Iowa House Defeats Contract Building Bill Amid Lobbying Claims
Des Moines reports the Iowa House defeats Criswell’s contract system for state school building jobs. A McClune substitute requires bids on projects over 10,000, allows day labor if bids are rejected, and files all bids as public records. The vote was 81 to 8 in favor of the substitute, with Criswell among the no votes. The session also notes farm bureau backing for an income tax measure and other legislative actions.
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Polish Army Chiefs May Have Job of Repelling Invasion by Russia
The bill proposing that young to superintendent elections align with spring school elections and stay nonpartisan was adopted but later rejected after a substitute was adopted. The original plan favored elections every other fall. The measure died in committee by a 22 to 28 vote.
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Bexty
Russia Aids Lithuania Over Polish Border Dispute
Paris discloses Moscow assures Lithuania of Soviet support in a boundary dispute with Poland. Riga treaty stance cited, warning that unilateral frontiers endanger European peace. Casualties reported near Vilna include 200 Poles and Lithuanians in weekend fighting. Britain protests arrest of officers south of Vilna. Lithuania massing troops on the Polish frontier amid isolated bombardments.
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Germs Man's Final Friend The Bacteria Promise Food
Believille Illinois February 21 Bacteria once seen as enemy may save humanity from hunger says Dr William Esten of Connecticut Agricultural College He explains a new system of agriculture at the Illinois Warmers Institute twenty eighth annual convention in Believille opening today The speaker says bacteria digest earth chemicals to make food for plant life and are the foundation of agriculture Without them there could be no plant or animal life
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William Esten
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Illinois Warmers’ Institute
Strike Ends for 36000 Garment Workers in New York
New York February 21. The 36000 workers in the waist and dress industries ended a long strike with a victory for the strikers. The Association of Dress Manufacturers conceded a 40 hour week on piecework and a basic wage increase of 10 percent, ensuring wages at least equal to those under the 44 hour week.
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New York
Association of Dress Manufacturers
Russian Singers Find Son Lost for 10 Years in Chicago
Konstantin Karlash, 15, son of Nicho lai Kartlash and Mary Mashir of the Russian Grand Opera, was separated from his parents for a decade. He was traced and brought to Chicago yesterday, ending years of worry over his fate.
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Chicago
Konstantin Karlash
Nicholai Kartlash
Mary
Mashir
Russian Grand Opera Company
Schwab urges limited US role in Europe
London reports that Charles M. Schwab, leading American industrialist, says US should help relieve Europe but voters oppose mixing in European politics. He argues global interests benefit from US involvement, yet Midwest sentiment resists. Schwab, recently ill, is improving and hosted visitors for the first time since last week.
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United States
Charles M. Schwab
America
Schwab
Europe
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Ruhr
American Book Co Warned in Illinois
Chicago February 21 The American Book Co warned Illinois book dealers that they cannot charge higher prices for textbooks in the state than in other states. State Superintendent F G Blair cited a price discrepancy when the company listed textbooks in Illinois higher than in Tennessee.
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Chicago
F F. G. Blair
American Book Company
Tennessee
Robbery claims surround $7300 check loss in Chicago
Bethal J. Meyers, assistant to the president of Great Western Smelting & Refining Co., was found on a Chicago sidewalk early today after saying a man offered a ride downtown. He claimed an indorsed company check for 7300 dollars was stolen and that he remembered nothing after entering a motor car. Police are investigating the alleged robbery and amnesia claim.
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Chicago
Bethal J. Meyers
Great Western Smelting & Refining Co
Idle Men Seek Jobs on Herrin Case Jury
Marion Illinois February 21 Many unemployed men seeking jury service in the second Herrin mine riot trial believe it will bring profitable employment for the next month with meals and lodging provided. Bailiffs report salesmen are the easiest group to recruit and are eager to serve as jurors as the jury selection is continued.
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Herrin
Federal agents raid Peoria on dry law violations
Eighteen federal agents from Chicago swooped into Peoria this morning and by 10 o'clock had raided ten places in the city for alleged dry law violations.
