Chicago Board of Trade Ends May Wheat Trading
The Chicago Board of Trade board of directors halted trading in May wheat at a Saturday meeting. Contracts will be settled by delivery or a fixed price set by a special committee. President Joseph P. Griffin said the move reflects patriotic duty, not speculation, and notes the market remains a public trading place for farmers and grain dealers. European governments are buyers for present and future delivery, not speculators.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Lmet
Joseph P. Griffin
Board of Trade
Europe
Govarnmenta
U S Envoys Named for Russia Commission
The State department announced the American commission to Russia. Members include Elihu Root as chairman. Charles K Crane, John R Mott. Cyrus McCormick. Samuel Bertron. James Duncan. Charles Hidward Russell. Major General Hugh L Scott. and Rear Admiral James Glennon among others.
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Russia
Washington, D. C
State Department
American Commission
Rimin
Elihu Root
New York
Charles K. Crane
Ilinois
Chicago
John KR. Mott
General Trelary International Committee
Y.M.C. A
Cyrus McCormick
International Harvester Company
Samuel 2. Bertron
Newark
James Duncan
Varmer's Plow at Night in Lone Oregon
A. Lieber and Arch Dogs- Well each uploaded a caterpillar engine this week. Six engines bought for plowing near Lone, with electric lights and continuous use day and night. Other purchasers include Laxton McMurray, Smith & Sinouse, Davidson & Blake and Louis Pulhure. one more from near Cindon. High food costs and mule scarcity influence engine purchases.
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Varmers
Lone
A. Lieber
Arch Dogs
Hiv Spring
Laxton McMurray
Smith & Sinouse
Davidson & Blake
Louis Pulhure
Cindon
Japanese Naval Cadets Visit Pacific Coast Port
Two Japanese training ships arrived Monday on a Pacific Coast cruise. Several hundred naval cadets and officers will be entertained by Americans and by army and navy officers during the visit. The body of George W. Guthrie, late ambassador to Japan, is suspected on a later cruiser.
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Pacific Coast
Marine Exchange
Japan
Navy
George W. Guthrie
State News In Brief Highlights Oregon Incidents
Echo resident Jacob Trott died from burns after an accident on Wednesday. Fire damage, flood losses, and a burned mansion surface across multiple towns. A Medford estate burned for $25,000 with much insured. Violations and fines reported in Tillamook and Hines areas. Army recruiting briefings return to Klamath Falls after a mountain snow drift ordeal. Curry County fights governor’s election orders in Supreme Court. Farmers in Gaston push plowing and grain, Bay City and Bunker Hill workers strike ends. Deserter listings in Hood River resolved with Navy discharges. Inland City bridge collapse and 20 000 acres flooded. Ashland lands sold to LA capitalists. 100 jobs planned. Southern Pacific seeks delay on fencing law. court tariffs discuss. Granta Pass scouts garden plots. Hermiston alfalfa land purchase. Tillamook dairymen plan 160 acres acreage. hay shipments noted. All rail tariffs set to lift 10 percent July 1. Selective service bells planned for Oregon. Roguer River fish bill abeyance debated.
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Granta Pass
Boy Scouts
D. Thompson
Hermiston
Tillamook
British U boat uses mine trap to destroy German destroyers
An American officer recounts a British submarine mission in the North Sea. After disabling an enemy minelayer, the crew mined a flotilla of German destroyers, sinking four and destroying others with torpedoes and audacious boarding. The engagement ends with dawn, bombers overhead, and the crew returning home. the lieutenant earns the Victoria Cross and the crew the Military Cross.
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New York Werald
Germin
Uut
Taubes
Leutenant
Pittsburgh ornithologist films birds for cinema
McCintock, a Pittsburgh ornithologist, camps near nests to photograph native birds for movies. He uses a metronome inside a tent to keep birds calm while the shutter clicks, aiming to minimize disturbance and capture steady frames.
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McCintock
Pittsburgh
Nori
Divine Right Doomed to Failure in Greece Says Venizelos
Eleutherios Venizelos states that Greece faces a doomed attempt to assert monarchy by divine right, as Russia’s democratic trend and U S entry reshape world conflict. He argues democracy over autocracy, condemns King Constantine’s policy, and foresees a postwar League of Democratic Nations securing self-government. The note closes with a unrelated sentence on tungsten ductility.
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Entente
Eleutherios Venizelos
Salonica
New
Russia
Constantine
Mediterranean
Serbia
Turkey
Archipeage
Bulgaria
Germany
North American
United States
Congress
League of Democratic Nations
Proposal by Proxy Leads to Widow’s Marriage
A retired Canadian official recounts arranging a marriage for a man six months after his wife’s death. The man sought a wife near his age, preferred by the widow chosen, and the proposer approached the widow with a plan to marry the man, not himself. The marriage proved happy, as told in The Red Indians of the Plains.
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J. Eines
Sandy
Jake
Ingie
Mel
Plains
Higher wages boost efficiency and profits in labor markets
The Christian Register argues that paying higher wages improves service and productivity. It notes that in rich wage markets, hiring one skilled worker yields more output than multiple low wage workers, suggesting better wages raise overall efficiency and profitability across labor against capital.
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Christian Register
Chimneys Emerge Above Roofs in Fifteenth Century
Washington Star notes that early European buildings lacked chimneys or had side openings with roofed tops. By the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries masons began extending flues to building tops, eventually leaving chimney tops exposed above roofs.
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Eld
Europe
Washington Star
Rich Graphite Mines Near Turkushansk
Rich graphite deposits near Turkushansk are being developed to meet national demand and export needs. Tests indicate large quantities with the key feature being purity, averaging 8 percent carbon. Traditional supply came from Austria and Ceylon, but Russian mines promise to rival these sources.
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Turkushansk
Austria
Ceylon
Mrs Fidgettes Bemoans Yard Whistling Confusion
Mrs Fidgettes complains Wille is whistling in the yard all afternoon though it is actually a bird. Her husband notes the sound is from a bird, not Wille, and she expresses affection for the feathered songsters.
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