Hawker and Grieve Rescued At Sea In Transatlantic Attempt
Harry Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie Grieve were rescued at sea after engine trouble halted their May 18 Atlantic crossing attempt from St Johns to Britain. They rode the Mary for an hour and a half, both in good health, as officials cancel a $50,000 Daily Mall prize and announce a $25,000 consolation award to the two aviators.
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London
Harry G. Hawker
Mackenzie Grieve
Atlantic Ocean
St. Johns
N. F
Scotland
Admirality
Mary
Hawker
Grieve
Lord Northcliffe
Daily Mall
Mall
Britain
Newfoundland
Atlantic
Virginia Burned in Potomac River Fire Tragedy
The old bay liner Virginia carrying 166 passengers and freight from Baltimore to Norfolk burned to the water near the Potomac mouth Saturday night. Fifteen passengers died. Alfred Coleman, a Black man, was arrested by federal authorities on arson charges after a stevedore swore out the warrant.
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Baltimore
Norfolk
Potomac River
Alfred Coleman
Virginia
Wartime Law Held Illegal in Denver Probate Fight
Judge Ira Rothgerber denied the alien property custodian’s demand for control of four estates probated in Denver county court. He ruled that even during war the U.S. Constitution does not grant Congress the power to revoke rights granted under the Constitution.
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Denver
Germany
Ira Rothgerber
United States
Congress
York Proclaimed Greatest Soldier at Tennessee Dinner
Sergeant Alvin York, famed Medal of Honor recipient for his World War I feats, was lauded as the greatest soldier in history at a Friday night dinner held by the Tennessee Society in New York. The event honored his heroism, including his war deeds praised by attendees.
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New York
Alvin ©. York
Tennessee Society
Wilson signals no mandate for Constantinople Turkey
Paris reports President Wilson informed the council of four that the United States may refuse a Turkish mandate if Congress disapproves. A possible plan would place Constantinople under an international committee, or assign the mandate to Greece with great power backing if needed.
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Paris
Wilson
Council of Four
United States
Constantinople
Turkey
Congress
Europe
Great Britain
France
Italy
Greece
Venizelos
Lef i
Hines Seeks Huge Rail Administration Funds for 1918 19
Washington Direct or General Hines asked for 1.2 billion more, on top of 500 million already provided, bringing total requested and appropriated to 1.7 billion for the railroad administration’s 1918 19 operations. He said about 1.214 billion would be returned to the government, including working capital and advances to railroad corporations, and attributed 1918 19 deficits to war and postwar conditions while offering no forecast for remaining year results.
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Washington
Railroad Administration
Hines
Canadian Strike Spreads Through Calgary Unions
Calgary union workers voted four to one to strike in sympathy with Winnipeg action. Most unions affiliated with the trades and council participate while essential services like fire police and milk bread delivery continue. hotel and restaurant staff were urged to remain at work.
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Calgary
Alberta
Winnipeg
Trades and Council
May Move to Repeal Daylight Saving Act
Washington considers removing daylight saving via a farm appropriations bill draft by a subcommittee of the agriculture committee.
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Washington
Agriculture Committee
Bolsheviks Evacuate Moscow as Typhus Ravages City
Reports from Helsinki and Petrograd indicate Bolshevik evacuation of Moscow amid a raging typhus outbreak. Central Russian rail links are dismantled to reroute main lines, with Bolshevik losses totaling thousands of prisoners and dozens of guns, plus captured armored trains.
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London
Moscow
Petrograd
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Russia
Helsinigfors
Daily Mail
Gabhina
Thier
War department cannon requests flood Congress
Washington debates the fate of captured German artillery as hundreds of bills seek a cannon for towns nationwide. States most eager to display the pieces include Ohio Wisconsin New Jersey and Illinois with supply limits looming over distribution.
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Washington
Secretary of War
House
Senate
Maine
Texas
Ohio
Wisconsin
New Jersey
Senate Begins Peace Debate Over League Treaty
The Senate opened a three hour debate on the peace treaty with the League of Nations. The adjourned session left the resolution to request the complete treaty text pending, while discussions touched on the merits of the league and the coming ratification fight.
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Washington
Senate
State Department
League
Coxey Again Heard From in Washington
Senator Pomerene of Ohio introduced a constitutional amendment for popular votes on amendments at the request of Jacob Coxey leader of Coxey's army.
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Coxey
Washington
Jacob
Factory explosion kills scores in Cedar Rapids
A massive blast at the Douglas starch works in Cedar Rapids Iowa killed about a score of workers and injured nearly a hundred. The plant housed 106 employees at the time of the 6 30 p m detonation which caused extensive damage to surrounding property over more than a mile radius. The blast was heard for miles and rescue efforts were hampered by ongoing fire and debris as volunteers and returning soldiers aided injured workers.
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Cedar Rapids
Ira
Douglas Starch Works
Douglas
Mannheim Bank Storm Pins Panic Over Peace Pact
Alarmed by fears Germany will not sign the peace treaty and that Allied occupation will follow Mannheim residents flooded the municipal savings bank on Thursday in a panic.
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Mannheim
Germany
Municipal Savings Bank
Photograph Eclipse from Plane Over May 2 Sky
Professor David Todd, director of Amherst College astronomical observatory, plans to photograph the solar eclipse on May 2 from a sea plane at an altitude between 10 000 and 15 000 feet.
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Washington
David Todd
Amherst College Astronomical Observatory
Return of Dead to Life in Ancient Myths and Poetry
The text reflects on resurrection themes across cultures, citing biblical passages of saints and martyrs, Greek myth with Orpheus and Eurydice, Persephone, and Japanese legend via Asia Magazine. It contrasts fleshly longing with spiritual immortality, noting how different traditions frame mortality and rebirth.
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St. Paul
Persephone
Clarimonde
Orpheus
Eurydice
Asia Magazine
Famous Trees in Capital Crowned by Lincoln Horn Beam
The Washington national botanical garden highlights include trees planted by notable figures such as Charles A. Dana, General Girwitt, Senators Hour and Evarts, Senator Crittenden, Edwin Booth, and Edwin Forrest. The most famed is Lincoln's horn beam, shading about one tenth of an acre.
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National Botanical Garden
Washington
Congress
Charles A. Dana
China
Girwitt
Hour and Evarts
Lebanon
Crittenden
Edwin Booth
Edwin Forrest
Lincoln
Goldsmiths Masterpiece Goethe Praise Prose Idyl
A confused, early modern literary note credits Goethe praising a work titled The Viedr of Wakefeld as a prose idyll. The text cites prose by a so called mnoue poet-Trullan Hill, though the wording is garbled and likely garbles author and title.
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Goethe
Wakefeld
Trullan Hill
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