Russo German Pact Stuns Allies At Genoa Conference
A German Soviet treaty that annuls Brest-Litovsk and restores full diplomatic ties shocks allied delegates. Experts will study its conflict with Cannes and Versailles while Poland Czecho Slovakia Romania and Yugoslavia seek views. Relations resume with most favored nation trade.
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Genoa
Germany
Russia
Cannes
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Rumania
Jugo-Slavia
Rappalo
Lloyd George
Barthou
Schanzer
Theunys
M. Barthou
Paris
M. Colrat
Soviet
Tornadoes and floods devastate Central West region
More than twenty killed and over a hundred injured as tornadoes and floods struck Illinois Indiana and Arkansas towns. Homes destroyed lines downed and livestock killed while rivers rose and farmland flooded across Ohio to Kansas Nebraska. Snow and hail battered Colorado Kansas Missouri and Iowa with crop damage and Denver reporting several inches of snow.
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Chicago
Lit
West
Illinois
Indiana
Arkansas
Ohio
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Missouri
Iowa
Denver
Lumber Ship Belivia Arrives For Burton Lumber Cargo
The British steamship Belivia arrived at Orange Texas on Monday to load about 800000 feet of square timber for the Burton Lumber Company for delivery to the United Kingdom. The ship continued with a partial cargo of sugar loaded at Havana.
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Orange
Tex
Belivia
Burton Lumber Company
United Kingdom
Havana
Seaplane Sets Record From Palm Beach To New York
A seaplane carried 1600 pounds on a flight from Palm Beach Florida to New York covering 1210 miles in 9 hours and 66 minutes at an average speed of 130 miles per hour through three storms.
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New York
Palm Beach
Fla
Alien Property Listed in Senate Report on $350 Million Held
Washington report details the Alien Property Custodian Thomas W. Miller's findings on about 33,000 active trusts tied to 350 million dollars of enemy property. The record notes property across all states including plants, ships, banks, land and mines and cites tax issues in Germany affecting returns to Americans. It also references the delay in disposition per Knox Porter terms and mentions the Bergdoll seizure in May 1921.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Thomas W. Miller
King
Utah
Miller
Europe
Germany
Mr. Miller
United States
Congress
America
Fire Credits Awarded by State Insurance Commission
The Texas state fire insurance commission granted good fire record credits to several towns effective through February 28, 1923. Graham received 3 percent off the final rate for a three-year loss ratio of 507, Merkel 9 percent for 439, and Bridgeport 15 percent for .222, Stamford 15 percent for .300, Trenton 15 percent for .001, and Alvin 15 percent for .283.
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Austin
Tex
State Fire Insurance Commission
Graham
Merkel
Bridgeport
Stamford
Trenton
Alvin
Noted Sculptor Shrady Dies at 61 in New York
Henry Merwin Shrady, 61, the noted sculptor of the Grant memorial in Washington, died Wednesday after more than a year of illness. The memorial is set for unveiling April 27, marking the centennial of General Grant's birth.
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New York
Henry Merwin Shrady
Grant
Washington
Williamson County Vehicle Registration Figures Released
Williamson County autos department announces that 6398 motor vehicles have been registered in Williamson County Georgetown Texas with reporting from the county collector.
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Williamson County Autos
Georgetown
Tex
County Collector’s Department
Williamson County
Rate case decision delayed by Keeling in Texas
Austin Texas attorney general delay leaves railroad rate settlements on hold until Keeling returns from Washington later this month. The ruling will clear the way for the Texas railroad commission to resume rate making after a prospective vacating of the Shreveport order, with related injunctions to be dismissed. Other matters including workers compensation and a 3 percent loan company await the Red River boundary case outcome.
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Austin
Tex
Keeling
Washington
Red River
Railroad Commission
United States Supreme Court
Interstate Commission
Texas Commission
Federal District Court
Western District of
Texas
Shreveport
Attorney General
Mystery solved of missing treasury bills near Potomac river
Chief Moran of the secret service announced the recovery of a package containing six treasury bills found in the Potomac river near the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The bills were part of a bundle of 1 000 sheets each with four five dollar notes stolen from the bureau about a year ago.
