World Trade Totals and Officials Map Postwar Shipping
Exports for May include Breadstuffs at 99.6 million rising 3 million from 1919, meat and dairy at 51 million down 42 million, cotton at 86404 bales, and mineral oils at 264.2 million gallons. U S commerce data also notes coal production, navy leadership changes, missionary capture in Turkey, and plans for Alaska visits by Daniels and Payne.
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Department of Commerce
Federal Trade Commission
Baker
Wilson
Meredith
Payne
State Department
Constantinople
Paul Nielsen
Tarsus
Nielsen
Democrats Add Women Seats to National Committee
The Democratic National Convention approved doubling the national committee and allocating one new seat to women from each state. Senator Reed of Missouri was denied a seat, while Georgia Palmer delegates were seated over the Smith-Watson faction. The platform and league of nations remain contentious as subcommittees work and a wet plank is rejected two to one.
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Credentials
Reed
Missouri
Palmer
Georgia
Smith-Watson
Platform Committee
National Committee
Cummings
Democratic Party
Robinson
Wilson
League of Nations
Harding
Hiram Johnson
Theodore Roosevelt
Benedict Arnold
Johnson
Senator Glass
Virginia
White House
Rocking Chair Proposed for Sing Sing Murderess
New York on June 20 reports Sing Sing attendants plan to give Mrs. Hattie Dixon of the Bronx a rocking chair as she awaits execution by electric chair. She complains that solitary confinement strains her nerves and seeks any relaxation, being the only inmate allowed a seat beyond a stool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Kentucky Jailer Locked Up In His Own Calaboose
Kentucky jailer Festus Whitaker of Letcher County is jailed for six months in the jail he runs after a court of appeals upheld a lower court verdict. A former Rough Rider ally of Theodore Roosevelt, Whitaker had faced a prior incident during a political campaign involving deputy jailer Dougherty Adams and county officials. The ruling directs him to serve the sentence in Whitesburg where he held keys and later locked himself out.
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Islay
Isi
Paris
Great Northern Railway
Belfast
Ireland
Lough
House of Commons
J. Austin Chamberlain
United States
Treasury
New York
Juarez
Mexico
Austria
Amsterdam
Doon
William of
Germany
Waterbury Conn
John Doe
Hamptonville
Enrico Caruso
Wesley S. Holden
Ashburnham
Mass
Worcester County
Columbus
Richard A. Watts
Adrian
Mich
Watts
Northern
New Orleans
W.T. Davis
Davis
New York State
Supreme Court
William McCue
Hell's Kitchen
Russell Sage Foundation
North Carolina
Tax Commission
Rickett
Raleigh
Ludwig C. A. K. Martens
Dover Sloan And,company
Montreal
Seymour Stedman
Chicago
Calvin Coolidge
Massachusetts
Socialist National
Knights of Columbus
Marshal Foch
Lafayette
Metz
France
Deschanel
Behelf
Lexington
Festus Whitaker
Letcher County
Whitaker
Middle West
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
San Juan Hill
Kentucky
Dougherty Adams
Adams
James Tolliver
Laurer Whitaker
Samuel Collins
Whitesburg
Court of Appeals
Plane crash near Tacoma kills father and daughter
In Lakeview Washington Frank Cogswell of Minneapolis and his five year old daughter Dorothy died when the plane they rode in plunged into a sandbank. Pilot Livingstone Wilkenson survived with injuries. Mrs. Cogswell witnessed the crash and fainted on impact after warning two weeks earlier of a dream of her husband’s death.
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Mrs. Sells
Tacoma
Wash
Frank ©. Cogswell
Minneapolis
Minn
Dorothy
Lakeview
Here
Livingstone Wilkenson
Butte Storm Deluges City With Hail and Flood
Butte endured a rare storm as hail fell rapidly for 24 minutes while sun shone. Melted hail created torrents flooding stores and the Northern Pacific depot, disrupting car service for hours. A 12-foot sidewalk washed into a basement. merchants waded waist deep and improvised dikes as hail residue stood 18 inches deep along Broadway.
