Combined Rail and Coal Strikes Paralyze Nation
United Press reports from across the country describe a deepening industrial crisis as combined rail and coal strikes slow transportation, threaten light and heat, and trigger shortages and unrest. State troops patrol New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Ohio while fuel runs low for ships and public utilities.
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Washington
United Press
New England
Pacific Coast Rail Road
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Great Lakes
Denver
Emporia
Kansas
Hannibal
ST. Paul
Minn
Northwest
Ralph Budd
The
Great Northern
Concord
N. H
Coal strikers clash with guards in Fayette County
A July incident in Fayette county coal fields involved striking miners and guards. Shots were fired as miners attempted to set fire to a coal tipple. Authorities allege dynamite was used in an attempt to blow up a mine.
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Pittsburgh
Fayette County
Boy 7 Kills Brother In Coweta Quarrel
In Coweta Oklahoma, 7-year-old Dave Pruitt shot and killed his 9-year-old brother Frank after a quarrel at their home. Dave then dragged the wounded boy to logs and covered him with brush. Frank died before medical aid arrived.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Dave Pruitt
Frank
Coweta
Here
Dave
Governor orders arrest of William Allen White
Emporia Kansas July 21 the arrest of William Allen White the sage of Emporia has been ordered by Governor Allen for expressing sympathy with strikers this is described as a test case of free speech in Kansas White says he will be formally arrested for violating the anti pulling or picking law of the Kansas industrial court law. The Ku Klux Klan has expressed support for the strikers and warns reform to the governor. the letter includes a masked Klansman photo and the governor has recently ordered all Klansmen in the state unmasked
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Emporia
Kan
William Allen White
Allen
Kansas
Henry
Kansas Industrial Court
Topeka
Ku Klux Klan of
Henry Allen
Industrial Court
Ku Klux Klan
Wichita
Wellington
Arkansas City
Klensman
Terrific battle rages between Trish clans in Ireland
In Dublin on July 20 a fierce clash between rebels and Free-Staters tears along a seventy mile front from Timerick to Waterford. Reported casualties are twenty killed and forty wounded as the fighting intensifies.
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Dublin
Ireland
Timerick
Waterford
Municipal street railway a Detroit success says mayor
Detroit July 20 Mayor Couzens announced the city operated street railways are a success and public the June report showing a surplus of more than a half million dollars after all expenses.
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Detroit
Couzens
Tampico’s trolley ambulance a world first
Tampico Mexico July 21 Officials of the William C. Gorgas hospital announce a trolley ambulance is the world’s only system of transporting the sick and injured by riding streetcar tracks. The hospital sits on the city’s outskirts and relies on the car due to poor road conditions. Dr A R Stubbs, director, conceived the idea and with Harvey Leach, street railway GM, constructed the vehicle from a street car. Tracks lead to the receiving ward so the ambulance can enter the hospital.
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Tampico
Mexico
William C. Gorgas Hospital
A. R. Stubbs
Harvey Leach
Street Railway Organization
Weather Outlook for Roswell and Pecos Valley
For Roswell and Pecos valley expect generally fair weather tonight and Saturday with slightly cooler temperatures. For New Mexico, generally fair to tonight and Saturday with showers in the northeast, cooler in the east tonight and the southeast Saturday. Showers have occurred since yesterday morning in the West, mainly central and northern plateau states, with higher temperatures east of the mountains and cooler trends in the Northwest due to high pressure. Pecos valley forecast shows about 8 percent rain chance tonight and Saturday, with cooler conditions ahead. Highest yesterday 98, low 71. Normal highs 91, lows 65. Cleve Hallenbeck, Meteorologist.
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Roswell
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
Pecog Valley
Cleve Hallenbeck
Crude Oil Prices Fall in Mexia Market
Dallas July 21 Mag nola people cut Mexia crude by a dollar and a quarter per barrel today.
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Dallas
Texas
Mrs Whatley Visits Brasher Family in McGaffey Street
Mrs Whatley and her children from Mineral Wells Texas arrived yesterday to visit J R Brasher's family on McGaffey Street. Stanley Lodewick is back for a summer visit, traveling through Ohio and Maryland after graduating in May from Chillicothe Missouri Business College.
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Whatley
Mineral Wella
Texas
J. R. Brasher
McGaffey Street
Stanley Lodewick
Ohio
Maryland
Chillicothe (Mo
Republicans Plan Fight In Texas Convention Opens Here
Republicans from Harris County gather in Houston on July 29 to map a broad effort for the November elections. Leaders aim to unite GOP forces behind a single candidate and place the party as a strong statewide force. Delegates and alternates will be elected for the state convention August 8, district convention August 26, and the nomination of a full county and precinct ticket.
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Houston
Texas
Harris County
Rotary Club Discusses A Business Hodge Podge
The Rotary club met at the Gilkeson for the weekly noon session with 84 percent attendance amid holiday slack. J D Atwood attends Rotary in Denver this week and a potential August 11 meeting with Cloudcroft was discussed. Will Lawrence will lead a Twilight league team and a bathing place project was deferred pending civic plans. Dr Galloway will lead next week's program.
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Rotary Club
Gilkeson
J. D. Atwood
Rotary
Denver
In Paso
Cloudcroft
Thornton Boswell
Tom Hall
Dr. FA
North Spring River
South Main Street
Cameron MacClain
Gil Amis
Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
Gil
Will Lawrence
Twilight Baseball League
Kiwanis
Civic Affairs Committee
Dr. Galloway
Cost Of News In Daily Newspapers
In Dallas on July 21 a discussion notes that paying 5 cents for a daily newspaper equals buying news worth about $642.79 per issue if telegraph messages from United Press were delivered personally. This scales to $16,712.51 monthly and $200,550.48 yearly, compared to the $6 annual price of the newspaper, excluding sending, receiving, printing, and publishing costs.
