Global News Digest: Navy chiefs reshuffled and accidents loom
Washington reports warn that failing to shut off motors on ferries will lead to arrests. Admiral Robison named fleet commander, Olds named assistant secretary, and Coontz to be succeeded after Australian cruise. I.C.C. allows double passenger rates for body shipments amid other world events from battles to floods and political shifts.
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Department of Commerce
Washington
Samuel S. Robison
United States
Wilbur
Robert E. Coontz
Lost Seamen Found Through Missing Men's Department
Seamen at risk of vanishing keep anxious families in suspense as the Seamen's Church Institute in New York operates a missing men's department led by Mrs Janet Roper. Since 1920 bulletins locate hundreds across ports, with concerts exposing missing names and international inquiries. The unit has traced 1,005 seafarers, from captains to ordinary sailors, across nations and ports.
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New York
Seamen's Church Institute
South Street
Institute
Janet Roper
Ty Port
Europe
Seven Seas
Holland
Great Britain
The
Preddher Fined Speed Sermon for Violation New York
The Rev Arthur Baggerly pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Quogue L I fulfilled a suspended sentence for speeding in Yonkers city court. Judge Garfinkle released him on condition he urge obedience to speed laws in his next sermon. He did not read the speeding incident in full but spoke of his arrest on Central avenue Yonkers and urged his flock to learn from experience and respect speed regulations.
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Preddher
New York
Arthur Baggerly
Methodist Episcopal Church
Quogue
L. L
Yonkers
Garfinkle
Ranger feeds winter guests in Glacier Park story
Forest Ranger Lewis Hanson in Glacier National Park fed flapjacks to a tame mink a curious weasel a skunk and two gray squirrels during the long winter. The animals ate from his hand but the skunk kept to cafeteria style waiting. Rangers say this is the first time a mink or a weasel has become that tame in the Rockies. The chief ranger allowed extra flour rations after the sightings. Hanson notes the animals stayed near his cabin for companionship, though he admits the skunk was hard to handle.
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Glacier Park
Mont
United States
Lewis Hanson
Two Medicine Valley
Glacier Natonal Park
Rocky Mountains
Hanson
Uncle Sam
Rockies
Banger
Volun
Read Bible Through in 69 Hours 15 Minutes Marathon
In Yucaipa the First Methodist church completed a 69 hour 15 minute Bible marathon begun at midnight Saturday. About 180 volunteers read aloud in relay as hundreds gathered, finishing with the Book of Revelation and a united Dexology, sealing the long sacred event.
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Yucaipa
Callin
First Methodist Church of
Iowa State News Highlights From 1925 Iowa Topics
Twenty five years lost for William McCalla of Shenandoah declared legally dead and estate settled. Session laws of the forty first Iowa general assembly printed. Iowa school children on summer vacation totaling over seven hundred thousand. Farmers Mutual Insurance company organization underway. Frank Dagle elected G A R Iowa commander. encampment set for Keokuk. Cornerstones laid for a new school building and a Masonic temple. About 1,900 soldier bonus claims remain. Penn College campus tree planted by Hoover after commencement. Sixty Christian Endeavorers head to Portland for convention. Thomas Wellington elected Iowan grand master Mason. Pork products lead Iowa exports in 1924. Cedar Rapids graduation records at Washington and Grant High. Masons to purchase Bettendorf home for state sanitarium. Iowa State Fair anticipates steady interest. Iowa Young People’s Conference to be at state fair July 18 to 20. Personal income tax data show many high earners in Polk County. Railway Telegraphers honored in LePort with early organizing leaders. Ames graduates receive degrees. Gov Hammill addresses. Iowa swine valuation projections for 1925. American Legion endowment fund drive planned. Hog tax cuts reduce farm tax payments. Five extension summer schools resume with about 1,600 students. State horticulture bulletin notes below normal fruit and vegetable conditions. peaches hit hard. crops short due to frost and heat.
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Willian McCalla
Shenandoah
Forty-First
Iowa General Assembly
Iowa
Buena Vista County
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company
Frank Dagle
Des Moines
Keokuk
Masonic Temple
State
Herbert C. Hoover
Penn College
Christian
BE. R. Moore
Cedar Rapids
A. B. Cummins
Department of Commerce
Washington
Grant
Grand Lodge of Iowa
Masons
W. P. Bettendorf
Bettendorf
Polk County
Order of Railway Telegraphers
Leporte City
A. D. Thurston
Ames
John Hammill
Tve
Towans
Rotirns
William M. Jardine
Farmers of Iowa
Towa State College
American Legion
Ben A. Webster
Cedar Falls
State Horticultural Society
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St. Paul
President Coolidge
John van A. MacMurray
Peking
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ma" Ferguson
Donald B. MacMillan
Charlestown Navy Yard
Arctic
Elizabeth Mary Cromwell
Lincoln Cromwell
New York City
Veendam
Miss Cromwell
Dorothea
Gladys Cromwell
Miss Hazel Hatfield
Hatfield
West Virginia
John Roach Sproul
Sproul
Pennsylvania
Chester
Omar Bundy
Newcastle
Ind
Arthur Whitney
Morris County
New Jersey
Antisaloon League
Tuckets
Packing House
San Francisco
Otto Freforty
Lillian Fye
Stontrose
Colo
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
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N. J
Chicago
Hoboken
Breimen
Equitable
Los Angeles
Cal
Thomas Young
Grace Young
Patrick Grogan
Olive King
Grogan
Dorothy Perkins
Dorothy
Thomas Templeton
Genna Brothers
Genna
Nebraska
South Dakota
Minnesota
Skrzynsy
Poland
Warsaw
Matilda R. Dodge
John F. Dodge
Alfred G. Wilson
Grosse Point
Mich
J. P. Morgan
Matinecock Point
East Island
Glen Cove
L. I
Robert M. LaFollette
Wisconsin
Julius Kruttschnitt
Southern Pacific Railway
Presbyterian Hospital
Emanuel L. Philipp
Milwaukee
Alexandra Curzon
Edward Dudley Metcalfe
Indian Cavalry
London
Mary Leiter
Geneva
Haliburton County
Ontario
Polar
Amundsen
King’s Bay
Spitzberzen
Mme. Kajiko Yajima
W. C. T. U. of Japan
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Prince of Wales
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Eschowe
W. W. MacKenzie
Mary Tuncan
Shanghai
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Leonate
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Ritian’ Teader
Seamen’s Institute
Selves
Americen
Powas
Ean Efort
Aznoluer
Istamce
Speejacks
Albert Y. Gowan
Cleveland
Harvard
Neponset
Mass
Gowan
Atlantic
Spain
Lady Drummond-Hay
Tangier
Ates Bey
Youu
Skunk
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