Stacking the Deck on Tariff Board Appointments
An opinion piece denounces new tariff commission appointees McCumber of North Dakota and Brossard of Utah as pliant tools of protected interests. It accuses McCumber and Brossard of betraying constituents to favors for industrial and sugar interests, while Belgium questions Uncle Sam’s supposed moral obligation on loan cancellations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tariff Commission
Peter J. McCumber
North Dakota
Edgar B. Brossard
Utah
McCumber
United States Senate
Fordney- McCumber
North
Brossard
Smoot
Belgium
Uncle Sam
Unselfish Offer Highlights School Repair Urgency
A young Manhattan schoolteacher offers to take a smaller salary to help fund quake damaged schools in Manhattan Three Forks Logan and Willow Creek. The editor argues state funds should cover repairs, noting many districts are at credit limit and cannot borrow. The piece emphasizes public generosity without burdening taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Three Forks
Logan
Forka
Willow Creek
Montana Legislators Face Bee Sting Auto Law Debate
A statewide appeal seeks about 62 000 to ready school buildings for occupancy and prompts talk of an impending bill. Montanana residents are urged to contribute as committees anticipate a prompt response. The piece notes a proposed law to ban bees from stinging drivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Mexico Faces Questions Over Calles Firmness and Obregon
The article debates whether Calles can match Obregon in firmness against revolts as reports of uprisings abroad grow. It notes Cole of the La Huerta faction visiting the Mexican president and reflects on past regimes’ order. A satirical closing remark dismisses balloon pants trend and youth extremes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calles
Obregon
Labor Party
Mexico
St. Louis
Cole
de la Huerta Revolutionary Party
Madero
Carranza
Diaz
Squaring the Rough-Necks
Ambassador Myron Herrick defends Americans abroad as expatriates who support the US by maintaining property and cultural refinement, contrasting them with tourists misbehaving in European capitals. The piece notes the clever explanation may not sit well with some travelers and hints at possible toadyism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myron Herrick
Mr. Herrick
United States
Rubbers Rising Costs Hit American Tire Buyers
American tire purchasers face higher prices as the Stevenson plan to curb British rubber supply reduces production and drives up London market quotations. The issue prompts questions about Secretary Hoover's Commerce Department and the $500,000 congressional appropriation for rubber production investigation, seeking practical results for domestic consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hoover
Department of Commerce
Pruning Federal Bureaus and the Eggshell Small Talk
A skeptical editorial urges large cuts in Washington research bureaus to trim federal payrolls. It argues many government projects serve private industry, not public good, and that Congress loves bureaus while the White House must lead a constructive retrenchment. The piece mocks ongoing studies on eggshells hog bones and beefsteaks as evidence of overstaffed government. It ends noting Calvin Coolidge would not spare a needless colonial bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheimle
Washington
Congress
White House
Calvin Coolidar
We Must Be Free From Envy and More
By Sentence Sermons from the Rev. Ror L. Smith D D pastor Simpson BM Church Minneapolis. We must be free from envy and hatred to find contentment and peace of mind. We must shed passion, revenge, worry, jealousy, and fault to live and strengthen marriage and become true sons of God.
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Ror
L. Smith
Pastor Simpson
Minneapolis
God
History echoes in Florida taxes and colonial borders
The Haskin Letter traces how Florida tax cuts attract residents, mirroring the colonial disputes over western land grants. It recalls Virginia’s vast western claims and how Connecticut Maryland and others yielded land as the Constitution formed, shaping the current nation’s boundaries and tax dynamics.
