Watchful Waiting and Global Claims From 1919 Tribune
The Batesville Tribune reports on the U S stance toward Mexico and Germany including $600 million damages and $1 billion held by alien property custodians. It notes ratification steps for Woman Suffrage across Illinois Wisconsin Michigan and anticipated 1920 voting rights. It critiques Post Master General Burleson telegraph policy and hints at U S influence over telegraph lines. It comments on Philippine independence and U S protectorate, urging self reliance for freedom and cautious diplomacy.
Republicans win on war support in Congress reshuffle
The administration hoped to tilt leadership by placing anti war Republicans atop key committees and toppling Champ Clark, who refused a vote of confidence in Wilson. Both Republican houses show 100 percent loyalty to the war while the Democrats under Clark and Claud Kitchen are led by war opponents from the last Congress.
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Republican Congress
Champ Clark
Wilson
Claud Kitchen
Congress
Susan B Anthony amendment clears Senate for woman suffrage
The Susan B Anthony amendment to the federal constitution passed the Senate by 56 to 25 after three weeks in the House. It would grant political equality to American women once ratified by three-fourths of the states, with 36 needed and 13 possible to block. The text provides that citizenship cannot be denied on account of sex and Congress may enforce the article. Uncertainty lingers over southern states' ratification.
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Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
New York
Congress
Senate
America
United States
Versailles Peace Conference Diplomacy and Domestic Critics
An unclear fragment critiques Mr Wil von and his Democrat allies who claim to represent the people at the peace conference in Versailles and struggle to cope with diplomatic challenges. The text hints at partisan tensions surrounding the conference.
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Wilvon
United States
Versailles
Death knell for Wilsonian ideals in postwar diplomacy
Veteran diplomats from England France Italy and Japan have crushed Wilsons fourteen points in practical European politics. The seas freedom dies in the English Channel and self determination withers in Ireland China Fiume and Corea. The article invokes Robbie Burns that best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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England
France
Italy
Japan
Wilson
Germany
English Channel
Ireland
China
Fiume
Corea
Robbie Burns
Congressman Will R. Wood seeks France repeal for repatriation of U S war dead
Hon Will R Wood Republican congressman from the Eighth District introduced a joint resolution in the House urging France to repeal or modify its law prohibiting exhumation of American war dead buried in France The measure requests that remains be removed to the United States for final disposition and directs a certified copy be sent to the French President and the President of the French Chamber of Deputies The aim is to fulfil the pledge to return soldiers sailors and Marines home for burial after WWI.
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Will R. Wood
LaFayette
House
France
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Republic of France
United States
French Chamber of Deputies
America
Germany
PUT GUARD AT HIS BASE
German prisoners behind the lines work in fatigue parties under armed guards. A fresh guard replace a small party and a young, delicate looking Tommy, new to the job, was guided by a senior prisoner who spoke English and reassured him with friendly orders.
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Sonny
A Preventive for the Grip from Sulphur in Shoes
A quoted tip from a Boston physician states that workers in match factories exposed to sulfur were immune to grip and other fevers. He advised placing a small amount of sulfur on shoes daily to absorb and prevent infection. Nurses and his family reportedly followed the method and remained healthy amid the epidemic.
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Massachusetts
Boston
Old English stocks endure on village greens
The public stocks, once a common punishment in England, survive in spots where they still stand near village greens and churches. The practice has largely faded, but a number of these wooden devices remain as relics of a bygone era.
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United States
Uncle Sam
Mr. Wilson
England
All It Seemed to Her at the Dinner Party
A young girl glimpses a striking woman in a décolleté gown during her mother’s dinner party. The next morning the child asks who the pretty lady in the skirt was, reflecting on the evening’s brief sighting.
Monster screen for Methodist Centenary in Columbus
Arrangements for a giant 116 by 116 foot projection screen are underway for the Methodist Centenary in Columbus from June 20 to July 13. Architect Harry C Holbrook says the structure will form three sides of a house with four story foundations and a lantern has demonstrated the projectable distance in New York City. The $8000 screen uses fitted lumber for the picture face and will be salvaged after the event, showing tens of thousands of views from the Missionary Survey network.
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Columbus
New York City
Harry C. Holbrook
Mechodist Missionary Survey
Columbia Professor Directs Exhibits at Methodist Centenary
Columbia University NPR in charge of fine arts and exhibit design for the Methodist Centenary Celebration in Columbus Ohio from June 20 to July 18. Professor Warner organized domestic and foreign exhibits with coordinated scenery, drawing on past world displays in Boston Chicago Baltimore and Providence and work abroad.
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Jess
Columbus
Ropesgor la” Mont TE
NPR
Columbia University
Warner
Boston
Chicago
Baltimore
Providenes
Candle customs across histories and Christmas Eve practice
The candle has played a major role in Roman, Jewish, and Eastern ecclesiastical history with many customs rooted in ritual use. In Ireland on Christmas Eve a large candle was burned and only those named Mary could snuff it.
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Ireland
Mary
Great Alexanders and Humboldt's Scientific Legacies
The text notes Alexander Bell as the inventor of the telephone and mentions Alexander Humboldt as a renowned German traveler statesman and naturalist. It highlights his discovery of decreasing Earth magnetic intensity from pole to equator and his book Kosmos written at age seventy five, crediting him with advancing global science.
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Alexander Bell
Alexander Humboldt
Making Gas From Wood in France Experiments
Experiments in France tested wood as a coal substitute for gas making. Wassen pine billets were carbonized, wood charge about half coal weight, and carbonization time halved. One retort ran with wood for every two with coal showing no major change in gas quality. By products included small coke and tar at about 5 to 10 percent.
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France
If you would be healthy wealthy and wise work all day
A compact didactic line urges effort and promotion as the route to wellbeing and fortune. It frames constant work and advertising as keys to success and prudence.
Huge Organ to Furnish Music for Methodist Centenary
A colossal organ for the Methodist Centenary at the Columbus Expo Coliseum will feature 98 stops and 32-foot pipes. Built by Moller of Maryland under W J Kraft of Columbia University, it weighs eight tons, covers 960 square feet, and costs about 50000 dollars. Construction aims for completion by May 1 and invites leading organists to perform.
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Exposition Grounds
Columbus
W. J. Kraft
Columbia University
Moller
Hagerstown
Professor Kraft
Portland
Muller
Ing
Kraft
United States
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