Mellon urges tax cuts to fund soldiers bonus opposition
Secretary Mellon writes to Representative Green proposing a net tax cut of 3238 million and outlining specific reductions in earned income taxes surtax changes and repeals of telegraph and admissions taxes. He also suggests offsets including capital loss limits and deductions totaling 68 million while warning against new extraordinary expenditures.
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Washington
William Green
Iowa
Ways and Means Committee
Mellon
United States
United States Course Ignoble Says Former President Wilson
Former President Woodrow Wilson, addressing the American people by radio for the first time since leaving the White House, called the United States course after World War I deeply ignoble cowardly and dishonorable. He faulted France and Italy for wasting the treaty of Versailles and urged America to abandon self-interest and pursue higher international ideals.
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Washington
Woodlrow Wilson
White House
America
France
Italy
German Republic Banishes General Eric Ludendorff
Berlin reports General Eric Ludendorff must leave Germany and stay abroad until allowed to return. He agrees to the exile in exchange for liberty and assurance that no harsher punishment will follow. Official sources say Ludendorff has been a key organizer of conspiracies against the republic since its founding.
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Berlin
Eric Ludendorff
Germany
Kansas City Hosts Record Bible Class Attendance
Kansas City Missouri drew a world record crowd Sunday morning as 52,121 men joined the city’s Men’s Bible class. The mass gathering ended a five week race with Long Beach California’s Taubman class, which tallied 31,047.
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Kansas City
Long Beach
Cal
Liquor War Drives Request for 20 Million Coast Guard Aid
Drys seek a 20 000 009 dollar appropriation from Congress to fund the coast guard for the next year. The plan calls for ships and construction of sea going cutters to chase rum runners within U S territorial waters.
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Drys
Congress
Washington
United States East Guard
Coast Guard Service
United States
To Turn Sugar to Gold in Berlin Export Plan
Berlin reports the German government aims to export sugar to restore exhausted foreign currency funds and support the country’s financial operations. The move targets filling an empty treasury amid economic strain.
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Berlin
Navy Reaches Authorized Enlisted Strength Limit
Washington reports the Navy has reached its authorized enlisted strength of 000 men for the first time in a year. More than 13,000 recruits have joined the service since then.
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Navy
Washington
Ethan
Mrs Stokes Defeats Infidelity Charge In New York Trial
Helen Ellwood Stokes won a jury verdict of not guilty on the charge of infidelity with Edgar T Wallace. William Hart Dodge Stokes sought divorce but the jury of seven men found no fault after about an hour. Stokes showed emotion as he faced the verdict.
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New York
Helen Ellwood Stokes
William Hart Dodge Stokes
Stokes
Edgar T. Wallace
California
Foreman Hitchcock
Wallace
East Thirty-fifth Street
Schwab says he funded woman over twenty years
Charles M. Schwab testifies before a bankruptcy referee that over two decades he sent money to Myrtle B. Hayes to counter threats of publicity. Hayes is under indictment for forging Schwab endorsements on notes tied to a $5 million Brookline hotel project.
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Charles M. Schwab
New York
Myrtle B. Hayes
Brookline
Mass
Federal Reserve Board Rules Against All Branch Banks
The Federal Reserve Board approved resolutions ending the branch banking dispute for member banks in the system. State banks may join only if they abandon branch banking, with the rule to take effect February 1, 1924. Until then state banks with branches may join.
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Federal Reserve Board
Washington
Federal Reserve System
Fort Domnesti Explosion Cripples Romanian Capital
A fort on the outskirts of Bucharest blew up causing many deaths and scores wounded. Bursting shells endangered the city for hours and caused heavy material damage in the capital region.
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Bucharest
Domnesti
Unusual Divorce Suit Filed by Two Sisters in St Louis
Divorce suits were filed in Circuit court Saturday by two sisters against two brothers alleging desertion. The plaintiffs were Mrs Leo Augus tin and Mrs Robert Augus tin.
