Injunction Sought Over Cable Seizure by Postmaster General
New York The Commercial Pacific Cable Company seeks a federal injunction against Postmaster Burleson to halt further control of 10 000 miles of cable from San Francisco to Japan China and the Philippines. It argues seizure violates international law and requires senate approval for any treaty or landings.
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Commercial Cable company
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San Francisco
Japan
China
Philippine Islands
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United States
senate
London
Commercial Pacific
Charles E. Hughes
William W. Cook
United Stated
George Creel
committee on public information
Paris
More Men Returning Home From War Forces
Washington General March announced three more organizations assigned by Gen Pershing for early convoy home. The 141st air craft machine gun battalion a antiaircraft sector headquarters and batteries Fifth Seventh Eighth and Ninth non aircraft. Total 37 officers and 989 men.
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Logan W Page Dead. Chitage
Logan Walter Page son of Walter Hines Page dies after a heart condition. Page, noted public figure, served in the nation’s road and travel agencies and held roles in public service.
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Logan Walter Page
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Red Cross Names Pacific Toast Manager Volunteer
John J. Miller of Los Angeles has been appointed Pacific toast manager of the American Red Cross as a full time volunteer, replacing Marshal Hale who has resigned.
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Washington
G. John J. Miller
Los Angeles
American Red Cross
Marshal Hale
Pershing’s War Record Outlines Key 1918 Campaigns
Secretary Baker released Pershing’s account of American leadership in World War I from departure to the armistice. The narrative covers Cantigny, Belleau Wood, the Marne defenses, St Mihiel, and the Meuse Argonne offensives, with divisions, tactics, and the evolution of U S military aviation and artillery support aided by France.
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Verdun
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Red Cross to Enlist Nation Ahead of Christmas Roll Call
Washington announces a nationwide Red Cross push in the week before Christmas to enroll members. The plan aims to base future funding on the annual roll call while expanding home service, wartime relief, and a growing peace program with permanent national leadership and robust local chapters.
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Honery
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Red Cross
Red Cross home
Europe
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natonal organization
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Social rank in Germany and American views on class
Richard Lieber laments rigid German class barriers while praising American opportunities. The German Democracy Bulletin notes how even poor immigrants remain confined to a narrowed social layer, despite loyalties to two nations. Walter Damrosch’s remark contrasts two identities, hinting at dual citizenship tensions and cultural loyalty.
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Richard Lieber
De mocracy
Ameria
Germany
Potsdam
elyillan
Mfe
United States
Walter Dammosch
America
Walter Damrosch
Landgrave of
Lincoln’s Plain Power in English Rhetoric
A historical appraisal credits Abraham Lincoln with unmatched clarity and brevity in English prose. It contrasts his simple, luminous sentences with contemporaries and cites praise from Emerson and other luminaries. The Gettysburg Address is lauded as peerless among great utterances.
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Abraham Lincoln
Wrench Academy
Linerson
Lowell
Everett
Beeehyer
Ingursoll
Mogleim
Emerson
Censors Cite Courage In France Letter From Soldier Son
A Chicago father received a letter from his son Corporal Henry H Towsley with vivid feelings of fear during shell fire in France. He describes nerves and stomach tremors, then reveals the censor notes the son chose to go into No Man's Land to rescue a wounded captain.
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William B. Towsley
Chicago
France
Myron H. Towsley
United States field artilery
Ientenant
No Man's Land
Mean Feeling Battle Sketch From an Early Morning Skirmish
A colored unk moves up to claim a piece in a dawn battle. A private asks about bodies, and a sergeant replies with grim humor about earning their keep. A valley voice and rough talk frame the tense scene as daylight breaks. The Stars and Stripes is referenced.
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Quite So Washington at Valley Forge Pre sents a Hertile Figure
Quite So compares Washington at Valley Forge with Kaiser, noting a starkly different portrayal in a Loulevista Courier Journal item. The fragment hints at a contested historical characterization and editorial tone.
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Valley Forge
Kaiser
Loulevista Courier-Journal
Iowa State News Late Incidents and Town Notes
Snowfall in Des Moines tops seven inches the heaviest since 1893. Mrs. Whitney marks her 80th birthday, Camp Dodge unit moves to Camp Grant, a farmer keeps a hob by herd, Webster City celebrates Thanksgiving amid restrictions, a deserter attempts escape on a moving train. Tama hosts Czechoslovak army events, Muscatine closes schools due to flu, Chariton opposes higher lighting rates, Cedar Falls starts a Women's Care Contest, Des Moines eyed as a permanent camp center, Cudahy brings a new fursineery to Tama, sugar rations and recordkeeping planned, even a dead man can win votes, gubernatorial recounts and the separate envelope rule, Iowa aids overseas food supply, and price changes for coffee and state institutions.
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Frank EH. Whitney
Atlantic
Whitney
tonoe County
Fourteenth Infantry
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Camp Urant
Rockford
Jonas Neffert
Adair
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Ile
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Webster
Ki. G. Gane
St. Charles county
Chariton and
court house
Southern Iowa Electric Company
American Railway Express Company
Cedar Falls
Des Moines
United States
Ralph Bolton
Greater
Iowa
Java
D.F. Kirby
Sioux City
Guy W. Gillette
Cherokee
Kirby
Shaw
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Harding
county board of supervisors
secratary
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Shropshire
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