Wrangel Checks the Reds to Halt Bolshevik Advance
Aug 21 dispatches report General Wrangel’s forces checked Bolshevik advances toward southern Russia and drove them back across the lower Dnieper. Brest-Litovsk is cited as occupied by Polish forces, with Paris noting continued Polish successes and French Polish joint plans under Weygand.
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Washington
Brest-Litovak
State Department
Berlin
Posen
Wrangel
Russia
Dnieper
Paris
Foreign Office
Warsaw
Wergand
J. J. Jusserand
Lord D'Abernon
Poland
Weygand
Danzig
Reginald T. Tower
Pole
Wolodawa
Pilsudski
Ivangorod
Cholm
Brest-Litovsk
France
Germany
U S Socialists Endorse Third International With Reservations
Pittsburgh report says the Socialist party of the United States endorsed the third international with reservations after a New York convention referendum. A second referendum declared against adopting the dictatorship of the proletariat as practiced in Russia.
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Pittsburgh
Socialist Party of the United
Emigrants in U S Seek Return to Europe reports Paris official
In Paris a Serbian official says over one million emigrants in the United States want to go back to Europe. He explains a commission will travel to America to arrange repatriation for 800 000 Yugoslavs who allegedly signaled their wish to return to their homeland.
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Paris
United States
Europe
America
Organdies Witnessed Textile Colors and Silk Tolés
A fragment notes a witness inquiry about an organdie item matching a silk tolés color. The passage hints at a textile description and possible identification by observers. No clear event or outcome is provided.
Poles Capture Four Russian Divisions at Garwol
Warsaw reports four red divisions surrounded and captured at Garwol as General Pilsudski directs a counter-stroke to relieve Warsaw. The Polish line reports 200 Russians taken near Kock with one cannon and 14 machine guns. Wyra river front advances continue. Paris notes France and Poland refuse Lloyd George terms, causing a three-way deadlock with Britain.
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Garwol
Garwolin
Pilsudski
Vistula
Maciejowice
Kock
Sledi¢e
Wyra
Clechanow
Paris
Poland
France
David Lloyd George
Foreign Office
Lord Derby
General Wrangels
Great Britain
Yellow Fever Increase Reported in Vera Cruz
Vera Cruz reports a spike in yellow fever with an average of five new cases daily in the first half of the week. All patients are Spanish youths employed in local businesses and residents for under a year. About five hundred workers are treating stagnant water near the city with petroleum to combat mosquitoes.
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Vera Cruz
Cox and Harding to Speak on Ohio State Fair Platform
Gov. James M. Cox and Sen. Wren G. Harding will address the Ohio state fair on August 31. Invitations were extended earlier. Cox accepted yesterday and Harding had already accepted, according to Charles N. Morris.
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Columbus
James M. Cox
Wren G. Barding
Cox
Harding
Charles N. Morris
Austria Seizes War Cargo Near Vienna
A Danube gun boat seized a barge outside Vienna carrying machine guns and ammunition alleged to be French. The barge, said to have traveled via Bavaria to Roumania for shipment to Gen. Baron Wrangel, the anti Bolshevik leader of South Russia, was confiscated.
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Vienna
Danube
Bavaria
Roumania
Baron Wrangel
South
Russia
Mexican Reconstruction Plan Outlined by Gen. Alvarado
Gen. Salvador Alvarado outlined a broad reconstruction program for Mexico focusing on banking, transportation, railroads, and a merchant marine. He urged an education drive, civil service reform, and an overhaul of tax, commercial, and port laws to attract honest, well trained civil servants.
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New York
Mexico
Salvador Alvarado
Republic of Mexico
Alvarado
Civil Service Commission
Lowden warns Chicago realty men on rent profiteering
Governor Lowden told a Chicago real estate committee that rent profiteering could lead to real property in Chicago being treated as a public utility. He urged action to curb excessive rents, warning a future commission could regulate city properties.
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Springfield
Lowden
Chicago
Harding to Stay On Porch Campaign
Senator Harding will maintain the porch campaign route despite Democratic strategy. Harry M. Daughtrey, Republican executive committee member, said no abandonment of the front porch plan and that some speeches will occur in other cities.
Suffrage Amendment Defeated in North Carolina House Vote
In Raleigh on August 20 the ratification of the woman suffrage amendment was defeated in the North Carolina House by 41 to 1. The body had previously voted to postpone consideration until the regular session of the legislature next year, making the House vote the central event of the state’s ratification fight.
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Raleigh
N. G
North Carolina
Tennessee ratifies Susan B Anthony amendment to grant women vote
Tennessee becomes the thirty sixth state to ratify the federal suffrage amendment as the vote passes 49 to 47 in Nashville. The senate earlier approved 25 to 4 and the action moves to the secretary of state for proclamation. Activists aim for another state ratification before November elections despite a constitutional clause cited as unconstitutional.
