Gompers Condemns Bolshevism In Landmark Hard Talk
Samuel Gompers, in the federationist, denounces Bolshevism as a cruel, intolerant dictatorship. He argues Americans need no more Russia facts to judge the Soviet system and cites mass disfranchisement, labor suppression, and coercive labor practices as proof of its nature.
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Washington
Federationist
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
America
Journals of
the Nation
The
Dvil
New Trepublic
Germany
Soviet Russia
Gomperg
Hays Names G O P Body For Chicago Platform
Chicago January 80 Will Hays chairman of the Republican national committee has announced a committee to frame a platform for the national convention to be held in Chicago June 8 Members include Charles Young Hughes Taft Root Roosevelt John Hayes Hammond Pinchot Vanderlip Governor Allen of Kansas and William Allen White The committee will be a working body and will suggest thought and investigation for others The national committee recognizes the GOP must state the fundamentals of its plans for national issues in a comprehensive program of constructive measures.
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Chicago
Will H. Hays
Republican National Committee
Charles Young Hughes
Wiliam Howard Taft
Elihu Root
Theodore Roosevelt
John Hays
Hammond
Gifford Pinchot
Frank A. Vanderlip
Allen
Kansas
Willian Allen White
Hays
National Committee
Republican Party
Communists Declared Enemies of the U S by Deportation Ruling
Washington January 26 The secretary of labor ruled that membership in the Communist Party of America justifies deportation regardless of action taken to advance its aims. Englebret Pries is approved for deportation to Austria and cited as establishing precedent for other party members facing cases.
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Washington
Communist Party of America Ia
United States
Labor Whison
Englebret Pries
Austria
Wilson
Communist Party
Pries
Benjamin Buchrach
Ignace DB. Ferguson
Chicago
Cool County
Grand Jury
Communist Party of America
Churches Gain 3,000,000 Members Since 1910 Census
The Year Book of the Churches reports that U.S. church membership rose by 2,779,687 since 1910, aided by 8,518 more ministers and 6,340 church organizations. Total churches reach 243,884 with 44,700,522 members in church bodies. Sunday school participation fell by over 3.5 million. Protestant membership stands at 25,080,466 with Roman Catholics at 17,648,824. Jewish synagogue membership is about 8,260,000 and the two Mormon bodies total 404,888.
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New York
America
Bnt
Federated Council of the Churches In Christ
Naval flyer Bernard Bekhout killed at Guantanamo Bay
Lieutenant Bernard Vanderbilt Bekhout, a June 1917 Naval Academy graduate assigned to aviation on board the Nevada, died after his single seat Nieuport wrecked on a flight over Guantanamo naval station. Admiral Wilson witnessed the crash. Bekhout's mother, Mrs. John B. Morton, resides on Staten Island.
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U. S. & Pennsylvania
Guantanamo
Bernard Vanderbilt Bekhout
Guantanamo Bay
Soinace
Henry B. Wilson
Attiatice
Eckhout
Naval Academy
Nevada
John B. Morton
Staten Island
New York
Meredith to be secretary of agriculture in Wilson cabinet
President Wilson will name T. Meredith of Town to succeed Houston as secretary of agriculture and Houston will move to secretary of the treasury. Meredith, editor of Successful Farming and former publisher of the Farmera Tribune, telegraphed acceptance from Minami Iowa. Dr Hugh S Cumming of Hampton Va is picked for surgeon general to succeed Dr Rupert Blue.
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Muwin
T. Meredith
Town
Successful
Houston
Secretary of the Treasury
Carter -Glaga
Meredith Wiras
Meredith
Minami
White House
Innes Moines
Farterat Tribune
United States Senate
Iowa
Wilson
Senate
Glues
Martin
Virginia
Cumming
Hugh 8. Cumming
Hampton
Rupert Blue
Public’ Health Service
Doctor Blue
Doctor Cummng
Doctor Cumming
Hampton Roads
Europe
General Blue
Taft
Doctor Biue
Nc Health Service
Soldiers Home From France Arrival in Hoboken
The army transport Northern Pacific carrying the last American expeditionary force unit and 271 Powhatan passengers docked at Hoboken. Rocky Mountains club members greeted them with a greeting steamer and dinner as the Powhatan passengers, including eleven women and two children, were moved from the disabled ship after six days at sea. The Powhatan sailed from New York to Antwerp January 16 and was towed to Halifax by the Lady Laurier after being disabled.
