Ghosts of Lodge and Wilson on League and War
The piece contrasts Henry Cabot Lodge and Woodrow Wilson with the League of Nations amid rising tensions between Bulgaria and Greece. It argues the League is not futile, citing potential to stop wars, while noting fault in both Lodge’s ghostly critique and national constitutional limits. It closes by deriding wedding ceremony grammar changes as trivial.
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Bulgaria
Greece
League of Nations
Geneva
League
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Lodge
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Macedonia
United States
Senate
New Professorship or Traffic Problems in California
A San Francisco report states the University of California has appointed a professor of traffic problems. The piece argues this reflects a shift in higher education toward new urban concerns and criticizes modern curricula that incorporate topics from animal life to automotive engineering, implying Montana may follow suit.
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California
San Francisco
University of California
W. B. Rhoades
Montana State Board of Education
California University
Montana
Oxford
Public Schools and Odd Courses Spark Debate
A reader derides light course offerings in California and Montana within state school reforms. Fifteen of twenty seven courses were cut to force fifty percent classroom time on reading writing and arithmetic, with new electives like traffic policing and beauty parlor management proposed. The piece expresses concern over tinkeritis in education and mentions Judge Rhoades influencing the state board as states consider compulsory core studies.
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California
Montana
Rhoades
State Board of Education
American countess in New York court denials six thousand fee
A wealthy American woman who bought a European title appeared in a New York court to deny owing $6,000 for validation of her marriage in Austria. The piece condemns title buying, recounts the public spectacle, and notes her divorce likely forthcoming after a costly, public saga.
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New York
Austria
Europe
Best Editorial on Prohibition From The Springfield Union
The piece argues prohibition is a governance and liberty issue, noting 393 arrests for drunkenness in Boston over a holiday weekend and 32 in Springfield. It contends the gains claimed by Prohibition are offset by losses of civil liberties and personal responsibility, urging readers to judge whether the policy serves peace, reverence for the Constitution, and trust in the state and spiritual guidance.
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Alawys
Boston
Springfield
Sermons by Rev Roy L. Smith in Minneapolis Church
The text presents reflections on blindness and poverty as contrasts to daily joys. It frames personal growth, conscience, and the satisfaction of small successes, highlighting a mother’s pride and a self-chosen solitude as sources of meaning within a religious context.
Federal Courts Move To Ease Docket Congestion
Washington outlines 27 new rules to clear federal court backlog. Supreme Court will hear cases largely by certiorari to cut appeals and speed lower court dispositions. New DOJ procedures aim to weed out doubtful convictions and prioritize major prosecutions while settlements reduce civil delays.
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Washington, D.C
United States Supreme Court
Federal
Circuit
Department of Justice
Fuunel
Supreme Court
Department
Federal Cour
New York State
Courts Face Growing Backlog From Case Congestion
Judges and prosecutors warn monthly case intake outpaces disposal despite extra judges. Even with increased staff, the district courts struggle to clear 9,000 to 10,000 cases per month, causing growing backlog and congestion that rules changes aim to relieve.
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Congress
National Capital News Briefs Include Deportation and Syria Protections
Alcohol taxes discussed by the House Ways and Means Committee. John C. Schadel of Fort Wayne Ind ordered deported over communist ties. Col William Mitchell’s contention of a procedure rapidly defeated in his cane martial. Ambassador Merrick to press Paris for protection of American lives in Syria.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
John C. Schadel
Fort Wayne
Ind
William Mitchell
Merrick
Paris
Syria
Supreme Court upholds home search warrant principle
In Boyd v United States the court declares it illegal for officials to search a home for crime evidence without an arrest and lawful warrant. The ruling reinforces the homeowner's right and the long‑standing English common law that a home is a castle, protected from unwarranted intrusion by authorities.
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Supreme Court
United States
Wall Street Journal
A Sentence Sermon on the Scaffold and a Marriage
A report from Chicago notes the hasty last words of Frank Lanciano at Cook County Jail, framed as a one sentence sermon about God and trouble. In Los Angeles, Miss Virginia Van Lean wed Edmund Clark Latster, linking a short story editor’s lineage to a San Francisco family.
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Frank Lanciano
Cook County
Chicago
Lanciana
Israel
Los Angeles
Virginia van Lean
Charles FE. van Lean
Edmund Clark Latster
C. A. Ebersole
San Francisco
Milwaukee Plan Faces Opposition in Trains Reorganization
Charges of fraud in the reorganization plans for the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway were argued by attorney Lessing Rogenthal before Judge James Wilkerson in receivership hearings. The case concerns $975 million in bonds, penalties for noncompliance by November 20, and questions over the Kuhn Loeb plan. Arguments continue tomorrow as the Wynn Loch Group and Roosevelt group press positions on the plan’s legality and financing.
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Chicago
Chicdsa
Milwaukee
St. Paul Trallead
Lessing Rogenthal
James I. Wilkerson
Masenthal
Keulon
Wilkerson
Ghatanon Fund
Cleulties
Wynn-Loch Group
Roosevelt Grown
Bt. Tal
Editorial: Our Readers Review Washington Politics
An unsigned piece from Our Readers praising Washington as the seat of national power, celebrating the presence and work of Montana delegates, and backing senators and representatives. It lauds the city’s grandeur, civic vitality, and the readers’ pride in their officials, referencing Morris’s cartoon for humor.
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Washington
The
Independent
United States
Montana
Morris
Reform to End Reforms War of Labor Worries Critics
Dr. Glen Frank argues a reform to end reforms could trigger unemployment and disrupt industry if reform disciples are forced to find productive work. The Cincinnati Enquirer notes the warning as a potential economic shock. Also in Europe, a French publisher plans a bilingual Bible edition to boost sales, and Sweden reports a sharp rise in women employed in civil service since 1923.
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Glen Frank
Cincinnatti Enquirer
Paris
France
M. Francois Bernouard
Answers to Questions Answers to Questions
The piece presents a Q and A from a Washington Information Bureau column with varied trivia. It covers theater capacity, sailors trousers, New York electric railways miles, magnetic poles motion, number of bakeries in the United States, and several historical notes on primogeniture, bridge spans, Princeton battles, cricket chirping, the oldest signer of the Declaration, and the eyes of a vessel.
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Chicago
G. J
New York State
United States
Ingland
St Lawrence River
Princeton
New Jersey
Washington
Ualayel Mawhood
Leslie
West Virginia
Cox
Marshall
Lala
Benjamin Frankli
Stephen Hopkiss
Mediterranean
Across States, Pauper Care Costs Varied Widely in 1920s
Washington reports from the Department of Labor show per capita pauper maintenance costs and land use varied by state. Nevada spent 865.10 annually per person. Alabama 187.53. South Dakota invested 5,600 in almshouse property per person. many small institutions housed fewer than 10 or 23 inmates, highlighting neglect concerns. Also notes Mary T Statler, wife of Ellsworth Statler, connected to Hotels Statler.
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Washington
United States
Department of Labor
Nevada
Alabama
South Dakota
Mississippi
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National Capital
LANG
Stockholm
Free Washington Information Bureau
Helena
Mary T. Statler
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