World events briefed on tax, prohibition and war debts
A digest of items from Washington and beyond notes $340,000,000 collected on quarterly taxes, Daugherty's opinion denying presidential armed enforcement of prohibition, Great Britain's final debt payment, Red Cross relief funds, and naval and aviation news. It reports accidents, frost damage to Wisconsin tobacco, gas prices in Des Moines, and a fatal plane crash at Dayton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolidge
Congress
White House
Washington
Great Britain
United States
India
Daugherty
President Coolidge
Old Confederate Sergeant and Scout Dies at 111 in El Paso
Personal notices report the death of Fred H. Baker a former Confederate sergeant and Indian scout for General Custer in El Paso Texas at age 111. Also noted is the death of Joe D D Salkeld Chicago political editor and secretary of Cook County civil service commission in Chicago from heart disease.
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Fred H. Baker
General Custer
el Paso
Terx
Joe D.D. Salkeld
Chicago Daily Journal
Cook County Civil Service Commission
West
Chicago
Dempsey Retains World Title At Polo Grounds Fight
In New York at the Polo Grounds Jack Dempsey knocked out Luis Angel Firpa in the second round to claim the heavyweight title. Net receipts reached 1,082,598 dollars after the ticket count. Paul Strand, Salt Lake Pacific Coast League outfielder, achieved a 290th safe hit, breaking the previous 289 mark for the 1923 season.
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New York
Tix
United States
Jack Dempsey
Luis Angel Firpa
Polo Grounds
New York City
Paul Strand
Salt Lake
Foreign killer Salas sentenced at Parral trial
Foreign Jesus Salas, self confessed assassin of Pancdo Villa, was given twenty years in a Chihuahua prison and plans to appeal. Other items note Sweden's birth rate decline, 1913 to 1922, and marriages rising. Soviet Russia signs five year wireless stations deal. air mail crash near Evinghoe Beacon kills five. Brazil troops casualties at Cruz Alta. Tokyo Yokohama rebuilding cost. Sofia police chief shot during rioting. immigration and other world events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus Salas
Pancdo Villa
Parral
Chihuahua
Sweden
Stockholm
Danville Pioneer Charles Lamon Dies at 83
Charles Edward Lamon eighty three retired Danville native born dies. He was son of Brown Lamon a noted antebellum figure and nephew of Ward Hill Lamon Lincoln's law partner in Danville and later provost marshal at Washington.
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Charles Edward Lamon
Danville
Brown Lamon
Ward Hill Lamon
Lincoln
Washington
State Nurses Association Convention Set for Peoria
Dates October 10 11 and 12 selected for the Illinois State Nurses Association convention to be held in Peoria. A meeting of industrial nurses shop physicians and emergency workers is slated for the convention's second day. The association covers graduate nurses in Illinois industrial nursing public health and registered nurses.
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State Nurses’ Association
Peoria
University for everybody opens day and night in Springfield
Reported plans describe Abraham Lincoln university to be founded by Springfield citizens with 24 7 access. Harold V. Hunt named general secretary of Dixon Young Men's Christian Association and a Canadian Army veteran graduates from Saskatchewan University.
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Abraham Lincoln University
Springfield
Harold V. Hunt
Clinton, Mo
Dixon Young Men’s Christian Association
Hunt
Saskatchewan University
Heenan Brothers Claim Heirs To Irish Farmer Estate
James and John Heenan from County Down Ireland appear in Clinton asserting they are legal heirs of Jefferson Doyle wealthy farmer. Doyle allegedly made an oral will leaving all personal property about 200000 dollars to Free B Gould and 800 acres of land. estate valued near 500000 dollars.
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Jefferson Doyle
Clinton
James
John Heenan
County Down
Ireland
Doyle
B. Gould
Coolidge Considers Crop Shifts to Stabilize Agriculture
President Coolidge weighs emergency relief options for farmers amid a wheat price slump. He favors shifting some wheat land to flax and sugar and plans regional agricultural conferences to address diverse farmer needs while opposing price fixing or government wheat corporations. A bankers’ delegation will press for reviving the U S Wheat Corporation on Sept 27.
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Washington
Coolidge
Wallace
United States
Europe
United States Wheat Corporation
Italy Denies League Discussing Corfu Question
Geneva September 19 Italian delegate Signor Saldara told the League council that Italy will not consent to any discussion of the league's competence on the Corfu issue in the assembly or elsewhere He said Italy would support a purely theoretical debate on competence before the World Court and addressed Hjalmar Branting and Lord Robert Cecil.
