President Terns Monroe Doctrine Link of Americans
The Associated Press reports President Harding at an unveiling on April 19 links Pan American cooperation to the Monroe Doctrine. He frames independence and mutual aid among American republics as essential to fight tyranny, rebuild postwar prosperity, and avoid aloofness while urging unity across North and South America. The address compares Washington and Bolivar, stresses shared aims, and calls for strong regional solidarity.
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Associated Press
New York
Harding
Sterre
Simon Bolivar
Western Hemisphere
Amitr
United States
Lexington
North America
Venezuela
North
South America
Washington
Bolivar
America
Rio Grande
North American
North and South Americans Unite for Peace and Trade
In a congressional address, the speaker argues for Pan Americanism and tariff relief to promote peace and economic collaboration. He emphasizes Monroe Doctrine principles, mutual defense against aggression, and shared duties to advance democracy. The speech highlights bolstering production, restoration, and international exchanges to strengthen nations and ensure global stability.
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Saintes
Venezuela
United States
Bolivar
GOP Aims to Remove Southern Delegate Stain
A 1921 New York Evening Post capstone notes potential GOP shift toward improving black status in the South through property, education, and voting rights. It argues Republicans historically exploited local prejudice, and future policy could alter political dynamics, with a formal committee decision expected in weeks.
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South
Republican Committee
Capricett
New York Evening Post
Addie Ades A Adventures The Minute A Day Serial CRAPTEE 39
Addie and George walk home as night falls in this chaotic dialogue filled scene. Addie contemplates selling houses through the real estate column while George assists and urges action. Copyright 1921 Basil L. Saath Waterloo.
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Adile
George
Pete
Aehie
Gould
Goult
Jean Vere Sheri
Addie
Roche
Basil L. Saath
Waterloo
Miners Day Demands Push For Wage Pool
London April 20 large majorities of miners district committees reaffirmed demands for a 4 national wage board and a personal wage pool. The Miners Federation says Lloyd George has not grasped essential features of the national wage pool and that profits pool is misperceived. British mine owners in conference announce proposals to seek a coal strike settlement.
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Associated Press
London
Daily Herald
Organ
Labor
Miners’ Federation of Great Britain
Miners’ Federation
Lloyd George
House of Commons
General in overalls aids Legion clubhouse build
In San Francisco on April 20 Maj Gen Huster Liggett, recently retired commander of the ninth army corps, surprised volunteers by arriving in blue overalls to help build a Legion clubhouse. He joined with hammer and broom, working quietly until recognized by others.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
American Legion
Huster
Liggett
Ninth Army Corps
Former Ottumwa Girl Marie Vance Dies in Chicago
Los Angeles investigators probe death of Marie Vance formerly of Ottumwa Iowa where she grew up and was a high school graduate. Her body was exhumed in Chicago at her father's request amid reports of a recent operation and diphtheria as a cause of death.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Cal
California State Medical Board
Marie Vance
Chicago
Esterday
William W. Vance
Glentoe
Ill
Kner
W. W. Vance
Miss Vance
Ottumwa
Gustafson elected chairman of United Grain Growers
United Grain Growers election news from Chicago Illinois Gustafson of Lincoln Nebraska chosen as chairman amid regional coverage. In other brief items a Mexican train raid near El Paso left ninety dead or missing and Sun Yat Sen to be inaugurated in China with government moved to Nanking. Irish convention in Chicago calls for immediate recognition of the Irish Republic by Congress.
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Associated Press
Chiccago
Gustafson
Lincoln
Neb
United Grain Growers’ Association
el Paso
Villa
Honolulu
Sun Yat Sen
China
Nanking
Canton
Washington
Congress
Davis Says 400 Million Needed to Pay Railroad Claims
Washington April 20 The Director General of Railroads James C Davis told Representative Good that an additional 400 million dollars is required to cover government losses from railroad operations He estimated total losses could exceed 2 billion largely to pay damage claims that railroads would normally cover but courts hold the government liable because it ran the trains.
