Biographies Highlight Diverse Careers in Sixty Sixth Congress
The new congressional directory features senators and representatives logging personal histories. careers range from iron molder and cheese manufacturer to platform orator and dairy farmer. several trace Continental Congress ancestry. others boast notable business or educational backgrounds.
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Ashington
Congress
Continental Congress
Hannah Dustin
Europe
James O’connor
Louisiana
U S Mints Ramp Up to 100 Million Pennies a Month
Ray Baker, director of the United States Mint, reports demand for copper coins has surged. The mint now produces 100 million pennies monthly, using all facilities including San Francisco to meet the rise in penny usage and taxes on small purchases.
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F Ray Baker
United States Mint
Ray
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Pickets Seek Damages Over White House Arrests
Damages totaling 800000 against District of Columbia officials are postponed for the fifth time at government request. National Woman's party members sue over alleged transfer of suffrage pickets from a DC jail to Occoquan workhouse and mistreatment. Plaintiffs include Burns Brannan Day Day Emory Butterworth and Nolan among eight women.
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White House
Occoquan
Zinkham
Whittaker
Congress
Alice Paul
National Woman’s Party
Lucy Burns
John Winters Brannan
Dorothy Day
Henry Butterworth
New York
Julia Emory
Baltimore
Cosu
New Orleans
Mary A. Nolan
Jacksonville
Fla
Uncle Sam’s Taxes vs The President’s Pocketbook
The article tracks President Wilson’s 1918 income tax impact on his $75 000 salary, noting a $21 430 total tax and $53 570 net. It cites a $5 900 average cost per state reception and the White House as a social hub, implying sustained high living costs and the need for budget juggling for the remainder of his term.
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Wilson
White House
England
France
Belgium
Italy
Supreme Court
Diplomatic Corps
Washington
The University of Beaune: Army Education During War End
After World War I the Army created the University of Beaune for 11,000 soldiers. It offered 11 colleges including law medicine dentistry and agriculture. Educators and officers taught calculus and other subjects while a correspondence school expanded access and Allied universities invited servicemen to study.
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France
University of Beaune
Baker
Beaune
American Expeditionary Force
America
Army
Pchool
Great Brit
Antitrust Suits Form for Five Packers Amid Food Hoarding
Attorney General Palmer announced antitrust actions against Armour Swift Wilson Morris and Cudahy Packing, plus orders to arrest profiteers and hoarders as food costs surge. Sugar hoarding spotted in Pittsburgh at 14 cents a pound. government may seize hoarded goods.
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Washington
Palmer
Armour
Swift
Wilson
Morris
Cudahy
Department of Justice
Pittsburgh
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Pabner
Federal Trade Commission and
Committees of Congress
Isidor J. Kresel
New York
Jerome, Rand & Kresel WI
Daliner
Pauckers
Federal Trade Commission
Congress
Swift & Co
Armour & Co
Morris & Co
Cudahy Packing Company
RAID ON ELGIN STILL NETS 22 MEN IN CHICAGO
Twenty two men were arrested in Chicago after Internal Revenue Agents raided an Elgin area still. Fourteen were charged as suspects and held on bonds of one thousand dollars each after arraignment before United States Commissioner Mark A. Foote.
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Chicago
Internal Revenue
L. C. Keter
Mathew Weydert
Perry Fallmer
Elgin
Til
United States
Mark A. Foote
John Drahoca
H. F H. Judy
John Meyers
Georgia Woman Returns Home From Paris Doughboy Stands
Mrs. John T. Toler of Atlanta Ga arrives in New York aboard the transport Mount Vernon returning from Paris where she operated the first ice cream soda stands for American dough boys in World War I.
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Georgia
U. S
New York
John T. Toler
Atlanta
American Dough Boys
Paris
Mount Vernon
Leuna Leviathan Brings 6383 aboard and 31 brides
The Leviathan transported 6383 officers and men including the last of the Second division. Thirty one French and British brides arrived at New York on the ship.
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New York
Aug. S
Coblenz Named Allied HQ After Paris Closure
Coblenz will become the headquarters of American forces in Europe when the Paris grand headquarters closes about August 20. The fact was revealed on General Pershing's arrival in Coblenz.
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Coblenz
Europe
Paris
General Pershing
Railway unions reject Wilson plan without wage rise
Officials of six major railway shopmen unions told President Wilson they could not approve his settlement plan for railway wage problems and urged immediate wage increases.
