World News Briefs From Washington and Capitol Hill
Washington reports outline a drive against liquor traffickers urged by President Coolidge while grain exchanges consider rules to curb price manipulation Secretary Jardine notes. Other items include selection of John T. Caine III to head Packers and Stockyards Administration, a California alien land law ruling, Frick estate tax decision, air mail plane bids due July 15 and a projected $108 million surplus for the coming fiscal year.
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Coolidge
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington
Jardine
John T. Caine III
Logan
Utah
Packers and Stockyards’ Administration
Department of Agriculture
Chester Morrill
United States Supreme Court
Henry C. Frick
Pittsburgh
Widespread price spread hits fruits and vegetables
The ington report shows a 47 percent gap between wholesale and retail prices for fruits and vegetables in New York, highlighting distribution cost pressures. The finding comes as markets face ongoing concerns about inflation and supply chain efficiency affecting everyday shoppers.
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Department of Agriculture
Washington
New York
Krupps Turn To Teeth And Tools After War
Essen firm once famed for battleship turrets and rapid-fire guns now produces artificial teeth surgical instruments and a wide range of civil goods. Despite vast plant size and capacity for 115000 workers, current payroll is about 28000 as Krupp readjusts postwar output toward civilian industries.
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Essen
Germany
Friedrich Krupp
Krupps
Kiel
Ruhr
Krupp Works
British Crossword Now Task for Savants
Oxford librarians report a peak in crossword fever receding as puzzles grow harder. Oxford and elsewhere see dictionary sales soar while reference rooms strain under demand. experts blame increased difficulty and expert players. wartime codebreakers form pools to tackle all possible clues.
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Oxford
Singland
Shipbuilding Slumps Amid Global Overcapacity
Ship construction for Brazil reflects a broader downturn as the world market remains oversupplied with ships. Demand is weak and yards operate quietly, with little new work expected in the near term.
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Brazil
England's Giant Steel Airship to Carry 100
The R-101 airship, to be built with stainless steel, will have two decks and space for 100 passengers. It will use heavy gas oil instead of gasoline to reduce fire risk, with two-bed sleeping quarters. Keel laying is planned for July, and flights are expected to start in 1926.
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London
England
India
Air Ministry
First Berlin Woman Pas ses journeyman butcher exam
Margar et a Cohn, daughter of a local meat market owner, became the first Berlin woman to pass the journeyman butchers exam. She earned an excellent grade from the Master Butchers' association after completing skinning, carving and quartering a heifer.
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Berlin
Master Butchers’ Association
Margareta Cohn
Indian's Income Is 1000 a Day From Creek Oil Royalties
Willie Alexander a 210 pound Creek from Bixby Oklahoma earns 1000 dollars daily from an 80 acre Cromwell tract producing 4000 barrels a day with an eighth going to him. Four brothers receive royalties from multiple allotments as the pool expands across Seminole and Creek lands. Sealy Alexander requested guardian guidance to invest income in farmland to become a working citizen, a first for an incompetent Indian in Oklahoma. Creek incomes may reach 10 to 20 million dollars this year as the Cromwell pool grows in a previouslyvalued Seminole nation area.
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Cromwell
Okla
Willie Alexander
Bixby
Five Civilized Tribes
Willie
Cromwell Field
Mid-Continent Production Corporation
Alexander Fury
Sealy
Alex
Roley
Okmulgee County
Cusden Oil and Refining Company
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation
Sealy Alexander
Oklahoma
Ancient Greek Cemetery Excavations Underway
Important excavations are planned in Greece under the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. At Corinth, Dr. I Shear and team have uncovered statuary and pottery, and found conduits to the old water supply from Acrocorinth to the Fountain of Glauce. Funding comes from donors including Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Morgan and others.
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Washington
Greece
Armerican School of Massical
Athens
Edward Capp
Princeton University
Corinth
J. B. Morgan
Fran the Esteta
Toseph
Hoppin
Borton
Sand
Moshivtee
Hnbirtane
Hes Amoriein
Schoo
Girl Bitten by Snake Recovers in an Hour
New York Miss Nellie Louis Con don secretary of the Reptile Study Society of America was bitten on the right index finger by a copperhead during a hunt in a rattlesnake den in the Ramapo mountains near Suffern New York. She received first aid and repeated antivenom injections and recovered within an hour.
