Watson Dedicates Talk to Tax Cuts and Tariffs in Indiana
Senator Watson addressed the Republican state convention in jyuanopolis Indiana praising the Harding administration for debt relief, tax reduction, and tariff policy while urging continued civil service reform, defense of individual business freedom, and a planned soldier bonus without new taxes through bonds. He called for continued railroad rate cuts and warned against civil service misuse to oust political opponents.
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Jyuanopolis
Ind
Watson
Indiana
Harding
Republican Congress
Republican Party
Burglar Strikes Lugator Cafe Before Dawn
Thief entered Lugator Cafe between 1:00 and 5:00 A M, escaped with cash and cigars, leaving no arrests recorded. Police used bloodhounds to follow a trail from the scene to Johnson Street and Murray Street, ending near Albert Larson’s brickmason residence. a thorough search found no further clues and Larson claimed innocence.
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Wy J. Rork
Macomb Motor Sales Company
Johnson Street
Murray Street
Albert Larson
Correction on Clarence play dates at local high school
The advertisement for the Twelfth Grade play Clarence announced two show dates May 25 and 26 but the production will be staged on May 25 only. Tickets are on sale at McClellan Book Store.
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Clarence
McClellan Book Store
Clarence the Ex Soldier Leads Postwar Comedy at College
Twelfth Grade at Teachers College plans Thursday May 25 performance in the college auditorium at 8 p m. Clarence the ex-soldier hero is also an entomologist and authority on coleoptera. The Wheelers’ affluent family clan is depicted in a lively and clean postwar comedy with a light love subplot.
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Clarence
Booth Turkington
Cora Wheeler
Martyn
Madelyn Grigsby
Wheeler
Elyan Wright
Adah Updegrafi
Bobby Wheeler
Curtis Pitten
Secret Service Trailing Congress Members Allegations Stir Senate
Washington May 24 Attorney General Daugherty was charged by Senator Caraway with ordering secret service operatives to shadow members of Congress. Caraway, citing H L Schaife, alleged agents had been assigned to House members and possibly Senate members as well. He pledged to produce a witness testifying to the surveillance.
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Associated Press
Washington
Daugherty
Caraway
Arkansas
Senate
Congress
H. L. Schaife
Department of Justice
Secret Service
Mmmbers
House
Homecoming Returns after Three Weeks Visit to Dennison
Rudolph of this city arrived home yesterday morning after a three weeks visit with his father in Dennison Iowa.
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Rudlph
Dennison
Judge Considers Weekend Fishing for Jurors in Small Case
In Waukegan on May 24 the trial of Governor Small paused as jurors threatened to strike over nightly bedtimes. Defense attorney Beaubien cited jurors’ complaints about bailiffs and weeklong restrictions. Judge Edwards weighed a proposed weekend fishing trip with cost split between state and defense. The session opened after Governor Small reviewed a parade of local schoolboys.
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Associated Press
Waukegan
Small
Alexander Beaubien
Edwards
Waukegan School
Police urge Macomb aid. bloodhounds readied for intruders
Police chief calls on Macomb residents to call 5 Main at once when they hear or see intruders, urging nightly cooperation to stop burglaries. Colchester bloodhounds will be on standby for rapid hunts, as state records flag night break ins as severe crimes with potential long sentences.
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Macomb
Purdum
Colchester
A. Li. Trainline
Reformatory
Starr
ICc approves nationwide freight rate cuts averaging 10 percent
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered rate reductions effective July 1, totaling about 10 percent nationwide. Eastern territory sees 14 percent, Western 13.5 percent, and Southern and Mountain-Pacific 12 percent. Passenger and Pullman charges stay, agricultural product prices exempt.
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Associates Press
Washington
Interstate Commerce
Eastern Territory
Western Territory
Southern
Mountain-Pacific
Standard Oil to Merge With Gulf Oil in Major Deal
New York May 23 Negotiations for a merger of Standard Oil Company of Indiana and Gulf Oil Corporation have been under way as reported by well informed local quarters. If consummated the deal would be the largest in oil history, with combined capitalization nearing 400 million dollars.
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New York
Standard Oil Companyt of
Indiana
Gulf Oil Corporation
Standard Oil Companies
Harding frees three wartime convicts
The Department of Justice announced that President Harding commuted the sentences of Joseph Gordon Albert Wehde and Geo P Boehn, all Chicago residents, for wartime offenses. The commutations are effective immediately.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Iarding
Joseph G. Gordon
Albert W. Wehde
Geo P. Boehn
Chicago
Germany destroys millions of rifles and munitions in war effort
Berlin reports official figures up to March 1 show Germany has destroyed 5,855,000 rifles and carbines 104,000 machine guns 35,700,000 loaded shells and mines 14,800,000 grenades 13,383 airplanes and 24,045 airplane engines according to public figures released today.
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Berlin
Germany
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Commerce Commission
Lugator Cafe
Tarkington
Twelfth Grade
Teachers’ College
Tie
Mr. Wheeler
Katherine Gray
Violet Pimney
Margaret Alexander
Clarence Howard Monk
Herbert Steam
Defoe Gimlings
Della—Ruly DeCamp
Dinwiddie
John Folks
T. F. Jones
Brimfield
Peoria County
Johnson
East
West
Standard Oil
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