Deserter Draft Records Cited by War Department
Washington reports less than one percent of more than 24 million draft registrants were desertions. The War Department plans to publish deserters and asks state and local officials and agencies to aid in apprehension. About 498,003 records were forwarded. 16,000 cases disposed. Rewards for deserter apprehension suspended pending cost concerns. An Indian, a Choctaw from Oklahoma, was executed in Arkansas for murder after a May crime, smiling at the judge.
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Washington
D. C
War Department
Department of Justice
Little Rock
Ark
Oklahoma
C. C. Smith
Springdale
Tobay
Washington County
Mexican expedition lands at Puerto Isabel to invade Lower California
General Galles states fifteen hundred troops will debark at Puerto Isabel Sonora before marching into Lower California to topple Governor Bateban Cantu. The minister predicts Cantu will surrender without a fight upon seeing the expedition’s strength.
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Lower California
Mexico City
Bateban Cantu
Puerto Isabel
Sonora
Galles
Carload of Liquor Seized in Chicago Realignment of Prohibition Era Crime
Federal officials seized a Kentucky liquor shipment valued at 175000 concealed under a dummy address and shipped on a forged permit in Chicago. Two men were arrested and held to the grand jury in bonds of 10000.
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Chicago
Kentucky
Education Board Purchases Houses near Evanston Schools
The Evanston board of education announced it purchased two large houses near the Evanston schools to be rented to Leach at the lowest possible prices. Ground floors will serve as reception parlors and classrooms.
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Evanston
Board of Education
Alleged Greek Plot Aims to Restore Ex King Constantine
Estia reports a two month plan to restore ex king Constantine and oust Premier Venizelos. The plot allegedly hatched in Zurich and Athens and includes actions to overturn the government. In New Orleans gambling houses closed as Higgins law takes effect at midnight with strict enforcement.
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Greece
Athens
Estia
Detalia
Constantine
Venizelos
Zurich
Switzerland
New Orleans
Disorderly aftermaths in Greece and Paris linked plots
Reports from Athens describe fallout after an attempted assassination of Premier Venizelos in Paris. Opponents’ newspapers offices and former premier Skouloudis house were wrecked and many opposition leaders were arrested. In Iowa, Mrs. Clare Brownlee swam Arnold’s Park Bay, over half a mile, in twenty minutes to celebrate her fiftieth birthday.
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Greece
Athens
Arnold’s Bay
Arnold's Park
Clare Brownlee
Mallard
Arnold's Park Bay
Happenings of the World in Brief
Withdrawal of all Russian forces from Poland and allied troops from ethnographic Russia is proposed by President Wilson as a settlement of the Russo Polish war. Permission to raise express rates to absorb the wage award of the railroad labor board was asked by the American Railway Express Company. Sugar imports exceed exports by over 6 billion pounds in fiscal 1920. New Hampshire population is 443,084 with 2.9 percent ten year growth. An increase of 12.5 percent in express rates was authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Brig Gen W D Conner named chief of transportation and head of coastwise waterways service, succeeding Brig Gen Frank T Finis.
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Poland
Russia
Wilson
Colby
Iabor Board
Chicago
Interstate Commerce
Washington
American’ Ratl Why Express Company
W. D. Conner
Frank T. Filnes
Frank Comerford
Alles
Siberlg
Germany
Bkrzynski
von der Goltz
Daily Mail
London
Warsaw
Doctor Ebert
Paris
Europe
Foch
Belgium
France
Regste
Upper Silesia
Po- Me
Ruth forced to retire after knee dislocation at Cleveland
Babe Ruth, famed home run hitter for the New York Americans, was compelled to retire from a game in Cleveland Ohio after dislocating his knee while sliding into second base. Ben Ahearn of the Tiiais Athletic club, holder of the world record in the hop and jump, was dismissed from the American Olympic team at Antwerp for insubordination.
