Global diplomacy frictions at Cannes oil the armor talks
Premier Briand and Lloyd George remain at odds over Germany reparations stance and whether to hear explanations at Cannes. Submarine ban and gas warfare move forward at the arms conference while Shantung talks end without accord. Baltic, Far East, and air mail routes feature in a broad set of postwar diplomacy notes.
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Briand
Lloyd George
Germany
Cannes
J. D. Stewart
Haynesville
Treaty Ratified by Dail Eireann in Ireland Feb 9
The Dail Eireann ratified the peace treaty with Britain by 64 to 57, ending decades of enmity. De Valera declined resignation, pledging a provisional government while Ireland becomes the Irish Free State with its own parliament and army, under existing British oversight and debt arrangements.
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Dublin
Republic of Ireland
Irish Free State
Republic
Dail Eireann
England
National University
Griffith
Collins
Cathal Brugha
Charles Burgess
Arthur Griffith
Michael Collins
Mr. Griffith
Erskine Childers
Brugha
Childers
Dall
de Valera
Ireland
Mr. Collins
Miss MacSwiney
God
Mammon
Stephens’ Green
Mansion House
Great Britain
Dail
British Commonwealth of Nations
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Boundary Commission
Ulster
America
Ilinois
New York
Republican Party
Friends of Irish Freedom
Republican
Irish Republic
De Valera Defeated In Dail Vote For Re election
Ireland faces a new government formation after Eamonn de Valera resigns as president and loses a vote 60 to 58 on his bid for re election. The former premier urged rivals to appoint a successor and allow ministers to be named, pledging support to the new administration.
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Dublin
Ireland
Eamonn de Valera
Dail Eireann
de Valera
William Cosgrave
Ulster Rejects Irish Free State Assertively
Belfast says Ulster will not join the Irish Free State and will fight tariffs and border customs moves. The Belfast Daily Mail correspondent warns of trade damage and a possible Republican rising if Ulster joins a Dublin dominated state. Ulster vows to oppose boundary revisions in Parliament.
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London
Ulster
Cail
Harvey in a motor crash near Cannes
American ambassador to Great Britain George Harvey narrowly escaped death in a Cannes car accident. He was riding with Richard Crane and Wyckham Steed when the axle broke, throwing Harvey onto the road. He suffered shock and bruises, with doctors predicting several days of bed rest.
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Cannes
France
George Harvey
Great Britain
Richard Crane
Czecho- Slovakia
Wyckham Steed
London Times
Harvey
Children Feared Drowned After Kishwaukee River Ice Breaks
In Kensington Illinois Roger Harris eight and Beulah Keefer seven are believed to have fallen through the Kishwaukee River ice and drowned. Rescue crews search the river with dynamite blasts used to expose the water as they seek the missing children.
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Illinois
Kensington, Ill
Roger Harris
Beulah Keefer
Kishwaukee
Robbers Caught After Seventeen Years of Crims
Chicago druggist George W. Tucker set a special watch after twenty seven robberies over seventeen years. Two more would-be robbers were caught, ending the spree.
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Chicago
George W. Tucker
Bride Exhibitions and Moroccan Wedding Customs Described
Temple Manning notes Moroccan marriage rites where the bride sits privately for seven days in her home while groom's party celebrates separately. Guests, all women, are painted and adorned, with dyed feet and jewelry, as the bride bids farewell to her family.
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Morocco
Huband
Temple Manning
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Buried Shells Threaten Allied Fields In France
An old war problem of unexploded shells endangers plowing in the Marne region. A French scientist adapted an electrical detecting instrument, used by two men to survey an acre in about an hour, locating shells near the surface to prevent fatal explosions.
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France
Marne
Academy of Science
Dust Pistols and Science Expedition Targeting Insects in Brazil
Jesse H. Williamson and John W. Strohm sail from New York aboard the Polycarp for a six month Amazon expedition. They seek to collect hitherto uncaptured zoological specimens for the University of Michigan using fine dust shot to net winged insects without serious injury, advancing beyond the Rio Tadoro toward Porto Velho and the Serra dos Parecis mountains.
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Jesse H. Wiliamson
John W. Strohm
New York
Brazil
Rio Tadoro
University of Michigan
Amazon
Porto Velho
Madeira-Mamore
Serra Dos Parecis
Ozark Efficiency in a Rural Quarrel
An Arkansas man recounts a yesterday incident where Gap Johnson says he kicked the coat of his drunken brother in law after a fight over a bottle of horse liniment. The exchange takes place as a bystander notes the confrontation near Rumpus Ridge and Kané es City Star records the local gossip.
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Ozark
Gap Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Ark
Kané
City Star
Kentucky Tops Nation in Tobacco Production
Kentucky led in tobacco, producing 46. billion cigarettes of 62. billion last year and exporting the rest. The state also grew the most tobacco while New York housed the most factories. Revenue from tobacco approached 300 million dollars.
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Kentucky
New York
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Peace Notes
Washington
Shantung
Kiaochow-Tsunanfu
China
Wellington Koo
Siberia
St. Lawrence Seaway
Great Lakes
International Joint Commission
United States
Secretary of State
Ottawa
Edward H. Shaughnessy
House Post Office Committee
Priamur
Vladivostok
Commerce Department
Tom Kelley
Paola
Kansas
San Domingo
Senate
State Department
Harding
Soviet Russia
Shipping Board
National Agricultural Conference
Seventh Reformed Church of
Grand Rapids, Mich
Maj
R. A. Haynes
National Prohibition
Journal of the American Medical Association
Frank Farrington
Illinois United Mine Workers
Lewis
Len Small
Vernon Curtis
Edward Curtis
Fred
E. Sterling
Marcus M. Henson
Otto H. Lambert
Greenbay Junction
Wis
Secretary of the Navy
Denby
Cooper Bevil
B. P. Biron
Galveston
Tex
Young Bevil
Keirsey
Durant
C. A. Jollie
Fort Reno
Oklahoma City
Jollie
Byron Warren
San Antonio
Turley
Bird Creek
Tulsa
Rhine
Coblenz
Antwerp
Cambrai
Marquis Shigenobu Okuma
Japan
Tokio
Marquis Okuma
Enoch Crowder
Allied
Europe
Havas
Russia
Strongbow
Pembroke
Henry II
Diarmid MacMurragha
MacMurragha
Leinster
Henry
Dublin Castle
Lord Edward Fitzgerald
Robert Emmet
Emmet
Theobald Wolfe Tone
Henry Grattan
Charles Stewart Parnell
Daniel O'Connell
Terence MacSwiney
Cork
Eamon de Valera
Irish National Assembly
Lincoln
New York City
Kate Coll
County Limerick
Royal College of Surgeons
Sinn Fein
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