McAdoo Attacks Esch Cummins Act as Rate Raiser
Former Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo challenged the Esch Cummins Act calling it a rate raiser and wage depressor. He spoke in Reno on tariff and four power treaty and urged party organization while praising Senator Pittman for progressive laws. He argued the ship subsidy bill would be unnecessary with high tariffs.
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Reno
New
E. D. Boyle
Nevada
Willian Gibbs McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Pittman
Mr. McAdoo
McAdoo
Packard Twin Six Price Delivered and Equipped Ad
Advertisement notes Packard Twin Six priced at 4250 dollars delivered and equipped. The copy emphasizes value and complete outfitting for immediate use.
Fine Screw May Be Used on Crystal Detectors
The article explains detector contacts for minerals. Galena needs a light fine wire contact, while tungsten and wolframite suit fine wires. silicon works with fine wires or a small screw end under pressure. Carborundum and iron pyrites require pressure and area. For field use, silicon or carborundum under pressure with a blue screw point is best. for land stations, galena is preferred.
Wireless broadcasting widens reach in England and U S
British officials study American wireless methods and push cheaper sets. Stores offer sets as low as 10 dollars and rooftops host wireless concerts and weather reports. A New York Times dispatch notes hundreds of thousands of home made and manufactured sets, promising village and farm access to music lectures and news broadcasts.
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London
England
United States
Arlington
New York
London Times
America
British Isles
Loedon
Radio Boom Drives Phonograph and Lamp Fuse Firms
Louis Sterling argues science yields vast benefits to related industries as radio commerce expands in Omaha. Dealers report immediate wireless equipment deliveries and shops prepare for fall demand. Maj. Gen. Squier’s lamp socket fuse method spurs a boom, though it demands extensive experiments and many fuses.
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Louis Sterling
Omaha
Squier
Cortland Doughboy Returns Home From Germany
Herman Miltenberger, longtime member of Uncle Sam's troops in Germany, has returned to Cortland Beatrice County after serving overseas since the outbreak of the war. He arrived home in June.
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Cortland
Beatrice
Herman Miltenberger
Sam
Germany
Rathenau Honored in Reichstag as Bismarck Was
In Berlin June 18 the body of Walter Rathenau received funeral honors on the reichstag rostrum similar to the Bismarck ceremony. Congress and the Prussian diet wore black, with hydrangeas, roses, and orchids forming a stark display. The nationalist party shunned the rites, while an anti monarchy mood ran through the proceedings. A Rathenau demonstration drew about a half million people in the Lustgarten, as streetcar traffic halted and a deadly passenger fall from an open train door killed 15 and wounded 100.
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Berlin
Bismarck
Reichstag
Walter Rathenau
The
Republic
Nationalist
Karl Heliferich
Representa
Rathenau
Lustgarten
Kaver's Palace
Potter Lodge of Masons No 313 Receives Charter
Potter lodge No 14 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons was fully constituted Tuesday night after receiving its charter from Omaha Grand Master Wellman Lincoln Grand Chaplain Shepperd and Kearney Grand Custodian French Speakers included Martin Dimery and Judge Joseph Oberfelder Delegations came from Sidney Kimball Lodgepole Chappell Gering and Scottsbluff The banquet was served and officers were installed publicly with many women in attendance.
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Potter, Neb
Potter Lodge No. 14
Wellman
Omaha
Shepperd
Lincoln
Bob” French
Kearney
Martin Dimery
Joseph Oberfelder
Sidney, Kimball
Lodgepole
Chappell
Gering
Scottsbluff
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Sociphone
Nebraska Power CO
Nebraskal
Farnam
Atlantic
Power Co
German Republic
George Seldes
Potter Lodge of Masons, No
Burgess-Nash Company
Atuto & Off
Copenhagen
Burgess-Nash
Stora
White Sox
Burgess-Nesh
Burgess-Nash Infants’ Shop
Women’s Union Suits
RED Arrow Booth
Burgess-Nash Red Arrow Booth
Downstaire
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