Farm Bureau urged to advise President Coolidge
Chicago report notes E H Cunningham of the Federal Reserve Board urged the American Farm Bureau at its convention to craft a constructive program guiding President Coolidge in reestablishing agriculture. He warned against over optimism as lower production with higher prices could limit gains over 1923 though farmers are paying debts. He cited Fed rediscount trends as evidence of improved farm finances.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Dec
E. H. Cunningham
Federal Reserve Board
American Farm Bureau
Cunningham Reid
Federal Reserve Bank
Reserve Bank
Native Moros Abide by Koran's Rule of 4 Wives to One Man
In Los Angeles Mrs. Cari M Moore, wife of the southern Philippine governor, says Moros in the 1,500-island south face cultural decay due to polygamy and lack of home life under Mohammedan rule. She describes men having up to four wives and frequent divorces, with brides often absent from weddings.
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Koran
Los Angeles
Philippine Islands
Cari M Moore
Cross Word Puzzle Clues and Jumbled Grid Fragments
Puzzle hints list across and down clues with many entries, including exclamation of sorrow fitting a secret hiding place and various word definitions, mixed with garbled character noise from OCR.
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason Predict Booming Times
The verse imagines a coming boom with high wages and lavish purchases for grocers bakers and sausage makers while warns that booms fade and slumps return. It critiques thrift and greed and urges caution as cycles repeat with prosperity and decline.
Marriage Customs and Dowry Rules Described by Imams
The text explains a multi day wedding rite with beads girdles and a tomb like room guarded by male relatives. Imams recite a long ceremony over the groom’s head and a barred window greeting follows after days of ceremonies. Dowry rules grant the wife her dowry upon cruel treatment, while adultery enforces repayment or double penalty.
Bring Up Salaries Bill
Washington dispatch reports an effort to obtain another vote on the postal salaries increase bill before week’s end after President Coolidge vetoed it last session. Senator Edge faced objections from Chairman Sterling and Senator Borah as he sought a voting date, with New Jersey’s Edge planning another attempt later.
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Washington
Coolidge
Edge
Sterling
Post Office Committee
Borah
Idaho
New Jersey
Homesteaders Take Up 5 520 781 Acres of Land
Washington December 9 Legislation provides for setting aside public lands mainly for grazing to be leased by the government and opened to homesteaders under a new program.
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Washington
Land Office Proposes Reorganization and Land Gains
The General Land Office Commissioner urged preserving land for pasturage and forage and a consolidation of Alaska public land service to create a superintendent of public lands. The year saw 4 564 412 acres entered and allowed, with 2 812 624 under the stock raising act of 1916. Cash receipts reached 16 013 915 dollars as 8 826 039 acres patented, 5 530 781 under homestead laws. Surveys and resurveys totaling 6 593 440 acres were approved.
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General Land Office
Public Land Service Organization
Alsaka
Surveyor General
Registers
Peace Measure Adopted by Federal Council of Churches
In Atlanta on December 9 the Federal Council of Churches adopted a recommendation for worldwide peace after addresses by William Jennings Bryan and Dr. James T. Shotwell of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Atlanta
Federal Council of Churches
William Jennings Bryan
James T. Shotwell
New York
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
American Methodist Episcopal Bishop Held Without Bail
In Copenhagen Judge Pihl remanded Rev. Dr. Anton Bast, bishop of Scandinavia, for three weeks without bail after a six hour in camera hearing. He was arrested last night on a charge of misappropriating charity funds.
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M. EK
Copenhagen
Pih
Anton Bast
Governor Receives Many Letters From Maniacs and Cranks
Des Moines Iowa December 4 The governor’s desk bore a mountain of mail including letters from self described maniacs and cranks as well as routine communications. An array of envelopes and folders filled the morning as Mrs Emma K Blaise sifted the heap and the governor weighed opinions on the home of the free remarking on human nature in high office.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Blaise
Emma K. Blaise
Massachusetts
Maseyohudetts
Florida
Official
Ife
Governor Confers With Budget Head In Des Moines
Governor Kendall held a conference with E. L. Hogue director of the budget to discuss the budget report and annual message to the state legislature. They touched on educational institutions and the plan to finish the message before Christmas for early printing. No further legislative conferences are scheduled unless needed to gauge the new assembly’s likely stance.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Kendall
E. L. Hogue
Jacobson Ineligible for Iowa Wrestling Return
Earnest Jacobson of Perry a 145 pound Iowa wrestler is ruled ineligible after a broken arm sidelined him last year Iowa coaches sought a one year eligibility transfer The Big Ten mentors decision confirmed ineligibility keeping him from competing this season in Iowa City officials announced today
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Jacobson
Iowa City
Earnest Jacobson
Perry
University of Iowa
Iowa
Supreme Court Dismisses Coal Tax Case
The Supreme Court dismissed the attack by multiple coal companies on the Pennsylvania anthracite tax. The court did not rule on the tax’s validity but noted that authorities cited lower court decisions upholding the tax would be affirmed.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Des Moines Milk Producers Manager named Assistant Secretary
Carl N. Kennedy, longtime Des Moines Milk Producers Association manager and former Polk County agent, was appointed assistant secretary of agriculture for Iowa. He previously edited farm organizations for Wallace's Farmer and graduated from Iowa State College in 1912.
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Des Moines
Carl N. Kennedy
Des Moines Milk Producers Association
Iowa
Kennedy
Polk County
Wallace's Farmer
Iowa State College
Diverse Humorous Snippets and Quotes Parade
A collage of quips and exchanges across travel chatter shopping and theater life. It mixes dialect humor a grocer anecdote and stage line references capturing a slice of social wit and everyday scenes.
Problem of conduct in a blizzard hat mishap
In a blizzard evening walk with his wife a hat blows off both hats vanish underfoot. He wonders whether to offer to buy her a new hat or bluntly tell her to keep the hat out from under his feet.
Hog prices in Illinois and a butchered hog recall
William Ruebsam recalls Illinois hog selling in which hogs had to be butchered and priced around 1.50. He tells of a man who traded hogs for groceries and finally discarded surplus in pottery on a rough road, breaking twenty crocks and jars beside a tree.
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William Ruebsam Sez
Illinois
Peora
Land
Plain Talk and Punchlines in Everyday Sparks
Humorous quips and quick gags traceable to daily life. Jokes cover prohibition, family mischief, a gas can mix up, a doctor patient joke, an engineer opening, a wallet search, a housewife’s pocket peek, and a modern philosopher spotting three nearly identical sisters.
Mose the Driver and the Civil War Veteran Taxi Tale
A reader letter recounts Mose, a colored horse cart driver who sometimes acts as a taxi. A traveling salesman asks for a five minute depot ride and pretends to be a Civil War veteran guiding Mose in military style. The tale ends with a cautionary pause as events unfold.
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Mra. I. F. F
Mose
Moses
Dis
March of progress and portable types rise in city talk
A playful city vignette mentions a “professional man” railing about progress as he jokes about removing a shirt from a dresser and buttons from a blouse. The piece riffs on chemistry’s blessings and evolving “civil engineers” with humorous dialect about buying a durable wife and portable types.
Railway Time Tables Corrected to Date
Local rail timetable notes list eastbound and westbound trains with arrival and departure times for the Golden State Limited express locals and passes. Washington Branch local and freight services are shown with daily patterns and agent schedules.
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A& P
Golden State Limited
Express
Washington
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