Fourth of July banquet honors U S aid to liberty
Premier Briand addressed the American Chamber of Commerce on July 4 praising the United States and President Wilson. He recalled the Argonne battles and the ongoing Allied struggle for liberty while stressing shared ideals and justice. A Sun Sunday Post Magazine teaser on page eight promotes photos of former beauties who became movie stars.
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Paris
Briand
American Chamber of Commerce
United States
Wilson
Sunday Post
President Wilson urges calm counsel at labor temple dedication
President Wilson dedicates the labor temple in Washington as the American Federation of Labor home. He calls for candid dialogue to secure rights, urging that patience and counsel bridge divides while interruptions by a suffragist are silenced.
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Washington
Wilson
American Federation of Labor
Washington, D. C
A. F. of L
PLACE TROOPS IN QUARANTINE IN NOGALES ARIZONA
The Second Connecticut Infantry battalions arrive at Nogales and are quarantined after a suspected smallpox case aboard the train. A steel jacketed bullet near a Second Regiment car prompts sniper fears. The Lordsburg-bound train crew member, an E Company enlisted man, aided the journey. Reports say 3,000 Carranza soldiers move north from Magdalena toward Nogales.
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Nogales
Ariz
Second Connecticut Infantry
Niantic
Mathen
H. Company
Waterbury
Connecticut Infantry
Lordsburg
E Company
Mexico
Carranza
Magdalena
Imaris
Noga
Fighting Parson Brings Bible Armament to Border
Chaplain Lyman Rollins of the Fifth Regiment arrives at the border in a captain’s uniform and sworn in as federal service. He carries a Bible and nonlethal tools including walnut stain, paint brush, nails, and altar hangings from St Michael's Chapel, Marblehead. A .38 pistol given by friends accompanies him but will not be used against the enemy. He fired his first shots on the troop train en route to El Paso.
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Mabel Vernon
Congress
White House
Secret Service
Miss Vernon
EL Paso
Tex
St. Michael’s Chapel
Marblehead
Mass
Lyman Rollins
Framingham
Prairies
Single Tax Colony Ambition in Palestine Fund Seeks Start
Mrs. Joseph Fels offers the Federation of American Zionists a gift likely over 1 million dollars to establish a single tax colony in Palestine. A Brandeis-led committee will develop plans, aiming to start immediately after the European war ends, with initial colonists on land bought by the donor.
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Philadelphia
Joseph Fels
Chestnut Street
Federation of American Zionists
Palestine
Zionists
Bernard A. Rosenblatt
New York
Palestine Committee
Fels
Palestine Bureau
America
Justice Brandeis
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U.S
Sons of the American Revolution
Argonne
Valmis
Chapman
France
Heckler
Congressional Union
Gompers
Marshall
Labor Department
Compers
Federation
United States Rubber Company
Connecticut
B. A. Rosenblatt
Sylvan Robison
Michael Silat
Brooklyn
National Fund
Hotel
Walton
Jewish National Fund Bureau
Edgar Friedenwald
Baltimore
Hadassah
Filene
Crest Brand
Palm Beach
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