Happenings of the Past Week Condensed News Snippets
Caldwell crops are smaller than expected while some regions face drought. Spokane reports a heavy demand and limited teacher supply as agencies warn many teachers switch to higher paying fields. Kidnapping case ends with promise of return. Tacoma moves to quell a strike by city operators over wages. Charlie Chaplin’s child dies in Los Angeles. Washington labor federation meets in Seattle with new board members to be seated August 4. Yakima operators cheer attorney Alex Mackel’s union stance. A Stockton man dies after a car crash. his son was driving. Mrs. Mooney seeks audience with the President over her husband’s California sentence. Burleson’s name surfaces in Riggs bank suit dating to 1916. Yellowstone traffic rises via the Black and Yellow Trail. Mandan reports Missouri Slope fair dates and Sept 16–18. Nebraska seeks harvest hands at 50 cents per hour. Johnston and Hardy win a doubles match in Cincinnati. Chicago association backs patriotic campaign against radicalism. next convention in Denver. Ford reorganization leaves Edsel Ford as sole partner with his father. Four white men wounded in Longview Texas in an attack on a black neighborhood. Gompers sails to Holland for union congress. Fire damages Corn Products plant at Edgewater, New Jersey. Mexican peso falls to 40 cents in New York reports. Elks ruler Rain urges anti Bolshevism. no funds for Russian notes interest.
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Caldwell
Idaho
Spokane
Harry Eamons
New Westminster
B. C
Wenatchee
Wash
Seattle
Yakima
Alex Mackel
Henry M. Casselis
Stockton
Cal
Rena Mooney
Thomas Mooney
White House
Tumulty
Wilson
California
Burleson
Riggs National Bank of
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Bank
The
Treasury
Yellowstone National Park
South Dakota
Aaron Clixby
St. Paul
Mandan
N. D
Nebraska
William Johnston
Samuel Hardy
Chicago
Cincinnati
International Association of Tions’ Clubs
Denver
Ford Motor Company
Edsel Ford
Longview
Tex
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Mauretania
Holland
International Congress of Trade Unions
Edgewater
N. OT
New York
Frank L. Rain
Elks Lodges
Atlantic City
N. J
Elks
US shipping rules loosened as wartime controls end
Washington announces end of prior restrictions on merchant ship charters and voyages. Trade with Germany to resume with blanket licenses. dyes chemicals and potash exempt. Federal measures warn of meat and food control passing to big packers if Congress delays. Various war era policies and international notes follow.
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United States
Germany
Maximilian Harden
Die Zukunte
Berlin
Wilh
Gemma
Wilson
Federal Trade Commission
Congress
Senate debates Shantung peace treaty sparks info demand
In a heated six hour session the senate clashed over the Shantung provision giving the peninsula to Japan. Lodge urged the president be asked for any information on a possible 1918 secret Japan Germany treaty tied to Russian rehabilitation.
Army Prisoners Testify on Brutality by Officers in France
Six former American soldiers told a House committee they witnessed merciless assaults on prisoners in 1918 at camps and prisons in France. They named sites such as the Bastile Stockade Prison Farm No 2 and St Ann's hotel as scenes of alleged cruelties, while noting some officers faced court martial or awaiting trial.
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Washington
Special House
France
St. Ann's Hotel
Royal Johnson
Daylight Saving Up Again Repeal Debate Resumes
Washington July 16 leaders reopen repeal fight after presidential veto. Senate and House agricultural committee leaders press for another House vote on the rider to repeal the daylight saving act. Full House agricultural committee to consider the matter today.
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Washington
House
Senate
Natural death verdict in federal agent case
Seattle July 16 after a brief deliberation the coroner s jury found Frederick A Dowsey a US shipping board special agent died of natural causes probably apoplexy and was not murdered conflicting medical testimony supported the natural death conclusion while one doctor disputed it Dowsey had been investigating alleged irregularities in the shipping board when he died federal agents will continue the inquiry
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Seattle
Frederick A. Dowsey
United States Shipping Board
Dowsey
Frank Koepfll
King County
A. M. McWhinnie
Koepfll
Shipping Board
Willontinue
Allies to resume war on Hungarians under armistice terms
Paris reports the allied and associated powers will reopen hostilities against Bela Kun's Hungarian Soviet regime. They refuse talks until the armistice conditions are met, with General DEsperny to lead the allied operations against the Hungarian Soviets.
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Paris
Bela Kun
D'Esperny
Chicago July grain prices quoted in latest market report
Chicago market notes corn No 2 mixed at 1.93 to 1.95, No 2 yellow near 1.96, oats No 2 white around 0.78 to 0.80, rye No 2 about 1.69 to 1.60, barley 1.17 to 1.29, clover listed as nominal.
