Forced House vote on veterans bonus march 12
Washington. House signers move to force a vote on the Patman bill to pay veterans 2400000000 in greenbacks. Speaker Rainey says the President will not approve any bonus legislation. The petition has 145 signers, with 96 Democrats, 44 Republicans, and Farmer-Laborites.
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Washington
White House
House
Kainey
Roosevelt
Lundeen
Patman
Hainey
Roosevex
Rainey
Representative Byrnes
Tennessee
Farmer-Laborites
Ways and Means Committee
Pew
Stillman Ranch Sold For Subdivision In Brownsville
The 22 000 acre Stillman ranch forty miles north of Brownsville has been sold by Santarosa Inc to over 25 individuals and firms for subdivision and development. The Stillman estate once included much of Brownsville townsite and large farm holdings. The sale price was about 1 000 000.
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Brownsville
Texas
Stillman
Here
James Stillman
Santarosa, Inc. Company
Freedom of Press Is Preserved by the Code
The code of fair competition for daily newspapers, signed by President Roosevelt, takes effect February 27 and shields press freedom while adding a child labor provision. It also sets a 40 hour week for clerical and mechanical staff, with exemptions, and creates a newspaper industrial board to handle labor disputes. The President asked General Johnson for a special report on the child labor clause within 60 days.
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Washington
Roosevelt
General Johnson
New Jersey Mayor Guilty of Misfeasance
Cape May Courthouse New Jersey Mayor Harry Headley and Ocean City Commissioner John E Trout were convicted of misfeasance for approving a 250000 city tax anticipation note used to aid the Kean City National Bank. The state said this violated a constitutional ban on using municipal funds to aid a private corporation.
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Cape May
N. J
Harry Headley
John E. Trout
Ocean City
Kean City National Bank
Government in Police Business Proposed By Attorney General
Attorney General Homer S. Cummings urged Congress to pass 12 federal laws to stamp out racketeering and kidnapping. The proposals would outlaw interstate racketeering as a federal crime, strengthen the Lindbergh kidnapping law, and make interstate transportation of stolen property over 1000 dollars a federal offense.
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Washington
Homer S. Cummings
Congress
Ten infirm women perish in flames at Pennsylvania home
Brookville Pennsylvania reports ten widows and daughters of Civil War veterans perished when the infirmary at the Pennsylvania Memorial home burned. Fifteen residents were inside. five were rescued as crews battled the zero degree wind driven fire. Nine bodies recovered. Firefighters faced frozen hoses and plugs as a wall of flame hampered rescue efforts. The facility is run by the Women’s Relief Corps of Pennsylvania, tied to the Grand Army of the Republic.
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Brookville
Pennsylvania Memorial Home
Women's Relief Corps. of Pennsylvania
Grand Army of the Republic
Picketing by Employers Upheld by Ohio Court
The Ohio Common Pleas Court under Judge George B. Harris recognizes picketing as a right of a trade association in a case involving the national industrial recovery act. The decision dissolves a temporary restraining order that blocked the Retail Cleaners and Tailors Association of Cleveland from continuing peaceful picketing at Park Avenue cleaners after price cuts below the code authority.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas
George B. Harris
National Industrial Recovery Act
Harris
Retail Cleaners and Tailors Association of
Park Avenue Cleaners
Iowa Father Ends Life On Grave Of Son In San Clarinda
George C. Good of Des Moines was found dead in a Clarinda cemetery beside his son George Jr. who killed himself last August. Coroner Leslie Walker said Good shot himself in the head with a shotgun and left a note requesting the same funeral arrangements as his son. His wife died last fall and a daughter Gertrude remains in Des Moines.
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Clarinda
Iowa
George C. Good
Dés Moines
George, Jr
Leslie Walker
Good
Gertrude
Des Moines
Reed Landis Awarded Distinguished Service Cross
Washington belatedly honors Reed Landis of Chicago an aviation ace with the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism. Landis credited with shooting down ten German planes in World War I ranking sixth among American war aces.
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Washington
Reed Landis
Chicago
United States
Landis
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Fierce Blizzard Grips the East
New York and New England endured a historic blizzard with 12 inch snow, 9 degree temperatures, and a 60 mile gale off the coast. Railroads, buses, ships, and air travel halted. 80 lives endangered. 500000 commuters stranded. widespread power and communications outages. ships towed to port and communities isolated.
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New York
New England
Boston
Westchester
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Adirondacks
Maryland
Florida
Sea Board
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Ponzi Gets a Job Selling Provisions
Boston reports Charles Ponzi the so called get rich quick wizard has a job as wholesale provision salesman after release from state prison and while on $1,000 bail awaiting a deportation warrant to Italy.
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Boston
Charles Ponzi
Ponzi
Italy
President Roosevelts order allows lower pay for handicapped
President Roosevelt issued an executive order permitting employment of physically or mentally handicapped workers at wages below the standard in any code. The aim is to prevent displacement of handicapped workers by others.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Black man to hang for 1.80 robbery in Mississippi
In Greenwood Mississippi O C Brown a Black man will be hanged for armed robbery even though the stolen amount was only 1 80 He is the first to be convicted under Mississippi’s new public safety robbery capital offense law and was sentenced by Judge S F Davis.
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John H. Russell
Marine Corps
General Fuller
Greenwood
Miss
O. C. Brown
Mississippi
S. F. Davis
Ex Athlete and Lawyer Virgil David Killed in Auto Crash
Virgil David aged 28 a member of the law firm David Jones and David was killed in an automobile accident near New Sharon Iowa He was a noted University of Iowa athlete and a pitcher for the Peoria team of the old Three Eye league.
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Oskaloosa, Iowa
Virgil David
David, Jones & David
New Sharon
University of Iowa
Peoria
Colonists May Displace Famous Greek Monastery
The piece discusses European monasteries on Mount Athos and similar sites where women are traditionally barred. It notes their wealth, historic ties to earlier temples, and rigid male dominance. Greek government plans to resettle refugees may force openings, risking the traditional all male monastic life.
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Europe
Greece
Mount Athos
Pot
Apollo
Troy
Byzantium
Asia Minor
Motor Cars and Poetry Quote by D W Griffith
Ex screen director D W Griffith criticized big business and Henry Ford in a Literary Digest quote. He argued cars and airplanes move people elsewhere without clear purpose, valuing poetry as guidance for staying still and writing lines that endure.
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D. W. Griffith
Henry Ford
Literary Digest
Creomulsion Ad Appeals to Cough Sufferers
A public notice promotes Creomulsion as a remedy for coughs and colds. The ad claims seven benefits in one and guarantees refunds if relief is not achieved, emphasizing non narcotic ingredients and direct reimbursement by the local druggist.
Restore vigor with S S S tonic claim in ad text
An old advertisement touts S S S as a tonic to rebuild blood and restore energy after indoor work wear. It urges appetite, color, and weight gain, promising faster recovery and renewed capacity to “carry on.” It hints at age and vitality while noting few new styles suit men over forty.
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S.S.S
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J. H. Russell
Warris & Ewing
Brookville, Pa
Ohio
Cuticura
Cutiura Laboratories
Malden
Mass
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Bayer Manufacture
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