INSURGENT BALANCE OF POWER SHAPES CONGRESS
A 1925 newspaper column notes La Follette and fellow insurgents losing influence as Republicans bar four from conferences and committees. It predicts difficulty advancing the administration program this session, while Curtis, Watson, Cillett, and Tatler shape the next Senate leadership.
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la Follette
Brookhart
Frazier
Ladd
Coolidge
Republican Party
Progressive Party
Ife
De Valera Finishes 30 Day Belfast Arrest Sentence
Eamonn De Valera, held in Belfast for violating a public appearance warning, completed a 30 day sentence and left aboard a train bound for Dublin after being released. He had been under arrest for about a month.
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de Valera
London
Eamonn de Valera
Belfast
North Ireland
Dublin
Eight Die in Chicago Area Crossings Tragedy
Eight people die and two are seriously injured in two separate railroad crossing crashes near Chicago. In Aurora a Burlington mail train hits a car killing five from the same family and leaving one survivor near death. In Lombard three women, two Powers sisters and Mrs. Brewer, die when a Northwestern train strikes a family auto. Maj Brewer, a railroad engineer, likely fatally hurt. the cause remains undetermined as the driver crossed after a freight train had passed.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Aurora
Here
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Robert Naufman
Tharon Marshall
James Murray
Illian*Babcock
Wrotan
August Garbe
Tannot
Lotmbard
Chicag
Chicago & Northwestern
Sarah
Emily Powers
WM. Brewer
Lombard
W. M. Brewer
T. Powers
Hunter dies in Missouri river accidents near Salix
Sioux City Ia Nov 28 Clarence Nelson 32 a junior member of Nelson Son undertakers was killed in two hunting accidents on the Missouri river near Salix Ia late Wednesday evening. He was with a party of four that had hunted since Monday and was crossing the river when a gun fired hitting him under the right arm. He died within minutes before a doctor could be summoned.
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Sioux City
Clarence Nelson
Nelson & Son
Undertakers
Missouri River
Salix
Monnday
Grandchildren of Mrs Harding receive bulk of bequest
Jeanne and George Dewolfe, grandchildren of the late Mrs. Warren G. Harding, are left the bulk of her estate under a will filed for probate in Marion. The will creates a trust with specific bequests to friends and relatives, and the residue to the grandchildren, who will not receive it until age 28. Estimated total value not disclosed, but widely believed to exceed 400000. Jeanne is 14 and George is 12.
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Associated Press
Marion
Jeanne
George Dewolfe
Warren G. Harding
SoHani
Harding
Mutiny in Khartoum: Sudanese Troops Attack British Subjects
Reports from Cairo dated November 25 describe two platoons of the Eleventh Sudanese mutinying at Khartoum and assaulting a military hospital, killing one British subject and two Syrians as British forces fire on the mutineers. The Egyptian government orders withdrawal to avert further bloodshed, while British troops maintain control and Cairo remains calm amid arrests and diplomatic tension.
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Kitchener
Cairo
Ber
Associated Press
Caia
Egypt
Khartum
Lee Stack
Sirdar
Cing
Eieventh
al Azar University
J Burther
Zaghioul Pasha
Zaghloul Pasha
Nile
Zaghloulist
Mhe
Courier Delivery Instructions and Phone Contact
The Courier should be delivered to your name before 5 30. If the carrier fails to deliver by then call 5100 for a replacement copy. Phone calls must reach the office before 6 36 P M.
Iowa Older Boys Conference Opens In Des Moines
About 1 000 delegates from 60 cities gather at Bass High School under YMCA auspices for a three day Iowa State Older Boys Conference. State Y official Pred M. Hinson presides as Rev. Rh. B. L. Wile Hamson offers the invocation. sessions include lectures, group discussions, and a Saturday parade and banquet with Dr. F. E. Steiner as speaker.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Iowa State
Older Boys’ Conference
Wim
Marlow Wiliams
Boone
Feces
F. C. Koehler
Ford
Coburn Chaplin
Charles City
N. L. Mack
Victor N. Witter
Des Moines
George Bb. Meyer
Oskaloosa
C. . Welch
Rockwell City
O. W. Bell
Storm Lake
C. E. Gelman
Mason Cit
Edward Crowley
Davenport
TR. J. Corneil
E. A. Harris
Wintertr
AL A. Campbell
Ottumwa
Sonn Clinton
Cedar Rapids
F. C. Stevenson
Ames
Earl Saner
Sioux City
William Parsons
Q. Brown
M. M. Hichardson
Ohio
Hansen J. ‘Rawford
Leoni Smith
W. Alt Parks
Norman
the Baptist Church
Madison, Wis
God
I Tenderson
Des Moines Y. M
Dr. Henderson
J. O. Koehler
VMLA
Dairy Cattle Congress Automobile Hall
Dr FE
A. Steiner
Grinnell College
Arlington
Pairheid
Msth* Ie
Ohunwa
Dubuque
Mart Notge
Newton
Jxeckuk
Bonne
Marshall Paint
Town
Clinton
Strawher Grundy Center
Meserver
Nendence
Webster City
Bank Bolts Dock When Strangers Come to Village
Logansport Indiana November reports a peaceful village where a bank locked its doors and admitted only trusted customers after two strangers in an automobile with Ohio plates spent an hour loitering around the Converse bank. The bank reopened once they departed.
