1000 More Marines Sent To Nicaragua
Washington notes 1000 more Marines ordered to Nicaragua to reinforce the 2700 already there. The force will oversee elections, not fight Sandino, with additional sailors on five cruisers ready for shore duty if needed. The move aims to fulfill the Stimson plan in aiding Nicaraguan elections under official supervision. Marines will guard polling places and police towns.
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Washington
Coolidge
United States
Nicaragua
House
McCoy
Marine Corps
Navy Department
State Department
Coolidge Rejects Porto Rico Independence Plea
President Coolidge rebukes island agitators seeking home rule without outside help. In Porto Rico the governor Horace M. Towner receives the president’s note rebutting claims of sovereignty and citing a grave economic situation as the motive for reform.
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Washington
Coolidge
Porto Rico
West Indies
United States
Horace M. Towner
Senate
House of
Senate Approves Norris Resolution on Muscle Shoals Operation
The Senate adopted the Norris resolution for government operation of Muscle Shoals as a nitrate plant in war and as a fertilizer factory and power plant in peace. It passed 48 to 25, with 20 Republicans and 27 Democrats plus one Farmer-Labor voting yes, and 15 Republicans and 10 Democrats voting no. The measure, now sent to the house, follows weeks of nonpartisan debate and replaces the Harrison substitute after a 48 to 26 tally.
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Washington
Senate
House
Muscle Shoals
Farmer-Labor
Death of James Parker Hall U Chicago Law School Advocate
James Parker Hall of the University of Chicago Law School has died. He served as a major advocate in the United States during World War I.
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Chicago
Dea
James Parker Hall
Law School
University of Chicago
United States
Stillmans Buy 50 Miles Square for Canadian Preserve
Mr and Mrs James A Stillman of New York purchase a tract about 50 miles square to Grande Anse 50 miles north of Saint Jacques. The area is bought for conversion into the greatest private fish and game preserve in Canada. Expenditure estimated at 1,000,000 dollars.
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New York
James A. Stillman
Grande Anse
Saint Jacques
Canada
Mines Hope For Peace Through Arbitration Plan
Washington reports a possible settlement path from the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee hearing on Eastern soft coal. John H. Jones of Bertha Consumers and John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers press for compulsory arbitration and a return to contract labor bargaining. Lewis proposes a Washington task force from each district to draft a bill for Congress. A bill by Representative England aims to promote consolidation in mining and marketing of bituminous coal. In Kansas City, operators may push for a common mining basis if a wage deal with the miners is not reached by April 1.
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Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
John H. Jones
Bertha Consumers’ Company
Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Jones
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Lewis
Congress
England
West Virginia
Kansas City
Southwest Interstate Coal Operators’ Association
Miners’ Union
W. L. A. Johnson
Machado Decree Sets Sugar Crop At Four Million Tons
Havana President Machado issued a sugar crop decree for the present year fixing the crop at 4,000,000 tons. If a mill cannot meet its allotment it must leave 10 percent of its cane standing and its deficit will be distributed among mills able to fill the amount while also maintaining 10 percent idle cane.
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Havana
Machado
Chilean Girl Appointed Vice Consul for Scotland
Miss Olga De La Barra twenty two daughter of the Chilean consul to Scotland is commissioned as Chilean vice consul for Scotland. She served as substitute during her father’s autumn vacation in 1927.
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London
Olga de la Barra
Scotland
Good Bluffers and Angry Motorist Clash
Irate pedestrian confronts motorists who act as if the streets belong to them. The exchange highlights tension between pedestrians and drivers as they each defend their rights on city sidewalks.
Castoria Promises Relief for Babies and Mothers
Parents praise Fletcher's Castoria as a pure vegetable remedy easing infant colic constipation and diarrhea. The ad highlights gentle effects on the tiny system and notes a doctor’s approval plus a care guide included with the product.
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Fletcher
Tree Grew Rapidly in Louisiana Field
A toblolly pine grown on an abandoned field in the Red River valley central Louisiana grew from 1911 onward. In ten years its trunk reached 15 inches in diameter about twelve feet up, averaging 1.5 inches per year. The specimen, while unusually fast growing, was too punky for ordinary toblolly pine uses.
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Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Red River Valley
Louisiana
Children Learn From Elders Says Eugenics Expert
Mrs Elizabeth Mortimer Miller a eugenics expert told a Duluth reporter that children live too much with elders and hear unfit things. She recalled a Sioux City anecdote where a boy asked what he could do for $2 a week and the butcher pressed for specifics, noting Anything is not a real answer.
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Elizabeth Mortimer Miller
Duluth
Sioux City
Giant Sea Wall Nears Completion in Mississippi Project
Popular Mechanics notes the 24 mile reinforced concrete sea wall protecting the Old Spanish Trail between Biloxi and Pass Christian in Mississippi. The project cost about 3.4 million dollars, financed mainly by a gasoline tax, and used vast quantities of steel cement and drain pipe.
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Biloxi
Pass Christian
Miss
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Marriage Proves Proverb True With Serial Troubles
A reflection on how marriage exposes a cascade of challenges, suggesting personal unions can amplify problems rather than resolve them. The piece notes recurring difficulties and tests of patience arising within domestic life.
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