Government and Labor Strife Dominate News
Major issues fill the page as United States pressure on Carranza escalates over the Jenkins case while coal miners reject a 14 percent wage offer. Military and naval readiness, border actions, and strikes mix with European diplomacy and Irish unrest in a wide, period-tinged survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Pickard
Mexico
Carranza
United States
Jenkins
State Department
Washington
Mexican Foreign Office
Executive Department
Lansing
Puebla
Mexico City
Congress
House
Senate
Lewis
Garfield
Lane
Wilson
Treasury
McAdoo
Carter Glass
Sheridan
Wyo
Fort MacKenzie
Miners’ Union
Major Dean
Allen
Kansas
National motor vehicle theft act takes effect nationwide
The act, approved by President Wilson without a signature, defines motor vehicles for interstate theft prevention and sets penalties up to 5000 dollars or five years in prison. It also notes 1918 US auto theft value at 27 million dollars and thieves earning at least 5 million from thefts.
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Stambulinsky
Bulgaria
Roumania
Jugo- Slavia
Austria
Thrace
Strumnitza
Serbia
Germany
Supreme Council
France
District of Columbia
United States
Careless America Growing Less Careless in 1917
The 1917 morality statistics from the United States census bureau, summarized for the National Safety Council, show total accidental deaths at 53 544, with higher estimates likely over 76 000 nationwide. Falls lead with 11 114 deaths, railroad accidents 8 649, and burns 6 830. automobile crashes total 6 724, drowning 5 500, mine incidents 2 623, and streetcar 2 277. Machinery accidents 2 112 mark a record high, linked to wartime employment of untrained workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Safety Council
United States Census Bureau
America
United States
Bureau
Rise in New European Stamps Surpasses Two Thousand Mark
Postage stamp issues since December 1918 near 2000 with about 1500 from new European states. Poland leads with 400 plus stamps, Ukraine about 175, Yugoslavia and Czecho Slovakia around 150 each, Fiume 75. Georgia four values, record year 1914 saw 1286 stamps. Unified stamps for Serbs Croats and Slovenes hinted.
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Poland
Ukraine
Jugo-Slavia
Czecho-Slovakia
Fiume
Transcaucasian Republic of
Georgia
New Europe
Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Croatia
Slavonia
Bosnia
Serbia
Peter I
Greater
Largest Warship Nagato From Japan Navy Launch
A Tokyo report says Japan launched the largest warship ever built, the Nagato, at Kure in the presence of imperial princes. keel laid August 28, 1917, tonnage increased to 40,000, speed 25 knots, 16 inch guns, airplanes, and multiple anti aircraft guns. sister ship Kaga to follow.
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Japan
Kure
Tokyo
Nagato
Kure Naval Dockyard
Jutland
California
United States
America
The Joy of Motherhood in Ellensburg Ward
Mrs. O. S. Johnson of Ellensburg credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health and enabling her to have a child after years of illness. The ad urges other women with functional disorders to seek the remedy and write for advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. at Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Ellensburg
Ward
O. S. Johnson
R. No
Wash
Lynn, Mass
Bayer Aspirin Headache Remedy Ad Claims Long Use
Claim for Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in Bayer package with directions for headache colds pain neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. States Bayer as genuine aspirin by physicians for nineteen years. Tin of 12 tablets costs a few cents. Aspirin is trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic acid.
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Bayer
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England
United States Mail Service
North Sea
ARMY
NAVY
Central Department
Signal Corps
Marine Corps
Pacific
Lantic
Felipe Angeles
Angeles
Villa
D’annunzio
Zara
Sebenico
Spalato
Dalmatia
Triest
Paris
Adriatic
Italy
Montenegro
Maxim Litvinoff
Russia
Copenhagen
Litvinoff
Baltic States
Dorpat
Bolshevist
Denikine
Omsk
Dublin
Sinn Fein
Ireland
Irish “Republic
New Labor Party
Chicago
International Labor Unions
American Federation of Labor
Boston
Nonpartisan League
Frazier
North Dakota
Congressional Committee
Ellis Island
Frederic C. Howe
Island
Gladden
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Mr. Knight
Dean
Thomas A. Knight
Ninth St
East St. Louis
Ill
Doan
A. M. Eggmann
Notary Public
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
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