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Butte
Broadway
Fatal fall shocks New York tenement scene
Mrs. Mary Gayer aged ? perished after stepping onto a fifth floor window sill in a tenement at 431 East Sixteenth Street to reach laundry lines. She fell into the court yard as her husband Henry returned and found the open window and her body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mary Gayer
Henry
Fast Sixteenth Street
California Gasoline Exports Decline Noted by Standard Oil
San Francisco June 30 The Standard Oil Company denies reports of gasoline shortages for the Pacific coast saying exports are not at extortionate prices and that California remains supplied. Exports for 1920 are projected under three percent of total business versus eight percent in 1919 and eighteen and a half percent in 1918.
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San Francisco
Standard Oil Company
Frisco
Saya
Standard Ol Company
California
Pacific Coast
Standard of
Eghteen
Seven Mine Heroes Win Holmes Medals
Washington June 80 seven miners receive Holmes hero medals for rescuing coworkers in the last three years. Three survivors are John T L Bordman Daniel B lowiteh James Collins and James Diliminrk. Deceased rescuer Michael Conroy Peter Sheridan and James D Moore were from Butte.
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Washington
Joseph A. Thlmes Safety Association
Bureau of Mines
John Tl, Bordman
Butte
Mont
Daniel Blowiteh
Blwawlk, Minn
James Collins
James Diliminrk
Mullan
Idaho
Michael Conroy
Peter Sheridan
James D. Moore
Five Die In Hamburg Food Riots Amid Market Turmoil
Berlin reports food disturbances in central markets with arrests and protests by women at the chancellery over the cost of living. Five killed in Hamburg riots, troops fire in Würzburg as unrest spreads. Scheidemann says Socialists back Fehrenbach government program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
Berlin
Frankfort
Wurzburg
Konstantin Fehrenbach
Philipp Scheidemann
Eight Indicted in Bergdoll Investigation
A special grand jury in Philadelphia on June 80 returned indictments against eight persons in the Grover Bergdoll desertion case. The panel also censured Clarence Gibboney Samuel T Ansell and Edward S Bail ey for gross carelessness and urged court martial for Major Hunt and two army sergeants involved. Bench warrants were issued for four persons with known whereabouts.
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Philadelphia
Grover. Bergdoll
Clarence Gibboney
Samuel T. Ansell
Edward 8. Bailey
Washington
Bergdoll
Hunt
Governor’s Island
Cannell's Body Found in Potomac River
Thomas A. Cannell director of the public savings division of the treasury and former San Francisco editor was found drowned in the Potomac near Washington D C after a canoe trip. He had been afflicted with sleeping sickness for months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Cal
Thomas A. Cannell
Public Savings Division of
the Treasury
San Francisco
Potomac River
Washington, D. C
Sacramento Union
Cannell
Fever and teacher shortages shape Montana issues
A Montana report links Rocky Mountain spotted fever to common ticks spread by rodents and rabbits. Montana faces teacher shortages as many educators seek higher wages elsewhere and summer programs see light enrollment. A law to revive the National Guard and wool grower concerns over westward sales rounds out the state’s brief.
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Helena
B. D. Hitchcock
State Board of Health
Hitchcock
H. R. Parker
Montana
Fastern
Drewth
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Liberty
Great Northern State Bank
St.Paul
Victor Hedman
Golder Krust
Centralia
Japanese Association of America
Utah
Colorado
Nevada
Stephens
K. Kanzaki
Kanzaki
Josephus Daniels
Navy
San Diego
Rotary Club
Kansas City
Portland
Frank Valle
el Centro
Alle
A. C. Townley
National Nonpartisan League
Nonpartisan League
Spokane
Minnesota
Senator Reed
Mis
Souri
W. J. Bryan
Senator Walsh
Glass
Full Platform Committee
Subcommittee
Rocker
Murderess
Mrs. Cato Sells
Man
Oregon
Arizona
Holmes
Governors Island
Malta
Charles T. Stewart
Board of County Commissioners
Phil Greenan
Greenan
Billings
Roundup
Miles City
Sidney
Glendive
Kalispell
Plentywood
National Guard
War Department
C. H. Williams
Deer Lodge
West
Williams
East
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