Hoover urges long term work on Mississippi River system
Washington March 26 Reporters sought Hoover views on Mississippi River improvement after his Chicago address to the Western Society of Engineers. He urged a systematic program from Great Lakes to Atlantic via the St Lawrence with federal support and a national public works department to concentrate engineering and construction for bulk transport and relief from rail shortages affecting farmers and consumers.
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Washington
Herbert M Hoover
Western Society of Engineers
Chicago
Great Lakes
Atlantic Seaboard
St. Lawrence
Lake States
Hoover
United States
Interior Department
Girl buys letters she wrote to a deserter
In Passaic New Jersey Hortense Smithson buys a locked case at a sale of unclaimed effects. A pink envelope packet inside contains letters written by Hortense to a deserte shipmate. She says she wrote every letter and has nothing to add about the recipient. The auction item cost 9.75 dollars. The rest of the tale notes a college for women founded in 1837 and coeducation at Oberlin in 1833.
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New York
Hortense Smithson
Passaic
N. J
Hortense
Edward P. Smithson
Six Brothers Over 70 In Bethel Oldest Missouri Family
Six Bower brothers aged 70 to 87, and one sister, Mary Stecher, 68, form probably the oldest family of brothers in northeast Missouri. All but one sister are still living, with parents John and Christina Bower natives of Germany. The brothers are J. C., 87. T. L., 85. S. F., 83. W. C., 78. A. B., 73. and D. B., 70. The family once numbered twelve children. a sister, Mrs. C. C. Sipple, died at 75. The brothers also run substantial local businesses.
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Shelbyville
Bethel
Missouri
Mary Stecher
Camp Point
John
Christina Bower
Germany
Indiana
J. C. Bower
T. L. Bower
S. F. Bower
W. C. Bower
A. B. Bower
D. B. Bower
S. F. Bowers
C. C. Sipple
Hoover Supporters to Hold National Conference in Chicago
John F. Lucey announced a conference of Hoover supporters from across the country to be held in Chicago within ten days with representatives from state organizations and Hoover clubs. The Hoover West Side Republican Club also announced plans in the Seventeenth district near to the same time.
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New York
John F. Lucey
Hoover National Republican Club
Iotel Vanderbilt
Hoover
Hoover Club
Chicago
Hoover West Side Republican Club
Seventeenth Congressional District
Pri
Hoover movement conference aims to unite delegates
Daily meetings April 6 in the district seek to defeat delegates Herbert Parsons and Albert J. Berwind who did not declare presidential preference. Lucey says Chicago conference was called by Hoover clubs to coordinate efforts as a national outgrowth of the Hoover movement. A national committee and chairman will be named and policies outlined.
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Sary
Herbert Parsons
Albert J. Berwind
Lucey
Chicago
Hoover
Hoover National Republican Club
Hoover Clubs
Demand to disband troops in Ruhr and form workers force
A Bielefeld telegraph reports an agreement between Ruhr workers and authorities calling for disbanding General Von Luettwitz forces and other reactionary corps and forming a working men's force. It states intensified martial law shall end and that workers police citizens and Reichswehr members who fought shall not suffer.
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Ruhr
Copenhagen
Bielefeld
Rhenish Westphalia
Ruhr Valley
von Luettwitz
Reichswehr
Trousers Stolen. Editor Travels by Train
St Louis March 26 Rolling Ar thur Johnson editor of the Lumber World Review Chicago, a passenger on an Illinois Central train from Memphis, telegraphed Belleville railroad officials that someone had stolen his trousers while onboard.
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ST. Louis
Arthur Johnson
The
Lumber World Review of Chicago
Illinois Central
Memphis
Belleville
Robber on Pullman Train Substitutes Overalls for Escape
Johnson slept in a train car and was met by railroad men and police at Union Station. He wore roomy overalls found for him by a brakeman and left to find a substitute to hide the $25 claimed in the trousers. Julius Meyers of Springfield testified he was robbed of a watch and chain on the Pullman.
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Union Station
Johnson
Julius Meyers
Springfield
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