Philippine memorial condemns Wood as hindering autonomy
Washington heard a Philippine mission protest General Leonard Wood’s rule, accusing him of denying autonomy and replacing Philippine law with a secret military adviser cabinet. The petition, signed by Manuel Roxas and Pedro Guevara, blames Wood for undermining the Jones law and the progress toward self governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Philippine Mission
Congress
Leonard Wood
Manuel Roxas
Philippine House
Pedro Guevara
General Wood
Philippine Autonomous Government
Wood
Harding
Cronnel
Congress of the
United States
McKinley
Oil price surge hits Midwest crude markets
Prairie Oil and Gas Company announces a 25 to 60 cent rise in Kansas Oklahoma and Northern Texas crude oil prices effective immediately. Empire Petroleum posts a 25 cent increase to match Prairie. Champlain Oil and Refining confirms it will meet Prairie's price advance at once in Enid Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Todday
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Bartlesville
Empire Petroleum Company
Prairie Company
Enid
Okla
Champlain Oil
Sanderson Withdraws Divorce Request in New York Case
Novelist Nina Wilcox Putnam Sanderson announced she would have Ellsworth Bassett come to Madison Colorado to discuss his domestic affairs. She also authorized her attorney to seek a discontinuance of her divorce case in Providence, with Judge Barrows vacating the divorce permanently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nina Wilcox Putnam Sanderson
Ellsworth Bassett
del Ray
Fla
Madison
Colnn
Bassett
Barrows
Farm losses mount in 1920s boom by Agriculture Dept figures
Washington reports that more than 83 percent of landowning farmers and over seven percent of tenant farmers across 15 corn and wheat states lost property during the boom era. The Department of Agriculture based its estimate on a survey of 2,400 farmers in the upper Mississippi valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Mississippi Valley
Health Department Car Sells Amid Funds Shortage In Kansas
Topeka Kansas January 9 due to funding gaps the state health department cannot operate the health car a demonstration coach now idle seeks sale or rent. The vehicle has traveled thousands of miles visiting Kansas towns but upkeep is unaffordable and the department pays storage. Lack of federal funds under Sheppard Towner plus a meager seven thousand dollar child hygiene budget reduces staff to two nurses and limits clinics statewide. The public laboratory operates with seven thousand dollars while workload has doubled. Publication of the monthly Bulletin has been suspended as costs force retrenchment. The board seeks plans to sustain divisions such as communicable diseases vital statistics foods and drugs child hygiene water and sewage general diseases and public health education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
State Health Department
M. C. Nyberg
State Board of Health
Health Department
Kansas
Nyberg
Colonial Soap stockholders elect 1924 directors
At the annual meeting of Colonial Soap Corporation stockholders executives reported gratifying business prospects. Elected directors for 1924 were H. F. Walker, Otto Fischer, A. D. Weaver, Charles Metcalf, Arthur Marks, M. E. Skofstad and Al E. Smith. Stockholders voted to increase working capital and approved a management confidence vote. Visitors included William Besack of Besack Sands and J. T. Haughey and D. Buell of Kansas City.
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Colonial Soap Corporation
H. F. Walker
Otto Fischer
A. D. Weaver
Charles Metcalf
Arthur Marks
M. E.skofstad
al E. Smith
William Besack
Besack- Sands Advertising Agency
Kansas City
D. Buell
J. T. Haughey
Paris stage clothes raise box office prices
Paris theater revivals favor more ample costumes pushing up prices. Front row seats in Paris music halls now cost thirty six francs, up from twenty after the armistice and ten before 1914. Legitimate theatres struggle as French patrons balk at further increases. Hold Bank Robbery Suspects Winfield Kan Jan 9 two suspects, one woman, jailed over Rock State Bank theft. only 142 of 1850 recovered. search for a third participant continues. Third District Democrats Parsons A meeting set for Friday Jan 18 with Gov J M Davis and Sam Amidon as speakers. Tidal Wave Sweeps Biarritz Jan 9 a tidal wave wrecked fishing vessels, breached the promenade parapet, and washed sand into homes and shops.
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Paris
Associated Press
Winfield, Kan
Cowley County
Rock State Bank of
Rock
Here
Parsons
Fiere
J. M
Davis
Sam Amidon
Wichita
Kanas
L. E. Goodrich
Biarritz Biaritz
France
Harness theft arrests and other regional news
Carl and Albert Young of Marion township were jailed on $500 bond after allegedly stealing a $75 work harness from farmer A Jensen near Clinton. A post strap tied to the harness was found in the Young barn haymow. rest of harness missing. Other items include illiteracy conference delegate appointment, local stroke, manslaughter charge, a suicide, labor walkouts, and several notices from Wichita to Manila.
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Carl and
Albert Young
Ma_rion
A. Jensen
Clinton
R. G. Manley
Pees
Young Barn
Speen Reefer
University athletics head avoids serious crash in Fort Du Fourteenth Street incident
Dr Allen Hoopie, director of athletics at the University, narrowly escaped injury when his Ford coupe struck the curb while driving his daughter Mary to school on Fourteenth Street this morning. The incident halted traffic briefly and prompted a safety check.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. ©. Allen
University
Rural carrier celebrates Christmas at home and birthday
El Dorado Carroll Peffley, dean of Butler county rural mail carriers, enjoyed Christmas at home for the first time in nineteen years of service, sharing the day with his birthday anniversary. The double occasion marked a rare home holiday for the veteran rural carrier.
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el Dorado
Albert Peffley
Butler County
Peffley
Land Office Closures Proposed in Interior Bill
Interior department plan calls for abolishing twenty one land offices and consolidating register and receiver roles in fourteen more. Topeka Kansas would lose its land office as Dodge City transfers governance. C W Miller of Hays Kansas serves as register for Topeka office. Mount Etna activity noted since ancient times. January births predicted to be hardworking.
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Washington
Interior Department
House Appropriations ‘Committee
Topeka
Kans
Kang
Dodge
C. W. Miller
Hays
Kansas
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Marion Township
Loraine Elizabeth, Wooster
Vocational Education Association
George D. McCleery
Linccoln Street
McCleery
Lawrence
Charce
Alfen
Leavenworth Leavenworth, Kan
Larence W. Dillon
Omaha, Neb
Dan Calibre
Bootblacks
Hullinger
Edwin W. Hullinger
K. U
Alfred G. Hill
Retary
California
Russia
Jamaica
Albert Emanuel
Kansas Electric Power Company
Journal-World
Emanuel
Constabulary
Manila
Philippine Constabulary
Bucas Island
Mindan-ao
Suriago
Mindanao
Columbus
Chattahoochee River
Federal Water Power Commission
Seine
T. B. Clinic
Loveland
Mount Etna
Kuppenheimer
Lampkin Skinner Ordu‘roy
Lampkin Skinner
Garters
Manhattan
Yuen Clothing C
Mass
Henry Durst
Cooper's Allen
Black Cat
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