Brockhart criticised over farmer facts by Meredith in Iowa
FE Meredith, former agriculture secretary, accuses Senator Smith W. Brockhart of misrepresenting farmer conditions. He cites USDA figures showing farm prices rising from 1922 to 1924 and argues the farmer is not ruined, despite postwar hardship and attempts to score political points.
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Les Moines
Iowa
Smith W. Brockhart
FE. T. Meredith
Associated Press
Bemiaji
Meredith
Brookhart
United States Department of Agriculture
Brockhart
Brooshart
Cincinnati Opens Trade Channel With Russian Pact
Cincinnati reports a new contract between the Russian foreign trade monopoly and a 30 firm American group may yield a yearly turnover under 2.4 million dollars, split evenly between imports and exports. Robert S. Alter, ex manager of the American Tool Works, notes Russian trade will be backed by gold and calls the move a breakthrough opening access to Russian commerce. Local interest in the pact is high.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Allied American Corporation
Robert S. Alter
American Tool Works of
Ireland to seek League of Nations membership
Michael MacWhite announces the Dail will pass measures to join the League if elected. Ireland prepares documents outlining its stance and duties as an independent state. Latovin reports ratification of the permanent court protocol, bringing the court to 37 adherents.
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Geneva
Michael MacWhite
Latovin
League of Rations
Permanent Court of International Justice
Ancient coins found near Mount Etna in Italy
Two large brass vases filled with gold pieces believed dated 300 to 400 B C were removed by government order from Oenina at the foot of Mount Etna to Rome. Discovered in a fissure and an old wall after a mild quake by a deaf and dumb peasant, the find only reached authorities when he offered the vases for sale.
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Rome
Prohibition Records Briefs On June Activity Statewide
Federal agents led by EB Yellowley reported 1175 seizures and 1351 prosecutions recommended for June, totaling 474000 dollars in taxes and penalties. New York New Jersey division accounted for 738 cases, 491 arrests, and 589 prosecutions recommended with 178000 dollars in taxes and penalties.
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Washington
Prohibition
Yellowley
New York-New Jersey
Martin Olson's death by suicide in Idaho home
Despondency over years of ill health led Martin Olson to hang himself in the bathroom of his residence at 994 North Main, Pocatello. He was 64, a former Short Line railroad employee, survived by his wife and twelve children. Burial arrangements to be announced.
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Martin Olson
North Main
Olsen
Olson
Pocatello
Short Line
Railroad Company
Mr. Olson
A. Edwards
George Oljison
Martin Olson, Jr
Clifford Olson
William Olson
Oakland
California
Margaret Milman
Los Angeles
Roy Olson
Alfred Olson
Ellen Olson
Edna Olson
Will T. Walker
Divorces in Canada remain rare despite postwar surge
Ottawa reports 1922 Canadian divorces totaled 544, about 0.66 percent of marriages. War effects fading, decrees fell from 1921. Husbands secured 316 decrees (about 60 percent) and wives 228 (about 40 percent). British Columbia led with 138, Alberta 129, Manitoba 97. Prince Edward Island issued none since 1868. Most divorces occurred in cities, fewer among farmers.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Dominion
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
United States
British Columbia
Alberta
Manitoba
Prince Edward Island
Electrified Foreman Dies At Power Plant Job Near Boise
Warren Cron a 27 year old foreman at the United States reclamation service power plant at the diversion dam near Boise was electrocuted about 7 20 last night when his leg touched a 2200 volt high tension line. He lived in Dayton Ohio and was working on a pole where a government telephone line and the power line were both attached.
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Boise
Warren Cron
United States Reclamation Service
Here
Crow
Dayton
Ohio
Boy Drowns in Boise River
In Boise 11 year old Ernest Callender drowned while wading near a sand bar at the foot of 14th street. A 12 year old companion, Raymond Whipple, narrowly escaped the same fate while attempting a rescue. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon.
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Boise
Ernest Callender
Boise River
14Th Street
Raymond Whipple
The
Legion
President's Illness Linked to Lack of Recreation and Exercise
San Francisco reports an AP summary detailing factors that hastened the president's illness. The record notes a 7500 mile, 29 day journey by train, ship, and car with 60 speeches, 13 at night, in varied weather. He slept outside his private car only three nights in 39 days and kept constant office contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Washington
Alaskan
School bonds sold for city junior high and West Side needs
The city sold $210000 in school bonds to National Bank of Idaho for Blythe Whittier and Co. at 100.57 with 5 percent interest. Sixteen bids were received, nine from bidders. the deal finished after a midnight session with W R Siders noting the arrangement satisfactory.
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National Bank of Idaho
Blythe, Whittier and Company
Bonding House
Portland
Ore
Seasion
W. R. Siders
Britain Unites the Empire by Submarine Telegraph Link
During the war Britain seized a German submarine cable from Emden to the United States and linked one end to England while diverting the other to Halifax. At Halifax the wire now forms a telegraph system from Halifax to Vancouver and onward to Fiji Norfolk Island Australia and New Zealand. Messages from London to the Antipodes now travel in about 30 minutes. The empire's far reaches are bound together.
