Merger Plan Reopens Hearings on 19 Rail Systems
The Interstate Commerce Commission prepares to resume hearings on consolidating U S railroads into 19 systems. Hearings will begin next month in the Far West under Henry C Hall with opposition expected nationwide. The plan follows a Supreme Court dissolution order affecting Southern Pacific and Central Pacific properties and may shift Central Pacific to Union Pacific.
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Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Commission
Henry C. Hall
Far West
Supreme Court of the United States
Southern Pacific
Central Pacific
Union Pacific
Supreme Court
California
Ripley
Woman Held in Murder Case After Lou Davis Found
Police identify the burned body of Lou Davis in a weed patch and arrest Maggie May a former housekeeper believed responsible for a disappearance about seven weeks earlier. Authorities search for May’s former husband.
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Omaha
Neb
Lou Davis
Maggie May
Davis
Follies Star Billie Weston In Bellevue After Poison Attempt
Billie Weston a Greenwich Village Follies star was to rehearse for the 1923 edition but is in Bellevue Hospital fighting for life. Police say a shattered romance financial difficulties and a divorce dispute led her to attempt suicide by poison or drugs.
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New York
Billie Weston
Greenwich Village
Bellevue Hospital
Shooting At Omaha Lunch Stand Claims Cyclone Miller
Omaha victim Cyclone Miller proprietor of a local box lunch company was shot to death by an intoxicated old man he tried to escort from a lunch stand. Witnesses said the suspect, unnamed, frightened patrons and fled. police seek him.
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Omaha
Neb
Cyclone Miller
Miller
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Agatha Miller
D. H. Miller
Cleveland
J. Gardner
Chicago
William Heelon, Jr
Tragic suicide near wife's grave in Portland
Sidney A. Scott a 58 year old contractor was found dead beside his wife at her grave in Portland Oregon. A rifle lay nearby and a note in his hand stated he did not care to lie longer without his helpmate.
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Portland
Ore
Sidney A. Scott
Scott
World News Recap of Postwar U S and Global Events
A diverse roll of items includes deaths of Gen Pertab Singhji regent of Jorhipur and a Houston forecaster, U S tariff votes on soldiers bonus, naval orders to protect Smyrna, Harding discussions on a Detroit temple cornerstone, naturalization figures for July, labor leadership messages, record Panama Canal traffic, birth and death rate shifts, coal profiteering legislation, and a series of legal and violent incidents across the United States.
International News In Brief From Europe and Beyond
British battleships reach Smyrna to safeguard interests while a plot to kill a royal family surfaces at a festival in Bucharest. Explosions in Whitehaven, England trap workers. Berlin rumors of Frederick William death denied. Greece seeks Allied aid for Asia Minor evacuation and armistice. League of Nations elects Augustin Edwards of Chile. American Legion delegates arrive in Brussels. Reparations talks favor Belgian‑Italian plan to accept German treasury notes. Red Russian clashes in southern Russia. Czechoslovakia signs alliance with Jugoslavia at Marienbad. Irish post office attack leaves several dead in Bantry as Free State forces clash.
Historic Kitchen Notes with Pepper Dishes and Dainties
A cookbook fragment offers stuffed peppers with cheese and rice, lunch cake, squash with white sauce, and pea based dishes like green pea soup and salmon and pea salad. Also included are salad ideas, peppers stuffed with meat, green gage sherbet, and decorative culinary tips with light verse and food commentary.
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Sir Pertab Singhji
Jorhipur
Simla
B. Bunnemyer
Houston
Tex
Washington
Senate
House
State Department
Roosevelt
Bristol
Constantinople
Smyrna
Harding
Tari Commission
Thomas W. Page
Newberry
Michigan
Detroit
Washington Labor Department
The
Workers of America
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Panama
Panama Canal
Census Bureau At
Washnon
United States Senate
Clarke
George H. Sutherland
Utah
Glen H. Price
Grover C. Todd
Prohibition
Phillip Warren
New Grand Rouge
Warren
Guy L. ‘Waggoner
Misg Ary Burnett
Fort Worth
Texas
William M. Johnston
Gerald L. Patterson
Australia
Forest Hills
Daugherty
Earl H. Gimple
St. Louis
Paris
White House
National Drainage Congress
Kansas City
Mac
Gamma
Smithfield
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Bells
Denison
Atlantic
Ill
Belle Cook
Ollie Mattingly
Samuel Stumpy
Sam Russell
Harrisburg
Ku Klux Klan
Atlanta
Chicago Federation of Labor
Dreadnught Iron Duke
Bukharest
White Haven
New Castle
England
Evening Chronicle
Berlin
Frederick Wilhelm
Germany
Doorn
Holland
London ‘Telegraph
Great Britain
Asia Minor
Augustin Edwards
Chile
Third Assembly
League of Nations
Geneva
Dominico da Gama
Brazil
American Legionaguires
Brussels
Belgium
Italy
Russia
Odessa
Czechoslovakia
Jugo-Slavia
Marienbad
Pachitch
Benes
Gibbs Ross
Bantry
Ireland
Hawkeye
State News
Charles City
Elsie Bender
Monticello
Egypt
Grlw
Cairo
A. J White
Sioux City
Dickerson
Hancock Township
Westfield
Standard Oil Company
Storm Lake
State
W. A. Whetzel
Dexter
John R. Hughes
Mt. Pleasant
Board of Supervisors
Farber
Albert Conrad
Cedar Rapids
Marion
American Hotel Association
Cherokee County
Len Jenkins
Cherokee
Jane Bendixon
Davenport
Rock Island
James Babb
Red Oak
Dan Coyle
Humboldt County Fair
Iowa City Canning Company
Michael Berger
George Gruber
Shenandoah Pavilion
Emma Hines
Council Bluffs
West Branch
Taylor
Waukon
Interstate Power Company
Boston
Char
Yes Anderson
Farragut
Ulu
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