Week in Review Across the Nation and Abroad
A sweeping wrap of incidents from Wyoming fires and derailed trains to political shifts in Cheyenne and Chicago court actions. Notable items include a fatal shooting near William Henry and Rob ert Wilson, Prohibition enforcement changes in Wyoming, a Casper oil fire, Odd Fellows meeting in Gilette, a rock slide derailing a Burlington passenger train, and diverse crime, legal, and political notes from Chicago, Los Angeles, London, and Paris with ties to Prohibition, railroads, and international diplomacy.
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Casper
Pire
Midwest
Casper—Gilette
Wyoming
Independent Order’ of Odd Fellows
Douglass
Story of Our States Alabama history notes De Soto and Mobile
Alabama history summary: De Soto in 1540 credited with discovery while English laid claims. French built Fort St Louis in 1702 on Mobile Bay and Mobile town founded nine years later. Mobile long served as capital of Louisiana, with shifting control among France, Britain, Spain, and finally the United States. Alabama formed as the twenty second state in 1819, with name origins tied to a local Native American tribe and river.
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Alabama
de Soto
Etalin
North Carolina
Fort St. Louis
Mobile Bay
Mobile
Louisiana
France
England
Illnois
Florida
Spain
United States
Tolon
Urna
PlantaQua
Massinus
Mexican Senate Rejects Thanks for Protest Against U S Actions
Resolutions expressing a vote of thanks to United States Senator Robert La Follette for protesting military actions against Mexico were rejected by the Mexican Senate. Delegations from nations harmed by Mexican revillisation invite representatives to form a body to pursue compensation. Angora Turkish nationalist leaders compare their war with Greece to the American colonists in revolt against Britain.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Mexican Senate
United States
Robert la Folletta
Mexica City
Ik Eeunen
Dhregon
Tasae Ina Pernan Att
Mexian
Gorn Malesian
Angora
Japan's reply to Harding on armament talks delays
Washington reports Japan's answer to President Harding’s invitation to a conference on armament limitation but excludes any mention of Far East topics. Meanwhile China accepts the plan unqualifiedly and other weekly items include railroad funding talks and Treasury estimates of wartime costs.
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Washington, D. C
Japan
Harding
Interstate Commerce Commission
Examiner Disque
Wanderings of Henry Stewart Ended After Ten Years
Henry Stewart, age seventy four, returned to San Diego from a decade long world tour promoting the Vanilla-Pacific exposition. He visited Jerusalem, Turkey, Egypt, Russia, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Norway, Sweden, France and England before deciding to settle briefly and take up hay wagon work.
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Henry Stewart
Jerusalem
Turkey
Egypt
Tussia
Spain
Italy
Switzerland
Austria
Hungary
Germany
Norway
Sweden
France
England
Stewart
San Diego
Cal
Government officials discuss the grain rate fairness inquiry
At a recent meeting Doughert Justice Taft and a special committee of judiciary branch members discussed the matter thoroughly. The Interstate Commerce Commission plans an inquiry into grain rate propriety in western states starting August 1. Secretary Hoover received Henry Ford's proposal for leasing the Muscle Shoals nitrate plant for 100 years at 1.6 million dollars plus a 5 million land and equipment cash payment. Navy and shore stations will switch to a five day week temporarily per Assistant Secretary Roosevelt.
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Doughert
Justice Taft
Judiciary Branch
Dig Government
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hoover
Henry Ford
Weeks
Ford
Muscle Shoals
Navy
Roosevelt
World of Sports Brief Yet Ends In Confusing Fragments
A shredded sports note mentions Ruth and a surge in the National League around a rebounded lead and a late attempt at a comeback, but details are fragmented and unclear.
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World OF Sports
N. Y
Ube
Ruth
Walt Gins
Rime Tant Yjmm Lly
Saltwood Castle Ages of English fortress and rulers
Saltwood Castle near Hythe is described as 1 850 years old and currently to let. It was built by Olse son of Hengist in 448 and rebuilt around 1100 by Henry I de Wasex. Becket murderers met there in 1162 and it housed the archbishop of Canterbury during King John’s reign.
