Legislature debates radicalism bills and war era policies
Bills introduced in the legislature tackle costs for state agencies and war time measures. Delegates, including Premier Clemenceau and President Wilson, address remit of postwar labor and crime policy as delegates from multiple nations gather to discuss the league’s practical steps and united action.
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Sunnie
Wisen
George
Presdentt Poinc
Clemoncnau
Congress
Wife Says She Witnessed Husband's Murder in Queens
Patrick O'Donnell, arrested a day after confessing to a Queens homicide, is held on the murder charge. His wife testified she was with him at his workplace when the crime occurred, and officials say the time clock corroborates her account. She described the alibi as strong, and prosecutors say he knows key details about the case.
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New York
Jam
Patrick O'Donnell
Yorkersey
Eizabeth Bary
Riddle
of Queens
O'Donnell
Paderewski Strengthens Polish Front After Cabinet Pact
Warsaw reports Paderewski gains broad support as his new cabinet forms with most factions backing the move. He eyes building a national army of up to half a million under service, replacing volunteer forces, and vows to unite Poles against Bolshevik threats with Allied arms aid and disciplined troops.
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Paderowski
Red Guards
Lemberg
Delegates Take Places for Most Important Work
In Pari January 18 delegates gathered as the world focuses on the opening events of a historic session. The assembly opens amid anticipation with officials preparing for intense discussions and foundational decisions shaping the course ahead.
Sin Feners 10 Hold Parlamen of Malcontent On Tuesday
A Dublin press conference outlined steps for a public release on ticket revocation at party headquarters. Officials from Dublin Castle weighed whether to ignore Tuesday’s gathering or preempt the assembly as legal, with a majority leaning toward ignoring the event.
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Preas
Dublin Castle
Ceutenant
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James B True Prominent in Settlement Congress Work
In Salt Lake City on January 18 Associated Press reports Representatives from several western states conference on patent issues to settle soldiers and sailors on government lands and create state settlement funds. James B True of Wyoming leads the effort with a committee including Otis Baum and Francis Cuttie, and governors and reclamation experts from Nevada New Mexico Colorado Arizona California Utah join in the push for cooperation between states and federal programs.
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Sé¢Vers
Sey Sieta
Otis K. Baum
Arizona
Francis Cuttie
California
Clyde
Dawson
Griffith
Nevada
W. ST
New Mexico
James B
Wyoming
W. R. Wallace
George Alfred Smith
National Irrigation Congress
Mile
Seymour Chase
A. Wiariffith
C. M. Reach
Oswald
Colorado
Poor beer and dock workers push up strikes across Britain
Industrial unrest grows as unions demand shorter hours and higher pay. Miners seek a 30 percent wage rise with cost of living fears. shipbuilders in Clyde and other centers campaign for a 42 hour week and $6 daily wages. Carpenters want a 47 hour week. laundry workers 40 hours. Beer shortages fuel dockside tensions and delays to the liner Adriatic's New York voyage.
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London
J. & Thomas
Poateworkers
Bock
Liverpool
Oia
New York
Wage Gongs Given Federal Employes Under WEW Plans
Washington January 18 The House passed the 1920 legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill authorizing a wage bonus of 249 for nearly all federal employees earning 2500 or less. The measure allocates about 96000000 but raises total costs to roughly 140000. Postal workers are excluded from the bill.
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House
Orier
Business
H. B
WEW
Washington
Wyoming Man Sums Discharged Soldiers Insults
Walter M. Buck, once of Cheyenne and Sheridan and later of Coalmont Colo, writes the State Leader describing a San Francisco trip with many discharged soldiers on a train. He notes insults to officers, details about foreign troops, pay dues, allotments and a new post in Balvador Silver Mines. Buck departs for Central Americas after appointment as local manager.
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Sheridan
Coalmont
Colo
Ran Francisco
United States Army
Denver
Mont
Buck
Balvador Silver Mines Company
Gentral Amorles
Departant de
Grandmother of Russian Revolution Arrives in Seattle
Catherine Hreah known as the grandmother of the Russian Revolution travels from the Orient aboard the Kara Maru and heads to Seattle before continuing to Washington and Boston. She warns nations to aid Russia or face a yoke at the peace congress, offering limited detail on future plans.
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Eed
B.C
Catherine Hreah
Orient
Seattle
Washington
Boston
Russia
Underfed Children and Potter’s Field Deaths Highlight NYC Study
Testimony from a former city agency agent reports 10,000 children cared for by New York City and 2.6 percent of the child population undernourished. He says one of every twelve deaths is buried in Potter’s Field and cites low wages for families and postal workers as contributing factors.
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Potter's Field
Associated Prods
New York
Cty
den Howes
Louis
New York City
Subscriptions Grow Amid Steady Weekend Uptake
Readers report ongoing growth in subscribers with weekly gains. January 17 added two, January 28 added two more, bringing the total to 40? and noting a rising watch list as the weekend turnout reaches 824 of 97 intended.
Job Drive Aims to Place Men in First Division Posts
Plans for a national job drive spanning Washington Oregon Idaho Mexico Wyoming and other states seek to place men in first division posts. Lawrence Wood Seattle federal director for Washington of the U S employment service says jobs should follow arrivals from transports on the coast but requires employers to offer positions.
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Ian
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Mexiana
Wyoming
Min
Lawrence Wood
Seattle
United States Employment Service
Unclear fragment reports troops in Russia and Korea control
Berlin dispatch notes starving workers and arrests in Petrograd, with troops from China and Korea involved. The armistice messages linger, and a chaotic scene unfolds in Treves after a Saturday afternoon.
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Russia
Ty Associated Press
London
Berlin
Petrograd
Ching 4
Packers Blacklist Allegations Stir Senate Hearings
Washington reports Franck I. Heney, counsel for the federal trade commission, testified that letterheads of Republican committees were used by a firm in correspondence about packers and meat prices. Senators pressed about connections between the packers and the food administration and questioned Hoover’s office actions.
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Fetorky Trade Commission
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Senate Tenements
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Hemey
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Gronva
Noth Dakota
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