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London
Great Britain
Emden
United States
England
Halifax
Canada
Vancouver
Fiji
Norfolk Island
Australia
New Zealand
British Empire
Amoy Sinks Into Chaos as Sun Ally Holds City
Amoy China July 31 AP Soldiers of Chiang Tz Ping, ally of Sun Yat Sen, still hold the city despite gunboat fire from the Peking government. Casualties are light but communications with the foreign settlement are cut. Foreigners barred from official areas as British consular dispatches seek aid and reinforcements arrive offshore. Three Americans among those fired on while attempting landings as riders report troop movements and looming looting.
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Amoy
China
Chiang Tz-Ping
Sun Yat Sen
Peking
Hong Kong
Chang Tz-Ping
Shanghai
Kulangsa
Buhler
Padgett
Stenzel
Lupton
Movn
Oscar Werwood Enters Alabama Senate Fight
In Montgomery a delegation of the Alabama legislature chaired by Senator Oscar Werwood stated that if Alabama chooses him as its standard bearer, he will lead the fight to support Democrat candidates as the state’s champion.
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Montgomery
Ala
Ous
Ama
Oscar Werwood
Alabama
United States
Tokyo Sees Paving Talks Toward Soviet Relations
Preliminary conversations intended to pave the way for formal negotiations toward resuming diplomatic relations between Japan and the Russian Soviet government concluded this afternoon. The next step awaits the Japanese government’s determination if the talks provide a satisfactory basis for a formal conference.
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Tokio
Japan
US Steel Declares Regular Dividends for Common and Preferred
The United States Steel Corp declares regular dividends of 1 percent on common and 1 percent on preferred. Net income for the six months ended June 30 totaled 4,828,334 dollars according to AP reports from New York.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
New Livestock Commission Rates Cut Shippers’ Costs
Washington July 31 AP New livestock commission rates for Chicago Omaha Kansas City and St Paul will be reduced saving producers and shippers about three quarters of a million dollars yearly. Rates for cattle hogs and sheep vary by market car type and ownership with pro rating and single ownership adjustments. The ARBITRATORS G N Dagger and Howard M Gore issued the decision after mutual consent among parties.
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Washington
Chicago
Omaha
Kansas City
St. Paul
Packers and Stock Yards Administration
United States Department of Agriculture
Packers and Stockyards Administration
Department of Agriculture
G. N. Dagger
Howard M. Gore
Commission
Livestock Commission
Omaila
Arbitration cuts livestock commissions accepted by Chicago exchanges
Everett Brown of the Chicago and National Livestock exchanges says the arbitration panel Gore and Dagger delivered a lower commission rate ruling. He notes the arbitrators were disinterested and that producers, exchanges, and the agriculture department will abide by the decision, despite anticipated financial impacts on livestock commission men.
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Chicago
Commission
Messrs. Gore and Dagger
Everett Brown
Chicago and National Livestock Exchanges
Department of Agriculture
Mrs Hearst declines New York congressional nomination
New York July 34 AP Mrs William W Hearst wife of the publisher, who was noted as a possible Tammany candidate for Congress, would not accept a nomination she said in a telegram from California. I think it would be an excellent thing for New York to send a woman to Congress but I have other opportunities for service that take up my full time and attention.
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New York
William W. Hearst
Congress
California
San Francisco
Harding
Market Street
German State Bank Manager Is In Dutch
Berlin July 31 AP The United socialists demand the retirement of Rudolf Havenstein Reichsbank president and managing director for failing to devise a financial reform plan. They seek a change to restore credit and confidence. The radical program calls for gold basis loans, higher taxes, and forced grain delivery. The cabinet adopted tax measures including a 100 percent income tax rise for wartime occupation expenses. The Reichsbank plans to base gold prices on the dollar quota. Duesseldorf July 31 AP French troops occupied five coal mines at Dorstfeld, miners quit, and troops barred reentry. Aix La Chapelle July 31 AP Belgian occupation forces expelled the city burgomaster and five council members without reason.
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Berlin
United Socialists
Rudolf Havenstein
Reichsbank
Rhineland
Ruhr
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Duesseldorf
Dorstfeld
Aix la Chepelle
Western rail lines reject cut in grain freight rates
A joint wheat council and Chamber of Commerce of the United States study followed by Western railroads resisting a 25 percent cut in export grain and flour freight rates. A Board of Trade spokesman suggested closing the exchange for 60 to 90 days to pressure regulators. Omaha shippers urged the cut to boost foreign demand and aid farmers. The move stems from a Federal Trade Commission report calling for restraints on grain exporters deemed burdensome.
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Chicago
Wheat Council
Chamber J of Commerce of
United States
Western
Western Grain
Board of Trade
Federal Trade Commission
Department of Agriculture
Omaha
American Colony Growth in Japan Outpaces British Expatriates
An Associated Press report from Tokio on July 31 notes Americans in Japan total 2,549, just behind 2,562 British residents. The foreign population nears 30,000, with nearly 20,000 Chinese, and a rise in political refugees accompanies the shift.
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Tokio
Japan
Islands
Harding Receives Best Attention on Coast
President Harding shows signs of improvement in his fight against pneumonia and related complications. A five‑doctor bulletin notes no extension of pneumonia, better heart action, and a restful night. An informal report confirms a restful night and progress, with plans for an afternoon medical update. San Francisco honors the president with decorations as crowds monitor his condition and receive warmth from state and local officials.
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Palace Hotel
San Francisco
Harding
Eqnally
Chas. E. Sawyer
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