Toboga Island Nominated for U S Canal Defense
Washington reports the War Department has memoed that U S possession of Toboga Island at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is required for canal defense. The State Department has raised the issue with Panama, which favors a minimal territorial take. Diplomatic efforts continue in Panama.
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Washington
Department
State Department
United States
Toboga
Pacific
Panama Canal
Panama
Freight Tieup Becomes Critical for Eastern Industry
Washington reports growing rail tieups at key eastern and midwest hubs hamper industry and delaying foods fuels and essentials. The Interstate Commerce Commission considers an embargo plan and a railroads executives conference to ease movement while labor troubles and coal shortages threaten production.
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Washington
Mid- Gievesat
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission On Car Supply
Obregon Calls For Peaceful Border With United States
In Mexico City General Alvaro Obregon, after fleeing the capital on April 11, gave his first foreign interview since joining the revolutionary forces. He urged a border policy aligned with the Canadian model, with troops withdrawn except for customs officials, and criticized Carranza’s Monroe Doctrine interpretation as mistaken though sincere in intent.
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Mexico City
Carranza
United States
Alvaro Obregon
Mexico
Canadian
State coal plea aims to keep plants open
Michigan public utilities board plans to ask federal regulators to require railroads to devote coal cars to coal transport. A delegation led by William M. Smith will travel to Washington to seek an interstate commerce commission order.
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Lansing
Michigan
Michigan Public Utilities Board
William M. Smith
Utilities Board
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Board
Slavs Agree to Fiume Settlement with Italy
A Rome dispatch reports Yugoslav foreign minister Anton Trumbitch authorized to tell Italy that Belgrade will accept Italian sovereignty over Fiume with the port controlled by the League of Nations, signaling a path to settlement.
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Buenos Aires
Jugoslava
Fiume
Anton Trumbitch
Jugoslav
Jugoslavia
la Nacion
Rome
Italy
League of Nations
Potatoes Gut of Growers Hands Keeps Prices High
Michigan crop service reports 1919 potato harvest nearly finished with only about 2 percent left on farms about 200 carloads. Seed supply is 73 percent of last year while seed scarcity labor shortages high prices and abandonment of farms influence acreage for this year.
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Lansing
Michigan Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Farma
Sale of elegant fabrics offers deep value to shoppers
Women can seize reduced prices on taf fetas crepes satins and messalines in popular colors and exquisite models. The sale emphasizes bold values with eager buyers already snapping up the best pieces as the motto She who hesitates is lost echoes through the event.
Clare and area notes highlight church, schools, and local trades
Isabella county will receive nearly $6,000 in state primary school funds this year. Clare's share is about $2,606. The Clare Examiners revoke T. Berha’s certificate for neglect and immorality. Loomis M E church forms a new choir with C. H. Hunter as chorister and Mrs. Johnson as organist. Mt. Pleasant may build a cheese factory. J. L. Littlefield of Farwell returns from tours in Tennessee and Alabama with prospects of moving there. Rumors say Clare school board may act on next year. Obscenity in school front questioned. Vernon ground too wet for plowing in parts. Death mourned for T. W. Sawyer formerly Farwell principal. Harrison discussed for incorporation. saloon funds a contention. Jos Hudson ships water for a prospective English farmhand. Hudson plans western prospecting. Mt. Pleasant Methodist dedicates new church with debts eased by liberal contributions. A son of J. W. Dunsmore of Summerfield drunk and possibly drugged in Harrison saloon. now insane. Young ladies urged to behave in church. some lack sense. R. M. McLennan buys 40 acres near Clare to farm and improve with blooded stock. A trio of rival entertainments last Monday night. printer’s show for a four-month-old mute child. Rev. M. S. Gray visits Atwood’s station on the Branch. locals present him a 220 bill. The claim that A. A. Shaver has the largest furniture store between Saginaw and Ludington is noted. N. Bicknell builds a fine residence in Vernon City.
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Clare
Isabella County
T. ©. Berha
M. E
Loomis
C. H. Hunter
Johnson
Mt. Pleasant
J. L. Littlefield
Farwell
Tennesee
Alabama
Thorge
Vernon
T. W. Sawyer
Harrison Incorporated
Jos.Huadson
Henglishman
Hudson
J. W. Dunsemore
Summerfield
Nsde
Harrison
Chuaroh
R. M. McLennan
Lamphier
Them
Gimee
M.S. Gray
Atwood
A. A. Shaver
Saginaw
Ludington
N. Bicknell
Vernon City
Community Notes Include Births and Visits Amid Local News
Sunday visits span families in West Grant Vernon and Farwell as new grandson arrives and Ines Louise becomes a visiting boarder. Local deaths, exams for seventh graders, and travel to Detroit mark a brief community roundup with condolences offered for Merrit Austin.
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Gladys Berry
West Grant
J. Davison
B. Graham
Vernon
Ines Louise
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