Peace terms questions and postwar diplomacy notes
A digest of post Versailles tensions cites Knox warning on league covenant, Allied replies to German objections, and a June 21 deadline for Germany to accept the treaty. It also reports plans for the signing ceremony, influenza fears, and railcar liquor restrictions, plus a river drowning and air delivery of newspapers.
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Germany
Versailles
Dagoe
Chateau Versailles
Clemenceau
Council of Five
Turmoil Across Border as US Troops Engage Villa Factions
Northern Mexico remains tense amid U S punitive expedition against Villa forces near Juarez with fears of reprisals on Americans. Reports say 50 Villistas killed and prisoners taken as US troops repulse rebels at the Juarez race track.
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Mexico
el Paso
Villa
Juarez
Juarez Race Track
Washington Leaders Push Postwar Plans and Paced Reform
Representative Hahn delays army reorganization until General Pershing and officers return from Europe. Attorney General Palmer warns radicals at Georgetown commencement. Secretary Babson tells Senate of a 509000 man army until policy settles. Wilson plans a nationwide tour to push league covenant ratification. Railroad data show rising traffic and a 64 percent West region increase over last year.
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Washington
Hahn
House Military Committee
General Pershing
Europe
Palmer
Georgetown University
Wilson
Senate
Paris
The
Railroad Administration
Central West
Ohio Ratifies Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment
The Ohio general assembly ratified the federal woman suffrage amendment and moved a bill to grant Ohio women presidential electors in 1920 if the federal amendment is not yet in effect. Mayor Wallace M. Bhort was the
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Ohio General Assembly
Ohio
Missouri approves twenty one children code bills
Governor Gardner signed twenty one children code measures aimed at delinquent, dependent and defective youths. Key education acts include compulsory school attendance for ages 7 to 16, with exceptions for completed eighth grade, and other reforms enacted by the 50th General Assembly.
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Jefferson City
Gardner
Children’s Code Commission
50Th General Assembly
Rhodes
FE. Cave
Lucille B. Lowenstein
St. Louis
St. Charles Waterworks Chief Suspended by Mayor
August H. Schone the superintendent of the municipal waterworks in St. Charles was suspended by Mayor Ringe while an investigation proceeds into alleged improper coal accounting and use of city paid labor for private purposes.
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August H. Schone
St. Charles
Ringe
Rosser Dies After Live-Wire Contact in Fayette
Fayette Mo William E Rosser wire chief for the Bell Telephone Company was fatally burned when he touched a live wire of the Fayette Electric Light Company during repairs He died in a Moberly hospital J F Hendrix who pulled him free was badly shocked
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Fayette
William E. Rosser
Bell Telephone Company
Fayette Electric
Moberly
J. F. Hendrix
Rosser
Jefferson City prepares for midnight prohibition at month end
Central Missouri readies for a statewide local option prohibition at midnight June 30. The city has long drawn residents seeking alcohol restrictions amid surrounding counties where wets are popular.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
McBaine Named Dean of Missouri Law School
J P McBaine formerly of St Louis has been appointed dean of the school of law at the University of Missouri by the board of curators. The Missouri Federation of Commercial Clubs meets June 25 in Jefferson City to discuss the educational outlook. Farmers in Missouri begin harvesting wheat with estimates exceeding 71,000,000 bushels.
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United States
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Bulletin
E. G. Lewis
Regents Mercantile Corporation
Atascadero
Cal
John Lewis
St. Louis
Ardeman
Circuit Court
Clayton
St. Louis County
Woman’s Magazine
Woman's Magazine
United States Post Office
University City
J. P. McBaine
Columbia
School of Law
University of Missouri
Commercial Clube
Jefferson City
State Federation of Commercial Clubs
Missouri
Missouri Equal Suffrage League
Brookings announces immediate funds for pharmacology endowment
Robert S. Brookings president of the university corporation said Washington University would immediately provide 159000 dollars to match a like sum from the General Education Board toward a 360000 dollar endowment for the university medical school pharmacology department.
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Sth
Washington University
St. Louis
Robert S. Brookings
University Corporation
General Education Board
Department of Pharmacology
University , Medical School
Disappearing suitcase whiskey valued at forty five dollars
In Columbia Missouri a young man asked W A Billingsley in Union Station to carry his grip. He then went to a saloon and vanished with a suitcase containing 12 quart bottles of whiskey valued at 45 dollars.
