Washington News Review on Senate Actions and World Events
The week features Senate unanimous votes on investigations into government agencies handling veterans and Irish-American remarks by Admiral Sims in London. Also noted are the army budget and manpower plans, diplomacy with Mexico, crop forecasts, and notable deaths and appointments across the U.S. and abroad.
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London
Williams
Sims
Senate
Washington
Walsh
Dem
Massachusetts
William
Denby
Senator McCormick
Admiral Sims
New World Changes in Maps Record Treaty Legacy
A National Geographic bulletin from Washington describes how maps of Europe reflect postwar changes from treaties plebiscites and new borders. It notes reshaped states such as Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and the Baltic republics, with observations on peninsulas and the new geopolitical landscape. A separate note from Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, reports a fisherman finding a $55 pocketbook on a trout stream with no owner identified.
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Washington
Europe
National Geographic Society
Mars
Society
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Panhandle
Roumania
Austria
Hungary
Maine
Poland
Fiume
Danzig
Cive
United States
Esthenia
Latvia
Lithuania
Baltic
Finland
Balkan
Montenesto
Turkey
Ukraine
Russia
France
Jugo-Slavia
Adriatic
Asia
Black
Bellefonte
William Garman
Dry Officers Seize Corks in Prohibition Case
More than 1,000 corks are held in jail at Clarksburg West Virginia as police search for the moonshine still and the bottles to which the corks were sent. A man dropped the load while fleeing prohibition officers.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Prohibition
Vase gifts travel from France to Knights of Columbus
Supreme Knight James A. Flaherty receives a Sevres vase valued at $8,000 from Dr. Marcel Knecht the French high commissioner on behalf of President Albert and the government. The piece will tour the United States before being housed at the Knights of Columbus home office in New Haven Conn.
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James A. Flaherty
Knights of Columbus
Marcel Knecht
Aliberand
United States
KK. of C
New Haven
Conn
Bedridden artist builds life from paintings and dogs
Hal Ehrig, confined to bed for seven years after multiple motorcycle and car crashes, learned to paint and compose music during confinement. He now creates large canvases in his room, has sold pieces for 150 dollars, and keeps two Russian wolfhounds valued at 5000 dollars. He hopes to walk again, left with only his mood and left arm functional. He even wrote songs titled When We Whirl Into Berlin and continues to pursue art, music, and dog breeding nearby Chicago.
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Chicago
Hal Ehirig
West 61St Street
Wil
Michigan City
Riverview Park
Hal
Ian
Fem
Ehrig Abode
Berlin
Runny
Ign
Iowa couples plan mission to Peking after marriage
A newlywed Iowa Falls pair Mr and Mrs Paul Reynolds intend missionary work in Peking. The item also notes various local happenings including a motor trouble air mail crash near Iowa City, a long school record for Ethel Derrrickson, thefts at Iowa Falls depots, political bribe charges in Council Bluffs, banditry in Newton, a giant 9 foot 10 inch adder killed near Greenfield, and other regional incidents from the area’s newspapers.
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Paul Reynolds
Iowa Falls
Peking
Vol
Howard T. Gordon
Estherville
A. B. Long
Chicago
Iowa City
Ethel Derrickson
Coin High School
Short Line
Post Office
Charles D. Campbell
L. Leevans
Counci Bluffs
C. E. Parker
St. Anthony
Idaho
CG. H. Davis
Salt Lake City
J. J. Coughlin
Newton
J. C. McWihany
Greenfield
George Slater
Aaron Waxman
Kansas City
Sioux City
Russia
America
Waxman
United States District Court
Charles F. Kramer
Panora
Guthrie County
Montgomery County
Dillon
van Buren County
Boone County
S. L. Moore
Boone
Iowa State Fair
Canada
Colorado
Montana
Vermont
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Iowa
A. R. Corey
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Republican National Committee
Will H. Hays
Department of Agriculture
State Hughes
San Domingo
Mexico
Hughes
George R. Richards
Pennsylvania National Guard
Militia Bureau
War Department
Secretary of War
Weeks
Supreme Court At
Hugh R. Robertson
Western District of
Texas
Harding
Department of Justice
Herman Schwab
Immanuel Church
Dubuque, Ja
Anna Thomson Dodge
Horace S. Dodge
Durfee
Detroit
Mich
The
Red Cross
Pueblo
Calo
Ohio Supreme Court
Columbus
Frederick Wa. Galbraith, Jr
American Legion
Indianapolis
McKeesport Tin Plate Company
Pittsburgh
J. S. Armstrong
Cullom
David I. Houston
Treasury
Wilson
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
New York
Cuba
Mario G. Menocal
Charleston
Walter 8. Tullahan
Michigan Central Railroad
Hammond
Ind
United States Army
Cambrai
Antwerp
Orland A. Somers
Grand Army of the Republic
Kokomo
John W. Buckrum
North Atlantic Coast Artillery District
Brookline
Mass
Sydney
Ill
Alvin T. Hert
Kentucky
F. A. Tucker
State Board of Health
Paris
Noblesville
Ella Kewett Brown
S. W. Brown
New York Central Railroad
Pasadena
Cal
Andre Lardieu
Cologne
Manila
Wood-Forbes
Moscow
Department of Immigration and Colonization
Ottawa
Ont
Petrograd
Lenin
San Antonio
Tex
Obregon
Ramon P. DeNegri
North Ireland
Belfast
Guadalajara
Morocco
Aburan
Tokyo Hochi Shimbi
Harbin
Kharabaysk
Siberia
Wellington Koo
Chini
League of Nations
League
Gullivan
Georges Carpentier
Near East
Pier 2
Army Base
Herbert Shipman
Manning
Near East Relief
Scandinavia
Denmark
Spain
Italy
Greece
Bagdad
Britain
Karlsbad
Karlovy Vary
K. Ofc
Hal Ehrig
Painting
Music
First National Bank
C. A. Wilkinson
S. Lillsat
Graceland College
Lamont
Abraham Lincoln
Bert Morrison
Fort Dodge
Carrol
Morrison
C. Y. Zentz
Battle Creek
Carroll
Gentz
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