Indiana coal, sewage plans, and grain as statewide notes
Indiana leaders discuss a state coal commission to regulate the industry while operators resist fixed prices. East Chicago moves toward a lakefront sewage treatment plan and regional cooperation. Wheat sowing in Bartholomew County is light with uncertain profits, and potato yields in central Indiana look fair but below peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cannelton
East Chicago
Indiana
Indiana Arbor
Calumet District
Columbus
Bartholomew County
Tris
Noblesville
Alexandria
Herman Vrarris
Board of Public Works
Card of Public Works
Lafayette
Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station
Indiana State Poultry Association
A. R. Fischel
Hope
Indianapolis
Terre Haute, Indiana & Feastern Traction Company
Public Service Commission
Fort Wayne
A. G. Morris
Thelma
Mary Bennett
Garrett
Richmond
Wayne County
Evansville
Kratz‘ville
Yairmount
Grant County
Notices and Inventions Reported in Brief From Various Fields
Reports describe a rail conductors punch counter, an incubator with glass bell and lamp heat, Australian flax tests with government support, snuff haying before tobacco in Europe, 100 foot Fiji canoes, peat for diesel engines, a new headlamp rheostat, chicken forcible feeding machinery, and the Siamese king’s multilingual writings in English French German Siamese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Indies
Europe
Fiji
Denmark
King of
Siam
Woman Day Agent Out in California Prohibition Case
Mrs Gladys Wimball Warburton acting United States prohibition enforcement officer for the California district was relieved of her position by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Evidence was presented to a federal grand jury in San Francisco showing a conspiracy of former whisky brokers and others to withdraw liquor stocks from bonded warehouses. Warburton denied knowledge of such operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Wimball Warburton
United States Prohibition Enforcement
California
Internal Revenue
Williams
Mascot George Keller Leads Columbia to Narrow Victory
Columbia football defeated New York University 14 to 97 with George Keller dressed as a lion serving as the team mascot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Keller
Columbia
New York University
United States Faces 12 Billion Allied War Loan Debts
Washington notes that allied nations will owe the United States nearly 12 billion dollars for war loans as interest payments resume in 1922. Negotiations continue with Great Britain, France and others to base repayment on a new system with interest in arrears added to principal. Cuba and Russia show partial payments. most others paused in 1919 amid exchange concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Great Britain
France
United States Treasury
Cuba
Russia
Treasury Department
America’s Coffee Use Across Nations and The Plant Life
A National Geographic bulletin notes vast coffee consumption worldwide before World War I and into 1919 20. It cites Brazil as the main producer with Europe and North America as major consumers, Holland as the top per capita drinker, and contrasts tea use. It also describes the coffee plant growth, flowering, and processing of the cherry seeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
National Geographic Society
United States
Brazil
Europe
North America
Holland
Germany
Austria-Hungary
United Kingdom
United Wingdom
Canada
Commere
Three US Battlecruisers Laid Down in One Day
Secretary Daniels announced the unprecedented event of keel laid for three U S battle cruisers in a few hours. Ships No. 38 the Saratoga and No. 5 Constitution and No. 6 United States are under construction at Camden New Jersey and Philadelphia respectively, with related work on Constellation Ranger and Lexington underway at Newport News Bethlehem Fore River. The Constitution, famous for defeating Guerriero in 1812, inspired Holmes 1532 poem Old Ironsides and remains a landmark in US naval history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Daniels
New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Camden
N. J
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Guerriero
United States Navy
Boston Navy Yard
Holmes
Farmers Must Be Given Immediate Help, Official ABAF Statement
The American Farm Bureau Federation urges immediate aid for farmers in transport, finance, and labor. It calls for preferential transport, higher farm profits, elimination of middlemen, rural bank credits, protection from wildcat investments, wage equalization, immigration to supply labor, and enhanced farm life attractions to deter urban migration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Farm Bureau Federation
America
Jdea
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Indiana News
Valparaiso
Porter County
Chicago
Employment Managers’ Association
Inland Steel Company
Jeffersonville
Clark County
Kentucky
Shelby
Utica
Charlestown
Gary
Lake County
Crown Point
Carter
Allen Rogers
Charlotte Mitchell
George Wright
Stargrey Mallory
Gse
South Bend
Willis Burnham
Doles
New Jersey
Turnham
St. Joseph Reuit
Tie
Goshen
Albert S. Menaugh
Cashen
Elkhart
Menaugh
Michigan City
Tierbert C. Grannahan
State Reformatory
San Pierre
McGrannahan
Greencastle
Special Fuel and Food Commission
Marion County
Independent Republican Party
James R. Norrell
Connersville
Fayette County
FE. C. Rumpler
Indiana Federation of Clubs
Anderson
State Commission
Washington, D. C
John L. Fraley
Muncie
Frank D. Maimbaugh
Princeton
Gibson County
Milton
Thomas Lindsay
Tre
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
United States Naval Seaplane
San Diego
Pacific Coast
J. Harry Dowling
Dayton
Ohio
Japan
The
Board of Elections
Maud Mullers
Washington
Uncle Sam
Conduit
Postscripts
Milton Voight
Pennsylvania
South Bethlehem
Voight
Italy
Belgium
Constellation
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
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