Record Flight by Army Aviator Sets One Day Span
Albert Smith of the United States Army flew a De Havilland from Camp Lewis Tacoma to Rockwell Field San Diego in 11 hours 19 minutes in a single day. The approx 1300 mile route included three stops and proved daylight Canada to Mexico air travel possible though landing occurred after nightfall.
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Aaj
Albert Smith
United States Army
de Haviland
Camp Lewis
Tacoma
Wash
Rockwell Field
San Diego
Cal
Canada
Mexico
Wholesale emigration of aliens begins in America
Wholesale re emigration of aliens, led by Italians and Belgians, continues after last April with about 6,000 leaving weekly for Europe. Many laborers have saved money, facing prohibition, travel risks, and costly currency exchanges as they seek to return home amid a labor shortage in the United States.
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New York
America
Europe
United States
Joseph Szebenyei
New York Times
Kronen
Geza D. Berko
Emil
France
Germany
Austria
KEEP DELAWARE RICH Purse Overflowing With Fees From Corporations
Delaware uses charter fees to fund state ventures and schools, tapping corporate setup money from across the nation. The treasury holds excess funds, with GM paying over $200,000 in charter fees last year. The legislature plans to boost school funding and invest in roads and fireproof schools, while property tax is avoided.
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Dover
Pdel
Delaware
Wallstreet
General Motors Company
United States
Influenza Epidemic Cost Insurance Firms Five Million
An official from a major eastern life insurer estimates that the influenza pneumonia epidemic has cost U S life insurance companies about five million dollars, roughly one quarter of the claims paid during the 1918-19 pandemic.
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United States
Rush of diamond staking in Beyenspoort district
Johannesburg reports a rush of 2000 seekers to Beyenspoort in the Pretoria district where rich diamond deposits are said to lie. Lawyers, civil servants, business men, landowners, artisans and clerks rushed to stake claims as the ground was pegged in minutes. Professional runners helped secure previously selected claims.
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Johannesburg
Beyenspoort
Pretoria
Fish Industry Is Ruined By Overfishing In Washington
Washington state fisheries face collapse as sockeye runs in Puget Sound dwindle from six years of intensive fishing. Commissioner L H Darwin urges a state fisheries commission and banning foreign fisherfolk from Washington waters. He warns humpback and silverside stocks are also diminishing while hatchery work offsets some losses in Columbia River, Grays Harbor, and Willapa Harbor waters.
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Olympia
Wash
Washington
L. H. Darwin
Louis F. Hart
Darwin
United States
Puget Sound
Columbia River
Grays Harbor
Williapa Harbor
Triplets Brighten New York Tenement Family Tale
A former soldier Frank Cangemi and his wife welcome triplet daughters Mabel, Erine, and Genevieve in a small three room flat in New York. Despite unemployment, the family remains optimistic and grateful for their rare gift. Frank served in the Twelfth Regiment, and the landlord keeps their tenement while fortunes turn.
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New York
Pri
Frank Cang
Global unrest and rail strike ripple through 1919
A sweeping rail strike, born from radical switchmen and spreading across major hubs, disrupts traffic, strains supplies, and tests union loyalties while European tensions flare over the Ruhr and German military posture. Japan strengthens in Siberia as Vladivostok falls under its control, and domestic rent protests and landlord clashes reframe politics ahead of May upheavals.
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Chicago
Great Lakes
Middle West
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Regnar
Third Internationale
Boleshvik Offensive Collapse Shapes Polish Peace Terms
The failure of the Bolshevik drive against Poland leaves Warsaw in a stronger position to impose its peace terms with Russia. The key demand is to restore the 1772 frontier along the Dwina and Dniester. Plebiscites are planned but likely not alter the boundary. Roumanians Letts and Sithonians reportedly reached a truce with the Reds and await Warsaw’s peace outcome.
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Germany
Reichswehr
Ruhr
Rhine
Frankfort
Darmstadt
Hamburg
Hanau
Dieburg
France
Noske
Poland
Dwina
Dniester
Warsaw
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STAKE
NEW Diamond Claims
South Africa
Natchez
Miss
Mississippi River
Aude
State Fisheries Commission
Tripls
Overji
Little Ft
Stork
England
Vladivostok
Siberia
Denmark
E. F. Clipson
Japan
Nikolaevsk
Korea
Manchuria
Russia
Hiram Johnson
Michigan
California
Lowden
Wood
Johnson
Ford
Newberry
Leonard Wood
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Nebraska
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Coast
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
M. Liebe
M. Friis
St. Lawrence
Congress
International Joint Commission
Congress of the
Parliament of
The
Great Lakes and St. Lawrence
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