Johnson Favors Soldier Bonus in Cold War Era Debate
A fragmented report notes Senator Johnson of Minnesota backing a soldier bonus amid postwar policy tensions. Mentions debates over defense funding, abortion plans, and potential third party options as Johnson faces opposition and questions about his presidential prospects.
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Chieu
New
Mineaus Johnson
Minnesota
Dekason
Celifernia
Johnson
Ibn Mitty
A GOOD FATHER PASSED AWAY SURBAY MORNING
Obituary notice reports the death of a father named in the line, died Sunday morning at his home with immediate family listed. The funeral will be held at Hickory Grove Church in Ash, conducted by Reverend W. P. L. T. with services at 1 p.m. and burial following in local cemetery.
Unclear OCR draft on Wabash officials and visitors
Fragmentary passage lists Wabash officials and visiting officers including residents and escorts. Vague notes reference morning arrivals, inspections, and eastern territory movements with many garbled names and places, lacking coherent events or outcomes.
Fragmented OCR Notice From Local Paper
Incomplete readable text shows a local notice fragment with partial event and date cues. The readable lines hint at a scheduled public action or sale but lack clear names, places, or deadlines. Interpretations are limited by the damaged OCR segment.
Fragmentary obituary note from a distant parish
The unreadable text appears to be a fragmented obituary or birth notice mentioning a person named Alfmal Bowhind and his wife with possible parentage and a birth or family event. The legible fragments reference Alma Marvin, Aly, and a child named Rojas, but most of the details are unclear.
Salesman Deals With North Staratlas Promotion
A Shap Lonis salesman travels to the city to pursue a large promotional effort for North Staratlas with headquarters at Chartotas. The field is among the largest covered by the St. e.
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Mares
Peter
North Staratlas
Chartotas
St. E
Local road meeting set at Chamber of Commerce
A road meeting is planned for this evening at the Chamber of Commerce. Division Engineer A. R. Vowsi of Macon will attend to discuss right of way between Cairo and Macon County, tying into the new Morley Street road. The talks focus on securing necessary rights of way for the proposed route.
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Hee Chamber of Commerce
A. R. Vowsi
Macon
Caira
Macon County
Morley Street
Nevih
The Most Perfect House In America Preview Section
A Sunday edition explore the home financing dream and modern living features. The article promises detailed guides on buying property and building, plus entertainment and TV previews to be seen in the coming Sunday issue.
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America
Apobarty Daily Democrat
Bret
Creme Pdea
Veterans Bureau Kidnaps Insane Veteran to Pennsylvania
Congress member Albert Johnson charged the Veterans Bureau kidnapped Charles Wasavage from Washington and moved him to a Pennsylvania institution in violation of a court order. Johnson accused the bureau of using the case to remove Wasavage's wife as guardian and noted an injunction blocked transport. Bureau employees reportedly violated the injunction and forcibly moved Wasavage despite the ruling.
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Washington
Administration
Wea Usyhie
Wl Hlay
Pennsylvania
Albert. Johnson
Senate
Vetore Pos Intrean
Johnson
Bureau
Charles Wasavage
Monnaylvania
Kasavage
Hog supply warned as producers threaten withholding
John G. Brown of the National Live Stock Producers Association warns shippers that cooperative producers may withhold hogs from markets due to corn prices. Five midwestern states Indiana Iowa Missouri Ohio and Nebraska face the impact as hog markets stall and supply tightens.
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Chivagea
John G. Brown
Asseris
Park
Indiana
Missouri
Ohio
Nebraska
Supreme Court Rejects Review of 1922 Shopmen Convictions
The Supreme Court denied the petitions of Barney McCourtney Fred Harel and A W Pense shopmen for St Louis railroad for a review of contempt convictions arising from violating an injunction during a 1922 strike. Missouri district judge says the ruling clears the way for continued enforcement of the contempt findings.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Barney McCourtney
Fred Harel
A. W. Pense
St. Wiens & Sar Princiace Railroad
Missouri
United Ares District Court
Western District
Roundhouse Foreman Fatally Injured in Rail Yard
Roy T. Kirk a night foreman at Lie roundhouse was fatally injured while on duty at about eight o clock this morning. He was taken to Wabash hospital where he died about an hour later. Kirk was riding the footboard of engine No 84 known among railroad men as the dinkey. The dinkey extended over the turntable and did not clear another engine as the table turned, catching Kirk between the tarva and owas and crushing him through the hips. He was 40 years old, resided in Moberly fourteen years, and is survived by his wife, a son Leroy 9, a daughter, infant Elizabeth Anna, and his parents Mr and Mrs T G Kirk of Motherly. He was active in St John’s Catholic Church. The funeral will be at 9 o clock Wednesday morning at St John’s Church, with interment at St Mary’s.
