Dawes Presidency Sparks Senate Debate Over Inaugural Session
Vice President Dawes presided as the Senate confronted his departure from routine procedure with Hale Reed and Ashurst raising points of privilege andJournal readings. Dawes outlined the office’s role focusing on procedure over policy, signaling cautious use of influence until ties demand a vote, with continuation noted on page five.
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Washington
Dawes
Senate
Curtis
Kansas
Hale
Maine
Reed
Missouri
Ashurst
Mr. Dawes
United States
Bank of England Raises Discount Rate to Five Percent
London reports the Bank of England increased its rediscount rate to five percent today. The move mirrors the U S Federal Reserve’s prior rise and is tied to expectations of higher commercial rates and potential effects on British gold reserves. Analysts anticipate the shift may influence London rates and the broader financial market in the near term.
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London
A. P
Bank of Land
Nhngton
England
Ury
York Reserve Bank
Faber
Realty Firm Named in Barber Chair Injury Suit
Edward McCabe filed a $5,700 lawsuit in New Orleans alleging the realty company owner of the building caused a plaster collapse that struck a barber, cutting his neck and leading to damages, pain and medical bills.
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New Orleans
Edward McCabe
McCabe
Prince of Wales faces sharp Commons attack in UK
British politics tense as Scotch Labour members lead a House of Commons assault on the Prince of Wales with 87 Labour votes. Report notes no broad royal animosity but signals discomfort with the monarchy’s sacrosanct status and hints at reformist pressures from anti-imperial factions.
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David M. Church
I. N
London
Prince of Wales
House of Commons
Labor
Labor Party
England
United States
Stern
Scotland
Wales
Perdition
Contract Let on Eros Highway in Ouachita Parish
The Ouachita parish section of the Eros Cadeville road was awarded to N N George Construction Co of Shreveport. They will build 4.7 miles of gravel surfacing at about 75000 dollars. Project must be finished within 125 working days.
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Eros
Ouachita
Ouachita Parish
Eros-Cadeville Road
N. N. George Construction Company
Shreveport
Jackson Parish
Seizure of Fake Oyster Shell Freight in Kansas City
Police seized a Missouri Pacific freight car in Kansas City containing 600 cases of liquor valued at $50,000. The bottles included Irish whiskey champagne wine and Cuban alcohol labeled as oyster shells from Biloxi Mississippi to H A Burke. Investigators suspect a fictitious consignee and link to bootlegger robberies.
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Kansas City
Mar
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Biloxi
Miss
H. A. Burke
Shreeve
Consignee
H. F. Tighe and Company
Kellogg Sworn In as Secretary of State
Frank B. Kellogg was sworn in today as secretary of state succeeding Charles E. Hughes. The oath was administered by Associate Justice Pierce Butler at the state department. Kellogg met with President Coolidge after taking office and began guiding the nation's foreign policy.
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Washington
Frank B. Kellogg
Charles E. Hughes
State Department
Pierce Butler
Supreme Court
Kellogg
Secretary Hughes
Justice Butler
Hughes
Coolidge
Brief Skirts and Red Ears Sweep Paris Style
New Paris fashions dubbed by travelers and editors arrive in New York with skirts above the knees when in Paris they are shorter, and vivid features like curled lashes and reddened ears are cited as the latest make up.
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New York
Mar
Paris
Bertram Parker
Nina Boldbin
Master Hair Dressers Association
Prisoner With Big Appetite Worries Hattiesburg Jailer
In Hattiesburg Mississippi on March 5 the Smith boarding house firm feeding jail prisoners warns it may cancel its contract unless Nelse Tanner a 17 year old African American prisoner weighing 375 pounds is released. His demand for meals four times the usual amount jeopardizes the caterers finances.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Smith Boarding House Company
Hattiesburg City
Nelse Tanner
Mississippi
Big Boy
Nelse
Arkansas Gas Pipeline Plan Across State Draws Interest
A Little Rock dispatch reports the Arkansas State Railway Commission granted consent to a gas pipeline crossing Arkansas to Memphis and northern towns. Gas may come from El Dorado field and North Louisiana with a $10 million cost funded by California investors. Local towns listed include Hamburg Warren Monticello Camden Hampton Fordyce Bison Star City Sheridan Benton Little Rock Pine Bluff England Stuttgart DeWitt Lonoke DeValls Bluff Clarendon Brinkley Cotton Plant Augusta Newport Marianna Helena Forrest City Wynne Jonesboro Harrisburg Paragould Marion West Memphis and more.
