Rail Rates Up and Income Drops Across Year
The Interstate Commerce Commission notes September 1920 revenue totals show higher operating revenues of 75 810 911 while nine month back mail pay and war taxes distort comparisons to 1919. Net income fell 2 338 411 from Sept 1919 and Western district earnings declined to 80 584 874. Overall nine month deficit for the nation reached 87 402 050.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States Rative and Labor Board
Western Roads
Western District
Senember
Harding Sails for Jamaica After Panama Stop
President elect Warren G Harding and Mrs. Harding depart Colon Panama aboard the Pastores in gala attire. Salutes greet the steamer as a distinguished crowd bids farewell. Harding plans rest aboard and will join a shuffleboard match against Senators Hale and Frelinghuysen.
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Colon
Panama
Pastores
Harding
Jamica
Hale
Frelinghuysen
Seventeen Chinese Stowaways Found Aboard Nanking
Seventeen Chinese stowaways crowded in a fuel oil tank during a 27 day voyage from Hongkong to San Francisco aboard the China mail liner Nanking. customs inspectors discovered them under the engine room while checking for contraband. They survived on a few biscuits smuggled in by crew members.
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San Francisco
Hongkong
China Mail
Spaniards in U S Wanting Return Face Financial Strain
Madrid reports a foreign affairs note warning that many Spaniards in the United States, unemployed due to an industrial crisis, wish to return home but lack funds to do so.
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Madrid
United States
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Spain
Sugar firm indicted for excess sugar profit in Lever Act case
The Utah Idaho Sugar company was indicted by a federal grand jury in Butte Montana on six counts alleging sales at an excess profit of 12.421 cents per pound in violation of the Lever act.
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Butte
Mont
Utah- Idaho Sugar Company
Japs Look to Republicans for Better US Policy
Tokyo dispatch cites Dr. Ingram Bryan saying California anti Japanese actions have made the situation intolerable to Japan. He notes Japan seeks only fair treatment equal to European immigrants and hopes Republicans may bring improvements in immigration and land ownership policy.
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Tokyo Dispatch
California
Ottawa
United States
Ingram Bryan
Tokyo
Montreal Star
Japan
Ingram
Japan's Army Budget Climbs 50 Percent for Next Year
Tokyo reports army estimates at 245 million yen for the coming year, a 50 percent rise from the prior year. Of the total 46 million yen funds go to new defense schemes. Cavalry service drops from three to two years. Naval construction speeds up, with docks filled to clear room for new ships. Cruisers scheduled for launch around December 15, not next spring, and two destroyers plus a special service vessel to be completed before January 1.
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Tokyo
Sinn Fein Fires Hit Liverpool Warehouses and Yards
In Liverpool twelve cotton warehouses and several timber yards were set ablaze in an apparent Sinn Fein operation. Police were attacked, a civilian, Daniel Ward, was shot dead, and seventeen people were overcome by smoke. Four arsonists were captured as fires spread through Sparing Pabley and Jordan streets.
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Liverpool
Daniel Ward
Sparing
Pabley
Jordan
Vulcan Street
Barnfield Lane
Bootle
Sinn Fenners
London
Optimism Voiced by J Ham Lewis
J Hamilton Lewis, returning from Washington and the South, expresses optimism that the nation will soon prosper. He compares the current lull to a cautious motorist reading signs and urges all citizens to support national, state, and city administrations to end political fighting and spur growth.
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Chicago
J. Hamilton Lewis
Washington
South
Mr. Lewis
Atlantic States
New England
Mississippi Valley
Ilinois
Europe
United States
Unclear fragment hints at planned attack on government offices
Damaged OCR text mentions defenses around major government offices and offices of the Indian Education Board and Public Works. It references police, guards, and former soldiers near a guarded Irish area with chained doors, and a historical 1916 rebellion link.
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Irieh
London
Bonar Law
Mier Lieyd
Indian Ice Board of Public Works Education
Train Strike Fatalities Reported Near Crossing
Nov 20 report lists Walter Olson among two killed and others seriously injured when a train struck a vehicle at a crossing near Kewanee Flearyana and Eugene. A passenger was injured as the vehicle was dragged about 800 feet.
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Walter Olson
Bile
Kewanee
Flearyana
Eugene
Second Barge Oil Promoter Shot in Oklahoma Deaths
Ardmore Oklahoma reports a new sensation in the death of J E Lamb twenty five thirty five oil promoter. Lamb was found on a railroad track after being struck by a train and later determined by a coroner jury to be self inflicted. This follows the death and disappearance of Jake L Hamon and Mrs Clara Smith Hamon as national figures are drawn into the mystery.
