French Senate Honors Wilson at Paris Luncheon
President Wilson met with Antonin Dubost and the French senate in Paris where Dubost praised his ideas for a new world order and moral force. Wilson thanked the assembly, said a new world is awakening to a common interest, and stressed free institutions depend on global cooperation.
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Paris
Wilson
Senate
Antonin Dubost
M. Dubost
France
International Pehkee
Europe
U S Mission to Germany Considered at Paris Conference
The American delegation at the peace conference weighs an unofficial embassy for the United States in Germany. The mission would be independent of German authorities and not accredited to any government. Its aim is to gather direct reliable information on Berlin and provincial conditions to inform postwar discussion.
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Paris
Germany
Berlin
Red fusion and Bolshvik moves dominate frontline dispatches
From Kiev a report states White Russia proclaims union with the Russian soviet republic. Kiev notes Bolshevik gains near Mitau and towns west of Riga as German HQ shifts to Koenigsberg under von Hindenburg. Front lines show slower Bolshevik advance at the Polish frontier and delayed evacuation of Grodno.
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Russia
Kiev
Berne
Mitau
Bohesjani
Schaulan
Tukkum
Golduz
Riga
Warsaw
Grodno
Falkenhayn
Suwalki
Hoffmann
Koenigsburg
Allies agree on control of Trans-Siberian rail line
Vladivostok reports an allied agreement on railway control. Major Stevens named chief of the system with an allied committee of which a Japanese chairman is to preside. Britain would control Irkutsk westward, France would operate the Amur branch, and the United States would run the Chinese Eastern railway.
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Vladivostok
Plans to move U S troops home via the Rhine
Reports from Coblenz say the American army of occupation will be ferried home along the Rhine to Rotterdam or a German port for embarkation. The plan uses many barges and river steamers and also aims to bring U S army supplies up the Rhine from Rotterdam to Coblenz to avoid long rail hauls across France.
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Rhine
Rotterdam
France
Rebels Proclaim Monarchy Restoration in Portugal
Royalists in Lisbon announce the restoration election and name former King Manuel as ruler. The monarchy is proclaimed at Oporto Braga and Vi seu as government troops move to suppress the conspiracy. Manuel reportedly tried to thwart the plot.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Oporto
Braga
Viseu
Sweden to Aid Lithuania Against Bolsheviki Advance
Sweden plans a military expedition into Lithuania this week to stem the Bolsheviki invasion. Lithuanian forces have failed to halt the Soviet advance as Swedish troops join the effort in the Baltic region.
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Lithuania
Wilson Seeks Quick Pact on League of Nations
At the Paris peace conference the supreme council resumes talks on forming a league of nations. President Wilson, arriving from Rome, has about twenty five working days to win agreement among the five powers. The labor question and protection of workers are placed on the program as Europe faces debt pressures.
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Paris
Vittorio Orlando
Supreme Council of the Peace Conference
Orlando
Rome
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Lansing
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Russia
Supreme Council
Joseph Noulens
Supreme Council of
Peace Congress
League of Nations
Murat
Lord Robert Cecil
Leon Bourgeois
Jan Christian Smuts
France
Society of Nations
Street Car Crush Injures Sixteen In San Francisco
Sixteen people were injured, three seriously, when a street car on a steep residential hill derailed after the controller caught fire two blocks from a curve. The motorman leaped clear as the car plowed into a residence and victims were rushed to emergency hospitals.
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San Francisco
Esthonians Gain Ground Against Bolsheviks Near Narva
Estonian forces northeast of Lake Peipus captured Narva and took numerous prisoners, marking notable success against the Bolsheviks. London reporting confirms the advance and the seizure of the town.
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Peipus
Narva
Trains Crash in Fog Killing Two Sailors
Two rail wrecks in dense morning fog claim two lives and injure many sailors. F J Paynter of the Great Lakes and J G McGinnis of the Northwestern are dead. About seventy others are hurt in the Ravenswood L wreck near Irving Park.
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Northwestern Railway
Ravenswood
F. J. Paynter
Great Lakes
J. G. McGinnis
Mayfair
C. M. Anderson
Paynter
United States Marine Hospital
Irving Park
Kenwood
Fly From Texas to Coast Sets Record Flight Time
Maj. T. C. Macauley flew from Taliaferro field Prott Worth Texas to Rockwell field North Island covering 883 miles in four hours and forty minutes arriving Monday morning at 41 05 oclock after leaving Tucson Arizona en route.
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Cal
T. C. Macauley
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Prott Worth
Proposed German constitution grants seven year imperial president
A Berlin wireless dispatch summarizes a proposed constitution from constitutional experts led by Hugo Preuss. The empire retains component states and allows new free states with 2 000 000 population. The president is elected by the people for seven years with possible re election and must be 35 with ten years of citizenship. The Reichstag approves treaties and government relies on its confidence.
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Germany
Hugo Preuss
Ebert
Berlin
Empire
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League of Nations
League
House of Deputies
Labor shortages forecast as postwar workers flock to shipyards
A Chicago conference of about 75 railroad, government, and state employment officials warns of sustained labor shortages and high wages through 1919. Charles J. Boyd cites 1 041 000 immigrant influx in 1918 versus 110 000 in 1919. Sanford H. Freund notes 85 000 workers from Nashville powder works and 18 000 from Nitro absorbed into shipbuilding, with a glut of 2,000,000 in federal service awaiting demobilization. He urges cooperation to curb job switching and avoid wage wars as seven months of open work ahead strain the system.
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Charles J. Boyd
Illinois Free Employment Offices
United States
Sanford H. E. Freund
United States Employment Service
Washington
Nashville
Tenn
Nitro
W. Va
Freund
Federal Bureau
W. G. Beird
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Texas mob burns Black man in Hillsboro jail incident
A mob battered jail doors in Hillsboro Texas and dragged Bragg Williams, a Black man, to the square where he was burned to death. Williams had been sentenced to die February 21 for the December 2 1918 case involving Mrs. George Wells and her child.
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Tex
Bragg Williams
Willams
George Wells
New Film Merger Formed Controls 1300 Theaters
Los Angeles January 20 announcement reports the merger of United Picture Theaters of America Inc World Film Company and Peerless Producing Company Fort Lee New Jersey creating a single organization that will control 1300 motion picture theaters.
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Cal
United Picture Theaters of America, Inc
The
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Peerless Producing Company
Fort Lee
N. J
Cholera Rages in Hamburg City Outbreak Report
London reports an outbreak of cholera in Hamburg via Exchange Telegraph. The description notes a raging epidemic with rising cases and concerns for public health.
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Hamburg
London
Exchange Telegraph
Alleged Slayer Deserter Captured After Night Chase
Horace Landers, alleged army deserter charged with killing Jackson County Sheriff C D Barber, was captured near Gainesville by a posse after an all night pursuit in Georgia on January 21.
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Athens
Horace Landers
C. D. Barber
Jackson County
Gainesville
Fire destroys three story block in Sioux City
A Sunday morning blaze leveled a three story store and office building at Pierce and Sixth streets owned by the T. B. Martin estate on a quarter block. The entire third floor housed two Masonic lodges.
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Sioux City
Pierce and
Sixth Streets
T. 8. Martin
Confession Solves Mystery in Yonkers Murder Case
Yonkers court hears Patrick O Donnell confess to murdering Elizabeth Mary Ridha a 17 year old stenographer in Queens New York City the police had been seeking him since the crime Wednesday night.
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N. Y
New York
Elizabeth Mary Ridh
Queens
Patrick O'Donnell
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