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Washington
Treasury
Poto- Mac River
Bureau of Engraing
Chief Moran
Secret Service
Bureau
Bureau of Engraving and Printing Closed for Inventory
Part of the bureau, reorganized last week by executive order removing director James Wilmeth and other top officials, was ordered closed by Secretary Mellon for an inventory of stock valued at many millions of dollars.
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Washington
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Harding
James Wilmeth
Mellon
Tick Committee Named for Liberty Texas Cattle Dipping
Cattle dipping ordered to begin April 15. The tick eradication committee is named with Seth Brown Dick Woods W D Part low and others across four precincts. Miss Jane Lilly serves as secretary.
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Liberty
Tex
Seth Brown
Dick Woods
W. D. Partlow
Frank Abshire
Cal Rye
E. H. Smith
Joe Ed Smith
Buck Jackson
Kirk Guther
Martin Griffith
Jane Lilly
Austin State Treasurer Warns of Possible School Deficiency
Texas State Treasurer C V Terrell said the department is doing all it can to pay school accounts and avoid a deficiency. Tax collections are slow and about 1.5 million dollars are tied in depository banks with extensions to repay. The state asked to transfer 1.5 million from general revenue to the school fund, on top of a 5 per capita allotment, totaling 6 million with the transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
C. V. Terrell
State Board of Education
Terrell
New Arguments Wanted In Express Rate Case
Texas officials say the interstate commerce commission requests new arguments in the Texas intrastate express rate case set for re hearing May 3 and 4. It is the only state express rate case appealed to the ICC. Express firms sought parity with interstate rates. Texas refused, and the case has waited in Washington for over a year pending decision. Assistant Attorney General Beauchamp and Railroad Commissioner Gilmore note a recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision aligned with Texas positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Texas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tom L. Beauchamp
Gilmore
Wisconsin
United States Supreme Court
Texas Commission
Fire Companies in Texas Earn More Money in 1920
Texas stock fire companies posted a lower loss ratio in 1920 at .306 compared with 1919 and 1921. Net premiums reached 25.7 million in 1920, while net losses totaled 15.75 million, as 1920 was a record year for business volume.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Hospitals Transferred to Veterans Bureau Ordered
Fifty seven public health service hospitals serving disabled soldiers will move to the veterans bureau by executive order effective May 1. President Harding reportedly has the order before him at the White House and plans to sign within days.
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Washington
Veterans’ Bureau
Harding
White House
Tick Work Resumed In Caldwell County Texas
Dipping for tick eradication has restarted after a season's pause under orders of the Caldwell County commissioners court. The program will continue until the county is tick free and all cattle are released from quarantine.
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Luling
Tex
Commissioners Court
Caldwell County
Government to spend 800000 on Helium Plant
The helium program for the army and navy plans 800000 in the next fiscal year for the Fort Worth plant. It will extract helium from Petrolia natural gas after paying 1500000 to gas owners for exclusive rights. The Petrolia gas is said to have the highest helium percentage in the United States.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Fort Worth
Petrolia Natural Gas
Petrolia Gas
United States
Brazos County Poultry Show Set for Early January
At a Brazos County Poultry Association meeting the next annual county poultry show was scheduled for January 3 4 and 6 5.
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Bryan, Tex
Brazos County Poultry Association
Road Bonds Authorized for Liberty County of Texas
County commissioners decide to advertise and sell on April 24 the 1.3 million dollars in road bonds approved by Liberty County taxpayers on February 21. The bonds will be sold to the highest bidder in Dayton Texas.
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Dayton
Tex
Liberty County
Bond Issues Approved for Electra and Milam County
The attorney general's department approved waterworks extension bonds for the City of Electra worth 25,000 dollars at 6 percent and serially maturing, and Milam County Road District No. 22 bonds totaling 10,000 dollars at 5 percent and serially maturing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Attorney General’s Department
City of Electra Waterworks
Milam County
Death of Michael H. Walsh Rambler roses originator
Michael H. Walsh 74 horticulturist a noted Rambler roses originator died at his Woodshore Massachusetts home Monday.
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Woodshore
Mass
Michaelh. Walsh
Miners Strike Grows With Nonunion Joiners in Coal Fields
In Indianapolis seventy five thousand nonunion coal miners, up by twenty five thousand this week, have joined union workers in the soft coal fields in a suspension of work.
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Indianapolis
Ind
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