French Forces Seize Ruhr Mines as German Strike Looms
In Essen and surrounding areas on January 19, French troops seized state mines near Buer and arrested Manager Ahrens for refusing to deliver coke. Rail workers in the Ruhr threaten a general strike as Berlin orders coal deliveries and authorities tighten control.
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Associated Press
Esses
Germany
Ruhr
Berlin
Buer
Ahrens
Gladbeck
Bastrop
Atea Road Administration
Essen
France
Raiffeisen
Reelinghausen
London
Rhineland
Paper mark shortage alarms French authorities in Essen
The French officials warn of a growing paper mark shortage as five million five hundred thousand workers face payroll payments from Saturday in other currencies. With 15.4 billion marks on hand, the supply seems insufficient as the mark falls sharply. Dusseldorf banks close amid a banking crisis.
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Essen
Germany
Tropics Safe Through Curbing Infectious Diseases Plan
The Gorges Institute of Tropical Medicine will be built in Old Panama with a $500,000 first building and a $5,000,000 endowment aim. President Porras will lay the cornerstone February 18, aided by the American College of Surgery. The institute will study tropical diseases and deploy expeditions, with initial work spanning the southern United States through the Tuscaloosa Gorgas School of Sanitation.
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Tropics
Gorges Institute of Tropical Medicine
Old
Panama
Belisario Porras
American College of Surgery
General Gorges
Panama Canal
Evefty
Porras
General Gorgas
Santo Tomas Hospital
United States
Canada
Central
South America
Gorgas
Franklin Martin
Gorgas School of Sanitation
Tuscaloosa
Alabama
Seizure of Local Banks Halts Marks Supply
Seizure of local Reichsbank banks takes control of the marks supply and leaves the city’s economy at a standstill.
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Reichsbank
Daniels' Relative Testifies in Moorhouse Kidnapping Case
J Mc Donald sixty, father-in-law of Watt Daniels and father of Watt Daniels, testified at the Moorhouse parish hearing that Jap Jones warned the Daniels family would be wiped out before the alleged assassination attempt on Dr. B M McKoin. The Daniels family members Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards were kidnapped August 24 and their bodies found in Lake LaFourche last month.
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Bastrop
J. McDonald
J. L. Daniels
Watt Daniels
Thomas Richards
Lake LaFourche
Moorhouse Parish
Discover Large Wholesale Booze Joint In Waterloo
Federal agents unearthed a large moonshine and whisky establishment in northern Iowa at Waterloo after a three month probe. Two men tied to the Northern Waterloo case were identified as leaders of the liquor ring supplying the operation for the past three months.
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Associated Press
Waterloo
Iowa
Filmdom Mourns Wallace Reid Death After Struggle with Addiction
Los Angeles reports the death of Wallace Reid a film star who fought a drug habit and died in his wife Dorothy Davenport’s arms. He spoke of winning his fight before death and the lodge plans a public funeral. The body to be cremated and ashes sent East.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Calif
Wallace Reid
Het Baller
Dorothy Davenport
Mama
Billie
Billy
Reid
Kneeskern Trial Near End In Charles City Cabin Killings
In Charles City Iowa prosecutors near completing rebuttal as B F Kneeskern faces a jury over the December 11 1921 cabin slayings of Irene and Charles Van Brocklin with arguments expected to wrap by night and verdict anticipated late Saturday afternoon.
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Associated
Prenad
Charles City
B. F. Kneeskern
Irene
Charles van Brocklin
Here
Simple character underpins heroic action
The passage contrasts faults like boastfulness and self regard with a perfectly simple frank and unconscious character. It argues that simplicity enables the possibility of heroic deeds, suggesting virtue stems from selflessness and unselfconscious conduct.
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Kingsley
Farm Bureau Law Attacked in Assembly
In Des Moines on January 19, the Iowa Senate opened a clash between farm bureau and farmers union. Senator Johnston introduced two bills to require a county vote before county funds aid farm organizations and to restrict eligibility to farmers only. The bills aim to curb county agents and shift authority from county supervisors amid ongoing code revision discussions.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Farm Aid Association
Iowa Senate
Janes J. Johnston
Lucas
Farm Bureau
Farmers Union
Johnston
Board of Supervisors
Soviet Russia Open To Evangelistic Movement Says
Police in San Diego identify Fritzle Mann death suspect R V H Clark as man who registered with her as William Johnston and wife. A. E B Kerr, owner of the lodging, identified the couple. Chief Hee Patrick ordered Clark brought from Los Angeles. T. L. Loca remained in custody amid intensified investigation.
