Hungary Faces Red Terror After Bela Kun Regime
Budapest turmoil deepens as Bela Kun loyalists seize the capital disarming Bata Kan troops and arming the ragged proletariat. Aimed at moderate forces, an ultimatum to yield power signals a full scale struggle while Budapest endures hyperinflation and collapsing food prices as foreign powers debate intervention. Bel Kun lauds a triple Hungarian crisis of power, economy and morale amid mounting unrest.
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Gerlin
Budapest
Tageblatt
Saya
Bata Kan
Arma
Bela Kun
Hovor
Varga
Zeamuely
Foragn
Mosewalpary
Legder
Buda- Dest
Habrich
Council of Government
Entente
Red Army
Berlin
Marx
Danube
Tisza
Karolyi
Hungary
Americans Robbed Sailors Near Tampico Incident
A shipload of American sailors from the steamship Cheyenne was attacked in the Temes river near Tampico on July 6 while on official duty to bring in food for their vessel. The incident, bearing resemblance to 1914 Vera Cruz events, prompted urgent U S representations to the Carranza government and local Tampico authorities.
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Washington, D. C
Mexico
United States
Cheyenne
Temes River
Tampico
Vera Cruz
State Department
Carranza
Germany Plans Emergency Stamp on Securities to Halt Smuggling
Weimar authorities propose an emergency law to stamp and date all securities held in Germany to prevent escape abroad. Holders who sent securities to retreat countries would lose title for those bearing the emergency stamp.
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Weimar
Germany
Forest Fire Crisis Expands Across Northwest Front
Fire crews battle rapidly spreading forest blazes in northern Idaho western Montana and eastern Washington. Thousands of acres of cut over and virgin timber burn as new fires erupt hourly. Federal forest service mobilizes manpower and resources amid growing concern.
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Spokane
Wash
Idaho
Montana
Washington
Federal Forest Service
Global and domestic news flash from the era
Pacific fleet of about 175 ships ready to sail from Hampton Roads as navy officials announce the new force. President Wilson signs an executive order raising the guaranteed price for the 1920 wheat crop to 2.30 a bushel in Texas and Louisiana. Congressional actions include a House August 1 target for vacation and talks on the peace treaty. Secretary Baker approves a 16 division National Guard reorganization, while a mine sweeper is lost in the North Sea. Major strikes and political shifts unfold across Europe and Latin America, with bolshevik advances, British alien employment limits, and the Weimar assembly debates on nobility. Pershing arrives in London. mail service to Germany resumes. Italy faces strike unrest and legislative votes in Britain. The Argentine floods devastate livestock, and Mexico reports improved conditions after Bonillas’s visit to Washington.
Labor Strikes Hit Major Chicago Plants
Domestic four thousand employees at International Harvester McCormick works and Weber Steel in Chicago walk out. A wartime Prohibition bill amendment allowing 2 percent beer was voted down in the House, 128 to 8. Appropriations of at least 25 million dollars will be needed to rehabilitate and educate wounded service members, told to Washington by James P. Munroe of the federal board of vocational education. The Pacific fleet, per Admiral Rodman after a conference with Secretary Daniels, will sail for the Pacific coast July 19 and likely reach San Francisco August 15.
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International Harvester Company
McCormick Harvester Tractor
An¢É Twine Works
Weber Steel Company
Chicago
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
James P. Munroe
Federal
Board of Vocational Education
Rodman
Daniela
Pacific Coast
Hampton Heads
Wil
Sao Francisco
Irish Nationalists Boycott Victory Parade in London
A Dublin based Irish Nationalist association largely of Jute Johan Hedimond followers decided not to march in the London Victory parade. A Berlin crowd threatened Americans at a YMCA entertainment. Swiss cantons banned Sunday automobiling, Paris strikes settled reopening cafes and restaurants. A Paris roof collapse injured eighteen. a San Diego aviator died near Los Angeles. wealth tied to immigration stood at 24 million. Italian liners Caserta Verdi and Italia arrived with 8,000 aboard. War wage restorations in Calumet and Hecla and Mohawk Wolverine reported 15 percent higher for 12,500 workers. Sixteen to twenty-six men killed in maritime and air incidents. Vera Trepag nier convicted of manslaughter in Chicago. Riot-related injuries in Argo Illinois. Henry Ford misstated a claim on the Tribune suit, later recanting.
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Dublin
Johan Hedimond
London
Berlin
Iowa Town Grants 16000 Bonds For Sewer System
Sioux Rapids voters approve 16000 bond issue to finance a municipal sewerage system. Other Iowa items note a woman serving as Eldora Commercial club secretary, farm sales near Grundy Center, unusual birth with extra toes and fingers, and various county reports on banks, paving, and local officials.
