All River Front on Jersey Side Swept by Blaze
A massive fire on the New Jersey river front from Weehawken to the Hudson pier area destroyed Erie railroad piers and numerous barges. Firefighters from Weehawken Jersey City and Hoboken fought the blaze as flames spread along the riverfront driven by northwest winds. Erie officials put potential losses in the millions with waterfront tugs and river craft also burning.
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Erie Pier
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Senate Rebuffs Smoot Sales Tax Plan in 25 to 43 Vote
Washington Nov. 4 The Senate refused to adopt Senator Smoots proposed manufacturers sales tax as an amendment to the revenue bill by a 25 to 43 vote. Republicans supported the measure but a Democratic Republican coalition in the agricultural bloc defeated it arguing it taxed the ultimate consumer and would burden manufacturers. A Smoot substitute taxing one half of 1 percent on each turnover was set for a Friday vote.
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Nicholson
Oddie
Phipps
Poindexter
Shortridge
Spencer
Wadeworth
Warren
Watson
Indiana
Weller
Noyes
Borah
Capper
Curtis
Kenyon
LaFollette
Lemroot
McCormick
McCumber
McNarry
Nelson
Proposal to End Unemployment Through Public Works
Washington reports a bill by Representative Morin of Pennsylvania proposes bond issues running into millions for highways roads rivers harbors and land reclamation in the United States and territories. The plan aims to promote public welfare while addressing unemployment by directing funds to development projects and a public supervision method for spending after investment.
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Morin
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United States
GRAIG TO ENTER PARLEY
London reports Sir James Craig the Ulster premier will enter talks with Ulster boundary proposals and other questions. A traveler claims Emma Gold Mires Rusesla will refuse to travel even without passport approval, detailing her plans and status.
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James Craig
Ulmer
Haw
Roerent
Ulater
Ulster
Iviah
Emma
Atti Reach
Budapest Beauties Defy Paris Fashion Edict Again
Budapest women, famed for their ankles, resist Parisian dress limits. They favor shorter street dresses and walking suits while extending evening gowns, insisting their displays are not immodest and challenging the Versailles style decree.
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Budapest
Paris
Northcliffe urges open sessions at Washington talks
Tokio reports Lord Northcliffe, British publisher, calls for full publicity of the Washington conference on armaments. In exclusive remarks he says the Anglo Japanese alliance is outlived and hinders pacific settlement. He criticizes De Valera and Ireland’s leadership and warns open sessions are crucial for peace prospects.
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Lord Northcliffe
United Press
de Valera
Ireland
Pacific
United States
Japan
Lloyd George
Erin
Tragedy of Miss Doyle and Newman Is Probed
Portamouth Ohio November 4 A grand jury began a probe into the deaths of Lourke Doyle a 19 year old school teacher and John Newman a three child father and city leader of a large Bible group The bodies were found a week earlier propped on a door in an abandoned farmhouse Police theory favors a jealous suitor with sheriff Hickey withholding findings relatives were questioned and county officials awaited grand jury guidance on a potential reward
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Hickey
Mins Doyle
Children Under 8 Work in Colorado Beet Fields
Washington report notes children under 8 found employed in Colorado sugar beet fields. Labor Department survey across two counties uncovered 1077 children under 16, with 8 to 16-year-olds working in shifts. More than a quarter of the 1077 were under 10, and many under 6, the study states.
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Colorado
Department of Labor
Candstone
Government views coal strike as serious risk to economy
Washington reports Secretary Davis wires the labor department that the industrial atmosphere is pregnant with distrust and presidential intervention may be needed to avert trouble. Hoover adds a vital survey of coal on hand, sending questionnaires to consumers about November 1 stocks.
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No Illinois coal strike. Illinois and Centralia miners back
Chicago reports no coal strike in Illinois as Centralia miners return to work. About 30,000 miners are out in Indiana with several thousand more out in Ohio. Iowa miners will stay on the job until notified to strike by national headquarters and will convene in Des Moines on November 8.
