France Presses Resolve on War Debt Repayment
United States ambassador Herrick told French Premier Herriot that Washington expects payment of the war debt. The note followed Finance Minister Clementel’s budget statement which excluded US and British debts from consideration. Clementel protested misinterpretation while Herrick urged prompt settlement and Jusserand to clarify with Washington.
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United States
Herrick
France
Terrick
Herriot
Clemental
Chamber
England
London
Washington
Clementel
Jusgerand
Jusserand
Franegy
Merrick
Texas Leads Nation in Farm Loan Funds Added
Washington reports Texas farmers have received 148,490,000 in loans since the farm loan system began, with 100,007.49 from Federal Farm Loan Banks and 89,192,861 from joint stock land banks. Texas exceeds Iowa Illinois Indiana in total loans. nationwide loans total 1,497,771,008 across 395,407 loans. Louisiana Oklahoma Arkansas New Mexico also show loan counts and amounts.
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Washington
Texas
Cooper
Federal Farm Loan Board
Congress
Iowa
Ilinois
Indiana
Arkansas
New Mexico
Era of Great Boom in Nation's Business
New York leaders in industry and finance foresee 1925 as the greatest year in American business. They expect substantial prosperity driven by the Dawes plan and the election outcome, with strong domestic production and overseas market expansion boosting buying and growth.
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New York
Cave Known to Indians Contains Forty Rooms
Denver explorers reveal another underground cave in Colorado with forty rooms and potential as a national monument. J M Eubanks, who led exploration, notes the largest chamber measures about 10 feet by 30 feet by 15 feet, while the smallest is roughly six feet square. Further searches aim to locate an opening likely in Park County’s rugged hills.
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Denver
Colo—cColorado
Colorado Springs
J. M. Eubanks
Park County
Foster Named Judge for Fifth Circuit Appointment
Washington reports President Coolidge decided Friday to appoint Rufus Foster of the eastern district of Louisiana to the federal court of appeals in the Fifth Circuit, elevating him to a higher bench in a significant judicial shift.
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Washington
Rufus, Foster
Eastern District of
Louisiana
Federal Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
Coolidge
Rupert Hughes and Elizabeth Patterson Dial Specified
Los Angeles reports Rupert Hughes novelist and film director and Elizabeth Patterson Dial are identified in a feature note with unclear further details. The item notes a pairing or collaboration context common to entertainment reporting in the period.
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Los Angeles
Rupert Hughes
Elizabeth Patterson Dial
Texas News Roundup Highlights Big Local Projects and Costs
Bee ville builds a 60 room modern hotel at Washington and Cleveland streets with basement work underway. Dayton Goose Creek railway set a 21 mile record handling 400 plus cars. Palestine school bonds of 110000 dollars at 5 percent were approved. Tyler year 1924 building permits totaled 729862, doubling prior records. Lubbock station logged 6509 visitors January to November and expects over 6000 more in the year.
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Washington and
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Dayton
Goose Creek
City of Palestine School House
Attorney General’s Department
City of
Tyler
State Agricultural Experiment Station
Lubbock
San Antonio
Gibson
Austin
Attorney General's
Texas
Victoria County
Calhoun
Refugio
Board of Water Engineers
Medina Lake
Bexar
Medina
Atascosa
$40,000,000 for harbors provided by army bill
Washington reports that the army appropriation bill would allocate 40 million dollars for river and harbor work next year. Of this sum 600 thousand dollars funds Houston ship channel improvement and maintenance, with 80 thousand for improvements and the rest for upkeep. Texas projects receive about 4.4 million, covering Sabine Neches and Corpus Christi channels and Galveston harbor maintenance.
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Houston Ship Channel
Army
House of Representatives
Appropriations Committee
Engineering Corps
Congress
Texas
Sabine-Neches
Corpus Christi Channel
Galveston Channel
Galveston
Texas City
Exiled Senators Elect President in Rhode Island
Thirty three Rhode Island state senators including 11 fugitives from Providence met at the Agawam club in Rutland Massachusetts and elected Senator Arthur Sherman as president of the new senate to convene January 1, an incident described as unparalleled in state government history.
