Three Children Die In Arkansas Fire From Gas Leak
A house fire in Eldorado Arkansas killed Edith Bessie and Tressle Bagget and badly burned their mother and two brothers. The blaze started from a broken gas pipe. In California, the San Francisco board of supervisors voted 9 to 8 to submit to voters in November the question of asking Congress to modify the Volstead act.
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Eldorado
Ark
Edith
Bessie
Tressle Bagget
Board of Supervisors
San Francisco
World news and crimes from a late 1920s Washington dispatch
The report covers a March press briefing with items including Taft announcing a Supreme Court recess from March 27 to April 10, Otto Wiedfeldt named German ambassador to the United States, Bulgaria seeking credits extension from the League of Nations, and American troops to be withdrawn from Germany by July 1. It also notes the State Department assuring Wiedfeldt’s acceptance, recovery of $175,000 in stolen Liberty bonds, bids rejected for aging ships, and a rise in home construction activity. Additional items mention political debates over army size, a February budget cut, the death of ex-U.S. attorney Oscar Cain, concerns over a U.S.–Great Britain pact against Japan, Nelson’s Maine congressional victory, a Chicago pawn shop heist, the sale of Chicago Masonic Temple, a Cleveland lottery indictment, and various social accidents and prosecutions.
Noted Miami University President A. D. Hepburn Dies
Mrs. Henrietta A Hepburn aged ninety nine widow of A D Hepburn former Miami University president dies at Oxford Ohio. She was daughter of William Holmes McGuffey author of the McGuffey reader. Edward Arthur Walton famed artist dies in Edinburgh. He served as president of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colors.
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Henrietta A. Hepburn
Miami University
Oxford, O
Wiliam Holmes McGuffey
McGuffey
Edward Arthur Walton
Edinburgh
Royal Scottish Society of Painters In Water Colors
Johnny Dundee Wins 15-Round Bout At Madison Square Garden
Johnny Dundee of New York defeats Charlie White of Chicago in a close 15 round decision at Madison Square Garden New York. Dundee earns a victory in a brisk contest before a large crowd at the famous venue.
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Johnny Dundee
New York
Charlie White
Chicago
Madison Square Garden
Notes on Germany Occupation Costs and Cannes Reparations
Washington reports identical notes to Britain Belgium France Italy and Japan outlining American demand for repayment of Rhineland occupation costs. Paris notes reveal Cannes figures for 1922 reparations and a proposed German moratorium with Reichsbank autonomy. Foreign ministers plan Near East talks and possible Sevres revisions to favor Turkish interests.
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Washington
Paris
Great Britain
Belgium
France
Italy
Japan
State Department
Germany
United States
Reparations Commission
Reichsbank
Cannes
Greece
Antolia
Sevres
Constantinople
Angora
Polish film censorship aims to curb crime wave
A Warsaw dispatch reports Poland imposes censorship on foreign films to curb a rising crime wave. Mustapha Kemal Pasha travels from Angora to Turkish nationalist HQ to inspect coming offensives. Nairobi clashes kill twenty and wound thirty after protests over a jailed Indian agitator. Gandhi receives six years hard labor imprisonment in Ahmedabad. Viscount Feel appointed secretary of state for India. Bulgarian legation in Paris denies a report of turmoil in the Stambouliski government.
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Mustapha Keman Pasha
Angora
Nairobi
British East Africa
Thaku
London
Mohandas K. Ghandi
Ahmedabad
India
Viscount Feel
War and Air Ministry
Duchy of Lancaster
Bularian
Paris
Stambouliski
Seed for needy farmers
The seed loan act provides 1,500,000 relief to farmers in the Northwest crop failure area. Distribution begins immediately via the Department of Agriculture to purchase spring grain seed including wheat oats barley and flax in North Dakota northwest South Dakota Montana Idaho and Washington.
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Washington
Harding
Northwest
Department of Agriculture
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Western
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Brian Columbia
Dodge acquitted in case in Kalamazoo court
John Duval Dodge of Detroit was acquitted by a Kalamazoo municipal court jury on a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated. He was bound over to the April term of the Circuit court on a charge of illegal possession of liquor.
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John Duval Dodge
House of Corruption
Detroit
Mich
Kalamazoo
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Supreme Court
Taft
Otto Ludwig Wiedfeldt
Berlin
Bulgaria
Financial Commission of
The
League of Nations
Otto L. Wealdfeldt
Treasury Department
Secret Service
Shipping Board
Division of Building and Housing
Department of Compierce
Kahn
Dallinger
Oscar L. Cain
Eastern District of
Spokane, Wash
Senator Borah
Paul D. Cravath
John B. Nelson
Augusta
Maine
Ernest L. McLain
Marcus Nierman
Masonic Temple
State Bank of Chicago
Cleveland
St. Louis
Breckenridge
Tex
Benjamin F. Austine
Augustine Automatic Rotary Engine Company
Buffalo, N. Y
Charlotte, Mich
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Steward, Ill
United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
South Bend
Ind
American Legion
San Diego
Cal
Br. B. Scobey
San Antonio
Raymond T. Baker
Charles A. Gregory
Prohibition
B. H. Ives
Detroit United Railway
Sulphur Springs
Irene Reichert
Bernice Reichert
Berent
U. S
Rhine
Army of Occupation
aAmies
Poland
Warisaw
Agricultural Department
Dodge
Circuit Court
Wrigley’s
Is Fond
Wrigley
Rigley
al. J. Broughton
W. Adams St
Chicago,hi
J M. Maclachlan
Jefferson Avenue
Michigan
Ibaye
Bayer
Aspirin
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