Open Door Policy Backed in China Telegraph Deal
A July 1 State Department note to the Chinese ministry affirms U S support for open door rights in China amid protests from Britain Japan and Denmark over the Federal Telegraph Company contract for wireless stations in Shanghai and other Chinese sites The message rejects claims of monopolistic privileges and asserts no foreign dominance in Chinese commerce or public enterprises The note also notes inquiries to Britain Japan and Denmark about their protests and cautions against any arrangements that would favor foreign interests or exclude others from Chinese commerce
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Wuatington
Ormal
United States
State Department
Federal ‘Nelograph Company
Shanghai
China
Federal Telegraph Company
Marconi Company
Marconi
Great Brittain
Japan
Denmark
Joyce alimony award amid divorce case in Chicago
Peggy Hopkins Joyce was awarded alimony of 1850 per month plus 27600 solicitors fees and 12500 salt expenses by Tadge Schrabrath in the Superior Court. James Stanley Joyce had sued for an annulment. Peggy Joyce filed a cross bill seeking separate maintenance. Mrs Joyce sought temporary alimony of 10000 per month and attorneys fees of 100000.
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Chicago
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Tadge Schbrath
James Stanley Joyce
Peggy Hopkin Joyce
Bathing Suit Ban Proposed for Shoppers in Muskegon
Muskegon police matron Mrs. Sarat Me Veigh urged local women to stop wearing bathing suits while shopping. Women have been seen in bathing costumes on streets and in downtown stores, and robes were ordered to be worn over swimsuits when in public.
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Muskegon
Michel
Sarat Me. Veigh
Tng
Ined
Farmers Open Own Market By Winnessee Callf-A
Farmers establish a public market to cut out middlemen. Readily available prices include onions at 2h cents per 110 pound sack, potatoes at 01 cents a box, pears at 85 cents for a sixty five pound box, sugar at 3 dollars per 100 pounds, fruit jars at 1.25 a dozen, with outside quotations noted.
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Hon Winnessee
Agatnel
Resuming Relations With Germany and Austria After War End
Western leaders debate the peace program as the United States signals end of the war and readiness to resume diplomatic relations with Germany and Austria. A presidential proclamation will declare hostilities ended and notify Berlin and Vienna, while troops return from Rhine provinces. Negotiations for amity and commerce or a broader peace treaty remain under discussion.
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Union News Service
Washington
Germany
Mnd Agatehe
Hirding
Semitor Vielinghuysen
Raritan
Austria
Rhine
Austin
State Department
Dempaty Retains Championship In Jersey City Fight
Jack Dempsey retains the world heavyweight title after a decisive fourth round KO of Georges Carpentier in Jersey City New Jersey. A powerful right alternately stunned Carpentier twice before being counted out as referee Harry Ertle reached ten.
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Dempaty
Jersey City
N. J
Jack Dempsey
Georges Carpentier
Harry Ertie
DuPont Appointed to Delaware Senate Vacancy
Dover Del General T Coleman Du Pont was appointed United States senator from Delaware by Governor Denney to fill the unexpired term of Josiah O Walcott who resigned to become chancellor of Delaware Du Pont a Delaware member of the Republican national committee will serve until March 1923 and adds a Republican to the Senate as Wolcott was a Democrat.
Pavement Explosion Shocks Sheboygan Residents
In Sheboygan Wisconsin a pavement explosion heaved brick pavement into the air in the city center. The blast shook nearby homes and caused panic as residents feared an earthquake. Engineers attributed the event to intense heat over recent days expanding joints beyond capacity.
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Wisconsin
Sheboygan
Wis
Foch Sends Tribute to United States on Independence Day
Paris. Marshal Ferdinand Foch, commander of the Allied armies, sent a message to the American nation on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The note pays tribute to the American army and to the American people for their part in victory.
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Foch
United States
Paris
Ferdinand Foch
France
Navy Blimp Explodes Over Hampton Roads
Norfolk, Va. Navy blimp C6 caught fire while at 400 feet over the air station. Lieutenants B N Johnson and C C Atwood kept cool under fire as crew escaped uninjured aside from burns during descent.
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Norfolk
B. N. Johnson
C. C. Atwood
Naval Air Station
Hampton Roads
Mellon Asks Delay on Soldiers Bonus Deficit Warning
Secretary Mellon urged Congress to defer the soldiers bonus section warning of a grave danger to the budget. He estimated the bill could cost 1.5 to 5.25 billion dollars, threaten debt reduction, spark inflation and higher prices, and delay aid to disabled veterans. He argued compensation should not be measured in dollars.
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Washington
Mellon
Congress
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Senate
House
Underwood
Ifforts
McCumber
Republican
North Dakota
Ube
Fire Wrecks Regal Hotel. Owner arrested on arson
Dallas Texas fire damages the Regal hotel injuring ten and leading to the arrest of owner W M Nay on arson charges. The blaze prompted investigations and the hotel suffered extensive destruction. Officials described the incident as a suspected arson and awaited further legal action.
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Dallas
Texas
W. M. Nay
Regal Hotel
Man Confesses Brutal Murder at Kincaid Farm
Authorities say Hd Mundy a farm hand confessed to killing Beatrice Kincaid Lyenrold daughter of his employer. The body was found in a water trough on the Kincaid farm and Mundy was taken to Springfield for safe keeping after the confession.
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Winchester
Eeting
Hd Mundy
Beatrice Kincaid
Lyenrold
Mundy
Springfield
Kincaid
Vod
Trouble Ahead as U S Ships Move to Tampico
Western Newspaper Union reports Washington July 6 that the cruiser Cleveland and gunboat Sacramento were ordered to Tampico to protect American interests amid unemployment and labor unrest tied to oil tax changes. The ships joined the American special service squadron, with no action expected unless the situation worsens.
