World News Outlook on Liquor Crackdown and Grain Rules
President Coolidge urged a nationwide drive against liquor traffickers and endorsed grain exchange rule adoption to curb price manipulation. He cautioned against rapid disposals of Moore Muscles Shoals power while a permanent federal policy remains unsettled. Logan Utah’s John T Cain II to head Packers and Stockyards Admin in Washington, succeeding Chester Morrill. Supreme Court upholds California alien land law burden on aliens ineligible for citizenship. life insurance proceeds pre 1918 not subject to federal estate tax. government to return 108657 dollars from Frick estate. Air mail bids open July 15. planes must carry at least 1000 pounds and cruise 95 mph. Budget director forecasts 108 million surplus for year ending June 30.
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California
Supreme Court
Washington
W. A. Cockrill Ands. Ikada
United States Supreme Court
Henry C. Frick
Pittsburgh
Wide spread gaps in fruit and vegetable pricing found
A New York investigation into food distribution costs reports a 47 percent spread between wholesale and retail prices for fruits and vegetables. The sprawling survey covers pricing in the city and highlights the imbalance affecting consumers and markets.
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Department of Agriculture
Washington
New York
Krupp Shift From Guns To Teeth And Trains
Essen factory once famed for battleship turrets and Big Bertha cannons now makes artificial teeth and surgical instruments. Krupp pivots to agriculture machinery railway engines and ships while retaining skilled engineers. Despite historic capacity for 715,000 workers, current payroll is 28,000 and only 20 locomotives are under order.
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Essen
Germany
Friedrich Krupp
Krupps
Kiel
Ruhr
Krupp Works
British Cross Word Now Task for Savants
Oxford librarians report cross word puzzle mania peaked last month and is fading. In Oxford the craze more than doubled dictionary sales and stretched reference libraries until one librarian threatened closures. Experts blame rising puzzle difficulty and skilled players forming pools to tackle all possible cross words.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
England
Shipbuilding Slump Hits Brazil Amid Global Overhang
Ship construction in Brazil slows as world shipyards face a broad overstock. Analysts say the industry grapples with reduced orders and lingering idle capacity, reflecting a global downturn in new vessel production.
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Brazil
England's Giant Steel Airship to Carry 100
The It-101, a stainless steel airship built with two decks, will carry 100 passengers between England and India. Passengers and crew may smoke. engines will use heavy gas oil to reduce fire risk. Two bed cabins will serve sleeping quarters. Keel laying is planned for July, with flights expected in 1926.
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London
England
India
Air Ministry
Woman Journeyman Butcher of Berlin Excels in Exam
Margar eta Cohn becomes the first Berlin woman to pass the journeyman butcher examination. 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 Soars on Creek Oil Royalties
Willie Alexander, a 210 pound Creek Indian of Bixby, earns about 1000 dollars daily from an 80 acre Cromwell field allotment. Four wells there yield 4000 barrels daily, with the Indian getting an eighth. The Cromwell pool spreads to other allotments, pushing Creek Indian incomes toward 10 to 20 million dollars this year. Sealy Alexander urged investing assets in farm land to work, a first for an Oklahoma incompetent Indian seeking Guardian guidance.
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Cromwell
Okio
Willie Alexander
Bixby
Five Civilized Tribes
Willie
Cromwell Field
Mid-Continent Production Corporation
Alexander
Sealy
Alex
Roley
Okmulgee County
Colden Oil and Refining Company
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation
Sealy Alexander
Oklahoma
Ancient Cemetery Excavations in Greece Prompted by Morgan Gift
Premature excavations begin in a prehistoric Greek cemetery under the American School of Classical Study at Athens. At Corinth, work near an old theater has yielded statues and pottery. Dr. Leslie Shear of Princeton leads the dig, uncovering water conduits from Acrocorinth to the Fountain of Glauce. The cemetery dig is funded by the estate of James H. Happin of Boston, with final direction by the American School's leading officials.
