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Washington reports cover diverse topics from economic policy and wars to riots and famine. Key items include Williams defending Federal reserve loan policy amid farmer protests, Sweet bill passing in the House to consolidate veterans relief, and calls for Liberia payments under a prior loan.
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John Skelton Williams
Federal Reserve Board
Joint Congressional Commission
Washington
House
Liberia
Harding
Senate
Russia
Hoover
Sauer kraut day in Forreston set for September 22
Forreston schedules its annual Sauer kraut day festival for September 22 with free sauerkraut frankfurts and rye bread for attendees. The item notes other Illinois state events including school principal appointments and infrastructure work in several cities.
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Forreston
William C. Reaves
Alton
University High School
University of Chicago
Rock Island
Moline
Yortieth Street
Mary Hoover
Kansas
Ray Detmering
Edwin N. Armstrong
Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad
Peoria
Black Hawk Oil and Gas Corporation
Orangeville
Chicago
Rockford Capital
Illinois State Normal University
Ralph W. Pringle
Williamson-Jackson County Labor Day Association
Herrin
American Legion
DuPage
PSI
Woodford County
Metamora
Joseph W. Fifer
Bloomington
Lincoln
Nicholas J
Snig
Crudden
Louis Gamondes
Springfield
Small
Sterling
Vernon Curtis
George B. Arnold
State Department of Labor
Tlinois
Vermilion
Macon
Champaign
Platt
Bement
Decatur
Illinois
George Burchek
L. KE. Stone
Weaver
Burchek
Supreme Court
Stone
United Sates Supreme Court
Opposition Grows to Panrose Provisions on War Debts
Washington August 5 opposition to the Panrose bill granting the secretary of the treasury unrestricted authority to liquidate ten billion dollars in Allied war debts gains momentum in the Senate. Johnson Borah La Follette lead Republican opposition with Democratic allies Underhill Reed Walsh McKellar Simmons. Ashurst joins opposition urging immediate interest collection and adherence to Liberty loan terms.
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Washington
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Senator Johnson
California
Senator Borah
Idaho
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Senator Underhill
Alabama
Senator Reed
Missouri
Senator Walsh
Massachusetts
Senator McKellar
Tennessee
Senator Simmons
North Carolina
Congress
Ashurst
Arizona
Europe
Greece warned by Allies over Constantinople move
London reports the allies warned Greece that any advance on Constantinople would not be tolerated. No evidence Greece plans such an action, allies say, and reports that Britain favors a Greek push are denied as absurd. Britain remains neutral between Turkey and Greece.
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London
Greece
Constantinople
Athens
Great Britain
Turkey
Legion Men Sail for France Led by John G. Emery
More than 250 American Legionnaires voyage from New York aboard a passenger liner bound for Cherbourg and Bremen The group will disembark at Cherbourg to visit World War I battlefields led by National Commander John G Emery.
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Aurora
Montgomery
Kane
Kendall
Thomas W. McNeely
Menard County
Petersburg
Kankakee Fair
Small
Peoria
W. D. Brown
Washington, D. C
Association
Moline
Farm Bureau
Jack Lee
Champaign
Danville
Millstadt
Mascoutah
Smithton
Prairie du Long
Lebanon
O’fallon
St. Clair County
D. O. Thomas
Nippersink Channel
Hox Lake
State Division of Highways
Lake County Superintendent of Highways
Tony Taylor
Detroit
Mich
Bertha Odeweldt
Cleve Oedeweldt
Pekin
Toledo, Peoria & Western
Lake Calumet
Chicago
Europe
Middle West
St. Lawrence River
United Electric Coal Company
Delaware
Wilmington
Del
Iinois
Illinois
F. E. Butcher
B. H. Jobson
W. H. Stumpfel
New York
Richard Campbell
J. B. F. Neville
Brooklyn
N. Y
Inllinois
F. 5. Butcher
The
American Legion
Cherbourg
Bremen
Legionnaires
John G. Emery
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Mellon
Ways and Means Committee
Ilinois
South America
Navy
War Risk Bureau
Comptroller of the Treasury
Bari
Italy
Adriatic
France
Vatican
Paris
Rome
Beneventura Serreti
Mauro Ariegui
Customs Service of the
Philippine Islands
Manila
Morocco
Tangier
London Times
Moscow
Louis Judelovitz
Callao
Peru
Ameda Duise
Bluebeard
Essen
Berin
Third International
Riga
Volga
Marseilles
Enrico Caruso
Naples
Edgard Saltus
Ford
River Rouge
Cantigny
Antwerp
Lancaster
N. H
White Mountains
Portland
Baltimore Coal Exchange
Express
Turlock
Cal
Edward Rydzewski
Ogden Avenue Bank
Sidney Hatfield
Edward Chambers
Williamson
W. Va
Welch
P. W. Lively
John W. Worthington
Central Securities Company
Owen T. Evans
Cleveland
Saem
Schuyler Doyle Shale Company
Grand Junction
Colo,ad
Port Washington
Wis
Milwaukee
Llinois
Yfariou
Veterans
S. W. Ve
Penrose
Johnson
Borah
la Follette
Legion
Emery
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