Major Belfast Strike Paralyzes City and UK Labour
Nearly two hundred thousand workers across the United Kingdom and Ireland are idle amid widespread strikes, with Belfast hardest hit. The city’s lights are mostly out at night, hospitals remain illuminated only for safety, and numerous services and publications have suspended. Shipyards, miners, and dockers join the 40 hour work week demand, causing broader disruption as authorities debate next steps.
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Pershing to Send 300000 Home Monthly in April
General Pershing expects American troops to be demobilized and sent home from France at a rate of 300,000 monthly starting in April. The peace conference demobilization committee is split into two sub committees handling different aspects. A mission from Italy’s redeemed provinces toured Kronton visiting parks and public institutions. They met Rear Admiral Spencer Wood and Major General Clarence R. Edwards and then visited Harvard University.
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Wilsons Plan For Colonies Faces Strong Opposition
London dispatch notes President Wilson proposing internationalization of Germanys former colonies under league oversight. British, French, Portuguese and Pacific powers clash over Africa and Pacific holdings. Australia backs U S position, urging return of men and war contracts, with New Guinea as point of contention.
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Germans Deploy Full Corps Against Poles
Paris dispatch says two full German corps have been assembled to march on Poland. Eight trains are moving daily through Frankfurt on the Main as forces are massed, according to a Zurich dispatch cited by Baden-Baden press.
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Restrictions lifted on near beer production in capital note
Washington announces that a presidential proclamation issued in Paris on January 23 removes restrictions on manufacturing near beer. The seal of the United States must be attached by the state department before it becomes effective, and the public is warned not to act on the information until then. No changes to other beer or intoxicating beverage restrictions are stated.
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Orders to massacre across nations and wars in Narva
An article fragment reports Lenin ordering Bolshevik troops to retake Narva within a week and massacre opponents. It also notes Captain Andre Tardieu defending press freedom and non censorship of cables at a Paris conference luncheon. The piece contains dated, UN-style diplomatic language and references to France.
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Arguments End In Debs Case In Supreme Court
Washington D C Jan 28 Arguments concluded in the Supreme Court in the case of Eugene V Debs Socialist leader seeking reversal of a federal court conviction for violating the espionage act. Closing address by John Lord O'Brien special assistant to the attorney general. Case was taken under advisement with no decision time given.
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Immigration Bill Advances While Jury Drawn in Hull Case
Washington January 28 House immigration committee tentatively approved a four year ban on general immigration after the signing of the pon e treaty. The measure would allow aliens to bring wives children under 18 and certain relatives while older sons are barred. In Maine quick jurors were chosen for Henry J Hull a Wells Depot lay preacher charged with his wife’s murder after she died last June in a fall near a railroad bridge.
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Food Relief Bill Enacted For European Aid
Washington Jan 28 final action completed on the administration relief bill seeking 100000 for European famine aid. The conservative report was adopted by both Senate and House without debate and the measure goes to the president for approval.
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Pacing Ruin Shifts Tobacco Market Figures
Fragmentary report notes waning interest in tobacco bids as farmers in the area assess government offers and potential war impact. Small growers anticipate applying for government support to begin this season, while larger farmers resist bidding due to uncertain prices and policy refusals.
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Americans Chosen to Visit Poland for Peace Commission
Paris Jan 28 The American portion of the peace conference emission to visit Poland was named today Major General Francis J Kernan for the army and Prof Robert A Lord of Harvard utility the American peace commission s expert on Russia and Poland It is expected that the commission will leave for Poland next week
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Bolshevik Infantry Fail to Advance at Archangel Front
Archangel region reports Bolshevik infantry failed to advance at Tulges on the Divina river southeast of Archangel. American and British troops held positions as the enemy shelled the line with artillery midnight through the night.
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Million Dollar Loss at Providence Mill Fire
A Providence mill at River Point owned by The Royal Jmill burned last night, causing an estimated million dollars in damage. Firefighting units from the city and surrounding towns aided efforts as water supply faltered. the mill tower collapsed and the blaze spread to the past wing. The mill housed modern costly textile machinery.
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Prominent educator dead in Knoxville at 82
Dr. Brows mce, president of the University of Tennessee since 1M, died in Knoxville Tennessee today after a brief illness. He was widely known in southern educational circles and was 82 years of age.
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St. Louis Nationals Announce Financial Cutbacks on Canale Mortgage
Branch Rickey, president of the St. Louis Nationals, announced today financial difficulties forced adjustments to the Caniale arrangement and that the club would not be sold under a 49,000 second mortgage.
