Military and political briefings and world notes
A roundup notes Sen Penrose pushing retroactive tax repeal and income tax brackets, Harding orders army draft resumed, plans consider pensions for ex servicemen funded by a sales tax, and a resigning immigration commissioner. Also covered are federal debt rise, unemployment conference dates, Army War College remarks on armed forces, tax bill rewrite, bar association leaders, diesel motor orders for submarines, a mysterious shooting of Agnes Agnew, and Pennsylvania Railroad stance against workboard orders.
Oliver, Cousin of Harding, Dies at 86 in Walla Walla
Personal obituary notes Nicholas B. Oliver aged eighty six and a cousin of President Warren G. Harding dying at the family home in Walla Walla Washington.
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Nicholas B. Oliver
Warren G. Harding
Walla Walla, Wash
Turkish forces withdraw toward Angora in Asia Minor
A Constantinople dispatch reports Turkish nationalist troops retreating toward Angora after a costly clash with Greek forces along the Sakaria river in Asia Minor. Military unrest continues in Europe with riots in Belfast and authority actions in West Hungary and Coburg.
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Constantinople
Sakaria River
Asia Minor
Angora
London
Upper Silesia
West
Hungary
Boxing Draw Ends Bryan Downey Versus Johnny Wilson in Jersey City
In a fast twelve round middleweight contest Bryan Downey challenged champion Johnny Wilson to a draw in Jersey City. The bout showcased a close exchange with neither fighter gaining a clear edge, preserving Wilson’s title status.
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Bryan Downey
Johnny Wilson
Jersey City
Labor Day auto race peril near Colorado Springs ends in injury
Domestic W A Coleman is killed and Tarry Majors of Colorado Springs is injured while practicing on the Pike's peak automobile roadway near Colorado Springs for Labor Day races.
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W. A. Coleman
Tarry Majors
Colorado Springs
Pike's Peak
Illinois farm tenancy rises in corn belt amid price slump
The article notes corn farmers suffer more than wheat farmers as car price declines hit tenants hardest. In Peoria and Woodford counties, about 42.7 percent of Illinois farms are tenant-operated, with Woodford nearing parity between renters and owners. Other items cover Aurora per capita costs, Wheatland plow contests, and various Illinois public works and local notices.
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Peoria
Woodford
United States
Woodford County
Bureau of the Census
Department of Commerce
Aurora
Ill
Plainfield
Albert Stark
Cyrus Stark
Albert
Stark
Krank Boardman
Wheatland
Judge Landis
Chicago
Russell J. Poole
Southern
Minos
Orville Vardeman
Hoffman
Fred Smith
Charles de Boer
Decatur
Freeport Country Club
Union Railroad
Secretary Mellon Fights Sales Tax Debate
Senate Finance Chairman Penrose endorses a sales tax as a replacement for income levies while secretary Mellon opposes the plan. The move aims to tax production and consumption, not income, to fund federal needs and veterans bonuses. Republican leaders back the idea despite Mellon’s opposition.
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Washington
Senator Peninge
Senate Finance Committee
Cleveland
Hays
Ways
Finance Committee
Penrose
Senator Penrose
Fordney
House
Ways and Means Committee
Republican House
Mondell
Congress
Mellon
Starving Koreans in Manchuria Appeal for Aid
Tokyo reports 2,000,000 Koreans in Manchuria facing famine after a drought devastated crops last month. The Korea governor general has set aside funds for relief in the coming fiscal year, but over two million remain in urgent need of food.
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Manchuria
Tokyo
Korea
Manchurian
Hysteria Seen In Prohibition Move Says Tennessee Bishop
Episcopal Bishop Thomas Gailor of Tennessee visits Salt Lake City for the fourth synod of the Pacific province. He condemns the Eighteenth Amendment writing as unpardonable and argues the church fought liquor progress against hysteria that failed to suppress evil.
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Salt Lake City
Thomas ¥. Gailor
Episcopal
Tennessee
Gailor
Province of the Pacific
Episcopal Church
Cotton mills in East resume full operation after price rise
The cotton textile industry centered in New England is the first in America to pass through readjustment. Any cent rise in cotton price has been followed by resumption of manufacturing in full force in mill centers. The revival reduces unemployment as mills operate around the clock.
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Boston
New England
America
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Battle of the Marne
Weeks
Smoot
Harding
H. J. Scottington
Scottington
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General Bandholtz
Treasury
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Army War College
G. A. Severance
St. Paul, Minn
American Bar Association
Cincinnati
F. J. Wadhams
Albany
W. Kemp
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Sulzar Winterthur
Geneva
Switzerland
Agnes Agnew
Cornelius R. Agnew
Armonk
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United States Railway Labor Board
Odenburg
Burgenland
West Hungary
Gen. von Buelow
Berlin
Marshal von Buelow
Germany
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Josef Mann
Mann
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Copenhagen
Joseph C. Grew
Denmark
Angola
Smyrna
Wirth
Erzberger
Sandi Lecointe
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Italy
Brakpapa
Samara
Russia
Riga
L Chang
Yupeh Province
Tiankow
Tankow
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Hirohito
Japan
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Gar Wood
Detroit
Mich
Ori
Stephen PP. Revenal
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Houston
Tern
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Clement
Louis Wellenbach
Fannie
Philadelphia
New Orleans
News OF Illinois
Small
Greene County
Joseph Kess & Son
Kane-Dubage
Wilson A. Jakks
la Salle County
Narnesti Barns & Co
Moute
Delullo County
Heute
Clay County
Stressenreuter Bros
Ranklin County
Shhidler Construction & Material Co
Larnest Berns & Co
Indianapolis
Kendall County
Ben F. Harrison
Bend
Flurrison
JoDaviess-Stephenson
W. H. Shows
Frandsen Construction Company
John A. Wheeler
Chauncey M. Jenkins
State Department of Public Welfare
E. 8. Smith
Treasuer
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Harco
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Woodward
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Division of
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S. PD. Fessender
Ilinois
South Presbyterian Church
Calena
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