Mail Clerks in Iowa Plead Guilty in Theft Probe
Fourteen of the forty one postal clerks at the Pacific Transfer station pleaded guilty and were sent to the federal grand jury under bonds. Six more pleaded guilty in Council Bluffs, with warrants out for additional suspects as post office inspectors reveal thefts spanning watches, revolvers, silk items, fountain pens and radio gear.
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Council Bluffs
Associated Press
Cov Neil Bluffs
Pacific Transfer
U.S
A. Beyers
Federal Grand Jury
United States Commission
S. W. Mitchell
Lawrence Brooks
Red Oak
Iowa
Washington, D. C
Post Office Department
Guy E. Hampton
Postoffice
Reign of Terror at Vladivostok Amid Evacuation
In Vladivostok terror rises as evacuation nears with a blackout after a plant breakage. Guards patrol streets and threaten pedestrians while Japanese intentions shift to assigning administration beyond the neutral zone. American and British ships land soldiers to protect the city.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Vladivostok
New York's first newspaper published in 1755
The earliest New York newspaper was a weekly publication launched in 1755. It marked the beginning of organized press in the colony, laying groundwork for future journalism and public discourse in the city.
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New York
Stackhouse proposes railroad workers in preferred class
W H Stackhouse of Davenport urged Congress to designate railroad employees as a preferred class with wages tied to a fixed return on carrier property and a felony for concerted strikes. He argued this would prevent future disruptions and shield the public from government ownership effects, noting miners won the recent coal strike while operators recouped costs.
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Chicago
W. H Stackhouse
Davenport
National Association of Farm Equipment Manufacturers
Congress
Riots Injure Dozen After Paramero Party at South Branch
A riot at the Southern Branc campus in Los Angeles after a Paramero party left about a score of students injured by gas bomb burns and blows. Police and fire crews responded as 500 youths attacked, with a girl hospitalized and another student dying from a broken neck. organizers say troublemakers were not Occident students amid a football celebration planned for tomorrow.
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The
Evening Journal
Los Angeles
Cal
Los Angeles College
Southern
Branc
South Branch
T Hem
Occident College Tomor
Editor Henry Prentiss in Serious Condition After Fall
Cedar Rapids reports editor Henry Prentiss of the Republic and Times is in serious condition after a fall on a concrete stairway. Doctors doubt recovery and warn he may be crippled for life as his legs remain paralyzed.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Henry Prentiss
The
Republican and Times
Wanderlust Returns Among Germans as Emigration Rises
Report from Hamburg notes a 48 percent rise in 1922 half year emigration compared with 1921. About 11 287 Germans sailed from German and Dutch ports on non first or second class bookings with Hamburg and Bremen as top exits. Most left in April to June, with many heading to South America and to New Orleans, Mexico, or Cuba.
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Hamburg
Bremen
Amsterdam
South America
New Orleans
Mexico
Cuba
Duteh
Prussia
Hanover
Berlin
Rhineland
Upper Silesia
Bavaria
Mrs Clara Phillips Goes On Trial Today
Mrs Clara Phillips faces murder trial in Los Angeles for the July twelfth killing of Mrs Alberta Mead. Attorneys describe her as the most composed, steady-nerved woman before a jury and say jurors may not be complete until late next week.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Cal
Clara Phillips
Alberta Meadows
Sugar from tree sap used as crude sugar by natives
Sugar ash of Sicily yields sap that hardens into crude sugar used without refinement. The description notes local use by natives and emphasizes natural sap processing rather than refined sugar.
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Sicily
Quarreling Women Sheds Light on Hall Mills Case
Authorities weighing new information in the Hall Mills murder probe consider a reported quarrel between Mrs Frances Hall widow of Rev Edward Hall and Mrs Charlotte Mills daughter of Mills. Witnesses recall a camp scene at Point Pleasant NJ where Mrs Mills demanded to join a car trip with Dr Hall. The pair reportedly maintained frost from then on.
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Associated Ress
New Brunswick
N. J
Get
Hall- Mills
Frances Hall
Edward Hall
Mills
Halls
Florence North
Charlotte Mills
Eight Die in Oklahoma Coal Mine Blast
McCurtain Oklahoma October 20 Eight men were killed and fourteen injured in a gas explosion at the Progressive Coal Company's mine four and a half miles north of McCurtain. The injured suffered severe burns.
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The
Evening Journal
Mccurtain
Okla
Progressive Coal Company
Cuba weighs tariff reprisals and new treaty talks
In Havana, Cuba presses for treaty revision as the Fordney tariff heightens Cuban sugar and tobacco pressures. Officials and industry leaders push for a new reciprocal pact while Congress considers new tariff reprisals to shield Cuban industries.
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Cuba
U. S
Havana
Matl
de Cespedes
United States
E. H. Crowder
Harding
Scot
Island
Washington State Department
State Department
Union of
Island of
Congress
House of Representatives
Zayas
State Road to Enter Dubuque
A. R. Hirst the Wisconsin state highway engineer informed the Iowa Highway Commission that Wisconsin will include in the interstate road system a route entering Dubuque via the north bridge. This affects Iowans seeking entry to Wisconsin through Dubuque as the gateway town.
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Dubuque
Associated Press
Ames
A. R. Hirst
Wisconsin
Iowa Highway Commission
North Bridge
Owsley elected national commander at New Orleans
Alvin M. Owsley of Texas won the American Legion national commander post at the Chicago convention in New Orleans. He supported 100 percent Americanism and indefinite immigrant exclusion, while Bill Deegan of New York pressed for continuing the bonus fight.
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A.M. Owsley
New Orleans
Associated Press
The
American Legion
Alvin M. Owsley
Texas
William O'Connor
Ohio
Owsley
Texas Legion
Hanford MacNider
Iowa
McNidey
Bill Deegan
New York
Deegan
Thompson
MacNider
Legion’s
Americanization Commission
Ancient Peru carving emerges from guano under layers of history
Scientists restoring old prints and antiques reveal a wood block found in Peru beneath 14 feet of guano is a carving of great age. Experts identified the artifact as an ancient work, highlighting advances in restoration science and preservation of antiquities.
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Peru
Railway Wreck Kills Engineer as Train Derails in Indiana
In Williamsport Indiana on October 26 Charles Smuggle a Danville Michigan resident and Wabash engineer of train No 3 was killed when the derailed wreck struck West Lebanon. Seven others were injured including four mail clerks two passengers and a baggage man. The engine and several cars plunged into a nearby wood and fire broke out under the cars where the engineer lay. Help arrived only after several hours to remove the body.
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Associated Press
Williamsport
Ind
Charles Smuggle
Danville
West Lebanon
Fireman Killed in Railway Wreck at Oxbow Crossing
Allentown Pa Oct 20 Le Hight fireman burned to death when a west bound freight crashed into a passenger train at Oxbow Crossing near Muchunk Pa. Engineer Coyle sustained a broken arm but passengers escaped unharmed.
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The
Evening Journal
Allentown
Le@ Hight
Oxbow Crossing
Muchunk
Coyle
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Prom
Dae Por
Ines
Stackhouse
Strike
Associated Preas
Des Moines
Charles D. Reed
Iowa Crop and Weather Reporting Service
Weather Bureau
Fordney
Sis
Proop
McNider
Mason City
New Yorker
Gers
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