Waterways debate dominates Hoover era policy drive
Edward W. Pickard surveys the inland waterway push led by Hoover in Chicago and the Great Lakes waterway plan. He notes legal clashes over Lake Michigan diversions, a proposed all American canal, and competing routes while highlighting broader international context and forest week initiatives.
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Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Chicago
Middle West
Mississippi
New Orleans
Pittsburgh
Kansas City
Congress
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
Niagara Falls
United States
Niagara
Mr. Hoover
Tranere
Great Lakes States
United States Supreme Court
Lake Michigan
Newton D. Baker
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Michigan
New York
James M. Beck
Hugh Johnson
Niinolis
Daniel N. Kirby
Missouri
Baker’s
War Department
Beck
Seorer
Davis
Great Lakes
Atlantic Seaboard
Lenroot
Wis
Willis
Harding
Iowa
Charles P. Craig
St. Lawrence
White House
C Lorne Campbell
Great Lake
Ontario
Albany
Ogaki
Hudson Bay
Lake Ontario
Lake Superior
Lake Nipigon
Nipigon River
Campbell
America
Canada
Gulf
Butler faces drunkenness charges against Col Williams
General Smedley Butler, newly in command at the San Diego Marine base, files drunkenness and conduct unbecoming charges against Col Alexander Williams. Affidavits from officers claim Williams was intoxicated at a Coronado hotel party. Williams is removed from command of the Fourth Marines, with a court martial anticipated.
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Smedley D. Butler
United ‘States ‘Marine Corps
Alexander’. Williams
San Diego Marine
Butler
San ‘Diego
Philadelphia
Williams
Coronado
Marine Corps
Fourth Regiment of Marines
Navy Department
Washington
Transatlantic radio talk marks 50th anniversary of Bell telephone
The piece recounts the 1876 Bell patent and the fiftieth anniversary radio demonstration between New York and London. Engineers and press watched as signals traveled 3,300 miles from Rocky Point L I to Broughton across the Atlantic via AT&T RCA and the British Post Office.
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England
Rugby
Houston
Maine
Ghent
New Orleans
Mississippi Valley
Andrew Jackson
Atlantic
Mars
Alexander Graham Bell
Washington
New York
London
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Radio Corporation of America
British General Post Office
Hocky Point
L. 1
Ocean
Broughton
Illinois News Brevities Snapshot
Victor Dewein meets in Decatur as a grain buyer. multiple Illinois incidents include deaths in Moline and Mount Vernon. schools expel three Peoria girls. Moline reservoir project proposed. Harmon Marbold home destroyed near Greenview. regional sports and civic issues noted. various legal and public notices across counties with deaths, elections, prices, and plans.
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Victor Dewein
Llinois
Decatur
Warren Boteford
Moline
Mollie Lannan
Lincoln Star
Peoria
Harmon A. Marbold
Greenview
Springfield
Fie
State Young Men’s Christian Association
Rockford
Moline Ministerial Association
Wiliam
Blair
Frances G. Blair
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Mount Vernon
Winnebago County Medical Society
Kane County Board of Supervisors
Geneva
Etta Norton
Maude Adams
Alice Gilliland
Royal Neighbors of America
Rock Island
Kankakee
Governor Small
Mlinois Farmers’ Institute
Waukegan Peoria
Jacksonville
Macomb
Mount
Vernon
Pinckneyville
Rock Island County
Knox County
John Looney
Galesburg
Ben Bell
George F. Kuhlman
Virginia
Cass County
Third District
Isaac D. Rawlings
University of Timnois
Ilinois Department of Conservation
Illinois State Conference of Plasterers
Danville
James Dunn
Champaign
Samuel McCurray
Fast
Whooping cough deaths alarm in study
In one year the United States reports 6822 deaths from whooping cough making it a neglected and dangerous child disease. No cure exists though Dr Drake's Glossco is advertised to ease paroxysms and shorten duration with physician endorsement and dealer guarantees.
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John C. Coolidge
Albert W. Cram
Colonel Coolidge
Cram
Coolidge
United States
Drake
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John B. Sosnowski
Rep
Mich
Jadwin
Detroit
Aristide Briand
France
Council
League of Nations
United States Senate
World Court
Cecil Hurst
Great Britain
Sig. Belotti
Italy
M. Sugimura
Japan
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the Hague
United States Forest Service
Frank O. Lowden
Ilinois
John D. Sherman
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Frank G. Wisner
National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
Will Dilg
Izaak Walton League
W.B. Greeley
United States Forester
George D. Pratt
American Forestry Association
Senaté
Charles W. Hunt
Federal Trade Commission
Illinois
Hansen
F. W. Burton
John Busklevich
John *Arks
Edmund J. Tansen
Dryden
Bellans Hot Water Bellans
Dr Scholl
Wrigley
Dobbs Poultry Farma
New Orlea
James H. Allen
Forbes St
Rochester
N. Y
Henricy
Boschee’s Syrup
Winslow
Haarlem
Pastor Koenigs Nervine
Ee Koenig Medicine CO
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