20 Jan 1922
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1922
Page
1
Commerce department reports a nearly one billion dollar drop in the US favorable trade balance for 1921 amid rising unemployment. Hoover cites seasonal dip as blame. House passes post office bill, while veterans bureau backs a natural school for merchant marine training. naval treaty actions delay.
Obituaries note the deaths of Frederic Gunnison in Brooklyn banker and lawyer aged 52 Luther L Wright ex superintendent of the Michigan School for the Deaf died in Flint Mich General manager William Young of the Lake Shippers' Clearance assoc Winnipeg aged 59 and Matthew Reynolds former circuit judge and 1884 Afissanti legislator in St Louis of pneumonia Rioting greets the Prince of Wales in Madras with armored cars used by police and casualties. Irish political moves include Ulster resisting an all Ireland parliament until self government evidenced Briand resigns as French premier risking European rehabilitation The Cannes conference shows fashion shocks and political dispatches as Tanaka planned Philippines visit and Moroccan campaigns proceed Jugo Slav troops mass along Albanian frontier to reoccupy recently evacuated territory.
The itemized notes report a $60,000 blaze destroying the Wyatt grocery and adjacent businesses at Farnhamville, a flood of strikes by Sioux City carpenters and brick masons amid wage cuts, several deaths including Andrew Langland in Eagle Grove and Mrs. Adelthel Campbell near Argue, and multiple smaller incidents across counties: bankruptcies by Polk county farmers, a train car fire near Murphy, and a notable death of Henry H. Wilson in Mount Ayr after a rapid ascent from small-town grocer to wealthy landowner.
A portrait of Mahatma Gandhi as leader of the non-cooperators in India. The piece notes Gandhi's Tolstoyan non-resistance philosophy, his influence since World War I, and his followers' injunction against physical force. It mentions disturbances during the King George V's visit to Bombay and Gandhi's call for penance.
The article profiles Sen Robert Nelson Stanfield of Oregon born 1877, calling him America’s largest producer of wool and mutton. It traces his rise from a ranch youth to leading sheep interests, expanding flocks into Idaho, Montana and Colorado, and notes his political climb to state legislature and speaker.
English novelist’s wife Kath leen Geipel, daughter of Herbert Geipel J P, is praised for tennis, music, films, and munition ministry service. Mr George calls America vital and thrilling, naming New York Washington Darton Nashville Chicago and New Orleans as favorites. He praises American people memories and energy.
Margaret Wintringham, MP for Louth, Lincolnshire, is the second woman in the House of Commons and the first British born woman in that body. Known as the silent candidate during the Louth contest, she avoids public speaking due to bereavement, yet is an experienced and fluent speaker. She has been headmistress at a Grimsby school and later led local women’s groups, serving as a justice of the peace and housing committee member.
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