Harding Urges Congress Ship Subsidy for Merchant Fleet
President Harding appeals to a joint session to approve a merchant marine subsidy arguing it would cut government losses and secure U S shipping in war and independence in peace. He warns divided Congress and says current policy wastes funds and risks national prestige without action.
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Washington
Congress
Harding
House
Senate
Reunson
U. S
United States Treasury
United States
Iowa Chronicle of Farmland Events and Local Happenings
Dense Iowa notices recount a mix of local crimes deeds and civic actions. Reports cover deaths thefts auctions hospital openings municipal projects and public works in towns from Ames to Sioux City with dates and figures.
Conservation of Forests and New Lumber Methods
The article discusses looming timber exhaustion in the United States within ten years, urging fireresistant measures and lamination tech to extend supply. It highlights government and industry efforts, fire control, and the shift to laminated wood, by products, and efficient milling to maximize wood use and reduce waste.
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Washington
America
Wen
Great Plains
Pacific Northwest
Oregons
Iesterners
United States Forest Service
Forest Service
Madison
Wis
Forest Products Laboratory
National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
United States
Vesta
Forest Products
Endleas
Chicago
Old Operator to Retire in Visnia California
Veteran telegraph operator J C Ward plans retirement after 60 years in service. A friend of Thomas Edison in youth, Ward has run an office in Visnia for over 35 years and began telegraphing in 1862 with the Grand Trunk at Mount Clemens Michigan.
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J. C. Ward
Edison
Visnnia
Cal
J.C. Ward
Thomas A. Edison
Ward
United States
Grand Trunk
Mount Clemens
Mich
General Grant
Sacramento
Liberia
Lord Birkenhead Faces Heavy Loss After Resignation
London reports Lord Birkenhead the ex lord chancellor bears the heaviest financial hit among retiring cabinet members after Lloyd George's resignation. He loses £10,000 yearly plus a rent-free suite in the Lords though he retains a £6,000 annual lifetime pension. Five ex-chancellors are alive and receiving pensions.
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London
Lord Birkenhead
Lloyd George
House of Lords
United States
England
Mutiny Aboard Steam Schooner Jacinto Near San Francisco
The Jacinto bound from San Francisco to Gray's Harbor mutinied after leaving port. Captain Wertman and officers quelled the riot with revolvers, two crew stabbed, two jailed, and the ship returned to San Francisco with the mutineers subdued. Cause cited as liquor by ship officers.
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San Francisco
Jacinto
Gray's Arbor
Washington
Wertman
Oflcers
the Jacinto
I. K. Wood Lumber Company
Nquor
Bass Note Drives Out Cat From Organ at Danville Service
Rev A Mackle preached on The Least in the Kingdom when a loud bass note from the organ caused a cat to bolt from the instrument and leap through a window. He resumed delivery amid the uproar noting a man will try anything once even evading.
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Danville
EK. Mackle
St. Paul's M. E. Church
Fortissimo
Mr. Mackle
Brothers Reunite After 40 Years in Arkansas Jail
John Spencer of Pope county and Harry Spencer of Conway county, Ark, half brothers, met after forty years when jailed together on liquor charges. The note adds an editorial line contrasting India’s caste judging to judging by cash.
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Lime Rock
Ark
John Spencer
Pope County
Harry Spencer
Conway County
India
Buffalo Evening News
Thomasites Mark 21st Anniversary Reunion in Manila
Manila reports 384 of 560 American teachers who came on the USS Thomas remain in the Philippines. The 34 Thomasites held a twenty first reunion, noting gender changes from 400 men and 160 women to a predominantly female teaching corps.
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Philippines
Manila
P. 1
Philippine Islands
United States
Thomas
Islands
Plans for World Tour by Army Airplanes Considered
Washington authorities report tentative plans for an around the world flight by army airplanes. Routes via Iceland Ireland and via Alaska the Aleutians Siberia and Ireland are under study. Approval would require more definite form and possible special congressional action.
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Wvashington
Air Service
Weeks
Atlantic
Iceland
Ireland
Pacific
Alaska
Aleutian
Islands
Siberia
Home
Council of the
League of Nations
Roosvelt
Congress
Admiral Sims Critiques Navy Preparedness and Merchant Marine
Admiral William S. Sims, recently retired, argues the U S Navy remains unprepared for war as in 1917 and condemns Washington mismanagement. He warns of insufficient manpower and the merchant marine's interdependence with naval strength, noting 20 percent of world tonnage carried by US ships but a $50 million annual loss under current operations.
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William S. Sims
Navy
Navy Department
Washington
Admiral Sims
Congress
U. S. Court of Claims Faces Heavy Winter Calendar
The United States Court of Claims has a large winter term calendar with cases totaling about 350 million dollars arising from World War I activities. Total potential claims are estimated at 2 to 3 billion dollars against all government departments, covering ships tolls railways transports patents and munitions contracts among many others. A bank seeks liability for stolen bonds and coupons which could expand government liability to about 150 million dollars.
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A. L. Miller
Miller
M. J. Rodney
Melbourne
Australia
Arch Foster
Webster City
Rodney
International Harvester Company
New York
Cascade
National Oats Co
Keokuk
Rich Brothers Cereal Co
Mae Francis
Des Moines
Columbia University
Sioux City
United States Court of Claims
Sarvings Bank
Secret Passages Hidden Beneath the Capitol Revealed
A masonry chunk dislodged at the Capitol exposing an opening likely to be a shaft. investigations begin to uncover hidden passages and rooms in a building with mixed old and new sections and legends of treasure from the War of 1812.
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Capitol
William Thornton
Washington
Private lumber firms pledge continuous redwood preservation
The National Lumber Manufacturers association announces that Union Lumber Pachic Lumber and Mendocino Lumber will run remaining California redwood operations on continuous production. They will preserve forests by scattered cutting and fire protection while reforestation follows, keeping areas in mature condition for generations.
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Meeriga
National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
Union Lumber Company
Pachic Lumber Company
Mendocino Lumber Company
California Redwood Forests
America
Yosemite
General Grant
Sequoia National Parks
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Treasury
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A. M. Dickerson
Cole
Grant
Macedonia
Waterloo
Allison
John Kimsey
Porter
Lake Shenandoah
Ames
Storm Lake
Iowa City
Leon Joy
Nevada
Elmer Stoddard
Imery Johnson
Waverly Publishing Company
Waverly Democrat
Waverly Phoenix
John H. Murray
Knoxville
Merchants’ Credit Rating Bureau
Hampton
Leonard Gray
Frances Huffman
Holstein
Marshall County World War Veterans
Towa
American Legion
Farm Bureau
Boone County
Charles Schoonover
Hartwick
Webb Rowland
Rowland
Orange City
Iowa Light, Heat and Power Company
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Henry P. Dunker
Davenport
Harvard
Middlewest
Page County
Edgar Benson
Farlham
St. Lawrence
Rochester
N. Y
J. B. Heefner
State Board of Health
Valley Manufacturing Company of
Polk County Tuberculosis Hospital
Paul Buurle
Wee
Little Brother
Mother
Gotham
Roosevelt
Vincenzo Miserending
Theodore Roosevelt
Hunter
One Hundred and Seventy-first Street
Grand Concourse
The
Bronx
Cat
Stormy Petrel” Sims
America’s Navy
U. S. Court of Claims To
Court of Claims
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