Liberty Bonds May Turn Tide of High Prices
Washington reports from April 19 note improving but slow economic conditions in the United States after World War I. Officials warn that high living costs, labor unrest, and war debts persist while Congress debates soldier bonuses and tax relief.
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Women smokers blamed for rise in British tobacco use
London April 19. Growth in women smoking cited as a cause for unprecedented tobacco consumption in Great Britain in the last fiscal year. Chancellor J Austen Chamberlain announced the point while presenting the new budget in the House of Commons.
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Associated Press
Great Britain
House of Commons
J. Austen Chamberlain
President Wilson Again Calls Cabinet Meeting
President Wilson summoned his Cabinet to meet tomorrow, the second such gathering since his illness began last September. The session is expected to cover routine matters, with possible discussion of the railroad strike and various foreign and domestic issues facing the administration, after advice from his physician Dr. Cary T. Grayson.
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Wilson
Cary T. Grayson
Steamer William O'Brien in distress 500 miles east of Philadelphia
New York dispatch reports the steamer William O'Brien is taking water rapidly after signaling distress 500 miles east of Philadelphia. The Baltic relayed the radio message. no nearby vessel was sighted. The oil burner of 3,148 tons, crew of forty, left New York Thursday with 6,500 tons of coal for Rotterdam.
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Reward Offered By Belmont County For Burkhart Slayers
Belmont County Commissioners set a 2000 dollar reward for the arrest of the slayers of Augusta Burkhart and her daughter Lillian both aged widows. Sheriff offers an extra 200 dollars for crews. One suspect is detained, threats to the slayers increase as authorities tighten jail oversight and Prosecutor Dixon urges calm while pledging county resources.
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Danville Judge Orders Inquiry Into Mob Actions
Judge Charles A. Hardin convened a special grand jury in Danville to probe last Saturday night’s mob at the county courthouse aiming to seize Lucien Jenkins accused of attacking Willie Trimble seven year old son of Marcus Trimble a railroad fireman. The judge urged vigorous prosecution if guilt is proven. Grand jurors met with no indictments today but several are anticipated tomorrow. Willie Trimble remains hospitalized in Danville with his condition improving though not yet out of danger.
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Charles A. Hardin
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Ohio Republican Women to Invade Connecticut for Suffrage Approval
Forty eight Republican women one from each state will invade Connecticut on May 1 for a ten day campaign aimed at securing suffrage ratification by the Connecticut Legislature. The plan was announced by Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren Ohio and president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association. Rose Moriarty of Cleveland will represent Ohio.
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Infant found with throat cut near Hocking River
The body of a newborn girl was found in bushes by the Hocking River near Lancaster Ohio. Police and authorities including Coroner Guising County Prosecutor Fultz and Dr. Harry Gound investigate the suspected homicide tied to a nearby road incident.
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Religious fanatic pleads guilty after New York church killing
Simpkin, described as a religious fanatic who feared return to asylums, killed Dr. James Wright Markoe in St George's Episcopal Church. He confessed intent to kill J Pierpont Morgan and former Rep George B Miller. He was arraigned held without bail. He said he did it to wake the people and claimed prior escapes from Minnesota Winnipeg and Chicago asylums.
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N orwegian Hallfried Fire Damages Freighter at Bush Terminal
A fire on the freighter Norwegian Hallfried at Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, caused nitrate and newsprint loss with eight barges and lighters ignited. Damage to the ship and cargo is estimated at 1.5 million dollars as explosions and burning embers spread across the terminal.
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Legion Seeks Proclamation Against De Valera in Alabama
In Montgomery on April 19 the Birmingham Post American Legion presented resolutions asking Governor Kilby to publicly declare Eamonn De Valera persona non grata in Alabama. Kilby said he cannot issue such proclamations but would want the De Valera Sinn Fein pilgrimage to have drawn State Department attention and would order deportation if he were a State Department official.
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Birmingham Post
American Legion
Eamonn de Valera
Alabama
Kilby
de Valera
Sinn Fein
State Department
De Valera to be received as visitor not Irish president
Atlanta announces that Eamonn De Valera will be greeted by Mayor Key as a visitor to the city and not as President of the Irish Republic. His arrival is expected Friday after Baptist Tabernacle resolutions oppose recognizing him as Irish President.
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Eamonn de Valera
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Supreme Court Declares Migratory Bird Act Constitutional
Washington April 19 The migratory bird act of 1918 designed to enforce a treaty with Great Britain for protection of migratory birds was ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court.
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Washington
Great Britain
Supreme Court
Four Hold Up Bank in Early Morning Theft
Four men held up Fidelity State Bank clerks just before opening time in Minneapolis. They escaped with about $3,000 in cash and roughly $8,000 in Liberty Bonds.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Fidelity State Bank
American Silk Hose Now Barred in France
Paris reports a new French law restricting luxury imports to take effect when signed by President Deschanel. The measure bans items including English flowers Belgian fruit Antwerp market feathers jewelry and U S silk stockings popular in commerce.
