Memorial hospital proposed in Montgomery County
Petitions circulated to the Montgomery county board of commissioners request a new memorial hospital costing 150000 to honor World War dead. A petition for a memorial tablet in the county courthouse was withdrawn and a hospital petition circulated due to urgent need, aligning with Byron Cox post American Legion.
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Crawfordsville
Montgomery County
Board of County Commissioners
Byron Cox Post
American Legion
Indianapolis
State Highway Commission
John A. Riggs
United States Department of Agriculture
Highway Commission
Riggs
Shelbyville
Shelby County
Indiana Rural School
L. N. Hines
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Eli Stansbury
Indiana
Helen Benbridge
Terre Haute
Woman’s Franchise League of Indiana
Benbridge
State Suffrage Organization
Columbus
Bartholomew County
Jackson
Decatur
Ohio
Switzerland
Ripley
Dearborn
Jennings
Jefferson
Bartholomew
Ohe
Charles J. Orbison
Prohibition
Orbison
State Board of Agriculture
John Isenbarger
North Manchester
Warren T. McCray
Kentland
Isenbarger
McCray
Valparaiso
Hurlburt
Chicago Milk Producers’ Association
Gary
Chicago
Common Council
Senate Kills Peage Treaty in 49 to 35 Vote
Washington March 22 the senate rejected the peace treaty with Germany and sent it back to the White House. The roll call was 49 to 35 short of the two thirds needed for ratification. A Lodge resolution to notify the president that ratification cannot be achieved was adopted 47 to 37. Senators Knox Hitchcock Lenroot and Lodge commented on the decision as the chamber prepared to move to a peace with Germany resolution.
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Indianapolis
Hoosierdam
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Floyd County
Corydon Turnpike
New Albany
Lanesville
New Albany, Lanesville & Corydon Turnpike Company
Kendallville
W. C. Allman
Federation of Farmers
Central Union Telephone Company
Public Service Commission
Carl J. Fletcher
Knox County Coal Operators’ Association
United States
Fletcher
Evansville
Samuel L. May
Chamber of Commerce
James P. Goodrich
Indiana University
Hines
Aurora
Amos N. Cherting
Ohio
Indiana
Aurora Loose Leaf Tobacco Warehouse Company
Noblesville
Hamilton County
Goodrich
Carrie Chapman Catt
National League of Woman Voters
Edward IV. Edwards
Ed Jackson
South Bend
St. Joseph County
Lafayette
Washington
Senate
Germany
White House
League of Nations
Paris
Wilson
Lodge
Secretary
Congress
Knox
House
Joseph P. Tumulty
Tumulty
Senator Lodge
Foreign Relations Committee
Hitchecock
Ashurst
Beckham
Chamberlain
Cumming
Hitchcock
Friends of
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Watson
Robinson
Mwo
Sestion
Chamber
Denver Mint Employee Hides Gold in Artificial Leg
Orville Harrington, a long trusted United States mint employee, is jailed in Denver on theft charges after about 81,400 dollars in gold bullion was recovered. He allegedly hid loot in a cement wall hole and later under a back yard walk, using his hollow artificial leg as a carrier. Authorities traced the scheme through nightly concealment and searches.
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Denver
Colo
United States Mint
Orville Harrington
Mint
Harrington
Warrington
Secret Service
University Park
Thomas Annear
The
Vote on the Peace Treaty Fails in Senate Roll Call
Washington March 22 The roll call shows the treaty failed passage in the Senate with 49 voting for and 35 against. Twelve senators were paired with nine Republicans and three Democrats.
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Comer
Culberson
Dial
Gay
Glass
Harris
Harrison
Johnson
S. C
Hitchcock
Kirby
McKellar
Overman
Reed
Robinson
Sheppard
Shields
Simmons
Smith
Stanley
Swanson
Thomas
Underwood
Williams
Newberry
McCumber
Fall
Nelson
Harding
Penrose
Cummins
Townsend
Poindexter
Gerry
Jones
N. M
Ariz
Camera for Finger Prints
A camera designed for reproducing fingerprints and signatures. It operates almost automatically and includes lighting for illumination. The lens remains in sharp focus against the surface with marks, enabling clear reproductions for identification purposes.
China to complete longest modern highway inside six months
Plans to complete the Peking to Tientsin road within six months if current plans stay on track. The route covers about eighty miles, with the Tungchow section of 13 miles completed in 1917. A $150000 loan from Banque Industrielle de Chine backs the Tungchow to Tientsin segment.
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China
Peking
Tientsin
Tungchow
Peking Motor Club
Banque ‘Industrielle de Chine
Polias wreck lifeboat tragedy near Rockland Maine
The Polias stranding near Rockland Maine left the first mate engineer and eight seamen missing after abandoning the wreck. Coast guard crews believe the lifeboat swamped in heavy seas while rescuing the rest of the crew. The captain and 28 others were saved and taken to the cutter Acushnet.
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Rockland
Polias
Burnt Island
Lane urges leaner civil service in parting report
Franklin K. Lane, retiring interior secretary after twenty plus years in public life, criticizes Washington for overcomplex bureaus and too many small roles. He advocates fewer men of larger capacity, quicker promotion or discharge, and higher salaries for top officers to empower decisive policy leadership.
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Weeedeee Washington
Civil Service
Franklin K. Lane
Interior
Washington
Inland waterways urged for national development
G A Tomlinson director of inland waterways of the railroad administration urged thorough experiments in waterways development. The 1919 report covers the New York barge canal Delaware and Raritan lower Mississippi Warrior river and Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Local tonnage moved on the lower Mississippi totaled 96 325 tons with earnings 3 54 per ton. Service on the Warrior river began December 1918 hauling 124 648 tons by Oct 31 1919.
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G. A. Tomlinson
Division of Inland Waterways
The
Railroad Administration
Hines
Mr. Tomlinson
New York Barge Canal
Delaware and Raritan Canal
Lower
Mississippi
St. Louis
New Orleans
Warrior River
Alabama
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Tomlinson
Mississippi River
Mobile
Sees Wild Rice as Coming Food Crop in America
Dr Melvin R Gilmore of the North Dakota Historical Society advocates wild rice or mock oats as a major American food crop. He notes its suitability to fresh water, self-sowing nature, and historic value to Native peoples, with interest from the biological survey for waterfowl food.
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America
Melvin R. Gilmore
North Dakota Historical Society
Gilmore
Minnesota Lake
Biological Survey
Washington
Lincoln's Lost Speech on Washington Birthday Anniversary
The excerpt discusses Abraham Lincoln's 1842 Springfield address about George Washington and a recent Associated Press note labeling it a lost speech. It notes Rep Smith of Idaho's reading in the House and debates over including the passage in the Record, concluding the speech remains part of the permanent record.
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Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Ill
Associated Press
Lincoln
Sangamon Journal
Representative Smith
Idaho
Smith
Lucien Alexander
Philadelphia
Hay
Nicolay
Ida Tarbell
Linco
Nicolay and Hay
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Salem
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Pittman
Ransdell
Trammell
Walsh
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Wolcott
Rep
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Denver Mint
Ball
Calder
Capper
Colt
Curtis
Dillingham
Edge
Elkins
Frelinghuysen
Hale
Wash
Kellogg
Kenyon
Keyes
Lemroot
Mel Lean
McNary
New
Page
Phipps
Smoot
Spencer
Sterling
Sutherland
Wadsworth
Warren
Gore
Myers
Owen
Pomerone
Mass
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