Bishop Would Bar Divorces From Church Law
New York church leader William T. Manning calls in a Lenten address for changing canon law so no one with a living spouse can marry in the church. He warns against easy divorce, says monogamy safeguards the family, and cites rising divorce rates as undermining national life. He notes current Episcopal rules bar clergy from officiating at such marriages except under limited divorce conditions.
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New York
William T. Manning
Lse
Manning
Episcopal Church
Red Bird mine at Pity Me closed over miner shortage
Fat Hooch reports in Pomeroy Ohio that the Red Bird mine at Pity Me in the county shut due to a miner shortage. Eighteen miners are jailed locally on moonshine charges after allegedly walling up part of an abandoned mine with fallen slate to run a large scale operation. Officers entered the shaft and found several miners trapped, with the first reaching the exit hole after crawling in.
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Pomeroy
Ohio
Red Bird
Pity Me
President Taxed In First Full Year Return
Columbus March 15 The first full year income tax return for a President of the United States is filed. Harding’s 1929 amendment made the President’s salary taxable. Revenue statisticians estimate President Harding paid about 17 990 on his 75,000 salary.
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Columbus
United States
Internal Revenue Office
Harding
Britain Pays Large War Debt Through Federal Bank Transfer
Fragmented report notes Britain paid about 4.13 million dollars to a U S bank during the war and mentions related eurocurrency totals, Switzerland and Brazil references, and a March date. The text is garbled with numerous errors and unclear connections between the figures and entities.
German Peace Offer Ties Loan Backing to Allies
London reports Germany ready to propose a final reparations plan backed by German industrialists and a 20 billion gold mark loan. The plan would be conditional on serious allied consideration after prior proposals were dismissed. British cabinet warm reception hesitant as envoys probe support.
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London
Germany
Daily Telegraph
Karl Bergman
Paris
Berlin
Detroit labeled among the wettest spots in nation
Federal Prohibition Commissioner Haynes declared Detroit one of the wettest spots in the United States during a visit on March 15. He pledged to increase federal prohibition forces to any size necessary, speaking with James R. Davis who runs the Detroit office.
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Detroit
Mich
United States
Haynes
James R. Davis
Bootlegger’s Alibi Cites Auto Prospect Sale List
Washington report says a local bootlegger, linked to a published list of prominent citizens and officials found with his possessions, claims the names were not liquor customers but a batch of automobile sale prospects. The March note mentions army and navy officers and State department officials among those named.
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Washington
Army
Navy
State Department
Salt water ruins oil in Mexican fields, official says
New York reports Bedford, chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey, warns salt water has invaded Mexican oil fields. He says American oil companies face a collective loss of at least half their original investment, totaling about 500 million dollars.
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New York
A. OQ. Bedford
Standard Oil Company of
New Jerdeay
Steel plants busy report shows rising operation levels
Reports indicate lending steel companies are at the highest point in three years with the United States Steel Corporation operating near capacity of about 92 percent.
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New York
United ‘States “Steel Corporation
U. S. to Issue Four More Stamps March 20
Washington March 17 The Post Office department will issue four more stamps from the complete new series on March 20. With this issue, 17 of the series totaling 21 denominations will have been issued.
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U. S
Washington
Post Office Department
Income tax receipts surge as 1922 returns imply prosperity
Treasury actuaries project 1922 income tax collections near 409 million, likely higher in major centers. Forecasts for 1923 suggest receipts may reach 1.5 billion, signaling broad revival in business and rising earning power. Settlement of back taxes from wartime claims should net about 32 million monthly.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Department
New York
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia
Berlin's Reparation Offer Carried to Swiss Emissary
Germany presented a new reparation offer to France totaling more than 40 billion gold marks and handed it to a French emissary in Switzerland on March 16. Uncertain whether Swiss economist Leopold Dubois acted as intermediary as previously suggested. The amount surpassed Chancellor Cuno's Paris proposal.
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Berlin
Germany
France
Switzerland
Leopold Dubois
Cino
Paris
Radio closes $1.2 million Broadway deal in transit
In New York on March 15 the Amri Realty company acquired a seven story office building at Broadway and Thirtieth Street via long distance wireless transmission. The sale involved I Clifford Potter and colleagues aboard the Adriatic cruising in the Mediterranean and took place after discussions in this city.
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New York
I. Clifford Potter
Mediterranean
Broadway
Thirtieth Street
Amri Realty Company
Turkish Flag Flown During Jerusalem Procession
Turkish flag was flown in Jerusalem during a march tied to an Arab leaders strike celebrating the boycott of legislative council elections. British troops dispersed the parade, wounding several Arabs and a few native policemen.
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Jerusalem
Legislative Council
Senator Brookhart Read Out Of Republican Party
Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa was read out of the Republican party by the National Republican, the semi official organ of the party’s national committee. The item notes the senator’s economic views in the context of the dispute.
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Washington National Republican
Brookhart
Washington
Smith W. Brookhart
Iowa
Republican
National Republican
Republican National Committee
Exports of collars and cuffs reach 58 nations in 1922
Washington reports the American collar and cuff trade expanded worldwide. Exports in 1922 totaled 2,654,586 sending articles valued at 848,646 dollars to 58 countries, illustrating strong global demand for fancywear and textile goods.
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Washington
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Catholic Home for Incurables
Montreal reports a fire causing 1,000,000 in damage to a Catholic home for incurables. A woman inmate died from shock. The blaze is said to be the fourteenth Catholic institution fire this year. Kamchatka fields reported. Vladivostok notes discovery of oil fields greater than Baku. government sends experts to report.