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Little Rock Dispatch
State Railway Commission of Arkansas
Memphis
Arkansas
Louisiana
California
el Dorado Field
Little Rock
Lazette
el Dorado
Hamburg
Warren
Monticello
Camden
Hampton
Fordyce
Bison
Star City
Sheridan
Benton
Pine Bluff
England
Stuttgart
DeWitt
Lonoke
DeVall's Bluff
Clarendon
Brinkley
Cotton Plant
Augusta
Newport
Marianna
Helena
Forrest City
Wynne
Jonesboro
Harrisburg
Paragould
Marion
West Memphis
Grady Hays
H. A. Kehler
W. D. Fisk
W. C. Steffens
A. W. Crawford
Harold Burkhart
H. W. Burkhart
Los Angeles
JC. Hawkins
Coulter, McHenry
Jardine Becomes Secretary of Agriculture in 1923
W M Jardine of Kansas today took the oath as secretary of agriculture succeeding Howard M Gore. He was sworn in at the agriculture department after a meeting with President Coolidge and Kansas delegates. In a hurried moment he accidentally grabbed another caller's hat at the White House before returning to exchange it for his own.
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Washington
Wm. M. Jardine
Kansas
Howard M. Gore
West Virginia
Agriculture Department
Congress
Department
Coolidge
W. Creel
University of Nevada
White House
Jardine
Robbers Loot Missouri Pacific Station at Lake Charles
Robbers hit Kinder in Allen Parish for the second time in two weeks breaking open the Missouri Pacific railroad station early today and escaping with a mail pouch and several express packages.
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Lake Charles
Kinder
Allen Parish
Missouri Pacific
Highway Commission explains Pontchartrain bridge contract stance
Louisiana Highway Commission releases a three member statement denying secrecy allegations in awarding the Lake Pontchartrain bridge contract to Watson Williams Co. A guarantee from Pontchartrain Causeway Association was requested but not provided. The commission asserts it will build the lake shore highway and blames court actions for any delay.
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New Orleans
St. Tammany
Lake Shore
East Louisiana
Lake Pontchartrain
Commission
Pontchartrain Causeway Association
Stokes Testifies Wife Scratched Him Over Rent Fight
W E D Stokes testifies that Helen Elwood Stokes scratched his face and chased him with a butcher knife when he rejected renting an apartment at $25 000 a year in New York in early 1916. He described locking doors and a confrontation with Mrs Ethel Yerkes Connolly present.
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Chicago
Helen Elwood Stokes
W. E. D. Stokes
Stokes
West 72Nd Street
New York
Ethel Yerkes Connelly
Mrs. Stokes
River Side Drive
Ansonia
Woman Dies During Facelift Procedure in Hollywood Parlor
Police opened an inquiry into the death of a woman who died under anesthesia during a face healing operation at a Hollywood beauty parlor. The woman gave the name Jean Gray of Pasadena, though purse papers suggested she might be Mrs. H. B. Kilchrist.
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Hollywood
Calif
Jean Gray
Pasadena
H. B. Kilchrist
Borglum Called Back to Atlanta in Stone Mountain Dispute
Governor Walker issued requisition papers for the return of Gutson Borglum the sculptor to Atlanta to face larceny charges filed by the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial committee. Borglum vows counter charges against the committee after a dispute over the project.
