Coolidge On 6000 Will Trip To Cuba
President Coolidge led a 86 member party on a goodwill tour to Havana aboard a twelve car special train and the Texas battleship. The trip aimed to ease Latin American tensions and strengthen U S relations with western Hemisphere nations. Delegations included Kellogg Hughes Fletcher OBrien Wilbur Scott and Davis among others. The voyage marked the first outside U S borders for Coolidge as president and set a record in accompanying personnel.
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Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
Florida
Key West
Texas
Miami
Jacksonville
White House
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Caribbean
Western Hemisphere
Nicaragua
Calles
Mexico
Kellogg
Aristide Briand
Charles Evans Hughes
Hughes
Henry P. Fletcher
Italy
Fletcher
Morgan J. O’brien
New York
Wilbur
Davis
Fla
West Point admits four youths from Asia under bill
The House Military Affairs Committee reports a bill to admit two boys from northern China and two Siamese youths to the West Point Military Academy. Unanimous findings that Mexican documents published by newspapers were forged are presented to the Senate by the special investigating committee. The Tariff Commission schedules hearings on February 23 to review higher tariffs on milk and cream for American dairymen after comparing U S and Canadian costs.
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West Point Military Academy
House Military Affairs Committee
Senate
Special Investigating Committee
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Tariff Commission
United States
Canada
ICC approves plan ending CM St P receivership transfer to CMStP&P
The Interstate Commerce Commission announced approval of the reorganization plan that terminates the receivership of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and places its properties under the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Woman sheriff ends prison riot with water hose force
Sycamore Illinois Mrs Helen Dolder newly sworn sheriff of De Kalb county orders silence then uses fire hoses to soak 83 rebellious inmates who demanded meat. After being forced back to cells the prisoners relent and the next night the mess is served again with compliance.
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Helen Dolder
Dlineia
Lindbergh Joins Costes and Lebrix in Panama City
Lindbergh welcomes French aces Costes and Lebrix in Panama City as 20 000 onlookers cheer. The trio posed on the municipal building balcony after meeting near Campo Lindbergh and waved to the crowd amid a celebratory greeting during their air visit from Guayaquil.
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Lebrix
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
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United States
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Colon
Local business plans and community notes across Nebraska
Montgomery Ward eyeing a Nebraska City store location while Fullerton voters approve a 150 000 bond for a high school. Fire wipes Alliance Western hotel with 15000 loss. Laurel to open Security National bank with 25000 capital and 5000 surplus. Falls City Journal marks 60th anniversary with a 24 page issue and long-time subscribers.
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Montgomery Ward and Company
Nebraska City
Otoe County
Fullerton
Alliance
Laurel
Security National Bank
Banking Department
Laurel National Bank
Nebraska
Falls City Journal
Falls City
Richardson County
Journal
E. S. Towle
Frank Camblin
George Schock
Omaha
Chamber of Commerce
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Mitchell
Mitchell State Bank
State Banking Department
James T. Whitehead
Beaver City
W. T. Kelley
T. J. Kinsman
The
Agriculture College
State University
Nicholson
Charles W Sisley
Sarah E. Colerick
Nebraska Real Estate group urges promoting Nebraska to Nebraskans
At the first meeting of the Nebraska Real Estate Association board in Grand Island the need to teach Nebraskans about their state was stressed. Speakers from Lincoln Omaha Kearney Bridgeport and North Platte Valley urged selling Nebraska to Nebraskans and boosting state pride and development.
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Nebraska Real Estate Association
Yancey
Grand Island Real Estate Board
Nebraska
C.e.grundy
Grand Island Trust Company
Lincoln
North Platte Valley
Byron R. Hastings
Omaha
Brown
Hastings
The
National Association
Niobrara plans prairie preserve and chick en reserves in sandhills
Niobrara region to host a state backed game preserve with a 1 500 acre Niobrara river island and eight mile river strip. Izaak Walton league will place 356 pairs of Hungarian partridge and wild turkeys on the reserve and may lease ranch reserves for three year periods. Artesian wells proposed at sandhill lakes to prevent freezing and save fish.
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Nebraska
Izaak Walton League
Niobrara River
League
Basset
Lemons Exhibit Grown Near Wisner Weigh 28 Ounces
A lemon grown by Fred Dewitt near Wisner was shown recently weighing 28 ounces with measurements of 15 and 17 inches. The fruit was part of a local display highlighting produce from the Wisner area.
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Fred Dewitt
Wisner
Ice Harvest Begins in Wymore by Rawlings Firm
Wymore ice wholesaler M L Rawlings started the annual harvest on Indian Creek south of Wymore using electric gear. A crew of forty works days, then nights with a smaller force. Rawlings runs ice operations for 25 years with storage capacity of 30 000 tons in Wymore and 10 000 tons at St Joseph. The ice measures twelve to thirteen inches thick.
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M. L. Rawlings
Wymore Ice
Indian Creek
Wymore
St. Joseph
Navy pleads for new ships amid five year build plan
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Robinson asks Congress for 55 million dollars to start the first year of a five year program totaling 750 million. Secretary Wilbur and Admiral Hughes defend the plan as needed for coastal defense and protection of overseas commerce.
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Navy Department
Robinson
Congress
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Navy
Wilbur
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Charles F. Hughes
Naval Operations
General Board
United States
Great Britain
Naval Secretary
Hughes
Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray Executed in Sing Sing
Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray were executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison Ossining New York for the murder of Snyder’s husband Albert Snyder. The pair died seven minutes apart after a two day delay in defense appeals. Snyder was the eighth woman executed in New York since the chair's adoption.
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Charles B. ‘Robbins
Secretary of War
Illinois
Lindy
Game Preserve Is
Fairbury
Rock Island Railroad
R. V. McKenzie
Rock Island
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Judd Gray
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