U S backs crop board with credit plan to market surplus
Washington reports a defined program to create a federal farm board empowering a designated agency to dispose of surplus crops by export. Farmers joining the plan would cover losses. government funds are not spent, but the agency may borrow from intermediate credit banks backed by farmer security. Iowa outlines a corn belt conference to push a federal export corporation for surplus corn.
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Washington
West
Coolidge
Farm
Iowa
Jardine
L. J Dickinson
Rep
Des Moines
Committee of Fifty
Congress
New Turkish Law Ends MFN Treatment on Imports
Constantinople issued a December 20 decree asserting that non-treaty nations face a 60 percent rise in import duties. American goods worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are stuck in bound warehouses as consignees refuse shipments to avoid higher costs, enabling British French and German rivals to underprice U S products.
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Constantinople
Turkey
United States
Angora
Woolworth Heiress Sells $10 Million in Woolworth Stock
Barbara Hutton, aged fifteen, sold 50,000 Woolworth Stores shares valued at about $200 each in private transactions by Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Lehman Brothers. The sale totals around $10,000,000, while she retains 54 percent of the inherited stock from F. W. Woolworth’s widow.
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New York
Barbara Hutton
Woolworth Stores
F. W. Woolworth
Goldman, Sachs & Co
Lehman Brothers
Vanderbilt Twin House North Half Sells for 3.5 Million
The north half of Vanderbilt's twin houses on Fifth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets sold for about 3.5 million dollars. The buyer was Benjamin Winter, a real estate operator, and the seller was Mrs. Henry White, widow of the former ambassador to France and a Vanderbilt descendant.
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Vanderbilt
New York
Fifth Avenue
Fiftyfirst
Fifty-second Streets
Henry White
France
William H Vanderbilt
Benjamin Winter
Looney Denied New Trial to Begin 14 Year Joliet Sentence
Judge Willis F. Graham refused Looney's request for a new trial in the murder case of Rock Island saloon owner William Gabel. Overruled arrest of judgment, Looney will serve a 14 year term at Joliet pending Supreme Court appeal.
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John P. Looney
Galesburg
Wills F. Graham
William Gabel
Rock Island
Looney
Supreme Court
Jollet
Bill Seeks 187 Million for New Post Offices
Representative Busby of Mississippi on the house public buildings committee proposes an appropriation of 187 083 000 for construction of more than 800 post office buildings nationwide.
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Washington
Busby
Mississippi
House
Publc
Quakes Shake Italian Towns and Paris Flood Scenes
A 12 second Tuscany earthquake caused casualties and damage, with Mount Vesuvius activity renewed and panicked crowds fleeing. Abbadia and Sansalvatore are reported hardest hit as French floods threaten Paris while rescue crews save schoolgirls at Tremblay after a parapet failure.
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Rome
Tuscany
Mount Vesuvius
Italy
Abbadia
Sansalvatore
Paris
France
M. Demoenzie
Laris
Tremblay
Marne
Union Miners Seek New Conquests in Indiana
Evansville union organizers claim victory in their district campaign and plan to move on to Princeton territory to push their program. Local mines remain closed with James H. Moore and Harvey Cartwright conducting talks to reopen diggings amid a deadlock and peaceful, orderly activity.
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Indiana
Evansville
Ind
Princeton
James H. Moore
Harvey Cartwright
United Mine Workers of America
Charter Denied for Garland Love Colony Experiment
Charles Garland faced a court appointed master who refused to recommend a charter for his love colony project in Allentown. The Milford township farm houses about a dozen followers. the master, Robert L. Stuart, deemed the incorporators unfit to conduct the social science experiment and denounced its promoters.
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Garland
Allentown
Charles Garland
Milford Township
Robert L. Stuart
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Out of Danger After Attempt
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw a former dancer and ex wife of Harry K Thaw is out of danger after a suicide attempt. She was moved from Ashland Boulevard hospital to West End hospital to convalesce.
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Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Chicago
Harry K. Thaw
Ashland Boulevard
West End
Railroads Agree to Nationwide Arbitration of Disputes
Washington reports President Coolidge backs a sweeping agreement by about 50 railroads and 1.7 million employees to arbitrate all disputes. The plan abolishes the railroad labor board, creates on road and national conciliation boards with public representation, and bars lockouts or strikes during investigations and 30 days after reports.