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New York
Nellie Louis Condon
Reptile Study Society of America
Ramapo Mountains
Suffren
Iowa State News Snapshot Across the State
Reports from Creston to Keokuk cover the Congregational conference in Creston May 19 to 21, a gas tax road plan, a Carnegie gift to Coe College, Tri City rail plans, Council Bluffs dances, Spirit Lake power line, a high school speaking winner, gravel highway progress, wild rice boosts duck visits, rare fossil gifts to Iowa City museum, anti saloon probe not undertaken, Des Moines to host 1929 Modern Woodmen convention, Hec building cornerstone at Iowa State, push for Iowa industrial growth, Devil’s Backbone quarry work, alfalfa tours, Keokuk national cemetery expansion, three Methodist conferences, Cedar Rapids bond debate, butter production stats, new Dunfield soybean, St Johns Keokuk anniversary, and public school spending totals.
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State Congregational Conference
Creston
Iowa
Hammill
Cage
Carnegie Foundation
Coe College
Tri-City Railway
Mount Ida
Council Bluffs
Central Iowa Power and Light Company
Spirit Lake
Arnolds Park
Ruthven
Dickens
Emmetsburg
Gordon Fogg
Sioux City
Europe
Denison
Deloit
Minnesota
State Fish and Game Department
University of Iowa Museum
M. W. Grimes
West Union
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
Attorney General's Office
Des Moines
Woodmen of America
Milwaukee
Iowa State College
Muscatine Journal
Fort Manson
Devil’s Backbone
Winterset
Iowa State College Extension Service
Keokuk’s National Cemetery
United States
W. W. Phelps
S. L. Smith
Helena
Mont
Mount Pleasant
W. F. Anderson
Boston
Atlantic
E. L. Waldorf
Kansas City
le Mars
Cedar Rapids
Court House
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Wisconsin
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association
Ames
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Keokuk
Towa
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Supreme Court
W. A. Cockrill
S. Ikada
Air Mail
Washington Dispatch
Henry MM. Lord
The
Budget Bureau
New England Fuel and Transportation Company
Grant Town
W. Va
William DD. Shepherd
Chicago
Exama Nelson McClintock
William McClintock
Henry Ford
United States Shipping Board
Detroit
Mr. Ford
T. W. O'Connor
Shipping Board
Clarence Lange
Sheldon
Neb
Lange
Weather and Crop Bureau
Richard Barthelmess
Mary Hay
Arthur Garfield Hays
John Co. Eastman
Chiesto Journal
Joseph
Yellow Kid
Jimmie Head
Ilinois
Head
Lynn
Mass
Swampscott
Vatican
Rome
Pape
Mer. John F. Noll
Diocese of
Fort Wayne
Ind
Mgr. Noll
Church of St. Mary of Huntington
Paul von Hindenburg
von Hindenburg
Hanover
Reichstag
Henry Letellier
Paris Journal
Deauville
France
Lord Milner
War of
Great Britain
Nicaragua
Congress
Colombia
Theunis
Brussels
van de Vyvere
Kashmir
Roosevelt Exploration Party
Sir John Barry Wood
Houghton
American Chamber of Commerce
Marielle Gilman Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Paris
el Boleo
Lower
Commonwealth Shipping Board
Sydney Dispatch
Japan
Leon Trotzky
Moscow
Charles Magnin
Verdun
Fort Douaumont
Glenn Frank
Century Magazine
University of Wisconsin
Madison
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Margaret D. Hitchcock
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
St. Louis
Interior
Anne
William §. Sins
John C. Coolidge
Plymouth
Aaro Ke, Norman
University of Chicago
Henry O. Wilbur
Philadelphia
Amy Lowell
A. Lawrence. Lowell
Harvard
University
Brook Lane
Masons
Ball Brothers
Gerome Brush
Masonic Temple Association
Muncie
Five Ball Brothers
Masonic Auditorium
Uncle Sam
Bureau of Standards
Sponte
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