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Ilnois
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Iowa
Des Moines
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National Headquarters
Joe Morris
District 13
United Mine Workers of America
Southard case goes to jury in Five-week murder trial
In Twin Falls Idaho on November 4 the jury began deliberations on the guilt of Lydia Southard, accused of murder in the death of Edward F Meyer. The trial has spanned over five weeks with testimony about the deaths of Meyer Dooley and other husbands. Prosecution and defense argued through the day as Mrs Southard sat unmoved while witnesses and family looked on.
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Lydia Southard
Edward F. Meyer
W. A. Babcock
Peggy Hopkins Joyce Nearing Settlement Of Marital Feud
Chicago November 4 Peggy Hopkins Joyce former Follies beauty and her millionaire lumberman husband were near agreement for an out of court settlement of marital and financial difficulties. Reports say Peggy would keep about 1.595 million 21682 worth of gifts Joyce gave from August 1 1919 to separation.
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Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Follies” Beauty
Penny
Southern Pacific Cuts Rates Sharply
United Press reports heavy freight rate reductions by the Southern Pacific railway effective coast to inland centers. Cuts of twenty to sixty percent apply to hundreds of goods including dry goods machinery canned goods vehicles glass drugs iron and steel tin plate and more with coal basic rate lowered from 3 to 2.5 cents per 100 pounds and meats and flour also reduced.
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Cal
Southern Pacific Railway
Pacific Coast
German Money Back of Saxony Revolt Plans
London dispatch reports Saxony interior minister revealing secret groups seeking to destroy the constitution and spark a monarchist uprising funded by German industrial magnates. Arms caches were found in Dresden and other cities as a fighting section was formed to punish opponents, up to murder.
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Saxony
Berlin
Daily Mail
Dresden
Japanese Ideas Cause Upset in Conference Plans
Washington dispatch reports Japanese delegates at the arms conference hinting at discussing armament limits before Far Eastern and Pacific issues, signaling potential delays. American delegates, focusing on naval reductions, are preparing to push a strong offer and take the initiative in negotiations.
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Washington
Emergence of the Filipinos as an Independent Power
The speaker asserts no nation will welcome Japan more than it will the emergence of an independent Philippines. This event, he says, will strengthen the community of oriental nations shaping a new civilization for the global good and welfare.
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Philippines
A Bad Influence
In Fort Worth Star Telegram style a childish anecdote notes Johnny was kept from Sunday school by his mother who says the boy becomes mischievous. He reportedly heard humans are made of dust and on return home attempted to draw his deceased baby sister toward a vacuum cleaner.
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Johnny
Football injury fatal shocks Newport as seamen clash
Frank Nadeau a 24 year old Lowell Massachusetts man and a first class freeman on the battleship North Dakota died at Newport naval hospital after a football game with the torpedo station gunners. He was unconscious after a third period scrimmage and died from a rupture of blood vessels at the base of the brain.
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Navel
Frank Nadeau
Lowell
Mass
Liked His Nerve In Overseas Claim
New York November 4 a man claimed he served over seas with the 27th artillery to a victim. The reply denied the unit exists. Maj. Gen. O'Ryan intervened and gave the man something for telling the tale.
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New York
O'Ryan
Slip in Atlanta Ends Charlees Compton’s Life
A slip in Atlanta caused Charlees Compton, a Black man, to fall three stories to the pavement. He rose briefly, waited for an ambulance, and his face was bruised as responders attended him.
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Atlanta
Charlees Compton
Plans to crown Bavarian king dropped amid royalist
Special Cable Dispatch from Munich reports four attempts to proclaim former Prince Rupprecht king of Bavaria during King Ludwig’s funeral were abandoned after Rupprecht refused. Monarchists urge patience while communists threaten a funeral demonstration. Tyrol eyes joining Bavaria. unrest grows in Germany and Austria. Hungarian parliament backs Charles abdication bill.
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Horthy
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Vienna
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Innesbruck
Tyrol
Heimatwehr
Arbeiterwehr
Germany
Austria
Houghton Poised for Germany Ambassadorship
President Harding is set to nominate Hop Alanson B. Houghton of Cornish New York as ambassador to Germany. The nomination will go to the Senate after ratifications of the peace treaty. Houghton has strong backing from New York senators and key House leaders. he studied at Harvard and the University of Berlin and speaks German and French.
