Global News Highlights From Washington to London
Major Gen Peyton C Marsh, chief of staff, to retire Nov 1. Denby backs 120000 enlisted navy. Meat packer bill moves in Senate. Debs case delays. Harding denies universal Saturday half-holiday. Daugherty orders probe of East Side gun smuggling. House cuts army to 150000 in 3 months. Harding to seek long term Bond refinancing of Allied debts. Private bankers pledge 50 million for livestock and wool relief. Navy bill conferences suspended. Pueblo relief adequate. Haynes unveils beer medical regs. Plans to appoint Wood ambassador to Spain. Shidehara proposes US Japan settlement. Scott bill passed to ease Great Lakes seamen act. Cotton mill strike settled in Manchester. New York clearing house adopts St Louis system. Steel firms cut wages in Pittsburgh Youngstown. Evansville adopts city manager form. Alberta fire kills five. North Western train wreck near Whitney Nebraska. Rockefeller sister testifies in divorce case. Irish problem warned by British labor leader Thomas. AFL opposes non labeled garments. Car crash near Uniontown kills five. Moonshining myth in Everett. Rock River drowning. Robber shot dead in Wyoming home. AFL to study unemployed relief via federal aid. Chicago woman killed in love quarrel. Detroit transit fare dispute settled. AFL opens 41st convention in Denver. Brooklyn transit eyes August wage cut. ND banks ordered closed. Widespread rust in Sioux City wheat. American Legion names national commander. Austen Chamberlain on Anglo Japanese alliance. French resume actions in Syria. King George guarded in Belfast. Soviet Russia entry barred to machinist leader. Rotary head elected in Edinburgh. Smyrna-US protests Greek army conscriptions. Slovenes declare independence from Czechoslovakia. Reichstag passes army law amendment.
Cave Dwellings in Style Again Across the World
Washington reports a worldwide revival of cave living as housing shortages push peasants in Italy to hillside pits. The National Geographic bulletin notes cave homes from Tunisia to Cappadocia and Petra, with cliff dwellings in Spain and Gran Canaria, and American Indian cave villages in Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde.
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Petra
Damascus
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Tours
France
Spain
Gran Canaria
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Mesa Verde
Austria Expropriates Estates for Settler Allocations
Vienna reports nearly 1 000 estates or parcels across 210 communities are set aside under the land expropriation act. Lands moved from cultivation to shooting preserves or parks are confiscated. arable lands abandoned by owners are compensated, with final transfers to settlers.
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Vienna
Elderly Man Fined for Killing Robin in Strawberry Patch
Fred Glauser a 75 year old ice cream maker and former council president in New Philadelphia Ohio was fined 25 dollars plus costs by Justice of the Peace John Stevenson for shooting and killing a robin that had been devouring his strawberries.
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Fred Glauser
Council
Justice of the Peace
John Stevenson
Robins
Mr. Glauser
Wife Borrowed Children to Plead Before Judge
John Rams of Muskegon Michigan was convicted of liquor law violations. His wife and 12 children appeared before the judge, who showed leniency due to the family’s poverty. Police later reported seven of the children were borrowed from neighbors for the occasion.
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John Rams
Muskegon
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Demanded Divorce By Return Mail From Ky Man
County Judge B W Shaw of Mandan North Dakota received a letter from Clinton Gaskill Wilmore Kentucky requesting a divorce by return mail saying he married Louise Kopp about nine years ago and that she left him and won t live with him any more. Judge Shaw forwarded the letter to the district judge.
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B. W. Shaw
Mandan
N. D
Clinton Gaskill
Wilmore
Louise Kopp
Defender of Cameron Dam Freed After Ten Years in Prison
John Dietz, once dubbed defender of Cameron dam, is freed from Waupun after ten years. He proclaims innocence, forgives accusers, and praises civil progress while recounting the political feud and his romantic marriage. Dietz remains engaged, well-informed, and hopeful about Wisconsin's improvement and agricultural advances.
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Waupun State Prison
John
John Dietz
Dietz
North Woods
Cameron Dam
Wisconsin
Cowboy Captures Eagle With Lariat Near Gregory
Sioux City report says Thomas Hale, a cowboy on a Gregory ranch in 8 D, roped a live eagle the other day using a lariat. The incident highlights rustic frontier skill and wildlife handling on regional ranch land.
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Sioux City
Thomas Hale
Gregory
Free movies in Lewis park draw weekly crowds
Merchants of Lewis Iowa plan weekday evening film showings in the town park to lure trade. Drownings and attempted killings feature in county notes, with several suicides and accidents reported across Muscatine and surrounding areas.
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