Harding Opens National Conference on Unemployment
President Harding opened the unemployment conference in Washington signaling a rough path to business revival through readjustment and sacrifices by both employers and workers. Secretary Hoover will chair efforts while Ford's Detroit plant appears as a potential speaker on postwar economic strain.
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Washington
Harding
Hoover
Henry Ford
Highland Park
James Cousens
Detroit
Ford
Plane bombs are effective on battleship Alabama
A Martin bomber hit the battleship Alabama with two 300 pound demolition bombs. The blasts blew through the forward deck creating a jagged hole that disabled the forward guns and destroyed crew quarters below. A second bomb followed, increasing the damage as eight aircraft dropped additional bombs.
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Norfolk
Martin
Alabama
aWwitt SE
Battles etch damage to ship and dam topples anchor
The report notes a ship's communications systems and a aging dam ruin the fighting masts while some bombs tore the Alabama from its anchors sending it adrift.
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Alabama
Reception for Pershing in Chaumont Heats Local Welcome
Paris reports Gen John J Pershing greeted by Chaumont s entire population upon arrival at his former headquarters. The mayor kissed the general and he will sleep in his old bed tonight before Taft s return from vacation to Washington for the Supreme Court term opening October 8.
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Paris
John J. Pershing
Chaumont
Washington
Taft
Canada
Supreme Court
Harding
Illinois Bank cashier charged with defalcations
Bridgeport Illinois Sept 26 Rey F E Laughlin cashier of the Bridgeport Bank and Trust company was arrested on defalcation charges estimated to total more than 125000. Laughlin had served the bank since 1910 and state bank examiners ordered the doors closed for a full audit after a bureau visit last week.
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Bridgeport
Rey FE. Laughlin
Bridgeport Bank and Trust Company
Newman Grove Strike Votes Over Telephone Rules
Former patrons and townspeople meet in Newman Grove Nebraska to approve a strike starting October 1 in protest of recent rule changes by the local telephone company.
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Newman Grove
Neb
Peru ready to fight over Tacna Arica dispute
Peru declares it will not submit the Tacna Arica question to a plebiscite. The foreign ministry publishes an official book detailing Peru's stance in the Pacific problem and demanding the return of Tarna Arica and Tarapaca, ceded to Chile, with no war indemnity.
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Chile
Buenos Aires
Peru
Foreign Ministry
Pacific
Tarna and
Arica
Tarapaca
Beer bill held up in the Senate after filibuster
The anti beer bill was sidelined by pressure to ratify peace treaties and pass the tax revision. Senator Sterling of South Dakota, leader of the drys, suspended interference and will resume the measure after the treaties and tax bill clear. Breathing spell for filibustering wets.
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Washington
Senate
Sterling
South D Dakota
Senator Sterling
Margin of safety cited for 1922 federal budget shortfall
Senator Penrose reports a slim margin above rock bottom estimates for 1922 expenditures. Treasury forecasts show a deficit with total outlays near 3.054 billion and internal taxes to cover about 3.272 billion, leaving a shortfall of around 65 million and calling for further retrenchment.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Majority Committee
Senate
Penrose
Treasury
Committee
Senate Committee
House
Baseball scores from National and American leagues
National League games include Cincinnati 6 over Brooklyn 2 and New York 6 over Chicago 4, while Morton allows 7 runs in a 3 7 defeat to St Louis 2. American League results show New York 1 over Cleveland 2 and Washington 2 over Detroit 2.
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Peretter New York
Eawe Os Saseef
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Ebeeses
Leagu Hk
New York
Urstey
Cleveland
Louis Soesseauee
Seone
Washington
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Chicago
Morton
Bt Louis
Detroit
Railroad Firm Attacks Labor Board Over Collective Bargaining
The Pennsylvania system announces a formal challenge to the labor board asserting state rights and alleging the board usurps Supreme Court decisions. It says the board refused a hearing in the Pond’s case to present evidence on employee representation and working conditions. The statement claims the board arrogates to itself the power to ignore Supreme Court rulings and cannot accept these views.
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Chicago
States In Labor Board
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
Hevel
Large Victory in Brief Quotation From James Lane Allen
The fragment presents a motto about turning a small defeat into a large victory attributed to James Lane Allen. It reads like a philosophical line rather than a full news item with events, places, or dates. The readable fact is the author and his emphasis on resilience.