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Saltwood
Hythe
Olse
Hengist
Henry I de Wasex
Thoms
Becket
John
Caoterbury
Beautiful Tropical Planta Utterly Baffles Local Curiosity
A fragment describes tropical flora with lush growth and vivid upper leaves. It notes trees intertwine so closely that observers cannot distinguish which leaf belongs to which tree, while one specimen stands out as it grows beyond common stages.
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Tropics
Lecture on plants and electricity quoted in student talk
An fragment suggests a lecturer Sir J. O. Rose at University College London discussed plants dying from electricity and chloroform, noting plants’ winter sleep and spring awakening and claiming a dose could trigger shock or death. The text is garbled but centers on plant responses to chemicals and electric effects.
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J. O. Rose
University College, London
Care of Furs in Rainy Weather Handling
When furs have been worn in rain, shake surface moisture from them and hang the fur over a chair back away from radiators. If possible, hang garments outside to cold air and shake vigorously at intervals to remove moisture safely.
Blundera of Authors Cites Wharton Blunder in Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence is critiqued for a blunder where Archer and May are depicted as married with lines from a funeral service as if from a Boston Transcript script. The claim contrasts two odd phrasing instances with Wharton’s other descriptions of characters in her curlige novels.
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Edith Wharton
Curlige
Character Revealed in a Pair of Old Shoes
A columnist notes that wear on shoes reflects personality. Outside wear signals a disordered mind, toe wear shows conceit with stubborn practicality, and a heel and toe turnup suggests vulgarity.
Chamberlain's Coke and Diarrhoea Remedy Ad
The advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Coke and Diarrhoea Remedy as a reliable treat for bowel complaints. It urges readers to buy now and keep it at home, noting availability at drug stores for summer use.
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Chamberlain's Coke
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Robert Wilson
Here
Holmes
Henry Outfit
Cheyenne
Poe
Carl Jackson
Laramie
Prohibition Commitsiogier
Denver
Thermopolis
Burlington
Chugwater
Swan Land and Cattle Company
Lookout
Curtis Templon
Fremont
Nebraska
Buffalo
Douglas
Newcastle
Sheridan
Mary Youngman
A. W. Woodruff
Union Pacific Railroad
U. P
Chicago
M. Tretbar-Crofton
Aurora, Ill
Les Pigue de
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elk
Erand Lodge
Zion City
Mra
Sarah Johnson
Fargo
N. DiGeorge A. Totton Jr
C. K. Gummerson
Fargo Courier Journal
Los Angeles
Harry A. Ward
Lone Wolf
Cook
Barun Okla
Wright
Supulpa
Atkins Oil Land
Oakland
Aviator Coffee
Modesta
Globe
Arizona
Urval McKinstry
Lakin
Kansas
Walter Hudson
Syracus
Samuel Alschuler
Seattle
Wash
Northwest Trust and Safe Deposit Company
Pheenix
Ariz
Association of American
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Atlantic City
The
Elks
Pocatello
Idaho
Bannock
Velma Selders
Norfolk
John T. Adams
Virginia
Dora Waterman
Cleveland
Ohio
American Express
Berlin
Samuel Gommers
Russia
Havre
Myron T. Hervick
Paris
London
Lloyd George
Emason de Valera
Dublin
South Ireland
Senate
Oxford
Harry G. Hawker
Ina Sufe
Rankow
China
Hsia Tou Ying
Jonathan Brace
Maurice McAuliffe
Farmer's Union of Kansas
Federal Reserve Board
Currency
Durne
Herbert Hoover
Commerce
David J. Hill
Treasury Department
Rush
Holland
Colorado Springs
Inetulto
George W. Ashworth
Treasury Pytonan
Attormal Dougher
Rupiiah
Faye
Rolles
Delicioum Aimelt
Liccerr & Mynrs Tosacco Co
Jack Johnson
Johnson
Harry Wills
Bill Brennan
Palo Alto
A. E. van Gent
University of Wisconsin
Leland Stanford University
New York
Howard Berry
University of Pennsylvania
John McGraw
New York Giant
Tex Rickard
Georges Carpentier
Jersey City
Harry Greb
Pittsburg
Tommy Gibbons
Carpentier
Fintadelphia
Benny
Leonard
Lew Tendler
Philadelphia
Joe Burman
Charles Ledoux
Gillette
New York City
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