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New York
Northern Pacific
France
Hoboken
Rocky Mountains Club
Bay
Quarentine
Halifax
Antwerp
Lady Laurier
Prisoners Perish in Siberia From Disease
Geneva reports that three hundred seventy five thousand of six hundred thousand Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war taken by Russians have died in Siberia from smallpox and typhus. The remaining prisoners survive only thanks to doctors from Japan, the United States, and Britain stationed along the trans Siberian railroad. Chinese physicians aid east of Lake Baikal, but Bolshevik invasion hinders efforts.
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Geneva
Siberia
Vladivostok
International Red Cross
Lake Baikal
What They Owe Uncle Sam
Accrued interest on loans to European countries totals about 823 million dollars, per a treasury table to the house wills and mews committee. Great Britain owes the most inter est at 144 thousand 440.87 dollars, with France, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Czecho Slovakia, Serbia, Roumania and Liberia also listed for amounts owed.
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Washington
House
Treasury Department
Great Britain
France
Italy
Russia
Belgium
Czecho- Slovakia
Serbia
Roumania
Liberia
Cadet shoots German minister Erzberger in Berlin
Jan 27 Berlin reports a would be assassin near the criminal courts fired three shots at Finance Minister Mathias Erzberger as he left after a hearing. One bullet wounded him in the shoulder. the student attacker O Hirschfeldt, a former cadet, was arrested. Erzberger escaped in his car with minor injuries and no fatal harm.
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Germany
Criminal Courts
Mathias Erzberger
D. Karl Helfferich
Burzberger
Berlin
Herr Erzberger
Doctor Friedlander
Criminal Court
Wraberger
German Unification Proposal Faces Bavarian Saxon Pushback
A Prussian diet led bid to unite the federation into a single German state draws strong opposition in Bavaria and Saxony. Bavarian leaders fear loss of prerogatives while only the ultra left radicals back the plan.
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Bavaria
Saxony
Berlin
League of Nations council to convene in London Feb 10
Washington reports the second council meeting of the League will be held in London around February 10 with the permanent court of international justice on the agenda. Elihu Root is named as the American member of the organizing committee, though his official appointment may wait for the United States to ratify the treaty. The subject remains under negotiations.
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Washington
Council of the League’, of Nations
London
Permanent Court of International Justice
United States
Eihu Root
United State
Austrian frontier guards guard Vienna loot items
Austrian troops and customs employees have been posted along the Swiss frontier to prevent export of gens and articles of historic interest taken from the museum of Vienna which was looted earlier. Objects of art valued at about 35,000,000 were stolen.
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Vienna
Berne
Jan
Museum of
New Rules Put On Liquor Sales
Washington June 80 The bureau of Internal revenue released a system of permits for intoxicating liquors to be used for medicine. Physicians and pharmacists must hold permits. prescriptions must be on bureau blanks except in emergencies. Hospitals and industrial stations may obtain liquor for medicinal use in emergencies.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Bureau
Roper
Cass
Algo , S
Alesis
WFEW
Saloon Men Go to Cuba
Chicago officials report a migration of former saloon keepers and bartenders to Cuba at 124 per day amid a wider exodus of workers to southern Europe and Poland. Internal Revenue Deputy Jacob Poppet warns some go for trips, others to open saloons and prepare for a future labor shortage in American industries.
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Chicago
Europe
Poland
Cuba
Jacob Poppet
Internal Revenue
Epidemic Closes Colleges in Nebraska
Lincoln Neb Jan 29 The state health department reports meningitis outbreak leads to closure of Donne College at Crete and other area schools. Public gatherings prohibited to curb spread.
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Linecoln
Neb
Donne College
Crete
State Health Department
Laugh a little less at your neighbor's troubles
A brief reflection urges restraint in judging others misfortunes and encourages turning attention inward to one's own worries and shortcomings. The adage implies humility and self awareness in daily interactions.
Instant relief nostrils open with Bly's Cream Balm
An ad promises instant relief for stuffed noses and headaches. It claims Bly's Cream Balm clears air passages by applying a small amount into the nostrils, soothing inflamed mucous membranes and providing quick relief from colds and catarrh. The copy ends with a note to purchase from a druggist and a cheeky line about Father Time in smokeless powder battles with women.
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Bly
Father Time
Hair Darkening Remedy Ad for Gray Hair
An old recipe prescribes half a pint of water with 1 oz. Boy Rum a small box of Barbo Compound and half an ounce of glycerine applied to hair twice weekly until the desired shade. It darkens gray hair gradually without coloring the scalp and leaves hair soft and glossy. It can be mixed at home at little cost.
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