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Washington, D. C
James C. Davis
Iowa
Representative Good
House
Good
Farmers' Union Chief Says Agricultural System Failing
National Farmers' Union members meet in Washington for a three day conference led by Charles S Barrett to seek remedies for farm distress. Barrett calls for a joint congressional committee and urges action to fix credit transport and market access while promising to press Congress to investigate and correct wrongs in farming.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
National Farmers’ Union
Charles S. Barrett
Qalisee
Barrett
America
Federal Trade Commission
Congress
Secret Service Grips Bomb Suspect After Seven Months
United Press reports in Scranton Pennsylvania that a young man held on suspicion of involvement with a Wall Street dynamite plot was arrested by Secret Service agent H. D. Ahearn. The suspect, believed linked to a nationwide conspiracy, is said to have aided Justice Department inquiries for seven months to locate the gang’s brains and the dynamite crew.
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United Press
Scranton
Wall Street
Broad and
Wall Streets
H.d. Ahearn
Secret Service
May Contest Election Sparks Ontario Prohibition Debate
Toronto April 20. News on the Ontario provincial vote shows a strong majority for banning the importation of Hanoi products. The new city law aims to take effect soon, subject to the province's final approval and potential contest over its validity.
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Toronto
Ontiria
Hanoi
Gas masks for ships to curb lethal fumes proposed
West Point observers report Prof. W Lee Lewis of Northwestern University outlines a plan to install full ship gas masks to protect battleships from toxic smoke. He argues future warfare will favor scientific defense over brute force, noting gas injuries are recoverable at far higher rates than bullet wounds.
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Associated Press
West Point
Military
W. Lee Lewis
Northwestern University
Lewis
Otto Peffenberg
Germany
Labor Board Examines Outside Wages in Rail Industry
The Labor Board reviews railroad wage practices and costs highlighting misused funds in overheads, advertising, and propaganda. It cites estimates of 26 million in 1937 and 13 million in 1917, urging modernization, cost accounting, and increased research, while noting high employee turnover and alleged inefficiencies.
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Nori Iver
Southern Pacific
Poet’s Daughter Plans Pagan Burlap Wedding Dress
Juanita Miller, daughter of poet Johuin Miller, sits sewing eucalyptus buds on a burlap bridal gown and describes a pagan wedding festival set for next Saturday at The Heights in Oakland. She will wear a white chiffon gown for daylight and switch to burlap for a dance. Her husband Juan Miller will wear a crimson cloak.
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Juanita
Juan Miller
Juan
the Millers
Oakland
Viviani Heads Home Believing America Supports France
M Viviani former French premier returns to France aboard the France after a month in the United States aided by Stephane Lauzanne. He states that despite fears there is affection for France, praises President and American friendship, and a farewell message will be released tomorrow.
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iBy
Associated Press
New York
Viviani
France
M. Viviani
Stephane Lauzanne
le Matin
Paris
Marcel Knecht
Mr. Knecht
Morosco Faces Volstead Violation Charge in Liquor Case
Olivier Morosco, theatrical producer, was arraigned in a Brooklyn court on a charge of violating the Volstead Act by possessing 92 bottles of liquor bottled after the act took effect. He posted $1,000 bail for the term of court.
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United Press
New York
Olivier Morosco
Mo Toscy
Los Angeles
Charles R. O'Connor
Prohibition
Morosco
Great Neck
N. Y
Meyer Kaplan
Leon C. Winstock
United States
McGoldrick
Ford Company Appeals to High Court in New York Case
The Ford Motors company filed an appeal with the U S Supreme Court challenging a New York ruling that awarded Hotel Woodward more than 2 000 000 for Ford withdrawing from a 21 year lease deal tied to a planned New York hotel project At Belgrade Admiral Philip Andrews arrives with an American Adriatic fleet delegation for an inspection tour.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Ford Motors Company
Supreme Court
New York
Woodward Company
Ford Company
Associatedress
Belgrade
Serbia
Rasr
Philip Andrews
Waterloo Declares Cleanup Week For April 25 30
Waterloo mayor W N Frisbie via proclamation declares April 25 to 30 cleanup week. residents urged to remove trash and backyards and vacant lots, plant vegetables, paint buildings, conserve lumber, and work to improve health, safety, and neighborhood appearance.
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Waterloo
lassisUbg
City of Waters
W. Frisbie
Women Vote Tops Aurora Mayoral Race on Moral Issue
Aurora Illinois April 20 Col Charles Greene a World War veteran running as an independent won the mayoral race by 852 votes over Mayor Charles Townsend. The overall vote totaled 16,140 with Greene carrying 1,402 more votes from women and Townsend leading among men by 250. The campaign featured a sharp moral issue and Greene vowed to remove a so called black and tan district if elected, in the period’s fiercest Aurora political contest.
