Hoover eyes conference on coal price deals
Washington reports 80 percent of producers agreeing to cap spot coal at 3.50 a ton during the strike. Hoover considers a wholesale and retail dealer conference to ensure public benefit. Some western Kentucky operators reject the plan, demanding 4.25 a ton. Chicago retailers foresee further 25 to 50 cent increases as supplies run down, with West Virginia coal potentially hitting 9 a ton.
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Department of Commerce
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Western Kentucky
Chicago
Washington
West Virginia
Mother of Three a Slayer in Chicago Murder Case
Victoria Turek admitted joining former roomer Leopold Mikrut in the slaying of her husband Joseph Turek 54. Police traced the crime after finding Joseph hanged near a stairway ten days prior and questioning the mother.
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Victoria Turek
Leopold Mikrut
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Prohibition boosts thrift say bankers in survey
Bankers nationwide report increased savings since the prohibition amendment. The finding comes from National Women's Christian Temperance Union questionnaires asking bankers for financial views on prohibition. In Paris, Premier Poincare wins chamber confidence 484 to 100 amid concerns over reparations loans and Germany claims.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
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Reparations Commission
France
Germany
Robbers Loot Los Angeles Home In $25,000 Heist
Three masked armed robbers bound Mrs Valentine J Rowen and her maid Miss Anna Fosberg before placing them in a closet. They ransacked the Rowen residence and escaped with jewels money and other valuables totaling about 25000 dollars.
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Two Filers Die In Mountain Crash At Fort Bliss
El Paso residents Ben Jenkins Jr a reserve corps lieutenant and Sergeant Arthur Juengling of the Twelfth observation squadron at Fort Bliss were killed when their plane crashed into a mountainside and burned.
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Tex
Ben Jenkins Jr
Arthur Juengling
Twelfth Observation Squadron
Fort Bliss
Farmer Blasted to Death Inspecting Charge on Beresford Farm
Sioux Falls South Dakota headline reports Gust T. Johnson a leading Beresford district farmer killed while inspecting an unexploded blasting charge on his rock blasting job. His head was blown off in the explosion.
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Gust T. Johnson
Beresford
Lincoln Memorial dedication and wartime policy notes
Lincoln Memorial dedication marks a presidential triumph with President Harding receiving the structure from Chief Justice Taft and praising Lincoln. The report covers varied events from rail fare cuts and agriculture leadership to a larger series of accidents, crimes, and political stances across the country.
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Washington
Harding
Taft
Murphy wins 500 mile Indy race in Miller Special
Jimmy Murphy of Los Angeles driving a Miller Special won the 500 mile Indianapolis race earning prizes totaling 85 000 dollars.
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Jimmy Murphy
Los Angeles
Indianapolis
Obituary and World Briefs From Global Dispatch
Personal Lieut. Com. Robert Wallace, U. S. N., retired, died at Caldwell New Jersey at forty two after appointment to the navy academy in 1898 from Louisville. The Ulster forces evacuate band of border country as Belfast reports this withdrawal. Manchurian mutiny spreads with garrison support for Wu Pei fu. Wong Sim Di受 sentenced to death for 27 murders. Churchill announces British artillery landing at Belfast. Aguinaldo to attend Spanish War Veterans convention in Los Angeles. Damascus unrest follows Doctor Shahbander arrest. Horatio Bottomley found guilty of misappropriation, seven year sentence. Bulgarian chargé d affaires assassinated. Lerchenfeld wrecked by munitions dump blast. five killed. Sawmill boiler explodes in Buenos Aires. million peso damage. Four earthquakes near Terni terrify northern Lazio.
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Caldwell
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Navy Academy
Louisville
Hawkeye State News Totals Tragic Local Incidents
Iowa items report Dubuque man Charles Billings killed in a car crash. Isaac Coulter of Centerville killed his wife and himself in Kansas City. Wilton Junction farmer J H English files for 17000 bankruptcy exemption. Logan farmer W F Goodrich returns home to find neighbors plowed his corn. Story City teen Merton Johnson dies from a fall. Des Moines hospital treats B F Larson after stopping a runaway team. Sioux City foreman William A Burke killed when an air tank explodes. Dubuque city hall to be electrified replacing long gas use. Boxholm man John A Nordell killed working on Central American railway. estate probated in Boone. Ottumwa real estate soaring. 220 percent capital rise in five years. 2,000,000 cigars produced in 1921. Cedar Rapids farmer Matt Spellerberg sued for 30000 by Lydia Kulhavy over marriage promise. Walter Flynn, World War veteran, dies from cornstalk injury. leaves widow and three children near Gravity. Des Moines duo McCormick and Reese acquire Lake Crayhill for summer camps with YMCA-style program and military training. Folletts farmer Howard Bower dies after wagon accident. Decorah clerk Dorothy Brown critically ill from tarantula bite. Grand River bank loot found at river root. two robbers involved. Waterloo woman Riley Downs shot by husband then husband commits suicide. wife lightly wounded. they had been separated.
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Dubuque
William Leidinger
Issac Coulter
Centerville
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J. H. English
Wilton Junction
W. F. Goodrich
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Merton Johnson
Boxholm
Ottumwa
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C. A. Reese
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Howard Bower
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Clinton
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Dorothy Brown
Decorah
Grand River Bank
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Waterloo
Archangel Michael Statuette Presented By Diaz To Legion Leader
A silver statuette of Archangel Michael given by General Armando Diaz to Commander Hanford MacNider of the American Legion symbolizes hope for an end to war. The piece is kept in the Legion's trophy room at the fortress of San Angelo in Rome, near Hadrian’s Tomb.
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Armando Diaz
Italy
Hanford MacNider
American Legion
Legion
St Michael
O San Angelo
Rome
San Angelo
Hadrian
Gregory
Plans relief pact between labor and Legion for WWI sick
John H. Walker president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor proposes an official arrangement between organized labor and the American Legion to aid the World War sick and wounded and their dependents. Commander Mac Mider of the Legion endorses the idea and it is under consideration. Walker began mining in Illinois before age ten and joined the Knights of Labor at eleven, later serving in nearly every miners' organization office.
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Illinois State Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
American Legion
Mac Mider
Legion
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Ilnois
Knights of Labor
Miners’ Organizations of
Illinois
Steel Helmet Inventor Dead in Paris
Doctor Monprofit, French deputy and World War I veteran, died in Paris. He pioneered the steel helmet and had plans for steel breastplates, conceiving the idea of the tir hat while campaigning in the Balkans in 1914.
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Doctor Monprofit
Chamber of Deputies of
France
Ambulance Corps
Balkans
Correspondence Courses in Army Branches Highlighted
The War department offers correspondence courses in cavalry infantry and artillery as part of citizen training backed by the American Legion. A national plan coordinates the programs nationwide with five instruction courses in each branch of service.
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War Department
American Legion
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