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W. Boyre Thompson
New York
Berlin
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Congress
Wadenworth and Calder
Empire State
Gillett
Hughes
Harvard
University of Berlin
Train wreck injures seventeen near Columbus
A Pennsylvania passenger train left the rails about 20 miles north of Columbus on Thursday injuring seventeen. The mishap occurred after a broken rail caused the wreck as the train was en route to Sandusky.
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Bryan's Son Escapes Exploding Auto Gas Tank
Long Beach California reports social and political figure William Jennings Bryan Jr narrowly escaped serious injury when an automobile gasoline tank exploded. Bryan was seated in a car bowled, the blast hurled fragments around him. W L Pulten and Mrs Maude Candin were injured and treated at Badldg hospital.
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Cal
Noy
Hotel Lobby Riot Dampens Baltimore Event Scene
In Kinnaas City, November 4, police intervened as about 100 officers broke up a brawl at the Hotel Baltimore downtown. The disruption occurred during a farewell demonstration by American Legion convention guests, with gamblers and hoodlums entering the scene and tainting the main attractions, including a Texas steer display.
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Baltimore
Put Madalyane Erbstein and the Kennedy murder case twists
Los Angeles reports on the Madalyane Erbstein and Arthur C. Hureh trial developments in the J. Belton Kennedy murder case. Attorney Erbstein seeks to put Madalyane on the witness stand, Woolwine shifts strategy, and Burch defends his sanity stance while Rev. William A. Burch comments on funding.
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Fred Woodward
Los Angeles
J. Belton Kennedy
Madalynne Obenchain
Arthur C. Hureh
Kennedy
Woolwine
Charles KB. Erbstein
Chicago
Obenchain
Erbstein
Thomas Woolwine
Mrs. Obenchain
Mra. Obenchain
Erbatein
Burch
Bosh
Arthur Burch
Boah
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Dad
Schenck
Paul W. Schenck
Heroes From Ranks Bearers At Arlington
Washington November 4 two chief petty officers of the navy and one commissioned marine corps officer were chosen to officiate as body bearers for the unknown American soldier to be buried at Arlington November 11. Navy picks were James Delaney and Charles Lew O Connor from 26 candidates submitted by the navy bureau of navigation. Marine corps bearer is Gunnery Beret Ernest A Janson. All three hold distinguished World War records.
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Marine Corps
Arlington
Sumeau
Navigation
James Delaney Sod
Charles Lew O'Connor
Beret
Ernest A. Janson
Big Refinery Fire Alarmed California Strike Sparks Turmoil
A large refinery in California caught fire amid a workers strike causing concern in Bakersfield. Reports say the blaze erupted after strikers allegedly halted operations, with local officials noting damage and firefighting efforts under way. The incident prompted production disruptions in the region.
Open sessions favored as armament talks lead
Washington reports indicate the disarmament conference may discuss limitation of armaments before Far Eastern questions. Officials signaled openness to daily press briefings, with Hughes likely to present updates. Secrecy is to be avoided to build public trust and deter rumors.
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Washington
Hughes
Pacific
Ambassadors Harvey Rules Out U S Permanent Alliance
London reports Ambassador George Harvey at a Liverpool Chamber of Commerce banquet rejects any permanent alliance between the United States and Britain or France. He says entering such an alliance is utterly impossible and would only aid enemies while harming Britain and France supporters in America.
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America
George Harvey
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
Lord Derby
Poincare
France
Harvey
United States
Coont
Britain
Sinn Fein internees in Ballylining camp released
Belfast reports that Sinn Fein prisoners held at Ballylining camp have been conditionally released. Authorities indicated the move affects several detainees and follows recent discussions on internment policy.
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Belfast
Sinn
War changes bank loan rates for agriculture and livestock
Washington announces halving of rates on advances to banks for agricultural or livestock purposes from 6 1 2 percent to 3 1 2 percent, and from 5 1 2 percent to 4 1 2 percent for other advances. Details include delivery figures for a May event in New York City showing 10 88 men and 467 women.
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Thax Montis
Lone
New York
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