Senate veterans panel readies budget to report by December
Washington November 21 The senate veterans committee nears wrapping hearings on the Veterans Bureau inquiry. General counsel John F O Ryan says findings amount to a fragment of the alleged corruption and waste. A volunteer field organization supports the work with over 1000 specialists. The panel aims to finish by December 15 and reports minimal spending of under 15000 of a 20000 appropriation.
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Associated
Tress
Washington
Coun
Senate Veterans’ Committee
Veterans’ Bureau
John F. O'Ryan
New York
Bureau
Senate
O’ryan
O'Ryan
Reed
New Shipment of Phoenix Corn Remedy at Smith Bros
Phoenix Corn Remedy promises to remove hard or soft corns with a 30 cent bottle. New shipment now available in all colors at Smith Bros Ltd. Stock advertised at 20-21, 1.
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Phoenix
Smith Bros., Ltd
Sheriff's Sale in Ouachita Parish Louisiana
The Sixth Judicial District Court orders a sheriff sale in Monroe Louisiana on December 1 1923 at the courthouse front steps. The Ford coupe with motor number 4088112 seized as the defendant Abe Arent versus Number 12 201 Dr G ve James will be sold cash without appraisement to satisfy the writ of seizure and sale and court costs. Sheriff T A Grant Monroe Louisiana November 20 1928.
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State of Louisiana
Parish of
Ouachita
Sixth Judicial District Court
Abe Arent
G. Ve James
State of Sees
Ehiaud
Monroe
Louisiana
Troubles of Paris Newlyweds Begin With Apartment Hunting
Paris reports that the lodging crisis persists with newly married couples and even professionals like doctors and dentists struggling to find suitable apartments. Advertisements show prospective tenants offering high rents to secure family flats in Paris.
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Paris
Thy
Associated Press
France
Electric Lamps Boost Plant Growth at Baldwin Plant
Experiments at the Westinghouse Electric Co. plant in Baldwin show plants exposed to 40 watt electric lamps grow twice as fast as those under sun. The finding could significantly increase world production.
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Sol
Westinghouse Electric Co
Baldwin
Boston First Post Office remembered in centennial notes
The article recalls that 284 years ago Boston hosted the first U S post office. It describes Richard Fairbanks as the early postmaster charged by Massachusetts General Court to collect and dispatch letters, with a penny per letter fee and a system spreading from Boston to Hartford by 1695.
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Boston
United States
England
General Court
Massachusetts Legislature
Richard Fairbanks
Boston Globe
Richard Fairbank
John Winthrop
Fairbanks
Hosian
Juiagary
Martford
Anniversaries and historic notes from various years
A compilation of notable birthdays and deaths, including Voltaire born in Paris and Benedict XV born in Genoa, plus events such as Porto Bello captured by the British in 1730 and the 1920 Dublin fighting toll. Adjoins a note on diamond production and Indian garnet output relative to world diamond supply.
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Voltaire
Paris
Admiral Vernon
Porto Bello
Darien
Napoleon T
Berlin
British Isles
Empress Frederick
Queen Victoria
England
Cronberg
Pope Benedict XV
Genoa
Rome
Mariano ‘Fortuny
Garret A. Hobart
United States
Paterson
N. J
Long Branch
Dublin
Grand Jury Urges Alaska Cannery Labor Reform
Federal grand jury report to Judge Ritchie calls for mandatory health checks at port of debarkation for Alaska canning crews. It alleges narcotics use and disease, argues convicts and addicts flood the industry, and urges laws requiring sanitary living quarters regular cash wages and return transport for workers sent from the states.
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Anchorage
Alaska
E. BE. Ritchie
Valdez
Debarkation
Bristol Bay
Grand Jury
Germans Fail In Efforts To Buy Up Old Warships
In Hamburg on November 21 American policy banning the sale of cast off warships to foreign buyers is noted. German firms inquired in Washington about scrapped battleships for their iron and steel. Concurrently, Russia sold 15 warships and 5000 locomotives to a British wrecking firm for scrap, with bids affecting German interests.
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Hamburg
A. P. Mail
America
Europe
Washington
Sas
United States
Petrograd
See Our Mattresses Adverts Final Chance To Buy
CHICAGO Nov 21 Frank Hollohen 50 who days earlier thought he was dead when he ducked a bullet he fired at himself and was slightly injured jumped from his third story bedroom window and was fatally injured according to police. JACKSON Miss Nov 21 Ellie S Chapman chief of federal prohibition field forces left for Carthage Leake county where Will and Jeff Atkinson alleged moonshiners and slayers of Federal Prohibition Agent Joe Owen are being tried on the charge of murder.
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Chicago
Frank Hollohen
Togo
Jackson
Miss
Ellie S. Chapman
Prohibition
Carthage
Leake County
Will
Jeff Atkinson
Joe Owen
Bigamist with Nine Wives Captured in Alaskan Territory
Associated Press reports from Juneau that Haroll Steen alias Walter J. Barmen, accused of forgery and believed to have married nine times, left on the steamship Admiral Rogers. Portland authorities say Steen wed women in San Francisco Portland Vancouver B C Seattle and elsewhere, cashing checks under their names to fund new courtships, totaling about 2800 dollars. Berlin crooks shift to altar robberies as police halt a man in purple gown.
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Associated Press
Juneau
Alaska
Haroll Steen
Walter J. Barmen
Admiral Rogers
United States
B.S. Swennes
Portland
Ore
Steen
Swennes
San Francisco
Awice
Vancouver
B. C
Seattle
Swenner Stollen
Funeral services for Rev Ralph Bradley held in AWACKSON
A funeral service was held in Awackson for Rev Ralph Bradley 80 an elderly Methodist minister who died Sunday in Lewisville He was a native of Finland and survivors include two sons both Methodist pastors Rev Marvin Bradley of Charleston Mississippi and Rev Bradley of Alexandria Louisiana
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Awackson
Miss
Ralph Bradley
Methodist Church
Tie
Lewisville
Fineland
Methodist
Magrvin Bradley
Chasteston
OW. Bradley
Alexandrias la
Original Food Drink Ad For Infants and Adults
Ad promotes The Original Food Drink for all ages including infants invalids and children. Highlights quick lunch at home office and fountains. Describes rich milk malted grain extract in powder and tablets with nourishing no cooking claim and warns to avoid imitations and substitutes.
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T. A. Grant
J.E. King
Faulk Bros
Misa. Navy
Pat. ‘Harrison
Mississippi
Mystic Shrine
Mah Jonggoenix Drug Store
Hine
Khead
A. Ill
Mises
U. S. Post Office
India
Transvaal
L. W. Gresham Mattress Factory
West Monroe
Sloan’s
Everett True
SMITH
AME
Bigamist
Alaskan Territory
Berl
Poiret Twill
and Serges
Outfitters
Casualty—Surety
Trousdale & Slator, Inc
Hart
D. Masur & Son
Oic
Brookhaven Fancy Creamery
Brookhaven Creamery CO
Natchez, Mississippi
Used Car Department
Grand Street
Milner Motor Co
Arent Investment Corp., Inc
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