Poland Crisis and Syria Settlement Dominate Week
The week featured Soviet Polish tensions with armistice talks and Polish resistance, Lloyd George condemning Poland, and aid to Warsaw and Wrangel. In Syria King Feisal yielded to Gouraud’s terms allowing French occupation, while Thrace and Ireland saw new fighting.
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Watkins
Harding
Cox
Wilson
League
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Poland
League of Nations
Baron Wrangel
France
Beirut
Feisal
Gouraud
Eisal
Great Britain
Damascus
Anatolia
Kemal Pasha
Thrace
Bulgaria
Jafar Tayar
Adrianople
Turkey
June Offering of a Fairy Godmother Love Plan
Aunt Blanca recalls a string of failed June offerings to help others while Carlotta schemes a grand gift for her fiancé Rolf. In the end Blanca confesses she canceled the studio surprise, proposing a future wedding bungalow instead and leaving the couple to choose together.
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Blanca
Carlotta
Clemmer
McNulty
Aunt Blanca
Rolf
Rolf Basset
Sally Lunn
Gui de Faur and the French Bar in the Sixteenth Century
Gui de Faur seigneur de Pibrac, famed French jurist of the sixteenth century, died May 27, 1584. He defended French crown interests at the council of Trent and authored Moral Quatrains for family instruction. Despite amiable character, he was moved to write an apology for the St Bartholomew’s massacre amid religious fanaticism.
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Gui de Faur
Bartholomew
Bleaching Flour Sacks to Remove Lettering
Instructions describe whitening cotton flour sacks by washing, then rinsing in a 2 percent bleaching powder solution in soft water. If the solution is too strong the fabric may be damaged, if too weak letters remain. repeat the process, removing a portion at a time.
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Cox
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wilson
White House
League of Nations
America
Democratic National Committee
Columbus
Edmund H. Moore
Moore
George White
Marietta
Homer
Cummings
White
San Francisco
Bill's Gloves Reveal a Wife's Ills and Household Labor
A humorous Lewiston Journal piece recounts Bill covering chores as his wife lies ill. His hands redden from washing, cooking, and cleaning while she works, prompting a poke at his vanity and curiosity about why his gloves color so noticeably.
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Bill
Joe
Missuss
Sam
Lewiston Journal
Boil Shaving Brushes to Prevent Anthrax Scam
A historical warning urges boiling new shaving brushes or soaking them in a 10 percent formaldehyde solution at 110 degrees to prevent anthrax. It notes risk rose after 1914 when hair came from Russia and China, reporting twenty traced cases and a high fatality rate, while stressing low individual susceptibility.
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France
Germany
Russia
China
Pacific Ocean
Roundabout Way Home for Czecho Slovakmen and Wives
Four thousand Czecho Slovakian men and their Russian wives, from Siberia to France, landed at Norfolk Virginia to await ship repairs. They cannot return via Russia, so they travel a roundabout route. Red Cross workers and Y M C A secretaries in France and Russia cared for the children during the voyage.
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Siberia
France
Norfolk
Russia
Red Cross
Y. M
Woman Recounts Finding Him in Her Pew
The plainly dressed woman recalls the moment she discovered him in her church pew. Her friend notes the scene with a remark about the seat of the scornful.
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David
Boston Transcript
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