First Appearance of New Chicago Paper Launches Fight of Financial Giants
Chicago Sun debuts as daily morning paper backed by Marshall Field III in a battle for city newspaper supremacy with Col. Robert R. McCormick's Tribune. Field's vast wealth and Medill family ties loom large in a long standing Chicago press rivalry.
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Chicago
INS
Chicago Sun
The
Sun
Marshall Field, III
Chicago Morning
Col
Robert R. McCormick
Tribune
Field
America
Marshall Field
Joseph Medill
Field Pkounees
McCormick
New York
Eton
Cambridge
England
Germans dissolve Belgian National Legion of War Veterans
Berlin sources report the German occupation authorities in Belgium dissolved the Belgian National Legion of War Veterans and ordered 61 leaders court-martialed for alleged weapons munitions and anti German propaganda aimed at Belgian nationalism. The move cited caused confusion within the occupied region.
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Berlin
Belgium
National Legion of War Veterans
Cedar Rapids Firms Win Highway Contracts
Three Cedar Rapids firms were the low bidders on state highway projects in Iowa counties. The Burch Construction Co won 5.304 miles of grading north of Newton in Jasper County for 67,675.85 dollars. Gana Rapids submitted 3,715.56 for 8.914 miles of grading on a road north of Goldfield in Wright County. B L Co of Cedar Rapids bid 4,804.80 for 14 miles on highway 101 from Vinton to 105 and stockpiles on highway 30 for maintenance.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
State Highway Commission
Burch Construction Company
Newton
Jasper County
Gana Rapids
Goldfield
Wright County
B. L. Co of
Italy Blocks French Reich Collaboration
Private advices from Europe say Italy's territorial aims hinder French German cooperation. Goering reportedly refused to discuss collaboration with Petain's Vichy regime as diplomats wonder how Italy's demands would be resolved before Vichy and German governments.
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United Press
Europe
Hermann Goering
Henri Philippe Pene
Benito Musso- Petain
Italy
Axis talks urged Franco German accord amid Rostov Libyan issues
A report says a collaboration could have arranged a collaboration by rejecting last year’s permission to reach a separate armistice with France. It was argued that a single general armistice would have eased obtaining Italian understanding and forced the Axis toward a Franco German agreement quickly due to Rostov and Libyan concerns.
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Tal
France
Rostov
Lighthouse Keepers Watch Two Hours As Mine Moves On Them
In Dublin Tuskar light on rock in St. S channel beams sweep night. A globular object drifts closer and is a stray mine. For two hours keepers watch as it washes on crest and sea surges. Lifeboat sent. Keeper Scanlon dies, Cahill injured, Roddy knocked out but light shines.
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Dublin
Tuskar
St. ‘S Channel
Tuskar Rock
Tuskar Light
Patrick Scanlon
William Cahill
Peter Roddy
Golf course spending in the United States nears forty million
About forty million dollars is spent yearly in the United States on主要 public and private golf courses.
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United States
Maineo
Home Mixed Cough Relief Promises Quick Results
A vintage advertisement touts a homemade cough syrup recipe using sugar water and 2% ounces of Pinex. It claims the mix is easy enough for a child to prepare, requires no cooking, and tastes good, with a money back guarantee if not satisfactory.
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Hanes
P. H. Hangs Knirrine Company
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Welch-Cook-Beals Co
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Killian Company
Ida
Wm.tehel Bottling CO
By Claude Callan
Ben
Morris
Toyland
Wasi
Lionel
Lithoplate
Giebric
Newman
Syroco
Walnut
Coventry
Newman's
Royal Haeger Pottery
Others
Lucite
Snancon
Seaman’s
Enna Jetticks
Vanita
Staten
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