Pershing in London for Peace Day Festivities
General Pershing and staff arrived in London to take part in Peace Day celebrations. He met with British officials, was hosted by King George, and attended garden parties and dinners at Buckingham Palace and the Carlton hotel.
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John J. Pershing
France
Dover
Henry 8. Horne
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Pershing
Winston Spencer Churchill
Field Marshal Haig
Henry H. Wilson
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F. Romer
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John Biddle
United Kingdom
M. Wagstaff
King George
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Carleton Hotel
H. H. Horne
Postal clerks gain $100 yearly raise in Chicago
Over 4,000 Chicago post office clerks receive a $100 annual wage increase, authorized by the post office department in Washington. The telegram was received by Postmaster William B. Carlile from Postmaster General Burleson.
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Post Office Department
Washington
William B. Carlile
Burleson
Clark Named to Joint Commission
Washington July 16 Former Senator Clarence D Clark of Evanston Wyoming was named a member of the International Commission by President Wilson He succeeds the late James A Tawney of Minnesota in the role
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Naimed
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Washington
Clarence D. Clark
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Wryo
Pep
International
Wilsoy
Minnesota
Explosion on British Tanker Roseleaf Kills Twenty Six
Cardiff reports twenty six dead after an explosion aboard the British steam tanker Roseleaf on July 16. Investigations focus on the blast's cause while survivors are assisted ashore.
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Wales
Roseleaf
Gale sinks 21 ships in Chile hurricane devastates Valparaiso
A hurricane at Valparaiso sinks fourteen vessels and destroys about a hundred small craft. At least eighty seven people are drowned with potential for higher death toll. Property losses reach 200 million dollars. Named ships include Carlos Toro Cordillera Lima Lontue and Likata. Sais mounts heavy damage with ten crew lost. Tanis and seven others reportedly missing.
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Toro
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Lontue
Likata
Sais
Tanis
Governor appeals for higher wheat prices in Kansas
Topeka Kansas July 16 Gov H J Allen urged Secretary Houston and Julius Barnes to raise prices for lower grade wheat arguing current grading rules hurt Kansas farmers. He said about half the state crop is below grade 8 and discounts cut 12 to 90 cents per bushel from No 1 wheat, creating undue government profit.
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Kansas
H. J. Allen
Houston
Julius Barnes
United States Grain Buying Corporation
Fate of ex Kaiser debated by War responsibility panel
Paris July 16 reports the War responsibility committee discussing the future of former German emperor William Hohenzollern. The committee stated no demand has yet been made to the Dutch government regarding his fate.
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Paris
Committee On
William Hohenzollern
Lightning strikes airship NS-11 over England
The British air ship NS-11, which departed Parham for a 48 hour minesweeping flight, is believed struck by lightning. Its crew of 12 men are reported lost as the airship disappeared after the incident near London.
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Parham
Tuesday's Baseball Results Across Leagues
National League Chicago 7 Boston 2 and 3 1 results for Chicago vs Boston in American League. Detroit 12 Philadelphia 5 and St Louis 4. Washington 0 Cleveland 5. AP associations report Milwaukee 2 Columbus 0 in four innings. Minneapolis 10 Indianapolis 8. St Paul Louisville no game due to rain. Three League Rockford 6 Peoria 2. Bloomington & Terre Haute & Bvareetlie,Malse not readable.
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Wilson Veto Helps Yankees Vote Boost for Veterans Training
A wartime appropriation plan to fund vocational training for wounded soldiers sailors and marines was amended to thirty something million dollars with a large bipartisan vote. The article notes President Wilson veto implications and outlines the legislative process and key figures involved.
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Washington
Inly
Fogna
Tom Tnt
Lodge Asks President for Information on 1918 Japan Germany Treaty
Senate adopts Lodge resolution demanding details on a secret 1918 treaty allegedly between Japan and Germany. Lodge accuses Shantung concession of being paid for Japan's League of Nations pledge, while Hitchcock rebuts and Norris notes prior German rights. Debate highlights tensions over China, Versailles terms, and U.S. knowledge.
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Neb
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Mina
President invites Republican senators to discuss peace treaty
Washington July 16 Joseph Tumulty announces that President Wilson will invite a group of Republican senators to the White House to confer on the peace treaty and League of Nations after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee declined to call on him. The list includes Senators Lodge Borah and about a dozen others.
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Joseph Tumulty
Wil
White House
Henry Caebot Lodge
Wm. E. Borah
Ford confirms pacifist writings and defends professional soldiers
Mount Clemens Michigan July 16 Henry Ford testifies in a one million dollar libel suit against the Chicago Tribune. He denounces professional soldiers as murderers including Pershing and Grant while pushing for full preparedness unless a League of Nations forms. Publicist DeLavigne wrote much of Ford's pacifist material though Ford accepts responsibility. A mysterious flag appears and prompts questions about its symbolism.
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Chicago Tribune
Elliott G. Stevenson
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Chicago Woman Guilty of Manslaughter in Publisher Killing
Chicago jury in Judge Breitane's court found Mme Vera Trepaghier guilty of killing Paul Volland, a commercial art publisher, charging the crime as manslaughter with a possible sentence from one year to life in the penitentiary. The defendant showed no emotion as the verdict was read.
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Breitane
Mme, Vera Trepaghier
Paul Volland
Majslaughter
Poe
148 Ships Delivered in June Report
June delivery figures show 148 ships delivered with a total tonnage of around 678,000 tons. The report notes a substantial rise, claiming a 100 percent increase in deliveries toward the end of the period, per Shipping Board data.
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Ntune
Gurtare Pane
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Ab Endebnes
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Extraditing Ex-Austro-Hungarian Ministers Aimed
Vienna reports Allied powers will seek extradition of Count Leopold Berchtold and Count Czernin former foreign ministers to determine how far their policies prolonged the war. Berchtold was foreign minister at Serbia's 1914 declaration of war, left in 1915, succeeded by Burian. Czernin took office in December 1916 following Puritan.
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Serbia
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Puritan
France to Double Food Stands and Expand Co op Stores
Paris reports that the cabinet approved energetic steps against high living costs. Government food stations in Paris will be doubled, more popular restaurants opened, and foodstuffs made available to the public through cooperative associations. Prices will be fixed for war department stock foods distributed to the cooperatives.
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War Department
German Post Service Open to U.S. Germany Mail Resumes
Washington July 10 Postmaster General Burleson signed an order resuming mail service between the United States and Germany effective immediately. The move ends a disruption that affected correspondence and commerce between the two nations.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Forest fire rages in Idaho threaten vast damage
Boise reports a forest blaze in the Thunder Mountain yellow pine district has burned for three weeks and men fear it could match the great fires of 1910. Local forestry services estimate thousands of acres of timber destroyed and warn the fire’s spread across central Idaho may cause severe losses, with officials citing previous Montana and Idaho fires as a grim benchmark.
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