Fee Principle in Farm Relief and Honest Government
Proposes a four year party platform pledging honesty in government and officials of integrity. Calls for further tax reductions, debt cuts, and naval protection of American lives abroad. Endorses current foreign policy, opposes League of Nations membership, and supports humanitarian league cooperation. Supports tariffs, coal industry aid, free collective bargaining, and labor rights. Promotes flood control funding, wartime drafting of resources, and economical, honest campaigning. Favors American built merchant fleet but not state operation, and continued highway and rail funding.
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Nicaragua
China
League of Nations
League
Congress
Republican Party Platform Seeks National Regulation and Civil Rights Action
The platform endorses sustained federal regulation of public utilities and wise development of national resources. It urges a federal anti lynching law and favors federal guidance on Indian affairs while opposing federal overreach into state activities. It supports Alaska harbor development and Hawaii land settlement and a new conservation board created by Coolidge.
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Oid Conservation Board
Coolidge
Alaska
Hawaii
Congress
Republican Party
Koreans Try To Kill Father Of Japanese Empress
An attempted assassination on May 14 targeted Prince Kuni the father of Japan's empress during a Formosa visit. A Korean attacker hurled a dagger at the prince's automobile but caused no injuries. Formosa governor general Otsunoshin Yamakami resigned in protest, taking responsibility.
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London
Tokyo
Prince Kuni
Formosa
Otsunoshin Yamakami
Wears Silk Topper in Iowa City Pays $5 Fine
A. H. Chopek of Kalona paraded in a silk topper in Iowa City to mock locals and was invited to the station. He paid a $5 fine plus costs in Judge Paul E. Custer's court for intoxication and traded the hat for informal attire.
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Iowa City
Towa City
A. H. Chopek
Kalona
Chopek
Paul E. Custer
Chinese Gunmen Loot Tientsin Amid Merciless Shootings
A Tientsin dispatch reports bloody looting and gunmen attacking in the city after its surrender by northern forces. Streets and the Pei Ho river ran with dead, fear widespread, though foreign concessions’ defenses held, bullets striking foreign compounds as armed mobs killed and looted.
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London
Fap
Tientsin
Evening News
Pei-Ho
Bank Heist in Kansas City Locks Down Walnut Street
Six to eight gunmen robbed the Home Trust company at 1119 Walnut in downtown Kansas City Mo. Loot was about $60,000. Two policemen and a bystander were shot in the exchange.
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Kansas City
Home Trust Company
Walnut
Oldest and smallest republic noted near Rimini
The Birmingham Post quotes a wry exchange about missing a train and chasing it from the platform, then mentions San Marino as the oldest and smallest republic, located 14 miles from Rimini, Italy.
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Birmingham Post
Republic
San Marino
Rimini
Italy
Why do bosses grow big in public life
Olive Roberts Barton laments the rise of powerful bosses in public life. She contrasts concert halls and shrubbery trends with a call for better planning inspired by William Penn’s wide Philadelphia streets and urges wiser guidance for national highway policy.
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Olive Roberts Barton
Congress
Wm. Penn
Philadelphia
Penn
Friendship Crew Plans Day Flight Across Atlantic
Jubilant at the successful outcome of their first test flight early today the crew of the Fokker tri motored mono plane Friendship definitely set 1 o clock eastern standard time to cross the Atlantic from Trepassey Newfoundland toward Ireland.
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Trepassey
N. F
Earhart and crew plan daylight takeoff for Europe flight
Amelia Earhart Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon prepared to depart from Ancres for Europe aiming for Lisbon and Southampton. Stultz announced a daylight 14 hour flight, with the 1 342 mile leg to be flown today.
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Europe
Artores Islands
Amelia Earhart
Wilmer Stultz
Louis Gordon
Stultz
Ancres
Lisbon
Portugal
Southampton
England
Magistrate and Motorist Clash Over Licenses Interplay
A magistrate questions a motorist about rude remarks to a police officer requesting licenses. The motorist responds that his remark suggested the officer’s wife would be happier as a widow, provoking courtroom tension.
Exclusive perfume name stumps most buyers
A clerk insists the fragrance is exclusive and hardly pronounceable, claiming only a few people can even articulate it. The remark frames the scent as prestigious and hard to acquire.
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Reclamation
J.C. Broad
West Second Street
West Second St
Friendship
Atlantic
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Journal
Mr. and Mrs. America
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