World Happenings of Current Week Highlights
Saskatoon suffered a second serious fire within 24 hours at the Western Grocers plant with damage undetermined. Lynn carpenters reject higher wages amid low business and accept $1.10 for a year. Sun Yat Sen reported dead by the Chinese Times in Pekin though falsified earlier. Paris papers raise price to 20 centimes after costs. The State Bank of Atkin Illinois destroyed by fire due to a burglar’s torch, vault touched by a watchman. Polish debt funding ratified by deputies until 1984, with US payments exceeding one million dollars this year. Citizens citizenship applications filed since 1924 rise to 1960. 1735 referred for deportation. Wyoming wins Get-Out-The-Vote contest for Coolidge era turnout. Germany to pay 106 million marks toward 11 billion-mark railway bonds March 1. Train wreck injures nine near Rofs Oklahoma due to tampered switch. Otto Fuller cites crossword puzzles as cause of leaving home. London designers unveil clotted cream shades for Riviera wardrobes. Naval experts project advancement from studies on old ships before replacement battleships are built.
Coolidge Signals Tax Cuts and Spending Cuts
President Coolidge announced a four year plan focusing on tax reductions and restrained federal spending. He urged Congress to sustain the budget, foresee further tax relief, and warned against unnecessary expenditures while stressing efficiency and payroll reduction without cutting workers' pay. The address, broadcast from ten stations, framed an era of growing business and expected revenue alongside careful government cost increases.
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Treasury
Humphrey Nominated to Federal Trade Commission
Washington D C William E Humphrey ex member of the house from Washington was nominated Monday by President Coolidge to be a member of the federal trade commission succeeding Nelson B Gaskill of New Jersey whose term expired several months ago The nomination is seen as a step in Coolidges planned reorganization of the commission one of three independent agencies to see administrative changes The others are the shipping board and the tariff commission
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Washington, D. C
William E. Humphrey
House
Washington
Coolidge
Federal Trade Commission
Nelson B. Gaskill
New Jersey
Mr. Humphrey
Honduras Seeks Arms From United States
The provisional government of Honduras asked the United States to sell arms and munitions. State department officials received the request on Monday and will decide after Honduras’ provisional authorities take office on February 1 and the application is renewed in the name of the constituted government.
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Washington, D. C
Provisional Government of
Honduras
United States
State Department
Deaths of Lord Claud Hamilton and Sir James Mackenzie
London reports the death of Right Hon. Lord Claud Hamilton aged 81, former lord of the treasury in 1863 and aide de camp to Queen Victoria. Also announced is the death of Sir James Mackenzie, prominent physician to the king in Scotland and to a leading London physician, with birth in April 1863.
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London
Claud Hamilton
Treasury
Queen Victoria
James Mackenzie
Scotland
Three Killed in Herrin Klansmen Battle Ends Calm
Militia patrolled Herrin as violence from klan and anti klan factions ended after a main street gun battle that killed S Glenn Young Ora Thomas Ed Forbes and Homer Warner. Young and Warner died in hospital Forbes skull base shot and Thomas died from multiple wounds.
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Herrin
S. Glenn Young
Ora Thomas
Ed Forbes
Homer Warner
Young
Thomas
Warner
Forbes
Robert Davis
Carbondale
Ross Lirenby
Davis
Oregon state brief notes on accidents and industry
Oregon weekly state news brief notes industrial accidents fatalities, sawmill sales and purchases, a box factory plan in Chiloquin, irrigation district amendments in Bend, and a bear mistaken for a cow incident in Newport. Names include Industrial Accident Commission Salem Portl and Cushman sawmill buyer Charles Farris.
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Salem
Oregon
State Industrial Accident Commission
Tutankhamen Tomb Reopened in Luxor Presence of Officials
Luxor reports Tutankhamen tomb reopened on Sunday with government officials and antiquities department members present. Howard Carter, the Egyptologist, received the contents taken out last year and found all items intact and sealed. The sarcophagus pall outside the tomb has deteriorated beyond repair.
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London
Exchange
Luxor
Egypt
Tutankhamen
Antiquities Department
Howard Carter
Explosion Fatal to Two on Colorado Train near Denver
Denver men J. W. Conelly 36 an engineer and Joseph Rose Jr. 26 a fireman were killed when the locomotive boiler exploded at Stanley Lake twelve miles north of Denver. The wreck happened as the engine hauled a freight train from Denver to Fort Collins.
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Denver
Colo
J. W. Conelly
Joseph Rose Jr
Colorado & Southern Railroad
Stanley Lake
Fort Collings
Timber firms plan immediate restart of county logging
It was announced Friday that Tidewater Timber, Lewis & Malone Logging, and Eastern & Western will resume logging operations in the county at once.
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Astoria
Tidewater Timber Company
Lewis & Malone Logging Company
The
Eastern & Western
Influenza Fatalities Climb in Tokio After Great Earthquake Dust
An official report shows 727 influenza deaths in the past 20 days in Tokio. A misprint claimed 4700 deaths. Officials blame continued breath and high winds spreading dust from the 1923 earthquake area for the rise in the death rate.
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Tokio
Names That Call Me Back To Innocence And Youth
A collage notes longing for childhood names over formal titles, urging a return to innocence and camaraderie. It contrasts aging with youthful identity and recalls McClure Syndicate verse about youth and self.
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McClure Newper Syndicate
Lesson from a cookbook about wealth and contentment
Obscure quoted reflection on how people of all means should use what they have to secure future enjoyment. The text notes a tendency to love present comfort while seeking to improve future wealth through prudent choices.
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Leleh Hunt
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BE. A. Blockinger
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Arnold Irrigation Company
Vaughan & Bester
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Western Newsepaper Union
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