News Highlights From The Week In Brief Washington and Beyond
The State department proposes an American Mexican commission to seek recognition of Mexico. President Harding backs Forest Protection Week and a Stone Mountain Confederate memorial. Daughters of the American Revolution hold their congress amid election ballots. Post Office reports 5.28 million miles flown by mail aviators since 1918. War veterans protest at the White House with anti war prisoner appeals. Du Pont comments on improving business conditions. Alexander P. Moore named US ambassador to Spain arriving in Madrid. Wyoming endures heavy wet snow exceeding prior records. Debs criticizes postwar prospects in Minnesota. Marriages and legal cases surface, including a bigamy charge against Charles W. Davis. Herrin coal investigations continue in Marion. Army airship TC-1 completes a 150 mile flight in record time. Senator Lafollette plans a June stump tour. Wisconsin teachers win retirement fund case. National University Extension Association discusses mail-based teaching. Seaman Paper plans a North Vancouver mill. The Commoner suspension announced in Lincoln. Creedon sentenced for killing a girl by automobile in Philadelphia. Forest fire and tremors reported in Michigan and California. Centenarian Mormon John Michael Redmond dies in Salt Lake City. Executions of Harris brothers carried out in Butte. A boy near Davenport hangs himself from a raft in a shed. Cardinal von Faulhaber arrives in New York with thanks to Americans.
Global unrest and political shifts across nations
Indefinite postponement of the Most Rev. Dr. Tikhon’s treason trial is ordered in Moscow while Joseph C. Grew pledges U.S. defense of national interests. Mussolini accepts resignations of Popular party ministers in Rome. Riots injure 74 Jewish students in Bucharest and spread to their business district. Ataman Semenoff to receive 1,060,000 yen for safe keeping in Siberia, with Judge Nakajima ordering repayment. Swiss magnate Gottlieb Stauffer dies amid a room littered with checks. Chancellor Cuno urges peace talks with France after the Curzon speech. Typhoid kills eight in Mansonville, Quebec, with a third of residents affected. London warns citizens against travel to Germany. Belgium-U.S. treaty grants Americans equal rights to Ruanda Urundi. Ruhr communists siege Mulheim as Green Police clash with Red lines. Dr Don Murphy released from Mountjoy hunger strike in Dublin.
Prominent Tennessee Lawyer Jesse M. Littleton Dies in Chattanooga
Jesse M. Littleton fifty six longtime national committeeman from Tennessee and leading member of the state bar died in Chattanooga after an illness of more than a year. Maj. Gen. Frank D. Baldwin former adjutant general of Colorado and twice awarded the congressional Medal of Honor died at his Denver residence.
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Jesse M. Littleton
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Frank D. Baldwin
State of
Colorado
Denver, Colo
Harding backs league court in first public address
President Harding opened his campaign for American entry into the League of Nations Permanent Court of International Justice in New York. He argued the plan aligns with party pledges and denies it means joining the League by any door, urging support despite GOP opposition and possible Democratic help.
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Harding
League of Nation
Permanent Court of International Justice
Watson
Indiana
Lodge
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washington
Congress
Theourt
League of Nations
League
Old Posey Piute Chief Found Dead in Canyon
Old Posey a renegade Piute Indian chief linked to a southern Utah uprising was found dead in a canyon niche. Federal Officer Comb reported the body appears to have been fatally shot in a skirmish with settlers around March 28.
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Old Posey
Piute
Canyon Salt Lake City
Utah
Comb
Allies Accept U S Terms on Rhine Army Costs
Paris April 25 report says the allies have practically accepted the American demand to scatter Rhine army costs over the first twelve annual German payments and grant America priority over current allied army costs during those years.
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U. S
Paris
America
Hail Storm Smashes Windows in Henrietta Texas
A hail and wind storm in Henrietta Texas caused about 200000 dollars in damage. The storm on Tuesday evening hurled egg sized hail at speeds near fifty miles per hour and shattered every window in town.
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Texas
Henrietta
Tex
Reds Incite Ruhr Jobless Clash in Essen
An unemployed mob clashed with police at Katernberg in Essen. One man was killed and another badly wounded as authorities blamed communist agitators for the outbreaks.
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Ruhr
Essen
Katernberg
British refuse to loosen grip on the Turkish Straits
Lausanne April 25 The British refuse to evacuate Constantinople and the Dardanelles despite Turkey ratifying the peace treaty under negotiation here.
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Briish
Turk Straits
Lausanne
Constantinople
Dardanelles
Turkey
Make $5.00 A Day In Your Spare Time
A Cleveland Ohio advertisement from Abner Royce Co invites women to join as sales representatives. Earn five dollars daily in spare hours selling Royce flavored extracts and toilet requisites. The spot promotes 44 years of which Royce goods have been used nationwide and 20 000 reps since 1879. Write for the Royce Money Book from Station B Box 68 F Cleveland.
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Abner Royce Co
Royce
Abner Royce Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Teachers receive quirky excuse note from Boston Transcript
A Boston Transcript item quotes two school excuses. One asks to excuse Mary for being jumpy due to a personal event at St. Fido's dance. The other asks to excuse Willie after returning home at recess due to a pain in the boy's basement and stairs difficulties.
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Mary
Willie
Boston Transcript
Important to All Women Readers Swamp Root Ad
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble, often misattributed to other causes. Swamp Root, claimed to restore kidney health, is promoted with sample bottles by enclosing ten cents to Dr Kilmer and Co in Binghamton NY. available in drug stores.
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Kilmer
Wail Heard In All Ages
A reflective quote attributed to Walsingham laments shared human pity about the purpose of birth and the moment of death. The line observes people only recognizing the meaning of life as they approach its end.
Spring Cleaning Dessert With Plymouth Rock Gelatine
An in the kitchen note promotes a quick dessert using Plymouth Rock Gelatine. It claims no cooking needed and that any flavor works, producing enough for several meals during busy house cleaning time.
Must Make Use of Material Quote by E C Lindeman
A quotation urges applying newly discovered materials to avoid living in a stupid world. The speaker credits E C Lindeman and emphasizes practical use of innovations to avoid intellectual stagnation.
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E. C. Lindeman
Cold in the Head and Hall’s Catarrh Medicine Ad
An old advertisement explains cold prone people fall into a run down state. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine offers a local ointment and a blood-acting tonic to build up the system and reduce susceptibility to colds. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by F. W. Cheney & Co., Toledo.
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Hall
Cheney & Co
Toledo
Getting Back
A wry literary remark quotes a musician who says a haunting tune returns to him. The line humorously adds that the musician killed the melody, implying a ghostly or creative struggle with music.
Boss’s Early Morning Taunt Causes Morning Tension
Dialog notes tension as workers question the boss’s habit of arriving early. Aories suggest he enjoys catching staff arriving late, signaling a power dynamic and morale impact in the office.
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General Motors Corporation
HE. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co
Alexander P. Moore
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Madison
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Mormon Church
Salt Lake City
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Butte, Mont
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Chaux de Fondes
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Cuno
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