch whiskey shipments to New York Alps Drug Co.
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Red River
Washinon
Supreme Court
Texas
Oklahoma
van Devanter
Peking
China
Wu Pei Fu
Chang Pio Lin
Heath Washington
Prohibition Bureau
Haynes
Alps Drug Company
New York
Georgia Road Bond Issue Prompts Statewide Debate
Judge Howard warns Georgia faces a crisis and must enact wise legislation to fund a $75 million road bond. Fayette County residents push for timely access to already appropriated funds as criticism mounts over prior misused highway money and ongoing road priorities.
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Howard
State Highway Department
County Commissioners of
Georgia
Bainbridge
Fayette
Wayett
Judge Howard
Fayetteville
Clayton County
Morning Creek
Camp Creek
Campbell County
State Highway Association
Fayette County
Columbus Creamery and the rise of dairy farming
The article praises the dairy industry as a key sign of progress for the Agriculture of the South. It argues hay and pasture cultivation, and milking good cows, sustain farming today and tomorrow, with cows securing jobs, soil improvement, and daily returns for farmers.
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South
Escaped Convict Captured Near Bear Creek
Thursday afternoon at about three Toland escaped while a guard directed shovelers on the new fill at Morning Creek. He fled southerly along the creek banks with deputy Turner pursuing through swamps until about ten at night near the Clayton and Spalding county lines, where Toland surrendered and was returned to camp.
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Morning Creek
Leonard Toland
Toland
Turner
Clayton
Spalding
Bear Creek
Man Drinking Resists Arrest After Whisky Found
Sunday afternoon Tom Mitchell was found with a bottle of whisky in his pocket and resisted surrender. Officer Turner overpowered him to take the bottle, keeping law and order intact in the town.
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Tom Mitchell
Law and Order
Turner
Mitchell
Foot Proportions for Women Reported by Authority
A cited authority asserts that a woman’s feet should measure about fourteen to one hundred of her height, essentially one seventh of total stature, as a guide to ideal proportion.
An Old Fashioned Mother stage play at Palace Theater
An old fashioned mother drama titled An Old Fashioned Mother will be staged at the Palace Theater on Friday evening May 12 for the Methodist Sunday school benefit. The play, a parable on a mother's love, features Deborah the mother and a cast including Iris Simmons Elizabeth Fife Mattie Mae Lewis Jim Kitchens Anna Ruth Stephens Marion McLucas Roger Murphy J W Morris T T Fife Lamar Nipper Professor Byrd Will Jackson and others.
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Palace Theater
Methodist Sunday School
Deborah
Iris Simmons
Widder
Elizabeth Fife
Lowizy
Mattie Mae Lewis
Isabel
Sheriff raid nets whisky maker and outfit seize
Sheriff Kerlin Tom Harris and Noah Turner raided Andrew Peppers place Saturday night catching him in the act of making whisky. Officers seized his complete outfit and about 75 gallons of beer and one gallon of whisky. Peppers, under a suspended six month sentence in the gang and six months in jail, was turned over to the county warden to serve time and face the additional charge.
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Kerlin
Tom Harris
Noah Turner
Andrew Peppers
Peppers
Fayetteville to Have May Festival
Fayetteville plans a May festival on Friday May 19 hosted by the Tables of the Methodist Church with town participation. A baby show, a doll buggy parade, may pole dancing, a circus by the boys, folk plays and songs, and the crowning of the Queen of May Day are planned. Prizes donated by Atlanta merchants will be announced next week.
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Fayetteville
Methodist Church
Merchants of
Atlanta
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