Harding shifts from mediator to president amid miners strike
Washington report notes Congress reconvened as railroad unions wait and President Harding takes a firmer stance. Analysts say action on seizure of mines or railroads is unlikely before the election, with Harding preferring a constitutional, policy driven approach for labor disputes.
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Mark Sullivan
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Congress
Washington
Harding
United States
Wei
Aki
Courier Delivery Time Notice for Home Subscriptions
The Courier should be delivered before 5 30. If the paper is late due to courier error or other cause, call 2330 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls should reach the office before 6 20 p m.
Wreck victim back in Waterloo glad to be home
Stuntzner, injured in Soo Line wreck near Annandale Minnesota, returns to Waterloo. He recalls the sudden crash and silent horror as chairs tore through the smoking car. Despite head and elbow injuries, doctors find no internal damage. The death toll was reported as ten, with bodies yet to be recovered.
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Soo Line
Annandale
Minn
Waterloo
Minneapolis
Mo. Stuntzner
Hint
Golden Bells Found in Forgotten Colombian City
The South American archaeological expedition of the Field Museum Chicago led by Dr. J. A. Mason uncovers a vast unknown ancient city site in Colombia. Finds include gold bells and ornamental figures, with evidence of dense historic habitation and skilled metalwork by early agricultural tribes.
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Associated Press
Colombia
Museum of Natural History
Chicago
J. A. Mason
Calombia
Timies
Tha Nhua- Bum
Florists Open Kansas City Meeting For Florists
The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists convened in Convention Hall for a three day session. About 200 florists arrived, with 2,000 expected. displays featured tools and greenhouses. City officials T. Z. Noll and Mayor Frank Cromwell were slated to speak at an afternoon session.
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Lee says railroads may arm guards to protect property
Topeka August 15 Railroads have a perfect right to protect property with armed guards if necessary W G Lee president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen notified members on the Santa Fe Coast lines The bulletin posted here quotes Lee saying a sympathy strike will not be tolerated and advising men to refer unsafe equipment complaints to the general chairman
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Topeka
Kan
W.G. Lee
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Santa Fe Railroad
Lee
Woman Slayer of Sleeping Husband Arrested in Lakehurst
Mrs Ivy Giberson prominent reformer and prohibitionist is under arrest in Toms River after her husband the taxi service monopolist in Lakehurst was shot in his sleep. Police found letters to the model wife and church activist and a revolver hidden in backyard rubbish.
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Lakehurst
Ivy Giberson
Toms River Jail
New York
Gibergson
Sterday
Wniil
Methodist Episcopal Church
Soft coal strike partially settled with dual parleys
A partial settlement ends the soft coal strike that began April 1 with talks in Cleveland and Philadelphia. Operators and miners ratified a temporary wage agreement based on the 1921 scale, retaining the checkoff system and planning a general scale committee to draft a new wage scale. An advisory fact-finding commission is to be named by President Harding if consensus fails. Mines in six states are to resume immediately at the old pay scale.
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United Press
Cleveland
Harding
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Associated Press
M. Maker
Lave Mines
Ohio
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Winds
Michigan
Ordera
Columbus Air Taxi Offers Quick U S Travel Service
Columbus Ohio August 1 A local taxicab company advertised airplane service to any part of the United States. Call to send a cab to a landing field and a five passenger plane will arrive near the field about the same time. The service promises rapid trips to Chicago New York and other points.
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Columbus Company
U. S
Columbus
United States
Chicago
New Yorlk
Press honors Northcliffe as world mourns loss
London reports a remarkable tribute by the British press to the late Viscount Northcliffe. Editorials, photographs, and biographical sketches fill pages in newspapers and Northcliffe publications. Tributes from journalists, politicians, and diplomats reflect global condolences, including President Harding’s message to Lady Northcliffe.
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London
Viscount Northcliffe
Dia
Northcliffe
Averton
Harding
T A Lady Northcliffe
Slays Father and Brother-in-Law for Laughing at Power
Albert Schroeder a 25 year old farmer from Grianville near Pontiac Michigan killed his father Carl Schroeder 70 and brother in law August Zimmermann 26 with a shotgun in the barnyard then clubbed the heads of Seth men with the butt of a gun He fled but was captured by farmers who said God told him to kill because they laughed at the power given him to make it rain He killed them for laughing at a God given power
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Pontiac
Mich
Albert Schroeder
Grianville
Here
Carl Schroeder
August Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Mayer Will Valued At 25 To 50 Million Inheritance
Chicago August 15 The will of Levy Mayer disposing of a fortune variously estimated between 25 and 50 million dollars will rest in the vaults of the Continental and Commercial National Bank until Mrs Mayer, now in Paris, receives it. Mayer's law partners announced the arrangement today.
