Bogus Money Makers Found in Higher Ups
Budapest authorities continue counterfeiting probe as arrests spread among Hungary's elite. Baron Sigismund Perenyi, former interior minister and ally of the late Premier Tisza, is detained along with Count Szendrei and a warrant issued for Police Prefect Nadossy. A French detective leaves for Italy chasing the Hungarian fascist leader Alain who reportedly fled across the border.
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Budapest
Hungary
Sigismund Pereniyi
Count Tisza
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Tries Death by Own Action in Chicago
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw is hospitalized in serious condition after swallowing eight ounces of poison in Chicago. She telephoned her physician, was removed to the hospital unconscious, and her son Russell Thaw was present. Nesbit had a storied career dating to her marriage to K Thaw and the trial of Sanford White, with a history of nightclub work in New York and Atlantic City.
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Chicago
Evelyn Nesbit
Florida
Miss Nesbit
A. G. Berens
Evelyn
White
Atlantic City
New York
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Potomac River
N. J
Boardwalk
Nta
Picking Challenger for Greb Title Fights Discussed
New York on January 5 AP reports the state athletic commission will take steps to stage a match between Tiger Flowers of Atlanta and Dave Ghade of California to determine the leading challenger to middleweight champion Greb.
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New York
State Athletic Commission
Tiger Flowers
Dave Ghade
California
Bis
Greb
Senate Finance Committee Approves Rise in Earned Income Limit
Washington Jan 5 The Senate Finance Committee approved raising the earned income limit for a 25 percent tax reduction from 10000 to 20000 in the house tax reduction bill. Democrats push for a larger overall cut of about 330 million while Republicans consider changes. Mellon warned against larger cuts than those in the house bill as action fast tracks for March 15 tax installments.
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Washington
Jan
Senate Finance Committee
House
Mellon
Coolidge
Simmons
North Carolina
King
Utah
Commission not fully selected for Geneva disarmament talks
Washington sources say President Coolidge has not yet chosen the full American delegation to the Geneva preparatory commission on disarmament. He plans to use diplomats now in Europe and will decide army and navy advisers and other members after other powers name theirs. Minister Gibson at Berne is likely to be one delegate.
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Washington
Coolidge
Geneva
White House
Europe
Army
Navy
Gibson
Berne
Road Marking Plan Under Protest
A protest grows over the highway marking plan approved by the agriculture department. Towns along the Atlantic-Pacific route organize to press Congress, with a hearing set in Chicago on January 15 where many states will present complaints about alleged influence by local interests in route designation.
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Fort Scott
Kans
United States
Department of Agriculture
Congress
General Commission
Chicago
Comedian Frank Tinney ordered to pay wife alimony
In New York on January 5 Mrs. Edna Tinney, wife of comedian Frank Tinney, won a Brooklyn supreme court judgment for 10800 dollars covering unpaid alimony and fees since June 24 when she obtained a prior order for 200 dollars weekly and 500 dollars counsel fees.
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New York
Edna Tinney
Frank Tinney
Brooklyn Supreme Court
Tinney
Margherita’s Body to Lie in Pantheon in Rome
The body of Queen Mother Margherita will be interred in Rome’s Pantheon, set aside for Italy’s illustrious dead. The queen and Premier Mussolini left for Rome to arrange the funeral and a date is yet to be fixed.
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Bordighera
Italy
Margherita
Pantheon
Rome
Mussolini
Yeaman Attends Irrigation Engineers Session
W B Yeaman publisher of the Times Register of Idaho Falls attends the meeting of the United States Irrigation Conference and Association of Engineers to be held in town late February.
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W. B. Yeaman
Times-Register of
Idaho Falls
Postpone Your Own Funeral by Living Right Says Doctor
Dr. Gilbert Fitzpatrick of the Gorgas Medical Institute told the Ohio Society in Chicago that most illnesses are self made and preventable. He urged education on healthy living and periodic health exams as safeguards to a longer, productive life.
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Chicago
Gilbert Fitzpatrick
Gorgas Medical Institute
Ohio Society of Chicago
Governor opens Ogden livestock show coliseum with educational aim
Utah Governor George H Dern dedicates the $1000000 coliseum in Ogden funded by public subscription. He calls it an educational building to boost livestock and agricultural exhibitions, citing potential $6.0 million increases in wool, lamb, cattle, and dairy output with improved practices and higher prices.
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Ogden
Utah
George H. Dern
Germany's Houben Sails for American Indoor Meets
Hubert Houben Germany's champion sprinter flew from Hamburg to America to compete in a series of indoor track meets, aiming to boost his season with fast times and meet competition.
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Hamburg
Hubert Houben
Germany
America
Highway Commissioner Urges Federal Aid for Roads
Paris reports rising floodwaters after persistent rain threaten the Seine and other rivers. Officials expect the peak to arrive soon with potential harm to the capital, while repair work continues and Belgium and central Europe mobilize to relieve distress amid communication breakdowns.
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Paris
France
Seine
Igium
Escaut
Belgium
Europe
Cash Register IPO Over Subscribed in Minutes
The 55,009,000 offering of National Cash Register common stock through Dillon Read Co. was oversubscribed within five minutes of opening. Unofficial estimates put applications exceeding 250,000,000, with bankers noting the issue absorbed before formal book opening.