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Babe” Ruth
New York Americans
Cleveland
Ben Ahearn
Tiiais Athletic Club
Olympic Tean
Antwerp
Roosevelt Opens National Campaign in Chicago Auditorium
President Roosevelt opened the national campaign at Chicago’s Auditorium Theater on Wednesday night. Parley P. Christensen, nominee of the Farmer-Labor party, issued a statement from New York denying the party is controlled by the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Branklin D. Roosevelt
Auditorium Theater
Chicago
Parley P. Christensen
Farmer-Labor Party
New York
Industrial Workers of the World
Ree
Financial fraud cases tied to Ponzi era in Boston
Domestic Brightwell Meyers and Myers of Old Colony Foreign Exchange in Boston were arrested on conspiracy to defraud charges as federal probes into Ponzi linked schemes widen. Ponzi's Securities Exchange audits show $7 million liabilities. Ponzi himself has been arrested.
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Charles S. Brightwell
Raymond Meyers
Charles C. Myers
Old Colony Foreign Exchange Company
Boston
Securites Texchange Company
Charles Ponzi
Securities Exchange Company
Ponzt
Bean day revival urged at Geneva in Iowa state notes
South Iowa reports show oats and wheat heavy this season. Jack Willems, once rumored dead, visits his Boone mother. A photo wreck injures a D. Ryan daughter. Ralph Skahlil dies in Cascade from a wall impact. Mrs. Swob joins husband after a New York secret marriage. Northern Iowa foresees its largest regional harvest. The Reliable Credit Clothing Co. in Buffalo fined for Lever Act violation. Mrs. George Dostal dies in New York. Burlington halts city heat. company out of business. Several accidents and deaths occur across Iowa, including sleepwalker injury, an army worm sighting, and a fatal haymow fire near Traer.
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Geneva
Iowa
Jack Willems
South Dakota
Boone
D. F. Anderson
D. Ryan
North Liberty
Ralph Skahlil
Frank Stahlil
Cascade
Anthony Swob
Canterville
New York
Swob
Cotu
Reliable Credit Clothing Company of
Buffalo
United States District Court
George Dostal
Town City
Burington
Burlington Steam Supply Company
Ronin Perkins
RM. Perkins
Iowa University
L. F. Root
Illinois Central
Marcus
Root
Coffman
Leroy Andrews
Marshalltown
Andrewa
R. Ales
Henry County
Woodbury County
Concord
Grant
Charles Hannon
Maquoketa
W. J. Quinlan
Clinton
Dallas Center Farm
Minburn
Wilhemina Huebner
Huebner
Bertha, Winter
Emma Zickau
Marie Judd
Eleanor Judd
Will Logan
Ford
WiNard Torkelson
Adolph Christensen
Hayfield
William Torkelson
Lawrence Torkelson
Belmond
Hancock County
Grand Jury
Torkelson
Problems Facing Stricken World In Troubled Era
A survey of global turmoil shows danger as Teuton ideals push to exploit Russia while people fear the Allies seek a return of the old regime. Leaders contend with shifting loyalties and wartime strain amid rising political tensions across Europe and beyond.
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Teuton
Russia
Germany and Russia. the danger to world peace
Frank Comerford argues Allied meddling worsened Russian distrust of the Allies, praises German economic revival, and warns that Prussian influence and German exploitation threaten Europe. He claims Japan expands in Siberia, Shantung is central to China, and a unified policy toward Russia is essential to restore industrial peace and curb Bolshevism.
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Poland
Europe
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Wneland
France
England
Japan
Siberia
Rovanoff
Seminoff
Kalminoff
Kolchak
Ural Mountins
Liberia
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Paris
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Red” Army
Petlura
Dentkine
Shantung
America
Vivant
Balfour
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Ching
Wilson
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Yudenich
Pettura
Denikine
Hag
Prussia
Rusate
Five Minute Chats About Our Presidents
James Morgan outlines early lives and careers of James K Polk and Zachary Taylor. Polk rising from Tennessee legislature to president, his campaigns and the 1844 election. Taylor, a soldier turned president, his Indian and Mexican War service and path to the White House.
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James Knox Polk
Mecklenburg County
Ngc
Tennessee
Congress
Oregon
Polk
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