End Miners Strike Efforts Continue in Washington
Washington reports show the administration pressing for a settlement of the bituminous coal strike via a conference between the two sides. White House hints publicity would hinder talks while details remain withheld. President Harding deplores the Herrin events and urges punishment for those responsible for outrages in Illinois mining. Secretary of Labor Davis has stated the wrongdoing will be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
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Washington
Illinois
Whitehouse
Harding
Herrin
Davis
Ilinois
Platte River Harnessed Plan Urges Prelim Survey
A Nebraska committee led by George E. Johnson Mayor McConaughy and George P. Kingsley urges the Reclamation Service to conduct a preliminary survey. The Central Supplementary Water association seeks to impound the Platte to irrigate the belt, with open ditches to divert flood waters during high water seasons.
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Platte
Washington
Reclamation Service
George E. Johnson
Lincoln
McConaughy
Cut In Second Class Rates
Washington reports the administration is studying lowering second class postal rates. After cabinet discussion President Harding and Postmaster General Work favor removing at least part of the wartime rate increase.
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Washington
White House
Harding
Falling Off in Marriages in Nebraska 1921
Lincoln Nebraska reports show marriages in 1921 declined sharply from 1920 and 1919 while births rose by over 1400 from 1920 and more than 5000 from 1919. Deaths in 1921 dropped by 912 compared with 1920 according to the state bureau of health vital statistics.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
State Bureau of Health
Alien Women Granted Citizenship Rights Proposal Passes
Washington report notes the house approved 206 to 9 a bill enabling alien married women to access most naturalization and citizenship rights already available to alien men, aligning with suffrage aims as asserted by supporters.
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Washington
House
Supreme Court requires fee for fraternal appeal
Nebraska supreme court rules that fraternal insurance companies must pay a reasonable attorney fee for policy holders when the fraternal order appeals a judgment to the supreme court. The decision applies even if the fee law was enacted after the insurance contract.
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Lincoln
Nebraska Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Harding opposes immediate Philippine independence urging caution
Washington President Harding told members of the Philippine parliamentary commission that he could not yet urge Congress to pursue the desirability of Philippine independence.
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Washington
Harding
Philippine Parliamentary Commission
Congress
No Official Sanction Yet. Mexico City Officials Pause
Mexico City officials have not yet granted official sanction to the agreement between Secretary of the Treasury De La Huerta and New authorities. The document awaits formal approval from the governing body before becoming binding.
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Mexico City
Railroads Report 75 Days Coal Supply on Hand
Washington June 1 coal stocks show railroads holding seventy five days of supply according to a commerce department statement.
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Washington, D. C
Commerce Department
Soldiers' bonus bill urged as senate special order
The soldiers' bonus bill passed 52 to 8 and was made the senate's special order after the tariff bill vote, with several senators pledging to push for action before the tariff. The move followed an all-day fight and an initial attempt to bring the bill to the floor first.
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Washington, D.C
Senate
Woman Nominated for U S Senate in Minnesota Primary
Half the precincts report in St Paul shows Annie Dickie Olesen winning the Democratic senatorial nomination over two male rivals, marking the first time a woman has held the party’s bid.
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U. S
St. Paul
Minn
United States
Annie Dickie Olesen
Democratic Party
Railroad Wage Cuts Urged Against Union Ultimatum
The United States railroad labor board plans to urge acceptance of the 135 million dollar wage reductions effective July 1. Chairman Ben W. Hooper prepares the reply to Cincinnati union chiefs who warned workers to vote for a strike. The document discusses readjustment, wages, transportation costs, and industry recovery, linking the wage cut to business revival.
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
Cincinnati
Ben W. Hooper
Strong for Unification in Pekin Two Developments
Official guidance from Canton declares Sun Yat Sen's downfall complete and signals unity for China. A telegram from Manchurian assemblies says the three provinces are ready to join the united China movement while retaining self government.
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Pekin
China
Canton
Sun Yat Sen
Manchuria
Chang Tso-Lin
United China Movement
Honors to Chief Justice Taft in London banquet
London hosted an impressive Pilgrims banquet for William Howard Taft chief justice of the United States supreme court. Britain's foremost statesmen jurists and American friends attended as five cabinet members and many former ministers joined the event showing a rare spontaneous welcome to the visiting American.
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Taft
London
Britain
William Howard Taft
United States Supreme Court
England
Federal Land Bank of Omaha to Declare 10 Percent Dividend
The Federal Land Bank of Omaha will declare a 10 per cent dividend to its borrowing stock holders on July 1. The total dividend amounts to $155,000. Under the Farm Loan Act all bank stock is owned by borrowers and each borrower receives 5 per cent of his loan in stock.
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Omaha
Neb
Federal Land Bank of Omaha
Chris Gruenther
Gruenther
Federal Land Bank
Jeanette Bradley
E. E. Stone
L. C. Moody
Fairbury
EB. F. Stoddard
L. R. Gregory
Beatrice and Tecumseh
New York
Columbia University
L. G. Brian
State Hall Insurance Department
Bath
Buffalo County
Platte
Elmcreek
J. Franzen
Randolph
M. L. Endress
Douglas County
Dan Cropsey
Nebraska
Cropsey
John Murtey
Cass County
Alwo
Rock Island
Kearney
Fred Schaefer
de Conley
Scottsbloff
Goldie Joy Zimmerman
Bridgeport ‘High School
George Batt
Max Tiedtke
Lincoln
Orin Kellison
Ord
Siedhetiens
Floods Swamp Laredo Area Drive 1500 From Homes
Advices from Mexico to the state department report government offices at the international bridge in Laredo have been abandoned. About 1,500 people in Nuevo Laredo are driven from their homes and several business houses, including two American stores, flooded by the Rio Grande rise from the San Juan river.
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Washington, D. C
Mexico
State Department
International Bridge
Laredo
Nuevo Laredo
Rio Grande
San Juan River
Francisco man named imperial potentate at Mystic Shrine session
James Me adiless of Honolulu was named imperial potentate of the Ancient Arabic order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at its annual session in Francisco California.
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Si Francisco
Cal
Favorable Crop Conditions Across Most States
The Weather Bureau reports generally favorable conditions for harvesting grain and hay and for crop cultivation across most states, with exceptions in parts of the northeast and north central regions.
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Washington
The
Weather Bureau
Nome welcomes Wash.-Capt. Amma after polar expedition
Seattle based Wash- Capt Roald Amma leads a five year scientific expedition in the north polar basin region arriving in Nome Alaska. After a lengthy voyage of seventeen and a half days out of Seattle the team reaches port.
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Seattle
Wash
Roald Ammaon
North Polar Basin
Nome
Alaska
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