Two Killed Eleven Hurt in Toledo Riot Firefight
Two men were shot and eleven wounded when guards fired to break up a riot at the Willys-Overland plant in Toledo Ohio. Discharged soldiers guarding the plant fired over 100 shots, dispersing up to 5,000 rioters including many women. Mayor Schreiber asked Governor Cox for troops as unrest followed a 13,000 worker labor dispute and plant reopening after idleness. A separate Toronto strike ended with 6,000 to 9,066 workers returning to work.
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Toledo
Willys-Overland
Harry Carl
Ohio
Willys-Overland Automobile Company
Columbus
Cornell Schreiber
Cox
Toronto
Metal Trades * Council
Two Cent Stamp Returns on July First
The War time three cent purple stamp ends with July 1 restoring a two cent rate for letters outside the city. Domestic postals use one cent stamps for cards and notices. Envelopes will rise 12 cents per thousand for No 5 and 12 size under a July 1 contract. advance orders through June 26 at old prices are urged for manufacturers and businesses.
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Charles Greene
Washington
Nothi
Parcel Post Brings Dead Man's Ashes
Farmington June 3 The parcel post service was used unusually when funeral ashes arrived at the local post office from Portland Oregon to be delivered to West Avon for interment. The man had lived in West Avon more than twenty years ago. The remains weighed over 200 pounds and cost 34 cents including 10 cents registration.
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Farmington
Portland
Oregon
West Avons
City women laud Telegrams work to win cheap ice
Bridgeport residents express satisfaction as the Standard Telegram campaign for cheaper ice succeeds. Exorbitant 80 cent per hundred pounds drops to 60 cents, saving wage earners during hot weather. Wealthier residents plan assistance for the less fortunate, with zinc cases for limousines and organized deliveries to those in need. Mrs Fleck and Mrs Willard praise the paper and urge continued action against high prices.
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Bridgeport
Standard Telegram
Fleck
The
Minute Women
Minute
Standard
D. Fairchild Wheeler
Vunk
Bomb Outrages Across Nation Reported Differently
The Standard Telegram notes that national bomb outages were fully reported by it while New York papers offered only partial coverage. The piece implies delays and selective emphasis in wire service distribution affecting readers in Bridgeport.
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New York
Bridgeport
Champions Clash in Brooklawn Golf Tourney Opener
Noted golfers from New York and New Jersey join Connecticut’s Brooklawn Country Club for the first Metropolitan Golf Championship in the Nutmeg state. Sixty players, including Oswald Kirkby, contest medal play with 32 advancing to match play through Saturday at Brooklawn’s long 6390 yard course.
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C. Gilbert Waldo
Bridgeport
John
Dr. Chapman
Greenwich
Brooklawn Country Club
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Oswald Kirkby
Englewood Country Club
Brooklawn Club
W. Parker Seeley
Robert Abbott
Spottswood
D. Bowers
Gilbert Waldo
John T. L. Hubbard
Jonathan Grout
Horace
Dd. Strong
H. B. Stoddard
A. Hamond Risstole
Travers
Jerome
D. Travers
Jerry
A. F. Kammer
Staten Island
Metropolitan Association
Kirkby
Mexico Denies Desire to Enter the League
Mexico City June 3. The government says it has not and will not seek admission to the League of Nations, per a Foreign Relations bulletin signed by Salvador Diego Pernandes. The note denies that General Candido Aguilar’s Washington Paris trip was for League talks. it states the general is en route to Washington.
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Mexico City
League of Nations
Department of Foreign Relations
Salvador Diego Pernandes
Department
Department of Foreign Affairs
Candido Aguila
Washington
Paris
Carranza
General Aguilar
France Faces Massive Strike Wave Across Sectors
La Verite reports about 500000 people on strike in France with about 200000 in metal trades around Paris. The figure indicates widespread labor unrest and significant regional impact on industry and daily life.
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Paris
France
la Verite
Smykowski Denounces Polish Pogroms as German Propaganda
Dr B N Smykowski returned from seven weeks in Poland as a Polish Relief Commission member and charged that pogrom stories are German propaganda to stir race tensions in America. He blamed Jewish profiteering and Bolshevik praise for unrest, insisted there were no pogroms in Poland, and cited cables from Rosenwald, Krause, and Piotrowski supporting his view. He urged Americans to see the issue as German-backed deception and warned of anti-Polish sentiment.
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America
B. N. Smykowski
Barnum Avenue
Poland
Polish Relief Commission
Russia
Smykowski
N. I. Plostrowski
Chicago
Wilson
Paris
Bolshevists
Kielce
Rales
Polish Republic
Julius Rosenwald
Adol Krause
Signed
N. L. Piotrowski
Trotsky
Vaterland
Germany
Austria
Silesia
Prussia
Alsace-Lorraine
Col. Grave
Vernon Kelloge
Rabbi Pearlmutter
Ixernan
Inter-Allied
Blewell
New York Herald
Kishinefe
Jie
Vix
Barry Boren
Arrest of Radical Leader After Battle With Poli
Pittsburgh reports detail arrests connected to radical activity as police and federal agents close in on bomb makers linked to the I W W. Johnson identified as among those captured after a confrontation with officers. Authorities escalate pursuit across New York and Philadelphia as investigations target incendiary plots and plots tied to anarchist networks.
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Pittsburgh
W.H. S. Thompson i A Sibray
Bureau of
John Johnson
Saspatite
Tod Namie
Johnson
M Beeker
Beck Johnson
New York
Agen
Judge Nott, Jr
Washington
Ani Man
Palmer
Philadelphia
Stiera
Boe
Cent Prilvadely
Asi Department of Justice and Police
Ital
Delphia
A&a
Thes’é
Wild market break shocks New York stocks
June 3 stock market session triggers sharp price drops as call money soars to 11 percent the highest since federal reserve banks. Trading surpasses 2 million shares with 600000 changing hands in the final hour amid unconfirmed reports of new money committees to curb speculation.
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New York
Exchange
German Peace Terms Debate at Paris Conference
A Paris conference report indicates some Allied terms may be softened amid German counter proposals on reparations and territorial relinquishments. Britain shows willingness to concede while France remains firm. the American delegation remains cautious. The German government supports a Rhenish republic as talks continue.
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Associated Press
Germany
Council of Four
Paris
Brita
Wilson
Great Britain
France
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J. Barleycorn
Hose
Parcel Post
John D. Chapman
New ‘York
Sporting
Mexico
Steinke
New Republic
Poli
Bill” Flynn
Post and Standard
Sunday Post
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