Colby Says President Softens On League Reservations
Secretary of State Colby after a White House meeting announced the president will accept reservations to clarify the League covenant but not nullify or stultify it. Colby travels to San Francisco for the conference with this clarified stance and will speak for the administration there.
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Wilson
League of Nations
Colby
White House
Quoteton
San Francisco
Mr. Colby
Kessina
State Department
Twentieth Century Limited
New York
Salt Colby
America
Secretary of State
Executive
Maryland Delegation Backs Light Wine and Beer Plank
Chicago dispatch reports Maryland delegates to the Democratic national convention support a platform favoring a swift modification of the eighteenth amendment. Gov Albert Ritchie, their spokesman, urged allowing light wines and beer in the United States as the measure moves forward.
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Iention
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San Francisco
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Rail Strike Turmoil Draws White House Action Demand
Washington reports outlaw strikes spreading at key rail points as unions and officials urge President Wilson to intervene. Officials expect a sharp ultimatum and DOJ prosecutions for leaders amid alleged Communist IW W influence and a Chicago rally plan. Directors Payne and Doak press for order while rail service strains persist.
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Department of Justice
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Chicago
Martial Law in Waterbury Amid Riots and Uprising
Waterbury Connecticut declares martial law after violent clashes at the Scovill factory entrance leave one striker dead and two officers critically wounded. Gov. Holeman orders three militia companies and a machine gun unit to patrol the streets as casualties, including Liberte Tuzo, are treated at St. Mary’s hospital amid reports of Bolshevik pamphlets found on the deceased.
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Richard Leroy
John J. Bergin
Pa Hee
Scovill Manufacturing Company
Marcus Holeman
Wiliam P. Sandand
Tiergin An Leray
Phy
St. Mary's Hospital
Liberte Tuzo
Harding sees lieutenants in republican campaign plan
Workington June 24 plans for the Republican presidential campaign were laid out at an all day conference between Sen. Harding the party nominee National Chairman Wil L. Hays and a subcommittee of the Republican National Committee. They reviewed what had been done and the timing for formal notification and mobilization near mid July at Marion.
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Jume
Repubican
Gener
Harding
Wil L. Hays
Republican National Committee
National Committee
Sonstor Harding
Marlon
Tremor in Los Angeles Causes Light Damage
An earthquake tremor struck Los Angeles at 6 48 p m causing shaking across downtown. Buildings rattled and several windows broke while merchandise toppled from shelves and windows, though total damage was limited.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Germany to pay 3 billion gold marks yearly indemnity
Boulogne reports the allied council of prau lera reached an agreement stating Germany will pay a minimum annual indemnity of three billion gold marks for twenty years, beginning soon.
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Bolshevik Offensive Opens New Drive Across Front
Pots and cables report the Bolsheviks assembling 50 divisions for a summer offensive along a 1,200 kilometer front. Kiev reportedly in Bolshevik hands again, with aims toward Vilnius and East Prussia. Polish forces hold the Baltic corridor while Germany withholds mine explosives. Budenny raids continue as Polish commander Rydz-Smigly stabilizes west of the Dniester.
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Rezhitse
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Osrukh
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Polonk
Bride's Death Is Avenged In Ravenswood Murder Mystery
Mrs. Stuth Wanderer, twenty one, was shot at her husband's side as they entered a northwest Chicago apartment vestibule at 4733 North Campbell. Moments later Wanderer, Carl, shot the bridegroom dead. The stranger suspect, once a newsboy and former AEF private, is hospitalized at Ravenswood.
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Carl Wanderer
United States Army
Algyer
Ravenswood Hospital
A. BE. F
Wanderer
Wilson Will Speak To Dem Convention By Telephone
President Wilson plans direct reader contact with the Democratic convention in San Francisco via long distance telephone Secretary Cutoutty acting for the president spoke with Chairman Cummings of the Democratic national committee at the Golden Gate city for some time to arrange the contact.
