Lausanne Fetes Its Winding Streets And Mountain Meetings
Lausanne daily life mixes grape hills with hotels and resorts as delegates roam a maze like city. The conference centers are scattered from Casino to Palace Hotel while cog rails and winding roads mislead travelers. Rival gatherings spark fear of losing treaty prestige to other lakeside venues.
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Lausanne
Japgeee
Lake Leman
Palace Hotel
Hotel du Chateau
Montreux
Territet
Vevey
Egypt
Arabia
Mespotamia
General Secretariat
Rapollo
Genoa
Texas Weighs New Constitution and Major State Reforms
A constitutional convention is urged to revise Texas laws including taxation education flood control highway rules and prison relocation. Leaders anticipate a 1876 constitution replacement plan and emergency funding for schools amid revenue shortages. Banking and insurance departments may separate. flood control and a soldiers bonus are topics for January.
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Austin
Texas
General Revenue
Banking and Insurance Department
State Bankers Association
Neff
State Highway Width Set at Sixty Feet
Chapel Hill December 22 Frank Page chairman of the state highway commission notified the Town Club the right of way along the Chapel Hill to Durham highway is sixty feet wide and ordered boundary lines removed. He added that the sixty foot width applies to all state highways except where buildings intrude within thirty feet of the center line, in which case a narrower strip is used.
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Chapel Hill
Frank Page
State Highway Commission
Durham
Page
North Carolina State backs one year athletic rule for freshmen
Raleigh December 22 The Associated Press reports North Carolina State College officials endorse and will enforce the one year rule in athletics adopted two years before the Southern Intercollegiate Conference was formed Freshman teams coached separately receive more attention than varsity squads State cites improved academic aims and notes three year football championship history in 1920 and 1921 with mixed results in the latest season despite strong freshman prospects
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Raleigh
Associated Press
North Gerelina State College
Collee
State Grid
State
North Carolina
Southern Intercollegiate Conference
Battery Care Under Willard Standards
Battery service emphasis. The ad stresses keeping customers' batteries powered with Willard Standards care. It invites customers to visit and be shown how batteries are maintained to meet demand.
Uruguay drafts land tax bill to break up large estates
Montevideo November 10. Uruguayan Minister of Industries Dr Luis Caviglia proposes a sliding scale land tax on estates over 2000 hectares to force subdivision. Exemption possible if owners devote portions to agriculture dairying or stock breeding with specified standards and equipment. The bill goes to the National Council of Administration before congress.
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Uruguay
Montevideo
Luis Cavigla
Rivery Plate
Dr. Caviglia
National Council of Administration
Congress
Alaskan Railroad Needs Feeder Lines for Growth
Anchorage report quotes General Wiles Pp Richardson stating the U S government railroads in Alaska require feed lines. He notes rail spur tracks and wagon roads would unlock mineral and agricultural lands adjacent to the line and support later colonization plans.
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Anchorage
Alaska
United States
Wiles Pp. Richardson
Secretary of the Interior
Denton Man Attends Poultry Show in Town Visit
General Richardson stated the aim to settle and fully develop the country. T. Be Byerly of Denton attended the poultry show in town on Tuesday.
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Richardson
T. Be Byerly
Denton
Crow Indians Name Foch Park at Crow Agency
The Crow Nation has named a park Foch Park at Crow Agency in Montana to honor Marshal Ferdinand Foch who was installed into the Crow Indian tribe on November 28, 1921. The designation was made by the Crow general council in Billings on December 23.
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Boch
Billings
Mont
Crow Agency
Ferdinand Foch
Foch
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R.R
Commonwealth
High Point Ins. & Real Estate Ce
Oman
Moore Brothers
W. Main St
Thomasville, N. C
Vierry
Bradner
York
South Main Street
Atlantic Bank & Trust Company
J. A. Mizell
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