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Washington, D. C
Florida
Commonwealth
United States
England
Lord Baltimore
Maryland
Virginia Company
Virginia
William Penn
Willam Penn
Pennsylvania
West
South Sea
Delaware River
Connecticut
Hike Pthern
New York
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean. Covering Tats of Ground, Sheantime Maryland
Connecticut Western Reserve and Florid a Wealth Growth
The Connecticut Western Reserve in Ohio persisted in name on maps after 1803. Florida’s population and wealth surged from tax removal, with wealth rising from 936 million in 1912 to 2.44 billion in 1922 and per capita from 1,167 to 2,358, doubling again in three years. A brief note recalls Franklin state’s brief, dissolved existence in the American Revolution era as a central region of today’s western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
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Connecticut Western Reserve
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Ohio
Connecticut Westtern Reserve
Connecticut
Florida
Virginia
Capia
Franklin
Agouth
North Carolina
Tennessee
Commonwealth
Pranklin
Rabbit leads woman to cache of loot in Highland Park
July 23 A pet rabbit escaped and led Mrs Joseph Keith through backyards to a garage where piles of men’s new suits were found. Police traced loot to Hadikill Brothers store in Oxford worth 3785.54 dollars. Owners Alex Grushky and Rose denied knowledge. rabbit died at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroi
Highland Park
Joseph Keith
Keith
Bunny
Hadikill Brothers Company
Oxford
Alex Grushky
Rose
Dolls pay school bills with carved cottonwood dolls
O L McCracken wife of a ranchman has paid all her daughter's school bills by carving dolls from the roots of cottonwood trees. She used the dolls to raise funds to cover tuition and school expenses, illustrating thrift and ingenuity in hard times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tielena
O. L. McCracken
Government sued over sixty-eight million in Indian land case
National capital briefs report a $68 707 343 suit against the government in an Indian land dispute. An inquiry into the India sit uation in Oklahoma was ordered. A plan to prevent an evolution trial in Washington was outlined. The Agriculture Department forecast cotton at 15 388 000 bales. The Van Sweringels released portions of their records at the Nickle Plate hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Washington
Department of Agriculture
van Sweringels
Carnegie International to Feature European Art Groups Exhibit
Pittsburg July 31 The Carnegie Institute selects paintings for the International Exhibition opening October 15 with works from England France Spain Germany Austria and eight other nations. The 130 works in the American section will tour New York Philadelphia and St Louis later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Associated Press
Europe
Germany
Homer Saint-Gaudens
Arts
Carnegie Institute
United States
England
France
Spain
Austria
New York
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Anglada Y Camarrasa
Saint-Gaudens
Mystty
Kronprinzen
Berlin
Saint-Gauders
International
Women Cease Effort To Save Montana Man
Three Omaha women leaders in the movement to save Waller J. Simmons, former Montana deputy sheriff, from the electric chair, were convinced by the state pardon board that Simmons was guilty. Simmons faces execution at Boom on August 11 after being refused commutation. the group announced they will seek withdrawal of petitions for commutation once circulated in Omaha.
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Tdncoln
Neb
Prean
Waller J. Simmona
Montana
Electric Chair
Frank Pal
Spencer
Mont
State
Simmons
Nebraska Paredon Board
McMulon
Pardon Board
Mre
Elbert Mead
Omaha
Gold Star Mothers
Omate
Answers to Questions for Helena Readers
A mailed information column answers reader queries on diverse topics. It covers the legality of church labor under the Alen Contract Labor law, industrial gold consumption in 1923, dining etiquette on leaving tables, medley prohibitions of the Star Spangled Banner, endowments of Harvard and others, crab versus fish classification, U S stamp issue counts, presidents' education backgrounds, and farm hand wages in the United States with board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Supreme Court of the United States
Church of the Holy Trinity
United States
Brewer
Circuit Court of the United States
New York District
Harvard
Columbia
Yale
Leland Stanford, Jr
Chicago
Cornell
Dohun Hopkins
Carnegie
Princeton
Rochester
Dennsylvania
Lexington-Concard
Gommeni Oratius
Lincoln
Garfield
Grant
Cleveland
Andrew Jolson
J. A. Lee
Tourists Learn New Roles in Yellowstone Visit
Ida Ashton reports on Yellowstone visitors encountering park language and staff. Tourists and workers include gear-jammers, heavers, and meat-burners. The park hosts dozens of college students and teachers from New York and California who drive in their own cars to staff hotels and camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashton
Ida
Associated Press
Yellowstonepark
Thhem
Park
Transportation and Hotel Company
New York
Califfornia
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Cal
By Morris
George Matthew Adalis
Haskin
Kentucky
Tennesace
Virginie
Uninn
Western Reserve
Wos
Lake Fre
Rabbit
National Capital
Times
Independent
Helena
Independent Information Bureau
Fredéric J. Haskin
Washington, D.C
Yellowstone
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