Council Faces Paving Protest as Revisions Pass
City council halts parts of a paving plan after about 100 objectors crowd a public hearing. The revised resolution removed blocks on Sixth Street Commercial Street and other streets while leaving the rest intact with a ten day appeal window for objections.
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Tong
Mitching
Pang
Sixth Street
Mullan Avenue
Franklin Street
Commercial
Second Street
Commercial Street
Eighth Street
Eleventh Street
Alan Avenue
Sycamore Street
Harrison Street
Logan
Kern Street
Arlington Street
Ven
Tolerk
Comei
Glenn
Tibbits
Councilmier
Mac Hogan
Polivee
Farmers pass reform resolution at Des Moines picnic
Polk county farmers at the Des Moines farm bureau picnic denounced the Tincher administration farm relief bill as a makeshift and sent a resolution to President Coolidge and Secretary Jardine. The group urged enactment of the Haugen equalization fee with speakers Thomas Cashman of Owatonna Minnesota noting unity of farm interests is needed before agriculture asserts itself.
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Des Moines
Tincher
Polk County
Farm Bureau
Coolie
Jardine
Thomas Cashman
Owatonna
Minn
British coal strike widening under new call
London reports that Parney Hay, secretary of the British Miners Federation, announced that the International Federation will meet in London on June 23 to discuss potential embargo or international solidarity actions as the British coal strike broadens.
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Parney Hay
London
Brit Miners Federation
International Miner
Eration
Meri Landodane
Poxetichy
Panics and Prosperity Echo in Abes Martin Text
ABE. MARTIN reflects on hard times and prosperity in a voice blending dialect and satire. He contrasts 1920s economic stress with modern comfort, noting factory slowdowns, crop failures, and rising living costs yet praising the resilient American family and its gadgets.
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Laure Kite
Kite
Three Boys Given 13 Years Each For Attack Upon Girl
Sycamore High School youths Leonard Rich 20 Stanley Hart 20 and Emerson Wilson 27 former students of Northern Illinois State Teachers College faces 13 years for criminally attacking a girl in an automobile last April 11. Judge William J Folten ordered confinement at Pontiac until age 25 then transfer to Joliet state prison. The trio denied beating the victim Dorothy Westervelt and sought mitigation with character witness testimony.
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Sycamore
Leonard Rich
Stanley Hart
Emerson
Wilson
State Teachers College
DeKalb
Pontiac Reformatory
Dorothy Westervelt
William J. Folten
Pontiac
Joliet
Earch
Albania Adopts Borrowed Currency At Independence
Albania emerges sovereign without a mint or bank and relies on borrowed money. The new currency is a mix of gold and silver coins with foreign coins circulating, including Napoleonic era and English sovereigns. A wartime style system leans on borrowed notes printed in Albania and across Europe as the state steadies its monetary future.
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Durazto
Albania
Alpena
Bartasheen
Albaniz
Bonetes
Hearst Sues LA Paper for Libel Over Son Story
William Randolph Hearst files a libel suit in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking 125000 damages from Record Publishing Company for a June 10 story said to libel his son William R Hearst Jr. The article allegedly claimed he was named on police books in a criminal case, on a wild party, and for not returning a rented car.
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Los Angeles
Cal
William. Randolph Hearst
William R. ‘Hearst, Jr
Record Publishing Company
Angeles Recor
Ada Rodney J. Brink
Young Wearst
Lune 10
Police
Herbert Joyce
Hearst
Dortmund man murders family then self after spree
In Dortmund on June 17 a man named Blaschewski killed his wife and three children, then killed a boarder in his home. He encountered another woman, mother of seven, and killed her before taking his own life.
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Reigls ST. Wepax
Dortmund
INS
Herr ‘Blaschewski
Dortmuna Billeher
Warships Rescue 60 from Wrecked Liner
The 66 crew members of the British liner City of Naples were rescued by the Japanese cruiser Kasiga and the destroyer Urakaze after the vessel wrecked on a coral bar 30 miles from Miyako Island. They arrived safely at Yokohama this afternoon according to wireless reports.
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Tokio
INS
City of Naples
Miyako
Japan
Kasiga
Urakaze
Yokohama
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Masa
Waterloo
Sterling Company
Iowa
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Carson Pirie Scott
St. Louis
Big Eastern Mills
New York
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Hawthorne
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Wm. Anderson
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Violet
Darbrook Broad
Teely
Cretonne
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