Seaway treaty signed by United States and Canada
The United States and Canada sign a treaty to build the St Lawrence seaway at an estimated $800 million cost. Ratification by Congress and the Dominion Parliament is uncertain, with opposition over power division and water withdrawal from Lake Michigan for Chicago. Senate inquiry led by Senator Borah to begin in August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
Great St. Lawrence Seaway
Congress
Lake Michigan
Chicago Sanitary Canal
Senate
Borah
Idaho
State Stimson
William D. Herridge
Chicago
L. J. Dickinson
Iowa
Dickinson
Hoover
White House
Curtis
Numerous Michigan Local News Highlights Across Cities
In Grand Rapids a 9 year old girl Barbara Wies choked on a balloon and died. Detroit reports include an ice pick death at Grace Hospital and a acid incident injuring a 2 year old, plus a 55 year old man with a throat prosthesis who died. Durand votes to become a city. precincts elect a charter commission. Mt. Clemens 80 men and 19 planes head to Camp Oscoda for gunnery. more groups to follow. Port Huron sisters burned to death in a car rescue attempt. Elizabeth Smithinjured. Battle Creek hosts a US Camp memorial for WWI Private Fetting. Lansing notes two new hospital units to add 1500 beds. Grand Rapids unemployment relief seeds and gardens yield crops. Various reports from Linden Kalamazoo Mt. Pleasant and other towns cover accidents fires gas wells and civic actions. Monroe and surrounding areas report corn borers and bean beetles, with several accidents and rescue efforts. Officials discuss highway relief funding potentially doubling Michigan’s program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Rapids
Barbara Wies
Blodgett Hospital
Detroit
Albert Armon
Grace Hospital
Durand
Clare’ Bates
Ed Carney
A. B. Freeman
W. S. Goudy
Robert Kerr
Milton Mikan
Henry Sachs
John Struble
D. M. Trumble
Mt. Clemens
Camp Skheel
Oscoda
William Zerbee
Roy
William White
Clinton and Brush ,Srs
Monroe
Earl ‘Smith
Samara
Mottville
S.H
Taylor
Michigan
Port Huron
Emmett
Here
Charles Smith
Elizabeth Smith
Eleanor Smith
Elizabeth
Port Huron General Hospital
Battle Creek
Camp Custer
United States
Fetting
Albert Fetting
Bloomfield Township
Saginaw
Wisconsin
France
Lake Odessa
Howard Johnson
United States Department of Agriculture Corn Borer Experiment Station
Philip
Ypsilanti
Michigan, State Normal College
Linden
W. H. Gamber
Kalamazoo
Mt. Pleasant
Rex May
Remus
Central State Teachers College
Central
Bloomfeld Township
Consumers Power Company
Lansing
Grand Haven
Holland
Department of Conservation
Holland Harbor
Black Lake
Austin Harrington
Brighton
Bob Tail
Quincy
Rex Rossman
Quincey
Litchfield
Glio
Charles H. Reed
Jackson
Addison Hibbard
Levi Robinson
Robinson
Monroe County
C. Ward Andrews
Donald Runkle
Wapakoneta
Long Lake
Capitol City
Ed Koeller
George Davis
Koeller
Red Cross
City Poor Department
Congress
G. C. Dillman
Dilim
World gold stocks visualized in a giant coin tower
An imaginative National Geographic feature compares global gold, from the Egypt treasure to new discoveries, to a towering stack of 100 million dollar disks. It details United States, France, Britain and other nations’ gold holdings, import export shifts, and the rise of Johannesburg as a gold hub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Geographic Society
Washington, D.C
WNU
Quebec
Canada
Egypt
Atlantic
Brest
France
Pacific
Indian Ocean
America
United States
Great Britain
Spain
Japan
Belgium
Germany
Switzerland
Soviet Union
Italy
Netherlands
Argentina
India
South Africa
Tower of Gold
Johannesburg
Rand
North
Also Mentioned on This Page
St. Lawrence Seaway
Prussia
Edward W. Pickard
Moover
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Eugene Meyer
Federal Reserve Board
Paul Bestor
Berlin
Brandenburg
von Hindenburgh
Kurt
von’ Schleicher
Vor
Papen
Franz Bracht
Essen
Severing
Braun
Reich
Hitler
Reichstag
Amsterdam
Kurt von Schleicher
Friedrich Wilhelm
Kaisern Doorn
Wilhelm
House of Hohenzollern
Preter Mussolini
Dino Grandi
Alfredo Roéco
Antonio Mosconi
Babbino Giuli
Giu
Seppe Bottai
Mussolini
Interior
Francisci
Jung
Ercole
Grandi
Interstate Commerce Commission
New England
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio
Chesapeake & Ohio
Roosevelt
Albany
Farley
New York
Warley
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Wyoming
Washington
Urban LeDoux
Mr. Zero
Smedhey D. “Butler
Steel“ Corporation
J. B. Shannon
House
Kansas City
M. W. Borders
Federation of ‘American Business
Leavenworth
Post Exchange and Book Department
Fort Leavenworth
American Hotel Association
Secretary of Agriculture
Federal Farm Board
Home Law Bank
Department
Norris
Hiram Bingham
Millard EB
University of Illinois
Thomas Arkle Clark
Julés J. Jusserand
Paris
Marshal Viscount Plumer
London
Westminster Abbey
Louis Maurer
Currier & Ves
British Empire
Ottawa
Stanley Baldwin
British Council
Britain
W. D. Herridge
Sen
Gen. Butler
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