Chinese silk merchants brief stop in Butte before New York trade meet
A delegation of ten Shanghai silk merchants led by C Y Chiu, secretary of the Chinese Silk Commission to America, arrived by special car aboard the Olympian to promote direct trade with U S merchants. Chiu, Purdue and Wisconsin business graduate, aims to boost Chinese exports and improve US-China commerce amid postwar market shifts. The group toured Butte briefly before continuing to New York for the Grand Central Palace silk convention this week.
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Shanghai
China
Butte
New York
Grand Central Palace
C. Y. Chiu
Chinese Silk Commission To
America
Olympian
Milwaukee
Chiu ‘Haw
United States
Purdue
Wisconsin Sniverellen
School of Business Administration
Chiu
Fina
Mr. Chiu
Europe
Tom
Conan Seal
Crowds greet Mayor of Cork in New York
Daniel O Callaghan Peter MacSwiney and their party followed by a procession carrying American and Sinn Fein flags as crowds welcomed them in New York City.
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Cork
New York
Daniel O'Callaghan
Peter MacSwiney
Cork lord mayor rejects home rule welcome tour
Daniel J. OCallaghan lord mayor of Cork arrived in New York after entering the United States at Newport News and was greeted by Irish republic sympathizers. He pressed Ireland would not accept home rule and urged freedom while a procession waved Sinn Fein and American flags. He planned to testify in Washington before the committee of 100. In Baltimore he expressed disappointment at not meeting Cardinal Gibbons due to illness.
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Daniel J. O'Callaghan
Cork
United States
Newport News
O'Callaghan
Peter MacSwiney
Harry Boland
Eamonn de Vilera
Gannon
Malone
Jersey City
Ireland
Pennsylvania
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Boland
Washington
Of 100
Baltimore
Daniel
Norfolk
Cardinal Gibbons
Conway Killed in Mine as Rock Falls on Youth
BillingsJanuary 9 Joseph Conway aged 21 was killed in a small coal mine near Hardin when a rock weighing about 1200 pounds fell from the roof crushing his head. His father J M Conway of Billings was walking beside him and was unhurt.
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Billings
Joseph Conway
Hardin
J. M. Conway
Cardinal O Connell Calls Aid for Starving Ireland
Boston January 9 Cardinal O Connell urged aid for starving Irish families in a letter read at a Friends of Irish Freedom meeting. He warned that thousands face starvation amid a cruel winter and urged immediate rescue to sustain the Irish people in their struggle for rights.
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Ireland
Boston
Mass
Cardinal O'Connell
Friends of Irish Freedom
Legion's Fight on Townley Upheld in Kansas Meeting
Salina post 62 members of the American Legion in Kansas endorsed actions opposing the non partisan league led by A C Townley. Resolutions condemn Townley for disloyal acts during World War I and praise Salina legionnaires for their orderly campaign to curb radical agitation. Also notes Samuel Gompers and 14 labor reps arriving in Mexico City for the Pan American Federation of Labor events.
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Salina
American Legion
League
Kansas
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Department of Kansas
A.C. ‘Townley
Congress
Ional
Enioy
Minnesota
Townley
Vicinity
A. C. Townley
Gompers
Mexico
Mexico City
Samuel Gompers
Pan-American Federation of Labor
Cardinal Gibbons Redirects Honor to Ruth Memorial
New York January 9. A proposed memorial to Babe Ruth, famed home run hitter, was urged by Cardinal Gibbons at a Knights of Columbus meeting. The plan suggests replacing St. Mary’s Industrial School in Baltimore, Ruth’s former school destroyed by fire, with the Ruth school for dependent boys. Brother Paul reported Baltimore citizens wanted a new cathedral for the cardinal, but he advised channeling funds to rebuild the school.
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Babe” Ruth
Supreme Board of Directors
Knights of Columbus
St. Mary's Industrial School of
Baltimore
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Ruth School
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Sirectore
Theitizens of
Big Battleships Anticuated Says Lord Rothermere
Viscount Rothermere, former secretary of state for the air forces, argues in the Sunday Pictorial that big battleships are obsolete. He contends navies no longer rely on capital ships and warns Britain cannot spend on outdated naval arms while the United States and Japan chase modern threats.