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Associated Press
San Diego
Cal
R. V. H. Clark
Fritzle Mann
Here
Lagolla
William Johnston
A. E B. Kerr
Po- Hee Patrick
Clark
Los Angeles
T. L. Loca
Miss Mann
Russian church openness to evangelical reform, says Methodist bishop
Bishop John L. Neulson in Chicago reports Soviet rulers seek to purge heathen elements, restore gospel teaching, and form a free republic style church. He cites Moscow archbishop talks, inviting American Methodists to Russia’s February 1923 conference and inviting Protestant messengers to advise on building a new church.
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Associated Prensa
Chicago
Russia
John L. Nuelson
Zurich
Switzerland
Methodist Episcopal Church
United States
Nuelson
Moscow
New
Neulson
America
Church of
Code Revision Bills Move Through Senate and House
The code commission bills await final action as both houses prepare to end the session. Seventy-five bills were referred to the senate yesterday and more entered this morning. A joint committee listed forty-three priority code bills for early consideration. A drunkenness bill proposes escalating penalties from fines to penitentiary time on subsequent arrests.
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Code Commission
Senate
House
Melintosh
Decatur
Thought for the Day on loving truth over mere knowing
A reflective line urges a lived commitment to truth. It contrasts loving truth with just knowing it, presenting a moral takeaway for daily conduct.
Child's remark on dwarf man's cigarette past
A seven year old boy riding with a friend notes a dwarf with short legs and asks how many cigarettes he smoked when he was a boy. The jest reflects curious misinterpretations of adult bodies.
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Mother
Chicago Journal
Rock ribbed party man with a concrete head remark
A Birmingham Age-Herald quote features Mr Grampson criticizing the idea of strong party loyalty without substance. He quips about reputation and implies a lack of practical judgment, framing the contrast between political badge and real thinking.
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Mr. Grampson
Birmingham Age-Herald
First Chrysanthemum Show Marks Early Imperial Gardens
The chrysanthemum, Japan’s national flower, dates from ancient cultivation and a chrysanthemum show was held about A D 900 in the garden of the imperial residence in Tokyo.
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Japan
Imperial
Tokyo
Prominent Chicago Grain Broker Killed in Accident
Howard B. Jackson, sixty two, senior partner of Jackson Brothers and Company, grain brokers, was fatally struck by an automobile while crossing a street in Chicago. He died before medical help arrived. Jackson served as vice president of the United States Grain Corporation during the war and later became traffic manager of the free corn movement led by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Howard B., Jackson
Jackson Brothers and Company
Jackson
United States Grain Corporation
Free Corn Movement
American Farm Bureau Federation
Grain Commission
Herrin Quints Found Not Guilty in Riot Trial
Five defendants in the Herrin riot case, all but one union miners, are acquitted by a Williamson county jury after deliberations totaling about 27 hours. Verdicts read 1:55 p m local time with no demonstrations as jurors reported ballots taken.
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Marion, UL
Williamson County
Marion
Ill
Leva Mann
Joe Carnaghi
Peter Hiller
Burt Grace
Otis Clark
James Weaver
Til
Herrin
D. T. Hartwell
Hartwell
Oldest Canned Beef Found in Egyptian Tomb
In Luxor Egypt on January 19 excavators uncovered what is believed to be the oldest canned beef. The three thousand three hundred fifty year old meat, though not palatable, remains in excellent state of preservation.
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Luxor
Egypt
When He Remembered
An absent minded man returns home dripping from a rainstorm and realizes he forgot his umbrella. His wife asks when he remembered and he replies with a playful grin that it struck him only after the rain stopped and he tried to shut the umbrella.
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Jili
Prohibition on Cotton in Britain Early 18th Century
The passage notes that in 1700 Great Britain banned importing cotton goods and by 1721 Parliament prohibited cotton manufacture in England. Violations carried fines of 100 dollars for selling and 25 dollars for wearing cotton.
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Great Britain
England
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