Violence By Shopmen And The Bonus Bill Debate
Edward W. Pickard surveys the coal strike fallout and government efforts to ease fuel shortages. He notes price rises, transport bottlenecks, and looming shortages from anthracite disputes as lawmakers push for relief measures and possible federal control of railroads and mines to avert a national emergency.
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New York
Atlantic Coast
Pepper and Reed
Pennsylvania
Harding
Hoover
Northwest
Federal Coal Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Great Lakes
House of the Admin ‘Istration
Ball
Ita
Sanders
Indiana
Graham
Goodykoonts
West Virginia
Robinson
Kentucky
Newton
Minnesota
Extor
Mondell
Wreming
Senate
Congress
Ford Plant to Close September 16 Over Coal Prices
Henry Ford announces the Dearborn Michigan plant will shut down on September 16 due to coal shortages. He cites profiteering by dealers and seeks a public protest against extortion. Detroit Mayor Couzens pledges city support, while Ford’s enemies call it a bluff or political grandstanding. Ford denies the charges.
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Enry Ford
Dearborn
Mich
Couzens
Detroit
Ford
Wall Street
Railway shopmen strike turns violent with arson and wrecks
The railway labor action escalates as violence and unauthorized strikes cripple Alton trains at Handhouse and Junt, with bridge explosions and bomb threats in Florida and Alabama. Arrested shopmen confess to wrecking a Michigan Central train at Gary and implicate others, detailing plans to derail the Twentieth Century Limited near Elkhart.
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Alton
Handhouse
J.unt
Florida
Alabama
Michigan Central
Gary
Ind
Limited
Elkhart
Rail labor wage issue debated as senators amend bonus bill
F Grable seeks a living wage for railway workers but the labor board rejects the Nyeing wage idea. Grable asks Senator Cummins to amend transportation laws. The Senate adds two amendments to the soldiers bonus bill, funding land reclamation for ex soldiers and using interest on the foreign debt to pay the bonus, complicating House-Senate reconciliation. President Harding may veto the measure.
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F. Grable
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Railway Labor Board
Grable
Cummins
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Senate
Powus
McNary
Oregon
Simmons
North Carolina
House
Harding
Treasury Mellon
Washington
Better Sires Enrollment Grows Rapidly
TheBetter Sires-Better Stock campaign gains momentum across counties as purebred livestock enrollments surpassed 2000 by mid August. County agent Gordon B. Nance notes 10 percent participation in Oldham County Kentucky and higher rates in Plaski Virginia Kittitas Washington Greene Ohio and Orange Virginia reflecting widespread farmers moving to purebred sires.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Gordon B. Nance
Oldham County
Kentucky
Plaski County
Virginia
Kittitas County
Washington
Greene County
Ohio
Orange County
Swedish Prohibition Question Defeated in Popular Vote
American reformers aided the cause but Sweden’s prohibitionists were defeated as the wet dry question went to a public vote. Cities voted heavily in favor of wet ruling over alcohol restrictions.
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Sweden
Farm Women Improve Home Sewing Methods
Farm women across sections join state and county extension workers in training sessions. Local leaders relay lessons on dress forms pattern alteration fitted foundation patterns and clothing construction and finishes. The program boosts material selection remodeling and at home garment making for quality and design.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Girl fatally injured in bull attack and car crash near Mount Vernon
Lera Stogers, 21, was fatally injured while en route to George Garner’s farm as a bull gored him. Her Cadil lac sedan then collided with another vehicle on the Lincoln Highway four miles west of Mount Vernon last Monday night, overturning over an embankment. Glaring headlights blamed for the crash, narrowly sparing other family members.
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George Garner
Lera Stogers
Lincoln Highway
Mount Vernon
Fines Levied for Livestock Law Violations Across 43 Cases
The Bureau of Animal Industry reports 43 fines under livestock and meat regulations in July. Violators include railways, express firms, meat dealers, and livestock owners. Most penalties target interstate shipment of diseased or uninspected stock and unsound meat. Fines mostly range from 25 to 200 dollars. The department offers copies of regulations to those unaware of interstate shipment rules.
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Bureau of Animal Industry
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Movies Show Types of Highways for Free Distribution
A Bureau of Public Roads project offers one reel films illustrating modern highway construction. Titles include Modern Concrete Road Construction Building Bituminous Roads Mixed Asphalt Pavements Brick from Clay to Pavement Granite Block Paving High Roads and Sky Roads. Additional titles and forest road films are planned with gravels road construction in preparation. Reservations advised for college and public meetings, cost limited to transportation.
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Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
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Dail Eireann
Dublin
Post Office Department
Elizabeth Howard
Gloucester
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Edward W. Pickard
B. K. Wheeler
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T. G. McLeod
Ustria
Entente
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Klagenfurt
Jugo-Slavia
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Andrassy
Hungarian Foreign Affairs Committee
Hungary
Germany
Berlin
Britain
Delacroix
Belgium
Reichsbank
Coquimbo
Nitka
Jackson
Cal
Livoni & Son
Kratz Abstract Company
Stuht-Hink Bldg
A.W. Johnson
Sidney
Nebr
Phene
Bentley Land Company
Sidney and Chappell, Nebr
the Liberty. State Bank
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