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Rehoboth
Mass
Rhode Island
Providence
Rutland
Senate
Agawam Club
Arthur Sherman
Eight Hundred Chinese Executed in Chinese Barracks
Eight hundred Chinese soldiers charged with looting after pay delays were herded into barracks on Christmas Day in Klagan Northern China near the great wall. They were promised pay then confined and executed.
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London
Klagan
China
Great Wall
24 Mile Railroad Sold at Public Auction
The Denison Bonham and New Orleans railroad twenty four miles long from Bonham Texas to Bonham Junction near Denison was sold at public auction Nowata Oklahoma by Byron Bobbit master in chancery. Bidders D. M. Penn C YT Ashelmire and associates succeeded.
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Denison, Bonham & New Orleans
Bonham
Texas
Bonham Junction
Katy
Denison
Nowata
Oklo
Byron Bobbit
D. M. Penn
C, YT
Ashelmire and Associates
Rockefeller grant funds AAAS science abstracts project
Washington announced a $350,000 Rockefeller Foundation grant to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The funds will support publishing abstracts and reviews of scientific articles on biological subjects.
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Washington
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Rockefeller Foundation
Association
Cecil Given Peace Award in New York for international peace
Viscount Cecil of Chetwood received the $25,000 peace award and medal from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at a distinguished New York gathering that included Mrs. Woodrow Wilson for meritorious service toward international cooperation and peace.
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New York
Woodrow Wilson
Viscount Cecil of
Chetwood
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Two Trappers Slain at Johnsons Bayou Trapping HQ
John Springer of Lake Charles and A. A. Byrd of Nederland Texas were shot and killed while dining New Year’s supper at a fur trapping company headquarters at Johnsons Bayou in Cameron parish. A man named Harvey is charged with the killings.
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John Springer
A. A. Byrd
Nederland
Texas
Johnsons Bayou
Cameron Parish
Harvey
Convict Escapes Under Ashes From Five-Ton Truck
John Campbell, 24, charged with robbery, secreted himself beneath a burning load of ashes on a five ton motor truck and rode unmolested through penitentiary gates to freedom on Friday in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia
Astern
John Campbell
New York Clears Snow With Widespread Plows
New York City deployed 417 motor driven plows sweepers and sixteen thousand workers Friday to remove an 8 inch fall of snow from sidewalks and streets marking the season's first real snowfall across the metropolis.
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New York
N. Y
Black Burns in Mississippi scenes Corinth Mississippi
In Corinth Mississippi a blaze raged through a business district scene, causing property damage estimated between 1.5 million and 3 million dollars. No injuries reported as authorities investigated the incident.
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Mississippi
Corinth
Miss
Weapons Destroyed By Chicago Juvenile Court Judge Jonas
More than 100 one hand guns seized as the armament of young bandits were destroyed in Chicago. Municipal Judge Edgar A. Jonas oversaw the disposal, shown viewing some of the weapons in court.
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Geggs
Chicago
Edgar A. Jonas
Notable plans and curiosities from early 20th century news
A plan to link Angora and Constantinople by telephone is reported alongside notes on drying sugar with warm air in rotating granulators. The pageant of empire includes a human map of Australia formed by antipodean visitors. A new patent mount for photographs shields against dust and doubles as an easel. Off Florida's southwest coast lies the United States' largest clam bed, covering 150 square miles, but few dams exist due to low demand in the region.
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Angora
Constantinople
Wembley
England
Australia
Florida
United States
Lady Constance Butler Becomes X-Ray Specialist in Hospital
English society figure Lady Constance Butler has trained as an X-ray specialist and now heads a hospital department. She gained wartime experience at Cambridge Alder Shot Ascot and Hillerman hospitals before taking charge at St Andrew's hospital. She is the daughter of the late Marquis of Ormonde and niece of the current holder.
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Constance Butler
Cambridge
Aldershot
Ascot
Hilerman Hospital
St. Andrew’s Hospital
Constance
Marquis of Ormonde
Has Eleven Divorces for Mrs La Forge
Mrs Cora La Forge of East St. Louis Illinois has had 15 husbands and has just been granted her eleventh divorce. She is forty five years old and friends expect her to marry again.
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Cora la Forge
East St. Louis
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