Lewis Exposes Limited Progress in Bituminous Strike Talks
President Harding and Secretary Davis met with John L. Lewis to seek a settlement of the coal strike but no definite plans emerged. Lewis outlined possible district or national conferences but said the union remains firm on a wage scale and warned of coal shortages and rail transport disruptions if the strike endures.
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Washington,d. C
Harding
Davis
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Mr. Lewis
Lewis
White House
Chinese States May Unite in Federation
Peking reports that Chen Chiung Ming proposes a United States of China model with a Shanghai conference to discuss demobilization of troops and ending the Tuchun military governorship system as conditions for reunification.
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Peking
United States of China
Shanghai
Chen Chiung Ming
South China
China
Chicago Police Seek Women Robbery Ring Leaders
Chicago police seek two women identified as ring leaders of a silk theft gang. Six members are under arrest on charges of 22 robberies totaling silk valued at $100,000.
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Chicago
French Press Frames Rathenan as Ongoing Threat to Peace
Paris reports the Rathenan affair dominates the French press with defense of Germany as an ongoing menace to France and to European peace, arguing Germany will not admit defeat or pay its dues to the victors.
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Paris
Germany
France
Euroe
Japan Takes Up Pacific Treaty Affairs
Tokio reports the privy council has begun consideration of the four power Pacific treaty signed at the Washington arms conference. Japan, it is understood, will not wait for ratification by other nations.
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Japan
Tokio
Privy Council
Elder couple refuse to include obey in wedding rite
London reports Thomas Williamson aged 72 and Elizabeth King aged 66 marry at Barton and reject the word obey in their marriage service asserting independence despite the traditional vow.
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London
Thomas Williamson
Elizaeth King
Barton
General Vienna Strike Grips Rail and Telegraph Workers
A Sprague Czecho-Slovakia dispatch reports a general strike has begun in Vienna involving railroad workers and telegraph and telephone lines. The action risks disrupting transport and communications in the Austrian capital.
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Paris
Sprague
Czecho-Slovakia
Viena
State tax body urges Mississippi supervisors to toughen assessments
The Mississippi State Tax Commission told county boards to improve assessment fairness for the current year. It warned reducing values hurts tax equity, urged early, accurate appraisals, and advised adding omitted properties to rolls. The commission offered cooperation but demanded backbone.
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Jackson
State Tax Commission
Board of Supervisors
Commission
Adam
Garden of Eden
Mississippi
Tate Plans New Road Through Senatobia County
The board of supervisors adopted the state highway department plan to build a stretch of the Jefferson Davis highway with federal aid. Work hinges on routing decisions as federal engineers map the route on the west side of the S. C. railroad, potentially raising costs and prompting a committee to seek approval for the old route.
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Senatobia
Board of Supervisor
State Highway Department
S. C
Vote on Consolidation in Ackerman Districts
The board of supervisors ordered an August 15 election to decide if two county judicial districts should consolidate with the county seat at Ackerman. A recent legislature act required the board to call the vote.
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Ackerman
Board of Supervisors
Girls' Camp Outing Arranged at Glenwild Farm
Water Valley organizer Mrs. Guy Dean and Mrs. B W Kennedy of Le Ho Se Camp Fire Girls report a ten day outing for the girls at the Glenwild Borden farm south of Grenada starting August 1.
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Water Valley
Guy Dean
B. W. Kennedy
le Ho Se
Glenwild
Borden Farm
Grenada
Bee Disease Found in Mississippi Counties
Specimens of honeycomb from Hinds and Amite counties were examined at the state plant laboratory and declared infected with European foul brood. This signals a confirmed bee disease outbreak affecting local apiaries and requiring follow up actions by beekeepers and authorities.
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A. & M. College
Hinds
Amite
County Committee Sets Primary Costs for Candidates
The county democratic executive committee assessed candidates for U.S. Senate and Congress at 17.5 dollars each to cover August primary expenses.
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Ackerman
Democratic Executive Committee
U. S. Senate
Congress
Mississippi Happenings in 1922 Civic Matters and Local News
The report notes Jackson’s poll tax revenue rising by 5,778 due to enfranchised women, with 1922 voter figures for White male, White female, Colored male and Colored female. It covers Jersey cattle events, crop improvements in Tippah county, a 8,000 dollar East Lincoln bond vote, and women voting in Vicksburg bond issues. Additional items include peach growing in Lincoln county, strawberry plans in Brookhaven, church conferences, a Clarksdale baby clinic, and May events from Blue Mountain College and Ita-Wamba schools. It lists Klan activity in Jackson, Blue Mountain renovation week, and faculty changes and summer schools. Other notes mention typhoid cases near Tippah Creek, Leland mayoral results, and delegates at Gulfport cotton seed crushers and rural mail carrier meetings.
