Senate Plans Recess Amid Treaty Debates and Legislation
Senate sessions focus on peace treaty and Shantung issues while the House prepares a five week recess from August 2 to September 4. Colombian treaty payment terms and ratification are pursued by the Foreign Relations Committee with speculation on President Wilson's stance. House actions include prohibition enforcement, military officer increases, and Mexico inquiry as debates continue.
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Austrians Seek Time for Peace Terms Reply
Dr Karl Kenner Austrian chancellor and peace delegation with Dr Richard Schuller arrived from Feto Kirch near the Swiss border. Ber Renner asked to extend the peace conference deadline to respond to the second part of the peace terms sent July 20.
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Ber. Renner
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Five Boys Killed by Train Near Wauwatosa Depot
Milwaukee reports four boys and one man crushed by a passenger train yesterday near Wauwatosa depot. Victims are Matt Lewandowski 12 Barney Lewandowski 11 John Niedziakowch 36 Frank Niedzinsko waki and Sigmund Niedzinsko waki. They were on the tracks when a freight train approached and crossed to the opposite track missing the passenger train.
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Sigmund Niedzin- Skowaki
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Chicago to regulate air travel over city
After three days of inquiry Corporation Counsel Ettleson says Chicago can regulate flying over its territory and will draft an ordinance. He cites municipal police power and Coke on land ownership from earth to skies as authority.
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Agricultural bill passes without rider in Senate
The Senate late yesterday approved a $34 million agricultural appropriation bill vetoed by the president over a daylight saving rider. No attempt to restore the rider was made. A minor committee amendment suspends homestead residence requirements for western drought sufferers and returns the bill to the House for concurrence or conference.
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Forestry Service
English Miners Return Likely After Government Offer
The miners federation accepted the government’s new piece rates for economy mining and urged all unions to accept and return to work. The Yorkshire miners meet today to decide their stance on the proposal.
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Yorkshire
Sugar Equalization Board Buys 27 Million Pounds Sugar
The War Department sold 27 million pounds of sugar to the United States sugar equalization board. George A. Zabriskie, board president, said abundant raw sugar means retail prices should stay under 11 cents per pound and no hoarding is needed. The board head warned profiteering dealers may have licenses revoked.
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War Department
United States Sugar Equalization Board
George A. Zabriskie
Sugar Equalization Board
Judge Rules Beer With One-Half Percent Alcohol Is Not Intoxicating
Chicago July 26. Federal Judge Page rules that beer containing one half of one percent alcohol is not necessarily intoxicating and thus subject to wartime prohibition. Government wins by clearing burden to prove intoxication, overruing Stenson Brewing Co. demurrer. case heads to trial with potential guilty plea on beer production and sale.
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Chicago Beach Riots Spark Race Fights Across District
Riots erupted in Chicago's negro district after trouble at the Twenty ninth street beach. A drowning and a probable fatal wounding were reported, with a policeman wounded and about twenty whites and blacks injured by bullets or missiles as clashes spread along Twenty ninth and State streets.
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Sharp note on Tampico affair tames Carranza
Washington reports Acting under Carranza orders Mexican authorities in Tampico struggle to capture bandits who on July 6 held up a Cheyenne bound for the United States on the Temes river and robbed its crew. Comdr FE J Finney says authorities adopt conciliatory stance and Guanales is ordered to boost safeguards for American lives and property.
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Tampico
Seattle Woman Heads Eastern Star Grand Officers
Mrs Emma P Chadwick of Seattle was elected right worthy associate grand conductress at the triennial assembly of the Order of the Eastern Star in Seattle W W Grow of St Joseph Mo was its patron Mrs Ellie Ines Chapin of Pine Meadow Conn became most worthy grand matron as other officers were advanced one step in the usual custom, the report said.
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Allied leaders demand Hungarian government change for food and blockade relief
The Paris peace conference statement warns that food, supplies, and blockade removal depend on a representative Hungarian government replacing Bela Kun. It asserts ally powers require a government that respects engagements and ceases terror, with foreign occupation ending only after armistice terms are met.
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Settlement Ends One Day Air Mail Pilot Strike
Washington July 28 Second Assistant Postmaster General Praeger reached an amicable settlement with air mail pilots who went on a one day strike last week. Pilot Charles H Anglin represents the pilots and KE Hamilton Lee is reinstated while Leon Smith is not. The weather rule was clarified to allow field managers to decide if flying is unsafe and pilots may start without the manager present if life is at risk.
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Washington
Praeger
Air Mail
Charles H. Anglin
KE. Hamilton Lee
Troops Withdrawn After Capital Rioting
Washington report says 20 regular troops have left to restore order after last week's race rioting. A provost guard remains to uphold security as street holdups persist. Maryland seeks extradition of a suspect accused of assaulting a white woman, but police fear lynching if handed over.
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Maryland
Famous Japanese Scholar Baron Mishima Passes at 90
Baron Mishima, renowned for Chinese classics in Japan, died aged 90. A pupil of Yamada Hokoku, he studied law, served as a judge, and became a professor at the Imperial University. He lectured to the crown prince and founded Misho Gakusha, enrolling over 6,000 students including General Fukushima and Baron Sakamoto.
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Japan
Yamaada Hokoku
Imperial University
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Baron Sakamoto
East and West News
Snakes Winding Around With Sentiment Theme
A literary aside ponders animal feeling as a speaker asks if snakes possess sentiment. The reply notes snakes entwine themselves as a natural behavior, hinting at metaphorical meaning without explicit emotion.
Love in a cottage may be O K but how are we to get the cottage
A fragment suggests a light note on housing or a domestic scene with a playful query about securing a cottage for two. The text implies a humorous concern over finding space and privacy in a shared living situation.
Chicago Judge Leaps Eleven Stories to Death
Chicago July 28 Judge Harry Cacanian of Cook County Juvenile Court died after leaping from the eleventh story of the county building. He fell through a skylight into the county clerk’s office, shocking staff. Authorities note recent ill health and possible brooding as factors in the act.
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Harry Cacanian
Cook County
Donlan
Retail store tests aid sales and understanding
A New York retailer installed a merchandise laboratory to test materials and workmanship. Buyers, sales staff, and the audience for the accompanying lectures witness the tests, boosting product knowledge and salesmanship. The approach reportedly yields high results and may be adopted by other stores.
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New York
Know Thyself Tip Fosters Inclusive Self Knowledge
A modern guide urges balanced self awareness emphasizing inclusive exploration of identity. It argues self understanding grows through diverse perspectives and practical reflection rather than rigidity.
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