President Coolidge Urges Tax Cuts, Warns on New Spending
In a special message to Congress President Coolidge notes a current year surplus of 67 million and a next year surplus of 373 million while opposing further tax reductions until results from the present law are known. He advocates economy and estimates defense costs, river and harbor funding, and reclamation needs. He also highlights debt reductions and a new agricultural study commission.
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Washington
Congress
Coolidge
Treasury
Nebraska Briefs: Bids, Bonds, Fire, and Cattle Theft
Nebraska items report Humphrey women organizing a concert band. Syracuse corn and egg show December 11 12. Weeping Water Farm Bureau meeting December 12. honey removed from a South Bend farm. Beatrice fire damages Eagles club. Odell votes 25000 for new school 1925. Falls City to get 50000 filtration plant by June. Salvation Army drive in Beatrice for 2800. Thayer County Farm Bureau funding efforts. Barneston civil war veteran Henry Houseman dies at 80. Platte banks cut time deposit rates to 4 percent. Omaha Kennel Club show larger than Kansas City. Fremont fireman awarded 4000 verdict. Windsor School over 600 children vaccinated. Dodge bank reorganization after a withdrawal surge. Deshler buys tire truck. Creston boy loses eye from bow arrow. Wakefield ordinance bans Sunday movin pictures. York cattle lead Chicago market at 78 head. Pawnee rural survey on farm industries. Omaha Boy Scouts Christmas relief plans. Albion Knights of Pythias district meet. Nebraska Manufacturers’ Association plans in Omaha. Henzel farm pond fish moved to a tank. Havelock bank loot recovered near Auburn. Capitol commission seeks bids to tear down old state house.
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Falls City
Beatrice Salvation Army Corps
Thayer County Farm Bureau
Henry F. Houseman
Barneston
Platte County
Nebraska Kennel Club
Omaha
Kansas City
Fauble
John Mathews
Fremont
Windsor School
Pinto
First National Bank
Dodge
Deshler Commercial Club
Elmer Nebola
Creston
Wakefield
R. G. Hanson
James E. Barr
York County
Chicago
Pawnee
Washington
Omaha Boy Scouts
Boy Scout
Knights of Pythias
Albion
Schuyler
Columbus
Clarkson
Genoa
Fullerton
St. Edward
Nebraska Manufacturers’ Association
Otto Zumwinkel
Nebraska
Alfred Henzel
Filley
Henzel
First National Bank of
State Capitol Commission
State House
Red Cloud
Claire G. Norton
Burlington Railway
Wymore
Pawnee County
Dreath
Frank Williams
Beatrice
Bear Creek
Guaranty Fund
Guaranty Fund Commission
Knudson
State Banking Department
Edmond Simmons
Scottsbluff
Great Western Sugar Company
Manufacturers’ Association
John Clay
University of Nebraska
Kenyon
First State Bank
Bethany
Lincoln
Glenn Beale
Potter
Dix Potato Club
Kimball County
Nation
The
Agricultural College
R. v. Pool
United States Forestry Service
Grand Chapter
Royal Arch Masons of
Grand Council
Clara Bathen
Crete
Wyoming
Garden
Grant
Finance German Railways New York Credit
First steps in financing Germany's railways under the Dawes plan involve American and British bankers placing a 15 million dollar credit at the disposal of the German State Railway company. Khartoum Hospital Bombarded Cairo British troops bombard the military hospital at Khartoum as the last of the 200 Sudanese mutineers surrender after revolt.
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New York
Germany
Khartoum
Cairo
Swanson proposes sale of irrigated public school lands
State Land Commissioner Dan Swanson urges a single change in public land laws. He recommends selling forty acre tracts adjacent to school lands that are irrigated if deemed expedient. During the biennium the state issued leases for 402,254.79 acres and deeds for 16,771.98 acres. The state holds 1,768,970.44 acres of public land with 1,588,479.45 under lease and 178,981.98 under sale contract.
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Lincoln
Dan Swanson
University Agricultural College, Saline and Normal School
Paris Scout service marks Thanksgiving in American church
In Paris the Thanksgiving observance featured a union service at the American church on Rue de Berri where Ambassador Herrick addressed American scouts and led the oath of allegiance to the flag for the boy scouts colony. In Christiania the newspaper Oale Aftenavie reports Dr Fridtjot Nansen will join a major German airship expedition to the north pole next summer.
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Paris
Rue de Berri
Ambassador Herrick
American Scouts
Boy Scouts
Christiania
Oale
Aftenavie
Fridtjot Nansen
North Pole
Bill to Modify War Vets Laws Proposed in Congress
A bill by Representative Johnson of South Dakota would authorize permanent disability ratings after 24 months of temporary disability for veterans unfit for any occupation. It aims to liberalize hospitalization provisions, prevent bureaus from reversing disability rulings based on prior evidence, stop overpayment collections due to no fault, and grant increased compensation to dependents of diseased veterans.
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Washington
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans Bureau
Johnson
South Dakota
House
Veteran's Committee
Johnson-Reed
Veterans’ Bureau
Stocking Nebraska’s Streams by U S Fisheries
The U S bureau of fisheries distributed nearly a half million fish in Nebraska this year in cooperation with local sportsmen. Stocks include 149000 Lochleven trout 32 brook trout 1125 large mouth bass 300 catfish 280 crappie and 66 yellow perch all perch are adults ready to breed.
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Washington
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries
Nebraska
Allied finance ministers meet in Paris on Dawes plan stance
Italy has recognized the American position on U S war claims under the Dawes plan and will back it at the January Paris meeting of allied finance ministers to distribute Germany receipts. France Belgium and Italy back James A Logan Jr reparations view. England has not yet decided its stance.
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Paris
Italy
Germany
France
Belgium
James A. Logan, Jr
Reparations Commission
England
Postal Revenues Rise in Fiscal Year 1924
Postmaster General reports postal revenues up 40.12 million dollars or 7.53 percent for the year ended June 30, 1924. Delivery service expanded to 48 more cities and 43 villages. Rural mail services extended. Recommends legislation to permit appointment of postmasters by the Postmaster General instead of the president.
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Washington
New
Imported seeds harm crops says Michigan official
J F Fox head of the farm corps department at Michigan Agricultural College told members of the International Crop Improvement Association that American farmers lose millions annually due to the use of imported seeds of inferior grades.
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Chicago
J. F. Fox
Farm Corps Department
The
Michigan Agricultural College
International Crop Improvement Association
Tornado Strikes Nice France Injuring Dozens
A tornado swept the city of Nice lasting about twenty seconds with a water spout offshore. Several buildings collapsed and about 70 people were injured in the sudden storm.
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Nice
France
Yank Riflemen Capture Pan American Trophy in Lima
The United States rifle team won the Pan-American championship in Lima Peru and the Argentine cup, held by Argentina for twelve years, now goes to the American marksmen.
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Lima
Peru
United States
Argentina
Merksmen
Immigrants Leave Montreal in Five Months
United States immigration commissioner I. D. Wixon reports 57,867 people left Montreal for the United States in five months, with 40,197 not returning, describing them as temporary visitors.
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Montreal
United States
I. D. Wixon
United States Immigration Commission
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