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Geneva
Italy
League
Corfu
Signor Salandra
League of Nations
Hjalmar Branting
Robert Cecil
Council
Coolidge Proclaims October 9 Fire Prevention Day
President Coolidge signed a proclamation setting October 9, the Chicago fire anniversary, as National Fire Prevention Day. It calls for special attention to fire prevention methods to keep fire losses within limits that reflect national efficiency.
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Washington
Coolidge
Young Man Takes Dead Nurse to Hospital and Disappears
Police and deputy sheriffs under Coroner Fred Olson search for a young man who carried the body of Sven Oleson a twenty six year old nurse into St Anthony hospital at ten oclock and then vanished.
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Rockford, IL
Fred Olson
St. Anthony Hospital
Sven Oleson
Berlin cafes raided in hunt for foreign money
Berlin on September 19 reported a government sweep led by Foreign Dictator Fellinger targeting the Fredrichstrasse and Kur fuersterdam gay whiteway. Police seized money from 71 people including many Americans and took away foreign currency they could not account for.
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Berlin
Germany
Fredrichstrasse
Kurfuersterdam
Fellinger
Commissioner Haynes and cider maker stance in cider law
United States Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes told Congress that the government intends to interfere as little as possible with farmers making cider. The message was made public in Baltimore on September 19 in a letter to Congressman John Philip Hill.
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Baltimore
Roy Asa Haynes
John Philip Hill
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Bureau of Mines
John H. Bartlett
New Hampshire
American Red Cross
War Department
Panaia Canal
Director Hines
Veterans’ Bureau
Coontz
United States Fleet
Navy Department
California
Wisconsin
Atlantic Coast
San Francisco
Montpel
United American Lines
Point Honda
Naval Court of Inquiry
San Diego
Cal
Mitchel Field
al Williams
C. N. Johnson
American Dental Association
House of Debats
Cleveland
Des Moines
Standard Oil Company
Johnstown, Pa
Cauffiel
Farmers’ Bank
Goldenvalley
Mandan
N. C
Union Printers
Colorado Springs
Colo
J. G. Woodward
Atlanta, Ga
E. L. Napier
McCook Field
Dayton
Ladd
Moscow
Territorial Army
Russia
Evinghoe Beacon
Hertfordshire
Beafordshire
Cruz Alta
Rio Grande Do Sul
Tokyo
Yokohama
Sofia
Comuunist
Paris Telegraph Company
Mackie & Co
London
Buchanan-Dewar, Ltd
Witada
Buchanan-Dewar Company
Easland
Scotland
Budapest
John Kloeck
Martin Lovasz
Karolyi Goverment
James Alexander Robb
Ottawa
Bishop Hill Colony
Adams
Jay
Blackford Counties
Oscar Snyder
Columbia Theater
Peter J. Daly
Catholic Church
Atlantic
Freeport
Main Street
Galesburg
Illinois Light and Power Company
Galena
A A. M. Howell
Montgomery County Telephone & Telegraph Company
Hillsboro
The
Associated Building Contractors
Belleville
H. B. Carley
Oscar Nelson
Carroll County
Mount Vernon
Illinois
United Utilities Company
Lena
Wisconsin River Power Company
Prairie du Lac
Kilbourn
Green River
United Company
Ilinois
Odin
Murphysboro
Waverly
Southern Methodist Church
E. G. Uamiett
Centenary M. E. Shurch
A. BE. Thomas
Darlington
Stuntington
W. Va
East St. Louis
Knights of Columbus
George Perryman
Greenville Item
Mablire Square
Greenville
John H. Walker
Illinois Federation of Labor
Decatur
Virginia McGrath
Highwood
Victory Memorial Hospital
Waukegan
Evan Worth
Logan County Board of Supervisors
Bloomington
Sterling
William Z. Foster
Labor Party
Elmwood
John E. Wiley
Supreme Court
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis
Wiliam &. Hull
Rockford
al Mayo
Rampart City
Alaska
Klondike
Beloit
Wis
Mayo
Walter C. Cochran
St. Louis
Department of Public Works and Buildings
Abraham Lincoln
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Capitol Grounds
Cc. M. Service
Cabinet
Haynes
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