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Wilson
Washington
Massacre Reported as Odessa Jewish Quarter Besieged
London reports from Polish sources that General Gregorieff's troops occupying Odessa encircled the Jewish quarter and began a three day massacre.
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London
Semfi
Gregorieff
Odessa
Four Thousand Hungarians Killed on Theiss Front
Dispatches report four thousand Hungarian Reds killed as Roumanians clash on the Theiss river. Romanian losses are described as heavy as the battle rages with both sides sustaining serious casualties.
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Bucharest
Theiss
Firing Squad for the Profiteers
Washington August 7 Organized labor has no concrete plan to cut living costs but may favor a firing squad for profiteers. Warren Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers told the House Interstate Commerce Committee that rail unions oppose returning to old controls and that profits should yield lower costs for workers. Frank Morrison of the AFL urged support for the Plumb plan to curb prices and avert strikes, warning Congress is running out of time to resolve the high cost of living.
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Washington
Warren
Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Labor
Congress
Morrison
Esch
Mr. Stone
Cleveland
America
Sanders
Indiana
Hfe
Sugar men are arrested in Pittsburgh profiteering case
Warrants were issued for three officers of the Pittsburgh branch of the Central Sugar company of Chicago on charges of profiteering. Special Agent Edgar J. Speer swore informations that the firm sold sugar at 14 cents a pound wholesale in the last two weeks. Named are George P. Leinberg manager, and George L. Dowd and J. S. Shaffer assistants. The company operates in Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio and Wisconsin.
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Pittsburgh
Central Sugar Company of Chicago
Edgar J. Speer
Department of Justice
George P. Leinberg
George L. Dowd
J. S. Shaffer
Reds Capture Two Yanks in Soviet Secretaries Abduction
New York on August 7 reports Bolsheviki have captured Albert P. Coyle of San Jose California and Clinton W. Areson of Bridgeport Connecticut Y M C A secretaries.
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Reds
New York
Bolisheviki
Albert P. Coyle
San Jose
Cath
Clinton W. Areson
Bridgeport
Conn
Prince of Wales sails for Canada aboard Renown
The prince of Wales in naval captain’s uniform left London for Portsmouth to board the cruiser Renown which set sail for Canada at six o clock Tuesday evening.
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London
Prince of Wales
Portsmouth
Renown
Canada
Would Deport Slackers
Chicago Aug 7 The American Legion calls Congress to deport 80 000 draft evaders in the United States in a meeting at the 210 Maners building.
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Chicago
United States
Congress
The
American Legion
Maners
Forty Hurt as Interurban Cars Collide Near San Jose
A Peninsula railway interurban collision nine miles from San Jose injures more than forty people. One crowded car carried travelers bound for a resort.
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San Jose
Cal
Peninsula Railway
University of Nebraska extension cites small livestock losses
The University of Nebraska extension service reported little loss of live stock due to drought conditions in Montana Wyoming and Idaho after investigations by its drought study.
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Lincoln
Neb
University of Nebraska Extension Service
Montana
Wyoming
Execution of French Spy for Wartime Ties
Paris reports Marechal des Lagis de Branchant condemned to death for aiding the German secret service thief at Barcelona during the war and was executed at Vincennes.
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Paris
Marechal Des Lagis de Branchant
Barcelona
Vincennes
Weekly Dole Reduced By Half As Unemployed Decline
London August 5 government payroll of unemployed receiving a weekly dole has been cut by about 500000 names. Payments now go to about 750000 persons.
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London
Labor Fights Rail Profits With Public Control Plan
Washington reports organized labor urges retirement of private capital from railroads and calls for a tripartite control by public management and workers to lower living costs. The plan, signed by engineers firemen conductors and the AFL, aims to vest railroads in the public and have railroad staff run them for the public. Paris dispatch notes Roumanian troops near Budapest and Soviet papers suppressed as Budapest stays orderly amid shortages.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Wilson
Wei
United States
Wall Street
Paris
Budapest
Vienna
Innsbruck
King George Awards Order of Merit to Premier Tieyved
London reports King George conferred the Order of Merit on Premier Tieyved George for his war services. Other items note a Standard Steel Car strike in Butler Pennsylvania with 4000 to 6000 workers, a mob forcing Black workers from Lexington Nebraska, a shopmen strike prosecution cue in Chicago, price gouging warnings in Wisconsin, Britain about profiteering, and the ailing former VP Levi P Morton at ninety six.
