Debt disputes and world talks ripple through capitals
Mellon defends debt payments amid British protest over U S statements. At the League of Nations conference delegates seek debt cancellation while American envoy Robinson leads talks on global trade reform. Floods in the Mississippi valley prompt Red Cross relief and calls for federal flood control action as typhoid and smallpox risk rise among refugees.
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Hibben
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United States
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Geneva
Henry M. Robinson
Los Angeles
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Switzerland
Valerian Oxsinski
Soviet Russia
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Louisiana
Mississippi
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Parker
Hoover
Red Cross Relief Fund
William R. Redden
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Army
Congress
Mississippi Valley
Copeland
New York
la Follette
Wisconsin
Davis
Army Engineers
Peoria
Ill
Middle West
Mine Explosion Traps 94 Men Near Fairmont West Virginia
An explosion at the Everettville mine near Fairmont West Virginia entombs 94 workers. Rescue teams have recovered 20 bodies, and crews report extensive fires hindering access, with officials fearing total fatalities.
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Everettville
Fairmont
W. Va
Nicaragua peace conference ends with brief truce
The Nicaragua peace talks fail to secure liberal consent for Adolfo Diaz to keep the presidency. A two day truce is agreed with hopes for more negotiations. General Moncada, liberal army chief, represented Doctor Sacasa and expressed willingness to discuss further with Henry L. Stimson, if government troops withdraw from Boaco and Teustepe regions.
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Stimson
Moncada
United States
Nicaragua
Diaz
Poincare Plans Vast Fortifications Across Northern Frontiers
France announces a major program to build strong fortifications along its northern and eastern borders with Verdun Toul Metz Belfort and Strasbourg to be modernized. The plan includes southern routes toward the Mediterranean as security against invasion. President Coolidge welcomes returning good will flyers to Bolling Field and awards the Distinguished Flying Cross. Posthumous honors are given to Capt. C F Woolsey and Lieut. J W Benton for fatal Buenos Aires crashes.
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Toul
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Strasbourg
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Washington
National Guard Mobilized to Avert Lynching Riots in Arkansas
Governor dispatched Arkansas National Guard to Little Rock after a lynching sparked by a mob claiming the victim attacked two white women. Militia units worked several hours to restore order and control the situation.
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Arkansas National Guard
Little Rock
Chile Presidents Resign. Kon Douriotis Reconsiders Stay
President Figueroa of Chile resigns while President Kon Douriotis retracts his resignation and agrees to stay in office at least until September, signaling political shifts in the region.
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Figueroa
Chile
Kondouriotis
Hard Struggle for 24 Children in Goodhue Village
In Goodhue Minnesota Anton and Mrs Rosener raised 24 children from 1880s to 1909 five sets of twins were born six died in infancy eighteen survived with only four still at home Rosener a village blacksmith recalls health hard work and self sufficiency through garden canning butter sewing and shared toil. oldest daughters and sons pursued trades with some moving away Grace married a Minneapolis painter while Grace and Rosie stayed longer.
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Anton Rosener
Edward
William
Theodore
Rosie
Hastings
Austria
Anton
Steve
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Grace
Harry Howard
Minneapolis
German Beauties Shy Shun Bathing Suits
The League of Cultivation of Physical Beauty plans a national contest with 44 cities agreeing to choose their top beauties. Contestants may skip bathing suits but cannot use artificial enhancements beneath tight garments. Local winners advance to Berlin finals.
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Germany
Fraulein Deutschland
Hilde Quandt
League of Cultivation of Physical Beauty
Camp McCoy to Be Leader for Artillery Camp
Camp McCoy Wisconsin will become the nation’s largest artillery training center within three years. Each year thousands of regular army organized reserve and National Guard artillery troops from nine states will train there. A three year improvement plan already underway includes June start for nine state units and later addition of Michigan artillery.
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McCoy
Wis
Monroe County
United States
National Guard
Missouri
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Nebraska
Michigan
Camp Grayling
Mich
Robert B. McCoy
Sparta
Royal Chef Prefers Job in American Kitchen
Eureka Springs Arkansas. W C Thompson an Estonian chef who trained in the Russian royal palace kitchens says Americans are easier to please after cooking for czars. He served monarchs under Alexander II Alexander III and Nicholas II and now works in a resort hotel kitchen.
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Eureka Springs
Ark
W. C. Thompson
Thompson
Alexander II
Alexander III
Nicholas II
Miracle cures draw pilgrims to Danish birthplace
Pilgrims flock to Edense Denmark Hans Christian Andersen birthplace after reports of miraculous cures at spiritualist meetings led by Brother Johannes said to have died two centuries ago He is credited with restoring sight and aiding crippled individuals Police recently banned secret gatherings by the spiritualists.
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Edense
Denmark
Hans Christian Andersen
Johannes
Army Twins Share Ranks and Service in Two Corps
Washington reports two sets of twins with identical army records, all first lieutenants. Herbert E. and Herschel D. Baker serve in field artillery from Fort Sheridan and Fort Bragg, while Claude T. and Clem O. Gunn are in coast artillery and stationed in Manila. The Bakers met in 1917 and fought together in World War I, both wounded in the Meuse Argonne offensive.
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Fort Bragg
N. C
Gunn Brothers
Manila
Clem
Fifty-ninth Coast Artillery
Claude
Sixtieth
Waltonville
David Baker
Medical Corps
Baker Brothers
Marist College
Atlanta
Regular Army
Troop C. Second Cavalry
One Hundred Forty-seventh Field Artillery
Third
Fort Oglethorpe
Meuse-Argonne
Field Artillery
Herschel D
Army
Herbert EB
Hart’s ex-wife hopes to reunite for son
Winifred Westover Hart, who divorced Bill Hart the screen actor, would take him back for the sake of their four year old son, according to a New York American report.
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New York
Winifred Westover Hart
Bill Hart
New York American
No Mixed Dancing at Eastern High Senior Dance
Authorities report Eastern High School holds a separate girls and boys dance yearly for twenty years. A petition to allow mixed dancing has been repeatedly denied, maintaining single gender pairings for the event.
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New York
Eastern High School
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