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New York
National Cash Register Common
Dillon, Read & Co
Seed Beater Ruling Sets Flax Rates Across Midwest
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that flax seed moving from South Dakota growing territory to market centers including the Twin Cities Chicago Duluth Des Moines and Omsk must be charged no more than 12 percent above the wheat rates fixed for similar movement.
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Washington, Jan
South Dakota
Twin Cities
Minnesota
Chicago
Duluth
Des Moines
Omski
Interstate Commerce Commission
County Commissioners Hear Talks on Road Building and Taxes
At the eighteenth annual convention of the County Commissioners Association, H W Gregory outlined highway funding while J R Williams urged timely road maintenance and a fair tax approach. Mayor C Ben Ross and J Williams discussed gravel road problems and the impact of taxation on road improvements.
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J. R. Williams
Bingham County
C. Ben Ross
County Commissioners’ Association
H. W. Gregory
Wiliams
Armeo
Ross
J. Ross
Pittsburg
Rees
Idaho
Figure convict as slayer clerk
Merced California January 5 An AP report says a convict believed to be Robert Scott wanted in Chicago for the killing of Joseph Maurer a drug clerk and drug store robbery was aboard a train in Merced under double guard en route to San Francisco on the first leg of a journey back to Illinois A brother Russell Scott once a wealthy head of a Canadian syndicate already in an Illinois insane asylum after escaping the death penalty insists his brother committed the murder
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Merced
Calif
Robert Scott
Chicago
Joseph Maurer
San Francisco
Illinois
Russell Scott
Russell
Robert
Maurer
Sorority Jewelry Costs Stir Debate at Congress
In Tex in January a four day American-Hellenic congress opened after a committee found sororities receive unequal pricing on pins and jewelry. Some firms offer discounts to certain groups prompting calls for uniform pricing and standard choices of jewelers. The morning session dealt with routine business as the conference began.
Vaudeville Star Will Cressy Improving at Home
St Petersburg Florida January 5 Will Cressy vaudeville star who has been critically ill at his home since Saturday is much improved and doctors say his chances for recovery are good
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St. Petersburg
Fla
Will Cressy
Cardinal Mercier Improves After Operation
Brussels January 5 Cardinal Mercier showed steady improvement as he recovers from an operation and no further medical bulletins were issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Cardinal Mercier
Alno
Sunburn Shade in Foggy Clime Arrives in London
London reports a fad as sun burn shade becomes popular during the foggy season. Fine sunburn silk stockings cost 15 to 20 dollars a pair and are light enough to affect the balance of a scale. Violet ray treatments, twice weekly at about two dollars per session, offer sunburn complexions for those unable to visit the Riviera.
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London
Riviera
Mead Questions Blanket Relief for Reclamation Projects
Washington January 5 Elwood Mead commissioner of reclamation testifies before a House sub committee on the interior department appropriation bill. He warns that blanket relief without case by case scrutiny invites abuse and delays needed farm development plans for projects in Washington Oregon Montana and Nevada.
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Washington
Elwood Mead
Commissioner of Reclamation
House
Interior Department
Congress
Dread
PB. Mead
Reclamation Service
Kittitas
Yale
Owyhee
Oregon
Sun River
Montana
Spanish Springs
Nevada
Mead
Britain closes big coffee deal
A loan of 10,000,000 pounds sterling is signed between the Coffee Institute of Sao Paulo and Lazard Bros. & Co. London. The first issue totals 5,900,000 pounds with the second to be issued within 130 days after the final offering. A misread offset on coffee prices in Santos and Rio markets followed news of the negotiations.
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Buenos Aires
la Nacion
Sao Paulo
Razil
Coffee Institute of
Lazard Bros. & Co
London
Rio Janeiro
Santos
Supply bill in the House shows decreases for Interior
The annual interior department supply bill sent to the House recommends expenditures of 473000 dollars for next year, 7.7 percent below current funds and 630000 below budget estimates, with 193,921,000 for pensions and cuts across the reclamation service naval land offices and Ward University in Washington. The bill would reappropriate about 3 million unspent and resumes Flathead irrigation construction in Montana with 575,000 allocated for that purpose and continued Sun River project funding.
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Washington
Interior Department
House
Reclamation Service
Naral Land Offices
Ward University
Washington, D. C
Flathead
Montana
Sun River
Anthracite Operators Confer Endorses Negotiation Actions
The New York meeting at the Waldorf Astoria included 31 operators and signaled no concession as talks continue with miners. Samuel Warriner and Major W. W. Inglis led the session while a Scranton ministerial panel sought an end to the dispute and Father Curran talked with John L. Lewis.
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New York
Jar
Waldorf
Astoria
W. W. Inglis
Atlantic City
Samuel D. Warriner
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Coal Operators Conference
Scranton Ministerial Association
J. J. Curran
Wilkesbarre
John L. Lewis
United Mine
Father Curran
Mountain climber Heron enrolls at University of Wyoming
Laramie Wyoming reports Heron, 19, walked about 100 miles from Jackson Hole to Pickdale then to Laramie to enroll in the University of Wyoming. He carries a small bundle and pocketbook and is noted for mountain climbing.
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Laramie
Wyo
Jackson Hole
Heron
University of Wyoming
Jackson Fole
Pickdale
College of Liberal Arts
Miners Raid Provision Stores Across Gles¢ Area
Unemployed coal miners resumed looting provision stores in Gles¢ and its suburbs this morning. Widespread attacks on feed supplies prompted police alerts and ongoing clashes with authorities.
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Gisee Bay
Gles
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