League of Nations Elects New Council Members
Geneva reports nonpermanent seats filled for Poland Belgium Romania Chile Colombia China San Salvador Holland and Czechoslovakia after a two ballot process. Poland Romania and Chile receive three year terms with Colombia Holland and China on two year terms. Belgium Czechoslovakia San Salvador serve one year.
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Geneva
Poland
Belgian
Rumania
Holland
Chile
Colombia
Sanfalvador
China
Czechoslovakia
League of Nations Council
San Salvador
Belgium
Persia
Portugal
Finland
Ireland
Uruguay
Canada
Denmark
Esthonia
Slam
Winehlich
Romania
France
Europe
Assembly
War department dismisses Caraway graves desecration charges
Federal officials reject Senator Caraway of Arkansas claims that American soldier graves in France were desecrated. The War department offers no credence to the charges as it moves on with routine war memorial concerns.
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War Department
Senator Caraway
Arkansas
France
Six States Hit by Cloud Bursts Flood Damage
Weather bureau river stations tally flood losses across Kansas Illinois Missouri Nebraska Iowa and others. Reported damage totals include five to ten million dollars per state with Wisconsin Michigan Ohio and South Dakota at two and a half million. Death tolls list Telinois Missouri Kansas Iowa Nebraska and one each in Indiana Wisconsin and Michigan.
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Chicago
Middle West
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Illinois
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
South Dakota
Eight Workers Die In Underwater River Tunnel Blast
Eight workmen perished 800 feet under the Missouri river in a premature dynamite explosion inside a water works tunnel near North Kansas City Missouri. The blast killed instantly and damaged the bore as rescuers investigated the scene.
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Kansas City
Water Works
Night schools enroll 65,000 in Chicago term
About 65,000 students have enrolled in Chicago night schools as the 1926 27 term opens. The program aims to provide evening education opportunities across the city.
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Chicago
Queen Marie to sail for United States October 12
Bucharest reports the foreign office announced Queen Marie of Romania will depart for an unofficial visit to the United States on October 12. The announcement confirms the travel date and royal itinerary.
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U. S
Bucharest
Marie of
Romania
United States
Foreign Office
Klan Demands Hands Off Mexico Policy
Washington report says the Ku Klux Klan’s national convention adopted resolutions urging strict noninterference in Mexican affairs, except to protect U S citizens or uphold the Monroe Doctrine. Imperial Wizard Dr Hiram Wesley Evans warned against debt cancellations and urged Klansmen to vote in November.
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Washington
United States
Ku Klux Klan
Calles
Hiram Wesley Hivans
Klan
Mussolini
Evans
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
Flood Destroys Thousands of Homes in Sioux City Iowa
Northwestern Iowa faces massive losses as rivers Big Sioux and Floyd retreat. More than 2,000 homes flooded in Sioux City with extensive industrial damage and farm losses. Relief pours in from Red Cross, Salvation Army, Elks, and city officials. no fatalities reported.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Hood
Red Cross
Salvation Army
The
Elks Lodge
Ten Mexicans killed in wake of Rosenthal case in Mexico
Paris to Mexico City dispatches report ten suspected bandits killed as federal forces hunt others linked to the Rosenthal outrage. Near Huitzilac seven more suspected outlaws were slain during the pursuit, while Rosenthal’s son in law identifies prisoners to be executed. Reports of Obregon’s death remain unconfirmed as tensions rise in Yaqui country and U S officials await detailed findings.
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Mexico City
Jacob Rosenthal
Huitzilac
Rosenthal
Joseph Ruff
United States
Obregon
Sonora
Washington
State Department
State Kellogg
el Paso
Nogales
Jose Maria Escheverria
Saltillo
Navarette
Lizard Camouflage Varies by Soil Color
The lizard’s true color is gray with white, black, or yellow rings around the horns on its back. These color rings help camouflage the lizard as it squats to ground level when danger approaches.
U.S. Plans 56 Million Water Project in California
W R Young of the United States Bureau of Reclamation presents plans for a 56 million irrigation project in the Sacramento valley California. The plan calls for a 150 foot high Iron canyon storage dam and a 125 mile main canal from the diversion dam below Red Bluff to near Colusa south of town.
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Washington
W. R. Young
United States Bureau of Reclamation
Bureau
Sacramento Valley
California
Iron Canyon
Red Blur
Colusa
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League OF Nations
Washington Briefs
West Indies
Everett Sanders
Nicaragua
Coolidge
Department of Commerce
Reichstag Member
Tony Sender
Reichstag
Miss Sender
Mexico
Nogales, Ariz
Msgr
Juan Navarette
Cent
Denom
Earl DE Young
Michigan Ave
Ill
U.S
West
Paul Gall
American Legion
Dolton
Riverdale and Community
Atlas Plumbing & Heating Co
Roseland
Elmer R. Berger
Calumet District
Lincoln Avenue
Conrad Kern
Indiana Avenue
Riverdale
the House of Service
Roseland District
John J. Vanderaa
Teninga Bros. & Co
Michigan Avenue
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