Those Last Hours of the Great Conflict
Kansas Farmer recalls the final hours of World War I with vivid imagery of bombardment, gas, and the Meuse offensive. He reflects on the cost to American soldiers and the mounting longing for home after four years of war.
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Flanders
Hank Gowdy
Braves
Tommy Hitchcock
John Miljus
Varennes
Shawkey
Grand Fleet
Frank Cavanaugh
Tommy Armour
Jess Petty
Joe Tarria
Eddie Biden
Jenely Ae Overton
Wilding
Captain Chane
Bon O'Bren
Jean Bouin
Cyril Tolly
Gena ‘Tunney
Eddie Grant
Detroit News
A. E F
Powder River
Stenny
Sunflower
Meuse
America
Kansas
Arlington Memorial and the Unknown Soldier in historic context
The piece reflects on Arlington as a battlefield memorial grown into a vast monument honoring the dead from the Civil War Spanish American War Philippine Insurrection and World War I II and more. It contrasts past tranquil picnics with the somber reality of memory and asks about humanity’s unanswered questions as visitors encounter the Unknown Soldier tomb.
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Maine
Arlington
Vermont
Rappahannock
Tetacco
Pacific Coedus
In Memoriam to Soldiers and Veterans Across Generations
A memorial tribute honors soldiers and sailors from the Preveh and Indian wars through World War I. It recalls veterans of the Spanish American War, the Mexican War, the War of 1812, and later conflicts, honoring their courage and hardships endured amid frontier dangers and torture by hostile forces.
End of War Celebrations Across the World
The armistice on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month 1918 ends World War I. Jubilant crowds, bells, and parades sweep cities from Paris to Tokyo as nations rejoice and former combatants emerge to a tentative peace.
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Manis Ete
Caruso
Broadway
Megro
Grand Central Station
Kaiser
Mia Wilson
White House
Clemenceau
France
Rome
Tokyo
Europe
Washington Post
Curtis Confesses Intermediary Story in Lindbergh Case
John J. Curtis, Norfolk boat builder and self styled intermediary, admitted to Inspector Walst that his claims to meet the Lindbergh kidnappers and negotiate a deal were a complete fabrication. He said the tale was a momentary craze and that a phone call with his wife pulled him back to his senses. Curtis faced charges for giving false reports hindering the search and was held after waiving a preliminary hearing.
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John J. Curtis
Norfolk
Harry Walst
Jersey City
Po- View
Lindbergh
Curtis
Brooklyn
Frank Parzych
New Jersey
William H. Stevenx
Executine Adinee
Mercer
Marshall
Stevens
Noments
Trenton
Prominent bankers form committee to aid recovery efforts
In New York a committee of twelve bankers and industrialists was formed at the call of George L Harrision to coordinate Federal Reserve funds for business expansion. Owen D Young chairs the group which aims to work with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and other agencies to boost price recovery and prosperity.
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Federal Reserve System
New York
George L. Harrison
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Owen D. Young
Pearer Garner Proposes Relief Plan Endorsed by Rainey
A relief package proposed by Pearer Garner aims to spend 110 million pounds at the President’s discretion to relieve destitution. It also seeks a 1 billion dollar boost to the borrowing capacity of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for loans to ambitious corporate projects.
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Pearer Garner
Hig
Ann Pilin
Representative Rainey
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Ardmehte
Cotporgpe
Smith Urges Postwar Budget Reforms and Tax Plan
In a radio address SMITH outlined his platform to cure the nation’s ills. He proposed balancing the budget, a manufacturers tax to cover a 1.5 billion deficit, and cutting expenditures to an irreducible minimum. He opposed a veterans bonus and favored quick changes to the Volstead Act to allow wines and beer. He supported a bond issue for public works funded by a beer tax, opposed Hoover’s unemployment funds, and urged delaying international debt moratoriums only while a real solution is found. he called for clote [sic] the President with broader powers to extend a moratorium if needed and to suppress blocs blocking legislation.
