Suspension Hits Anthracite Mines and Rail Lines
The suspension threatens heavy layoffs across major railroads including Delaware and Hudson Lehigh Valley Lackawanna Erie Pennsylvania and Lehigh and New England as 760 Lehigh Valley workers face layoff on the Hazelton and Mahoning division. Coal shipments set weekly records while freight declines prompt a shift toward expected passenger travel and miner excursions. The anticipated three month shutdown begins with miners leaving today.
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Delaware and Hudson
Lehigh Valley
Lackawfina
Irie
Pennsylvania
Lehigh and
New England
Lehigh Valley Company
Hazelton
Hazelton and Mahoney
Minera
New York
Philadelphia
Niagara
Falla
Buffalo
Alassia Policy On Vodka Returns To State Control
In the 1920s the vodka content rose from 2 to 30 percent, flooding cities with liquor while peasants bootlegged samogon. The state moved to supply vodka legally, while the party promoted temperance through propaganda. Drunkenness risked expulsion from the Communist Party and sale to new soldiers barred.
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Communist Party
Commuutist Party
Tipple at Meadowbrook Mine Destroyed by Fire
Clarkesburg West Virginia August 22 via Associated Press fire believed incendiary destroyed the Meadowbrook mine tipple owned by Consolidated Coal Co. Three men fled before the blaze. Estimated loss thirty five thousand dollars. The mine had been idle. A note on milk souring attributes it to warm air before a thunderstorm, not the thunder.
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Clarkesburg
W. Va
Associated Press
Consolidated Coal Company
Meadowbrook
Wilson as theater regular and royal party myth
A reminiscence by ROBERT E. LONG recounts President Woodrow Wilson’s theater visits, the formal precautions, and the tradition of saluting with the orchestra, plus a misstep where a private entrance was promised but Wilson used the main door. The piece notes his daily East Room matinees in 1920 21 and his calm favor for films and actors.
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Robert E. Long
Smith D. Fry
Jiere
Wilson
Secret Service
Republic
Woodrow Wilson
President Wilson
Pennsylvania Avenue
G Street
Treasury Building
White House
Hoover
Great East Room
East Room
Moving Picture
Pacific Coast
New York
Grayson
Congress
Big East
Old Virginia
New York Graphic
United States lands committee to sit in Helena Monday
Senate lands committee will hold a hearing at the Helena Commercial club rooms starting Monday at 10 am to examine public lands including sil lands and national parks. Senator Robert N Stanfield of Oregon chairs. stockmen and others will testify on federal land administration and grazing policy.
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United States Senate Lands Committee
Helena Commercial Club
Robert N. Stanfield
Oregon
Montana
Senate Committee of Public Lands
F. A. Phillips
Montana Livestock Commission
Placer Hotel
Forestry Bureau
A Will
Glenn A. Smith
Missoula
A. T. Abbott
Helena Forest
CH Willian
Deer Lodge
Montana Wool Growers’ Association
Roy Clary
Great Falls
Presi
Williams
Central
Canada
H.hint
Stanfield
Tasker T. Oldie
Nevada
Ralph Penne
Arizona
Membess
Manvana
Mystery Surrounds Church Car Crash In Unclear Details
The car failed to stop injuring Mr Church whose attacker remains unnamed. Doctors found no liquor involvement and he is expected to recover by tomorrow as his family visits him at the hospital. His father says the accident is not mysterious and similar incidents occur regularly.
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Church
Mra. Church, Jr
Nemesis of Snakes in Connersville Area
James Beatty of Dickerton Run near Connersville claims a local cat is the champion snake hunter of the area. In recent weeks the cat has killed three snakes near the Beatty home, two black snakes and a garbed conminion garbed snake.
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Connersville
Associated Press
James Beatty
Dickerton Run
Hye
Tenants Refuse Vacate At Chateau Wa-Sublease
Geneva AP reports tenants of the Chateau leased by a widow to a former resident refuse to vacate for September. The dispute centers on the month’s occupancy and the legality of the lease agreement.
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Geneva
Associated Press
Fermor
Women of the Ku Klux Klan Leader Faces Funds Charge
Little Rock Arkansas August 20 Charges of waste extravagance and fraudulent mis appropriation of funds are brought against Mrs Robbie Gill Comer imperial commander of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan and her husband James A Comer grand dragon of the Arkansas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in a Bulaski Chancery court suit. A temporary restraining order prevents interference with the Imperial Klklan executive board until final hearing. The suit alleges Mrs Comer took charge of order affairs in 1924 without authority and that she appointed James A Comer imperial counsel in violation of the constitution.
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Little Rock
Ark
Asociated Press
Robbie Gill Comer
Ku Klux Klan
James A. Comer
Realm of
Arkansas Knighis
Bulaski
Washington, D. C
Lora A. Mark- Well
Comer
Miss Gill
Red Leader and Unionist Tensions Stir Global News
A collection of unrest reports notes Red Leader arrivals in the U.S. amid revolutionary rhetoric by Tom Mann and Larkin’s deportation. Paris sees a communist mobilization near the opera with 140 arrests and police clashes. NSW Premier Lang declines using state agencies against British seamen during deportation battles while Capetown reports talks failing to end their strike. British vessels delay port calls as foreign ships load maize and citrus. Italy pledges to pay its debt to the United States via ambassador Petra Torre.
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Paris
Associated Press
L'Humanite
Barbecot
Aon
Clamamug
Melbourne
Australia
Lang
New South Wales
Capetown
South Africa
England
Durban
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Alassia
Philander Johnson
Washington
Playhouse
Johnson
United States Land Committee
Helena
NCE
K. KK
Otage
Authority
Red Leader
U.S
Tom Mann
Intternational Transport Workers’ Federation
Larkin
James Larkin
Trish Tabor
Governor Smith
Tokyo
the Associated Presa
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