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Fhe
Sioux Rapids
Hortense Porter
Eldora Commercial Club
Iowa
Richard Bockes
Grundy Center Fair Grounds
Connell Bluffs
Thallas
O'Brien
Melrose State Bank
Harold i, Beyer
Grimpll
Washington, D. C
United States Independent Telephone Association
5. Slater
Jess. Lorenzen
Vail
Orville E. McFarland
Peterson
Gherokes
County Board of Insanity
Hawarden
Shellsburg
Cedar Rapids
Vinton
Uppermill
Wapello
Neta Snook
Ames
Pacific
F. W. Snook
State Board of Health
Sergt
Arthur L.walters
Wadena
Fayette County
John J. Pershing
France
Ladies’ Home Journal
Douglas Company
Clark G. Anderson
Clinton, Daven-port & Muscatine Railway Company
Southern
JIN THE TIMELIGHT FOREST SERVICE UNDER ATTACK
Henry Gravess, forester, notes bills in Congress seeking to repeal the 1905 act moving national forests from Interior to Agriculture. The split aims to balance commercial forest use with park recreation, accusing the forest service of blocking park legislation and harming settlers and grazing space.
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Henry 8. Gravess Forester
Forest Service
Bureau
Department of Agriculture
National Forests
Congress
Interior Department
Agricultural Department
Nations Parke
National Park Service
The
United States
Women Must Work Together Says Mrs Lloyd George
Mrs. Lloyd George calls for united female effort in peacetime reconstruction. She argues war bonded women and now, facing social fabric repair, women must collaborate to apply wartime resolve to postwar challenges, drawing on shared experience to address national and international issues.
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Mrs. Lloyd George
Heiress Sues Over Income Tax Refund Claims
Mrs. Howard H. Spaulding Jr., once Catherine Barker, through guardian James B. Forgan sues Julius F. Smietunka over a $4,472.37 income tax refund and $10,000 damages. The 1610 suit asserts she earns no estate income till age twenty six, with trust returns reinvesting income as principal. Her father was John H. Barker, a Michigan City car maker.
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Howard H. Spaulding, Jr
Catherine Barker
James B. Forgan
Julius F. Smietunka
Internal Revenue
Chicago
Internal Revenue Office
First Trust and Savings Bank
Forgan
Spaulding
John H. Barker
Michigan City
Ind
Prince Ange Visits U S Industries on Royal Tour
Prince Ange, cousin of the King of Denmark, toured the United States with Capt. H Stymer to study military and industrial growth since the war. They visited Chicago meat canners and the Great Lakes region, then Detroit, Washington, and Pittsburgh, observing major industries along the way.
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Chicago
Prince Ange
Denmark
United States of America
Capt. H. Stymer
Great Lakes
Zwo
Ossing Club
Detroit
Washington
Pittsburgh
Motor Trucks to Aid Roads Distribution by War Department
The secretary of agriculture will allocate over 45 million dollars in surplus motor trucks to state highway departments under post office spending provisions. About 20 000 two to five ton trucks will be provided largely free, 11 000 new and 9 000 used, serviceable condition. States must request allocation through their highway departments and cover loading and freight costs.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Bureau of Public Roads
State Highway Departments
War Department
Post Office
Farmers Favor Good Roads in Maine Survey
Two hundred Maine farmers identified urgent needs for improvement in their districts. The dominant requirement was adequate highways with 85 percent calling for better roads, followed by demands for more farm laborers and improved school privileges.
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Maine
Roads as Dividend Payers for Farmers
A farmer gains through better roads by saving 52 hours yearly, valued at 6 a day, totaling 84.20 dollars. With a 1 per thousand road bond levy costing 10 dollars annually, the net saving becomes 31.20 dollars, implying an 812 percent return on investing 10 dollars in road improvements.
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Ie Agse
Texas to Build Highways in 1910 With $12 Million
ER M Hubbard of the state highway commission says Texas will have about $12 million for road construction in 1910. The amount includes roughly $10 million from the federal post office appropriation bills.
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Texas
ER. M. Hubbard
State Highway Commission
Federal Post Office
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Richard H. Buckfey
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McKeller
Tennessee
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Ygnacio Bonillas
Holland
Allied and Associated
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Boulevard St. Martin
Charles G. Maury
Fowler, Ind
Rockwell Field
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Caserta
Giuseppi Verdi
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Hecla
Mohawk Wolverine Mining Companies
Calumet, Mich
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Cardiff
Wales
William §. Jones
George Durane
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Vera Trepagnier
Paul &. Volland
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Corn Products Refining Company
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Mount Clemens
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