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Chicago
Lord Robert Cecil Plans March Voyage to America
Lord Robert Cecil announced he will sail on March 21 to visit New York and other American cities. He said the trip is at the invitation of American friends and not a diplomatic mission.
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London
Robert Cecil
New York
Berlin Payments and Deliveries Amid Rhineland Tensions
Berlin reports outline Berlin Premier Thounig and Poincare consulting on Rhineland matters as Communists form arms at Krupp works. British, French, and Belgian notes protest expulsions. the first official tally lists 56.6 billion gold marks in treaty payments plus 18.4 billion in lost military and disarmament costs, not including occupation costs.
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Scapa Flow
Alsace Lorraine
Federal Men Aid Bootlegger's Family in Wichita
Federal officials in Wichita have virtually adopted the family of Kirby Humphries a liquor law violator. His wife and four children receive food and clothing from 70 internal revenue employees who pledged 25 dollars weekly. Humphries was jailed in a sanitarium while attempting to sell a pint of whisky to H H Motter in the revenue office.
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Wichita
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Kirby Humphries
Humphries
Internal Revenue Office
H. H. Motter
Revenue Office
Grand Jury Peeved as Probe Slows Up
Chicago February 21 a special grand jury probing the Chicago board of education and indictments against Fred Lundin and others adjourned for a week after a stormy session. Jurors reportedly unhappy with progress and only one new witness in three months.
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Chicago
Chiccago Board of Education
Fred Lundin
Grand Juro
Adrenalin Rescues Babe Born Dead at Birth in Hospital
A twin baby boy revived at Borough Park hospital after immediate heart injection of adrenalin. The infant showed no respiration at birth and a weak heartbeat until Philip Mininberg of the Noahthal staff administered the drug directly into the heart. Both twins remain in an incubator with growing weight.
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New York
Borough Park Hospital
Maurice Isaacson
Philip Mininberg
Noaphal
Hasan
Ura
Arrest 35 in Raid on Counterfeiters
Federal agents swept New York and New Jersey rounding up about 150 suspected counterfeiters. Thirty two were seized in Manhattan and Brooklyn raids disrupted money factories in Brooklyn and Long Island City. About $100,000 in counterfeit tens and twenties were seized along with whisky labels and manufacturing dies and presses.
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Tri-State Debating League Formed for 1922
Lincoln Nebraska February 21 A Nebraska Iowa South Dakota triangular debating league formed for 1922. Contests will be in Lincoln Iowa City and Vermillion probably April 12. Nebraska negative versus Iowa at Lincoln to oppose United States entry into League of Nations. Nebraska affirmative against South Dakota at Vermillion will support entry. Iowa and South Dakota will meet at Iowa City.
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Parents Save Five Children in Chicago Fire
The timely return of Mr and Mrs John J Sweeney to their burning home saved the lives of their five children who were carried to safety wrapped in blankets. Firefighters were hampered by frozen fire plugs as the blaze caused about 200 damage. Plotter Sentenced. Moscow Feb 21 Colonel Svejey Ski was sentenced to death today by the supreme court for plotting against Lenin's life.
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Chicago
John J. Sweeney
Plotter
Moscow
Prince Miguel de Braganza Dies in New York
Prince Miguel de Braganza aged 45, eldest son of Don Miguel Braganza, died in New York of double pneumonia. He had recently come to the United States to sell insurance for a firm linked to his wife Anita Stewart’s relatives. Married in Scotland in 1909, he held the title Duke of Vizeu. He was a Prussian cavalry captain in World War I and a grandson of King Miguel of Portugal. The bride reportedly received a $2,000,000 gift from her mother.
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Austria
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Portugval
Mellon Flayed for Opposition to Farm Credit Bill
Washington Feb 21 The controversy over farm credits legislation widens as Rep Anderson Republican Minnesota challenges Secretary Mellon over his statement that the Lenroot Anderson bill is faulty in its outlines. Anderson says changes were due to the farm loan board and notes the president approved the bill. Mondell urged for cabinet appointment. House foreign affairs committee votes against a resolution to collect French war debt, urging debt commission. A measure to aid agriculture advances, backing government purchase of Chilean nitrates and calcium arsenate for farmers. The Sweet bill to restore veterans insurance was favorably reported by the Interstate Commerce Committee.
