Coolidge Seeks More Flood Relief Funds
President Coolidge appeals for additional flood relief funds as surveys show the $5 million request may be insufficient. No special congressional session will be convened. The motion picture industry plans benefit shows on May 7 with all box office proceeds to flood relief. Government agencies have spent millions on tents cots blankets medical supplies and boats for Mississippi valley relief. The Army and Navy describe the scale of their relief deployments and expenditures.
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Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Congress
Mississippi Valley
Coast Guard
War Department
Moscow Lottery Draw Opens With Huge Subscriptions
Over £10,000,000 was subscribed in Moscow in seven days as the Soviet state lottery loan opened. The grand prize totals $25,000 with hundreds of smaller rewards for lucky numbers, averaging about 56 per inhabitant.
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Moscow
Lottery loan use spreads across cities with differing pace
The subscriber will eventually recover money under lottery rules since the contribution is a state loan. Tickets sold on an installment plan gave six months to pay. In Leningrad and other centers the lottery loan had support, but Moscow saw the most spectacular speed and volume.
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Leningrad
Moscow
Immigrant Brides Gather in Havana Meeting Place
In Havana Cuba May 3 immigrant brides from Europe seek American husbands while ten Greek and Armenian women live at the Havana Y M C A awaiting arrival of fiancés from the United States. Cuban law bars unaccompanied women from landing, the YMCA accepting responsibility. Bans must be published fifteen days before the ceremony to allow courtship.
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Havana
Cuba
Euurope
Greece
Armenia
United States
War on Corn Borer Will Cost $10 Million This Year
Washington reports a federal campaign to eradicate the European corn borer will spend $10,000,000 this year. The pest infests corn and many crops, threatens major farming regions, and will receive government and state support, including payments to farmers and provision of equipment.
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Washington
United States
New England
Agriculture Department
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Corn Belt
Congress
Uncle Sam
Local Harmony Town Gossip Highlights Visits and Trips
Harmony residents share social calls at multiple homes including the Longers and Schiebels. Emil Fink transports cattle to Chicago while Richard Schiebel recovers from measles. The community notes improvements from cutting trees at Harmony school and a new washing machine delivery.
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Rilen Miller
Chas. Schiebel
Washington
A. Nebergall
W. Longer
Bill Haden
Emil Fink
Fred Longer
A. Negergall
James Longer
Walter
Ruth and
Mae Gideon
Elma Rice
Walter Longer
Stanley Smith
Otto Schiebel
Russel Kenderick
Chas
Murder Three Years Old May Be Solved by Police in Chicago
Chicago police may solve a three year old murder after Mrs Helen Steve 25 reported that Louis Clemente killed her first husband Frank Rogsel and threatened to kill her new husband George Steve Clemente fled after the crime and is being sought as an ex convict with the case logged as unsolved.
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Chicago
Helen Steve
Louis Clemente
Clemente
Frank Rogsel
George Steve
Tim
Ted
Americans dredge platinum in Colombian jungle river
Two American men worked in the Colombian jungle extracting platinum from a river bed amid a climate with 800 inches of rainfall annually and average temperatures near 90 degrees.
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Colombian Republic
South America
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