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Washington
Greece
Athens
Buward Capp
Princeton University
Corinth
J. P. Morgan
Leslie Shear
Princeton
Shear
Glinuce
Jason the Argonaut
Medea
Iasegh C
Happin
Borton
Madeling
Asorienn
Oligo
Prd
Weßlegen
Girl Bitten by Snake Recovers in One Hour
Miss Nellie Louis Condon, secretary of the Reptile Study Society of America, was bitten on the right index finger by a copperhead during a hunt in the Ramapo Mountains near Suffern New York. Treated with first aid and repeated antivenom injections, she fully recovered within an hour.
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New York
Nellie Louis Condon
Reptile Study Society of America
Ramapo Mountains
Suffren
Iowa State News Briefs Highlight 1924 Events
Iowa reports cover a May Creston conference, gas tax road pledge, Carnegie gift to Coe College library, Tri City bus proposal, Council Bluffs dances, Spirit Lake power line, Fogg’s speaking win, six miles gravel road to the Minnesota line, wild rice boosts duck visits, 4 000 fossil donation to UI museum, AG not to pursue anti saloon laxity probe, Des Moines to host 1929 Modern Woodmen convention, Hee building cornerstone laid at Iowa State, industrial progress urged for Iowa, convicts building Devil’s Backbone park, alfalfa tours planned, Keokuk National Cemetery expansion may add graves, three church conferences set, Cedar Rapids bond plan on memorial courthouse, Iowa butter second in 1924, Dunfield soybean advertised, St Johns Keokuk 75th anniversary, Iowa public schools spending near 57 million, construction to begin on projects, airplane repair and post office on the go.
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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
Detroit
Minnesota
Des Moines
Woodmen of America
Milwaukee
Iowa State College
Muscatine Journal
Fort Madison
Devil's Backbone
Winterset
Iowa State College Extension Service
Keokuk's National Cemetery
United States
W. W W. Phelps
W. L. Smith
Helena
Mont
Mount Pleasant
W. F. Anderson
Boston
Atlantic
E. L. Waldorf
Kansas City
le Mars
Cedar Rapids
Memorial Bute
Court House
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association
Ames
St. John's Episcopal Church
Keokuk
Towa
Ean
Goy
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Coolidge
Secretary of the Treasury
Jardine
John T. Caine TI
Logan
Utah
Packers and Stockyards’ Administration
Chester Morrill
Air Mail
Washington Dispatch
Henry M. Lord
The
Budget Bureau
New England Fuel and Transportation Company
Grant Town
W. Va
Wiliam D. Shepherd
Chicago
Emma Nelson McClintock
William McClintock
Henry Ford
United States Shipping Board
Ford
7. W. O'Connor
Shipping Board
Clarence Lange
Sheldon
Neb
Lange
Weather and Crop Bureau
Richard Barthelmess
Mary Hay
Nave
Arthur Garfield
John C. Eastman
Chicago Journal
Ealdent Coolidge
Cambridge
Fittiet
Ey Dye
Joseph
Yellow Wid
Jimmie Head
Illinois
Head
Lynn
Mass
Swampscott
Vatican
Rome
Mer
John F. Noll
Fort Wayne
Ind
Mer. 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
Theunts
Brussels
van de Vyvere
Kashmir
Roosevelt Exploration Party
Sir John Barry Wood
Houghton
American Chamber of Commerce
Mabelle 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 S
Sims
John ©. Coolidge
Plymouth
Aaron E. Norman
University of Chicago
Henry O. Wilbur
Philadelphia
Amy Lowell
A. ‘Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Brookline
Masons
Ball Brothers
Gerome Brush
Masonic Temple Association
Muncie
Five Ball Brothers
Masonic Auditorium
Uncle Sam
United States Bureau of Standards
Iowa State News
State Fish and Game Department
University of Iowa Museum
M. W. Grimes
West Union
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
Attorney General’s
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