Wilsons Message to Congress Demands Democratic Faith to End World Confusion
President Wilson in his annual message calls on Congress to uphold the Lincoln maxim right makes might, argue democracy as world order, and urge budget reform, tax simplification, veteran care, and Armenia aid while urging swift action on tariffs and storage rules. He frames the US as world democracy leader facing postwar recovery and fiscal challenges.
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Armenia
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Grovernment
Avinanta
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Iylands
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Imagination Large
A fragmentary literary line recalls a poetic moment about beauty and memory, set within a playful dialogue that references a masked bush and intimate exchange. The source presents a vignette fonted as a Sun Dial reflection on perception and affection.
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Masked Bush
Sun Dial
The Usual Expectation of a Humble Artist in Vienna
A fragment describes a wealthy ex-owner expecting a chosen artist to speak of him in Vienna. The voice hints at consequences and money influencing the scene, implying tension between art and fortune. The language is distorted, reflecting OCR-era newspaper style and oblique satire.
Effects of Civilization on Man and Hand-Kissing Customs
A historical piece argues civilization shapes the human body and mind toward mental tasks over brute strength, noting a shrinking subset of exceptionally physical individuals. It cites early church practices of ministerial hand kissing and recalls Cortez entering a Mexican town where people saluted by kneeling, touching the earth, and lifting hands to the mouth.
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Atheneas
Cortez
League considers removing Article Ten from covenant
Geneva reports that an amendment to the League of Nations covenant removing Article 10 was introduced by Canadian Justice Minister Charles Doherty. The assembly may send the proposal to the committee on amendments as Argentina withdraws from the session while discussing Vorarlberg’s possible Swiss joining.
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Geneva
Switzerland
League of Nations
Assembly of the League
Charles J. Doherty
Honario Phyrredon
Paul Humanno
League Assembly
Giuseppe Motta
Austria
Vorarlberg
M. Motta
League
League of Nations Assembly
Eric Drummond
Commission For
Wilson
Council of the League
Mints Establish Record Coin Output for Fiscal Year
Washington reports the mints set a record in coinage with 510,000,000 coins produced last year, a 440 percent rise from 1915. More than 512,500,000 of the total were 1 cent pieces under Director RKny Baker.
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Washington
Rkny Baker
Indictments and moonshine raids reported in multiple locales
In New York two indictments were issued by the extraordinary grand jury linked to the building trust investigation targeting John A. Philbrick and Joseph Penny. In Lexington nine moonshiners were captured with reports that others were killed or wounded in Bell county aftermath. Paris reports rumors Constantine may head to Smyrna to command forces, amid foreign dispatch chatter.
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New York
Building Trust
John A. Philbrick
Masons
Joseph Penny
Builders Supply Bureau
Kentucky
Lexington
Bell County
Constantine
Paris
Athens
Foreign Office
Smyrna
Sig
Yellow fever fight shows progress with vaccine promise
Rockefeller Foundation says yellow fever eradication is feasible with global mobilization and sanitation. Dr George B. Vincent notes most progress in outbreak control, cites Naguchi vaccine tests, and warns 1921 campaign will be pivotal as ports in Mexico report cases and quarantine remains in place.
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Vincent
Idyeo Naguchi
Rockefeller Institute
Mexico
United States
Public Health Service
Tuxpam
Vera
Cruz
Progreso
Yucatan
Cyclops Mystery Explanation Links Loss to German Vessel Waiblingen
A Washington Pathfinder column quotes a reader claim that the navy collier Cyclops with 298 aboard sank March 4 1918 after being attacked by the German yacht cruiser Waiblingen disguised as an American merchantman. The Waiblingen allegedly carried gas shells to aid submarines, triggering a poisonous cloud after the explosion. The first officer Merbert Wichman is said to have died in Houston March 20. No navy official comments.
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Washington
the Pathfinder
Bridgetown
Barbados
New York
United States
Waiblingen
State of Maine
Pola
Austria
Atlantic
Walblingen
Caribbean Sea
Merbert Wichman
Texas
Houston
Tex
Farmers National Council seeks farmers support for policy program
The council asks farm groups to back a platform including government control of packing houses and railroads, public ownership with board appointments, a short term credit system, expanded land bank, limited rate spreads, wealth taxes, repeal of the Jones act, public ship ownership, and resource development for public service. George P. Hampton urges support to leaders of the American Farm Bureau Federation National Grange National Farmers Union and others.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Farmers’ National Council
George P. Hampton
Farmers’ Natonal Council
J. R. Howard
American Farm Bureau Federation
S. J. Lowell
National Grange
C. S. Barrett
National Farmers’ Union
Milo D. Campbell
National Milk Producers’ Association
W. J. Drummond
International Farm Congress
O. G. Smith
Partners National Congress
Benefactor Halo for King Charles II
Western Canadian press dispatches claim drought and prohibition measures will shape policy as the Hudson Bay Company charter, granted by Charles II in 1670, allegedly allows distilling at fur trading posts. Travelers say Canada will stay wet for 98 years and 10 months, though the 1870 transfer of rights to Canada altered this.
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Dominion
Northwest
Western Canada
Hudson Bay
Vancouver
Judson’s Bay Company
Charles II
Gentlemen Adventurers
Tllence
London
British Empire
H, B.C
Almple Trading Compa Pered
Imperial
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