International Temperance Congress Opens in Washington
Prohibition advocates and leaders gather for the world's temperance congress linked to the Anti-Saloon League of America nineteenth annual convention in Washington. Delegates from principal countries discuss a global campaign against liquor and plan enforcement of nationwide prohibition ahead of possible wartime act changes.
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Washington
Anti-Saloon League of America
League
Congress
Cats Helped Britain Fight Huns With Gas Detectors
During World War II era reports claim Britain enlisted millions of cats to detect poison gas and clear trenches. Cats aided by warning of gas presence and by scavenging rats and vermin in frontline dugouts across London and other cities.
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Britain
Tondon
Balks at Revolution in Labor History
The piece argues that organized labor resists red flag concepts and I. W. W. influence. It cites Seattle as proof that reformers cannot align with radical methods. It questions the impact on collective bargaining and capital if wage systems are erased and warns AFL leaders balk at affiliation with radical movements.
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Seattle
Sw.w. Ism
I. W. W. Ism
American Federation of Labor
Xeen
Notable quote on class, property, and Bolshevist critique
The passage argues that those who save in homes or land cannot be Bolshevists because they join the despised bourgeoisie, the property owning class the Reds seek to exterminate. It frames savings as a bourgeois trait provoking elimination.
Property rights in Hell questioned at House of Lords hearing
At a House of Lords coal commission session miner reader Bob Smillie pressed economist Sydney Webb on land ownership of coal beneath feet and even the interior earth. Webb acknowledged legal limits to landlord claims as questions turned to Hades and air rights.
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Coal Commission
House of Lords
Hades
Bob Smillie
Sydney Webb
Smillie
Webb
England
Conceptualizing Property Across Realms and Distances
The passage ponders ownership across dimensions noting a 50 foot lot in Hades would be a single spark while elevated heaven property could extend to several solar systems, linking value to location and altitude in a speculative framework.
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Hades
Heaven
Woman survives brutal attack by husband then killer ends own life
In Newcastle Wyoming on June 3 Mrs. D. Keef recounts a fatal midnight assault by her husband Keef a homesteader of Howard district who stabbed and bludgeoned her then fed poison to the victim as she feigned death Keef shot himself after discovering she lived He died two hours later leaving nine children and a grieving widow
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Newcastle
Wyo
Alory
D. Keef
Howard
Keef
Koef
Uveir
Ey Keef
Tuberculin Test to be Applied in Park
Deputy State Veterinarian W L Hammond leaves for Park county to test about 425 head of dairy cattle near Powell with tuberculin.
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W. L. Hammond
Park County
Powell
Brotherhood Trainmen Re-Elect Lee in Columbus Convention
W. R. Lee of Cleveland was re-elected president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen at its triennial convention in Columbus with no opposition. Other officers were also re-elected.
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Columbus
Lee
Cleveland
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
How Not to Treat Inner Tubes Theme
An educational campaign by B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company warns drivers on proper inner tube handling to extend service life. It cites risks from hurried tube replacement, pinching, twisting, wrinkling, and improper valve stem positioning, advising careful, gradual inflation before mounting.
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B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company
Qoodrich Company
Tire assembly instructions from Sherman Co catalog
The passage describes side and stem orientation kept inside the casing, careful taling around the tire, ensuring even distribution, and inflating before applying the bead to round it and prevent pinch while referencing window shades from Sherman Co.
Mexican Minister for Visit Washington
GAREDO Tex Jones Cancito Aguilar Mexican minister arrives here tonight and is rumored to be en route to Washington on a special mission for the Carranza government with a consulate source signaling discussions ahead in the capital.
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Associated Press
Garedo
Tex
Cancito Aguilar
Aes
Arrow
Washington
Carramga
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Cheyenne
Leader Publishing Company
Randolph Leion Albert Hearst
Carey
Organized Labor
Hell
Omaha
Nebraska
Ometa
Evits
Chaimber
Commerce
Ormnaha
Goodrich Company
James Francivente OP Eeesician
Benaphal
New York
Westchester County Hospital
Trong
Gust
Cankee
Red Blood
Stealth
A. F E. Noedel and Sands Drug Store
Sherman Co
Coca-Cola CO
Atlanta, GA
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