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Jackson
Milit ia Guards to Madisonville Over Mine Threats
Gov. Morrow ordered militia from Hopkinsville and Livermore to Madisonville as a precaution after county officials reported threats at the Dunlap Mining Co strip mine. About 200 men from Herrin and other areas were cited, with fears of a Herrin-like massacre amid nonunion labor and potential dynamite use.
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Barbourville
Edwin P. Morrow
Hopkinsville
Livermore
Madisonville
Herrin
Ill
Dunlap Mining Company
Here
C. C. Givens
Charles G. Franklin
L. R. Ray
Watermelon dispute ends in fatal shooting in New York
Joseph Miano a 49 year old fruit store owner was shot to death by a dissatisfied customer after a 10 cent slice of watermelon. Gataino Russo a 36 year old carpenter is arrested on homicide charges after police found him hiding on a shed roof behind a residence.
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New York
Joseph Miano
Gataino Russo
Oil Stock Changes Hands in Pacific Oil Report
In the Pacific Oil Company's 1921 annual report made public by President Paul Shoup, the firm states it bought 29 630 additional shares of Associated Oil and acquired a third interest in the Associated Pipe Line.
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San Francisco
Pacific Oil Company
Paul Shoup
Associated Oil Company
Associated Pipe Line
Carr reappoints Taylor and Booth to senior posts
Richmond VA Gen Julian S Carr announces the Confederate Veterans have re appointed Gen Edgar D Taylor of Richmond as adjutant general and chief of staff and Gen A A Booth of New Orleans as assistant adjutant general in recent notices.
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Richmond
Var
Julian S. Carr
Confederate Veterans
Edgar D. Taylor
A. A. Booth
New Orleans
Fairbanks President Killed in Santa Fe Collision
Harvey F. Miller of New York, vice president of the Fairbanks company, died from injuries after a Santa Fe collision at Burrton Kansas. Nine other passengers were injured, three seriously.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Harvey F. Miller
New York
Fairbanks Company
Burrton
Chicago Grain Market study panel formed
Robert McDougal president of the Chicago Board of Trade appoints a seven man committee to study grain trade problems and propose improvements to nationwide marketing facilities.
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Chicago
Robert McDougal
Chicago Board of Trade
Wisconsin tobacco crop to be marketed via pool
The 1922 Wisconsin tobacco crop is expected to reach 60,000,000 pounds and will be cooperatively marketed through the Northern Wisconsin Tobacco Pool, according to the state Department of Markets.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
State Department of Markets
UGA Student Held in Murder Charge After Fatal Public Safety Incident
Briggs Carson of Tifton, Georgia, a University of Georgia summer school student, is jailed in Clarke County on a murder charge tied to the fatal public safety incident involving Benny White, a Black resident of Athens.
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Athens
Briggs Carson
Tifton
University of Georgia Summer School
Clarke County
Benny White
Municipal auto camp sites along Lincoln Highway
A list of camp sites along the Lincoln Highway is compiled for automobile tourists in Popular Mechanics August issue. Communities provide free camping grounds with elaborate facilities and ground set aside for free use by campers. Tourists are welcomed and treated with consideration at all listed points.
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Lincoln Highway
Popular Mechanics
Electric Wiring as Radio Aerial Gains Simple Hookup
An Eastern company markets a small attachment enabling homes to use electric wiring as radio aerials. The August Popular Mechanics shows how a light socket attachment lets crystal-detector receivers and vacuum-tube sets be connected safely.
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Popular Mechanics
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Bailey Branch Union
Collins
Harmony and Beeson
Vicksburg
Henry H. Legett
Lincoln County
Georgia
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Kiwanis Club
Brookhaven
Shaw M. E. Church
Greenville
Litton’s Chapel
J. H. Feltz
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Miss Caldwell
Agricultural High School
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W. T. Lowrey
Blue Mountain College
Baylor College
Belton
Texas
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Order
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Blue Mountain
Itawamba County Agricultural High School
H. L. Simmons
Scooba
Miss
Asheville
N. C
Mississippi Club
Florence Jackson
W. E. Freeman
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H. M. Mason
W. W. Adams
Memphis
Corinth
New Albany
Tippah Creek
Leland
J. T. Mathis
C. S. Chittam
Marshall
Cotton Seed Crushers Association
Gulfport
Militia
Gen. Carr
Fairbanks
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Holley & Golliday
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Ford Phone
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