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London
King George
David Tieyvd
George
Butler
Standard Steel Car Company
Lincoln
Nebs
Lexington
Here
Io Chicago
United States District
St. A. Milroy
House of Commons
New York
Levi P. Morton
United States
Benjamin Harrison
Thinecliffe-on-the-Hudson
Plan for League Not Presented at Versailles Say Secretary
Secretary Lan sing told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the American plan for a League of Nations was not pressed at Versailles and never presented to the full peace conference.
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Washington
Lansing
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
League of Nations
Versailles
Honduran Rebels Beaten by Government Forces
Honduran rebels led by Col. Cardona have been defeated and forced to retreat across the frontier into El Salvador, according to an official Honduran government statement issued in San Salvador.
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San Salvador
Aug. S
Col. Cardona
Salvador
Gas Blamed for Death of 756 Yanks in War Dept Report
Washington reports seven hundred fifty six American soldiers killed in action died from gas. The war department states the average age of those killed was 23 years.
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Washington
War Department
Forest Fire Loss Heavy In Montana and Idaho
Forest fires in Montana and northern Idaho had caused an estimated loss of 755000 dollars by July 1 this season. The figure was provided by Glen A. Smith, assistant district forester.
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Missoula
Mont
Montana
Idaho
Glen A. Smith
U S and Chile Exchange Professors Ratified
Plans for an exchange of professors and instructors between the United States and Chile have been ratified by the University of Chile and the Chilean government in Berkeley California on August 5.
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U. S
Chile
Berkeley
Cal
United States
University of Chile
Britain Spends 22 Million Daily Amid War Efforts
London reports the British government now spends about 22 million dollars per day, a rate equivalent to what would cover twelve months of prewar outlays. The figure appears in a wartime briefing dated August 5 with notes on rapid increases in government expenditure.
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Britain
London
Great Britain
Acts To Punish Bandits Near Tampico
Secretary Lansing instructed the American embassy in Mexico City to press the Mexican government for prompt action to apprehend and punish bandits who robbed American citizen George N. McDonald near Tampico on July 12. An official dispatch confirms Lawrence L. Shipley of Nevada was released by bandits and is now in Aguas Calientes.
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Washington
Lansing
Mexico City
George N. McDonald
Tampico
State Department
Aguas Calientes
Mexico
Lawrence L. Shipley
Nevada
Shipley
Farmers Shipping in Wheat Declines Hit Markets
Wheat receipts from farmers for the week ending July 25 exceed last year by over 11 million bushels, per the United States Grain Corporation. Flour production fell by about 100 000 barrels. Total wheat stocks in elevators and mills stood at 80 638 000 bushels for the week ending July 25, compared with 64 544 000 a year earlier.
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New York
United States Grain Corporation
Cotton Prices Slump Further On Monday Selloff
New York August 6 1929 report shows continued panic in the cotton market with October contracts tumbling to 30.85 cents a pound 25 per bale down from late July highs. Rallies occurred but traders remained nervous as prices dropped sharply.
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New York
Warships Guard Plebiscite in Schleswig
Paris reports the peace conference told Denmark a British warship is already at Flensburg in response to Denmark's request for a ship to support the Schleswig plebiscite.
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Paris
Peace Conference
Denmark
Flensberg
Schleswig
Brooklyn Car Men Strike Vote Unanimous
A Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company strike by Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees members was unanimously approved at a union meeting in New York.
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Brooklyn
New York
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Association of Street and Electric Railway
Pacific Fleet Enters California Waters Under Admiral Rodman
The Pacific fleet led by Admiral Hugh Rodman steamed into San Diego Bay on August 8 in a show of naval power. Dreadnoughts moved in silence as destroyers formed a protective cordon around the fleet near California waters.
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Pacific Fleet
San Diego
Cal
Hugh Rodman
California
Three Die From Wood Alcohol At Birthday Party
Three people are dead and three are seriously ill after drinking wood alcohol at an informal birthday party in Hannah North Dakota. One victim is not expected to live. The incident occurred near Grand Forks on August 7.
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Grand Forks
N. D
Hannah
Tornado Hits Grnstow Indiana Causing Damage and Loss
A tornado formed five miles northwest of Grnstow Indiana and struck the town at 4 30 p m causing heavy damage to crops and property and injuring one person A number of farm animals were killed in the incident.
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Waterloo
Grnstow
Baltimore & Ohio shopmen call off walkout after irregularity
In Cumberland Maryland on August 6 the B of O shopmen ended their strike action claiming the Friday walkout lacked sanction from Brotherhood officials and was irregular.
