Garfield Pledges Cheaper Coal for Homes
Garfield vows to seek price reductions for consumers as the coal administration weighs a plan to regulate dealers who resist easing costs. He stresses impacts from mine to home and warns drastic steps may be used if necessary. a retail profit schedule is being prepared for enforcement.
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Washington
Tlanov
Garfel
Coal Administration Ae
Garfield
Federal Trade Commission
Cival
Will Guard Peace Talkers As City Prepares
Minneapolis mayor Thomas Van Lear pledged police protection for the People's Council of America as it plans a September 1 conference to discuss peace. The statement was sent to Warrington officials and to council branches nationwide. Van Lear defended constitutional democracy and right to peaceful discussion amid recent antiwar meetings in Minnesota. The council struggles to secure a large hall and plans to pitch a tent on the city outskirts.
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Minneapolie
Thomas van Lear
People’s Council of America
Warrington
Gars van Lear
Minnesota
Woman Registers as a Man in Cleveland Scandal
Cleveland report recalls Lillian Myers masquerading as Harry Hoffman for ten years. At June 5 registration she, 20, confessed to posed male identity and prior work as soda fountain attendant and other posts. Arrest followed failure to appear for examination.
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Cleveland
Harry Hoffman
Lillian Myers
New Mexico Lawmaker Proposes 10 Per Cent Corporate Tax
Jones of New Mexico outlines a plan to levy a 10 percent tax on undistributed corporate profits plus broader reporting and disclosure measures. The proposals aim to close loopholes and ensure taxes are paid, with penalties for rebate agreements and expanded information returns from banks trusts and insurers.
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Jones
New Mexico
Washington
Goltare
Bodden
Senate
Jones of
New Mellon
Boards of
Galta
Soceed
Internal Revenue Department
Whisky on the lungs ends man in San Angelo
In San Angelo Texas CR St. Clairen died after attempting to siphon whisky from a barrel when liquor entered his windpipe and lungs. He endured four days of intense suffering as the whisky burned lung tissues and impeded blood purification, leading to death.
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San Angelo
Tex
St. Clairen
Accuse Book Paper Makers in Price Fixing Case
Federal trade commission files formal complaints against 22 paper makers and their statistics bureau head alleging concerted action to raise book paper prices. In Texas, Prisilla Taylor, 18 months, drowns in a tub at Orange home after being left unattended.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Bureau of Statistics
Texas
Orange
Tex
W. L Taylor
Priscilla
United States Labor Reach Shipyard Wage Pact
The United States and labor reach a three party accord setting wages hours and conditions for private shipyards. President Wilson names Macy to the public board as labor and government representatives finalize the plan with the American Federation of Labor. Macy is a New York capitalist and treasurer of the national child labor commission.
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Wanlingiin
Slater
Snall
Counry
Wilson
National Child Labor Commission
Ferguson Suspended as Senate Takes Up Charges
Austin Tex Jacmee KO Perguaon was suspended from the office of governor of Terachen as the board of Hine Mahesers denied by the dates of representatives presented to the swe ater articles of impeachment alleging official misconduct. The Senate set Wednesday to begin trial with 21 articles accusing Ferguson of contempt for refusing to reveal loans, misappropriating 5600 of state funds, abusing veto power, and vetoing most Texas university appropriations for two years. Other charges include placing state funds in a bank where Ferguson held stock.
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Howe
Texas University
Ferguson Sa 4
President Wilson Pushes Draft Based on Family Status
Washington reports President Wilson favors selecting the first draft army from single men unless guardians have dependents with sufficient income to support them. He wrote Secretary of War Baker advocating this rule, signaling a change to Crowder’s recent draft guidelines. Also note Russian provisional government delays elections to November 26 and assembly first meeting now set for December 11.
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Washington
Wilson
War Plaker
Crowder
Petrograd
Prison Break Through Sewers at Leavenworth
Joseph Campbell and James Thomas escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth by crawling 200 yards through a sewer and sawing off steel bars at the end of the tunnel.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Joseph Campbell
James Thomas
Federal Penitentiary
Farmer Nets $100 An Acre From Wheat Harvest
In Waseca Minnesota Bayne of low co threshing wheat produced 40 bushels per acre. He sold at harvest for 2.77 dollars per bushel totaling 110.80 dollars per acre.
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Waseca
Mino
Bayne
Lowco
Heroines of the Legion of Death Mystery Recruiter
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Joe Cat and a group linked to recruitment through feats of strength. The text references women or heroines of a legion and hints at illicit or violent activity, but the details are unclear and names are uncertain.
Mme Hertha’s Vault Coffin At West End Mansion
The article describes Mme Hertha deported from her sumpidece mansion in the West End of Lando. Servants called Upper town her vault, hung with somber black curtains. A trestle held an elaborately carved coffin engraved Derthe Trost, a magne t wae of periched neowood with ivory mountings. The coffin was supposedly the reincarnation of Marie Antoinette and a centerpiece at gatherings to reconcile her to death.
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Mme Hertha
Lando
Ander
Marie Antoinette
Diner Clerk Battles Steak Shortage With Patience
In a dim restaurant scene a diner finishes a course and frowns at an unvanquished steak. A new waiter twice asks to clear the table but is dismissed with a curt apology. The waiter explains the kitchen has few steaks left and asks the diner to finish, noting demand is high.
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Inez
Stork
Clock at Beauvais Cathedral Pieces 92000 in 52 Dials
A Beauvais cathedral clock comprises 92 000 sep arate pieces and 52 dial plates. It displays world and local time, day of week and month, moon phases, tides, and the rising and setting of the sun.
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Beauvais Cathedral
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