Harding Outlines Postwar Recovery Plans and Tariff Reform
President Harding in his annual message urges Congress to back a flexible tariff approach, highway and transportation expansion, tax reform, and a stronger merchant marine. He calls for support of foreign debt relief and warns against dismantling existing trade treaties, framing recovery as a joint executive and legislative effort.
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Washington
Harding
Congress
United States
House
Diplomatic Corps
Senate
United States Supreme Court
Federal Tariff Commission
Treasury
Socrates Karakiz on Agricultural Marketing and Reform
The article outlines figures urging better distribution and marketing facilities for farm products and cooperative marketing. It calls for freight rate revision, relief for Russia, and a Congress food purchase for starving Russians. It also advocates regulating corporations and unions and reclamation of western lands.
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Russia
Premier's Trip Off Delays Naval Ratio Talks Amid Japan Reply
Lloyd George scrapped plans to visit Washington as Parliament opens on the Irish settlement. In Washington the four day recess ends with Japan China talks on Shuntung paused awaiting Tokyo's position on the naval ratio. Baron Ikato says Japan faces far reaching issues. Paris papers welcome a three or four power Anglo Japanese alliance alternative, details pending.
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London
Lloyd George
Washington
Trish
Dec. T
Tokyo
Baron Tomosaburo Kato
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Baron Ikato
Paris
Guards Guard Knox Circuit Court in Bailey Family Case
Thirty Kentucky National Guardsmen and three officers guard Barbourville’s Knox Circuit Court during the Bailey family trial for conspiring to murder Beverley TD White of Versailles. White was killed by John Bailey, jailed in Danville awaiting Court of Appeals ruling on his life sentence.
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Frankfort
Kentucky National
Goebel Named Michigan Football Captain
Paul Goebel of Grand Rapids has been elected captain of the University of Michigan football eleven. He played right end for two seasons and is an engineering student in the class of 1923.
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Goebel
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Mich
Paul Goebel
Grand Rapids
University of Michigan
Manchuria Moratorium Debate Shapes Far East Talks
Edward W. Pickard surveys Washington discussions on Japan and China over Shantung and Manchuria. Japan resists troop withdrawal from Manchuria while seeking a 70 percent naval ratio. Britain and the United States back limits, and France leans toward parity with Japan. A German reparations moratorium or Rhine exploitation plans dominate broader postwar diplomacy.
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Edward W. Pickard
Japan
Washington
Germany
Friends of Irish Freedom
United States
Warding
Borah
Association of Nations
League of Nations
Russia
China
Shantung
Hughes
Shantung Railway
Hanihara
Manchuria
Peking
Tiankow
Siberia
Chine
Far East
Harding
Admiral Kanto
Great Britain
Riots Erupt in Vienna Over Bread Prices
Serious riots broke out in Vienna on Thursday as bread prices surged. Looting occurred at shops, Americans were robbed and injured, and the stock exchange was wrecked amid the unrest.
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Vienna
Stock Exchange
Crisis in Trish peace talks threatens return to Ireland war
Ulster leaders reject a plan forcing an all-Ireland parliament citing minority status while Sinn Fein insists Ulster keep rights until change of mind. Southern Trish demand an undivided island and refuse allegiance to the crown. Fabmmon de Valera says talks have gone as far as they can. British cabinet members seek new avenues, but prospects look bleak.
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Lloyd George
America
Sinn Fein
London
United States
Lord Rothermere
Lord Northcliffe
Ulster
Ireland
Ieyal
Trish
Famonn de Valera
Senate committee arrives in Hayti to study occupation
A U S Senate special committee has arrived in Hayti to investigate the American troop occupation of Hayti and the Dominican Republic. Senator McCormick of Illinois, chair, said the group is impartial and loyal, aiming to find a basis for Hayti’s future progress and to promote order, peace, justice, education, and prosperity.
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United States Senate
Hayti
Dominican Republic
McCormick of
Ilinois
Philippines Report Urges Full U.S. Withdrawal or Stronger Hand
The Wood Forbes mission advises either complete U.S. withdrawal or a strengthened presence in the Philippines. It deems independence dangerous without fair chance, urges Congress to empower the governor general, and allows presidential final decision in senate deadlocks over appointments amid current stall in confirmations.
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Wood-Forbes
Philippines
United States
Theilipinos
Congress
Philippine Senate
Wood
Federal board imposes 148 new rules for six railroad crafts
The federal railway labor board issued 148 working rules to govern six railroad shop crafts replacing the 1919 agreement. The changes abolish minute craft classifications and allow cross craft labor, aiming to create an open shop and save about 50 million dollars annually. Unions affected include sheet metal workers boiler makers electrical workers car men blacksmiths and machinists totaling roughly 400 000 members. The board says open shop will be more theoretical than practical now and will consider wage requests next.
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Hi Federal Railway Labor Board
Chicago garment workers strike over piecework return
Following New York peers, 5000 Ladies' Garment Workers union members in Chicago strike to protest employers restoring piecework, claiming it returns workers to sweatshop conditions.
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New York
Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union of
Chicago
Juggled Statistics Reach For Longer Lifespans
An actuary told life underwriters in Chicago that the human race has gained ten years of life expectancy in fifty years and may live to a century. He likens the idea to Mark Twain’s Mississippi, suggesting bends would vanish and the river shrink to about 18 miles over thousands of years.
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Chicago
Mark Twain
Mississippi
Kansas City Star
Cuticura Talcum Powder Promoted in Ad
An advertisement touts Cuticura Talcum Powder as a versatile antiseptic and perfumed dusting powder for face skin baby and dusting. It is presented as part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio alongside Soap and Ointment, claiming superiority over other perfumes.
Not Much to Look at Yet Very Fast Yacht Named After Her
A man plans a yacht trip for tomorrow and mentions naming the boat after his companion. She teases with a smile about the boat, while he modestly notes she isn’t pretty but is very fast. The exchange captures lighthearted romance on the water.
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Houston Post
Nervousness Relief Claims From Dr Pierce Formula
Miss Ora A. Johnson reports relief from nervousness headaches and dizziness after using Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The ad urges others with similar symptoms to obtain the remedy from local druggists or Dr Pierce's Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo for free medical advice.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Dr. Pierce
Miss Ora A. Johnson
Martindale Ave
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo, N. Y
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