World News Summary Covers War Era Frauds and Elections
Secretary Denby announced sweeping navy officer changes after a Washington conference. The DC Supreme Court issued a bench warrant for Harry Morse on war time shipping fraud charges, with his bond forfeited for failure to appear. An executive order named Miss Alice Robertson welfare worker in the veterans bureau. The Supreme Court upheld the grain futures act and Census Bureau stats projected US population at 110,663,502 on July 1, 1923 with growth of 1,415,109 annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District of Colurmbia Supreme Court
Washington
Harry Morse
Charles W. Morse
Morse
Alice Robertson
Oklahoma
Veterans’ Bureau
President Harding
United States
Census Bureau
Iowa Agriculture Advances and Local Elections Highlight Iowa News
The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station says good odds for bumper crops despite late spring. P G Klapp elected president of the Iowa Music Teachers association in Des Moines. Jasper County Fair raises premiums for grange exhibits. Geo M Cook confesses to shooting a druggist in Des Moines. Northwest Iowa Music contest features seven high schools. Senate approves 35000 for state fair board sheep barn expansion. Lawton bank depositors to receive about 25 percent payout. West Side Bank funded by C W Payne passes to a receiver. Iowa ranks fourteenth in fire losses list. Humboldt plans Fourth of July celebration with a new American Legion building. Orchard planting advice from Town State College. Water power site bill advances in house. State marketing plan aims at uniform grades and branding for dairy coop products. Iowa defeats Washington University in girls debate in St Louis. flax-wheat mixture yields fewer troubles than flax alone. Eldora stallion sale at 5000. Red Oak farmer rescued after tractor accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Agricultural Experiment Station
P. G. Klapp
Iowa City
Iowa Music Teachers Association
Des Moines
Jasper County Fair Association
Geo. M. Cook
Kansas City
Harry Huegle
Sheldon
Sioux City
Rock Rapids
George
Orange City
Sibley
Milford
Senate
State Fair Board
Lawton Farmers’ Bank
E. M. Corbett
Midland Packing Company
Kendall
House
Conservation Committee
Executive Council
West Side
C. W. Payne
S. Spottswood
Payne
National Board of Fire Underwriters
New York
Humboldt
American Legion
Commercial Club
Farm Bureau
Legion
Schmitt
Don Merrill
H. W. Warner
Extension Service
Ames
Sixth Congressional District
Iowa State
Washington University
St. Louis
France
J. L. Robinson
Iowa Experiment Association
J. W. Perkins
Eldora
Upholder
Walter Walker
Red Oak
Sweet bill expands veterans benefits and protections
The Sweet bill, backed by American Legion officials, broadens disability and pension coverage for nearly ten thousand World War I veterans. It removes pulmonary limits, extends disability certificate deadlines to March 1, 1924, widens eligibility beyond misconduct rules, provides burial and flag costs, arranges transport of bodies to cemeteries, and eases insurance reinstatement and lapse rules for disabled or incompetent veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Alvin Owsley
Veterans’ Bureau
Potters
Everyday Heroes From The War Department Missing
A humorous piece recalling ordinary people who quietly handle everyday tasks without fuss. It playfully lists roles from the man who avoids knocking over a wire soup-holder to the wife who resists nagging about peaches, highlighting simple resilience at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Forgery Lesson Shocks Indiana School Pupils
In Indianapolis elvics teachers required pupils to file class schedules and one student listed a forgery course. Investigators found forgery noted in a foundry class. A jumbled parade of fragments follows from dialogue about milkmen and a dentist and ends with news of a powerful steam engine built for Cargo Fleet Iron of England delivering 25 000 horsepower at 190 psi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elvics
Indianapolis
Cargo Fleet Iron Company
England
Cuticura Soothes Itching Scalp Advertisement
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Ointment for itchy scalp and dandruff with advice to rub spots, then use Cuticura Soap and hot water. It also touts clear skin and soft hands as benefits. The ad ends with a humorous dialogue about reading women.
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Be&t
Denby
Navy
Supreme Court
Chicago Board of Trade
Red Star One
Antwerp
Seymour
J. R. McCarl
Mellon
Signora Enrichetta Galli
Galli-Carel
Milan
Lauren Tarkington
Booth ‘Tarkington
Ind
Miss Tarkington
West Virginia University At
Morgantown
Newton D. Baker
FP. B. Trotter
North
South Carolina
Columbia State
Columbia
Trenton
Cramp Shipyard
Philadelphia
Cramp Yard
Charles Dillon
Kalamazoo
Henry O'Neill
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha
Stobert B. Lovett
Alabonia
Birmingham
Mathilde McCormick
Harold F. and
Adith Rockefeller McCormick
Chicago
Max Oger
Lewisham
London
Theodore G. Bilbo
Mississippi
Oxford
Mise
Thomas Jefferson
Senator McMurray
Hyde Park
Springfield
Henry 9. Atlen
Prohibition
Haynes
Ohio
Carol Butts
Chris Ziegler
Jackson, Mich
Sacramento
Cal
George W. Goethals
Federal Coal Commission
Congress
Fred Starck
War Finance Corporation
Columbus
N. M
el Paso
Tex
Ruhr
Duesseldorf
Frederick
Germany
Wieringen
Berlin
Ose
Mquor Commission
Quebec
Moscow
Moscow Central Housing Department
Veshneudinsky
Central Executive Committee
Tikhon
Tempelhoferfeld
Marshal Fochling
Cracow
Achtuhr Abendblatt
Gleiwits
Spain
Spanish Overseas Congress
Madrid
Maj. Philip, Mathews
Bishkir
Relef
Reheldt
Rhodes
Castelorizo
Asia Minor
Partiament
Helsingfors
DHE
Tinland
John Oliver
Sagkatchewink
Saskatoon
Lawrence Deepwitenweys Pholec
Yokohama
Tryzer
Stowkhiatin
Ehoostag Iedhe Inet
Ljaiar Brantlig
Iowa News
LEGON
American Legion News Service
Sweet Bill
American Legion Weekly
CALU
Nora
Mum
Saat
Northwestern Yeast Co
North Ashland
Chicago, Ill
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