Quips and Ques in a Boston Transcript Cartoon Strip
Dialogue humor reflects aging worries and social quirks with snippets about mortgage stress and memory. A playful exchange hints at thrift and skepticism while poking fun at women’s fortune and men’s disbelief. The excerpt mirrors period wit and everyday concerns.
Man Seeks Unasked Knowledge Beyond Reach
A reflective note hints that a man cannot grasp all he desires to know and remains curious about what he cannot learn. The line suggests enduring limits of understanding and the pull of the unknown.
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Ike
Bolshevik Uprising Breaks Out in Budapest Riots
Reports from Budapest, Vienna, and Paris describe Bolshevist violence as mobs attack government sites and monasteries. In Budapest alone thirty-one people are reported killed with dozens wounded as police and soldiers clash with insurgents using machine guns and airplanes. Authorities arrest Bela Kun and arrest leaders as unrest spreads to other cities.
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Bela Kun
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Repszava
Bela Ihun
Kun
Kaschau
Paris
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German disarmament and peace talks dominate postwar news
French minister Stephen Pichon says German upheaval makes quick peace necessary. Allies near agreement on reparations may seal by mid May. German assembly advances constitution as Foch allows troops to Dresden in the neutral zone to suppress communists. Wilson backs reparations to full capacity. Erzberger prison release denied by allies.
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Kurt Eisner
Bavaria
Germany
Stephen Pichon
National Assembly
Berlin
Marshal Foch
Dusseldorf
Wilson
Erzberger
German Armistice Commission
Red Cross outlines world health plans at Paris dinner
H P Davison of the American Red Cross announced international plans to expand Red Cross activities to improve public health and sanitation. He chairs a committee of five powers to propose a global program, focusing on tuberculosis nursing child welfare malaria and other infectious diseases amid calls for peace beyond borders.
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League of Nations
H. P. Davison
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Davison
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Anarchists’ dens raided in New York and Boston plot uncovered
Police and United States Secret Service arrested 14 aliens admitted anarchists and many were I W W members. A bomb plot against President Woodrow Wilson was unearthed in Boston alongside the arrests.
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Wilson
New York
United States Secret Service
Industrial Workers of the World
Woodrow Wilson
Boston
Irish Race in America Adopts Gibbons Peace Plan
The Philadelphia gathering of the Irish race in America unanimously adopts Cardinal Gibbons resolution urging the peace congress to apply self determination to Ireland and to remove any league features that threaten the Monroe Doctrine and traditional American policy.
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Cardinal Gibbons
Philadelphia
Peace Congress
Ireland
League of Nations
America
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