Legal challenge to injunction over rail shopmen strike
The Inter national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers filed in the DC Supreme Court challenging the legality of a Federal District Court injunction obtained to restrain rail way shopcrafts and railroad brotherhoods from interfering with transport during the shopmen's strike. The suit questions the Chicago court's jurisdiction and whether the order infringes free speech. Government officials say no decision to retain or modify the Chicago injunction provisions has been made.
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Washington
Wilkerson
Obiengo
Supreme Court of District of Columbia
Interyvational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Chicago
Daugherty
Borah
Greek Army in full retreat toward sea near Smyrna
Paris reports say only about 100000 Greeks remain fleeing toward the Mediterranean as Turkish nationalists close in. Within fifty miles of Smyrna and forty miles from Marmora Sea, organized Turkish units push the advance, said to be one of history’s fastest.
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Paris
Asia Minor
Mediterranean
Smyrna
Sea
Marmoria
German unrest and hunger stalk Berlin as prices rise
The report describes cold and anger spreading through the German masses as winter threatens, with government and municipal authorities mobilizing to shield the public from soaring food and fuel costs. Chancellor With notes four to five million people are currently in need, many in major cities.
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Germany
Berlin
Open Fall Predicted by Prince Grandson of Chief Peguls
Selkirk Manitoba forecasts an open fall with no cold weather until late December. Harry Prince, grandson of chief Peguls, bases the view on star positions and movements. He calls the season exceptionally slow in turning, signaling a long warmth. cruiser struck by typhoon off the Kauchatka coast August 26. The Niitaka sank with virtually all hands. 200 perished. The Maki destroyer ordered to the scene.
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Selkirk
Manitadu
Harry Prince
Peguls
Kauchatka
Maki
Treasury reports public debt jump in August
Washington announces an increase of 85 million dollars in the public debt for August. The total on August 31 stands at 23 42 755 084 compared with 22 097 373 959 on July 31 and 23 122 329 060 on August 31 last year. Des Moines—State Fact Administrator Charles Webster begins probe into coal prices finding mine costs around 4.5 and local retail above 8 with no state price regulation authority. Nome Alaska—Captain Roald Amundsen abandons this year’s plan for a north pole airplane flight from northern Alaska and Nordic hops next spring.
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The
Treasury
Des Moines
Charles Webster
Webster
Nome
Alaskaa
Roald Amundsen
Alaska
North Pole
Spitzbergen
Grant's Land
Smith Named Chairman of Irrigation Committee in Idaho
Representative Smith, a Republican from Idaho, was chosen to succeed the late Representative Kinkaid of Nebraska as chairman of the House Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands. Berlin reports the cabinet will reject new demands from the Reparations Commission in Paris seeking productive guarantees as a condition for a German moratorium.
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Kinkaid
Washington
Smith
Idaho
House
Nebraska
Berlin
Paris
Reeold
Germany
Chance at Fairs to Study Good Livestock
County and state fairs will showcase unusually attractive livestock and poultry. The USDA notes fairs provide breeding and feeding ideas, conformation study, and opportunities to meet others in the trade. Buyers often prefer breeder homes to fairs and prepared animals are pricier. Grasshoppers favor oats when grains are available, but forage shifts with scarcity.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Montana
Farm women remodel garments under extension programs
County extension agents reports to the U S Department of Agriculture show farm women remodeled garments into 55 000 up to date articles last year and 105 000 more under similar instruction. Boys and girls in extension clubs grew or prepared foods and other products featured in 4300 community fair exhibits and 6000 at county district and state fairs.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United Staes Deparment of Agriculture
Wood partitions replace wire in swine farrowing houses
The USDA reports replacing wire partitions with solid wooden divisions about 32 inches high to reduce drafts and ease stress in sows. Open partitions let sows observe neighboring pens, often making them nervous and irritable and sometimes leading to fighting. Farrowing requires quiet conditions.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Gypsying and Freedom From a Cottoned World
A memoir fragment recounts gypsying adventures away from hotels and rigid dress codes. The author describes freedom from domestic service, disdain from polished society, and simple camp life beside birds, trees, and water. The piece contrasts urban restraint with the ease of travel and rest.
Washington’s Death
Washington's death is noted as occurring at the last hour of the day and week, on the final day of the year and the last year of the century, marking a symbolic end of an era.
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George Washington
Evolution of farming tools and labor-saving devices
A compact panorama traces farming progress from seed sowing by hand to the tractor and modern mechanical harvesters. It notes Cyrus McCormick’s reaper, threshing machines, and the shift from backbreaking work to easier, more productive methods with greater yields and less drudgery, ending with the farmer connected by the telephone.
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Mayd Muller
Blander
Millet
Cyrus McCormick
Next County Neighbor on Roads and Rural Change
The passage discusses shifting measures of distance from miles to road fitness, the move of moving pictures shaping town opera houses, and a town’s shift from farming as a distant ideal to a town boy’s lure toward farm work, noting farming remains the global core of food and shelter while towns refine.
Farmer Becomes Man With The Hope In The Countryside
The text argues that when the farmer gains emancipation from toil and shifts from mere physical labor to using intellect, he joins the ranks of the business man as a worker. This transition allows him to see the countryside’s beauty and acquire hope, elevating his role beyond the hoe.
Unbending backs prompt the world forward
Quote attributed to Richard Lloyd Jones emphasizing resolve as a driver of progress.
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Richard Lloyd Jones
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