Notable World News Highlights Span Labor Strife and Politico Shifts
A long list of world events includes the death of Dr. Simon N Patten, labor tensions with President Harding and the Railway Employees association, and the Italian Order of the Crown honoring Major General Harry L Rogers. Reports note coal and railroad controls, anti profiteering efforts, and travel plans of Vice President Coolidge amid ongoing strikes. Also covered are hospital site selections for veterans, shipping board finances, and various local incidents across the United States.
Multiple World News Snippets Across Europe and Americas
A derailed mail coach near Gaudix Morocco killed three aboard. Bulgaria ordered to pay 4.08 billion leva under peace terms. Afghan army leader Djema Pasha assassinated. two Armenians charged. Patagonian unrest drives Americans and Brits home per Hunziker. London notes US cooperation to curb liquor running via Bermuda and Bahamas. Free State forces claim 10 mile front in Ireland. Belgrade ratifies US loan of 100.48 million. Palestine and Syrian mandates confirmed by League council. Lloyd George abandons US visit plans amid European crisis.
Iowa City banker Patrick I Dalton dies at 84
Obituary notices Patrick I Dalton aged 84 banker and landowner near Mars Iowa dies. Other notes report The First Church of Christ Scientist of Iowa City buying land for a large church project. Outlook includes farm news on sheep losses to dogs near Marshalltown grain samples for state fair and Civil War era.
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Patrick I Dalton
Ie Mars
First
Church of Christ, Scientist
Iowa City
Lows City
Marshalltown
Charles Johnson
Gibson
Charles J. Malone
Cass County
College of Liberal Arts
University of Iowa
Farm Bureau
Guthrie County
Qguthhrie
Clyde Newcommer
Lae Electric Company
Grand River
Martin Severson
Waukon
Trafic
Creston Hopkins & St. Joseph
Burlington
Gerrit Bysink
Pella
Jasper County
Humboldt
Marshall County
Europa
James C. Sanders
Iowa State Penitentiary
Fort Madison
Avoca
Joseph Stewart
Nevada
James Schellhorn
Ken & Logan
Traer
A. R. Stout
Chris Aeney
Tipton
Farragut
Ezra Sarver
Shenandoah
James Norman Hall
W. Han
Iceland
A Vanderburg
A. Roberts
Louis C. Larson
Harding
Mazon City
J. R. Harding
E. C. Harding
Agais
A. M.o'neill
Agricultural College
Amés
A. W. Goke
United States Bureau of Soil
Floyd County
Hil
Elwood
Cedar Rapida
H. A. Tooke
Clinton County
Coal Shortage Presses Government to Act on Mines
Officials say coal shortages from strikes threaten harvests with ten days of supply left. Federation calls for government seizure and operation of mines while a federal coal commission is discussed. Major figures in Washington Philadelphia and Lansing urge action to prevent profiteering and ease shortages.
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Qghienzo
American Wann Bureau Federation
Federation
Rederation
Washington
Harding
O. K
Borah
Senate Labor
Commission
Philadelphia
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lansing
Mich
Alex. J. Groesbeck
Michigan
Herbert Hoover
TWO AIRMEN FALL TO DEATH
Two airmen, First Lieutenant R H Stackhouse and Second Lieutenant Taylor H Monroe, were killed when their aircraft crashed five miles north of Teantoul Ti after dropping from 500 feet. Stackhouse, a Chanute Field regular, was married. his widow lived in Paxton Illinois. Monroe, from Detroit, had been at Chanute Field 16 days for special work.
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Teantoul
R. H. Stackhouse
Taylor H. Monroe
Here
Stackhouse
Chanute Field
Monroe Nved
Detroit
Chanute Feld
Paxton
Monroe
Tar and Feather Farmer Faces Fines in Michigan
Kalamazoo July 20 Justice Herman Simmenann of Haat Sangatuck fined participants in a tar and feathering incident against Bert Lenters a farmer over alleged gossip about relations involving a church young woman and a minister. Lumber Men Fear Bail Embargo in Portland fears a railroad embargo triggers lumber space battles as steamship MNnea shifts cargo for months.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Herman Simmenann
Haat Sangatuck
Bert Lenters
Saugatuck
Portland
Ore
Mnnea
Pacific
Atlantic
Only Woman Major in Army Holds Pioneering Nursing Roles
Major Julia Q. Stimson, the only woman major in the U S Army, served as chief nurse of the American Red Cross in Paris and later directed the American expeditionary forces nursing service with 10 000 nurses. She became superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps and head of the School of Nursing, born in Worcester Massachusetts and a Vassar graduate. She first went overseas as chief nurse of the St Louis unit base hospital No 21 and has many awards for wartime service. Her recent honor included christening the army transport Chaumont, where General Pershing attended and she spilled champagne on his uniform.
