British Russian Offensive In North Russia Faces Heavy Resistance
Archangel July 2 report notes the North Russia campaign linked to Kolchak aims to base Allied supplies for anti Bolshevik forces. Insufficient forces, weak Allied support, and Bolshevik strength threaten summer success. British and Russian troops are pressed, with high casualties and mutinies reported in the Onega district.
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Archangel
Associated Press
North
Russia
England
Ironside
Kotless
Dving
Kotlass
Ine
Viatka
Kolchak
Yronaide
Dvina
Vaga
Tells How Bolshevism Was Curbed in Detroit
Carl W. Ackerman reports Detroit police commissioner Dr. J. W. Inches recounting the city’s handling of Bolshevik agitation. He cites freedom of speech, large police presence, and delayed suppression of meetings as pivotal, with forceful action only for violence. He notes Hamtramck as a radical base and money from New York and wealthy Detroit women fueling the movement, while city and state laws tighten controls.
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Carl W. Ackerman
Detroit
Seattle
J. W. Inches
United States
Lenine
Chicago
Washington
Indius
Police Department
Dr. Inches
Russia
New York
Pacific Coast
Bolshevista
Siberia
Mme. Breshkovaky
Mme. Brashkovsky
House of Masses
339Th Infantry
Archangel
Custerfang
Cellara
Michigan
Hamtramck
American Federation
Department of Justice
Breshkovsky
Canada
Pegee
The Duckboard paper tells its own origin story
Brest France, August 13. Crossley Davies describes the Fontanezen Duckboard, a weekly camp paper born from initiative of soldiers Neil R. Allen and Ernest W. Jorgensen. The staff built a community paper to support service, truth, and civic effort, printing 4000 copies on a flatbed press under censorship.
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Crossley Davies
Brest
France
America
Fontanezen
Civil Ife
Neil R. Allen
Eighth Infantry
Ernest W. Jorgansen
Leutenant
Jorgensen
Seiad
Hindenburg
Ake
Allen
Kerl H. Schiling
Constitus
Queen Mary Sets Pace for Kissing in Public
London society notes how public kisses by Queen Mary set a trend at royal events from opera to Wimbledon. The piece records royal greetings among Helena, Marie Louise, the Prince of Wales, and others, plus observations on Lord Chamberlain invitation cards and changes in Buckingham palace etiquette.
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Lady Mary
London
Mall
Queen Mary
Wimbledon
St. Paul's Cathedral
Reta
Mary
Helena
Princess Marie Louise
Prince of Wales
Franca
Princess Arthur of
Connaught
Lord Chamberlain
Buckingham Palace
Edward
France to form republic of victory after war says Tardieu
Paris August 17 Captain Andre Tardieu high commissioner for Franco American War matters spoke on the occasion of Abel Ferry’s ashes being transferred. He urged France to learn wartime lessons to build a peacetime republic focusing on economic reform and national unity. He warned against alarm while noting the hefty bill ahead and the need for equitable taxation. He linked France’s future to the League of Nations and mutual aid with Belgium Italy Bohemia Poland Romania Serbia plus Britain and the United States, aiming for stable international relations.
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Paris
France
Republic of Victory
Andre Tardieu
M. Tardlew
America
League of Nations
Belgium
Italy
Bohema
Poland
Rumania
Serbia
Great Britain
United States
Plumb Plan figure Glenn H E Plumb Iowa origin and rail route career
Glenn H E Plumb father of the Plumb Plan and overnight national figure due to his stance on high living costs. An Iowan who faced early loss, grew up with an uncle at Strator XU, studied at Oberlin and Harvard, and built railroad practice in Chicago. He led Santa Fe receivership reorganization and later worked with railroad brotherhood affairs in private practice.
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Glenn HE. Flumb
Lve
Strator
Oberlin
Harvard Law School
Chicago
Northwestern University
Santa Fe System
Plumb
Chicago Friation Companies
Het
Liberty for oppressed peoples spreads in the Near East
The piece argues that American ideals of human rights spur nationalist movements across the Near East including Turkey Greece Armenia and Mesopotamia. It contends these peoples seek autonomy within a modern mandate system opposing old controls and warns Bolshevism could be checked by allowing self determination. Copyright 1919 The Constitution.
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Constantinople
Jloyn
Courier
America
Armenia
Turkey
Athens
Smyrna
Saladin the Great
Gobi Desert
Mesopotamia
Babylon
Bagdad
Ameries
Trn
Russia
Near Eost
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Ironalde
Onega
Dving River
Onera
Onero
Gore Globe
Globe Automatic Sprinkler CO
507 Trust Co of
Bldg
Ivy Eo
Globe - Tba
Hunnicutt
Jacobs’ Pharmacy CO
Atlanta
Carbon “Alder & Allen Go. Satcants
Craroner
Aming
Douchboys
Africa
Louis Botha
South Africa
Botha
Bondon
Duke of Devonshire
Devonshire House
Lord Lehsdowne
Landsdowne House
Ritz
Piccadilly
Berkeley Street
Lansdowne House
Berkeley Square
Americaine
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
St John's Wood
G. F. Watts
Melbury Road
Kensington
Ellen ‘Terry
William Morris
Hampstead Way
Chelsea
George du Maurier
Hempstead
du Maurier
Irilby
Peter Ibbetson
Punch
The
Hudson
Leighton House
Lord Leighton
Royal Academy
Hampstead
American PLC
East
Ellis
William T. Blisx
Ess Gees
Buss
Gilham-Schoen Electric Co
Luckie St
Atlanta, Ga
Bossham Manufacturing
St Lens
U.S. A
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