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Montreal
Kamchatka Oi
Vladivostok
Baku
Kamchatka
U S Market Report Week Ending March Fifteenth
The weekly market report lists Chicago cash prices for grains and dairy, including No 2 red winter wheat at 1.20 and No 2 hard winter at 1.00, No 2 mixed corn 74 cents, No 2 yellow corn 11? cents, oats 45 cents, and farm prices for central Iowa and North Dakota. It also covers hay values in Cincinnati Chicago Minneapolis and St Louis, feed costs, dairy butter 49 1 2 cents, various cheese prices, fruits vegetables including potatoes onions cabbage oranges and apples, and live stock quotes in Chicago for hogs beef steers cows and calves lambs and yearlings.
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Washington
Chicago
Iowa
Kansas
North Dakota
Cincinnati
Minneapolis
St. Louis
St Louis
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Texas
Florida
Pricca
Windstorm destroys town of Savage in Mississippi
Crenshaw Mississippi reports a cyclone that wrecked Savage killing one man who is probably fatally hurt. Severn people are believed dead, more than a year were injured, as the town northwest of Crenshaw was destroyed for the second time in two months.
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Savage
Miss
Crenshaw
Severn
Here
Sterilization Bill Signed By Governor Dixon
Helena Mont March 16 The sterilization bill allowing sterilization of congenital idiots and insane in institutions with guardian and custodian consent passed the legislature and was signed by Governor Dixon.
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Helena
Mont
Dixon
Germany Ready for Peace Talks Says Berlin Dispatch
Berlin reports a clear view amid a thicket of statements that Germany seeks negotiations. The piece notes the greater the willingness to negotiate, the more the German people will back a peace process, signaling broad public support.
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Berlin
Germany
Wisconsin recall amendment passes senate vote
Madison Wis March 16 An amendment to the state constitution to permit the popular recall of all elective officers in Wisconsin including judges was approved by the senate 17 to 12
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State
Senate
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Woman leaps to death at Niagara Falls
A woman about twenty five years old jumped from a point thirty feet above the American falls and was swept over the cataract to her death. Reports from Moscow claim a triumvirate of Ryko Kamenoff and Krnasin has taken control of the Russian government in Berlin.
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Niagara Falls
Russia
Berlin
Moscow
Ryko
Kamenoff
Krnasin
Iowa farm notes and incidents across counties
Thieves took 3700 butter steamery at George and 49000 in losses from destroyed businesses at Columbus Junction. Paving work advances on Lincoln highway across Clinton county. Long Brothers sale near Tipton grossed 10000. Major E. Prince urged for state senate in place of Cady Chase. Farmers Elevator at Ft. Dodge burned with 13000 bushels lost. Benjamin F. Prunty, Drake trustee, died in Des Moines. A 136 acre Carson farm sold for over 400 per acre to Harry Holst. C. N. Bigelow elected Iowa Christian Ministerial president at Drake Bible college. Mrs. May Bolt to chair district legion auxiliary convention in Council Bluffs April 17. County ag reports warn of looming workhorse shortage. Ankeny 280 acre farm sold for 235 per acre cash. John P. Coulson notes a sow with world record farrow of 25 piglets. Valley Junction roundhouse to be rebuilt at 25000 cost after fire. Iowa record flock notes 457324 eggs from 78,019 laying hens in January. Annnnn Cooperative Shipping lists 8000 cattle and hogs shipped, 1820000 revenue. Kossuth County cow testing association shows tuberculosis reductions. Seed corn tests show 109 of 720 ears mold diplodia. Montgomery soil acidity found in nearly all farms. Van Buren chinch bug menace forecast for 1923. mild winter leaves bugs abundant. Iowa weather service predicts bumper crops in 1923 with increased corn area to feed more cattle and hogs. Ames dispatch notes oat smut losses annual 8–80% avoidable with seed treatment. Butler county plans lime and rock on farms for alfalfa. crushed limestone shipments to Kesley and Greene.
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George
Columbus Junction
Lincoln Highway
Clinton County
Long Brothers
Tipton
E. 2
Prince of Williams
Cady Chase
Farmers' Elevator Company
Ft. Dodge
Benjamin F. Prunty
Drake University
Des Moines
Carson
William Alleneworth
Harry Holst
C. N. Bigelow
Adel
Iowa Christian Ministerial Association
Drake Bible College
May Bolt
Woodbine
The
Legion Auxiliary
Council Bluffs
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Ankeny
Iowa
Iowa State College
Cooperative Shipping Association
Annmmosi
Kossuth County
R. H. Porter
Amos
Montgomery County
Farm Bureau
van Buren County
Charles D. Reed
Iowa Weather and Crop Service
Towa
Ames
Butler County
Kesley
Greene
From 94 Pounds She Goes To 132
Mrs Mabel Gross of Minneapolis says Tanlac made her gain from ninety four to one hundred thirty two pounds and restored health after two years of weakness and pain She praises Tanlac as priceless and says she is now a well woman The advertisement notes Tanlac is sold by druggists and claims over 35 million bottles sold Theodore Roosevelt quote is included but not relevant to product claim
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Mra
Mabel Gross
Aldrich St
Minneapolis
Minn
Tannie
Tanlac
Tanlnac
Why Druggists Recommend Swamp-Root
For years druggists note Dr Kilmer's Swamp-Root as a kidney liver and bladder medicine. It strengthens organs to aid natural work and has many friends. Buy at druggists or send ten cents for a sample bottle by writing Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton N Y and mention this paper.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N
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