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Dallas
Texas
Telegraph
United Press
French plan trans Atlantic airliners at four hundred mph
Paris reports four hundred mph giant airplanes proposed for trans Atlantic service between Senegal and South America. Soundings of upper airways to be done from ships islands kites and balloons to find routes and altitudes. Oxygen will be fed automatically to saloons and sleeping quarters to cope with rarefied air. ten mile altitude possible in a few years.
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Paris
Senegal
West Africa
South America
M. Bleriot
French Air Authority
Skunks Attack Bees Prompt Fencing Advice
A report from Ohio to the Biological Survey of the United States says skunks are troubling beekeepers by visiting hives, scratching the outside, and then eating the exposed bees. The survey recommends fencing hives with chicken wire at least three feet high.
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Washington
Ohio
Biological Savey of
United States
Department of Agriculture
Biological Survey
Roswell Peaches Seen In Ample Year Across Orchards
Roswell expects a strong peach year with plentiful local supply and extra shipments. Orchardist A D Crile forecasts about 15000 bushels mid season, with fruit allocated to Nicholas Wilson for shipment and Fee Skillman for local sale.
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Roswell
A. D. Crile
Crile
Tr. Crile
Woman Denies Killing Friend With Hammer in arraignment
Mrs Clare Phillips denied guilt at arraignment in Los Angeles before the superior court. She is accused of beating to death her friend Mrs Alberta Mead Ows with a hammer during a dispute July 20.
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Los Angeles
Clare Phillips
Alberta Meadows
Improvements in Robstown Texas Irrigation and Water Plants
In Robstown Texas engineers say favorable weather allows completion within 200 days of irrigation facilities for the district and city water and sewage plants. The main canal will move 150000 cubic yards of dirt, irrigating about two miles north and a mile wide toward Robstown. The project will irrigate thousands of acres and cost over 300000 dollars.
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Robstown
Texas
Fedora the horse wins at Palermo racetrack shocking bettors
In Buenos Aires on July 21 at the Palermo track a horse named Fedora defied odds and carried only 790 of 122,854 tickets while paying 332 pesos 15 centavos for every 2 peso ticket. The owner reportedly held about five hundred tickets amid a chorus of disbelief.
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Buenos Aires
Palermo
Fedora
Wence
Community urged to answer Armistice Day survey
Only thirty four responses were returned on the Chamber of Commerce Armistice Day celebration questionnaire. Thirty favor the celebration, three prefer next summer, and one opposes. Thirty will volunteer time, three cannot. Thirty three will share expenses, one did not answer. Officials urge quick replies to avoid added costs and delays.
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Chamber of Commerce
Radio fans in London embrace broadcasting era
London wild about radio since the Lewis Carpentier fight as officials approve broadcasting reports. Amateurs tune instruments for reception and a Manchester Wireless Society club plans a high power wireless station at Bagnely Cheshire to transmit and receive from America.
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London
Theanchester Wireless Society
Bagnely
Cheshire
America
Rope of gopher tails sent near Glacier National Park
In Montana the Montana Extension Director displayed a 3 thousand tail rope made by Black-font Indian chief Split-Ear and aides from near Browning. The item, aimed at rodent control, accompanies a campaign in which about 11,400 sod brrels were buried and at least 15,000 gophers were destroyed.
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Washington
Montana
Biological Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
Split-Ear
Browning
Glacier National Park
Mont
Wool Sale Shatters Texas Record for Boston Firm
Kerrville Texas reports a Pioneer wool deal with a Boston Mass firm moving 1,500,000 pounds. The sale, believed the largest single Texas wool sale, exceeds 600,000 dollars. An additional 500,000 pounds will be gathered for sale at month end.
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Texas
Boston
Kerrville
Postmaster Career Highlights From Texas 1896
Dallas dispatch notes B J Naugle of Prosper a longtime postmaster with only five months out of work, after attending the state convention of third and fourth class postmasters and helping form the postmasters league. Also reports Roswell sheep sale where Carla E Kiefer sold about 15000 head to a Colorado trader at peak prices, benefiting local wool growers and the valley.
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Dallas
Texas
B. J. Naugle
Naugle
Postmasters’ League
Roswell
Carla E. Kiefer
Colorado
Klev
Gallup
N.M
Trosweil
Georgetown to See $200,000 School Improvement Bond Sale
Georgetown Texas prepares for a new building surge after the sale of a $200,000 improvement bond. Plans include a new high school and upgrades to existing schools and Georgetown University facilities.
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Georgetown
Texas
Georgetown University
France urged to cut army debts to boost trade
France must reduce its military burden to improve foreign trade as exports exceed imports by six billion francs in the first five months. Analysts note the franc’s volatility and warn that Allied debts and reparations, plus US war credits, bind trade to France’s debt relief and potential German reparations settlement. American exporters see debt relief as key to opening credits and markets.
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Paris
France
Lloyd George
England
United States
America
Rhine
Germany
A. J. Horlick
Racine
Wis
Europe
Railroad revenue in Texas rises in early 1922
Revenue from Texas railroads rose by about 1.25 million dollars in the first four months of the year, a 21 percent increase from the same period in 1921, while operating expenses fell by about 1.516 million dollars or 23.4 percent, according to a railroad commission statement from Austin dated July 21.
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Texas Railroads
Austin
Texas
Railroad Commission
South Texas Motor League Leaves AAA for NMA
The South Texas Motor League based in Houston will withdraw from the American Automobile Association and join the National Motorists Association. No reasons for the change were announced.
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Houston
Texas
South Texas Motor League
American Automobile Association
National Motorists’ Association
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