Standard Oil Plans To Call Preferred Stock
New York reports Standard Oil of New Jersey will retire its 200 million dollars of 7 percent cumulative preferred stock. To finance the move the firm may offer new common shares at 30 dollars per share or issue convertible bonds. Holders will receive rights, and management signals a likely increase in the common dividend.
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New York
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Keystone
Farflung
Standard Oil
Standard Oil of
Nuns Quit Mexican Girls College Over New Religious Ed Ban
Forty two nuns and teachers resign from Sacred Heart College for Girls in Mexico City after a decree bars religious instruction. All branches will close as nuns refuse to teach as lay staff. Pachuca reports parish priest Aaron Villaneuva arrested for alleged religious law violations.
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Mexico
Girls’ College
Mexico City
Sacred Heart College
United States
Pachuca
Aaron Villaneuva
Thirteen Hanged for Plot to Kill Turk Ruler
Smyrna reports thirteen men including six parliament members hanged along the water front for conspiring to kill Mustafa Kemal Pasha. All maintained innocence as they died.
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Smyrna
Asiatic Turkey
Water Front
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Camp Devens Blast Kills Captain in Demonstration
An explosion at Camp Devens Massachusetts during a TNT demonstration killed Capt. Lewis R. Edmonds and wounded six enlisted men in training.
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Camp
Devens
Mass
Lewis R. Edmonds
Auto Racer Sonny Talamont Dies at Crown Point Race
The 28 year old veteran of dirt racing, Sonny Talamont, perished in the third event of the summer American Legion races held in Crown Point, Ind. The incident occurred during the third heat.
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Crown Point
Ind
Sonny Talamont
American Legion
No Raise in Rates for Western Lines
The Interstate Commerce Commission denied western railroads a 5 percent freight-rate increase and rejected farmers’ requests for lower agricultural rates. The decision found no eastern emergency justifying higher charges, while noting ongoing studies under Hoch-Smith to assess unjust or discriminatory rates.
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Washington
Western Railroads
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Hoch-Smith
Congress
Curriers
Elks Close Grand Lodge Session With Big Parade
The sixty second annual grand lodge reunion of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks ends in Chicago with a 30 000 participant parade and 50 bands. A $3 000 000 memorial building dedication and the installation of Charles H Grakelow as grand exalted ruler highlight the closing events. Next session scheduled for Cincinnati. Ballon Detroiter wins air race prize. Indiana wins best float. Oakland drills team edges Bakersfield by three one hundredths.
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Chicago
Charles H. Grakelow
Grand Lodge
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
Cincinnati
Jennings
Fla
Indiana
Cleveland
Mich
Philadelphia
Oakland
Qualif
Ohio State
Detroit
Bakersfield
Calif
Buffalo
N. Y
Jackson
Plan for Prohibition Inquiry Faces Support in Capital
In Washington discussions center on a proposed scientific probe into the prohibition question by May or Dever of Chicago. The plan is broadly favored, with Enforcement Chief Lincoln C. Andrews likely to back it.
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Washington
Dever
Chicago
Lincoln C. Andrews
U. S. Expenditures Show 55 Million Increase in Ordinary Receipts
Government ordinary expenditures for the year ended June 30 rose by 55 million dollars from 1925, while total department spending fell about 10 million. Executive and legislative costs grew, Navy and War still led declines, and tax refunds plus debt retirement impacted the year’s accounts.
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Washington
Treasury
State
Post Office
Commerce Departments
Veterans’ Bureau
District of Columbia
Departments of War and Navy
Interior
Agriculture
Labor
Internal Revenue
Shipping Board
Panama Canal
Executive Department
Legislative Branch
Navy Department
War Department
Interior Department
Department of Agriculture
Department of Labor
Treasury Department
Federal Reserve and Intermediate Credit Bank
Trial Set for Missionary Over Corean Branding Incident
Dr C A Haysmeyer American medical missionary at Pingyang Corea faces trial July 27 on cruelty charges. Authorities were notified July 13 after he branded a Corean boy with the word thief on both cheeks using acid following a theft. Corean Seventh Day Adventist missionaries voted to recall him and the mission board in the United States dismissed him.
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Tokyo
C. A. Haysmeyer
Pingyang
Corea
Department of Justice
Imis ~Sionary
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Doctor Fraysmeir
United States
Mission Board
America
Commercial Aviation Plans Massive Expansion
Commercial aviation plans a gigantic expansion to link all major cities by passenger and freight airways. Production records for airplanes and seaplanes will be more than doubled this year.
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Washington
Officers Shoot Eight in Muskogee Hotel Riot
In Muskogee Oklahoma two police officers opened fire in a hotel injuring eight people. Both officers were captured after the incident and are detained.
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Muskogee
Okla
Man Most Curious and the Curiosity of Women
A commentary asserts men are more curious than women about public works and road excavations. The piece cites P. Beaufoy in the London Mail and notes navvies attract male, not female, attention as they work on street projects.
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P. Beaufoy
London Mail
White tailed eagles in Scotland signal loss to arrive
A lone white tailed eagle in Scotland signaled the death of its mate years ago. Within days the surviving bird alerted a continental eagle, which then traveled over to join.
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Scotland
Washington and Lee Skeleton Bath Ends Prank Lore
Freshmen at Washington and Lee were lured by upperclassmen to sign their names on the skeleton of Traveler the gray Civil War charger in the university museum. The white bones were stained with ink and pencil from five generations before the administration ordered a thorough cleaning and relocation to a balcony to halt the custom.
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Washington Lee University
Robert B. Lee
University Museum
Washington and Lee
University Pathfinder Magazine
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Riverdale
Atlas Plumbing and Heating Supplies
Michigan Ave
Pullman
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