Senate tariff bill moves to conference with House
The Senate votes 46 to 268 on the tariff bill amid 1253 amendments, with radical splits and expected conference fights over export debenture farm relief and the flexible tariff. Debate centers on duties, protections, and how Britain France and the United States may align on a consultative pact in future security guarantees.
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Senate
House
Reed Smoot
Rep
Utah
Finance Committee
Borati
Republic
France
Great Britain
United States
America
League of Nations
MacDonald
Britain
Briand
House of Commons
King
Commons
France Floods Sweep Regions In Southern France
Washington reports a century's worst flood in Gascony Languedoc and Midi. Descriptions recount damaged villages and vineyards, a Moissac dam break, canal traffic on the Canal du Midi, and vivid scenes from Toulouse to the Mediter ranean. Also notes unemployment drop in early March and Guggenheim fellowships totaling over 200000 for creators.
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Washington, D. C
France
Gascony
Midi
Languedoc
Tyresees Mountains
Fries
National Geographic Society
Bordeaux
Moissac
Canal Gu Midi
Toulouse
The
Baterat Canal
Canal du Midi
Japanese Beetle Causes Damage in U.S.
Washington report for 1929 notes the Japanese beetle as a pest mainly to fruits and ornamentals. Damage remains serious only when beetle numbers are high, with injuries often localized to individual plants due to the insects' gregarious behavior.
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U.S
Washington, D. C
Dime Found By Sunday Evening Club Officials
Officials of the Sunday Evening club thanked a churchgoer who dropped a dime into the collection plate. The coin, minted in 1857, is valued at $3 by collectors.
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Chicago
Sunday Evening Club
Eohy
Dead baby in Brooklyn prompts hunger rescue
A poverty stricken mother in Brooklyn dressed her dead eighteen month old in best clothes after the child died of malnutrition. Detectives traced the wrapping tag to a Bushwick home where three hungry children and the mother and grandmother confessed taking the child to the street to die. Police fed the family after presenting a hat collection to cover funeral costs.
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New York
Brooklyn
Pal
George Hackett
Bushwick
Yar
John Quinn
Willetta Knight
Katherine Johnson
Unpopular Kitty Shows He's Perfect Gentleman
Burbank police release a claimed gentleman skunk after finding unlawful entry and a refrigerator possession at Mr and Mrs Frank Barnett home Captain Hampton and Motor Sergeant Lombard used a ruse to trap the animal which slipped from the fridge and fled. Hampton called the skunk a gentleman since it did not retaliate on release and returned to its native hills.
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Burbank
Calif
Frank Barnett
Hampton
Lombard
Jasin Hampice
Motive Power Replaces Horses on Modern Farms
A 1929 survey by the American Research Foundation shows horses perform 43 percent of farm work, down from 37 percent in 1924, while motive power equipment rises from 42 percent in 1924 to 56 percent in 1929, signaling a shift away from animal labor as new power tech expands its role in agriculture.
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Alexander Legge
Federal Farm Relief Board
Mrr Legge
Interior Department
Tf “Farm Board
Sve
Congress
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
New York
States
Mexico
Western Newspaper Union
Dobbin
American, Research Foundation
Bronze Age Carriage Unearthed Near Dupljava Village
Archaeologists in Vojvodina uncover a baked clay three wheeler near Dupljava bearing a bird headed Giety effigy. The relic, dating to Bronze Age, adds insight into ancient transport and symbolic art in the region.
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Belgrade
Dupljava
Vojvodina
Airplanes Win in Races With Birds
Government aviators report races with migratory birds at Fort Lewry airfield. Wild ducks reached about 50 mph while herons and ravens lagged under 30 mph. A flock of crows rose to higher altitude and flew around 40 mph. Unidentified northern California birds were seen thousands of feet above the planes. Birds typically flee when planes approach, and aviators easily overtake them.
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Tacoma
Wash
Allomuts
Fort Lewry
Army
California
Shortest Railroad Runs at Profit in Cassville Missouri
The Cassville and Exeter, America’s shortest railroad, reports profit on a four and nine tenths mile line. Dave Dingler and James C Ault run the operation with Mary Ann the locomotive, emphasizing freight growth and fruit traffic per rail mile.
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Cassville
Exeter
America
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Dave Dingler
James C_ Ault
Cagstille
Barry County
Missouri
Frisco
Sona
Mary Ann
Treight
Dave
Dingier
Cassville Age
Taxidermy Vanishing Says Veteran of Art in St Louis
St Louis area taxidermist Kirk Keller of St Ennis says his trade is fading as strict game laws and the modern home den disappearance cut demand. Once thousands of specimens yearly, his shop now handles only a few hundred, though customers include England France Germany Belgium and Canada.
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St.Louis
Mio
Kirk Keller
St.Ennis
Museum of Natural History
Keller
St. Louis
England
France
Germany
Belgium
Canada
Einstein Violinist Helps Charity in Berlin Event
A Berlin charity concert surprised attendees when Albert Einstein, famed for the theory of relativity, appeared as a violinist alongside soprano Her oat Jadlowker. Einstein, described as a well known violinist, performed to aid a benevolent cause at the synagogue venue.
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Einstein
Berlin
Heroat Jadlowker
Albert Einstein
Prof
St Louis to Build Dozens of Hospitals by 1980
St Louis plans rapid hospital expansion with ten million dollars in construction slated for completion in 1980. Over the past five years five hospitals have been erected at seven and a half million dollars, marking a period of phenomenal growth in medical facilities for the city.
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St. Louis
Wath
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Lake Wrre
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Hawley
Cochran
Department of Agriculture
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Federal
Federal Farm Board
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Finer
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Cherbourg
Ambrose
Julius H. Barnes
Ames
Barnes
Southland
Carcassonne
Pyrenees
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Cette
Mediterranean
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Artagnan
Cyrano de Bergerac
Richard Plactagenet
Paris
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Air Green
Bady Lefton Street
Kitty
Veteran of Art
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