Hoover voices support for wheat tariff plan in world market view
President Hoover argues against exporting wheat debentures as a means to solve the wheat problem embedded in the pending tariff bill. Federal Farm Board chairman Alexander Legge says the plan could provoke retaliation from key world markets and outlines non-governmental marketing associations as producers’ tools.
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Edward W. Pickard
Hoover
Bow Incorporated
Alexander Legge
Federal Farm Board
National Farmers’ Union
Legge
William G. Kellogg
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation
Grain Stabilization Corporation
Farm Board
Daring thief robs Rome jeweler of gems in disguise
In Rome a man posing as a captain of carabineers robbed Ettore Menichini of about 100000 in gems after seizing the stock and arresting the jeweler on a forged warrant. He jailed Menichini then vanished with the jewels. Police captured the raiders within 24 hours and days later, but much of the loot remains missing.
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Rome
Geran Cote
Snifficer
Koepenick
Ettore Mentehini
Hhis
Signor
Meni¢hini
Mehiehini
Signor Menichini
Crook
Ine
Rich Ghost Still Looms to Uphold Old Fortune
Four New Orleans sisters claim inheritance from the William Jennings fortune dating to the seventeenth century. They expect a settlement in October in Haugland and anticipate shares totaling millions, with possible heirs numbering in the thousands if the estate is settled.
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New Orleans
William Jennings
Haugland
Thomas Suter
Annie Spencer
Edna Kaiser
Sarah Elizabeth Riser
America
Wiliam Jennings
Poverty stalls schooling for 200000 Chinese youths
Peiping reports that over 200,000 boys and girls did not attend school in 1929 due to poverty. Municipal education director Chang Chien yen cites lack of funds as the main barrier while the Hope provincial bureau notes more than 3,000 mass education schools now offer free schooling for children and adults in the province.
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Peiping
Chang Chien-yen
Chang
Hope Provincial Bureau of Education
Theatre Notes and City Scenes From New York
A column mixes views on cab fare policing, theater parties and charity events, and a cameo on Broadway. It highlights patrolman actions against unfair cab practices, explains theater party dynamics, recounts Mrs. Ruella Dey Blinks’s thrifty meal plan, and notes shifts in corporate pep meetings amid broader urban life. The piece also references a Broadway actor with a manslaughter past making a comeback on stage.
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Ruella Dey Blinks
New York
Papa
Mamma
Washington Era Doorway Bought by Congressman Newport
A colonial doorway once believed to have been used by George Washington was purchased by Congressman Clark Bubrick of this city. The relic is thought to have originated at Gage's tavern in Virginia, where Washington was a frequent guest.
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Newport
George Washington
Clark Bubrick
Gage
Virginia
Black duck egg found near Eshelman home
A solid black duck egg was discovered by Pred Eshelman as he shoed a black duck from its nest in the Eshelman hemuery.
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Sioux City
Towa
Pred Eshelman
Feathered Fighter Heroic Record at Smithsonian Display
New York reports a famed hero pigeon known as President Wilson, a WWI carrier bird with one injured leg, died at Fort Monmouth. The bird, praised for crucial messages during Meuse Argonne and St Mihiel, carried orders under heavy fire from Grand Pre to Rampant, inspiring loyalty and endurance in Army archives.
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New York
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C
Hait
A. BE. F
Wilson
Cartier Pigeot
Fort Monmouth
N. 4
Monge Argonne
Grand Pre
Rampant
Grand -Pre
Messige
Tve
Army Pigeon
Fort ,Monmouth
N. J
Army
Onian
France
Tink Corps
Signal Corps
St. Mihiel
Meuse Argonne
A. B
Paleontologist Seeks Early Montana Citizen Skull
Paleontologist Dr. J. C. Siegfriedt of Bearcreek reports a fossilized skull fragment from near Red Lodge Montana. He believes the bones may belong to a pre-Tertiary man whose race has not yet been discovered and calls the Bearcreek field a vast storehouse of scientific treasure.
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Billings
Men
Weshoe
Red Lodge
Mont
Montana
Hills
Dales
Carbon County
J. C. Siegfriedt
Bearcreek
Siegfried
Charity groups rename national welfare association
New York reports a title change for the national organization of about sixty agencies and city welfare departments across the United States and Canada. The group formed in 1911 as the National Association for Organizing Charity and adopted the name American Association for Organizing Family Social Work ten years ago. The current change renames it Family Welfare Association of America.
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New York
United States
Canada
Family Welfare Association of America
National Association For Organizing Charity
American Association For Organizing
Dog Nose Worth 300 Dollars in St Louis Case
A St Louis Circuit Court jury recently found a trained bird dog’s nose valued at 300 dollars for the owner, against a fre arms collector who shot the pointer last April. Experts testified the shot damaged the dog’s sense of smell, with broader implications for the dog’s value.
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St. Louis
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Reijira Wakatsuki
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John §. Parker
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Overman
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Charles Evans Hughes
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Department of Justice
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Oklahoma City Times
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National Press Club
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London Times
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Lake Michigan
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