Harding approves delay on ship subsidy and policy shifts
White House reports informal sanction by President Harding for a roughly one month postponement of ship subsidy consideration. Administration weighs Recressine postal rate changes while rail coal stocks show 75 days of supply as of June 1. J Morton Howell nominated as first American minister to Egypt and a labor push seeks tougher immigrant limits. Army buildup trimmed to 125000, with health and safety rail strike caution. Soft coal output at 5.078 million tons in week ten. anthracite production near zero. Harding opposition to tariff bill for soldiers bonus affirmed to Senate Republicans.
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Chicago
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Domestic and Local News A Mixed Bag of 1920s Events
A potpourri of 1920s items includes Mrs Anna D Olesen in Minnesota advocating women’s roles, a Morgantown court blocking a Socialist meeting, Elliott Padrick’s alleged confessions, and George Walmsley’s fatal shooting by a son in law. Also noted are harvest deaths in Kansas, a Rio Grande flood, a train wreck crossing, a pilot’s death near Houston, and multiple political and legal items.
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East Peoria, Ill
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Penfield Former U S Ambassador Dies in New York
Frederic C. Penfield, who served as United States ambassador to Austria from 1913 to 1917, died in New York. In a separate report, John DeYoung, 38, working at home in Waukegan Illinois, fell while lifting a chair and died when a chisel punctured his right lung.
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United States
Austria
New York
John DeYoung
Waukegan, IL
Ruth suspended three days after dispute with umpire
Sporting Ban Johnson in Chicago suspended Babe Ruth for three days for conduct in the game at Cleveland when he disputed a decision of Umpire Dineen. Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns hit his eighteenth homer of the season against the Athletics in St. Louis.
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Chicago
Babe Ruth
Cleveland
Dineen
Ken Williams
St. Louis Browns
Athletics
St. Louis
Cavan Votes Tip Griffith as Leader in Belfast Dispatch
The Belfast dispatch reports Arthur Griffith, president of Dail Éireann, leads in Cavan with 18 101 votes nearly doubling rivals. It notes 120 injuries in a clash between patriotic members and communists in Chemnitz and cites Berlin papers on Taft and Lenin.
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Arthur Griffith
Dail Éireann
Ile
Belfast
Patriotic Association
Party of Communists
Chemnitz
Berlin
Illinois News Notes Highlights From State Reports
Illinois selection as a distinguished college by the War department announced at the university. Rock Island plans for a new passenger station advanced as engineers check site. Bloomington paving totals rise with 256 508 feet in use. Jury convicts 26 Greek laborers of manslaughter in Quincy.
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Schuyler County
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Bush Brown
American Legion
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Lake County
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la Salle County
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William Peterson
Winthrop Warrior
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Bless the collar sermon cue in comic verse
A Boston Transcript joke features a minister wrestling a new collar during morning prep. He labors aloud blessing the collar while his wife asks for a text. He cites the fourteenth verse of Psalm fifty five revealing the clash between pious words and worn patience.
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Boston Transcript
Accept No Substitutes Thermometers Debate
A young woman questions a shopkeeper about thermometer prices. He claims the current thermometers are the same as those shown last August, while she argues they contain half the mercury. The exchange, quoted from American Legion Weekly, highlights consumer confusion over product specifications.
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American Legion Weekly
Biblical Picture in a Jordan Ford Camel Riddle
Cartoon caption playfully contrasts a biblical scene with a modern misidentification as a Ford. A mother explains a camel in the Jordan setting while Little Mary notes the joke. The vignette uses humor to juxtapose ancient imagery with a recognizable modern object.
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The
Jordan
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