International credit plan and naval talks dominate postwar agenda
Washington reports a new international credit cooperative with a London base and boards from affiliated firms, aiming to ease obstructed trade. Other items describe shifts in the Washington naval limitation talks, Shantung negotiations, and a nine power treaty in progress.
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Paris cabinet crisis shifts Europe after Cannes meeting
Briand resigns as France faces terms from Britain and Germany. Poincare forms a new cabinet with Germany to pay reparations as a condition. Genoa conference plans loom with Russia and Germany invited, Moscow signaling full delegation and powers as a European economic restoration talks begin.
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Governor fixes zones on cotton in three Texas counties
Governor Neff issued a proclamation establishing noncotton producing zones in Grayson Collin Liberty and Ellis counties on pink boll worm commission recommendations. Centers include Marilee Station in Collin Grayson line Moss Bluff Liberty and Ennis Ellis County with regulated ginning zones. Commission members listed.
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St Louis
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Ellis County
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Lea Beaty
R. E. McDonald
W. S. Hunter
W. D. Farris
Fortieth Judicial District
Robert L. Clayton
Fifty-first
Chas. W. Fisher
Seventy-fifth
Texas Game Laws Will Be Rigidly Enforced
W W Boyd Texas game fish and oyster commissioner warns that hunters largely ignore laws and cold storage rules. He notes the 10 day storage limit and urges sportsmen to back the department to boost game supply and enforcement. He cites the department’s financial gains from licenses and fines, over 81000 compared with 197 in 1916.
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Texas
W. W. Boyd
Game, Fish and Oyster
Boyd
Texas postmaster nominees named in Washington
The nominees for Texas postmasterships announced Thursday include Henry J. Whitworth of Avinger Nora Platt of Browndell Earl J. Smith of Eliasville William Reese of Floresville Jennie W. Reynolds of Mason Monroe W. Krueger of New Ulm Thomas E. Franklin of Poteet Robert E. Slocum of Pharr and Bessie Hackett of Raymondville
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Washington
Texas Post
Sugar rate increases suspended by ICC to May 11
The interstate commerce commission suspended proposed sugar rate hikes from New Orleans and other points to Illinois Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota and Missouri until May 11. The increases ranged from one half to 1 44 cents per hundred pounds.
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Washington
New Orleans
Illinois
Iowa
Wisconsin
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Carpentier Retains Title With Fourth Round Knockout
European heavyweight champion Georges Carpentier defeated Australian George Cook this Thursday. A straight left to the chin and a right to the jaw floored Cook in the fourth round. Cook weighed 180 pounds, Carpentier 170, and the referee counted Cook out after he dropped to one knee.
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London
Georges Carpentier
Europe
George Cook
Cook
Jack Smith
Carpentier
Turkish Leader Slain in Constantinople Murder
London dispatch reports that Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Turkish nationalist leader, has been murdered. The claim originates from Angora via Exchange Telegraph Agency sources quoting a Constantinople report.
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London
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Exchange
Constantinople
Angora
South Ireland Ratifies Anglo Irish Treaty
Dublin reports the South Ireland parliament unanimously ratified Saturday the Anglo Irish treaty creating the Irish Free State.
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South Ireland
Dublin
Irish Free State
Renegent reads The Tale of Two Cities and dies at pew
A Detroit reader recalls a Saturday night tale of the guillotine and a dream of death. A wife taps her sleeping husband in church and he dies. The Philadelphia Public Ledger quotes the incident as a fearful lesson for wives.
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Arthur MacLaughlin
Detroit
Leo D. Brown
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Doings of a Child at Prayer and Apricot Origins
A Harper's Magazine anecdote from New England shows a boy aged seven or eight asking his mother if he may do setting-up exercises during a long Sunday prayer, highlighting grownups' struggle to understand a healthy child’s need for activity. The text also notes that the apricot is likely native to China.
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New England
Harper’s Magazine
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