Munich Turmoil Spurs Siege and Bloodshed Across Cities
Copenhagen and Paris dispatches report Munich workers pouring into the city center as riots intensify with plundering and gunfire. In Budapest a state of siege follows a Communist riot as insurgents seize Neptava and the railway station while troops retake the post office. Bavarian leaders Eisner Auer and Osel are assassinated in a wave of retaliatory violence. Poland expands offensives in Lithuania and Volhynia, with German agreement allowing political and military occupation and frontier advance toward historic bounds.
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Budapest
Paris
Zurich
Mafin
Neptava
Warsaw
Lithuania
Brest-Litovsk
Maniewicz
Volhynia
Hoffman
Poland
Pape's Diapepsin Promises Instant Dyspepsia Relief
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin tablets as instant relief for dyspepsia indigestion and stomach distress after meals. It claims the pleasant harmless tablets never fail to ease upset stomachs and cost little at drug stores, urging cheerful acceptance of discomfort.
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Pape
If Every Woman's Face Was Her Fortunes Policy
A clever quip notes that if every woman's face represented her fortune some could face arrest for counterfeiting due to signs of misrepresentation.
Ely's Cream Balm Ad Promises Instant Nasal Relief
An advertisement touts Ely's Cream Balm to open congested nostrils and clear air passages instantly. It claims quick relief from colds or catarrh by soothing swollen membranes and enabling easier breathing, urging readers to buy a small bottle from their druggist.
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Ely
Adv
Safe Gentle Remedy Cleanses Your Kidneys
The text warns about the kidneys and bladder as essential body filters and lists symptoms of kidney and urinary issues. It suggests a remedy and mentions a product labeled Medal Harte Capeals with unclear details. The readable fragments imply health claims about cleansing kidneys.
Recluse Cannot Lose His Money Again Millionaire
Chicago recluse Edward W. Morrison, once seen as a wandering millionaire, has regained wealth after court actions restored his estate. Federal inquiries revealed costly, unfounded schemes to recover bonds and questionable expenditures, while Morrison defended his right to spend. The will directs a Chicago high school if he dies childless, a fate now halted by courts and the board of education.
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Chicago
Edward W. Morrison
Edward Morrison
Joseph Burnstein
Burnstein
Landis
Douglas
Chicago Courts
Chicago Board of Education
Morrison
Congressman Borland Dies in France Hospital
Washington February 24. Representative W P Borland of Kansas City Mo is reported dead of pneumonia abroad. The Democratic congressman who served about ten years and led the drive to investigate the Packers died in Base Hospital 301 while touring the western front. He was born in Leavenworth Kan and lived mainly in Kansas City Mo.
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Washington
W. P. Borland
Kansas City
War Department
West Front
Borland
Leavenworth
Kan
Congress
Indicted in Atlanta for theft at Hemphill Avenue home
J. L. Wood was indicted in Atlanta on charges of stealing a lavaliere and a small sum of cash from a Hemphill Avenue residence where he had gone from a local undertaking establishment to arrange for the burial of the householder's mother.
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Atlanta
J. L. Wood
Hemphill Avenue
Wood
Canada
Western Sons
He Benasts
Protaras
Mente Action
Manitoba
Lee
Alberta
Splendid Ate
Callowen Cotenteseranpie
W. E. Black
Clifford Block
Grand Forks
N. Dak
M. Badilland
Dusae Block
Great Falls
Military censorship lifted on border telegraph traffic
Mil censorship of telegraph on the Mexican border has been removed. No order yet to lift postal censorship. Soldiers' Uniform Bill Agreed on. House and Senate conferees approve a bill allowing discharged personnel to keep uniforms and pay 6 cents a mile for travel home. The war revenue bill provides a $60 bonus, and the conferees drop a proposed one month’s pay for all.
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Mexico
Laredo
Tex
Mexican
United States
Washington
House
Senate
Gas used to quiet chickens in Clark County
In Springfield Ohio farmers report chicken thieves gas the coops near Buena Vista causing birds to sleep and fall from roosts. A farmer found a chicken alive after a gas incident and suspects thefts are aided by the method. In Bellefontaine a doctor reports morphine and hypodermics stolen after a note left at his office.
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Springfield
Ohio
Clark County
Buena Vista
One on Hubby and a Vocation Note
A quirky quip Exchange contrasts Mr and Mrs Benham with the line Man is only a beast of burden. The ad urges readers to seek Doctor Pierce's Pellets to regulate bowels and stomach and hints at choosing a vocation aligned with natural fitness.
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Benham
Doctor Pierce
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