06 Aug 1925
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1925
Page
1
Fragmentary text discusses currency values Swiss francs versus dollars and a possible gold transfer related to the Brést-Litovsk framework. It mentions the French Treasury approval, the Bank of France, and gold shipments possibly tied to Allied Powers, but the wording is incomplete and uncertain.
The Post Offices Department announced today that business for the year totalled 25 706 043 dollars, up 2 071 262 dollars or 13.11 percent from 1924 figures, noting the only War Year exception was 1918.
The document notes discretion in handling the shipment intended by the government. Finance Minister Caillaux is said to have chosen to use idle gold from bank vaults to pay interest on French obligations to the United States, easing pressure on France. The aim described is to put the metal to profitable use rather than letting it sit idle.
Chitford announces David Garrick’s expurgated The Country Girl at Indiana Normal on Saturday August 8. The restoration era comedy follows Moody’s scheme to trap ward Peggy Thrift, who uses wit to outsmart her guardian and elope with Belville amid Restoration sparkle and humor.
A $10,000,000 interest payment on the $400,000,000 war supply debt owed by France to the American government was received in New York and forwarded to the Treasury in Washington. The payment satisfies the semi annual charges due August 1 and is not related to the postwar French war debt.
In Stroudsburg Pennsylvania on Saturday August 8 an open Odd Fellows meeting is planned at East Stroudsburg Park starting at two o'clock and lasting into the evening. Sponsored by the Lehigh Valley Past Grands Association with counties Lehigh Northampton Carbon Luzerne and Monroe represented. Notable speakers include William Fowden grand master of Pennsylvania Usher A Hall grand secretary Herbert Obreiter grand warden John Garman of Luzerne and E P Snack grand master of New Jersey.
In Bloomsburg Pennsylvania during August, a county fair final counted 4183 automobiles on a large bus plot while only two horse drawn vehicles appeared. Residents recall a few years earlier horses were the majority at annual gatherings, highlighting a rural shift to motor travel.
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