Fall proposes plebiscite on Eupen Malmedy transfer
The first amendment to the peace treaty in the foreign relations committee, offered by Senator Fall, would require Belgium to receive the Kreise of Eupen and Malmedy only after a plebiscite. The result would go to a commission of allied powers excluding the United States, rather than the league of nations overseeing the transfer.
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Washington
Foreign Relations Committee
Fall
New Mexico
Germany
Belgium
Kreise
Eupen and
Malmedy
United States
League of Nations
National Grange lays out farm relief program before Congress
The National Grange, representing 700000 farmers, proposes repeal of wartime food control and export restrictions. It calls for end of price fixing, war powers limits, and wartime agencies, plus protections for farm products, tariff revisions, and stronger farm representation in grading and enforcement bodies. It asks for rapid demobilization and a public information committee.
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Raymond Clapper
United Press
Washington
National Grange
Grange
Congress
Food Administration
War Trade Board
Internal Revenue
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Trade Commission Tariff Commission
Department of Justice
House
Senate Agricultural Committees
National Grange Representatives
President Wilson blocks Senate reservations on peace treaty
Democratic senators abandon talks on reservations after a Wilson briefing. Hitchcock says focus shifts to defeating amendments. Wilson warns any crossing of a T or I would derail the treaty and hints at separate peace if needed. Lodge warns against milquetoast amendments and prefers rejection.
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Washington
Wilson
Hitchcock
Senate
Eough
United States
United
Germany
Knox
Lodge
Berlin
Storage houses in Detroit are raided Friday
Federal authorities seized six hundred and eighty thousand dozen eggs at the Detroit Refrigerating Company warehouse as part of a Lever Act enforcement drive against food hoarders and profiteers. The eggs valued at $300,000 and priced forty five cents a dozen were held by A F Thibodeau and Company and the Rock Island Butter Company of Toledo. A census shows Holland with about 362000 horses and over 2 million cattle.
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Detroit Mich
Detroit Refrigerating Company
A. F. Thibodeau and Company
Rock Island Butter Company
Toledo
Kansas City
United States
F. M. Wilson
Wilson
Whiskey Stolen From Town Jail In Marietta Bootlegging Night
A jail break in Marietta Ohio followed a haul of 32 cases of whiskey smuggled from Marietta to West Virginia. The liquor was seized by local and West Virginia authorities, with three men detained and a loss estimated at 3840 dollars as bootleggers pushed prices up.
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Marietta
Ohio
Chief Bush
Williamstown
W. Va
Ohio River
West Virginia
Bush
Weather forecast for Ohio Valley and Tennessee regions
Weather outlook for the Ohio Valley and Tennessee regions of the Great Lakes area. Normal temperatures and generally fair conditions expected across the week.
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Washington
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Great Lakes
Veteran lineman injured by falling pole near Athens
M. L. Bowers, a longtime telephone lineman of twenty eight years, was severely injured when a pole broke at the base and fell on him near Athens. He sustained a broken right arm and extensive bruising but is now mobile and recovering steadily.
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M. L
Bowers
Athens
Mr. Bowers
Liberty Bond Payments Due and Reminders Issued
The notice reminds readers to pay Liberty bonds on Friday or by Monday with a twenty percent due. It notes a second twenty percent payment is due September 9.
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Liberty
Dr Merwin to Join Foster on West Coast Trip
Dr Merwin Mrs Merwin and daughter Margaret depart for Washington to join Congressman Foster on an official visit to the Pacific coast. The party will inspect government shipping board expenditures and travel five weeks by private car along the Great Northern and Santa Fe routes.
Short Service Open to All Men in One-Year Army Programs
Recruiting officer Fraschnat urges eligible men to enlist for one year in any army branch before the policy ends. Medical corps and Quarter Master corps offer the one year option to new recruits regardless of prior service. Fraschnat will visit Logan on August 21 and 22 to recruit in person.
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Fraschnat
Medical Corps
Frashnat
Logan
Carnegie Heiress Likely To Inherit Skibo Castle
Andrew Carnegie's death leaves his only daughter Margaret Miller poised to receive Skibo Castle in Scotland. The American heiress, now Mrs. Roswell Miller, is noted for modest tastes and would likely avoid ostentatious displays, though the prospect of her own grand home sparks social intrigue among the wealthy.
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Castle Skibo
Carnegie
Scotland
Roswell Miller
Mass Seizure of Hoarded Food Across Multiple Cities
Nationwide actions seize large stores of sugar beans eggs and butter suspected of hoarding to raise prices. Canton Ohio holds 103 310 pounds of sugar tied to C D Kenny Company with court hearing set September 13. Detroit seizures total 442 762 dollars in eggs and butter linked to Fox River Butter and H L Brown Co. and sale planned August 25.
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Canton
Ohio
Canton Cold Storage Company
C. D. Kenny Company
Baltimore
United States
Thomas Walsh
Cleveland
J. F. Hetzel
Kenny Company
Ohio case filed against Hugh Meighen for profanity
Transcript and papers show Nathan W. Baker filed a complaint against Hugh Meighen City Fire Marshal in Athens. Meighen pleaded not guilty and waived exam, bound over to common pleas court after a dispute over weed cutting on August 5 1919.
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State of
Ohio
Hugh Meighen
Nathan W. Baker
Athens
Warrener
Meighen
Baker
Common Pleas Court
Governor Cox vows more arrests of Ohio food hoarders
Columbus Aug 16 More affidavits for arrests under the Smith cold storage act were being prepared by Thomas G. Gault and Attorney General John G. Price. They expected filings soon as state inspectors continue the statewide probe into food hoarding and violations.
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Ohio
Cox
Columbus
Thomas G. Gault
State Dairy and Food Bureau
John G. Price
Gault
Price
United State
Palmer
Food Hoarding Main Cause of High Prices, Officials Say
Federal agents plan to seize large sugar supplies at Canton as part of a broader probe into meat and dairy hoarding. A Justice Department canvass shows storage holdings for butter eggs and poultry up sharply from last year with dairy products and poultry leading price rises.
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Canton
Ralph F. Couch
Washington
Department of Justice
Bureau of Markets
Justice d
C. B. Ames
Palmer
Justice Department
Bureau’ Markets
Market Bureau
Five Die As Interurban Car Hits Auto At Bluffton
Five people were killed and one injured when an eastbound Western Ohio traction car struck their automobile at a grade crossing near Bluffton, after they left a shrine in Carey. Victims named include Mrs. Margaret Corwin and Mrs. Ethel Kissner of Lima, plus two Kissner children and driver Lavan Corwin. The injured man could not speak to the coroner. A final line notes a new vise attachment with self adjusting teeth.
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Lima
Ohio
Bluffton
Carey
Margaret Corwin
Ethel Kissner
Eugene Kissner
Winifred Kissner
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L. C. Martin
Detroit
Uncle Sam
Holland
U.S
William K. Watkins
House of Representatives
Congressional Information Service
John T. Watkins
Louisiana
Dr. Merwin
Mr. Foster
U. S. Navy
New York
Chicago
Ils
John F. Campbell
John H. Bunker
John F. Campbell Company
Arbuckle Brothers
Ills
R. A. Milroy
Mich
Central West
Fox River Butter Company
H. L. Brown Co
Meadowbrook
Beatrice Creamery Company
H. L. Brown Company
Meighen-Baker
Giovanni Terzano
Alston Ellis
Ohio University
W. S. Barney
Terzano
Miss Noss
United States District Attorney
Wertz
Sheriff Street Market
State Investiga
S. T. Nash
State Board of Agriculture
Nash
Cleveland Provision Company
Dept. of Justice
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