Navy guards protect miners while coal strike swells
Sir Eric Geddes plans to limit coal use and warn of rail shutdowns as 275,000 miners in Yorkshire Derbyshire Nottinghamshire and Monmouth strike. Nottingham see 10,000 refuse work while Cardiff Welsh miners stay out. Geddes aims to protect pump operation and avoid interfering with the strike.
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Eric Geddes
Yorkshire Fleets’ Association
Leeds
Jord
Yorkshire
Lancashire
Nottinghamshire
Derbyshire
Nottingham
London
Cardiff
Monmouth
Clemen ceau to seek general election after peace ratified
Paris reports Premier Clemenceau plans a general election bill the day after ratification of the peace treaty. The chamber backed his cabinet 272 to 181, opponents calling it doom for the current government. Clemenceau left the chamber saying the real battle is coming while officers cheered.
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Paris
Clemenceau
France
Chamber of Deputies
M. Clemenceau
Father of
Documents From Villa Archives To Be Made Public
General Bar Pagan announced that archives of the bandit Villa recovered in Juarez would reveal various documents, including a letter to Villa from Gol Charles F Hunt offering a visit by Senator Fall and others to aid Villa's campaign. Senator Fall said the letter was written without his consent, and he forwarded copies to the state department in March 1817 for information and aid.
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Mexico City
Villa
Col. Funt
State Department
Mexican official reports on U S sailors theft and deaths
Official accounts from Mexico City dated July 24 state American sailors were robbed from the USS Cheyenne on July 16 with further details in dispatches. General Barragan distributed the reports through the presidential staff while General Gonzales assigns the John W. Gorrell murder to Temesi bandits after the sailors moved into rebel territory.
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Mexico City
U. S
Juan Barragan
Temesi
Terr
Ricardo Gonzales
Tampico
John W. Gorrell
Lytton Slated for Post to Washington Ambassadorship
London reports on July 24 that Lytton is slated to become the next British ambassador to Washington. The notice cites sources in government circles and notes official arrangements and timing are being prepared.
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Washington
Liberal France offers to buy U S military property
Paris July 24 France will offer to take over American military property in France mainly docks railways and real estate at one fifth of its cost to the Americans said by Louis Morel undersecretary of state for liquidation of stocks The items include locomotives freight cars and inadequately sized railway equipment and docks built rapidly for wartime use Foods and movable stores likely to be returned to the United States The notice gives reasons for the price and notes the burden of surplus supplies and lumber scattered across the region
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Paris
France
Louis Morel
M. Morel
United States
M. More
Atlantic
Belgium
Luxemburg
Alsace
Wanted small ads column item roundup
A snippet of classified notices includes requests for a coaster wagon and second hand goods by J Black of Chippewa Falls Wisconsin, a buyer for 880 acres of land at 40 000, job openings at Fairfield Glove Miten Co for two boys and one man, and reliable piano tuning services by Unk rich A J Petrie with contact details.
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J. Black
Iowa St
Chippewa Falls
Wisconsin
4Th and Briggs
Fairfield Glove & Mitten Co
Unkrich
A. J. Petrie
Ottumwa
Mooney printing delayed over report language
Washington July 25 news that the government printing office held up additional copies of the Mooney case report due to objectionable language. Speaker Gillett notified. Report criticized for many invectives and accounts of immoral happenings making it improper for employees to handle. Local ads follow including property for sale and misc. notices with multiple listings and offers from Wilson Reed Starr Jordan Fairfield Steam Laundry W H George and H A Mitchell.
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Washington
Mooney
House
John B. Densmore
Department of Labor
Government Printing Office
Gillett
Printing Office
East Burlington Street
Wilson Reed
Pumphrey Addition
Starr & Jordan
Fairfield Steam Laundry
Local Notes and Purchases In Batavia Area
Charles Wilson bought the 13 acre tract adjoining Birmingham instead of Libertyville and also purchased a farm near Birmingham last week. L R Davidson of Cedar Rapids, son of Mrs M L Davidson of this city, is seriously ill following an operation.
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Teads
George Molden
Fairview
Batavia
John Fanched
C. L. Dunham
C. P. Lowther
Goldie Still
Fairfield
J. T. McDowel
Earl
Ernest Gobble
Harlan DeGood
Cam Dodge
Camp Humphrey
Virginia
W. E. Porter
Ottumwa
Charles Wilson
Birmingham
Libertyville
Mr. Wison
L. R. Davidson
Cedar Rapids
Mra. M. L. Davidson
Random Thoughts From a Press Column
A quirky moral musing piece reflects on taxes, Heaven's afterlife, kindness to animals, and the paradoxes of human folly. It winds through witty aphorisms about Uncle Sam, income tax, gender views, resilience, and childlike happiness.
Town cut-up who would be a big hit on stage
A question about the town’s quirky character who many believed could become a major stage success, pondering what happened to him and whether he pursued theater or faded from the spotlight.
Hewers and Drawers: A Satire on Servants and Labor
A verse passage contrasts the urge for others to do hard work with a wish for ideal servants. It questions who would serve the servants and who would serve the servants of the servants, noting that people avoid work if possible when others do it for them.
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Carranza
New Mexico
U. & Men
Lytton
Suly
Alice IN Dot Land
Clifford Leon Sherman
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GALLS
Europe
People's
Mooney Printing
W. H. George
2Nd St
West Grimes Street
Burlington Depot
Public Square
H. A. Mitchell
Uncle Sam
Heaven
Tire
Nobby
Bs Ps
Lewis Cigar Mfg.co
Newark
N. J
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