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Fi. Smith
Hils
Hoover
Reconstruction Finance Board
Congress Considers Summer Recess Ahead of Convention
Senator Watson of Indiana proposes a June 4 to July 11 recess to clear business before the Republican national convention opens June 14. Speaker Garner objects hoping all legislation is disposed of by June 11, with a decision postponed to June 4. If work can finish by June 11 the recess plan may be dropped.
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Enator Watson
Indiana
Senate
Congress
Garner
Nations Seize No Peace on Debt at Belgrade Meeting
A Belgrade conference of the Little Entente declares that reparations payments from Humania Jugoslavia Czechoslovakia will be refused at the upcoming Lausanne parley. The group, allied with France, argues that war damages were overstated and cites potential total debts nearing 20 million dollars for Jugoslavia and about 300 million for Jacotonia, warning cancellation could impact allied relations.
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Humania
Jugoslavia
Cxechnatovata
Little Entente
Belgrade
France
Jagoslavia
Dotia
Germany
Jocotinia
Flight attempt ends with rescue near Ireland
Lee T. Reichers, an early American aviator hopeful of a transatlantic flight, departed Harbor Grace aiming for Paris with a Dublin stop. He ran into trouble over the Atlantic, was saved when the steamship President Roosevelt found him near the south coast of Ireland. Captain Fried and Chief Officer Harry Manning led the rescue.
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Lee T. Reichers
Amer
Harbor Grace
Parla
Dublin
Ireland
Roosevelt
Fried
Harry Manning
Notable deaths of Pacific coast industry leaders and allies
Ces Robert Dollar a respected dean of the whip pling and lumber trades in the Pacific coast died at his San Rafael home after weeks of illness. He was born in Scotland in 1842 and rose to leadership in his field. Rear Admiral Billard died in Washington at 58 after a short illness. Dr Boh Cla rnanid founder and president of American Flag Day association died at his Botavia home.
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Ces Robert Dollar
San Rafael
Calif
Sevral Weeks
Scotland
Quebec
Coast Guard
FL A Billerd
Washington
Oro Weela
BO. Cleranid
Nesoi
Botavia, M
Stimson Sees European Unity on Far Eastern Crisis
Secretary Stimson, fresh from Geneva, believes Europe and the United States share a path to resolve the Manchurian tension with cooperation. He expects no war from Japan or Russia and a localized showdown, while Washington frets over Sino-Japanese military strain and unsettling events in Tokyo.
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Enry L. Stimson
Geneva
Europe
United States
Uncle Sam
Japan
Russia
Washington
Sinneharia
Pope Pius IX Encyclical Charitas Chisti Against Terrorism
The encyclical Charitas Chisti urges prayer penance and mortification to detach the world from the peril of terrorism and anarchy and to endure a period of eight days of reflection and sacrifice.
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Hope Pius M1
Opening Bids in the Approach-Forcing Bridge System
The article explains that only one opening bid exists per den and details who may open based on positions. It outlines how third or fourth hand bids require stronger strength, and describes how approach-forcing bids communicate length and honor-trick information to partners. A move away from quick trick counts toward a probability-based honor-trick table is noted.
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Bartner
Bridge hand analysis of honor trick values
A note on counting honor tricks in bridge shows that lone QX or Qs plus values yield about 4 percent honor tricks when not paired with another honor in hand. It discusses Elng alone or QX or J10X as examples and explains how two such plus values accumulate.
Uncounted honors affect sult calculations in bridge style notes
The note explains that when an uncounted honor yields two honor tricks, it cannot be combined with a pin value in another sult. It references example terms and suggests cautious handling of such combinations.
Venice Rezonico Palace Acquired For Browning Tribute
Venice officials acquire the Rezonico palace on the Grand Canal once home to Browning the site where he wrote Asc ando and where he resided in October 12 1889 the palace now serves as a commemorative property linked to the poet's stay.
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Venice
Rezonico
Grand Canal
Browning
Hirachel
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