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Walker
Georgia
Gutson Borglum
Atlanta
Stone Mountain
Borglum
Death of Bishop Wm B Murrah Leader of M E Church South
Bishop Wm B Murrah of the Methodist Episcopal church South died in Memphis after a paralytic stroke worsened by a fall. He led three major conferences, served as president of conferences in Missouri and Denver, taught at Millsaps College, and mentored church leaders. Survived by wife Beulah Fitzgerald Murrah and son Wm F Murrah of Memphis.
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Memphis
Tenn
Wm. B,. Murrah
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Wm. B. Murrah
South
Millsaps College
Jackson, Miss
Dr. Murrah
Alabama
North Alabama
North Georgia
Missouri
Denver
Orient
Far East
Murrah
Pickensville
Ala
Southern University
Greensboro
Centenary College
Wofford College
South Carolina
Beulah Fitzgerald
Oxford
Wm. F. Murrah
Lumberman of Illinois Dies on Biloxi Links
William J. Huff a 64 year old prominent Illinois lumberman died suddenly in Biloxi Mississippi while playing golf. He was connected with a chain of lumber mills in Illinois and was a thirty second degree Mason. His body was taken to Decatur Illinois for burial.
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Bilox
Miss
William J. Huff
Illinois
Decatur
AT&T directors seek 500 million capital boost
New York report shows American Telephone and Telegraph plans to ask stockholders at the March 31 meeting to authorize a 500 million increase in capitalization to fund growth. A. T. and T. already has vast public-held capital and strong earnings for 1924.
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New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
H. B. Thayer
Y. R
A. T. and
General Motors Corporation
United States Steel Corporation
A. T
Bell System
United States
Raid Nets 700 Gallons of Alcohol at Orleans
NEW ORLEANS March 5 Seven hundred gallons of alcohol 100 gallons of liquors three one ton trucks and a motor boat were seized and five men arrested by prohibition agents here yesterday when the agents swooped down on the men alleged loading the boat in Westwegon Canal. Rumor links canal liquor traffic to a Breton Island cargo discharge last week.
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New Orleans
Mar
Prohibition
Westwegon Canal
Breton Island
Monroe Baseball Association Plans Ticket Drive for Drillers
The Monroe Baseball Association and Chamber of Commerce plan a strong arm ticket drive to sell 200 season passes to fund the Drillers. Aiming for $10,000 in revenue, the effort targets large firms first, then city zones, to cover about $12,500 remaining costs with concessions and seats.
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Monroe Baseball Association
Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
W. C. Feazel
Donald Walker
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Feazel
Drillers
Donald F. Walker
Ripperton
Wise
The
Baseball Association
Mr. Feazel
Mississippi A, & M
Shreveport “Gassers
Body of American to be brought from Mexico by boat
John Hope of Alexandria travels to Baton Rouge to meet the body of his brother in law Edward Barry Crook. Crook died in Tampico Mexico after a sudden illness last Saturday morning. The body is due to arrive late tonight aboard the Standard Quil tanker Malabar.
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Baton Rage
John Hope
Alexandria
Baton Rouge
Edward Barry Crook
Tampico
Mexico
Former Marshall Released on 5000 Bail in Murder Case
Levi Sprinkle former Pass Christian marshal who has sat in Harrison county jail since June 1924 on a murder charge was ordered released under 5000 bail at a habeas corpus hearing. He had been sentenced to life in the penitentiary but the circuit court verdict was reversed and remanded by the state supreme court.
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Gulfport
Miss
Levi Sprinkle
Pass Christian
Harrison County
State Supreme Court
Quarantine on unmuzzled dogs lifted in Forrest County
The Forrest county health unit directed by Dr. W. D. Beacham lifted the two week old quarantine against unmuzzled dogs at large in Hattiesburg Mississippi. The order was issued two weeks ago and is now rescinded.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Forrest County
W. D. Beacham
Controversial Scotch Found Diluted with Mice in City Streets
Contraband liquor destroyed in Hattiesburg under Sheriff Hardy Norsworth. The recovered illegal Scotch reportedly contained American wiggle tails and mice mixed into the containers, marking the first open street destruction in a year.
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Hattiesburg, Miss
Hattiesburg
Hardy Norsworth
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