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Wilson
San Francisco
Cal
Cutoulty
Charman Cummings
Democratic National Committee
Golden Gate City
Wilson not in race says health blocks third term
Kansas City dispatch reports Jouett Shouse, traveling with Carter Glass, says President Wilson is too ill for a third term. Shouse notes no conflict with McAdoo’s withdrawal and cites Carter Glass or John Navie as strong possible nominees if health allowed.
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Jowett Shouse
United States Treasury
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San Francisco
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Knmg Tin
Wison
McAdoo
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Virginia
John We Navie
England
Shonze
Rain Hampers Monday Baseball Results Across Leagues
In the American League and National League multiple games were postponed by rain. Cleveland and St Louis had no games recorded, while Philadelphia defeated Cincinnati 3 to 1.
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New Jersey Scholar Named Minister to Greece by Wilson
President Wilson appointed Ward Capps of New Jersey as minister to Greece in a recess move. Capps, Princeton classics professor and Yale and Chicago alum, has written widely on Greek literature and drama. He studied in Athens, taught Latin at Yale, and held Greek language and literature posts at the University of Chicago before joining Princeton in 1907.
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Capps
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Rescue 80 from Arctic Ice North of Alaska
A wireless message from the ice-breaker Sviatogor reports it found the steamer Solovel in the Arctic and took aboard its crew. Solovel was icebound in the Kara Sea for over three months and feared to perish for lack of food and fuel. the British Admiralty loaned the Sviatogor for the rescue.
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Londonderry Turmoil Claims Dozens in Two Day Battle
Civil clashes in Londonderry erupt in two days of rioting between nationalists and unionists. At least thirteen killed, hundreds injured as troops withdraw and fires rage. Streets deserted, business halted, Sinn Fein HQ shelled, and fear of wider civil war grips Dublin and Ulster.
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Ulster
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May exports rise sharply while imports fall
The Commerce Department reports May exports up 55 million to 780 million dollars, while imports decline by 61 million to 431.1 million, leaving a trade surplus of 8 million. For the five months ending May, exports total 7.474 billion, up 1.17 billion from the prior year, with imports at 4.656 billion, up 1.583 billion.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
Vast Typhus Death Toll Reported in Kiev Refugee Camps
Kiev records indicate 25 000 Jews died of typhus in six weeks. Superintendent Munideber of Kiev's largest Jewish hospital briefing Cal Henry Shaw of the American army, investigating for the League of Red Cross Societies, as Polish occupation neared.
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Kiev
Munideber
Cal. Henry Shaw
League of Red Cross Societies
Ace to wed war ace Pleele in New Orleans ceremony
Lieutenant Colonel Pleele of the royal Italian air forces with 82 enemy planes downed received a license to marry Miss Lerania Batchelder of New Orleans former Red Cross nurse. Pleele holds English French Belgian and station war decorations.
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New Orleans
New York
Pier Muguera Pleele
Royalltalian Air Forces
Gce
Ouf
Lcense
Lerania Batchelder
New Orleana
Red Cross
Pleclo
Misery of Backache and Lydia E. Pinkham Remedy
Muskegon Michigan woman recalls six years of backache eased by Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Ad highlights health benefits for women and invites letters to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co seeking confidential advice from a female respondent.
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Muskegon, Mich
Pinkham
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Bia E. Pinkham
Lydia Binkham
Defacement of Tombstone Sparks Local Curiosity
A humorous street-table tale recounts Mr. Skinner’s tombstones vandalized as neighbors discuss the missing word 'friends' from an epitaph. The punchline lands with “He did its best” as the neighborhood reacts to the odd prank.
Allen's Foot-Ease Ad Claims Quick Foot Relief
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot Ease antiseptic powder to relieve corns bunions and sore feet. It promises fast relief for burning aching swollen and tender feet and notes widespread Army and Navy use for foot comfort.
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Army
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He'd Heard That Before
A fragment describes a trip to New York last fall and a brief social moment aboard a transit ride. The narrator recalls a stranger with shining shoes and a light exchange implying a spouse present, ending with a pleasantry about a wife.
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Whittle
Unable to Meet Creditors Sparks Defiant Reply
A fragment shows a character named George denying inability to meet creditors amid a taunt about every five minutes. The terse exchange hints at mounting pressure from debt collectors without full context or setting.
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