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Union News Service
Washington
Cleveland
Sacramento
Tampico
Mexico
Navy Department
Galveston
Wis
Cristobal
Canal Zone
American Special Service Squadron
Central American
H. S. Ryan
Denby
Sam Browne Belt Approved for US Army Officers
The Sam Browne belt is approved as part of the regulation issue uniform for United States Army officers. All uniformed officers must wear the belt. Army nurse corps members and warrant officers are not permitted to wear it. General Pershing and his staff continued to wear the belts after returning from Europe, but other officers were ordered to discard them.
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Sam Browne
Washington
United States
Grmy
Army Nurse Corps
General Pershing
Europe
Diamonds valued at 175000 lost on Pullman car
New York diamond salesman Joseph Haskell arrived in Trenton seeking a handbag with jewels worth 175000 that disappeared between New York and Trenton. He said the diamonds were insured by Lloyds for 160000.
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Gema
Trenton
M. J
Joseph Haskell
New York
Lloyds
Cholera Spreading In Russia and Stockholm
The public health recorder reports a rapid cholera spread across European Russia with over a thousand cases. Cities like Petrograd and Moscow are affected as heat and refugees from famine districts drive transmission.
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Russia
Stockholm
Public Health Recorder
Petrogra
Moscow
Irish settlement prospects in British talks with Smuts
London July 8 Premier conference overshadowed by peace talks with Lion Mein leaders Premier Smuts backs settlement. Irish leader De Valera likely to drop claim for republic and seek dominion home rule with North Ulster parliament and Dublin autonomy including control of army police post office and taxation. Lloyd George to demand imperial defense link. Ulster aims for broad rights while limiting concessions. Sir James Craig to attend under restrictions.
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London
Lion Mein
Jan Chrilsfan Smuts
South Africa
Smuts
North Ulster
Sinnein
Eamonn de Valera
Dublin
Lloyd George
Ulster
James Craig
de Valera
French Protest Tariff Provision Transit to Washington
The French government has sent to Ambassador Jusserand in Washington a protest from the French Chamber of Commerce against a provision of the new American tariff law. It requires inspection by American agents of the books of French exporters to determine ad valorem duties to be collected by the United States.
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Paris
M. Jusserand
Washington
State Department
French Chamber of Commerce
United States
Eight Die in Whiting Refinery Blast at Standard Oil Plant
Eight men are dead and thirty six injured in a explosion at Standard Oil refining plant in Whiting Indiana. Ten seriously hurt may die, with unofficial property damage around two million dollars. Two steel stills burst and brick walls crumbled as a sheet of burning oil and gas spread 200 yards trapping the night force.
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Chicago
Standard Oil Company
Whiting
Ind
No Smoking Prohibition in Washington Forests This Fire Season
Secretary Willice orders smoking ban in Olympic peninsula forests during fire danger season. Aerial fire patrols will be kept from Crimp Lewis, Wash, with War Department and Forestry Service cooperation.
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Washington
Olympic Peninsula
Willace
Crimp Lewis
Wash
War Department
Forestry Service
Lane estate in San Francisco valued around ten thousand
Franklin P. Lane former secretary of the Interior leaves an estate not exceeding about 10 000 according to a Superior Court petition filed in San Francisco Letters of administration wake no will The estate includes eighteen acres of farm land in Contra Costa and a few shares in a mercantile company The widow son and daughter would share the estate per the petition
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San Francisco
Calif
Franklin P. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Lane
Consiata
Contra Costa
Widdow
Brief News Notes From All Parts of Wyoming
Announcements from Cheyenne Casper Wheatland and Cody cover Frontier Days July 26 to 30 and a sixth annual United Spanish American War Veterans encampment. King Bros. Sheep Co. sold fifty ewes and fifteen bucks to Japan for animal husbandry. Casualties include Capt B S Jackson and Coroner Pepper in Wheatland, and a family blast injuring Louis Snyder and two brothers. Midwest Refining suspends Casper plant construction. 600–700 layoff with 1,500 still employed. Mrs H T Fish commits suicide. Mrs Charles Barnett case reviewed in Casper. Cody Stampede led by cowgirls Caroline Lockhart and Carrie Palm. Army worm outbreaks threaten crops near Cody. Don Harker wins Wyoming state tennis title. doubles title goes to Ed King and W L Behr Jr. Oscar Sodergreen Jr. arrested on beaver hide shipment charges.
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Casper
United Spanish- American War Veterans
Department of Colorado
Wyoming
Colorado
King Bros. Sheep Company
Laramie
Animal Husbandry Department
Glenda
Jackson
Doug Roberts
Harry H. Pepper
Pepper
Louis Snyder
Cheyenne
Jake Snyder
Louis
Midwest Refining Company
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
R. 8. Allison
Wheatland
H. T. Fish
Wyo
Barnett
Caroline Lockhart
Carrie Palm
Cody
Don Harker
Denver
Jack Phelps
Ed King
W. L Behr, Jr
Deuce
Oscar Sodergreen, Jr
Oscar Sodergreen
Me Elding
United States
Pete Warlaumont
Sodergreen
George Trabing
Fort Collins
Michigan
J. A. Symone
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Deoomiark
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Harding
Silva
Treasury
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Mexico City
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Vera Cruz
Obregon
Arnulfo Goiney
Forelan
Will
Union News Barrio
Franklin R. Lane
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