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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1926
Page
12
A brief item notes that Grigst introduced a bill in the house, highlighting a local legislative action. The report mentions the bill's scope and potential impact on local affairs.
In Washington a labor faction urged easing prohibition, seeking beer at 2.75 percent alcohol and wine up to 18 percent with no return to saloons and no repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Labor spokesmen, backed by the American Federation of Labor and millions of members, pressed for modification of national prohibition laws amid warnings of bootlegger expansion and worker unrest.
Great oil blazes at Union Oil San Luis Obispo and Bam e Bren threaten 2000 homes near Los Angeles. Five reservoirs burned at SLO, 12 smaller tanks destroyed, with about 5 million barrels lost and a $7 million value. Bren losses near $8 million. Two deaths named, A H Seeber and W F Seeber. Fire also disrupts Magnolia farm storage in Texas and a Dutch tanker collision near New Orleans. Firefighting efforts and explosions cause extensive damage and missing sailors.
The senate interstate commerce committee voted 10 to 2 to report favorably a compulsory railroad consolidation measure. It would allow five year terms to arrange mergers under Interstate Commerce Commission approval and authorize commissioners to compel consolidations at the term's end. The bill aims to fuse U.S. railways into a unified system with Coolidge administration backing.
A personal judge named George W idngiieh from the eastern Illinois district has been impeached by the House of Representatives and will be tried by the Senate. The report notes the impeachment action and pending trial.
The fragment presents a garbled question likely asking what someone is doing in a ward. It appears to be an OCR fragment with unclear names and context, offering minimal readable detail about a person in a ward and their actions.
President Coolidge declares no league with the League of Nations as he explains U S adherence to the World Court. He argues the reservation safeguards national rights while promoting independent international justice and peaceful dispute settlement. The address links to press duties in the Western Hemisphere and outlines why the US will join the court but not the League.
The U.S. and Mexican commissions ruled Huerta’s regime, though not constitutional, was illegal but binding on Mexico. His acts remained effective domestically and his recognition by the U.S. did not alter American rights or Mexico’s status. The Winds Central suit over $1.8 million in locomotives sold to National Railways of Mexico was not dismissed.
Ex governor Jonathan M. Davis and his son Itus Davis were acquitted by a district court jury of accepting 1260 from Fred W. Pullman for a pardon. Davis previously faced charges of conspiring with Carl Peterson to solicit a duff banker Walter Grundy. Davis did not definitively say if he would seek the governor’s office again in the fall election.
A Grand Trunk passenger train struck a wagon, killing Joseph Vauze his wife Toxo and daughter Stella four years old. Joseph Dubies and his wife were injured in the accident in Detroit Michigan.
A troubling report from Watertown Wise notes that Conrad Helton twenty one of Oshkosh hanged himself in Watertown jail hours after an incident at a filling station. The details remain sketchy as authorities investigate the sequence of events surrounding the self inflicted death.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a note about Ten'Mora Outlaws and a confrontation. Names and details are unclear, but hints a force, a battle, and references to local groups.
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