Hoover sees broad backing for his post crash program
Edward W Pickard reports broad business backing for Hoover’s post crash stabilization plan. public utilities and other groups pledge large spending on roads and public works in 1930, while farm leaders, manufacturers, and labor groups express confidence in agriculture and no wage cuts next year. Manchuria crisis and Kellogg pact tensions loom as Russia advances in Manchuria, with China and Japan reacting cautiously.
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Edward W
Goover
Pennsylvania
Elyle
Legge
Farm Board
Hyree
Hoover
Sites
Edward N. Burley
Chicago
Illinon Manufacturers’ Association
Mr. Burley
China
League of Nations
Russia
Manchuria
United States
Nanking
Washington
State Department
Manduria
Wailar
Muling
Harbin
Oth
Deld
Japan
Moscow
Tokichi Tobaka
Clemenceau Dies at 88 and France Mourns Leader
Georges Clemenceau, premier and towering WWI figure, died in Paris after a long illness. He is remembered as the "Father of Victories" whose wartime leadership steadied France to victory. Flags were halved and a 101-gun salute marked his funeral in a quiet Vendée village. World War I veterans recalled his era as a defining epoch.
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BATH
Francis Emory Warren
United States
Wyoming
Senate
Mr. Warren
Hoover
Taft
Supreme Court
House
Diplomatic Corps
Cheyenne
Warren
Washington
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Charles M. Stedwan
North Carolina
Confederacy
Raymond Hitchcock
Los Angeles
George T. Cuddihy
Navy
Georges Clemenceau
France
Paris
Vendee
Clemenceau
Tardieu
Chicago
John Siksta
Mr. Sikyta
Mississippi River Reforms Natchez Under the Hill Legend
Natchez Miss a riverine reform tale traces the Father of Waters reshaping Natchez Under the Hill once famed for gamblers murders and steamboat pirates. River erosion and cave-ins threaten the historic site as observers debate causes while locals joke on cleansing centuries of vice.
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Natchez
Miss
Mississippi
Natchez-Under-the-Hill
Vidalia
Hill
Natchez-Under the-Hill
Natchez-on-the-Blut
Alaska blue fox farmers target first big crop profits
In Alaska many islands from Pribilof to Aleutian chain host blue fox farms. Farmers expect to harvest over 100000 blue foxes with about one third pelting this winter. At Seattle fur sales skins averaged 144.40 while growers forecast about 75 per fox on their initial large shipment.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Aleutian
Pribilof Islands
Aghivak Islam
Atm TG
Alaska Far Islands
Seattle
Peiping Bans Minors From Pulling Rickshas
Peiping China enforces a new regulation restricting rickshaw pulling to adults over eighteen. Foreign patrons rarely use child pullers while Chinese riders, drawn by cheaper fares, have comprised the majority of customers.
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Peiping
China
Burial of Traveler the horse of General Lee described
Lexington Virginia residents recount the private burial of Traveler Lee’s war horse. Custis Lee aided by three girls and three colored servants laid the horse to rest under a large tree near Washington and Lee University, with a sealed wooden casket and blanket covered by Custis Lee. The mounted skeleton now rests in Lee Memorial chapel basement.
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Washington and Lee University
Gen
Custis Lee
Showell
Traveler
Traveler Nounted
Joseph Bryan
Richmond
Lee Memorial Chapel
Pretty Divorc ee Seeks Ideal Mate
Omaha and Nebraska details recount Laverne Mase Robinson, a 29 year old divorc ee who has married five times. She seeks a blond, tall, older husband who will support her, though she will not marry for money. Her fifth husband, Wrenck L. Robinson, is an Omaha salesman. She plans a trip to Florida hoping to find lasting romance. Genevieve, a child from her first marriage, has remained with her through the turbulent marriages.
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Omaha
Neb
Laverne Mase Robinson
Omatie
Sirs Robinson
Veggy
Hopkins Jorce
Peggy
Mrs. Robinson
Wrenck L. Robinson
Prorida
Laretne Long
Nebraska
Gilmore
Edward Bursick
Fred Burton
Genevieve
Burton
Bursies
Bur
Laverne
Sumbers
Edward Moraree Ng Omaha
Roy Cowhurst Fremont
Moravec
Robinson
French Rail Mileage Second in Europe
French railways cover 41 727 kilometers making it the second largest in Europe after Germany. Relative traffic intensity shows France leading in net profits and payroll timing details reveal salaries, maintenance, taxes, interest, fuel, depreciation and shareholder payments across the system.
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Europe
Paris
Germany
Italy
Belgium
Switzerland
France
England
Sub Inventor Honored, Home Now is Museum
Westbrook Connecticut opens a museum and memorial for David Bushnell the Revolutionary War officer and inventor of the torpedo and submarine. Exhibits include fragments claimed to be the first submarine the American Turtle. Bushnell later practiced medicine and taught in Georgia after the war.
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Westbrook
Conn
David Bushnell
Bushnell
Georgia
Centennial marked for turbine pioneer Fourneyron
Paris notes a coming centennial in 1920 for the hydraulic turbine invention. Fourneyron’s role is underrecognized in major references, while American engineers credit him with perfecting and generalizing turbine use. Marcel Desprez is cited for early ideas on electrical energy transport, but also died poor and unhonored.
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Paris
France
Fourneyron
Morench Savant
Marcel Desprez
Desprez
Brazil's Azulina Alcohol Motor Fuel Emerges in Pernambuco
In Rio de Janeiro reports a new motor fuel named Azulina popular in Pernambuco. A consortium of sugar manufacturers formed to exploit the ether and ethyl alcohol mix derived from cane sugar, using residues usually discarded by mills.
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Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Pernambuco
Medicine Man Potions Still Used by Indians
Botanist Baren 8. Smith lived three months with Oneida Indians in northern Wisconsin to study native cures. He reports remedies include milkweed for warts ground cherries for eye trouble and tansey smoke for headaches as used by the tribe.
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Milwaukee
Baren
Smith
Wisconsin
Widow Denied Right to Live Here With Her Son
Mrs Rosine G Allison seventy one from Calcutta India came to live with her son Albert K Allison in Wethersfield Connecticut. Immigration officials ruled the seated Indian quota filled and she must return to India to reenter under the next Scotch Indian quota.
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Wethersfield
Conn
Rosine G. Allison
India
Irish Bar U. 5. Filme Dublin
The Free State censor bans five American films for characters wearing insufficient clothing.
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U. 5
Filme Dublin
Free State
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