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President Hoover urges moderation in requests to Congress for new projects to avoid tax increases. Congress debates taxes, flood aid loans, and foreign policy turmoil unfold in the Dominican Republic and France as governments shift. Naval conference talks resume, and U S farm policy and Prohibition reform discussions intensify amid political maneuvering.
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Amelle Chautemps
France
Chamber of Deputies
Chautemps
Andre Tardieu
London
Raymond Poincare
Doumergue
Tardiex
Poincare
Tardien
Naval Conference
Farm Board Sparks Wheat Market Debate Distorts Prices
Reports say during a period of wartime speculation Europe assumed the United States and Canada would boost wheat prices. Chairman Legge announced the Farm Board would not support the market, buying only from cooperatives to stabilize prices. Misunderstandings led to non cooperative wheat dumping and sharp price declines.
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Europe
United States
Canada
Legge
Federal Farm Board
Farm Board
Evans Hughes Sworn Chief Justice by Holmes
Evans Hughes was sworn in as chief justice of the Supreme Court on Monday with the oath administered by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The design declared constitutional the Packers and Stockyards Act authorizing the secretary of agriculture to set maximum rates for services of commission men at public stockyards.
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Cyoners Evans Hughes
Supreme Court
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Secretary of Agriculture
Western Newspaper Union
Ghost Towns of Death Valley Burned into History
Death Valley California hosts famed ghost towns like Greenwater Rhyolite Panamint and Skidoo. Greenwater rose in 1908 and 1997 amid a copper boom then faded with water scarcity. Rhyolite once housed 10000 residents. today the bottle house and ruins mark its past. Death Valley Scotty’s private lines and Furnace Creek ranch highlight a rare pulse of activity amid deserted camps and dismantled rail corridors.
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Death Valley
Calif
Greenwater
Rhyolite
Panamint
Skidoo
Nevada Line
Rayole
Scotty
Furnace Creek
Los Angeles
Death Valley Junction
Ryan
British writer recalls wild U S party culture in 1928
Ashford Kent Sir Charles Iggles den, part of a party of 100 British journalists, has published a book attacking U S social life. He describes pan demonium at hotels in early hours, with jugs and bottles hurled from windows during college football games. He notes intoxicated crowds in hotel corridors and carefree dancing by young women in evening dress.
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U. S. Ashford
Kent
Charles Igglesden
United States
Lang
Virago
Chicago
Los Angeles
Court Rules Dog's Fleas Belong to Its Owner
Common Pleas Judge Otis Hess ruled that fleas and other insects that accompany a dog or cat are the property of the animal's owner. Mrs. Amy L. Roth sued Charles Poorman for $80 claiming renovations were needed for rooms housing Poorman's pets. The court awarded $650 damages, holding insects move with the animals.
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Cincinnati
Common Pleas
Otis Hess
Amy L. Roth
Charles Poorman
Poorman
Radium Speck Man Threw Of in Bandage
A cancer patient at Beth Israel hospital discarded a newly placed dressing that contained a radium speck worth $5,000. The hospital was searched to recover the radioactive piece and staff used an electroscope to inspect the hospital incinerator ashes, where the speck was found.
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New York
Beth Israel Hospital
Retired Captain Is Champion Liar of Burlington Whopper Contest
In Burlington Wisconsin Captain Delano, a retired Great Lakes captain, is declared the champion liar for 1929 after a whopper contest judged by police chief Frank Belier. He claimed a whale three miles long and three days of voyage lore in a tale that drew disbelief from listeners.
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Wis
Anten Delano
Great Lakes Cptain
Slandenous
Delano
Lakes
Seven Seas
Bayre
Boston
Frank Belier
Museum Urged for Montana Indian Relics
Prof Harry Turney-High of Montana State University urges amateur and organized archaeological expeditions to uncover buried relics across the state. He proposes a large medium character Indian Museum in Missoula to house donated items and classify them for scientific value as findings deepen with time.
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Missoula
Mont
Montana
Harry Turney- Gigh
State University
Torney
Turmes-High
Falkland Islands Constable Retires After 28 Years
Dan O'Sullivan, a British police constable with 25 years on the Falkland Islands force and 16 years in charge of a seven-member unit, has returned to England on pension after a career that began in the navy.
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London
Falkland Islands
England
Dan O'Sullivan
Old Clock Keeps Time in Lawrence Home
A Boston-made grandfather clock over two centuries old still runs accurately in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Ames in Lawrence Massachusetts. It needs rewinding only every six weeks and remains a cherished family heirloom.
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Lawrence
Mass
Boston
Benjamin C. Ames
Spare Gizzard Secret of Fowl Big Appetite
Porterville California story notes a Rhode Island Red rooster from last season eaten by LCG Wills. The fowl reportedly had an oversized gizzard causing unusually high food consumption for the family table. Wills suggests such a bird would eat twice as much as normal, reducing any advantage from keeping it.
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Porterville
Calif
LCG
Wills
Rhode Island
Bank Bandits Change Tactics Across Oklahoma Banks
Oklahoma's bank bandits have evolved from daylight horseback robberies to using fast cars and truck hoists. In the last year 75 percent of robbers were caught or killed, with about 1500000 dollars stolen and only 50000 recovered. The Oklahoma Bankers Association plans 550 million in new anti robbery measures over 18 months, including rewards.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Plains
Oklahoma
Caney
Dalton
Jesse James
Henry Starr
Starr
Matthew Eimes
Ray Terrill
Eimes-Terrill
Alan
Eugene P. Gunn
Okahoma Bank Association
Oalahoma
Free lunch hay stations feed wildlife in Glacier National Park
In Glacier National Park Montana government hay stations are used to feed wild deer sheep and other animals this winter. Ranger Lee reports that weasels mink and many birds visit cabins for food while a large elk wintering ground is nearby. December snow measured ninety four inches and fifty five bighorn sheep are now at the Many Glacier feed ground with new arrivals daily. West of the Continental Divide deer are abundant with about 240 deer at five feed yards to date.
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Glacier Park
Mont
Glacier National Park
R. Eakin
Animal Kingdom
Lee
Two Medicine District
Continental Divide
Jail Negligent Firemen When Fire House Burns
Fire brigade members were at a saloon while the local fire house burned to the ground. The fire truck and all personal belongings were lost. Police arrested the firefighters who had fought the blaze for nearly an hour.
French Posthumous Medal Awarded to Nurse at Post
The French government awarded a posthumous gold medal of honor to nurse Jeanine Amandeau Bile, who refused to cease caring for patients with a deadly contagious disease. She worked tirelessly night and day until she contracted the illness and died.
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Paris
Bile
Jeanine Amandeau
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