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Army Rune Corps
Army School of Nursing
United States Army
Julia Q. Stimson
American Red Cross
Paris
American ‘Expe ‘Ditionary Forces
St Louis
Base Hospital No. 21
Chaumont
Pershing
Stimson
Buck Privates Shrink in U S Army as Cuts Continue
The article notes a shrinking number of buck privates in the U S Army as size reductions reduce the ranks. It cites about 26,000 unspecialized bucks remaining, with 47,837 men in foot regiments and over 63,000 enlisted in Infantry at war start in April 1917. It warns further reductions would trim officers pay and leave, leaving a framework of specialists with few bayonet-wielding bucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Army
Prefers March as 'Buck' General McMaken Recalls Parade
William V. McMaken of Toledo recalls his World War I service as brigadier general in the Thirty-seventh division and notes he dislikes marching in the rear. He recounts a 1920 Cleveland American Legion parade rebuke for not “dressing right” and admits occasional embarrassment from such remarks.
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William V. McMaken
Toledo
American Legion
Cleveland
McMaken
Mr. McMahen
Carrying On With the American Legion
A memorial to the marines who were once students at the University of Minnesota was unveiled on campus. An island in the Moumes river, 200 miles from Toledo, Ohio, was purchased by a Toledo American Legion Post to be used as a vacation resort. Athletic and playground equipment for seven Buck County Pennsylvania playgrounds was presented to communities by the American Legion. A special troop of Boy Scouts unable to pay entrance fees received uniforms and equipment from the Legion at Ottumwa, Iowa. The $800,000 remaining unexpended after New Jersey state bonus payments to former service men may be used by the Legion to provide hospital accommodations for incapacitated ex-soldiers.
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The
University of Minnesota
University
Moumes River
Toledo
American Legion
Buck's County
Pennsylvania
Scout Organization
Ottumwa, Ta
New Jersey
Four Men Hanged After Store Killing in Duran
Mrs. Anton Coury witnessed the execution of four men who killed her husband in his store at Estancia. Coury, wounded in the attack, observed the hangings in Albuquerque on July 20 as authorities carried out the sentence.
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Wigew
Albuquerque
Anton Coury
Estancia
Duran
Proposal Confusion Sparks Quiet Confrontation
A tense exchange reveals a proposal misunderstanding as one person insists the other proposed, denies refusal, and notes that the offer was accepted by silence. The dialogue centers on social pressure and perceived consent.
Flowers for Luck in Swiss Alpine Cow Drive
A folkloric note from Switzerland describes the summer pasture move where the lead cow wears a bell and is garlanded with flowers as a sign of good luck for the herd and herding ritual.
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Switzerland
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Simon N. Patten
Department of Political Economy
University of Pennsylvania
Sandwich
Northwestern
United States
Hares
Department of Labor
Warding
Sabway Employees’ Publicity Association
Order of the Crown
Harry L. Rogers
Army
Railway Employees' Publicity Association
St. Cloud
Minn
Railroad Labor Board
White House
Quaver
Daugherty
Department of Labor At
Coolidge
San Francisco
American Bar Association
Shipping Board
Lasker
Tne
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Central of Georgia Railroad
Southern Railroad
Chattanoega
Tenn
Milton R. Mackall
Fort McHenry Hospital
Baltimore
Mil
New York
Nelmar Richman
Union Mills
Laporte
Ind
Ley Conitz
Chicago
Big Eastern
Griswald
Wiliam Dwight
Hamilton County
Electra Uzed
Nashville
Eeith Rockefeller McCormick
Lake Forest
United States Prohibition
Marahal
Robert J. Levy
James Henry de Rothschild
Baron Henry de Rothschild
James. Bridgewood
Ernest H. Haines
Weather Bureau
Harbor Springs
Edward J. Martin
Great Lakes
Milwaukee
State Bank of
Rutledge Lumber Company
Marble Creek
St. Joe Forest
Missoula
Mont
Venis Walters
Florence
M. W. Savage Factories, Inc
Minneapolis
Henry J. Reilly
148Th Field Artillery
Legion of Honor
George O’connor
Oshkosh
Wis
State Board of Agriculture
Kansas
Topeka
Foreign
Sabat
Casablanca
Morocco
Gaudix
Bulgaria
Djema Pasha
Marige
Saya
Tulia
Patagonia
George E. Hunziker
New Orleans
Rio Gallegos
London
Bermuda
Bahamas
Ballinglough
Ballyhuns
Waterford
Limerick
Dublin
Belgrade
Finnl
Council of the League of Nations
Lloyd George
Hawkeye . State News
American Farm Bus
Reau
Rantoul
TAR and Feather
Julia
Stison
Baan
Scheel Nursing
Red Crass
U. S. Army
Ohio
Orlal Cake
Colgate
Cotcars
Seregs
R. D
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Poe Tages General
Pike Radiotates
Radio Publishing. Corporation Incorporated Dept
Madison Ave
New York City
Holland
Wilhelm Tata
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