Global and Domestic News Highlights of 1921 Stream
Private bankers plan a 50 million dollar fund to aid livestock and wool producers. Mellon reports the Treasury’s stance in Washington as Senate House conferees pause on naval legislation. War weeks declares Pueblo needs no more supplies. Harding nominates Gyrus E Wood ambassador to Spain. Japan urges a broad U S Japan settlement on issues. Seamen act amendments pass the House. Sims discipline remains with Denby. Prohibition commissioner Haynes previews medical beer rules. The soldiers bonus bill moves to the Senate. Borah bill on free Panama canal passage advances. Mayflower aide Ralston Holmes named naval aide. Marine strike settled. Alberta fire kills four including Mrs. Rutledge. Nebraska train wreck and 5 dead. New York clears house adopts St Louis system to curb lottery. Resh family fire deaths. 50 cent daily wage cut to start July 16. Marie Curie honored with Northwestern University degree. AFL holds Denver convention. labor leaders weigh unemployment relief. Detroit fare dispute settled at 5 cents base. American Legion selects John Emery as national commander. Rice markets shift to American Rice Growers assoc. Fortunes rise and fall across North America as mining and steel wage cuts loom. Irish and Turkish conflicts continue. Berlin and London discuss military and political shifts.
Greece urged to delay attack and seek mediation in Asia Minor
Western Union reports Briand and Curzon pressing Greece to postpone offensive and accept mediation by Britain France and Italy to settle the Turkish question. The two leaders also discuss Upper Silesia while agreeing no Turkish-Greek settlement until consent to mediation is obtained.
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Union News Service
Paris
Great Britain
France
Italy
Greece
Asia Minor
Aristide Briand
Lord Curzon
Constantine
M. Briand
Upper Silesia
Briand
Smyrna
Thrace
Sevres
Enos-Midiah
American Citizens Pressed into Greek Army protest filed
Smyrna reports American citizens are forcibly impressed into the Greek army by Athens officials. George Horton United States Consul has protested to Governor General Steriades. Dozens of men including veterans of France are taken from homes or ships to join Greek forces.
Four men convicted in Wyomissing bank robbery case
Reading, Pa. four men charged with rifling the People's Bank at Wyomissing near here last February were convicted in Berks County Court. Defendants named Stewart S, Wallace, Carl Scott, John Russo, and Charles Stark alias Rosen, all of New York. James Tobin alias Minogue and Harry Bernstein also of New York pleaded guilty with sentence deferred.
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Reading
People’s Bank
Wyomissing
Here
Detroit Witnesses Tie Lewen to Missing Boy
Two prosecution witnesses testified they saw Mrs. Elizab eth Lewen with six year old Max Ernest miles from his home in Detroit on the day the boy disappeared. Miss Nettle McKee said she saw them board an east bound street car in the downtown section late in the afternoon of May 11.
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Detroit
Elizabeth Lewen
Max Ernest
North End
Nettle McKee
Settle Foreign Loans Aimed by Harding Cabinet
After a Cabinet meeting President Harding and his Cabinet favored early adjustment and settlement of foreign loans. The plan includes asking Congress for explicit authority for the Treasury to make settlements and refinancing.
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Washington
Harding
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Teacher Threlkeld Sentenced to Life in Prison
Nicholasville Kentucky teacher T B Threlkeld was given a life term in the Frankfort Penitentiary by Circuit Judge W R Shackleford for the October killing of local merchant Arthur C Denman. The act followed a quarrel over football ticket sales by boys at the school.
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Nicholasville
T. B. Threlkeld
Arthur C. Denman
Frankfort
W. R. Shackleford
Threlkeld
Farmers cooperative marketing seen as permanent economic facet
George Livingston of the U S Bureau of Markets told the Virginia Bankers Association convention in Hot Springs Virginia that farmer cooperative marketing groups are a permanent economic institution. He said they enable farmer participation in distribution profits and provide a direct path to consumers with far reaching benefits for farmers and the public.
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Hot Springs
Farmers’ Co-Operative Marketing
George Livingston
United States Bureau of Markets
Virginia Bankers’ Association
Livingston
Prince of Wales Sends Purebred Arabian to Museum
The prince of Wales loans the purebred Arabian stallion Dwarka to the South Kensington Natural History Museum to represent the lineage of the modern thoroughbred. Dwarka, nearly thirty, spent 22 years in Britain and originated in Arabia before racing in India. Arabs are hardy, compact horses whose ancestry traces to Byerly Turk, Darley Arabian, and Godolphin Arabian, the three foundational sires of the turf.
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Prince of Wales
South Kensington
Rawal Pindi
England
Arabia
Asia Minor
James I
Byerly Turk
Darley Arabian
Godolphin Aratian
Herod
Eclipse
Matchem
Florida hotel hair in the sauce joke goes viral
George Harvey at a New York dinner mocks high prices by recounting a Florida hotel guest who complains of hairs in ice cream honey and apple sauce. The manager explains the ice hair from shaving the ice and the honey hair from a comb, joking about Baldwin apples.
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George Harvey
New York
Florida
Mountain Path Joke Echoes Local Wit
A New York woman jokes about walking a mountain path alone. A native replies that a young couple climbed it last year and did not get lost but disappeared from sight as they went down the other side. The anecdote reflects country humor and dark punchline.
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New York
Wal
Ohio State Opposes Summer Baseball for College Players
L. W. St. John of Ohio State argues against allowing college athletes to play summer baseball for money. He says amateurs should not earn pay while in college and that players should join pro teams only after completing their college eligibility. He notes the faculty reserves discipline for any lying or professional play and cites Chick Harley’s amateur stance as precedent.
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George Huff
University of Ilinois
L. W. St. John
Ohio State
Board of Control
St. John
Chick Harley
Ohio
Harley
Buckeye
Sporting Squibs and World Sport Echoes
A survey of sports notes covers boxing styles and crowd reactions, Davis cup preliminaries between France and Japan in Cleveland, the Canadian tennis match schedule, a Paris five setter where Jean Samazejik beat Andre Gobert, and plans for a new Hamline athletic field with a gymnasium addition next year plus Cedarvale adding a new golf course near Toronto.
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France
Japan
Cleveland
Jean Samazejik
Andre Gobert
Paris
Ancient Gold Mines Through Time
The oldest mined gold traces appear in Herodotus with the aurii ferous of Hyperboria in Tibet as the earliest literary evidence. Early inferences point to India’s alluvious mines, while inscriptions and modern surveys identify Egypt’s Bisharee alluvious as the oldest dated sites from the nineteenth century BCE.
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Hyperboria
Tibet
Herodotus
India
Egypt
Christ
Sleep and husbands pockets as women rest
Quote notes sleep habits among women with witty contrast. The Boston Transcript reference contrasts women who sleep immediately after touching a pillow with those who wait until touching their husbands pockets.
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Boston Transcript
Cincinnati Markets Snapshot of Grain Dairy and Livestock Prices
Market prices listed for corn hay eggs poultry cattle calves sheep and hogs with varied grades and weights. Includes No 2 white corn at 66 67c and live hogs at 7 8 dollars per hundredweight alongside dairy items and lambs for sale.
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Denby
William 8. Sims
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Marie Curie
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Grand Rapids, Mich
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Indianapolis
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