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Roy T. Kirk
Lie Roundhouse
Wabash Hospital
Hey
Kirk
Moberly
Leroy
Wiaubeth Anna
T Gy Kirk
St. John's Citholic
Ehurch
Tam
St. John’s Church
Pather McNeill
St. Mary's
Fourth Street Cafe Opens Under Gillespie Management
The Fourth Street Cafe opened yesterday under W. H. Gillespie with strong patronage. Ralph Aristaille's orchestra provided music amid attractive surroundings and good service. Carnations and chrysanthemums were given to ladies as favors.
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Fourth Street
W. H W. Gillespie
Moberly
Ralph Aristaille
Chrysani Hemings
Court Rejects Cropping Contract Under California Land Law
The California Supreme Court ruled that the so called cropping contract violated the alien land law by barring ownership or control by ineligible aliens. It held a crop sharing arrangement with a landowner illegal and a land ownership cap on stock in land owning corporations constitutional.
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Washington
Supreme Ccourt
California
Supreme. Court
Man Disappears From Office in Mysterious Circumstance
Camden Tennessee reports a missing general manager of the Standard Oil Company named Olive. Bloodstains overturned chairs and signs of a struggle were found at the oil company office. A pocketbook with $100 in checks but no cash and three notes warned Olive to leave Camden with a date of October 19.
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Camden
Tenn
Olive
Standard
Gil Company
Oil Company
Camtion
Poor Olive Searched For After Murder Threats Note
A report from Ohio describes Olive, a respected worker, believed murdered and body dumped in the Tennessee River. Police hunt for the killer as threats to his wife, Wes from Ohio, surface and nine children await answers.
Columbia Girl Students Disappear Near Missouri College
Mary D. Mechi of Norborne and Lieore May Covey of Tulsa, Mo. vanished from Stephens College in Columbia days ago. Searches by George Ty Muehan, banker, and the girls’ father, have found no trace in nearby towns. The last sighting was at the college with Miss Audrey Webb of Norborne, head of the student government council.
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Columbia
Mary D. Mechi
Norborne
Tulsa
Stephens
George Ty Muehan
College
Audrey Webb
Funeral attendents for Edward Short noted
Relatives attended the funeral of Edward Short with Mrs Kate Irenean4 and daughters Katherine and Josephine, plus Miss Eleanor Halloran, Mrs George Wolfe, and others from Quincy and TU. The account lists attendees from the town and nearby areas.
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Ba Shor
Edward Short
Kate
Immigration bill limits quotas based on 1890 census
Washington reports administration proposes a two percent quota instead of three and bases it on the 1890 census rather than 1910. Rep Johnson says the plan would admit about 240,000 immigrants annually, far below the current law's 859,000. Trials and other news items appear in this dispatch from November 19, 1920.
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Washington
Johnson
Clvnican
Loase
Scarlet Fever Epidemic Shuts Bowling Green Schools
In Bowling Green Missouri a diphtheria and scarlet fever outbreak led to indefinite school closures after a special board meeting and a city proclamation by Mayor A K Wilson banning public gatherings. Ten cases were reported with one death. churches and movie houses also closed.
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Bowling Green
Board of Education
Effy
A. K. Wilson
Anglo-French entente appears to weather crisis
Paris and Novo report the ambassadors conference neared a compromised formula to preserve the Anglo French entente. The draft notes discuss expulsion of the former crown prince and reimposition of allied military control, with France’s cabinet reportedly approving Poincare’s stance amid German resistance.
