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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1922
Page
2
Secretary of State Hughes states in a letter to Senator Underwood that the four power Pacific treaty negotiations were conducted within defined limits. He rejects claims of deceptive authorship and asserts no part of the process involved intrigue or hidden understandings.
Chicago March 14. The former Mrs. McCormick resumes the pre fix Miss to her name and advertises as Miss Edith Rockefeller McCormick for a gardener position at her Lake Forest estate.
Washington March 13 by a 99 to 82 vote the house passed a bill authorizing a one million dollar appropriation to purchase seed grain for farmers in drought stricken areas of the northwest.
A safe in the office of W. H. Sanford treasurer of the Union Pacific railroad was found open and a shopmen's payroll totaling between 14 000 and 15 000 dollars is missing.
London reports Daily Mail claims the United States refusal to join the Genoa conference makes its holding doubtful and may lead to its abandonment within days. It denounces the summit as a costly bid to humor Germany and the Russian Bolsheviks.
President Warren G. Harding arrived in St. Augustine Florida for a week of rest. His party includes Mrs. Harding Secretary Christian Brigadier General Sawyer Attorney General Daugherty Speaker Gillett Undersecretary Fletcher and the President may tour the Florida coast with Edward B McLean aboard a houseboat. Elaborate precautions guarded the special presidential train.
Reports from Amsterdam Copenhagen and Madrid note eleven lives lost when a Dutch vessel foundered in the Zuyder Zee amid a gale. In Iowa W H Brock 45 an auctioneer from Martello died after a fall from a fourth floor window in Cedar Rapids. Pasadena author Mary Stewart Daggett died after a brief illness. Spain sees its new cabinet under Premier Sanchez Guerra begin duties. France endures a severe storm with widespread damage and a fishing boat sinking with 15 lives lost.
Cardinal O Connell says a papal decree will extend the interval to 15 days after a pope's death before the conclave begins and may grant the college power to lengthen that period if needed. The declaration was made in Rome on March 13.
Fourteen men charged with conspiracy in the Francisco mine riots last June were found guilty by a jury in Princeton. They received 90 days imprisonment.
The senate approved the deficiency appropriation bill totaling 136,895,000 dollars, 28,358,000 dollars more than the house approved. The measure remains to be sent to the president for signing and funding is outlined for various departments.
Market recap for week ending March 9 1922 covering hay grain dairy and livestock. Highlights include mixed grain prices down on speculation with Chicago May wheat at 1.56 1 2 and corn around 66 66 1 2 cents. dairy butter quotes and cheese markets. meat prices in Chicago hogs and cattle ranges. fruit and vegetable notes including onions and potatoes.
The National Radio conference called by Secretary Hoover recommends government control of all wireless telephony and telegraphy operations. The report was submitted to Hoover by Dr. S W Stratton, chairman of the conference.
Fifteen crew members of the Bolshevist transport Gorski were killed and many wounded when a cargo of hand grenades exploded aboard at Trebizond on the Black Sea. The blast damaged nearby buildings in the town.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes vowed a war on all floating bars beyond the three mile limit. He responded to James V. Martin of the Recreation Ticket Co about a vessel near New York for serving liquor, saying existing law may be insufficient and Congress will be asked to enact broader prohibition. He warned the plan would prompt abuses and pledged to use all lawful means to prevent it.
Indianapolis March 10 United Mine Workers of America do not want a strike or suspension in bituminous fields says John L. Lewis international president. The miners want work to live and have done all to avert a suspension while operators seek a wage cut to place them on par with nonunion miners of West Virginia.
An advertisement extols Tanlac as a powerful digestive tonic and body builder. It claims improved appetite, efficient digestion, and boosted energy by stimulating digestive glands and the bowel, urging readers to buy Tanlac from their druggist today.
A homemaker praises Red Cross Ball Blue for making clothes white and clean. An ad voice notes grocers sell the product while a housemaid relates a cheeky incident of swiping a man’s hat and recording his name from a sweat band during a card request exchange.
A brief remark notes that certain real estate dealers inflate small issues into major concerns, implying an opportunistic tendency to magnify trivial matters for gain.
President Harding writes Eugene Meyer Jr noting satisfaction with rising staple crop prices and warns that general business stability requires fair relativity between producers’ selling prices and consumer costs. The letter responds to Meyer's War Finance Corporation report.
Thieves with a key entered the Wabash station in Springfield shortly after 2 30 in the morning and stole two bags of first class mail believed to contain money. One bag came from Springfield and the other from Chicago.
Washington reporters presented Secretary Hughes with a pair of gold desk shears in appreciation for his kindly assistance to their work.
Grand Duchess Anastasie Michailovna of Mecklenburg mother of the queen of Denmark died at her villa in Eze near Nice. Born in 1860 she was a grand duchess of Russia.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon denounced the insurance certificate bonus scheme as imprudent in a letter to Representative Fordney. The remark frames the ongoing political clash over the plan in Washington on March 14.
Disturbances among the Sikhs of the Punjab, once limited to towns, are spreading into the countryside according to reports from Sikh troopers.
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