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St. Louis
Leo
Robert Augustin
Private Aage Rasmussen Dies Clinging to Dirigible Drag Lines
At Mitchel Field New York Private Aage Rasmussen was killed when he clung to the drag lines of the dirigible TC-2 after release by ground crew and fell about 200 feet to the ground.
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Mitchel Field
N. Y
Aage Rasmussen
Bavaria Revolt in Munich Fails Quickly
Bavaria's royalist uprising collapsed within a day as Adolph Hittler and General Erich Ludendorff were arrested. Reichswehr fought street battles across Munich while Von Lossow and von Kahr swore fidelity to the republic. Martial law declared. death sentences expected. Augsburg also saw a failed coup.
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Munich
Bavaria
Adolph Hittler
Erich Ludendorff
von Kahr
Reichswehr
Hittler
Bavarian War Office
Ludendorff
von Lossow
Stresemann
Federal Judge in Philadelphia limits brewery seizures
Federal Judge McKeehan ruled that prohibition agents may seize only intoxicating liquors and tools used in manufacture, not entire brewing plants. He advised discretion in warrants and warned of penalties for overreach after 14 Philadelphia area breweries were targeted.
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Philadelphia
McKeehan
Bloodshed in Ruhr as Hunger Renews Rioting
In the Ruhr region riots flare again with food-root protests and unemployment marches in Gelsenkirchen Recklinghausen Kroy and Bochum. German police under French orders opened fire on crowds amid renewed unrest and bloodshed.
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Ruhr
Dusseldorf
Gelsenkirchen
Recklinghausen
Kroy
Bochum
Army flyer McBride killed in Armistice Day air circus
Lieutenant Benjamin R. McBride, an Army flyer, was killed at Ashburn field when his engine sputtered during a stunt and crashed 200 feet to the ground. The accident occurred in the Armistice Day air show witnessed by about 50,000 spectators in Chicago.
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Chicago
Benjamin R. MceBride
Ashburn
McBride
Vigilance group forms to strike Klan nationwide
A national committee of educators, businessmen and professionals forms the National Vigilance Association in Washington. It aims at an intensive country-wide campaign to disintegrate the Ku Klux Klan and allied groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Washington
National Vigilance Association
Ku Klux Klan
Crown Prince Frederick William Returns to German Soil
Former German crown prince Frederick William is back in Germany after leaving exile. He crossed the frontier near Oldenzaal with only his aide Major Mundler and reached German soil shortly after ten this morning.
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Berlin
Frederick William
Wieringen
Major Mundler
Oldenzaal
Church Favors World Court Admission
The Federal Council of Churches urges public support for President Coolidge to back American membership in the World Court.
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Church
Washington
Federal Council of Churches
Coolidge
Oklahoma Lawyer Shot In Driveway Ambush
Oklahoma City attorney Paul J. McCarthy a World War veteran was lured from his home by an unknown telephone caller and shot in his car, left to die.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Okla
Paul J. McCarthy
Gahm Honored as Top County Agricultural Agent
Walter F. Gahm of Scioto county Ohio receives the nation’s highest honor for the soil fertility program he developed among local farmers. He will speak at the American Society of Agronomy annual meeting in Chicago beginning November 12.
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Walter F. Gahm
Scioto County
Ohio
Gahm
American Society of Agronomy
Chicago
U. S. Market Report: Live Stock and Commodities Prices
Weekly market roundup with Chicago hogs at 7.65 top, beef steers 7.75 to 11.35, veal calves 7.00 to 9.75, and lambs 10.75 to 13.50. Potatoes, cabbage, onions, apples, and grains listed with city price ranges. Dairy prices include butter at 5lbc grade and various cheese markets in Wisconsin.
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Washington
Chicago
New York
Virginia
Northwestern
St. Louis
Kansas City
Minneapolis
St Louis
Cincinnati
Prairie
Wisconsin
Young Americas
Square
United States Skips France Reparations Inquiry
The United States formally declined to participate in any expert survey of Germanys capacity to pay reparations. The move followed defiance by M Jusserand and the French ambassador in talks with the secretary of state. Mr Hughes stressed that proposed limits would thwart the inquiry.
