Amusement Tax Probes and Unemployment Conference Plans
Washington reports show Americans spent nearly 1 billion on theater last year with entertainment taxes totaling about 89.7 million. President Harding may call a national unemployment conference with labor and industry leaders to address wage and hour issues, while Commerce plans arrange the gathering. The note lists other Washington actions including liquor seizures, the ZR-2 victims, and pending peace treaty moves.
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America
Internal Revenue
Blair
Washington
Harding
Department of Commerce
American Scientist Peter Cooper Hewitt Dies in Paris
Peter Cooper Hewitt, renowned American scientist and electrical inventor, died at an American hospital in Paris. His wife Mrs Hewitt and his two sisters were at the bedside.
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Peter Cooper Hewitt
Paris
France
Hewitt
Grand American handicap winner Elias Haak tops trapshooting field
Elias F. Haak of Canton Ohio captured the twenty second Grand American handicap breaking 97 of 100 targets at the South Shore Country Club in Chicago. The report also notes widespread violence in India, a Hungary US peace treaty, British PM Lloyd George on Ireland, floods in Shantung, relief for famine in Moscow, and the assassination of Mathias Trzberger in Baden Germany.
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Elias F. Haak
Canton
South Shore Country Club
Chicago
Illinois News Nuggets Highlight Bank Heist and Rail Deals
Bandits looted a Woodson bank taking several hundred dollars in bonds and $75 cash. Illinois Bell buys Pitcher Telephone, consolidating systems in Galena. Rockford seeks lower streetcar fares after wage cuts.
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Woodson
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Pitcher Telephone Company
Galena
Rockford
Central Labor Council
State Utilities Commission
Ilinois
Illinois Industrial Commission
Commission
Calhoun
Jersey Counties
Chris Ringhousen
Grafton
Calhoun County
Jersey County
Calhounounty
Annetta Ayres Saunders
Chicago
Joseph O. Cunningham
Abraham Lincoln
University of Illinois
Springfield
Cunningham
Urbana
E. 8. Smith
Augustus Peabody
Citizens’ Committee of Chicago
Russell
Miller
Illinois
Division of Waterways
Department of Public Works and Buildings
Edward E. Miller
Fred E. Sterling
Sterling
Small
Verne S&s. Curtis
Grant Park
F. W W. Stamper
Benton Commercial Club
United States Steel Corporation
Benton
Proclamation Orders Miners to Disperse in West Virginia
President Harding declares all insurgents in Marmet West Virginia must disperse by noon September 1 1921 and return home. Brig. Gen. Bandholz will monitor WV developments from Charleston as federal forces may be used to protect state citizens and enforce laws.
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Moultrie County
Freeland Grove Park
Boone County Farm Bureau
Associated Building Contractors of
Uiness
Danville
Civic Music Club
Peoria
Fifty-first
Fifty-second Infantry
Camp Perry
Ohio
Cook County
Chicago
St. Louis
Chicago Law School
John A. Swanson
Samuel Grossman
Swanson
Small
Richard R. Meents
Senate
Len Small
Senator Meents
Meems
University of Tlinois
Urbana
Rome
Greece
Prairies
Illinois
S. D. Fessenden
United States
Springfield
Fessenden
Illinois Central System
Ilinois
Iinois Central
Hnes
Winois
Matter
Centralia
Washington
Harting
Marmet
W. Va
H. H. Bandholz
West Virginia
War Department
Charleston
Warren G. Harding
Warren G, Harding
Government budgets to enforce Prohibition next year
Washington reports an appropriation of 7.5 million dollars for the internal revenue department to enforce the Eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act. The Anti Saloon League plans about 1 million to sway opinion in favor of dry law enforcement, with Wayne B Wheeler noting the aims and costs.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Internal Revenue Department
Anti-Saloon League
Wayne B. Wheeler
League
Labor in Membership Drive Aims for 5 Million Members
Atlantic City September 1 A campaign by the American Federation of Labor to reach five million members will launch on Labor Day. President Samuel Gompers urges nationwide rallies and public addresses with movement literature. The drive follows a recent slump due to unemployment. current membership stands at 3 906 523.
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Atlantic City
N. J
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Labor
Federation
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Washington Dispatch
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Marion
President Harding
Soldiers’ Home
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Annapolis
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Victor Bruner
Mishawaka
South Bend
Ind
State Constabulary
Watersmeet
Iron Mountain
Mich
Raymond Douglas
Minneapolis
Bert Fleming
Michigan City
Mrs. Fleming
New England Fuel and Transportation Company
Lowesville
Stamford, Conn
Dun
New York
Rickenbacker Motor Company
Detroit, Mich
C. A. Lloyd
United States Marine Corps
Seagirt
Youngstown
Mary L. Downes
Woman’s Catholic Order of Foresters
Omaha
Neb
Harry Frazee
Boston
Elizabeth Nelson
Chesapeake & Ohio
Blake
Logan County
Calicut
India
Hungary
Budapest
Ebert
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Barnsley
England
Shantung
China
Moscow
American Relief Administration
Mathias Trzberger
Offenburg
Baden
U. S
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