Coolidge Support Grows Across Cabinet and States
Dr Hubert Work Secretary of Interior urged Coolidge’s nomination in a public letter predicting his election. Bartlett First Assistant Postmaster General declared candidacy as a delegate pledging support to Coolidge. Governor Baxter sent telegrams urging Maine Coolidge Club formation to prominent citizens.
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Denver
Hubert Work
Interior
Calvin Coolidge
Work
Secretary of Interior
Coo!dge
Bartlett
Coolidge
Concord
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Augusta
State of Maine
Coolidge Club
Baxter
Colorado Flood Eases After Arkansas River Rise
Pueblo Colorado August 24 floodwaters from the Arkansas and Apishara rivers have spent their first fury and are diminishing in volume. Residents begin returning home as train and auto traffic remain disrupted. Scores of homes were swept away.
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Pueblo
Colo
Arkansas
Apishara
Russian protest over British flag at Wrangell Island
Moscow reports Foreign Minister Tchitcherin sent a note to Britain protesting Stefansson’s raising of the British flag over Wrangell Island in the Arctic. It notes Wrangell Island was incorporated into Russian territory in 1821 and that lighthouses and other works were built in 1910 and 1915. The Russian government has informed allied and neutral powers that Wrangell Island and other Siberian coast islands are Russian territory.
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Moscow
Tchitcherin
Stefansson
Wrangell Island
Arctic
Siberian
Recognition of Mexico Nears as Warren Hails Report
Washington Aug 24 Charles B Warren a negotiator with Mexican commissioners spent hours with Secretary Hughes and officials. He then met President Coolidge and said he was satisfied the United States will accept the Payne Warren report on recognizing Mexico. Warren returned home today. Colorado Springs Aug 24 Elsie Jordenson 16 wife of one month was found dead at home, clubbed head. A former suitor Spaniard in Denver is being sought.
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Washington
Charles B. Warren
Charles E. Hughes
Department of State
Warren
Coolidge
Detroit
United States
Payne
Mexico
Colorado Springs
Elsie Jordenson
Denver
North Butte Mine Flooded Ending Historic Copper Property
Helena August 24 Pumps are drawn and the famed North Butte copper mine in the Butte district is to flood to the 2800 level, with drainage to an adjoining mine. Declining ore reserves and a weak metal market drive abandonment after a storied past and two deadly accidents, including the 1917 bulkhead rescue that saved miners but cost Manus Duggan his life.
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North Butte
Manus Duggan
Duggan
California
Montana
Butte
Intercoastal Steamer to Load Salmon in Alaska
The Commercial Traveler notes a first intercoastal vessel will load Alaska salmon for the Atlantic seaboard. The ship sails tomorrow from Seattle to Petersburg with fish taken aboard at Petersburg and Ketchikan and carries extra cargo to San Francisco for the east.
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Seattle
Alaska
Atlantic Seaboard
Petersburg
Ketchikan
San Francisco
Twenty Eight Hour Air Mail Dream Realized
Chicago reports the east bound mail from San Francisco arrived in 27 hours 56 minutes at Hempstead New York fulfilling the 28 hour air mail dream. Cleveland notes coast to coast air mail flights will be discontinued after today for an indefinite period. At Hempstead batches were sent promptly on schedule and officials expect delivery within 28 hours.
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Chicago
San Francisco
Hempstead
N. Y
New York
Cleveland
Here
K. K. K. Members Confess To Crimes Go To Prison
Tulsa August 24 Ben F Sikes Grover Sikes and Earl Sack all of Broken Arrow pleaded guilty to rioting in connection with recent floggings. They were sentenced to two years in prison, the first time Klansmen confessed as members of a flogging party and received sentences for mob outrages.
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Tulsa
Okla
Ben F
Sikes
Grover Sikes
Earl Sack
Broken Arrow
Alaska Timber Sale Reported Largest in Tongass Timber
The U S Forest Service announced a conditionally awarded sale of about 3 300 000 cords of pulp timber in the Cascade Creek unit of Tongass National Forest Alaska The award went to The Safe Way of San Francisco under the perpetual timber plan aimed at sustaining natural reproduction with potential annual production of 1 500 000 tons of paper The plan includes a $1 000 000 development program at Cascade Creek and a pulp and paper facility at Thomas Bay with further visits by EF 8 Sutton and financiers from San Francisco aboard a chartered yacht
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Washington, D. C
U. S. Forest Service
Cascade Creek
Tongass National Forest
Alaska
Hutton, McNear & Dougherty
San Francisco
Empire
Frank €. Doontch
Thomas Bay
Juneau
Petersburg
Rotor
Forest Service
Ugherty
Sutton
Canada to Seek Path for Rum Through Alaska and Yukon
Aug. 21 report states Attorney General A. M. Manson will present to Premier Mackenzie King a plan for Canada and the United States to negotiate a treaty removing restrictions on liquor shipments via Alaska to the Yukon and Atlin British Columbia. BC seeks end to embargo as Atlin liquor store faces limited supply. shipment through Skagway blocked by US prohibitions.
