French Fear New Conflict With Germans
Paris reports rising dread as war talk echoes from Armistice memory. Marshal Petain warns Germany is ready, Matin cites German forces and tanks. France debates Saar defense, Rhine fortifications, and air power as public anxiety grows.
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John Evans
Associated Press
Paris
All Saints Day
Germany
Hitler
Henri Petain
Finance Committee
Chamber of Deputies
Matin
France
Petain
Saar
League of Nation
Rhine
Insull Recalls Rise From 640 to 6000 Chicago Employees
In a long testimony, Insull describes his career path from leading 640 men in Schenectady to 6,000 in Chicago by 1892. He details founding roles, salary figures, and the expansion of major firms like Commonwealth Edison and Public Service, while explaining financing aspects and hardships with Peoples’ Light, Gas and Coke during WWI.
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Schenectady
Chicago
Leslie B. Slater
Wilkerson
Insull
Thompson
Chirago
Chicago Edison
Insul
United States
Public Service Company of
Northern
Ilinois
Commonwealth Edison Company
Middle West Utilities Company
Peoples’ Light, Gas and Coke Company
Illinois Defense Sounce
Portes Gil moves against Mexican Catholic prelates
Mexico City reports Attorney General Emilio Portes Gil plans to present evidence of sedition against high ranking Roman Catholic church leaders, including Archbishop Pascual Diaz and Papal delegate Leopoldo Ruiz Flores, amid a government crackdown on church opposition to educational reform. President Rodriguez orders inquiry into clergy citizenship status, while churches in most states are closed and bishops face expulsion.
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Mexico City
Emilio Portes Gil
Sabia
Pascual Diaz
Mexico
Leopoldo Ruizy Flores
San Antonio
Texas
Portes Gil
Abelardo Rodbriguez
Diaz
Rodriguez
Aguas Calientes
Puebla
Nicolas Corona
Papantla
Corona
Milwaukee Truck Drivers End Six Day Strike
Milwaukee November first. Produce company truck drivers ended a six day strike after 140 drivers reached a settlement with 45 produce companies. Agreement provides a 48 hour week with overtime, seniority rights, union recognition, open shop, and wages set at 24 to 27 dollars instead of the prior 18. Also notes packaging detail about corks in wax paper for acid resistance.
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Milwaukee
Produce Company
Commission Row
Industry Trek to Small Town Halted by Codes
Missouri state planning board report says NRA labor equalization blocks moving plants from cities to rural areas. Decentralization urged with small factories using local materials to provide part-time work, especially in Southwest Missouri. Vast concentration in St Louis and Kansas City noted. many counties have few manufacturing plants or workers. Public forests on sub-marginal Ozark soils proposed to create forest industries and steady employment.
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NRA
State Planning Board
Missouri
St. Louis
Kansas City
Missouri Territory
Soi
Ozark Highlands
Talking Youth to Hospital for Cure
Lloyd Huffey a 21 year old youth was brought to a Kansas City hospital for observation due to continuous talking. He spoke slowly between rests and did not refuse food, sleeping well last night. Doctors expect recovery without medicine, noting similar cases have resolved. He moves freely about the ward.
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Kansas City
lLloya Huffey
Huffey
Hickman Mills
Miller divorce grants Mabel Cooney maiden name
In Miami on October 10, Mrs. Mabel K. Miller was granted a final decree of divorce from Victor J. Miller, former St. Louis mayor. Circuit Judge J. F. Atkinson allowed her to resume her maiden name Mable Katherine Cooney, with the record sealed by court order. The court approved the property settlement arranged by the parties.
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Miami
Fla
Mabel K. Miller
Victor J. Miller
St. Louis
J. F. Atkinson
Cosmetologists in Convention at State Capitol
A one day gathering of the State Cosmetology Association drew several hundred members to the House of Representatives for its first annual convention since formation. Elizabeth Thielen opened the meeting, with talks by H. G. Cherry and Dr. E L T McGaugh, and welcomes from Gov. Guy B. Park and Mayor Means Ray.
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State Cosmetology Association
House of Representatives
Elizabeth Thielen
Guthrie S. Birkhead
H. G. Cherry
Elt. McGaugh
Guy B. Park
Means Ray
New York
Capitol Building
Atlantic Airmail Under Consideration By Zeppelin
Washington reports informal talks between the Post Office and Commodore Hugo Eckener on experimental trans Atlantic airmail service to Europe next summer. Eckener proposes 48 hour mail flights using the Zeppelin L2129 with 25 cent surcharge and flights roughly every 10 days. The Graf Zeppelin will remain in South America service.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Hugo Eckener
United Press
Eckener
Pernambuco
Brazil
Harllee Branch
Europe
Post Office
Branch
Zeppelin
Freidrichshafen
Germany
South America
Ackener
Navy backs tag Zeppelin flights to Lakehurst and Miami
Swanson told Eckener the Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson assured fullest cooperation for experimental Zeppelin flights. President Roosevelt approved naval aid. The airship will use Lakehurst, New Jersey, and Miami, Florida facilities, with likely flights from Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen. Post office officials indicated.
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Swanson World Aid
Navy
Claude Swanson
Eckener
Roosevelt
Swanson
Zeppelin
Naval Air Station
Lakehurst
N. J
Naval Reserve Aviation Base
Miami
Fla
Friedrichshafen
Post Office
Poultry Workers Predict Eck Ener Proposal Soon
Poultry experts say Eck Ener is expected to present its proposition within the next week or ten days. In a batch of newly hatched chicks a pair of pullets and cockerels can be quickly and accurately sexed by specialists.
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Eckener
Lucky Girl Lucky Girl
An advisory on safe relief for sluggish or constipated conditions advocates a measured liquid laxative. It promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a natural, non habit forming option containing senna and cascara. Aimed at parents and households, it encourages trying the 60 cent remedy to see improved bowel comfort.
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Phil A. Dallmeyer
Kiwanis Club
Ed. A. Duensling
Paul Schaefer
Henry Westhues
H. A. Starks
John Waddill
Bob Hedrick
Malcolm Epstein
Jacob Moerschel
Ed Duensing
Dwight Brown
A. T. Broughton
Edward Upfer
Harry Blackwell
al Senevey
J. C. Collett
POPES
Milwaukee Truck
OWENS
Survey Board
Issauri
Hospital For Cure
Mio
Vig Miller
the Capitol
Hanes
Hanes Shire
Hanes Boys
Hanes Merrichild
P. H. Hanes Knitting Company
Wineston-Salem
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Atlantic Airmail
Commodore Hugo Eckener
Bok
Stephens College
Columbia
Nellie Lea Holt
Curtis Bok
Edward Bok
Philadelphia
Pomcripton Ciniee
Dr. Caldwell
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Cash and Light Exchange
U. 5S
Municipal Bonds Corporation
Laaris Ang
Federal Reserve Bank
U.S. Treasury Safe Deposit Vaults
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Deposit Insurance
Mee Ginther
Savina
Dallmeyer
Hugh Stephens
Thos. Lawson Price
W. Raithel
R. E. Dallmeyer
Frank Ramsey
Paul Bosca
Frank Railton
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