World News Digest Highlights Global Events
A broad roundup notes labor shortages, wages, and government actions. It cites a 600,000 worker shortfall in the United States, Missouri state costs at 52 million for the year, and eight new Navy cruisers requested. President Harding grants clemency to 74, tours the West and Alaska, while Leviathan sets a passenger speed record.
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United States Employment Service
Washington
Harding
Department of Justice
Prominent Figure Defends Open Shop Policy at Coal River Mines
Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and director of Coal River Colliery, argues the open shop policy at West Virginia and eastern Kentucky mines. He says West Virginia pays union scale, Kentucky remains unorganized, and workers may join or stay out. The collieries are part of a $2 million company favored for its claimed “soul” during the 1922 strike era.
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Warren S. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
United States
Coal River Colliery Company
West Virginia
Kentucky
Fred Mooney
United Mine Workers of America
International Miners’ Union
Stone
Cleveland
Itiver Colliery Company
Stillman Divorce Saga Draws In Two Women
Mrs Stillman and Flo Leeds figure in a high profile divorce case as schemes to secure funds and influence the boy Jay Leeds surface. Stillman’s backers and a lavish lifestyle are claimed, while Mrs Leeds asserts her son needs a mother's love and hints at possible united action to pressure the man in the case. Reporters found Mrs Stillman recuperating at Grand Anse, P Q, amid remarks about ongoing lavish provisions.
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Anne Q
Stillman
Flo” Leeds
Stilman
Jay Leeds
Fle Leeds
Denver Clean City Drive Tops Local News
World War veteran Will, longtime Denver figure, details of Colorado politics, the clean-city drive, and a major police safety shift. Mayor Stapleton taps Col. Rice W. Means as commissioner of safety and excise, signaling discipline reforms. Means, born 1877, served in WWI, commanded key infantry units, and has a legal and jurist background.
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Colorado
Denver
United States
Nicholson
Stapleton
Col
Rice W. Means
Safety and Excise
Colonel Means
Rice Williams Means
St. Joseph
Adams County
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Philippines
Fourth United States Infantry
One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Infantry
Illinois State Bar elects Roger Sherman president in Peoria
Roger Sherman of Chicago is named president of the Illinois State Bar Association at its forty seventh annual convention in Peoria. Other officers include first vice president Clay Britain, second vice president John R. Montgomery, third vice president George H. Wilson, secretary R Allen Stephens, and treasurer Franklin L. Velde. Sherman is also former president of the Chicago Bar Association and is the youngest of five Sherman brothers. He was born January 4, 1872, educated at Hyde Park high school, the University of Michigan, and Northwestern University Law School, and is a ninth generation American with deep roots in early New England and the lineage of Roger Sherman of Declaration of Independence fame.
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Roger Sherman
Chicago
Illinois State Bar Association
Peoria
GM. Clay Britain
Kankakees
John R. Montgomery
George H. Wilson
Quincy
R. Allen Stephens
Springfield
Franklin L Velde
Pekin
Sherman
Chicago Bar Association
Penoyer L
Louise Dickinson Sherman
Hyde Park
University of Michigan
Northwestern University Lavy School
Michigan
Grace Truesdale Buttolph
Albert
Louise Fuller Buttolph
Ives
Winnetka, Til
John Sherman
Watertown
Mass
New England
Fort Dodge
Waterloo
J. W. Barrett
Osage
Des Moines
Grinnell College
A. J. Hesse
Davenport
Allison
Linn County
Seventh Corps
Orlea
Merritt Root
Audubon
Root
Merle Scott
Poland
Hamburg
Warren County Farm Bureau
Indianola Commercial Club
American Legion
Warren County
Interstate Power Company
Iowa
Iowa State Bar Association
Mason City
First Presbyterian Church
Shenandoah
United States
Iowa-Nebraska Canners Association
Nebraska
Simpson College
Indianola
United States Post Office Department
Change of Life Loses Terrors
Greenville Pa woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with reversing menopause symptoms weight loss hot flashes and fainting spells after use she reports renewed energy and ability to do housework for a seven person family and offers to answer inquiries. many similar letters cited as proof of the medicine's merit.
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Greenville
Saly
Lydia E. Pinkham
John Myers
Union St
Ydia
K. Pinkham
Compton
Judge Receives Harsh Letter Over Local Drunk and Disorderly Case
Delbert D. Wilmeth, judge of the city court, has received a letter urging a harsh ruling against a recently arrested man charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. The note, printed in a crude chart, describes the man as a street terror who does not work, roams the area, sells a mule, drinks heavily, mistreats his wife, uses foul language, carries a gun, and robs pedestrians, claiming the entire street belongs to him. The Indianapolis News cites the letter as the source.
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Delbert D. Wilmeth
Indienapolis News
One Use for Mole
Bluebelle parries a flapper’s inquiry about removing a mole on her left shoulder. She notes fashion advantages of the mole, joking that it helps with shoulder strap placement under tricky gowns, while the other girl blurs the line between cosmetic and fashion utility.
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Bluebelle
Lucky
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