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Washington
Coolidge
Railroad Labor Board
National Conciliation Board
Berlin Bride Misses Vanderbilt Wedding
Mrs. Irving Berlin did not attend the Vanderbilt wedding of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt to Earl D. T. Smith. Berlin and his bride remained in his Manhattan apartment after a sudden marriage, and no explanation was found for her absence among the guests. Reports of Mackay inheritance and Berlin’s $1,000,000 settlement were denied by a business associate.
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Berlin
Vanderbilt
New York
Irving Berlin
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Earl D. T. Smith
William K. Vanderbilt
Clarence R. Mackay
Ellen Mackay
East Forty-sixth Street
Mackay
Operators and Miners Confer on Peace Plan
New York report that talks between six miners and six operators have not yielded definite results. Neutral member Alva Markle is credited with keeping the conferees together hoping for favorable developments and a possible shift in stance to end the strike.
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New York
Alva Markle
America Must Grow Rubber to Avert Shortage
F A Seiberling former Goodyear head testifies before the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce arguing rubber must be grown domestically. He calls for a rubber planting project in the Philippines as essential for national needs.
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America
Washington
F A Seiberling
Goodyear Rubber Company
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Philippines
Five Injured When Shell Explodes on U S Warship
An explosion of a defective shell aboard the battleship Oklahoma during anti aircraft practice off Catalina island injures five sailors. Frank P. Ryan of Chicago seaman first class and gun captain is the most seriously hurt with the loss of sight in one eye and burns to the body.
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U. S
San Pedro
Cal
Oklahoma
Catalina Island
Frank P. Ryan
Chicago
Fifty Visit Roosevelt Grave in New York
Fifty men and women who knew Theodore Roosevelt joined a pilgrimage to his grave at Youngs Memorial cemetery near Oyster Bay and laid a wreath on the tombstone.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Young’s Memorial Cemetery
Oyster Bay
Ocean bed surprises reveal deep Atlantic mountain ranges
The Atlantic ocean floor hides plateau and mountain ranges near the surface, with peaks reaching shallow depths. Expeditions seek sunken gold valued at 1.5 billion dollars, aided by diving gear and mercury lamps enabling deep sea exploration and filming.
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Atlantic Ocean
Britannia
South Pacific
Edward VII
North Atlantic
Atlantic
Laura Ethel
Bermudas
St. Helena
Ascension Island
Kuril Islands
Porto Rico
Lund
Make Money From Pest
The text notes rabbits and hares are a pest to NSW farmers with large annual slaughter. It cites the 1919-20 export boom valued at 15.65 million dollars, including 6,080,636 pairs exported and 9,927,240 pounds of skins. It estimates skins and carcasses plus local consumption reached about 100 million animals.
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New South Wales
Australia
Advertising in Brazil Cushions Coffee Boycott Losses
Brazilian business interests turned to advertising to cope with a coffee boycott. In a few months they spent about a million dollars to counteract the boycott’s effects.
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Brazil
Missing radium tube found after sewer search
A St Paul hospital reported a tiny tube containing 800000 dollars worth of radium vanished and likely washed into the sewer. A radium detector on an electroroscope led a weeks long hunt through sewers and finally detected the tube in a nine inch sewer. Capper's Weekly notes the discovery after extensive digging.
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St. Paul
Wealthy Canada Reaches Seventh Richest Nation Status
A National City Bank of New York report states Canada’s national wealth has doubled in a decade and more than sevenfold since 1870, totaling about $20 billion, ranking it as the seventh wealthiest country globally.
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Canada
National City Bank of New York
Offers Stand Ready For Five Million Dollar Check
A New York Times column claims a mechanism exists ready to pay five million dollars to anyone who can supply one hundred million dollars. The note emphasizes readiness to finalize the offer at short notice.
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New York Times
Bayer Aspirin Warning and Cole's Carboni Salve Ad
An advertisement urges buyers to verify Bayer branding on Aspirin to ensure genuine product safety. It also promotes Cole's Carboni salve for quick burn or cut healing, claiming scarless results and offering mail order at 30 cents plus instructions to send payment to The J. W. Cole Co. in Rockford, Illinois.
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J. W. Cole Co
Rockford, Ill
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