Domestic and World News Highlights From The Era
A broad digest notes U S Senate ratification battles over a League of Nations treaty including Lodge reservations and possible irreconcilables. Reports of Bulgarian treaty acceptance, political shifts in New York and Philadelphia, navy pay raises, and a coast wide drive against radicals with mass detentions and resignations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Foreign Relations
League of Nations
United States
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Wilson
Germany
Sofia
Enright
New York
Forty-second Street
Wisconsin
Victor L. Berger
Communist Party
Lenox Avenue
J. E. McDonough
Irving National Bank
New York City
Navy
Daniels
Marine Corps
Pacific Coast
Centralia
Spokane
Seattle
Edward W. Brophy
Sing Sing
C. A. Richmond
Union College
Chamber of Commerce
State of New York
Palmer bill profile and political shifts of 1916
U S Attorney General Palmer drafts a bill to combat the Red peril while Carter Glass resigns as Treasury secretary to join the Virginia governor in the U S Senate. House leaders lose holiday hopes as Senate Republicans block treaty and railroad actions. La Guardia proposes buying 1090 planes for army use at up to 15 million dollars. The Prince of Wales visits the White House and Mount Vernon. President Wilson notes improving health after Queen Alexandra's note. Esch railroad bill faces sharp railroad brotherhood opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Palmer
America
Carter Glass
Secretary of the Treasury
Virginia
Senate
Martin
House
la Guardia
New York
Esch
Miners and I W W Members Arrested in Rival Efforts
Federal agents pursue alleged conspiracies in soft coal districts against a Judge Anderson injunction. Twelve Scott's Run I W W members are jailed in Morgantown. Fourteen New York men held. thirty-six sought in a massive war stamps fraud case. Train crew wage increases approved to offset slow freight pay.
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Anderson
Washington
Department of Justice
Scott's Run
Morgantown
W. Va
New York
United States Army
Fort Leavensworth
Providence
Hines
Edward W. Pickard
Mine Workers’ Union
Wilson
Princeton Ties Yale. Scheerer Dash Gives 13 6 Victory
Jim Scheerer, Princeton substitute, 6 2, grabbed a loose ball late, ran 20 yards for a touchdown and a 13 6 Princeton win over Yale in New Haven. A single ill conceived play cost Yale a hard fought game in tight competition.
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Jim” Scheerer
Princeton
New Haven
Yale
Brooklyn
Davis
Buffalo
Soldier Jones
Hod Eller
Hod
New Orleans
Martin Burke
Crescent City
Burke
Horrific Armenian Massacre Report At Urfa Reveals Munitions Use
Dr Ellis recounts a German factory based rug maker using machine guns to slaughter thousands in the Armenian quarter of Urfa. The American consul is believed killed. Also noted are Argentine loan talks, Lady Astor’s Plymouth campaign, Bolshevik advances, and railway labor politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Ellis
Urfa
Madrid
Argentina
Swain
Lady Astor
Plymouth
Bolshevikt
Omsk
Admiral Kolchak
East Ward
Dnieper
Denikine
Lloyd George
Talinn
Stert Drake
Finada
Ielix Diaz
Justa de Avila
Labor unrest and government action in 1919 crisis
The piece notes Mine Workers comply with Judge Anderson and government calls for negotiation over wage disputes, with AFL split over injunctions. It covers railroad wage talks, likely strikes, and possible Lever Act use. It also reports prohibition battles, Ohio voting against federal prohibition, and a large American Legion convention endorsing universal military training and other policy positions.
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A. F. of
Convention of American Legion
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court
Anderson
Lewis
Washington
Federation
Congress
Cummins Railroad
Cummins
Senate
American Legion
Minneapolis
Cleveland
Franklin D'Olier
Philadelphia
Legion of Honor
Victor Berger
Wisconsin
House of Representatives
California
Hawait
United States
Lanpee
Beecher Saws Wood and Hearts Opened by Neighbor
A Boston tale shows Lyman Beecher, a preacher, reshaping a rival neighbor’s opinion by sharing a chores moment. The rough old wood worker, initially bitter, becomes a staunch Beecher supporter after a casual wood-sawing encounter and a free saw trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyman Beecher
Mr. Beecher
Boston
Wood Sawyer
Cremona
Beecher
Sawyer
Why Frieda Stayed
A Sheridan Road household cook announces she will remain after declaring she cannot quit. She bought a $165 fur trimmed Paris style suit from a Michigan Street tailor and plans to stay a few more weeks to pay for it, prompting the mistress to celebrate the domestic stability.
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Frieda
Sheridan Road
Michigan Street
Chicago News
Decorated Gloves Through Fashion History
The article traces decorated gloves as a seasonal extravagance from Elizabethan embroidery with gold and gems to hawking gloves as miniature artworks. It notes Cromwellian austerity banning ornament but bringing leather fringed gauntlets, and Georgians and Victorians continuing with lace mittens and embroidered gloves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth
Cromwell
Quick Cure Poem Prompt Sparks Family Quarrel
The Louisville Courier Journal reports a domestic dispute over a poet son. A parent allegedly refused postage stamps, prompting questions about influence and support within the family dynamics.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Also Mentioned on This Page
World News
Peace Bulletins
HEWS
Representative Esch
Mus Sims
Tennessee
Ohio
Louisville
Evans
Internal Revenue Collector
Brown
R. I
Carpenter and Fitzhenry
Chicago
Nets
Internal Revenue
Ropers
John F. Kramer
Mansfield, C
Kramer
Lansing
Detroit
Poindexter
League
Russia
Castle States
Kolchak
Old Neighor
Old Beecher
West Virginia
England
Yudenitch
Antibolshevik
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