Peace Time Budget Reaches Five Billion Gross
Washington reports a new government operating budget for the 1922 fiscal year totaling 4 653 856 759 dollars, marking an increase over current year appropriations but below last year’s estimate. Army, navy, and other departments request funds for war costs, air service, public works, and defense programs as Republicans vow cuts in the next sessions.
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Houston
Army
Navy
Naval Establishment
White House
Supreme Court
Agriculture
Senate
House
Air Service
National Guard
War Department
Western Union Loses Bid to Halt Line Removals
Washington December 6 The Western Union Telegraph company failed to obtain an injunction to stop the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from removing telegraph lines from the railroad right of way as the Supreme Court refused to review the lower court ruling.
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Washington
Western Union Telegraph Company
Louisville and Nashville, Railroad Company
Supreme Egust
Idaho Women Win Legislative Seats in National Wave
In the recent election twenty nine women were elected to state legislatures, about half the total from previous years. The National Woman Suffrage Association lists gains across several states led by California and Connecticut, with Idaho represented by Bertha V. Irwin and other states adding notable female lawmakers.
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New York
National Woman Suffrage Association
Connecticut
California
Anna L. Saylor
Elizabeth Hughes
Este B. Broughton
Emily Brown
William M. Frink
Mary W. Hooker
W. A. Jewett
Grace I. Edwards
Idaho
Bertha V. Irwin
Indiana
Julia Nelson
New Jersey
Margaret B. Laird
Jennie C. van Ness
Kansas
Minnie L. Grinstead
Nellie Cline
Nannie I. Minnich
Ida M. Walker
Michigan
Eva Hamilton
Montana
Margaret Smith Hathaway
Nevada
Ruth Averill
New Hampshire
Mary Rolfe Farnham
Jessie Doe
Marguerite L. Smith
Oklahoma
Lemar. Looney
Demonstration Over Sixty Percent Rise Sparks Protests
A large Vienna protest denounces a sixty per cent rise in living costs across food and clothing. Government measures to ease conditions are sought. About 25,000 government workers plan a strike after wage requests were denied, with possible police walkouts. In Baden, bank clerks struck, looted town hall windows, and damaged several coffee houses and hotel dining rooms.
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Vienna
Baden
Russian child stranded, seeks home from abroad
Eight year old Rudolkia Corelkina, under American Red Cross care, left New York for San Francisco on the way to China, seeking safe passage home after traveling with Russian war refugee children. She previously passed through New York en route to France from Vladivostok and faced dangerous routes via European Russia. She will be cared for in the Orient until conditions allow return.
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New York
Tomsk
Siberia
American Red Cross
Rudolkia Corelkina
San Francisco
China
Orient
France
Vladivostok
Russia
Tenants Honor Longtime Landlord With Gold Watch
F W Blanchard, a Los Angeles landlord of twenty one years with no rent raises, received a gold watch from sixty tenants at a farewell party after learning his downtown lease expired and a new renewal went to another. The gathering turned joyful as tears flowed and then resumed.
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Los Angeles
Cal
F. W. Blanchard
Eason
Blanchard
Mr. Blanchard
Death of Judge John P Crutchfield Ends Richmond Original
Justice John Peter Crutchfield, veteran Richmond police court judge for thirty two years, dies. Born 1844 in Richmond he was famed for wit and intimate knowledge of offenders. His courtroom drew crowds and he routinely mixed humor with justice in a manner that became his hallmark.
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Richmond
John Peter Crutchfield
Arnals
John
Jimmy Jones
Jimmy
Justice Thutelfield
Mr. Jones
Jones
Justice John
State Parks Established in Nineteen States
Des Moines reports that nineteen states already have state parks, with six more creating forest reserves and game refuges. Iowa is highlighted for advanced park planning, while California, New York, Ohio, and several other states have established parks or plans, and Maine and Virginia consider parks as well.
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Des Moines
Harding
Secretary of the Interior
National Park Service
Mississippi
Great River
California
Connecticut
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Teiss
Wisconsin
Alabama
Arizona
Colorado
Georgia
Tennessee
Utah
Maine
Virginia
Florida
Florida Federation of Womens Clubs
Payne
Incomplete Regional Park System Statement
The article notes residents will soon enjoy a free outdoor playground nearby and discusses state lakes preserved. It mentions Connecticut's park system with 22 parks totaling about 2000 acres and New York's vast park network led by Adirondack Park at 4,814,064 acres, highlighting national scope of park lands.
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Connecticut
New York
Adirondack Park
United States
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