Ecuador Thrives On Cocoa Trade
New York dispatch notes Ecuador rebounds commercially due to US demand for chocolate coated confections. Cocoa exports surged as chocolate jackets and bitter chocolate ram boosted prices, lifting Ecuador from financial lows and restoring trade with the United States. Congo remains its main competitor, but Ecuador benefits from postwar freight and sugar-market synergies.
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New York
Ecuador
Foreign Trade Council
United States
Council
Planoa
Congo
Acoan
Ecuador Trade Slump Halts Growth With United States
The 1920 Ecuador US trade showed exports at 22.244 million dollars and imports at 14.451 million. By 1921 the slump reduced exports to 3.541 million and imports to 5.260 million, a drop of about 57 percent and over 67 percent respectively.
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Ecuador
United States
New Engine May Double Automobile Mileage
United States Army engineers unveiled a new ethyl third driven engine at the American Chemical Society convention in Los Angeles. Developed at Camp Holabird under Arthur W. Harrington, the engine reportedly doubles mileage and increases horsepower by about 28 percent, with extensive army testing confirming practicability.
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Los Angeles
Cal
United States Army Engineers
American Chemical Society
Camp Holabird
Maryland
Arthur W. Harrington
Mexican Children Sent Into Slavery Report
Mexico City August report says secret police pursued Japanese and Chinese colonies on the west coast to free children kidnapped and kept in Oriental camps. Five more disappearances that month raise total to fifty. One child rescued from a Chinese den led to a Chinese confession of depredations by an underground railway sending youths to Pacific coast farms run by Chinese and Japanese interests.
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Mexico City
Belef
Undersgrounds Railway
Pacific Coast
Earth Slows Down Very Slowly
Washington reports that the earth’s rotation is decelerating at about one thousandth of a second per century. Scientists note the change is tiny, equating to a roughly minute lost over 100 million years, and historic days are imagined as being only three or four hours long in ages past.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Gcholl
Scholl
Virgin Head On Postal Stamps Issued in Baar District
A new postal stamp featuring the Virgin Mary will be issued in Baar district Germany text notes. The engraving reproduces the painting from the Eliascastel chapel on the Saar and follows earlier issues by Bavaria Hungary and Liechtenstein. A salesman claims he overheard a Pullman conversation not about liquor.
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Berlin
Baar
Catholic Geormania
Eliascastel
Saar
Bavaria
Hungary
Duchy of Leichtenstein
Language Reform in Florence Seeks Civilized Speech
In Rome Aug 6 The National League Against Swearing held a Florence competition among workers to curb vulgar language. Prizes totaled 2,000 lire and winners included street cleaners and printing workers. Officials urged school education, tougher enforcement, and personal example to eradicate coarse speech. The piece also describes a royal garden party at the Quirinal with a prank water fountain incident involving a mayor, illustrating old Italian garden gimmicks.
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International News Service
Rome
National League Against
Florence
Grain Crop Aids Trade In Russia
Moscow reports a near 1916 crop level with 53 to 63 million tons of grains expected this year and export potential of 2.4 million tons. Germany buys 20,000 tons barley. French and English firms place orders. Wartime canal neglect and railcar shortages hinder movement while locomotives exceed prewar numbers. Wisconsin dries hay and old proverbs fade.
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F International
Moscow
Department of Foreign Trade
Two Hurt When They Leap Off Derailed Train
BEAVER FALLS PA Aug 7 The engineer L H Caskey and fireman J W Wikeley of train No 99 on the Pittsburgh Ft Wayne Chicago Railroad were injured when the engine jumped the tracks overturning about 500 yards west of the passenger station and 106 feet west of the R C tower at Rochester last night They escaped death by jumping Caskey leg injured Wikeley back injured Taken to Rochester General Hospital Wikeley left hospital this morning
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Beaver Falls
Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago
R. C
Rochester
L. H. Caskey
J. W. Wikeley
Pittsburgh
Preacher Guilty In Case Over Delinquent Daughter
Captain A E Daugherty of Gospel Mission Society found guilty of contributing to the delinquency of his minor daughter Evangelius 14. Sentence a year in fall with suspended clause if he leaves town with his 18 year old wife. They were arrested after the child wandered the street with a dime following dismissal. Also notes Lone Girls Circle the World as Washburn College graduates ella Regular and Ben Brett travel without chaperones speaking Hogish language.
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Bur Gunrsal
A. E. Daugherty
The
Gospel Mission Society
Miller
Pomeroy
Daugherty
Evangelius
Ella
Wamego
Kan
Bnen Brett
Ponea
Washburn College
Misa Regnier
American Girls Sail Around the World in 1921 Voyage
They left Topeka in June 1921 sailing from San Francisco to Hawaii then to Japan, China, India, and the Red Sea via the Suez Canal to Egypt. The voyage continued across the Mediterranean with a homeward leg from Naples on October 29. The article notes the modern American girl can handle herself anywhere.
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San Francisco
Hawaii
Japan
China
India
Red Sea
Suez Canal
Egypt
Mediterranean
Europe
Naples
Body Of Woman Killed By Husband Arrives At Corry
The body of Mrs. Mollie Blair Sheeley arrived today from Daytona Florida where she was killed Saturday night by her husband John F Sheeley Jr Funeral services were held and interment followed in Columbus The husband John Shelley attempted suicide and is hospitalized in Daytona
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Corry
Mollie Blair Sheeley
Daytona
Fla
John F. Sheeley, Jr
Columbus
John Shelley
Postal Employee Accused Of Embezzling Funds
James Cooney a South Fork post office employee faces charges of embezzling money order funds and falsifying records after postal authorities uncovered discrepancies. He was jailed on 2000 bail and will be arraigned at the November federal court session in Pittsburgh. The hearing occurred before United States Commissioner Ray P. Smith in Johnstown Pennsylvania.
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James Cooney
South Fork
Pittsburg
Cooney
United States
Ray P. Smith
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