Shantung Sale Postpones League of Nations Debate
The article surveys reactions to the Shantung transfer to Japan and the impact on the League of Nations, detailing Senate debates on reservations, Australia Britain and the United States positions, and calls for data on secret treaties. It notes President Wilson and Lansing’s views, plus prevailing concerns over Mexico intervention, daylight saving veto, and ongoing prohibition issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shantung
China
Japan
Wilson
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Swanson
Virginia
League of Nations
McCormick
Illnois
Lodge
Germany
Shantung Peninsula
Moses
New Hampshire
Foreign Relations Compittee
Norris
Nebraska
Hitchcock
Williams
Mississippi
White House
Borah
Idaho
Re Publican
League
Sherman
Repub‘ean
Tlnois
Great Britain
United “States
Congress
House
Nebraska News Roundup From Blue Springs To Lincoln
A broad Nebraska news slice notes Susannah Thomen of Blue Springs death, Hastings merchants form a retail association, Beatrice M W A camp sale, Lincoln entertains Ak-Sar-Ben night, Superior paves, and Adams county veterans host a July homecoming. Also reported are Titan survivor Carl Johnson home on furlough, Rome-like temple plans for Beatrice Masons, and various county projects, grain prices, coal contracts, road and waterworks developments, plus war casualty notes and public school funding boosts.
Motor Trucks to Aid Roads Question Surplus Units
More than 45 million dollars worth of surplus motor trucks, from two to five tons, will be distributed by the secretary of agriculture through the bureau of public roads to state highway departments. About 20 000 trucks, 11 000 new and 9 000 used, are available at minimal cost, with states to pay loading and freight. Trucks will be allocated based on federal aid road needs and state requests, not to individuals or counties.
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O. M Backus
DuBois
Pawnee City Hospital
Kearney
Katherine Gustschalk
Monroe
Ohio
Walter Peck
Ravenna
Sterling
Nebraska Gas Company
Tecumseh
State Board of Control
Blue River
Memorial Hall
Lincoln
John Bostetler
Fremont
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
Roosevelt Republican Club
Nebraska
Columbus
McKelvie
Surprise Telephone Company
Surprise
Rising City
Jim Busby
C. I. Meyers
Minatare
Scottsbluff
Armsberry
J. W. Grisinger
Bellwood
Brandeis
Omaha
State Railway Commission
Callaway Telephone Company
Great Falls
Mont
Sidney
Worl
Ashland Ice & Cold Storage Company
Greenwood
North Platte
Alma
Keester
Railway Commission
Twilight
Peter Stevens
Cheyenne County
Frontier
Nebraska City
Montana
Burlington
DeWitt
Hoag
Riverside Township
Gage County
Red Cloud
Putnam
Livestock Sanitary Board
Paul H. Jarret
Milford
C. O. Curtis
Stella
Carl L. Fisher
Albert Galbraith
Charles Kelter
Hartington
Emil Vitek
Czecho-Slovakia
New Republic of Czecho- Slovakia
United States
Charles Pelant
Venkov
Prague
Bohemia
Bladen
Kansas City
Merlina
Oren D. Kratzer
Ulysses Dispatch
H .J. Whitacre
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Kratzer
Garrison
Whitacre
Ashland
Farmers’ Union Co-operative, Association
Yart
Farmers’. Union
Secretary of Agriculture
Bureau of Public Roads
State Highway Departments
War Department
Post Office
He Motors
Bureau of P Roads
Maine Farmers Call for Good Roads as Top Need
A survey of 200 Maine farmers shows good roads as the foremost economic requirement. Other strong asks include more farm laborers, cooperative buying, better school privileges, improved stock, manufacturing plants, marketing facilities, and greater bank credit.
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State of
Maine
Roads as dividend payers for farmers in county bonds
The article argues that improving roads boosts farm productivity. It compares time saved by faster travel to monetary gains, estimating a farmer with a $10,000 assessment faces $10 yearly road bond taxes but gains $31.20 from time savings, yielding a 8.12 percent return on investment.
Texas Highway Funding Figures for 1919 Released
A rough 1919 report cites about 12 million dollars available for road construction in Texas. The document, attributed to a state official, notes a figure near 10 million to be allocated under a federal program.
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Texas
Em. Bubbard
Edwa Commission
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Paris
Djemal Pasha
Haver Vasha
Salaat Bey
Aur
Hatgers
Squires
U.S. A
Beas
Suantong Award
Mexico
Edward W. Pickard
Europe
Nesses
Hopieul
Robert Lansing
America
United States Senate
Wil
Hays
Republican National
United Stattes
McCumber North Dakota
Colt
Rhode Island
Washington
Aroad
John W. Correll
National Association For the Protection of American Rights
Correll
France
Spain
Holland
Federal Trade Commission
Department of Justice
Susannah Thomen
Blue Springs
Grand Island
Hastings
Beatrice
Superior
Ak-Sar- Ben
Adams County
Carl Bergstrom
Newman Grove
Masonic Lodge of
Webster County
Carl Johnson
Wahoo
Moorefield Farm
Branch
Lancaster
Lieut
Lloyd Thompson
The
Grand Island Aero Company
Army Motor Truck
State ‘Highway-Commission
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