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Prohibition Amendment Ratification Progress in New York Senate
Albany June 26 The federal prohibition amendment faces ratification by New York's legislature. Senate action to-day followed Assembly approval last week. Republican senators after a long session voted 25 to 4 to cast ratification as a party measure, signaling near completion of the ratification process.
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Train Service Praised More Than Blamed
Washington reports letters on railroad service show far more commendations than complaints. The bureau released figures indicating two to one in favor of courtesy and loyalty from employees, with many recommendations adopted to improve service and reduce disorder.
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Spartacans Seize Wilhelmshaven Government in Germany
Copenhagen reports Spartacan forces have overturned the government in Wilhelmshaven Germany and occupy banks and public buildings. They have offered terms to an opponent. Traffic to and from Wilhelmshaven is halted.
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Paris Rail Strike Leads to Court Martial
Paris militia authorities arrest Leon Midol, secretary of the Paris Lyon and Mediterranean union after a minute strike on the Paris Lyon and Mediterranean railway. He faces court martial as the railway remains operated by military authorities. An account in the Mafin notes two black symbols were censored and more arrests loom.
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Police End Meeting of Discharged Soldiers in New York
Police reserves and naval guard quickly dispersed a meeting of discharged soldiers sailors and marines at the Rand School of Social Ferones aided by the Soldiers Sailors and Marine Protective Association. Aldermen participated as the unemployed discussion focused on unemployment.
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St Johnsbury Men Freed After German Camp Escape
American soldiers from New England freed from a German prison camp near the end of the war were announced by the war department. Named are Newman of Caribou Maine, Albert Garand of St Johnsbury Vermont, and Geo E Drouin of St Johnsbury.
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Cotton rates reduced after senators’ conference
Washington D.C. reports Southern senators said after a conference that trans Atlantic cotton rates have been cut. Rates drop from 22,200 to 505 at southern Atlantic ports and from 2130 to 37.0 at other ports, effective immediately.
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Vermont House Debates Prohibition Amendment Referendum
After killing a bill to place the issue before voters, the Vermont House engages in a sharp debate over a proposed prohibition and constitutional amendment to the U S Constitution. The chamber appears likely to vote for ratification.
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Battleship Nebraska Arrives with 1000 Officers for Demobilization
Newport News Washington dispatch reports the battleship Nebraska arriving with about 1000 officers and men. Most will be sent to New York New Jersey Illinois and Kansas for demobilization. Also due today is the New Jersey which stopped at the Azores for minor repairs and will be days late. Units aboard include the 11th field signal battalion the aziet nd 422d telephone battalion and a casual company.
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Transports Bring Vast Army Reinforcements to New York
Washington dispatches report the Adriatic and other ships arriving with thousands of U S troops. The Adriatic carries EF and Hoof infantry, 2nd battalions, machine gun units, and headquarters of the 163rd Infantry Brigade, 83rd Division, plus portions of the 320th Infantry and more than 3,000 men total aboard. Other ships carry units from the 70th Ammunition Train, 4th Division, and coast artillery detachments. A separate vessel, the Mactpa, heads for New York with 73 officers and a detachment of the 37th Brigade, while several smaller groups sail to Newport News and York with medical and casual detachments.
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Advertising Barre Granite in Europe by Private Loranger
Private Namina F Loranger of the American expeditionary farms advertises Barre granite in Europe in a letter home dated December 2, 1918. He recalls letters, Christmas boxes, group photos, a new dentist, fellow soldiers, and mentions a full-page Butte granite ad in the Saturday Evening Post as proof Barre granite will endure in memory and trade.
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Christmas in Chaumont and Vermont House digs into Prohibition
Lieut Neale W Hooker reports returning from hospital to guard President Wilson in Chaumont and describes the welcoming reception. In Vermont politics the House debates bill 23 to grant a referendum on the proposed Sheppard prohibition amendment with multiple speeches pro and con. debate ends with a vote expected this afternoon as sessions wrap and committees advance and recommit measures.
End of War Recalled In Soldier Letter From 1914
Sergeant Guy Andrews and his parents recount a World War I letter dating December 2, 1914, describing Allied campaigns from Cantigny to the Argonne Meuse front, the moment when artillery stopped signaling victory, and the unit’s march northward through Verdun Merville Laixomburg and into Quint France, with scenes of fires and celebrations.
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