President's Sporis man Military Committee Chairman Urges United Stand
Washington March 20 Representative Julius Kahn California Republican urged against reducing the army below 140000 defending the administration plan to cut to 115000 officers 11000 insisting the nation must keep troops in China. He attacked Sisson and Quin proposing far smaller forces and called the proposed cuts false economy citing entertainment and personal spending to compare national wealth with military size. He quoted a Hughes letter saying no radical changes to troops in China.
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Military Committee
T Hughes
China
Washington
Julius Kalm
California
President
Committee
Kahn
House Appropriations Committee
Harding
Sisson
Mississippi
Quin
United States
Kehn
Regular Army
National Guard
Organized Reserves
Kuhn
America
Hughes
Flughes
Four-Power Pact Ratification Looms In Senate Controversy
Senate debates the four power pac t ratification with Underwood as key broker amid charges of entangling alliances. Secretary Hughes defends the treaty as clear and straightforward, noting no secret understandings. The vote on an amendment to make the pact a league of nations failed 55 to 80 as anti treaty factions clash over authorship and policy.
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Harding
Nameoka
Florida
New Smyrna
Mortola
Robinson
Arkansas
Tighe
Hughes
Senate
Mora
Underwood
Alabaiina
Great Britain
Japan
France
Lodge
Alabama
Ufe
Allance
Roerah
Idaho
Johnesh
California
Massachusetts
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Joseph LT. Robinson
League of Nations
Borah
Johnson
la Follette
Maryland
Pomerene
Ohio
Ransdell
Louisiana
Willams
Mississippi
Walsh
Montana
Pittman
Nevada
Rid
Fever Idle In U S Now
Col Arthur Woods, head of the Commerce Department committee on unemployment, says enforced idleness is easing nationwide. He notes plans for public works will create jobs for many in the coming months, citing favorable reports from large cities.
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Mary Garden
Chicago
Grand Opera
Uncle Sam
Great Britain
Cuba
United States
Col
Arthur Woods
Washington
Commerce Department
Colonel Wood
Man Attempts to Break the Imperial Palace in Tokyo
The report notes a dramatic attempt at breaching Tokyo's Imperial Palace. A fragment references Mrs. Hen. Blepburn, aged eighty nine, widow Jepburn, once president of a university, and mentions the McGuffey reader creator William Holmes McGuffey. The text is garbled with unrelated dates and names.
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In Man
Imperial Palace
Tokyo
McGuffey
Hen. ‘Blepburn
Jepburn
Ofiversity
Wiliam Holmes McGuti Thog
McGuffey Reader
U S Market Report March 16 vegetable and grain prices
Washington reports week ending March 16 with potato markets weak and New York prices for sacked round whites down. Eastern yellow onions firm, winesaps and boxed apples steady to firm. Chicago cash grain prices listed for red winter wheat, hard red wheat, corn and oats with weekly changes. Livestock: hogs top 10.65, bulk around 10.00, steers near 7.60, cows and heifers 4.00 to 7.75, veal 3.25 to 5.00.
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Washington
New York
Middlewestern
Boston
Chicago
Iowa
North Dakota
Kansas
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Winnipes
Market and dairy prices report March week ending notes
The bulletin lists live stock totals for week 10 ending March 11: cattle and calves 62 108 hogs 18 417 sheep 24 546. Feed prices quoted March 16 include bran 24 midddlings 25 flour middlings 28, cottonseed meal 40.75. Dairy prices show closing butter 92 score New York 40c Chicago 38c Philadelphia 40c Boston 40c and Wisconsin cheese bids with Twins 19c, daisies 20 44c, double daisies 2c, longhorns 22 40, aquare prints 23c.
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Timothy
New York
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Chicago
Inneapolis
Kansas City
Memphis
Minneapolis
Prairie
St. Louis
Buffalo
Boston
Wisconsin
Tornadoes Across Southwest Kill Eighteen People
A known death toll of 18 was collected by tornadoes in the Southwest on March 16. Nine people died in Gowen Oklahoma near McAlester, six Black residents perished at Hyer in Gethsemane Arkansas, one man died at Sulphur Oklahoma, and two perished at Sunrise Louisiana. Scores were injured and property was destroyed elsewhere.
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Kansas City
Gowen
Okla
McAlester
Gethsemane
Ark
Sulphur
Sunrise
W. W. to Run Russ Plant in Ural Mineral Complex
Moscow March 16 American William D. Haywood head of a W W group granted by Premier Lenin to operate the Nadejdinsky Iron works in the Ural region. The concession covers coal mines in the Kosnetz basin and auxiliary factories.
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Moscow
Russia
William D
Big BI
Haywood
Chicago
Lenin
Nadejdinsky Iron Works
Ural Mountain
Kosnetz
Irish Republic in Dublin March Manifesto Seeks Recognition
Paris dispatch reports tmon de Waterd issued a manifesto launching a new Irish organization to gain international recognition for the Irish republic and repudiate Britain’s peace terms. In Detroit, attorneys failed to free John Duval Dodge from custody after a two day sentence for liquor spending. Breckenridge raiders discovered a hollow dining table leg containing gold or valuables, prompting a woman to recover $100.
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Dublin
Tmon de Waterd
Great Britain
Dodge
Detroit
Mich
John Duval Dodge
House of Correction
Tve
Breckenridge
Tex
Greening House
Farm Cheap Land and Low Overhead Boost Western Canadian Agriculture
The article argues low production costs and cheap land in Western Canada enable farmers to weather agricultural depression. It notes land prices from 25 to 50 dollars an acre, wheat yields of 20 to 40 bushels per acre, and a large low-cost farm sector aiding efficiency and reduced production costs amid wartime mood shifts.
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Western Canada
Homeseekers’ Rate to Western Canada Promoted
An advertisement urges farmers to exploit the Homeseekers’ rate to any point in Western Canada with a return fare of single fare plus 2.00, offering information from the nearest Canadian Government agent. It notes inflation, land prices, and tax pressures in farming regions and contrasts Western Canada with higher price volatility elsewhere.
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Canada
Then He Ought To. Simpkins-Why Is Trevor Winding Up Affairs
Trevor faces a doctor’s verdict that he is run down prompting him to wind up his affairs. Blinkins notes the strain and hints at changing plans as the situation unfolds.
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Simpkins
Trevor
Blinkins
Long Sight and the Vast Reach of Human Vision
The piece ponders the limits of human sight, noting guesses of fifty miles or more for visibility but arguing vision may extend far beyond horizons. Geographers place horizons by geography yet actual sight could span millions of miles, suggesting an immense and impressionable retinal reach.
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Mount Iver
Fragmentary lines hint at a domestic struggle and strange experience
A garbled passage describes a strange experience near a house, a misstep three miles from home, and a remark about nature and air being rebalanced. It hints at marital tension and a symbolic key, with unclear dialogue about holding a husband and past intelligence.
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