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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Nathan W. Hendryx, 49, cage-maker of New Haven, Conn. (Hendryx bird homes) ; near Stony Creek, Conn.; by drowning off his yacht...
Obstacles to tax reduction, now under study, are the following extraordinary appropriations authorized by Congress for near-future expenditure...
...farm near Tecumseh, 40 miles from Oklahoma City, lived James Harris. With him one day last week was his brother-in-law, Oscar Lowery. Both under 40, they had been in the Army during the War. Suddenly they looked up to see four men, all armed, coming across the field to the house. . . . When the four men left, Harris and Lowery were dying and the Treasury Department in Washington had another dry shooting on its hands...
Died. Georges Landoy, editor of Matin of Antwerp, Belgium; in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Touring the U. S. with a party of European journalists (guests of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), waiting to see Old Faithful Geyser spout, he, too near the Castle Geyser just as it spouted, was fatally scalded...
Died. Col. Arthur E. Randle, 70, of Washington, D. C., business and civic leader; on a ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif.; by suicide...