Wilson vetoes Knox Peace Resolution over war aims
President Wilson yesterday vetoed the Knox Peace resolution, withholding signature to avoid surrendering U S rights and undermining the purpose of entering World War I. He argues the resolution would abandon Allied aims achieved by the Versailles treaty and discard American sacrifices.
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Spelling Shoes and Quarantine Create Headlines
The Times notes a May 1920 White House statement by Woodrow Wilson on peace terms with Germany and a May 38 quarantine extension in western New York for the European borer. The alert covers Dunkirk township and parts of New Hampshire Massachusetts and Pennsylvania with limited damage reported.
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Population statistics from several Massachusetts towns and Michigan city
Population figures show Brookline Massachusetts at 37 748 with a 35 8 percent rise 9 956 more residents Newton Massachusetts 46 038 up 6 223 15 7 per cent Peabody Massachusetts 19 525 up 3 831 24 4 per cent Melrose Massachusetts 18 204 up 2 489 16 8 per cent Wyandotte Michigan revised 13 851 up 5 564 67 1 per cent An unrelated item reports Sumner Veazey captain of the University of Chicago gymnastics team 1917 18 injured in a motorcycle crash paralyzed from the waist down possibly fatally.
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Great Sugar Sale Crush Crashes At Firehouse
In New Haven on May 28 municipal sugar distribution at fire houses caused a crush among thousands awaiting sugar. Minor bruises to firemen and policemen who attempted to maintain orders. many windows broken. Sale price was 0 cents.
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Candy and Cigarettes Taken at Newfield Park Stand
Thieves entered the refreshment stand at Newfield park last night and carried off candy and cigarettes. Police suspect the burglars were local youngsters. Hartford reverend Edwin Pond Parker dies in Hartford. long served South Congregational Church from 1860 to 1912 and as pastor emeritus afterward.
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Pneumonia Kills Auditore in New York
The coroner’s report links pneumonia to the death of Joseph Auditore the so called millionaire stevedore. His body was exhumed yesterday to confirm natural causes after dying May 9 in a Manhattan apartment.
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Boats Collide Off New Jersey Coast In Night Collision
The steamer General O. H. Ernst of the Panama Railway line, bound for Colon, collided with the tank steamer Gulfoil off the New Jersey coast during a fog. Both vessels returned to port. no injuries reported.
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