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Logansport
Ind
Converse
Heathy
Ohio
Thara
State Board Sets June 4 1925 Sewage Report Deadline
The state board of health fixed June 4 1925 as the deadline for detailed reports on sewage disposal plants for preventing pollution of the Cedar River. Cities Waterloo Cedar Rapids Vinton and Cedar Falls plus Rath Packing Singhir Packing and Penick & Ford will prepare investigations and engineer statements for installing treatment. Damaged text notes river towns along the stream will be addressed separately as they operate only part of the year.
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State Board of Health
Cajar River
A. LE. Gnugy
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Vinton
Cedar Falls
Rath Packing Company
Singhir Packing Company
Penick & Ford Company
Merport
France Open to Early Talks on War Debt
Paris sources say the French government is favorably inclined to reach an accord with the United States on France’s war debt at the earliest moment. Finance Minister Froeueh announced envoy Jules Justevand was in Washington to discuss with Secretary Metron, focusing on interest status and terms.
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Iorriot
United States
France
United Press
M. Elemental
Froeueh i
Finance
Hargett
Jules Justevand
Washington
Treasury Metron
Blow at Goose with Gun Butt Fatal to Youth
Chiea Cal Nov 28 Leroy Scott 17 died after attempting to strike a crippled goose with the butt of his gun. A misfire discharged both barrels. Scott was fatally wounded and died here last night.
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Chiea
Cal
Leroy Scott
Geass
Scott
Zeppelin to Start Weekly Air Mail to Europe
Berlin November 28. The Associated Press reports a weekly air mail service by Zeppelin between the United States and Europe will soon begin. Detailing plans, Dr. Hugo Eckener, head of the Zeppelin company and organizer of the ZR-3 trans-Atlantic flight, announced the move today.
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Associated Preasy
Berlin
United States
Europe
de. Higa Eckener
Zeppelin Company
Reed Resolution sidelines La Follette group from GOP conferences
Washington D C Nov 25 Sen Robert La Follette and three allies faced exclusion from future Republican conferences as the party moved to rebuke their stance. The Reed resolution passed by wide margins bars La Follette Brockhart Ladd and Frazier from being invited to conferences or considered for committee seats. The vote followed an earlier push by Senator Edge New Jersey and drew mixed responses from party leaders.
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Bridge
New Jersey
Washington
DP. C
Peneos
la Follette
Liehl
Hrookhart
Bragier
Srimtor Ladd
Harrold
Oklahoma
Edge
Spencer
Missouri
Harreld
Cox
Lodge
Jesse H. Metcalf
Rhode Island
Colt
Farmer labors caucus maintains order amid discord
In Washington on November 28 the Farmer labor party in the senate caucus operated without dissent as leader Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota exiled himself to order with proxy from Magnus Johnson. Shipsleath and Sohoson are the party’s only members in the upper house and Johnson has not yet returned.
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Washington, D. C
Farmer-labor Party
Senate
Ilenrile Shipstead
Minnesota
Magnus Johnson
Shipsleath and
Sohoson
Johnson
Ambassador dusse rand to stay in Washington for New Year greeting
Telegraph briefs report Jules dusse rand the Variss ambassador will remain in Washington after January and as dean of the diplomatic corps will present New Year congratulations to President Coolidge. Other notes mention a damaging east and south England storm sinking the Hartley off Partani Esthonia with 17 aboard and a Esthonian court sentencing 39 communists to life labor. The Prince of Wales called his U S visit a once in a lifetime thrill at the American Society Thanksgiving dinner.
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Variss
Jules Dusserand
Washington
Jan Liro
Coolidge
Furio
London
Prince of Wales
United States
American Society
Trapped Miners Feared Dead in Swansea Flooded Mine
Nine miners believed buried beyond recovery after waters swept into the Penian colliery at Penlan. Nineteen men were initially trapped. nine are thought to have escaped, leaving rescue efforts ongoing and authorities cautious about the fate of the others.
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Swansea
England
Penian
Tong Take Toll of Four Victims in Chinese War
In New York on November 28 the temporary truce held as four were killed in a flare of hostilities among rival Chinese factions. Ching Foo was shot in his Bronx laundry by two youth gunmen. two Chinese men died in Hartford. a fourth was found dead in New Bern South Carolina. shots also fired into a Schenectady Chinese restaurant.
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Lalipd Meese
New York
Diplo J i
Hip Sings
Bronx
Hartford
Cann
Bonus Fight Closed, Legion Head Says
Indianapolis Nov 28. The American Legion will make no effort at the coming session of Congress to secure more liberal terms for former service men under the adjusted compensation law. National commander John R Crain announced the bonus fight is a closed chapter. Revision of the law will be asked only if administration provisions need clarification as necessary.
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Indianapolis
Ind
American Legion
Congress
John R. Crain
Legion
Drain
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