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London
Viscount_ Rothermere
Hate
Sunday Pictorial
Rochermere
United States
Japan
Becauve
Increase of insanity cases after prohibition in Cook County
Chicago Jan 9 Cases of insanity from alcoholism rose at Cook County Psychopathic Hospital after prohibition began Dr James Whitney Hall chair of the Insanity Commission reports a 33 percent rise in alcoholic cases in December 1920 compared with the previous wet December and a 16 percent rise in November The figures reflect early effects of the dry era in Cook County Illinois.
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Chicago
Cook County
Peace Year Output Of Coal Largest Ever In Nation
Washington January 9 The geological survey reported that construction in 1520 yielded 646000 tons the largest peace year output in the nation’s history The total production estimate covers other bituminous and anthracite war productions of 1917 at 652000000 tons and 1918 at 678000000 tons
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Washington
Thousand Northern Pacific Employees To Be Laid Off
About 1,000 workers including clerks stenographers station agents telegraphers freight handlers and baggage men will be laid off tomorrow according to John M Rapelje general manager of the Northern Pacific Railway. The announcement came tonight in St Paul.
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ST. Paul
Northern Pasine Railway
John M. Rapelje
Fever Witnesses Called at Cook Cabin Inquest
Sunday sessions by county officers at the Cook ranch seek more evidence for jurors in the Deer Lodge coroner’s inquest into Jack Cook’s brutal slaying near Gold Creek. The case features rival testimony from Ed Bond, Briggeman, and Knopf-related earlier proceedings, with forensic details including a hatchet, a bloody shovel, and other exhibits to be presented.
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Cook Cabin
Gold Creek
Jack Cook
Yelock
Cumming
John G
the Cook
Mr. Brown
Deer Lodge
Isham Rodgers
Anaconda
Joseph Briggeman
Hi Deer Lodge
Ed Bond
Joseph Knopf
Joseph Bri
Knopf
Mirageman
Fond
Eamond
Briggeman
Knopt
Peron
Jock Cook
Cook
Satel
Oboes' Union Attends Services in Trinity Church
In New York on January 9, hoboes union members gathered at Trinity Church on Broadway after services began. They entered the pews quietly, many marching from Bowery, singing along despite enforced idleness. Most marchers were young and well clad.
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Oboes’ Union
Trinity Church
New York
Servics
Broadway Streets
Mining man loser by scheme shocks Spokane crowd
James F Callahan Wallace mining man linked to Embezzlement scheme with Milholland and Hough collapses. Milholland dead by suicide after police raid. Hough confesses and faces arrest. Bonds forged to misappropriate Callahan funds used for New York exchange speculation. Noted inventor Rev Samuel Spahr Laws dies at 97.
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James F. Callahan
Wallace
Spokane
John B. Milholland
Milholland & Hough
Milholland
Jay R. Hough
Hough
Millonaire
Idaho
Callahan
Thorities
Lindsey
Mulholland
New York
Asheville
N. J
Samuel Spahr Lawa
Revolution Is Wanted in England Says Some Englishmen
London January 9 Clines labor member for Manchester former food controller and president of the National Federation of General Workers states that revolution is wanted by some Englishmen. He notes unrest and calls for action amid economic strain and political tension.
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London
Clines
Manchester
National ‘of General Workers
Montana Legislature Reconvenes After Rest
Montana lawmakers will reconvene at 2 o clock after a short adjournment. Notices for several bills including a measure to create a Game and Fish Commission will be given in the House. Three pay bills totaling 180000 for lawmakers and staff were passed by the Senate and House but await signatures from both houses before reaching the governor. Cardinal Gibbons leaves bed briefly in Baltimore. Miles City refinery foundation complete awaiting superstructure. Sir Lasarus Fletcher, scientist, dies in London.
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Game and Fish Commission
Helena
Montana
Pri
Govern Hor Dixon
Senate
House
Gibson
Story
State Sportsmen’s Association
Miles Miles City
Canrete Foundation
Miles City
Belek
Lewistown
Yellowstone River
London
Lasarus Fletcher
President elect to invite electors to inauguration
Marion Ohio January 9 The inauguration may include a unique ceremony with invitations to Republican electors Washington for the occasion Plans to invite all electors later modified The meeting would have legal significance as ballots are cast tomorrow in the field Harding faces questions on tax, appropriation, and government reorganization Senator Smoot notes potential economies and reforms by the president elect.
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Mi 6
Electoral College
Washington
China
Harding
Senator Smoot
Utah
Smoot
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