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Parise
Wegin
Marshal Foch
Authoriainishin
Germany
Berlin
France
Stresemann Fiat
Reichstag
Paris
Tomorow
Evangelist closes two week meeting at First Baptist
The evangelistic services at First Baptist Church ended last night after two weeks of meetings. Attendance reached 794 in Sunday school with 23 uniting from the congregation and 17 at the evening service. No new members except baptisms. total membership to 1030. Rev Wolfe will start a meeting at Lamar tonight. Closing message titled Change Thy Ways. Singer Sheffield returned to Fort Scott Kansas due to his father’s death Friday.
Stranger Visits Moberly Businesses Saturday Night
A stranger conducted a bad check spree visiting several merchant establishments in Moberly on Saturday night, causing concern among local businesses and prompting police attention.
Fraudulent checks used in a carpentry scam near Moberly
Purchasers were offered a check on the Moberly Trust for small purchases totaling a few dollars. The checks, made out to Lon Williams by AYEL Little as payment for carpentry work, were meant to lure men into accepting money while the rest was kept as profit. Some victims quickly realized the ruse but the suspect remained unfixed.
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Burron & Ogis
Lee Galbreath
T. HH
Jones Drug Stores
Penney's
Lon Williams
AY EL Little
Tor Carpenter
Una
Williams
Doering Shot by Companion in Birger Roadhouse Shootout
Whitey Doering of the Egan gang is reported mortally wounded after a gun battle at Charles Birger’s road house in Herrin. Birger was wounded in the left side, doctors say Doering died at 2 36 p m from stab wounds during the failed assassination attempt. Two Doering companions were arrested as suspects.
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Birger
Doering
Hervin Hospital
Cecil
Knighton
Herrin
Whitey
St. Louis
Charles
Marion
Satoon
Egan
Lowden Urges Wheat Growers to Form Cooperative Marketing
Chicago reports former Governor Frank O. Lowden, as chair of the national wheat growers advisory committee, calls for organizing growers into a cooperative marketing enterprise to modernize the business and emulate other industries. He argues cooperation can unite farmers for better prices and stability. Constable A. P. Branham and family traveled to Centralia for a birthday celebration of Mrs. Branham's mother, Mrs. M. F. Roberts, with about thirty guests at Mrs. J. T. Barclay's home. Betlie McKinsey returns home south of town after visiting her sister, Mrs. Mary Neal on Cleveland Avenue.
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Lowden
Chicago
Frank O. Lowden Ollinois
National Wheat Growers
A. P. Branham
Centralia
Betlié McKinsey
Town
Mary” Neal
Cleveland Avenue
Oklahoma Senate Votes to Oust Governor Walton
Oklahoma City reports the state senate voted to oust Governor Walton on impeachment charges. Defense lawyers filed a motion for a new trial, and Walton's supporters prepared to seek the U.S. Supreme Court'S intervention as the impeachment process moved forward.
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State Senate
Gov
Waton
Oklahoma
City
Oklahoma State
Senaty
Mnoon
Te. Walton
Nowa
Tidas
Walton
Senate
United States Supreme Court
Desnember
Clarke to Stand Trial in Slave Transport Case
Edward Young Clarke, former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, faces trial on charges of transporting 21 year old Miss Gaura Martin of Houston to New Orleans for immoral purposes. The indictment alleges Clarke met Martin in Houston in 1920 and wired her money. Clarke calls the case a frame up and has posted bond.
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Houston
Texas
Edward Young Clarke
Key Klux Klan
Clarke
Gaura Martin
Houston Hirt
New Orleans
Imperial Keagie
Klan
Miss. Martin
Ku Klux: Klan
Martin
St Charles
Atlanta
Holden
Robbery spree in New Cambria baffles police
Strumpfer bloodhounds traced a robbery chain to an auto accessory shop and a hardware store in New Cambria. Missing items include ten new casings six or eight inner tubas spark plugs and forty loaded shells plus pora and pocket knives. Police believe suspects used a car to flee toward the Ocean highway.
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New Cambria
Strumpfer Bloodhoundsa
John Beanea
Strumpfer
Genevieve
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