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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1919
Page
4
Excerpts show Otis and Brooks Thomas J Brooks editors and staff with society editor, contact, and advertising rates. Details include insertion costs, display ad pricing, and duration options for multiple insertions across calendar listings.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Carmichael in Highland Park hosts a large Sunday house party with numerous relatives and friends visiting from West Palm Beach Hammond Indianapolis Bloomington and the city. Several family members travel or stay for illnesses and health treatments as well.
Freckola extra strong promises fading freckles after first application with full clear complexion after one ounce or less. Advertises widespread appeal for women and approval by all mankind. Sold at all druggists and toilet counters.
Twenty five thousand regulars led by General Pershing parade down Fifth Avenue New York with the Cross of War ribbons on banners and the Fourragere symbols on uniforms. The reception drew enormous crowds from dawn to night as the Fourteenth Division passed, praising heroism and remembering 15000 plus casualties in France.
At St Germain France September 10 1919 Georges Clemenceau and Chancellor Karl Renner presided as Austrian delegates signed the peace treaty to end Austria-Hungary. China signed to join the League of Nations. Austria agrees to indemnities armament cuts and territorial losses with no German annexation.
John Mitchell longtime labor leader and chairman of the New York state industrial commission died Tuesday after gallstone surgery and will be buried in Scranton Pennsylvania among the coal miners he aided. Obsequies set for Saturday. His home was Mt. Vernon New York.
Quebec Sept 11 Ninety train loads of Chinese workers who labored behind the lines in France during the war will be sent home through Canada. The move reflects postwar demobilization and repatriation efforts for overseas labor crews.
Boston rebels amid police strike smash windows and loot stores citywide as volunteers fail to curb mobs. In Havana Cyclonic guards and troops move to quell unrest after attacks on women. hospital refuge for victims amid heavy gunfire and riots.
Chicago detectives captured six men after a four mile high speed chase. One suspect, Harry Diehme alias Davis, identified as leader of a Cleveland robbery gang, linked to a January 17 West Cleveland Trust heist totaling 50 000 in currency 410 000 in bonds and 5 000 in other securities. Also arrested were Clarence White Harold Weiss Joe Simons James Merrell colored.
Green Bay dispatch reports Company G 9th Infantry Wisconsin state guard from this city was sent to Two Rivers to quell disorders caused by striking workers at major factories, under orders from Gov. Philipp.
Berlin Sept 11 The Prussian government plans to propose home rule for Upper Silesia, according to the Lokaler Anzeiger.
The Spanish government notes a U S offer to end military occupation of Santo Domingo where Marines landed November 25 1914 amid revolutionary threats. A 1917 treaty established de facto protectorate while Santo Domingo’s claims were presented to Paris peace talks.
President Wilson arrived in Bismarck and was driven to the Auditorium where he began speaking amid a heavy crowd. Doctor Grayson urged rest while crowds pressed at crossings and stations with farmers parking near the railway as the presidential train advanced.
Daily News describes a raid by Irish patriots on a British monitor off London. The attackers boarded the vessel, overpowered the skeleton crew, and escaped with a quantity of rites, ammunition, and valuable instruments.
Havana endures a severe storm flood washing over sea walls and inundating sections of the city up to six blocks inland. Many families evacuate with help from firefighters and police. no fatalities reported.
Grain and provisions list Chicago open bids and closing ranges for September 5. Corn oats rye and wheat futures shown with Sept Dec May contracts. Prices for flour hay butter eggs live poultry ice poultry potatoes cattle hogs and sheep included with per hundredweight and per 1000 pounds figures.
Milton P. Tolliver a physician from Linton was arrested in Terre Haute on morphine sulphate and cocaine trafficking charges, jailed on a $1,000 bond. A Bedford Cleaning Co dispute led to assault charges in Justice J. L. Smith's court. Local anecdotes mention H B Gentry’s circus gate policy, a coloréd woman Mrs Anna White recovering from goitre, and residents Capt Ernest Hunter and C F Martin visiting family and returning home.
The city Sunday Schools set October first as Rally Day with a goal of 2500 attendees. A Union Rally Day Committee was formed with E. W. Mor Zomery as president J. J. Tatum secretary and B. E. Hansen publicity director to unite Christian Methodist Baptist Presbyterian Pentecost and other s s groups. Attendance last Sunday exceeded 1000 across churches.
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