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Washington
United States
Germany
M. Jusserand
Hughes
Hughes New Haven
Great Britain
Ten Bandits Loot Ogden State Bank in 1920 Kansas Raid
Ten bandits in a wild west style raid held Ogden Kansas town of 500 for two hours. Fire rained on the bank vault door while outside guards traded shots. Inside the vault the bandits looted about 26000 dollars with 2000 in cash and 24000 in Liberty bonds.
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Gden
Kan
Ogden State Bank
Philippine House seeks U S backing for independence
The Philippine lower house passes a resolution urging the speakers to ask President Coolidge to include a recommendation for Philippine independence in his next message to Congress. The move signals ongoing efforts by Filipino leaders to gain U S recognition and self rule.
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President Coolidge
Manila
Philippine
House
Senate
Congress
England Welcomes Lloyd George Return Amid Triumph
Former Prime Minister David Lloyd George receives an enthusiastic homecoming in Southampton and London as the conqueror returns from a successful campaign.
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England
Lloyd George
London
David Lloyd George
Southampton
Corey Fined as Game Hog in Migratory Bird Case
Norfolk Virginia. W Ellis Corey, steel magnate, was fined $475 by Judge D Lawrence Groner in federal court for violating the migratory bird law. This was Corey's second offense.
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Corey
Norfolk
W. Ellis Corey
D. Lawrence Groner
United States District Court
Fire at Chicago Stock Yards destroys hay and damages yards
A spectacular blaze at the Union Stock Yards barn at Forty-eighth and Aberdeen streets destroyed 11,000 tons of hay and caused about 400000 dollars in damage. The fire occurred Friday and affected the stock yards complex in Chicago.
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Chicago Stock Yards
Chicago
Union Stock Yards
Forty-eighth
Aberdeen Streets
Jesus Preaching as Missionary to World Harvest
Lesson outlines Jesus addressing the multitude, the harvest ready, and three missionary classes the Lord commissions. It explains prayer for laborers, the Twelve, Jesus, and supporting women, plus the cross as salvation by faith, quoting John 3 16 and Erdman on repentance and belief.
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Jesus
Christ
Charles R. Erdman
God
Jesus Christ
Emerson Quotation About Presence and Tradition
A reflective note on breaking tradition and rhetoric to invite divine presence as Emerson suggests. The quote invites spiritual renewal through humility, focus, and inner awakening.
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Emerson
God's Way of Forgiveness
A reflective devotional noting Leighton's view that divine forgiveness is thorough and aims to both forgive and forget, while warning that without such fullness one cannot share in God's portion.
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Leighton
Heart and Home Fragment Poems Lead Byron Muse
A fragment from a Byron era page presents lines on heart and home without the word hearts. The compact verse hints at domestic themes and literary musing in a period manuscript.
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Byron
Help for Girls Who Work Tyrone Pa Letter Endorses Pinkham
A Tyrone Pennsylvania letter from Mrs M Lopic praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from nervous weakness and left side pains and calls it a strong body builder. The note claims the remedy cured fatigue and enabled housework. Such letters are cited to support the product's merit and its benefit to women.
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Tyrone
Lydia E. Pinkham
Time Tells Lazy Men to Leave as Trouble Retreats
A terse aphorism suggests trouble itself will abandon a lazy man in due course, emphasizing consequences for indolence and urging action rather than idleness. The saying frames effort as a personal discipline and warns of self-inflicted neglect.
Women Dye and Tint Faded Garments for Renewal
Advertisement promises dyeing and tinting services for worn or shabby garments and drapery to restore color and freshness. Services aimed at women customers with phrases emphasizing renewal and affordability. Located as a local booster tone typical of period classifieds.
Diamond Dyes Advertised for Easy Home Tinting
Advert says Diamond Dyes come with simple directions any woman can use to dye or tint worn items. Choose any color at the drug store. Also notes Brandreth Pills laxative and a quip about a letter never written.
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Mrs, Stokes
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U. S
U.S
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Western Newspaper Union
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