What Is Taking Place In The Sooth Land Briefs
The itemized digest notes President Wilson enjoying the season's first snow at the White House. It mentions Victor L Berger's reelection, I W W sentencing, rising American millionaires, war brides overseas, an alleged airplane theft plot, and naval air collisions. Also covered are Palmer's Chicago remarks, Graf Waldersee fire, antitrust talks, and Britain Egypt plans. The report details several political, legal, and wartime developments with a broad domestic and international sweep.
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Wilson
Washington
White House
Victor L. Berger
Milwaukee
Michigan
Congress
C. Pollock
Kansas City
Industrial Workers of the World
Federal District Court of
Kans
United States
Truman H. Newberry
Young Women’s Christian Association of
New York City
Air Service
San Antonio
Tex
William S. Bailey
Worcester
Mass
E. W. Brandenstein
Carlstrom Field
Arcadia
Fla
Great Britain
America
Turkey
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Supreme Court
Suprme Court
Elihu Root
War Department
Egypt
Earl Curzon
Litmus Tests for Death Held By Alkalinity Change
A Paris medical note details a physico chemical test for death using litmus paper to detect body alkalinity. Life keeps urine gastric juice and sweat alkaline while tissues turn acidic after death, with blue turning red within minutes in captured serum, offering a positive death indicator for fragile cases.
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Berlin
Potsdam
Severin Icard
Marseilles
School Gardens Produce $48 Million in Food Value
Washington reports that a year into operation the school garden army under school supervision has produced foodstuffs valued at 48 million dollars. The Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, announced the sizable yield credited to children nationwide.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Education
Department of the Interior
Doctor Teard's Test and Skin Compression in Death Verification
The article discusses a six hour lapse before acidity forms in a dead body and recalls Doctor Teard's test. It explains using forceps to grip a flesh fold and hold it to judge persistence of compression as a sign of death, alongside the chemical acidity test used in Marseilles hospitals.
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Doctor Teard
Doctor Seard
Marseille
Finland’s women take leading roles in labor and offices
An Associated Press report from Helsingfors notes a striking shift as Finnish women fill heavy manual jobs in fields and factories plus high responsibility roles in banks and the foreign office. The piece observes their brisk, practical dress and suggests wartime manpower shortages accelerated a nationwide change.
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Helsingfors
Finland
England
Associated Press
State Department
Washington
French Experts Plan to Survey River Routes by Air
French aviation experts propose using hydro aircraft to map the Amazon and rivers in French Guiana. The plan envisions cargo and passenger transport as well as prospecting for balata trees. If successful, Brazil may adopt the method for the Amazon survey.
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Para
Brazil
Amazon
French Guiana
Cen
Cayenne
Maroni
Book Donation Leads to Marine Corps Marriage
Hazel Bell Gilbert of Sheepshead Bay donated a poetry book during the Books for Soldiers drive. The book reached Lieut. William J. Edwards of the marine corps, who later wrote to her and married the other day at Gravesend Reformed church. They plan a honeymoon in Bermuda and will reside in Washington.
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New York
Hazel Bell Gilbert
Sheepshead Bay
George P. Gilbert
William J. Edwards
Marine Corps
Gravesend Reformed Church
Bermuda
Edwards
Washington
Hit by Train Man Carried Eight Miles to Safety
Louis Hammett of Tuscaloosa Iowa was struck by a fast pass train and carried unconscious for eight miles along the pilot before falling off by the roadside. He survived to recount the episode and remains under care.
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Tuscaloosa
Louis Hammett
Frelinghuysen Calls Settlement Proposal a Loaded Dice
Senator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, chairing the Senate coal committee, says the government’s settlement proposal with miners may conceal a secret deal and warns that public coal prices could rise or another strike may follow. He emphasizes he speaks for himself only and cites hearings to date.
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Washington
Frelinghuysen
Republican
New Jersey
Senate
Palmer
Plot to Kidnap Bela Kun Frustrated by Police
Vienna authorities thwart a plot to kidnap Bela Kun, the former Hungarian communist ruler, and hand him over to Hungarian authorities. Austrian police report the plan was frustrated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bela Kun
Vienna
Hungary
Former Minister to Cuba Arrives in New York
William E. Gonzales, retiring American minister to Cuba, arrived from Havana aboard the Esperanza. He will spend a few weeks in the United States before departing for his new post as American ambassador to Peru.
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Cuba
New York
William E. Gonzales
Havana
Peru
Salvador Seeks Official Monroe Doctrine Text
The secretary of foreign relations of San Salvador asks Washington for an authentic statement of the Monroe doctrine as understood by the U S State Department at this historic moment.
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Republic OF Salvador
San Salvador
Secretary of Foreign Relations of
Salvador
State Department
Washington
Judge Anderson remands strike leader to jail in Indiana
Indianapolis Ind Alexander How at president of the Kansas district of the United Mine Workers of America was remanded to jail by United States District Judge Anderson when court reconvened Howat who is charged with contempt of court was granted 2 continuances.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Alexander Howat
Kansas
United Mine Workers of America
United States District
Anderson
Howat
Supreme Court to rule on state liquor prohibition challenge
Washington: the Supreme Court ordered the government to show cause on January 5 why original process should not be instituted by Rhode Island and New Jersey retail liquor dealers to determine the constitutionality of the national prohibition amendment.
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Senate
Lansing
Wilson
William O. Jenkins
Puebla
State Department
Foreign Office
Jenkins
House
Finance Committee
American Legion
New Jersey
Supreme Court
Associaton
Sugar Equalization Board
Conference Committee
Washington
Rhode Island
New Jesey
Transcontinental air race awards cash prizes to 18 fliers
New York announces cash prizes totaling 48150 awarded by the American Flying Club to the 18 leading contestants in the recent army transcontinental air race. Ten of the prize winners flew American built DeHavilland biplanes.
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New York
American Flying Club
Mexican bandits release Hugo on promise to pay
Frederick Hugo, American ranch manager seized during the Mexican raid near Mar Quiz, was freed after bandits agreed to a $1500 ransom payment within twelve days. The U S state department said it instructed the Mexico City embassy to press for the bandits' capture.
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Hugo
Washington
Frederick Hugo
Marquiz
Mexico
State Department
Mexico City
Ri ple Arrested in Mail Fraud Case Tied to Cotton Deals
Chattanooga Tennessee D Henry Ripple former Alabama attorney general candidate was arrested in Livingston Alabama and bailed on a ten thousand dollar bond. Indictments allege a conspiracy and misuse of mails tied to illegal cotton dealings that led to the closure of the Icemorlee Cotton Mill at Monroe North Carolina and the temporary suspension of Fairley and Sons.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
D. Henry Riple
Eral
Alabama
Uiston
Ala
Monroe
N. C
Fairley and Sons
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Syecen
John Alcock
Rouen
France
Cottevard
Department
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Vikland
Viscount French
Lien Shing
Hong Kong
Saigon
Indo China
Ukraine
Denekine
Lehberg
Yekaterinoslav
Montfaucon Hill
Argonne
Pondicherry
India
Persia
Moscow
London
Travelers’ Aid Society
Clearing House
James W. Gerard
Eagle Pass
Texas
Fred G. Hugo
Wecits
Heart O- Cue
Sugar Wing
Paris
Delagree
Heard
Oferta
Hesingtor
Chicago
Fong
San Francisco
Cal
William van Fleet
Federal
Wong Sing
Fong Sing
Jersey
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