Federal Highway Act Expands Road Work Nationwide
The act authorizes 75 million dollars for federal aid to state road building plus 15 million for national forest roads, with states matching funds. It allocates support by population area and rural routes, requires connected road systems, and aims to employ about 250000 workers in road construction and material production.
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Bureau of Public Roads
Department of Agriculture
Treasuries
Secretary of Agriculture
Almot
Delaware
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
State Highway Department
New York
San Francisco
Daily forage needs for a 1000 pound cow
A cow weighing 1000 pounds requires daily maintenance food of eight pounds of clover hay and twenty pounds of good corn silage. This amount is needed regardless of milk production. Food used for milk production must be extra to the maintenance ration.
Senate Confirms Foreign Debt Funding And Soldiers Bonus Move
A secret conference of leading Republicans decided to pass the foreign debt funding bill and approve a soldiers bonus plan after lengthy debate. Lodge reports unanimous support for the debt bill, while three senators helped defeat the bonus motion, with discussions to link the two measures and consider a sales tax to fund the bonus.
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Washington
Senate
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
McCumber
North Dakota
Senate Finance Committee
Bread line in Hammond distributes 400 loaves
In Hammond Indiana a bread line formed for the first time in ten years as jobless men and women received free loaves. Four hundred loaves were handed out by a city funded bakery at the expense of the city welfare department which is examining poverty and unemployment.
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Indiana City
Hammond
Ind
City Welfare Department
Big Gain in Grain Exports in 1921
The Commerce department reports 1921 grain exports rose sharply from 1920. Corn shipments jumped over 700 percent to 129 million bushels valued at 93 million dollars, versus 18 million bushels and 26 million dollars in 1920.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Riot near Illinois factory gates ends in near lynching of supervisor
Streator Illinois January 20 police averted lynching of I C Manson superintendent of Metal Stamping Corporation plant by a mob of 300 striking workers. A rope was placed around Manson neck before a rescuing squad of police arrived.
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Streator
Ill
I. C. Manson
Metal Stamping Corporation
Mason
Giant Whale Capsizes Liner Collision Victim
The liner President Wilson encountered a giant bull whale in mid Atlantic about a week earlier. The creature struck the ship from stem to stern causing a jolt and tearing the vessel. Captain Et tore reported the whale was cut in two.
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Wilson
New York
mid-Atlantic
President Wilson
Ettore “Zar
Russian pianist Pouishnoff begs privacy in London
London readers learn that Russian pianist Mr. Pouishnoff has posted a notice asking ladies and the public to leave him alone at his front door. He states he seeks a quiet bachelor life aside from his art and offers that his recitals remain open if people wish to hear him play.
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London
Pouishnoff
North versus West clash over stock sale plan
North states the scheme won’t hold water while West insists he has no plan to sell stock. The exchange highlights a power struggle and divergent views on ownership, finances, and strategy within the group.
Had To Fall Back On Lunch
Heming shares a humorous anecdote debunking the myth that artists are temperamental. In pre Prohibition days in New York he invited artists to Toronto for a Canadian exhibit. Gardner Symons hosts Heming and Frederick Waugh for lunch at the National Arts Club after a joke about smoking and cocktails.
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Heming
New York
Toronto
Gardner Symons
Frederick Waugh
National Arts Club
Symons
Waugh
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