World News Highlights From 1923 Press Review
Harding dedicates a fort monument to Francis Scott Key at Fort McHenry. LaFollette attacks the Supreme Court at an AFL convention in Cincinnati. War Dept reports surplus property disposal by May 15. Congress waits on tariff and soldier bonus bills. Baltic recognition shifts, and Hoover relief noted. Central College fire destroys main building in Pella Iowa. Storms cause ship losses near Buckeye Jake. Labor conflicts loom as AFL meets in Cincinnati.
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Hiatorie
Fort McHenry
Congress
Francis Scott Key
Key
Harding
Notable Deaths and Fatalities Across Several States
Nationally known surgeon Dr Herman Tuholske died in St Louis Missouri from kidney trouble after several weeks of illness. Eleven year old Walter Allen of Prairie Grove Arkansas was instantly killed when a three inch shrapnel shell exploded while he handled it at the former military range near Camp Pike. George K Fisher vice president of a St Louis investment company was found dead with throat cut and a razor in his hand on a farm in St Louis County. Marjoria Hulbird daughter of former Vermont lieutenant governor Hulbird and Mrs Arthur Mercer killed when their automobile went over an embankment near Bethel Vermont. Col H D Loveland dean of the public utility commissioners in the United States died at his San Francisco home.
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Herman Tuholske
St. Louis, Mo
Walter Allen
Prairie Grove
Ark
Camp Pike
George K. Fisher
St. Louis
St. Lows County
Biles Marjoria Hulbird
Hulbird
Vermont
Arthur Mercer
Bethel
Col. H. D. Loveland
United States
San Francisco
Foreign charges claim Turks massacred 1900 Christians in Samsun
Telegram from London reports Turks abducted and massacred 1900 Christian women and children at Samsun two weeks prior. Dispatches from Athens say 12 British soldiers were killed by the Turks near the Dardanelles. Belfast reports famine risk for London Derry due to food line cuts. News also notes a Mexican train hold up, labor strikes in Vera Cruz and Yucatan, and Manchurian war rumors.
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Samsun
London
Dardanelles
Athens
Controversy Over Prohibition and Ship Subsidy Debate
A wide spanning discussion in Washington pits Prohibition advocates against liquor interests aboard government ships. The three mile limit, shipping subsidies, and the Volstead Act trigger intense volleys among lawmakers and interest groups led by the Anti Saloon League and Busch brewing family allies. Presidents, senators, and labor leaders weigh in as Europe’s postwar order and Russia at Genoa and The Hague influence potential policy moves.
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Clairman Lasker
Anti-Saloon League
Congress
Association Against Prohibition
Busch Family
Brewess of
St. Louis
Busch
Wayne B. Wheeler
League
Shipping Board
Haynes
Lasker
Iquar
Wous
Ohio
Jones
Washington
Russia
Bague
Germany
France
Europe
Genoa
Eoylet
Rapala
Hague
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Miemen
LaFollette
Supreme Court of the United States
American Federation of Labor
Aft
Cincinnat
War Department
Wahington
White House
Three Mile
Merchant Marine
Hardingeat Washington
Wadsworth-McKenzie
Navy
Army
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Greece
Venezuela
Lithuanian Information Bureau
Oes
Herbert Hoover
Belgium
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Senate
Central College
Pella
Topeka
Kan
Sochwesta
Indor
Clara Gilmore
Altay
Province of
Albay
P. I
Airs
Ora Bell Downs Ridgeley
North Avenue State Bank
Chicago
Wiliam Green
Cincinnati
James & McCandless
Honolulus
McCandless
George Elmer Monroe
Camden
W. J
Ida Kramer
Woodbury
Trenton
Eee
Newark
Off City
Tory
George Johnson
Chief Johnson
Des Moines
Clinton and
Adans Streets
Ralph Broder
Stockfin
Pool
Branson Millikin
William McGhee
Millikin
Hanlet
Parker-Webb Packing
Detroit
Alich
Devereaux
Springfield
Thomas A. Edison
Rutgera College
New Brunswick
N. J
Webber Grammar
Burma
Grammar
Bnd
Baylis
William Foster Mackay
Los Angeles
Cal
Mia
Cora Belle Ridgeley
Hot Springs
Ari
Assumption
Harold Bernice Miller
Grant Miller
Iowa
Bstate University
Wyaveeioo, Ane
Southern Pacific
Mexico
Hosares
Mex
Belfast
Londonderry
Glasgow
Yucatan
Carrillo
Vera Cruz
Chang Tai-lin
Wu Pul-fo
Hume
Tients
Nationalista Party
Manila
Princeton Battle
Barding
Princeton
Young America
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Corp
Boston Common
Edward W. Pickard
Velvelg
Umit
Chatrman Lasker
Mit
Lacker
Shipping Board Weagen
American Trivel
Subelay Brn
America
Rusaly
Rusela
Friends of
Austria
Hughes
Helafiy
UBA
Zhyas
Crowder
Zayas
Gompers
Chicago Federation of Labor
Conventog
Wisconsin
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