May report on district farming and business shows mixed gains
Kansas City June 30 Wheat production and agricultural conditions in the Tenth Federal Reserve District are generally good though harvest lags. Government experts estimate winter wheat at 230 million bushels, with spring wheat and oats also sizable. Mining shows renewed activity, oil stays high, and building lags but highway plans grow. Domestic commerce and farming populations remain conservative.
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Kansas City
Federal Reserve
United States
Colorado
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Federaan
Federal Reserve Bank
Buried gold hunt and May livestock totals reported
The report summarizes May changes in cattle hogs sheep and horses with gains in some items and declines in others. Cattle and sheep show decreases while hogs rise, and total May receipts show a large rise over April by over 22 million bushels with price mentions including 58.42 per ten for May and a weekly average of 12.71 tims. A separate note hints at a hearing driven from sea.
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Grstates
Southwest
Venters
Tri-State
North Sea fish decline tied to giant jellyfish bloom
Sremerhaven reports European fish experts warn haddock and herring stocks in the North Sea are dwindling as vast swarms of jellyfish and sea nettles migrate from the Atlantic. Warm currents in 1920 brought the jellyfish, which prey on herring eggs, hurting both species. As herring numbers fall, haddock decline follows, impacting England, Holland, Germany, and other buyers of the main fish supplies.
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Sremerhaven
North Sea
England
Holland
Germany
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic
French wine prices soar and markets reel in Paris fall
French wines flood the United States as the franc’s tumble disrupts contracts and bank solvencies. Dealers faced halted payments, fortunes rose and fell with the exchange, while small banks failed under franc speculation and cities levied duties on wine sales.
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Berlin
Associated Press
France
Meyements
Syie
Indians Must Learn to Fashion New Types of Tourist Souvenirs Soon
Caps Lake Minnesota June 26 Associated Press Dame Fashion once favored Ojibway crafts but now frowns on beadwork lace handkerchiefs and birch bark canoes. Dr W B Heagerty notes fashions shift reduce sales as tribesmen struggle to reorient from traditional trinkets to modern novelties. He cites beadwork and maple products as potential replacements though costs and scarce sap hinder progress. The Ojibway Sales Agency aims to guide economic and moral reform by shifting away from barter and toward cash in exchange for goods.
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Caps Lake
Minn
Associated Press
Dame
W. B. Heagerty
Ojibway
Duluth
de. Heagerty
Church
Heagexty Deeleres
Chicago urged to adopt University of Chicago as city project
President Burton urged Chicago to adopt the University of Chicago as a city project. He noted John D Rockefeller’s gifts totaling 35,009,000 and said additional funds equal to the current resources of about 54,000,009 should come from Chicago within 14 years. Rockefeller’s earlier promise was described as final.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Rockefeller
Butten
Burton
Cal Miss Martland urges wage earning for women
Miss Cleo Martland associate professor at the University of California argues that apprenticeship and wage earning are essential for women. She says pre marriage independence shapes home life and self respect, and that girls should be educated as both homemakers and potential wage earners.
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Cal
Cleo Murtland
University of California
Pvell
Sweden Reports Vast Shale Oil Prospects
Stockholm reports estimates that bituminous shale in Sweden could yield 246 090 000 tons of fuel oil. Engineers announce shale oil production to begin on a large scale at Kinnekulle, with Sweden’s economy driven by a domestic fuel solution. The oil has been tested by the Swedish navy and oil burning vessels.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Kinnekulle
Teguits Show Shale Oil Competes With Salt Oil
The Teguits report shale oil can compete with salt oil across industrial establishments, though the more refined petroleum grades remain costlier to produce.
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Rous
Alabama Court Reinterprets Obedience in Custody Case
In Montgomery the Alabama Court of Appeals upheld the idea that a husband may object to his wife pursuing employment or beauty routines. It reversed a habeas corpus order and held that a father can fix domicile of children absent proof of bad character, following a marital dispute over curled hair.
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Montgomery
Ala
Jane
Associated “Press
Alabama’ Court of Appeals
Macon Sparkman
Sparkman
Emigrants Assured Homes In Australia Migration Scheme
London reports the cabinet approved an extended migration plan from Britain to Australia. Senator Himon of the Australian Commonwealth government discusses details with the Overseas Settlement committee. The scheme includes a loan of about 100 million dollars to aid development and ensure immediate housing and employment for entire immigrant families.
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London
Jun
Associated Press
British Isles
Australia
Himon
Australian Commonwealth
Overseas Settlement Committee
Campaign was irregular Oxford seat loss effort
Oxford June 30 Associated Press Frank Gray lost his Oxford City seat due to election irregularities by his agent and says he must raise 40000 to cover trial costs which his wife and he cannot fund. He notes party friends are helping and they have dismissed most servants and do domestic work themselves to save money.
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Oxford
England
Associated Press
Frank Gray
Oxford City
A Painting on a Web Captivates Berlin Dealers
Berlin reports one of the art world’s oddest works, a 6 by 4 inch painting on a spice web preserved between glass plates for dual viewing. The piece shows a content family and includes a repaired spider web fragment as a side interest, with no date on when the web was painted.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Soldiers Are Marksmen in Thirtieth Infantry
The Thirtieth Infantry stationed in San Francisco is famed as a top rifle unit in the Western Division. At Fort h automatic range 46 line men qualified as expert riflemen, 44 the best rank, with others earning sharpshooter status. Five of 90 automatic gunners qualified as expert riflemen this year, another five as sharpshooters. Reopen Atchison-Guster Bull Topeka hearing in Atchison concerns County Attorney Maurice O Keefe and Sheriff McCullough, with A E Austin named special commissioner by the supreme court to report.
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San Francisco
Western Division
Maurice O'Keefe
McCullough
Atchison
A. E. Austin
Supreme Court
Parry's Vegetable Compound Promoted For Health Benefits
Advertising notice from January 1923 touts Parry's Vegetable Compound as a proven remedy for cold and malaria fever. It claims thousands of monthly sales and letters praising the medicine, including a testimonial from Lawrence R. Cheroweth about recovery from catarrh and malaria. Price listed as $1.50 per bottle in drugstores.
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Parry
Warny
Lawrence
R. Cheroweth
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Vegetable Compound Co
Mansfield
Ohio
Unlucky Airmen Repaid in Ground Mishaps Near Elko
Paul Scott and Kenneth Unger, government mail pilots, suffered ground injuries after alighting near Elko Nevada and a mule ride gone wrong. Scott broke his left ankle stepping in a gopher hole while Unger was thrown from a mule while attempting to reach a telephone. No aviation injuries reported. In other news Canada plans a national conference on unemployment with capital and labor representatives to be held in Ottawa. Menthol aftershave cream advertised by Rankin’s Drug Store.
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Salt Lake City
Associated Press
Paul Scott
Kenneth Unger
Wovernment Mailet
Elko
Nev
Scott
Unger
Canada
Dominion
Ottawa
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