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Paris
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England
Belgium
Antwerp
United States
Bryan and Marshall in Democratic Convention Power Struggle
The Democratic platform committee chair race pits Vice President Thomas R. Marshall against William Jennings Bryan. Bryan reportedly wields a metaphorical knife to block Marshall, citing old fashioned principles and alleged sympathy for wets. Marshall supporters deny any bid to alter prohibition.
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Resolutions Committee
Thomas Jefferson
Guurt Upholds Jim Grow Garg for Covington
The Supreme Court today upheld the Kentucky separate coach act requiring segregation of white and Negro passengers. It applies to the South Covington & Cincinnati Street Railway and the Cincinnati Covington & Erlanger Railway Co operating between Kentucky points. Justices Vandevanter Pitney and Day dissented in part.
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Supreme Court
Kentucky
South Covington & Cincinnati Street Railway
Cincinnati, Covington & Erlanger Railway Company
Vandevanter, Pitney and Day
Supreme Court upholds Jim Crow law in street railway case
Word from Covington reports the United States Supreme Court has sustained the validity of the Jim Crow law in the case against the South Covington Cincinnati Street Railway Company. The Kenton County Grand Jury indicted the firm for failing to provide separate cars for Black passengers, with prior rulings upholding the verdict. Attorney Blakely led the Commonwealth's prosecution through Circuit and Court of Appeals stages. Alfred C. Cassatt represented the Green Line Company at the Supreme Court, which upheld the law’s validity. Residents of Ft. Mitchell fear loss of domestic servants who refuse to ride in Jim Crow cars, as the Ft. Mitchell line shares a charter with steam railways and now must operate Jim Crow cars from Baker and Lewis streets toward Ft. Mitchell.
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All Out siders Warned as Wage Hearings Begin
Washington April 19. Railroad strikers press to present written complaints and demands for a living wage to the Railroad Labor Board, which will hold formal hearings on the wage dispute tomorrow. The board refuses to hear those who have not adopted peaceful means, while representatives insist on immediate increased pay.
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Strike Leaders Held as Walkout Collapses
Chicago dispatch reports John Grunau president of the Chicago Yard men's Association was jailed in Joliet on a $10,000 bond after a Lever Act violation arrest. R V Miller of the United Enginemen's Association faced bonds limits while others received warrants. The case set for April 24. A renewed strike threat by 35 000 freight handlers and clerks looms as wage talks resume with railroads.
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Harold B. Reading
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DuPage County
Wheaton
George A. Worrell
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Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
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Cincinnati
Chicago Board of Trade
Cost of Living Stays Flat After March High
Washington April 19 The cost of living measured by 22 food items stayed nearly unchanged for the month ending March 15, six tenths of 1 percent below January’s high. Wholesale prices for nonfood goods rose, with lumber and building materials up over 8 percent. clothing climbed about 6.4 percent from a year earlier.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Spreading City Planning Aims At Wider Area Use of Vacant Space Urged
City planning experts at Cincinnati conference call for decentralizing the business district and using empty downtown spaces. George E. Kessler of St. Louis urged spreading growth, with H. S. Shipley and Frank L. Rasthing outlining expanded transit and highway plans. Alfred Bettman and others advocated new trunk highways and cross-town connections to link hills and basins with city centers.
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Nelson P. Lewis
Board of Estimate
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Eden Park
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Newport mayor backs cap and overalls push for cost cuts
Mayor Joseph G. Hermann of Newport endorses an overall and cap club to lower living costs and hopes widespread adoption prevents hat and derby price spikes. Western Union workers form an initial “Overall Club” in blue denim, aiming to wear the uniform during and after work with plans for mass participation by Thursday.
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Joseph G. Hermann
Herbert K. Flatmnus
Water Works Department
Western Union Telegraph Company
Harry T. Humphrey
Humphrey
Potatoes Drop as Nine Carloads Reach Cincinnati Market
Potatoes arriving in Cincinnati yesterday lowered prices. Nine carloads—seven from Michigan and two from Wisconsin—caused Michigan prices to fall by $1 per 150 pound sack to $12.50 wholesale. Michigan and Rose potatoes sold at $7.25 per hundred pounds wholesale, down from $8. Red River and Ohio potatoes posted $9 per hundred pounds, down from $6.50 per bushel. Fourteen carloads were expected to unload today, likely driving prices lower.
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Red River
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Boluss Seeks Shelter On Porch From Rain
Covington police came to a scene at 132 East Tenth Street after a rainstorm drove Charles Boluss to shelter on a residence porch. A bystander notified authorities and officers found Boluss on the porch while he continued on his way.
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Peterson Seeks Aid in Finding Lost Children
Thomas Peterson of Elmwood appeared in Juvenile Court and asked A C Crouse Chief Probation Officer to help recover his two children Louis age four and Minnie age nine who disappeared with their mother eight years ago and have been living with a gypsy family in Akron.
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A. C. Crouse
Akron
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Detroit
Geddes Arrives in New York Tells British Ireland View
Sir Auckland Geddes, newly arrived British Ambassador, says England and Ireland face no quarrel in this generation. He urges nonresidents to step aside as Ireland grapples with its political future under home rule. He cites Russia, trade, and world peace as context for Britain's cautious approach.
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