Harding's Address Before Congress
President Harding spoke to Congress detailing national priorities including transportation reform, prohibition enforcement, and farm credits. He urged coordination of rail, water, and motor transport, suggested railroad mergers and stronger dispute tribunals, and proposed broader farm credit programs and alien registration, with a push for federal action on child labor and tax exempt securities.
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Harding
Congress
United States
Federal
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Railroad Labor Board
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Farm Loan Board
Consis
Texas News Roundup From Huntsville To Fentress
Road work begins on Main Street Huntsville from the public square to Sam Houston Normal College. Attorney general approves 3000 dollar Walnut Springs school bonds. A 30000 dollar brick school building in Fentress near Lockhart is finished. Bell County reports over 42000 bales of cotton sold this season. Cuero reports record cotton yield. Recent rains boost West Texas winter wheat prospects. A concrete bridge over Brushy Creek near Prairie Lea opens, improving the road to Seguin. Milam County gets 5600 dollars for Rockdale to Gause highway 43 and districts 5 and 29. Andersons arithmetic chosen for Texas schools with a six year three-book contract.
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Main Street
Huntsville
Public Square
Sam Houston Normal College
Consolidation of Two Naval Fleets Announced in Navy Plan
The navy department announced Friday that the Atlantic and Pacific fleets will be consolidated into a United States fleet under Admiral H. P. Jones as commander in chief of the battle fleet with Vice Admiral E. W. Eberle as commander of the battle fleet. The reorganization creates a peacetime structure with a single admiral in charge, enabling rapid transition to war and training in peacetime for future duties.
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Washington
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
H. P. Jones
Supreme Command
E. W. Eberle
Navy Department
Department
Admiral Jones
Atlantic Fleet
United States Fleet
Eberle
Pacific Fleet
Bolshevik Tchitcherin backs Dardanelles regulation
At the Near Eastern conference session in Lausanne Georges Tchitcherin the Bolshevik foreign minister abandoned his hostile stance on the Dardanelles and endorsed Turkish proposals for straits regulation Japan spoke for the first time Baron Hayashi stressed Japan’s interest in Mediterranean shipping and Black Sea trade agreeing with Richard Washburn Child’s views on straits and freedom of commerce.
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Lausanne
Georges Tchitcherin
Dardanelles
J*riday
Japan
Baron Hayashi
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Richard Washburn Child
Straits
Lberty
Cattle dipping under way in Smithville county
Smithville Texas reports general dipping of cattle under way and to be discontinued indefinitely. The program has proven satisfactory with very few ticks found in the county.
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Smithville
Tex
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Tigers Elect Snively as Princeton Captain 1923
Barr Snively of Waynesboro Pennsylvania was elected captain of Princeton college football for the 1923 season at a meeting of the varsity players in Princeton New Jersey.
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Princeton
N. J
A Barr Snively
Waynesboro
New Orleans Rice Market Struggles Amid Price Clash
In New Orleans mills shut down as rough Blue Rose sells at 3.85 per barrel, deemed too high for farmers. Local and country mills report closures with little profit at 40 ship side on clean rice. Foreign demand exists but prices remain unattractive, despite a sale of 3 489 pockets of Blue Rose at 37 8 41 8c.
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New Orleans
Mexicans to Be Deported From Western Prisons
W R Mansfield of the Denver district bureau of immigration announced this week that thirty one Mexicans will be deported after release from Colorado penitentiaries in Canyon City Colorado Buena Vista reformatory and Wyoming and Utah state penitentiaries.
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State Board of Control
Board of Control
Denver
Colo
Colorado
Canyon City
Buena Vista
Wyoming
Utah State
W. RR. Mansfield
Bureau of Immigration
New Survey Sought for Intracoastal Canal
Washington lawmakers introduced a bill calling for a complete fresh survey of the Intracoastal canal from near New Orleans to Corpus Christi. Rep Dupree of New Orleans leads the measure, aiming for passage if no general river and harbor authorization bill moves forward.
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Washington
New Orleans
Corpus Christ
Dupree
Coast Guard Reports Increase in Seizures
The Coast Guard annual report shows 21,586 vessels boarded in the last fiscal year, with 696 seized or reported for law violations. That total is 256 more than the 1921 year ending June 30.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Harvesting Advances as Most Rice Crop Collected at El Campo
Most of the rice crop has been harvested at El Campo Texas with threshing starting last week. The remaining fields are expected to be brought in this week and threshing will continue in various sections through the week.
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Cuero
The
State Fire Insurance Commission
el, Campo, Tex
el Campo
Quail Abundant Around Cuero This Season
In Cuero Texas quail populations are unusually high for several years with hunters reporting birds are exceptionally fine and fat in the local area.
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Cuero, Tex
Cuero
Barges Destroyed in Storm Off Queida Lake
Five barges carrying 60 000 bushels of wheat were caught in a terrific windstorm on Queida lake off Lewis Point Tuesday and are believed to be a total loss.
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Utica
N. Y
Queida Lake
Lewis Point
Christmas Charity Spirit Inspired by Elizabeth Phillips
A long feature recounts Elizabeth Phillips 1904 Philadelphia idea to fund a nationwide Santa Claus movement. From letters to Santa to the House of Santa Claus, her goal was a Christmas for every child. After her death her work spurred broader drives, clubs, and campaigns delivering food, clothing, and aid to the needy across major cities, shaping modern Christmas generosity. The narrative notes the ongoing spread and impact of these efforts in 1922.
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Christmaas
America
Earth
Alwys
Elizabeth Philips
Eligabeth Philips
Elizabeth Phillips
Philadelphia
Joosevelt
Santa Claus
Bigetty
Santa Chris
House of
Santa Claus Associaton
Santa Claus Association
Christma
New York
Teabeth Phillips
Eiizabeth
Ols
Neadiest
Christiang
Cites
United States
Miladelphia
Pittsburgh
Chicago
St. Louis
Denver
San Francisco
Eitzebeth Paltps
Christmans
Ike
State Charities Aid Association
Raymond
Mlizabeth Phillips Poes
Chauncey and the Doll Change of Christmas Gift
Chauncey takes a doll named Tilly to bed and talks to it after meals. He grows up with the doll and faces mockery at Sunday school as boys call him mamma. His affection fades as peers tease him, while Billy wonders when Chauncey will return to the garret and recalls early associations.
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Tilly
Chauncey
Billy
Garret
To Preserve Linoleum Floor Care Advice
Linoleum should be swept gently and then wiped with a damp cloth, preferably milk-wetted. A good coat of wax should be rubbed in every three or four months to maintain the surface.
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Fentress
Lockhart
Bell County
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Brushy Creek
Prairie Lea
Seguin
Milam County
State Highway Commission
Rockdale
Gause
Anderson
State
Text Book Commission
House of Representatives
Austin
C. V. Terrell
General Revenue Fund
Treasury Department
State Railroad Commission
Red River
United State Zinc Company
Amarillo
Leonard Hillotson
Saly
Texas Conservation Congress
Brazos
Trinity
Caldwell County
Tigers
Snively
Bill
Coast Guard Report
Mizabeth Phillips
Western Newspaper Union
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