Global News Digest Highlights War Reparations and Trade
A roundup from Inter Mountain Globe covers Poincare on German reparations, Sinn Fein’s emigration raids, Quebec mixed marriages ruling, Salvation Army welfare reports, and Franco German tensions. It notes American automobile sales overseas, labor bank plans, Utah Sunday theater limits, and mass inquiries into foreign travel. Also reported are German emigration to Brazil, US leather care, Yap mandate controversy, and Bubonic plague cases in Porto Rico with other world items.
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Poincare
Jenee
Germany
Sinn Fein
America
Liverpool
Ireland
Quebec
Salvation Army
General Booth
United States
France
Brazil
Associated Industries
Massachusetts
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Utah
Basi
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England
Tower of London
Windsor Castle
Department of Agriculture
Department
State Department
Japan
Uruguay
Senor Mabrenat
Leviathan
United States Shipping Hour
Washington
Ohicheme
Say
Colby
National Implement and Vehicle Association
San Juan
Porto Tg
Manitoba
American Railway Association
Piano placed in homes boosts music and layout ideas
NS Place or the Piano from National Crop Improvement Service discusses how modern homes, heated with radiators and windows, need a piano or phonograph as essential as a chimney. It notes patterns show feasible placements, urges architects to plan for music furniture, and calls for women’s clubs to discuss piano readiness in living spaces.
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National Crop Improvement Service
LaFollette Opposes Winslow Townsend Rail Bill
Senator LaFollette denounces the Winslow Townsend plan to pay railroads a government debt with new gratuities. He cites executive figures on Section 210 loans, improvements, and equipment costs during federal control, arguing railroads seek new payments while owing government. He contrasts wartime and peacetime deficits and rail revenue trends under private versus government operation.
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Senate
House
LaFollette
Congress
Houston
Interstate Commerce Commission
Treasury
Bureau of Finance
The
Secrlary
Th Treasury
Railroad Administration
Vanity items spark debate on schooling and naval gyro device
In an Indianapolis high school a first year girl dropped a vanity bag whose contents included lipstick rouge eyebrow pencil powder puff mirror hair net handkerchief money and pins. Some blame parents for carrying such items to school while others note utility. The article then describes Sperry’s new naval gyroscope based anti rolling device tested on ships, using gyroscopes and electric controls to stabilize vessels. A separate note mentions a Montclair New Jersey jury where a father mother and son serve together in a case, and a Washington prisoner awaiting release as part of a clipped local report.
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Indianapolis
Eimer
Sperry
Navy Department
Washington
Ocean travel horror eased by seasickness cure near
Fragmentary report suggests a future remedy to seasickness may transform ocean voyages. The note hints at hopeful improvements for passengers boarding ships, promising less discomfort and smoother journeys as innovations approach.
Beauty Queen of France Wears Goggles to Avoid Stares
Paris reports Mile Agnes Souret regarded as France’s most beautiful woman. To escape crowds and comments she now wears smoke colored goggles during outings, a disguise that hides her identity while shopping. Souret rose from quiet middle class roots in Biarritz to fame as a national icon.
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France
Mile
Agnes Souret
Paris
Souret
Biarritz
Shall the British Empire Become a United States
Special correspondence discusses imperial conference in London and the dominions. It argues the empire is an alliance of self governing states with equal sovereign status in practice, not a single empire. Questions include dominion autonomy, separate offices in London, and foreign relations, especially Canada Australia and India Japan.
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London
General Smuts
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Westminster
Dominions
Geneva
Britain
Newton Rowell
Austria
Hungary
Colonial Office
Privy Council
England
Ottawa
George
Earl of Athlone
Mary
Australia
Pacific
India
Japan
Washington
Buying Brains is Economy Says Wisconsin Official
Frank G. Cannon of the Wisconsin Good Roads Association argues that prudent spending drives growth and growth reduces burdens on state government. He contends the private sector and efficient budgets key to public prosperity, urging reforms to restrain waste and promote responsible governance.
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Frank G. Cannon
Wisconsin Good Roads Association
Service Men Rally At Villard Speech In Cincinnati
The Springfield Republican reports shouting crowds at a Cincinnati lecture by Oswald Garrison Villard. Dr. Herbert Brown urged restraint as he proclaimed service men’s right to hear the speech. The scene highlighted civil debate amid wartime era tensions.
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Springfield Republican
Oswald Garrison Villard
Cincinnati
Woman's City Club
Villard
Herbert Brown
Ely
Mae
A Railroad's Big Surplus
Hale Holden testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission on Burlington's accumulated surplus and the first use of capitalizing such surplus. The piece outlines how railroads built large surpluses, the 20 year Great Northern and Northern Pacific bonds, and questions about issuing bonds or stock against these reserves under the new law. It notes other railroads with rising surpluses and cites a court view that profits beyond a fair return may be held for consumers, not stockholders.
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Hale Holden
Burlington Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Burlington
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
Burlington {S
Holden
Chicago
Lackawanna
Atchison
Louisville
Union Pacific
End of the World theory by Joseph McCabe in Ice Age scenario
The article surveys Joseph McCabe's discussion on how the world might end, favoring an approaching permanent Ice Age over comet or collision fears. It notes Earth's dying state, shrinking ice ages, and astronomical arguments about meteors and stellar interactions, with emphasis on planetary crust, solar vitality, and longterm extinction timelines.
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Joseph McCabe
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Earth
Berthelot
Tonat
It Pays to Have an Education Says Rug Dealer
In a Philadelphia Public Ledger excerpt a rug dealer during lunch quotes a man saying education pays. A woman with a lorgnette asks for a refuse chalice, then exits as the dealer recalls recognizing her recent move from Bastion with a garbage pall, revealing her intent.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Household Vols
Bastion
unclear dialogue snippet from London mail parody
A fragmentary dialogue from The Diplomat in The London Mail features Milly and Gilbert discussing outfits and money, with interruptions from a child and a conductor, leaving the scene described in broken, nonsensical phrases.
Bishop reminisces with rhyming quatrains in London Chronicle
The London Chronicle notes Bishop of Chelmsford recalling a time when he could not resist verse. At Bethel Green he explains that odd actions arose from a quaint pennyplate theme and Cain’s wife, while Britain’s crowded condition and population density are contrasted with Ohio’s size. The essay reflects on national unrest and old rhetoric.
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London Chronicle
Chelmford
Southend
Bethel Green
Cain
Aald
Britain
Whiting Williams
Moribner
Ohio
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Armerion
Mort
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Constantine
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Gee
New York City
New Yerk
Cleveland
Frank Banckes
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American Steel and Wire Co
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Mont Clair
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Wcoms
Wash
University Cuadente
New York Sun
Cannon
Danby
United News
Edwin Denby
Navy
Frank Doremus
Payne-Aldrich
Doremup
Denby
Eewin Denby
Milwaukee Journal
National Popular Government League
Palmer
Fulmer
Pittsburgh
Kansas City Star
New York Times
London Mail
Jove
Milly
Gilbert
Littl
Clarence
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