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Chicago
Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts Report
July 16 Chicago livestock market report shows hog receipts 38 000 with prices 10 to 25 cents lower. heavy packing sows at 21.00 to 21.75. pigs 19 to 20.25. Cattle receipts 19 000 with varied beef and butcher prices. veal at 18.25 to 19.25. feeder and stocker steers 8.25 to 12.50. Sheep receipts 15 000 with market strong. lambs 15.50 to 17.76. ewes 7.25 to 9.50. culled animals 3 to 6.75.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Omaha Livestock Market Report Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices
Omaha Livestock market notes receipts for hogs at 12 500 with prices mostly 10 cents lower. cattle receipts 8 700 with varied changes across classes. sheep receipts 27 000 with lambs steady and sheep stronger. Prices span hogs 18 to 22, cattle beef steers 11.50 to 17, veal calves 15, stocker and feeder classes 8.50 to 13.50, lambs 15.25 to 17.50, yearlings 11.50 to 13.50, ewes 7.75 to 9.00.
Stiff fight on appropriation bill stalls House
Washington July 16 Republicans forced adjournment after a bitter partisan clash over the sundry civil appropriation bill. Leaders on both sides called it the most bitter parliamentary mixup in years as objections from the president halted progress on the measure.
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Washington
Pershing Leads Americans in Paris Parade of War Return
In Paris on July 15 a grand parade featured a thousand wounded soldiers leading the procession in civilian dress. General Pershing rode at the head of four American companies, with Marshal Foch and Marshal Joffre among the veterans lauded by cheering crowds.
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Paris
Poincare
Arc d'Triomphe
Premier Clemenceau
Lorraine
Edmund Gros
Lafayette Escadrile
Marshal Joffre
Marne
Marshal Foch
Brillant Avenue
Gen
J. C. Pershing
General Pershing
Highter
Babcock
Twe
Milwaukee Locomotive Starts Forty Blazes in Four Forest Fires
Missoula dispatch reports extreme forest dryness as a coal burning Milwaukee locomotive sparked 80 to 40 fires in district No 1. Fires to nine locations include Nine Mile prairie Black Pine mine and Selway Idaho near Graves Peak. Forty five men battle a RatQesimke valley blaze with a six mile trail, with Swartz creek and Rock creek fire reports favorable and Flathead fires improving.
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Missoula
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Nine Mile Prairie
Black Pine Mine
Philipsburg
Missoula Forest
Selway Forest
Idaho
Graves Peak
Helena Forest
Ten Miles Canyon
Darby
Montana
RatQesimke
Swartz Creek
Rock Creek
Wage increase offered to Butte miners and Anaconda workers
After talks between union reps and mining firms led by AL Kelley of the Armaconda company, employers proposed a $1 daily wage rise. If accepted, miners would earn $5.77, first class engineers $7, journeymen $6.50, laborers $5, with smeltermen in proportion, applying also to Great Falls and Anaconda workers. The raise hinges on jurisdiction settlements between metal trades groups and the Moyer organization.
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Butte
AL Kelley
Armaconda Company
International Union of Mine, Mile and Smelter Workers
Moyer Organization
Mill
Shelteriuien
Anaconda Company
Great Falls
Anaconda
Troopers Stop Rioting in Rome Strike Clashes
Mounted state troops patrol Rome near metal plants where 4,000 workers are on strike. Police arrested 30 to 40 strikers and sympathizers for carrying concealed weapons or refusing to disperse. No serious injuries reported.
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Rome
No Y
Montana state lands bring in good price despite drought
In two auctions, Sidney Miller and helper George B Hopkins sold 6,968 acres of state lands for 117,830 dollars. Non irrigated tracts fetched up to 45 dollars an acre, with Livingston sale totaling 3,160 acres for 77,022 dollars and Ble Thober Mir offering 3,808 acres for 60,808 dollars.
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Helena
Montana
Drouth
Sidney Miller
State Lands
George B. Hopkins
Livingston
Miller
Hunters Hot Springs
Ble Thober Mir
Big Tlinber
Water rationing hits Helena outskirts as supply dries
Parts of Helena face severe water shortages with no drinking water during sprinkling hours. Residents must fetch washing water before 6 00 am or wait until after 8 00 pm. Irrigating hours were cut to three evenings weekly with west side limited to three days and east side to alternate days. No irrigation on Sundays as council warns Helena could lose irrigation and be reduced to drinking water only.
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Helena
West Side
East Side
Road Material Rates Cut Allows Car Lot Shipments
The United States Railroad Administration informs the state railroad commission of a 10 percent freight rate reduction for road material. To qualify, material must be shipped in car lots under the order of federal, state, county, parish, township, or municipal authorities.
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Helena
United States Railroad Administration
State Railroad Commission
Democrats Open Western Campaign Office in Butte
J Bruce Kremer vice chairman of the Democratic national committee announced the temporary western headquarters would be set up in Butte this week. A permanent site will be chosen later as the West becomes a pivotal battleground ahead of Homer S Cummins visit.
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Butte
J. Bruce Kremer
Democratic National Committee
Homer 8S. Cummins
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