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Associated Press
Aurora
Ill
Charles Greene
Tunning
Charles Townsend
Col. Greene
Fair Folks
Townsend
Blue-Eyed Girl Held as Bandit by Police in Chicago
Chicago police captured a 17 year old blue eyed light haired girl described as dapper and well dressed identified as Mea Mc Donald. She is charged with participating in several highway robberies and said to have held a gun during a robbery with two accomplices.
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Chicago
United Press
Mea McDonald
William Neckless
Associated Press
Panions
Mount Pleasant
Mt. Pleasant
Mt Pleasant votes against pool hal refer endum result
Mt Pleasant votes against pool hal to abide by the referendum result as city council acts. Judges and election clerks involved. Meanwhile reports from Kansas City show escaped prisoners at Leeds municipal farm. six captured, nine still at large.
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Mt. Pleasant
Noo Hall
Ford
United Press
Kansas City
Leeds
Mrs Stokes Devoted to Her Two Children Testimony
Mrs W S Stokes is hailed as the most devoted mother in the world by her mother Mrs Emma Miller who testifies in the divorce suit filed by her daughter's multimillionaire husband. Miller describes Mrs Stokes as caring for the children and ensuring they pray. she rebuts nurse Julia Glassner's claim of an affair as a falsehood and notes family travel routines with Mrs Stokes and her sisters.
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United Presa
New York
W. &, D. Stokes
Emma Miller
Idatustter
Husban
Hal Bulig
Stokes
Miller
Denver
Miss Glasener
Japanese Cabinet Maintains Yap Policy Despite U.S. Note
Tokyo April 20. The cabinet chose not to change Japan's policy on the Yap mandate in response to a U.S. note. The ministry will report at an extraordinary meeting of the diplomatic advisory council on Friday. Foreign Office officials would not confirm or deny the report and said no statement would be made beyond mutual understandings with the United States.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Japan
Diplomatic Advisory Council
Foreign Office
President to Speak on Paper Birthdate Anniversary
President Harding has accepted an invitation to deliver an address in New York City on May 23 at a dinner hosted by the publishers of the New York Commercial. The event marks the newspaper's 125th anniversary and will be held at the New York Hotel.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Harding
New York City
New York Commercial
New York
New York Hotel
Murder Trial for Boy Set for May 3 Knox Ind
An 11 year old boy Cecil Burkett faced a murder charge for the death of playmate Bernie Stav following a quarrel. The trial date was moved to May 31 but postponed due to illness of Prosecutor and is to be heard by W E Pentecost at the Starke county circuit court.
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United Press
Knox
Ind
Tariff Promise Aids Southern Agricultural and Manufacturing Sectors
United Press reports April 20 in Washington that a protective tariff will be provided to southern agricultural and manufactured products in the regular tariff bill. Chairman Fordney of the House Ways and Means Committee announced this promise after a meeting with John Henry Kirby of Texas, president of the Southern Tariff Association, which urged protection.
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United Press
Washington, D. C
Fordney
House
John Henry Kirby
Texas
Butcher Union Leader Dies After Slugging Attack
Stanley Rakosz, 62, former president of the Great Cutters and Butcher Workers union of Chicago, died in Chicago after a slugging incident with a baseball bat on April 8. Assailants remain at large. John Kiluski, Rakosz’s predecessor as district council president, was assassinated about a year ago.
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United Press
Chicago
Stanley Rakosz
Threat Cutters & Butcher Worker Union of Chicago
Todd
Q John Kiluski
Rakosz
Distric Council
Farmers Federation Checks Up Legislation in Iowa
Des Moines report says Iowa Farm Bureau federation executives met in executive session to review the recent general assembly's farm bills. Officials note 14 to 23 bills involving the federation passed, one withdrawn, and four killed.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau Fedetion
Gener Assembly
Freezings Hit Iowa Fruit Crop In Central South Regions
Des Moines reports a weekly crop bulletin says temperatures of 16 to 20 degrees on April 16 and 17 seriously damaged the fruit crop in central and southern Iowa. The report attributes the loss to the cold spell and notes serious damage across the region.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Town Weather and Crop Service
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