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James Lane Allen
Bolshevik ambitions loom in Balkans and Chicago unrest
Bulgarian premier Alexander Stambouisky warns Moscow aims to spark revolutions in the Balkans with Bolshevik support and Kemal Pasha seeks Constantinople. Albanian and Jugoslav clashes reported along the Drin River. In Chicago area steel mills Bolshevik propaganda is surfacing with Lenin and Trotsky agents preaching communism.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Alexander Stambouchsky
Moscow
Balkan
Jugo-Slavia
Austria
Roumania
Roumanian
Dniester
Rome
Drin
Arvas
Tirana
Chicago
Hammond
Gary
Indiana Harbor
Lenin
Trotsky
Russia
Radical agitation rafts in Calumet mills and Chicago
Reports claim secret radical meetings in Chicago urge seizure or destruction of Calumet region steel mills. Hundreds of idle foreign workers have been sounded about joining the Red organization to fight capital with any available weapons, according to apparently reliable sources.
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Calumet
Chicago
Red” Organization
Porter, Last Lincoln Funeral Train Crew Member, Dies
William S. Porter, seventy three, died in Jacksonville after being the youngest crew member of the Lincoln funeral train that bore President Lincoln's body from Washington to Springfield. Porter was seventeen at the time, and his death marks the passing of the final crew member.
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Jerseyville
William S. Porter
Washington
Springfield
Porter
Jacksonville
Johnson Barred from Final Ring Performance
Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion, was ordered by Fall River police to quit his last show with a theater company after protests labeled him an undesirable person by Commissioner John T. Swift.
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Fall River
Mass
Jack Johnson
John T. Swift
Johnson
Man Sentenced to Life Hard Labor for Wife Murder
Aubrey Nance, 25, convicted of murdering his wife in Benton Arkansas, is sentenced to life with hard labor. He protests his sentence claiming the jurors are like squirrels and that he should receive the death penalty. thanks to the court and his defenders.
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Benton, Ark
Aubrey Nance
Nance
Chicago Police Chief Claims Prohibition Fails Here
Chicago Chief Fitzmorris declares prohibition a fallacy and says many officers are involved in illicit liquor sales. He urges federal action to sever police ties to the liquor trade, warns of mass dismissals, and cites rising drunkenness and deaths since prohibition took effect.
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Chicago
Prom
Police Department
Fitzmorris
Women party win partial victory for statue placement
At Washington on September 26 the national women’s party secured a partial win to move the marble statue of Susan B Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to the center of the capitol dome level in statuary hall. The statue was previously tucked in a basement corner drawing ire from capitol guides over obstructing the world’s longest corridor.
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Washington
National Women's Party
Statuary Hall
Capitol
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stadton
Lucretia Mott
Woman's Party
Capitol Dome
Briand Plans Visit to Washington Despite Disarmament Talks
Paris reports that Premier Briand will likely skip the Washington disarmament conference if French affairs block him, planning a one week visit to the U.S. capital. Opposition papers urge him to heed Parliament, while government papers accuse Britain of pressuring Briand to stay away to wreck the talks.
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Paris
Briand
Washington
M. Briand
Wilson
Great Britain
Lioyd George
International anti prohibition conference convenes in Geneva
Geneva hosts an international anti prohibition conference with delegates from 12 countries including the United States and Great Britain. The meeting aims to set up a bureau to publish statistics countering prohibition advocates and limits use of English at the session.
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Geneva
Switzerland
United States
Great Britain
Rioters Battle Soldiers as Belfast Sees Fatalities
In Belfast on September 26 rioters clashed with troops. A man was shot dead and another killed when an armored car ran over him during the confrontation. Soldiers routed the rioters as snipers fired from hidden positions using machine guns.
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Belfast
Ireland
Miss Mildred E. Hanan Died in Mystery Shooting Case
New York notice reports the death at Long Island College Hospital of Miss Mildred E. Hanan. The case involved a shooting by her former friend Mrs Grace Laewes, with the other party later dying by suicide.
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New York
Long Island College Hospital
Mildred E. Hanan
Grace Laewes
Ter
Hatui
Far East Premier Krasnotche koff relieved over illness
Riga reports former Far Eastern republic premier A T Krasnotche koff, once a Chicago lawyer, has been relieved of duties due to illness amid Moscow disputes.
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Riga
A. T. Krasnotchekoff
Chicago
Far Eastern
Republic of
Siberia
Literal Youth in a Playful Courtship
A young man wooing seriously asks to kiss Jane but she notes her mother is in the drawing room. He suggests her father can kiss her instead, treating the moment with literal earnestness.
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Jane
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