Dance row leads to mounting bail for youths in jail
About two weeks after a gang attacked attendees at a Garrison community dance, fourteen youths were jailed in Deer Lodge on first degree assault charges with bonds totaling four thousand dollars each. Trials are not until mid September, and leaders from a Helena gang remain at large amid ongoing county investigations.
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Powell County
Deer Lodge
Jefferson County
Helena
Alhambra
Powell
Jefferson
Wood Would Save Lepers In The Philippines Appeal
General Leonard Wood heads a campaign to fund expanded treatment and research for leprosy in the Philippine Islands. About 12,000 lepers exist there, 5,600 under care in the world’s largest colony on Cuba? Lion Island. Funds would build facilities, support agricultural settlements, and supply trained staff and lab equipment to push toward eradication with American public help.
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Manila
Leonard Wood
The
Philippines
Islands
General Wood
Bureau of Insular Affairs
War Department
Washington
Philippine Islands
Race Problems in Hawaii as Social Laboratory
An analysis of Hawaii as a Pacific crossroads where race, class, and colonial history collide. It traces native, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, and Filipino roles in sugar and labor. The piece argues Hawaii presents a feudal aristocracy beneath a Republican veneer and warns of consequences for the mainland if Hawaii fails to resolve its race question.
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Hawaii
Pacific
Roosevelt
America
Honolulu
Deadly German Methanol Mirrors Wood Alcohol Poison
Experiments at Harvard Medical School show the new German synthetic methanol is equally poisonous as American wood alcohol. It is cheaper and purer, making a palatable drink indistinguishable from grain alcohol. A small amount can poison, blind, or kill, so selling it as a beverage is murder.
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Harvard Medical School
Best Editorial Reflections On Virtue And Environment
A fragmented excerpt from a Baltimore Sun editorial debates whether virtue arises from innate character or environmental pressure. It contrasts individuals shaped by hardship with those influenced by age and circumstance, ending on a metaphor about a tract of land and the limits of statutory virtue.
Belgium Debt Talks Begin With U S Funding Plan
Washington reports Belgium moves to fund debt with a commission led by Huron De Cartier to assess Belgium capacity for repayments. Belgium's 1925 budget shows a deficit and aims to begin amortization on a likely 3 percent rate after a possible brief grace period.
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Belgium
United States
Belguia
Belgiim
Belgaum
Tes
Amercan
Belge
Demils
United States Congress
Weeks May Resign as War Secretary amid Health Issues
Swampscott Mass Aug 11 Associated Press reports Secretary Weeks hinted he may not return to his post after a meeting with President Coolidge. His return rests on health recovery and doctors care. Names floated as possible successors include Charles D. Hillis and Dwight Davis. Coolidge discussed Far Eastern affairs at a luncheon with Charles R. Crane. Potential Tokyo appointees include William Boyd of Chicago and William Bulitt of Louisville.
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Associated Press
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Coolidge
Iris
Week
Washington
Charles D. Hillis
New York
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Missour
Charles R. Crane
China
Japan
William C. Boyden
Chicago
William Bul Mt
Louisville
Tokio
Delgian Debt Talks Highlight Political Plans
In rational capital news the Delgian debt negotiations were confined. Plans were announced to organize a team to rally Latin American workers. A decrease in farm numbers appeared in agriculture figures as the department outlined tax proposals and projected world court policies.
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Pan
Department of Ageniture
Gilded Carriages of Royalty Used in Films
London July. There is a market for royal carriage relics seized from royal processions. Some carriages are stripped of crests and identification marks before export. New wattage transportability tricks appear as owners sell these castoffs to eager collectors in America and Europe.
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London
Iby
Aten
America
Wheat claim: new blend resists rust, Webster grower says
Aberdeen Aug 11 CBe Asc enciated Press R G McTadden, a Webster grower, says he found a wheat variety immune to black rust. The blend mixes hard red spring wheat with emmer. It has sat six years in tests and withstood rust attacks.
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Aberdeen
R G. McTadden
Webster
Bank messenger robbed near downtown station
Two men held up Daniel Vorney, a Washington Trust messenger, at a street corner. They took a satchel containing about 3000 dollars in cash and bonds, then escaped in a waiting automobile. Police are investigating the downtown theft.
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Pittsburg
Aug
Associated Press
Daniel Vorney
Washington Trust Company
Rhode
California murderer Setwartz dies after confessionless exit
Sunday carried news of Setwartz a California killer who planned an explosion to kill a man and cash life insurance. Trapped in an Oakland room he shot himself leaving a letter denying crime. The piece cites Daniel Webster on confession and notes the case would have dragged if he had lived.
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Setwartz
Debria
Schwarz
Oakland
Daniel Webster
Schwartz
Butte Post
Major Ey Carrion Visits U S To Arrange Spanish Visit
When Roosevelt's Rough Riders stormed San Juan Hill Major Ey Carrion served as a Spanish officer at the fortress. He now travels to America to arrange a proposed trip by Kina Alfarso of Spain to the United States.
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Rough
San Juan Hill
Ey Carrion
America
Kina Alfarso
Answers to Questions from the Free Information Bureau
A column of Q and A entries explains how to obtain free information in Washington, D C, and covers trivia from license plates for the President to dog days, plus notes on tempera ture conversions, naturalization costs, and historical curiosities. Notable items include the President’s car tag, the length of dog days, and the jackfruit’s size.
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Free Information Bureau
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Frederic J. Haskin
Washington
BCG
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