World events in brief from Washington to Kansas
Digest of world notes: Interior splits reclamation unit from administration. Chicago ships 60 million stamps valued at 5.589 million dollars. U S debt and taxes up since 1913. Red Cross budget set at 12 million for 1924. Cholera losses hit hogs by four percent. Fed Reserve to consider new branch bids in Salt Lake City and Little Rock. Wadleigh resigns to join coal industry. Shreveport workers win medals for life saving. Coolidge pressed to cut export and coal rates. Newmar released by Mexican bandits. Curtis and Anthony plan equal rights amendment introduction.
Notable 1923 political and crime highlights across the nation
Domestic Robert J. Daly of Chicago elected president of the Masonic Relief Association of the United States and Canada at its Washington biennial. Godfrey S. Rockefeller begins work at Albany bank at $20 weekly. Four killed and a man injured when their car collided with a Pennsylvania train at Bridgeport Indiana. Clark and Hartgridge of Wood River bank sentenced to two years for embezzlement at Edwardsville. International Jive Stock exhibition set for Chicago December 1 to 8. Porter H. Dale elected U.S. senator in Vermont over Park Pollard. Ottawa Beach hotel in Michigan destroyed, loss $750,000. American investors lose $500 to $750 million on German mark collapse. Emperor Simmons seeks restraining order against Ku Klux Klan. McCray financial probe postponed due to prosecutor illness. Calexico earthquake shock. Virginia hotel shifts on foundations. Denver sold old voting machines for $3 each. Beckley West Virginia miners die in gas explosion. Miss Mary Bartelme elected Chicago Circuit Court judge, Illinois history. Spencer Indiana robbed banks. 27 bandits, two wounded. Pilot schooner seized off North Carolina coast with rye whiskey. William J Fields wins Georgia governor race. Dawson defeated. Mississippi August primaries yield Democratic nominees led by Henry Whitefield for governor.
Noted Massachusetts Governor Samuel McCall Dies at 73
Personal Samuel W. McCall aged seventy three former governor of Massachusetts from 1916 to 1919 and long time United States representative for the Eighth Massachusetts district died at his Winchester home from pneumonia. George R. Huntington fifty five president of the Minneapolis St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railway died suddenly at his Minneapolis home. Edward L. Hamilton, twenty four year congressman from Niles, died at a sanatorium in St. Joseph following an operation.
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Samuel W. McCall
Massachusetts
Winchester
Mass
George R. Huntington
The
Minneapolis, St. Paul
Sault Ste. Marie Railway
Minneapolis, Minn
Edward L. Hamilton
Niles
St. Joseph
Mich
Weekend Football Results Parade and Racing News
Saturday games showed Illinois 7 over Chicago 0 and Michigan 9 to Iowa 8 while Minnesota beat Northwestern 34 14 Notre Dame 34 over Purdue 7 Indiana 82 over Hanover 0 Yale 81 over Army 10 Cornell 82 over Dartmouth 7 Navy 9 over Colgate 0 Centre 10 over Kentucky 0 The Lutonia stakes saw Kentucky's Zev second My Own third and winner 8:00 4 5 for the mile and three quarters Election returns from London favor labor and socialists Madrid enacts profiteering penalties France reports 415 dole applicants last week 52 in Paris March total 91 000.
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Illinois
Chicago
Michigan
Iowa
Minnesota
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Purdue
Indiana
Hanover
Yale
Army
Cornell
Dartmouth
Navy
Colgate
Centre
Kentucky
Pride
Zev
France
Paris
Geese Farming and Regional News Highlights
Readable notes cover farm hints from Mrs. Frank Colvin, wildlife glimpses as 10 000 ducks roam near McGregor, and a hunter's six foot seven inch golden eagle find. Reports include bank consolidation in Emmetsburg, a large Des Moines teachers gathering, rural school pleas, and efforts to fund Malvern community building.
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Frank Colvin
Postville
Wisconsin
McGregor
Iowa
Commercial Bank
First National Bank of
Emmetsburg
First National
Des Moines
Iowa State Teachers Association
Malvern
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
National League of District Postmasters
Convention Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Des Moines Methodist Church
International Federation of Women
United States Department of Agriculture
City Hall
Friends of the
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
Schools of Iowa
Emily M. Porter
Winterset
Lamont
County Boards of Health
State Board of Health
Louisa County
Williams Farm
D. R. Meyers
Clarion
Storm Lake
T. J. Graham
New York
Presbyterian General Board of Education
Buena Vista College
General Board For Presbyterian Schools
State Agricultural Department
Cuticura and quips minimal wisdom in old time ad
A collage of humorous quotes and ad lines from a bygone era. A doctor patient exchange warns against drinking cure-all tonics. Cuticura soap ointment and talcum promote toilet use. A divorce grimace and a car tale braid into the slice of life.
Allcock's Plaster Mentioned in Fractious Conscience Note
A fragment mentions Allcock's original porous plaster as a standard external remedy. It retells a quip about breaking engagement with a school teacher and a joke about writs. The text shifts to reflections on wealth and opportunities, with no clear news event or identifiable subjects.
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Allcock
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Francis R. Wadleigh
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Shreveport
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Washington Dispatch
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Robert A. Newmar
Barron, Wis
State Department
Curtis
Anthony
Kansas
C. H. P. Belmont
Robert J. Daly
Masonic Relief Association
Canada
Association
Godfrey S. Rockefeller
William G. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
Albany
N. Y
Pennsylvania
Bridgeport
Ind
Harry H. Clark
Erwin
Hartridge
First State and Savings Bank of
Wood River
Edwardsville, Jr
Montpelier
Porter H. Dale
Park H. Pollard
Ottawa Beach
Holland, Mich
Emperor W. J. Simmons
Atlanta, Ga
Ku Klux Klan
McCray
Charles Moores
Indianapolis
Imperial Valley
Virginia
Calexico
Cal
Denver
Beckley
W. Va
Mary Bartelme
Spencer, Ind
Nassau
Bogue Inlet
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Swansboro
N. C
William J. Fields
Charles J. Dawson
Louisville
Jackson
Mississippi
Henry L. Whitefield
Columbus
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Madrid
Hawkeye
State News
Jemima
Hone
America
Samova
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J. Fuller Gloom
Beech
Ash
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