Government orders mines removed from major ports
Reports from Washington state that revolutionary authorities have ordered the removal of mines and obstructions from Frontera Puerto Mexico and Vera Cruz ports. The text also notes Coolidge’s wheat relief plan presented to Congress and various other political and social updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Frontera
Puerto Mexico
Vera Cruz
President Coolidge
Northwest
Congress
Goa
Notable 1923 Events From Across the Nation
Announcement in New York that Frank A. Munsey acquired the Evening Mail. A Georgia jury convicts Ida Hughes of murdering her mother-in-law. Anselar Harris moves to Los Angeles, William Moss leads the K C O A division. Mrs Warren G Harding to be Marion Star associate editor. LeRoy Melton re elected N E F U president. Betts named VP. Lt. George Rusk dies in Texas crash. American Farm Federation plans a new marketing dept. NYC ships record 9,887 in 1923. Alabama reports no lynchings in 1923.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Ida Hughes
Anselar Harris
Kansas City
Los Angeles
William D. Moss
Ohio
Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and
Arkansas
Warren G. Harding
Marion Star
Marion, O
Jewtraw Wins 500 Meter Speed Race in Paris Games
United States athlete Charles Jewtraw of Lake Placid won the 500 meter speed skating event at the 1924 Paris Olympics in Chaumont France. He defeated Canadian skater Gorman in the fifteenth heat securing an early Olympic victory for the U S.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Chamonix
France
Charles Jewtraw
Lake Placid
Jewtraw
Gorman
Canada
Prominent Business, Banking and Medical Figures Die
William Worthen Appleton aged 79 chairman of D. Appleton & Co. died in New York after a month long pneumonia illness. John M. Herbert president of First National Bank Murphysboro and Republican figure died at 60 in Murphysboro, AL. Dr Edward Lawrence Keyes noted surgeon and dermatologist and son of Maj. Gen Erasmus D. Keyes died in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Worthen Appleton
D. Appleton & Co., Publishers
New York
John M. Herbert
First National Bank of
Murphysboro
The
University of Tinois
Edward Lawrence Keyes
Erasmus D. Keyes
Foreign lands and rulers spark a string of events abroad
The report notes land returns in Yokohama under US leases to Japan, Prince Frederick William in Berlin for unclear political reasons, Trotzky placed under open arrest by Moscow officials, and a strained wartime economy with seal meat promoted to ease living costs. It also mentions Hirohito’s wedding rites and Mussolini ordering Virgil’s tomb purchase for a Greco Roman garden project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick William
Berlin
Prussia
Illinois News Notes highlights and crimes
A roundup from Illinois cites a series of items across the state including a fifth rural school fire near Galesburg, politics with Judge K C Ronald running for governor and John G Oglesby not seeking re election, a Rockford club fire injuring Walter R Craig post, and traffic ordinance talks in Elgin. Other notes cover a Peters burg Brass plant fire that destroyed 20 new autos and canning warehouse, baby births in Jersey County, a train robbery parole case, high school job earnings in Springfield, a Pana whisky poison case, Isadore Levin’s civil service case, a McLean Farmers Grain shortfall and missing cashier Karl Vanness, and a Dunlap fire threat avoided by Peoria.
Illinois farm costs and births shape state outlook
Central Illinois corn production costs average 28.42 dollars per acre with forty bushels per acre yield requiring 62 cents per bushel to break even. Glenecarry Country Club forms between Savanna and Mount Carroll on road 27 with 100 members. Illinois reports 838,000 fewer deaths over three years despite a 225,000 population rise, births 188,230 and deaths 82,808 in 1923 38. Net population gain exceeds 50,000. birth rate 19.6 and death rate 12.1 per thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Tazewell County Corn Club
Pekin
Glenecarry Country Club
Savanna
Mount Carroll
Ilinois
Springfield
Finois
Danville Clearing House elects Asa M Bushnell president
Asa M. Bushnell, president of American Trust and Banking, elected president of the Danville Clearing House association. The 1923-24 Illinois State Blue Book distributed by the secretary of State to General Assembly members libraries and newspapers. L A McFarland a 45 year old Hamilton county farmer found frozen to death on a country road ten miles east of Benton. Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul railroad plans 250000 in Joliet engine house and yard expansion. Rev A D Freden elected president of Rock Island district Augs Lutheran church at Thirst Lutheran church Rock Island. Eureka college endowment reaches 420000 with 85007 from New York general educational board. Damages 20000 filed in Circuit court Princeton against Rock Island Railroad tied to Koos Paulin death. Mount Carroll passes wheel tax for street department with vehicle fees scaled by count. Samuel T Zachary surrenders after two year fight to avoid penitentiary for killing Luther Crawford. sentence to Chester penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Secretary of State