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Cumberland
Baltimore & Ohio
British West Indies Offered to U S as War Debt Payment
The National News reports serious consideration on both sides of the Atlantic of ceding the British West Indies to the United States as partial payment of Britain’s war debt.
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British West Indies
U. S
London
United States
Great Britain
President Wilson Orders Return to Work in Rail Wage Debate
President Wilson tells striking railroad shop workers to return to work for their wage dispute to be considered on its merits. He notes Congress won’t act and urges adherence to union authority while stressing nationwide cost of living concerns. Director General Hines messages workers to resume duties so negotiations can proceed.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate Committee On
Hines
Railroad
Railroad Administration
Washington, D. C
Executive Council
Railway Employees’ Department
American Federation of Labor
B.g M. Jewell
Congress
Walker D. Hines
Director General of Railroads
Iowa State News Roundup Highlights Bond Vo tes and Local Happenings
A wide mix of Iowa items covers bond votes, local officials, legal cases, and state projects. Wapello County memorial bond losses, state highway and park plans, a Des Moines railroad arbitration outcome, and regional public notices shape a chaotic snapshot of 1919 Iowa affairs. Authorities report mad dog bites, a Creston burial plan, and a Marshalltown camp meeting amid ongoing national events.
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Iowa
Wapello County
Louis Goeppinger
Boone
Ernest A. Smith
Waterloo
Lyons
Blair
Oskaloosa
Oo. C. G. Philips
C. H. Meyer
Denison
Edward Flynn
Sioux City
Towa
Seventh Day Adventists
Marshalltown
Iowa Retail Grocers’ Association
Davenport
Mount Ayr
W. L. Harding
Iowa Institute of Landscape Architects
Soldier killed at Dance Hall in Des Moines
Private Hiram Deeben of Camp Dodge was fatally shot by police officer George Welsh at a Des Moines dance hall after a dispute over admitting Deeben and another soldier to the venue. The incident stemmed from refusal to admit the pair.
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Des Moines
Hiram Deeben
Camp Dodge
George Welsh
Deeben
Fear for Japs in Peking
Japanese residents of Peking told to stay indoors at night amid rising Chinese hostility after the Kwang-Chang-Tsu incident.
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Peking
Kwang-Chang-Tsu
Army 900 Million Budget Proposed as Permanent Military Policy
Washington reports that a regular force of 510,000 and compulsory training would cost 900 million dollars yearly under the War Department bill establishing a permanent military policy. In Chicago, six young bandits robbed the Sixteenth Street bank, detaining four employees and three customers and taking 2,500 dollars.
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Washington
War Department
Chicago
Sixteenth Street Bank
Indict 23 More Rioters in Chicago Race Riots
Chicago on August 9 reports twenty three Negroes were indicted by a special grand jury for the South Side race riots. This raises the count of those to stand trial on various charges to over forty.
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Chicago
South Side
Mid-Crosstown Railway Suspends Manhattan Service
Its treasury exhausted and unable to obtain credit the Mid-Crosstown Railway company ends operations on 28th and 20th streets in Manhattan.
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Manhattan Car Line
New York
Mid-Crosstown Railway Company
20Th Streets
Manhattan
American Will Be Umpire
Brig. Gen. Harry H. Bandholtz on the interallied military commission to settle Bucharest affairs will depart Paris for Hungary at once.
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Paris
Harry H. Bandholtz
Bucharest
Hungary
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Uncle Sam
Packers
Chicago Revenue Men
House
Interstate Commerce Committees
Prince
G. N. McDonald
Himes
Iowa State News
Iowa City
State Board of Health
Jefferson
Pasteur System
Roy Emerson
Creston
Afton
Maurice M. Hull
Hull
University of Minnesota
Ebert G. Paul
Osceola
George Mark Paul
Paul
Des Moines City Railway Company
Board of Arbitration
Martin Wade
Federal Court
Alfred Atkinson
Iowa State College
Montana State College
Samuel T. Orton
New Psychopathic Hospital
Tama
B. R. Harlan
State Historical Department
A. S. Smith
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mount Pleasant
Fern Jacoby
Oelwein
Iowa State Girls Training School
Mitchellville
Meyer
Riley A. Jacoby
Laverne Crouse
Albion
Fremont
Young Crouse
Lincoln Aero Club
Green County
Roelofsz
Horace Mana
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