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Chicago
Levy Mayer
Continental & Commercial National Bank
Mra. Mayer
Paris
Mayer
Rutland Railroad resumes rail and lake transport to the West
Boston August 16 Rutland Railroad announces resumption of a rail and lake transportation service between New England and the west. The service, formerly run by Rutland Transit, was halted under the Panama Canal Act provisions.
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Boston
New England
The
West
Rutland Railroad Company
Rutland Transit Company
Ford contract promises fertilizer production in Muscle Shoals plan
Gray Silver, Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau federation, cites Ford's offer section on manufacturing, sale, and distribution of commercial fertilizers as a key term. He notes Ford pledges to manufacture nitrogen totaling 40,000 tons, about one fifth of national annual fertilizer use, using the most economical power, and warns violations could allow the attorney general to cancel the lease.
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Washington, D. C
Iferrald
Congress
Henry Ford
Muscle Shoals
Gray Silver
Washington
American Farms Bureau Federation
Ford
Aad
Silver
Bashful and Lonesome Couples Reunited Through Court Effort
In Hammonton New Jersey on August 15 Miss Helen Long Rodgers wife of a prominent Hammonton businessman will cast the deciding vote in the Lovers Cooperative union. The mixed court of three men and three women assigns mates via questionnaires and disputes are settled by judges. Some 2000 prospective husbands and wives have enrolled. Councilman J Louly O Donnell is a married member of the court.
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Hammonton
N. J
Helen Long Rodgers
Husiocas
Lovers’ Cooperative Union
Thomas B. Delker
J. Louly O'Donnell
Civil War Pictures Cause Matrimonial Rift In Topeka
In Topeka Kansas Capt Patrick H Coney a Civil War veteran and his wife Ma belle I Coney both over 70 faced a divorce hearing. The wife charged that he refused to hang her oil paintings in the home insisting on keeping war pictures and mementos displayed, forcing her to place her paintings in the kitchen.
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Topeka
Kan
Patrick H. Coney
Cantaia
Fear and unrest grip Mexican deputy convening
Mexico City Aug 16 with partisan feeling high soldiers and police of the Obregon government were held in readiness to quell disturbances as the deputies opened their chamber. The final fight over disputed seats began and officials reported a cabinet crisis from the presidential palace. Ratification of the financial agreement with American bankers hinges on the disputed deputy seats.
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Mexico City
Attempted arson targets Boston & Maine roundhouse
A man attempted to burn the Thompson Point repair shop roundhouse of the Boston and Maine railroad in Portland Me Officials found air soaked waste inside and several locomotives were present Highteen engines valued at 1 068 000 were destroyed by fire at the Thompson Point yards last Sunday
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Portland
Thompson Point
Boston & Maine Railroad
Weather report for Iowa towns dated August 15 1922
The report covers Argont Charles City Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines Dueh We Lac Crease Wis Masonry and Wa verly. Brummabry Moratn reported in Iowa roads generally good.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
Charles City
Argont
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Des Moines
Duhu We
Lac Crease
Wis
Masonry
Waverly
Towa
Indiana Governor Will Not Quit State Mines at Once
Indiana Governor Warren T. McGray announced that state operation of two strip coal mines in Clay County will not commence until other mines are ready and producing coal. He said Indiana will continue to mine to fuel the others and expressed hope to reach a goal of 16 to 25 cars a day from the state operated mines.
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Tallanapolis
Ind
Ciay County
Warren T. McGray
Indiana
Mins
Pouil
Chicago Batteries Kaufman a Sesend Game
Boston Batteries: McNamara and Gow dy Jones and O'Farrell.
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Chicago
McNamara
Gowdy
Jones
O'Farrell
President Will Put Rail Strike Before Congress
President Harding plans to place the railroad strike before Congress and the nation within an hour as unions reject his settlement proposal. He aims to offer federal protection to railroads and support operation, while awaiting events before proposing further action.
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Washington, D. C
Warding
Congress
White House
Harding
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