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Ardmore
Okla
Nev
Jake L. Hamon
Hamon
Lodge Urges Canada Australia New Zealand Pact on Asiatic Immigration
Massachusetts Senator Lodge urged an immigration pact with Canada Australia and New Zealand to curb Asiatic immigration. He criticized current enforcement and called for tariff realignment to ease taxpayer burden while warning against unilateral migration rights. He spoke at the Union League club Founders' Day event.
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Massachusetts
Solon
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Philadelphia
United States
Senator Lodge
Union League Club
Masachusetts
Lodge
Department of Justice
Sessions Bonded by Taxes and Health Comments
Senator Lodge met with Senator Penrose at Penrose home and praised his improved health. Lodge said Penrose should not attend the upcoming short congress session to open next month and that he would be summoned if needed, urging rest at home.
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Lodge
United States
Senator Lodge
Senator Penrose
Pennsylvania
Congress
Bethlehem Shipbuilding seeks 1000 skilled workers in Baltimore
Baltimore for Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp Ltd aims to add 1000 skilled men to its payrolls, with 11,000 more needed next month to complete contracts. Eight vessels are under construction and three more are underway, reflecting the wartime shipbuilding push.
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Baltimore
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd
Former Emperor William to give heirs large Dutch funds
Doorn dispatch reports William II discussed finances with his children at Doorn castle and plans to give each heir 85000 pounds in Dutch money to maintain their status. The gesture aims to ensure they live in a manner befitting the Hohenzollerns.
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London
Doorn Castle
William
Germany
Doorn
Daily Mail
Abruzzi Plans New Expedition to Italian Somaliland
Naples nov 20 The duke of Abruzzi prepares a new expedition to Italian Somaliland to establish agricultural and industrial systems. He plans to sail in early December on the cruiser Roma carrying brick making and other machinery.
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Naples
Duke of
Abruzzi
Italian Zomaliland
Roma
Akron Sees Largest Vice Crusade Arrests
Akron Ohio reports nearly 100 people arrested in a citywide crackdown on vice. Raids targeted bootleggers drug vendors and liquor law violators in a coordinated operation.
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Akron
Ohio
Five Yuan Shih Kai Sons Sent to America for Education
On the Nanking liner an envoy and five of Yuan Shih Kai's sons, aged twelve to seventeen, arrived in San Francisco en route to a Massachusetts school. Leon M. Becker arranged their care and William R. Crane secured safe passage amid rumors of assassination and monarchy plots in China.
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San Francisco
Leon M. Becker
Peking Union University
Yuan Shih Kai
Nanking
Massachusetts
China
Beoker
America
William R. Crane
United States
Shanghai
Yuan Ke Yung
Quick Trigger Artists Join Sinn Feiners
An obscure art collective aligned with Sinn Fein is reportedly involved in clandestine activities linked to planned assassinations. The group named Quick Trigger Artists surfaces in a fragmentary report amid shifting political tensions.
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Quick Trigger
Sinn Feiners
American gunmen tied to Sinn Fein in Liverpool scene
In London Derry officials warn of possible assassinations as American gunmen appear in Londonderry and Liverpool. Police link Sinn Fein headquarters to several strangers loitering in groups, raising fears of desperadoes. Authorities say the situation will be managed despite complications.
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Eventne Journal
London
Londonderry
Ireland
Liverpool
Sinn Fein
Reprisals in Ireland Hit Cork and Elsewhere
Cork reports new reprisal fires including Draper's American shoe store and the Black Thorn house, with damages exceeding 500000. The military restores order as a policeman is shot at Castle Martyr and a sergeant wounded. Amok Mullingar sees uniformed bombings and a teen injured. Three uniformed men arrested. Limerick fairs and markets banned as punishment for revolver carrying.
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Cork
Ireland
Draper's
Black Thorn House
Castle Martyr
Amok Mullingar
Limerick
Oklahoma man J H Carter found dead in Florida cottage
J H Carter, a wealthy Claremore resident, was found dead in an empty kitchen in a Tampa cottage after installing a gas meter. Authorities say he committed suicide by attaching a tube to the gas pipe, with the body dead about two or three days before discovery.
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Tampa
Fla
J. H. Carter
Claremore
Okla
Coal supply near normal ends priority orders
Washington November 20 the interstate commerce commission removed all orders giving priority to coal movements effective today stating the emergency prompting the rules has largely passed.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Cupid's Pet Like Godiva
A youth named Tom Santer, naked in the cold dawn, trudged to a suburban Los Angeles home seeking admission and aid. He claimed rivals held a young woman against her will and abducted him into the country, stripping him of his clothes.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Tom Santer
Ben
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