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C and A Shop Strike Overruled by Board
Bloomington Indiana February 21 workers at the Chicago and Alton railroad shop returned to work after the United States Railway Labor Board ruled that engine overhaul at the Peoria Mailway Terminal was legitimate. Strikers of the Peoria Road also returned. This marked the CL and A Union's first board case.
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Police Seek Elopers Charles Seely Read Vanished Pupils
San Francisco police issued a search for 11 year old Charles Seely and 10 year old Mahbet Read after they vanished from Everett school area saying they would elope. They took $6 from a savings bank and a few belongings.
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Everett
Youth in New Jersey signs pig eye graft theatre contract
Alfred Lemonewicz, a youth who had portions of a pig's eye grafted to his right optic, signs a contract with the Majestic theatre manager in Paterson New Jersey. He will appear on stage with the pig.
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Majestic Theatre
Woman Lawyer to Defend Woman on Murder Charge
New York. For the first time in New York courts a woman is to be defended by a woman in a murder trial. Assistant District Attorney Melon McCormick of Kings County has been retained to defend Mary Elizabeth Wells, indicted for the murder of her sweetheart Captain James S. Petrie, proprietor of the Mussapequw Inn at Freeport, Long Island.
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New York
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Kings County
Mary Elizabeth Wells
Janes S. Petrie
Vreeport
Long Island
Man Seen on Niagara Ice Floe Believed Drowned
A Niagara Falls area woman telephoned police reporting a man seen on an ice floe in the Niagara River signaling for help toward the cataract. Police and authorities on both sides searched the river for an hour, but the distress signals could have come from an illusion or a man washed away.
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Associated Press
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Hila
Iittwood
Jimmy Smith Slicks Back His Pompadour for Gallows
Chicago on February 21 Jimmy Smith spent the day in a county jail cell awaiting Friday’s execution for the murder of a cigar store clerk. He styled his pompadour in place, grinning that he was faring as well as could be expected.
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Funeral service for Mrs Lucy Knott Dangler in Chicago area
Funeral services for Mrs Lucy Knott Dangler, known as Cissy Knot of the Detectable Ballads of Walter Lott by Eugene Field, will be observed at her Lake Forest home this afternoon. Burial planned in Galena.
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Chicago
Lucy Knott Dangler
Lake Forest
Cissy Knot
Walter Lott
Eugene Field
Galena, Wu
Nebuchadnezzar Temple Found by British Penn Expedition
Sir Frederick Kenyon announced a joint British Museum and University of Pennsylvania dig at Arsapotamia exposing a Babylonian temple linked to Nebuchadnezzar. The structure, older than Tudl Ankh Amen tomb, dates to Abrahamic era and saw repairs by the king. Excavations began over 25 years ago, halted by the war, and resumed last year under four scientists.
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Philadelphia
Tudl Ankh- Amen
Arsapotamia
Frederick George Kenyon
British Museum
University of Pennsylvanian
Sir Kenyon
Abraham Nebuchadnezzar
Tonia
Mesopotamia
University of Pennsylvania
Fire damages estimated at Lafayette block in city blaze
A Lafayette block fire caused about 90000 in losses to the building and contents on the upper floors. Insurance covers the building, but several tenants face large losses. The Evans Self Filler Pen company quarters were among the origin points on the top floor. The blaze, which sent water through shops below, prompted rapid fire department response and rebuilding plans pending adjusters.
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Lafayette
Ainnals
Ithey N. Gowin
Lafayette Building Company
Ientty
Cowin
Larsen & Christenson
Lafayette Street
Evans Self+ Willer Pen company
Soldier
Independent Fruit Company
Latayette Street
Optus
Waterloo Bank & Trust Co
Kath- Tyn Meek Hat
Fourth Street
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al National Banlk
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Inghranne
Charles P. Pedderson
Ald
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Delivery notice for timely Courier paper service
A maintenance note states the Courier should be delivered before 5 30. If not received by that time, call the office before 6 30 to request a copy. The message includes a garbled line about the Cartier boy and urges readers to contact the office to ensure delivery.
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