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Victoria
United States
Alaska
Yukon
Atlin
B. C
A. M. Manson
McKenzie King
Canada
British Columbia
Alaskan
Skagway
No Intervention In Coal Strike Planned Now
Washington August 24 Chairman Hammond of the Federal Coal Commission says no intervention in the anthracite strike is planned at present He states operators and miners should negotiate without outside help for a period to allow the dispute to work itself out.
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Washington
Hammond
Federal Coal Commission
Public Emergency Stoppage of Coal Mining Warned
Washington August 24 The halt of anthracite mining would create a public emergency says the Federal Coal Commission. The measure would require full cooperation of coal consumers safe operators and all distribution agencies and all aid possible through federal state and executive action.
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Washington
Federal “Coal Commission
Alaska Naval Base Report Due Next Sunday
Rear Admiral J W Chase, assigned last spring to survey Alaska base sites, will report next Sunday at Port Angeles to Admiral R E Coontz, commander of the United States Fleet.
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Seattle
J. W. Chase
Alaska
Port Angeles
R. E. Coontz
United States Fleet
Wobblies Threaten Terror in Sacramento
Sacramento investigators report plans by the Industrial Workers of the World to unleash a terror reign on the city similar to Centralia. Judge Busick granted a temporary injunction limiting I W W activities statewide, with the order likely to become permanent and subject to appeal.
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Sacramento
Centralia
California
Busick
Superior Court
Industrial Workers of the World
Stambouliski Cabinet Faces Serious Charges in Sofia
In Sofia on August 24 eleven late Stambouliski cabinet members were placed under arrest and will be tried on charges including bribery murder and incitement of riot with death penalty potential. Justice Smiloff announced the case. Separately in Los Angeles thieves bound a night watchman and looted $100,000 in jewels from E L Deacon and F A Perkins in the Miller Building.
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Sofia
Stambouliski
Justice Smiloff
Angeles
E. L. Deacon
F. A. Perkins
Miller Building
Premier Kato of Japan dies after illness
Tokio reports Premier Kato died late yesterday after months of illness. Born in 1859 he rose from navy captain in the Russo Japanese war to rear admiral in 1915 and later served as minister of the navy. He supported better U.S. Japan relations and was confirmed premier on June 12 last year.
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Tokio
Kato
United States
Japan
Former Seattle Man Indicted in Army Fraud Case
New York August 24 Colonel L M Purcell retired of Seattle former head of surplus property division and John Skinner chief of sales division Quartermaster Corps and three others indicted for conspiracy to defraud the government through army goods sales.
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New York
Col. L. M. Purcell
Seattle
John €. Skinner
Quartermaster Corps
Johnson admits weak candidacy in California
A May Europe written letter by Hiram Johnson to Charles K. McClatchy sparked a public statement denying a San Francisco publisher access to the letter. Johnson says he would like to be president but doubts Harding’s renomination, confessing reduced strength in California and urging a progressive Republican delegation to the national convention.
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Washington
Hiram Johnson
Europe
Charles K. McClatchy
Sacramento
Sacramento Bee
Andrew M. Lawrence
San Francisco Journal
Albert E. Boynton
California State Republican Committee
Lawrence
Johnson
Harding
California
Hoover
Hilferding Proposes Ruthless Taxation to Save Germany
Berlin Aug 24 Dr Rudolph Hilferding the first Socialist to hold a federal portfolio as Finance Minister told the Reichstag Budget Committee he would inaugurate brutal ruthless taxation policies. He warned banks and said dictatorial measures are the only way to save the country.
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Berlin
Rudolph Hilferding
Reichstag Budget Committee
Hilferding
Five Reasons Youths Lose First Jobs
Chicago Aug 24 90 per cent of youths lose their first jobs due to lack of responsibility unwillingness to work hard lack of thoroughness false notions about salary and promotion and lack of principle A D White statistician notes most terminations trace to these five faults with neglect of work late arrivals lack of thoroughness and excuses as core issues plus warnings about overpayment and promotion risks.
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Chicago
United States
Chicago Association of Commerce
A. D. White
Swift and Company
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