Half Million Miners Out in Nationwide Walkout
Indianapolis reports say United Mine Workers push a complete tie up as half a million miners quit work in twenty states. Officials anticipate 100000 nonunion workers joining, with 13000 kept in mines to guard property while Kansas contract actions are contested. President Lewis cites operators forcing the strike and vows no avert.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
Lonnie Jackson
Kentucky
Lewis
Washington
Germany holds line on Allied reparations demands
Government spokesmen deny rejecting the Allied Reparations Commission terms while signaling continued negotiation strategy. Berlin faces demands totaling 750 million gold marks in cash and 450 million pounds in kind for 1922. Possible Genoa talks loom as Germany seeks further talks on the matter. Former Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary is not expected to live, with pneumonia and cerebral temptations noted and oxygen therapy administered in Madeira.
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Berlin
Germany
Wirth
Rathsnau Wil
Genoa
Lisbon
Portugal
Charles
Austria-Hungary
Madeira
Funchal
Charlies
Siamese Twine Deaths Prompt Surgery Refusal
In Chicago two Siamese twins Joszefa and Rosa Blazek died at a city hospital. Joszefa died first and seconds later Rosa per doctors warning that the surviving sister would die if separation surgery was not performed. Their brother Frank Blazek had refused consent for any operation.
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Chicago
Josefa
Rosa Blazek
Joszefa
Frank Blazek
Senate Panel Cuts House Seed Distribution Item
Washington D C A senate subcommittee voting four to three removed from the annual agricultural appropriation the house item of 3300 900 for free seed distribution by members of congress.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
House
Congress
Bandits Raid New York Tribune Office
Three bandits entered the accounting room of the New York Tribune on Park Row near City Hall station, held two clerks and a watchman, and escaped with $1,000.
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New York
New York Tribune
Park Row
City Hall
Tornado Hits Crane Hill and Cullman Area in Alabama
A tornado swept Crane Hill ten miles from Cullman injuring several people. At West Cullman fifteen residences and six business houses were badly damaged, with responders assessing further structural damage and casualties.
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Alabama
Cullman
Ala
Crane Hill
West Cullman
Townley Embezzlement Case Not Proven in Fargo Hearing
Judge J. T Cole of Cass County District Court finds embezzlement not proven in the preliminary hearing against A. Townley linked to the national Nonpartisan League HQ. The ruling highlights insufficient evidence at this stage.
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Fargo
N. D
J. T Cole
Cass County District Court
A. ©. Townley
National Nonpartisan League
Butter Contests Lift Quality in South Carolina
South Carolina hosted butter contests through extension work for women in 1021 to boost dairy quality. Eleven counties held events, 360 women enrolled and 120 sent butter for judging, improving packaging, handling, ripening temperatures, and feeds. Contest butter sold readily, spurring broader farm butter improvements statewide.
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South Carolina
Othe
United States Department of Agriculture
Road Construction Data in Usable Form
The Bureau of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture, will provide comprehensive monthly records on Federal-aid road work. Data include labor and material usage, contractor bids, and prices, with future reports on costs, surfacing, grading, and road widths across regions. A machine-based system speeds retrieval for wide ranges of construction statistics.
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Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Congress
Puzzle winner receives $1000 prize
Mrs. R. O. Steele of the Ed Bergman farm in the county’s northeast received a $1000 draft as first prize for the correct answer to a picture puzzle published by the Henderson Co of Minneapolis. The St Paul Daily News had run the ad in the Observer earlier, prompting several readers to submit answers.
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R. O. Steele
Ed Bergman
Henderson Co
Minneapolis
Observer
St. Paul Daily News
Kimball County Observer
Road labor prices ease further across the nation
Prices for road labor continue to decline gradually according to figures from the Bureau of Public Roads. February wages for common labor averaged 29 cents per hour nationally, down from January. Skilled labor also declined, with regional ranges for common labor from 13 to 20 cents in the South, 23 to 30 cents in the Midwest, and around 45 cents in the Pacific. Team rates without drivers ranged from 24 to 42 cents hourly.
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Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Middle Western
Pacific States
Peter W Collins to Speak at St Patrick's Sidney
Free admission invites the public to hear Peter W. Collins at St Patrick's Auditorium in Sidney next Monday evening. The event promises an engaging talk from the featured speaker.
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Peter W. Collins
St. Patrick’s Auditorium
Sidney
Real Estate Transfer to Ernest Lange in Nebraska
Real estate transfer record shows United States of America ships ownership to Ernest Lange of Nebraska on December 12, 1949, for a value of 19 154.88 dollars. The document lists transfer details with a precise monetary amount and date.
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United States of America
Ernest Lange
Nebraska
Peace in Ireland Declared by Imperial Governments
In a Commons announcement Winston Churchill presented an Ireland peace pact between northern and southern governments. The plan includes arms control, a mixed Catholic Protestant police force, a juryless court for serious crimes, a Belfast complaints committee, and relief funding for Northern Ireland. The accord calls for restraint and urges removal of inflammatory rhetoric. The same report notes St Louis railroad rule forcing married female employees to resign.
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London
Winston Spencer Church
House of Commons
Ireland
Michael Collins
James Craig
Churchhill
Northern Ireland
Belfast
Ministry of Labor
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