Springfield
General Assembly
L. A. McFarland
Hamilton County
Benton
Boone County institute opposes huge hard road bond issue
At Belvidere the Boone County Farmers institute voted against the proposed 100 million dollar hard road bond plan. They argued automobile license revenue would not cover costs and direct taxes might be needed before bonds could be repaid. Illinois State Normal University property in Normal is private property of the boards of education and not eligible for attorney general services, per Francis G. Blair in an opinion from Attorney General Brundage at Springfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone County Farmers’ Institute
Belvidere
Ilinois
Dog Buried by Farmer City Man Returns From Grave
Donald Harr buried his dog Shep after a railroad accident left the animal stunned and buried in frozen ground. The dog later dug free and returned to his master's home demanding food, surviving the incident despite injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Harr
Farmer City
Shep
Township switch keeps tax duties through year, then plan set
The sheriff, ex officio county collector, remains tax collector for the current year until township organization completes. An Attorney General opinion from Drundage at Springfield was issued to Floyd M. McClure, Cass county state's attorney, on changes to township rule. The Democratic advisory convention at Springfield lists a ticket led by Col. A. A. Sprague for senator and Judge Norman L. Jones for governor, with several other named candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drundage
Springfield
Floyd M. McClure
Cass County
A. A. Sprague
Chicago
Norman L. Jones
Carrollton
Col
Ferdinand Garesche
Madison
Andrew Olson
Maine
Edward J.flushes
John C. Martin
Salem
Thomas Donovan
Joliet
Mary Uart
Benton
Albert A. Albert
Paris
Dandelion Butter Color Sold Wide For Decades
A harmless vegetable butter color used by millions for 50 years appears in drug and general stores as bottles labeled Dandelion priced at 35 cents.
Engagement Ring Sparks Recognition Between Lovers
He holds her hand and shows the engagement ring set just three days earlier. She answers that friends admired it and two recognized the ring, revealing a tense moment of public scrutiny and concealed past.
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E. L. Doheny
Senate
Fall
Ways and Means Committee
Coolidge
White House
J. W. Zevely
Harry Sinclair
Senate Committee
Sinclair
Russia
Florence Kling Harding
Sir Auckland Geddes
Czechoslovakia
Foreign Office
Poincare
Edouard Benes
National Safety Council
Thomas A. Edison
Newark
N. J
Edwin Denby
Secretary of the Navy
Marion L. Fielder
Great Lakes Training Station
Ralph Buetler
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
American Bank and Trust Company of
Missoula, Mont
Ravenna
James North
Andrew Nofeier
Alliance
Tlelen West
Seattle
Wash
James West
San Francisco
Warren G. Iarding
Lake
William Livingston
Lake Carriers’ Association
Detroit
Mich
Michels
Aurora
W. J. Lincoln
Shoup
Lina
Frank A. Munsey
New York Herald
Sun and Globe
Evening Telegram
Evening Mail
LeRoy Melton
Greenville
National Equity Farmers’ Union
Omaha
Pal. Betts
George Gerald Rusk
Brooksfield
Texas
American Farm Federation
Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Yokohama
Moscow
Trotzky
Imperial Palace
Hirohito
Nagaako
Waniesok
Mussolini
Rome
Virgil
Illinois News Notes
Raritan
Galesburg
K. C. Ronald of
Duquoin
Walter R. Craig Post
American Legion
Rockford
Elgin
John G. Oglesby
Elkhart
Brass
Petersburg
Jersey County
William Beaumer
Burlington
Arlington
Bureau County
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Lyman Kk. Davis
J. N. Nelms
Robert A. Smith
Pana
Smith
State Civil Service Commission
Isadore Levin
Sangamon County
Levin
Bloomington
Farmers’ Grain Company
McLean
Karl Vanness
Vanness
Farmers’ Bank
Peoria
Dunlap
J. L. Siegele
Asa M. Bushnell
American Trust and Banking Company
Danville Clearing House Association
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
A. D. Freden
Tantheran
Arion
Wes
Rock Island
Augustana Lutheran Church
Thirst Lutherian
Eureka College
Bert Wilson
General Educational Board of
New York City
Princeton
Rock Island Railroad Company
John Koos
Joseph Paulin
City of
Samuel T. Zachary
Jacksonville
Luther Crawford
Thomas
Chester
Zachary
Bellans
Parker
Patchogue
N.Y
Drageee
Kisses Chemical Works
Prichogen MY
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