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St. Louis
W. A. Billingsley
Columbia
Union Station
Billingsley
Bill
Missouri men commissioned in the Navy list
The Missouri men commissioned in the navy are Robert W. Anderson Hancock Walter W Graves Jr Jefferson City Lloyd W Howard Char lis George B Lester Humansville Stephen M Paine Kirksville James E Thomas Joplin Charles H Mahony St Joseph David M Simmons Advance Rex E Dewhirst St Louis and Ray E Gaugh Moberly.
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Missouri
Navy
Robert W. Anderson
Hancock
Walter W. Graves, Jr
Jefferson City
Lloyd W. Howard
Charlis
George B. Lester
Humansville
Stephen M. Paine
Kirksville
James E. Thomas
Joplin
Charles H. Mahony
St. Joseph
David M. Simmons
Advance
Rex. E. Dewhirst
St. Louis
Ray E. Gaugh
Moberly
Missouri School for the Deaf elects new officers
Fulton Missouri board of managers chose two year terms naming Superintendent J. S. Morrison Steward R. B. McVeigh Matron Mrs Stella Martin Physician Dr R. N. Crews and Treasurer P. J. Piermann. Several teaching staff changes were also made.
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Fulton, Mo
Board of Managers of
Missouri School For the Deaf
J. S. Morrison
R. B. McVeigh
Stella Martin
R. N. Crews
P. J. Piermann
Capt. Hawes Declines Senate Run and Party Reorganization
Capt. Hawes told our correspondent he will not be a candidate for the United States senate and will not undertake a reorganization of the Democratic party in Missouri. The remarks emphasize his stance on national and state political duties.
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Capt. Hawes
United States Senate
Democratic
Missouri
Insurance Increase Denied in Missouri Supreme Court
Missouri Supreme Court rules against 147 fire insurers seeking a flat 10 percent rate hike. In a separate brief item from Richmond, 16 year old Rose May Bowers earned a $16 bounty by crawling into a wolf den and killing a mother wolf and five cubs.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Supreme Court
Richmond
Rose May Bowers
Effort to Bring National Conservatory to St Louis
Kansas City Mrs Hugh Ward is appointed chairman of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Democratic national committee for Missouri. The bill in congress would provide for five national conservatories of music and aim to place one in St Louis.
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St. Louis
Congress
Kansas City
Hugh Ward
Democratic National Committee
Flat River Editor Arrested for Obtaining Money Under False Pretenses
In Flat River Missouri the editor was arrested on accusations of obtaining money under false pretenses while managing a local newspaper. The report notes community concerns amid church opposition to the dry law and other statewide happenings.
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Flat River
Church
Carthage
Missouri Christian Church Convention
Wilson
Congress
Rumpus Ridge Resident Trades News in Tomlinville
An exchange between acquaintances in Tomlinville highlights a cheerful Gap Johnson boasting about family illnesses weathered by “finer’n frog hair” and misfortunes such as a lightning strike, a broken arm, a near shooting, and a punctured car, while noting recent horse and hound trading and resilient spirit.
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Gap
Rumpus Ridge
Tomlinville
Gap Johnson
Kansas City Star
Boy seeks his father in a hurried hillside encounter
A rushed encounter on a hill ends with a breathless boy asking a stranger if he knows his father. The boy looks for his pa in a moment of urgency, insisting the speaker knows him, creating a brief moment of comic misunderstanding.
Long-warren Philadelphia lawyer’s costly speech ends at bar
A retired Philadelphia lawyer famed for long arguments once delivered six hours of oratory until an opposing counsel lent a note inviting him to a hotel with rare bourbon. Reading it, the speaker paused, then left the case to the jury, heading toward the hotel bar.
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Eatonic
Fatonic
H. Murphy
Philadelphia
Jack
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Alcock
Kankakee
Aurora
Reva Bourlin
Jones City
Oklahoma County
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Stormy Mountain
Calgary
Berlin
Marshall
Atlantic
Jack Alcock
Arthur Whitten Brown
United States Army Quartermaster
Socialist Congress
Babee
Senate Military Committee
Wallace M. Bhort
Sesston
Walter McNab Miller
George Gelhorn
Washington U
School For Deaf Election
National Opera House
George H. Moore
Internal Revenue
Clinton, Mo
Estaline Haynie
Loa
Libby
McNeill & Libby
Chicago
Dandruff
Caticura
Enon
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