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Commonwealth
Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Tennessee Senate
Tennessee Assembly
Secretary of State of the
United States
Frierson
Supreme Court
Ohio
Increase in Car Shortage
Washington reports a slight weekly rise in railroad car shortages in the United States and Canada during the week of August 1. The deficit stood at 132,370 cars versus 125,000 previously, attributed to increased grain movement, with congestion improving from 288,000 to about 949 excess cars since mid April. July saw 4,361,863 freight cars loaded compared with 4,279,343 in July 1919.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Commission On Car Service
Harding Defends Senate on Nation's Nationality in 1919
Senator Warren G. Harding told Ohio legislators that the Senate saved America's nationality by rejecting the League of Nations pact in 1919 and 1920. He said he would take the Senate's counsel over political bosses in either party.
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Marion
Senate
America
Warren QG. Harding
Ohio
League of Nations
Harding
Cox accuses GOP of funding to "buy a governmental underhold"
In South Bend Indiana on August 20 Governor James M Cox Democratic presidential candidate charged that Republican leaders are raising a 15 million dollar fund to seize control of government. He alleged their aims include emasculating the federal reserve act restoring financial power to Wall Street and using federal soldiers to settle actions.
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South Bend
Ind
Republican Party
James M. Cox
Cox
Wall Street
Tennessee Suffrage Fight Weathers Legal Snarl in Legislature
In Nashville on August 23 the Tennessee ratification of the federal woman suffrage amendment faced court injunctive delays and a quorum dispute. House proceedings saw 59 members present, seven short of a quorum, as suffragists moved to proceed while opponents fled to Alabama to block action.
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Bil
Tennessee
Alabama
Nashville
Tenn
Colby
Washington
Walker
Decatur
Ala
Langford
Chancery Court
Roberts
Senate
House
T. K. Ridick
Joe Odle
Odle
Riddick
99 Year Term for Private Mosher Arrives at Leavenworth
John Mosher a former private in the army of occupation arrives at Leavenworth federal prison with nine other military prisoners to begin a 90 year sentence for killing Sergt. Lester Cull in Coblenz Germany during an attempted arrest for AWOL.
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Leavenworth
Coblenz
Germany
John Mosher
Federal
Mosher
Army of Occupation
Sergt
Lester Cull
World Events Roundup from Europe to United States
The report notes Chile elevating its legation to an embassy at the Holy See, Giolitti meeting Lloyd George in Lucerne, a Chicago convict shot in Joliet, a bank robbery in East Toledo, and 25,000 immigrants weekly at Ellis Island per commissioner Wallis. Also covered are U S political moves, accidents, socialist endorsements, luxury imports to Norway banned, Rome urging moderation for Archbishop Mannix, naval discipline in Germany, Ohio campaign plans, royalist trials in Athens, Serb Albanian clashes, Hungarian frontier actions, and Tennessee suffrage adjournment affecting ratification votes.
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Chile
Holy See
Signor Giolitti
Lucerne
David Lloyd George
Louis Eckies
Chicago
Wherry
Joliet
People’s State Savings Bank
Toledo
Socialist Party of the
United States
Pittsburgh
Christiania
Norway
London
Rome
Daniel J. Mannix
Melbourne
Australia
War Office
Berlin
Cox
Ohio
Mississippi River
New York
Athens
Repoulis
Scutari
Albania
Taraboso
Vienna
Prellenkirchen
Hungary
Tennessee House
Nashville
Walker
U. S. To Sell Hog Island Shipyard
Washington reports bids for Hog Island shipyard at Philadelphia will be invited soon by the Shipping Board. The government fleet of more than 1200 vessels also faces bidding within a few days.
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Washington
Hog Island
Philadelphia
Shipping Board
Philadelphia Mint Produces 501 Million Coins in Year
Philadelphia director Raymond T. Baker announced the United States mint in Philadelphia produced 501,000,000 coins in the last fiscal year after a routine inspection.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Mint
Raymond T. Baker
United States Mint
Markets Report: Wheat Corn Rye Prices and Wheat Flour Ranges
Wheat futures show mixed moves with Sept and Dec quotes around 2.28 to 2.39 per bushel while corn trades near 1.40 to 1.45. Rye prices hover around 1.87 to 1.71, and flour prices list hard and soft patents with Kansas and Ohio offerings. live cattle and hog quotes also appear with steers at 10 to 16 dollars and hogs around 15 to 16 dollars per cwt.
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Chicago
Kansas
P D Q Bed Bug Killer Promises Quick Elimination
An old advertising blurb touts P. D. Q. bed bug killer as a 35 cent box that makes a quart and can kill bedbugs roaches fleas and even their eggs without harming clothes. It claims to halt future generations and suggests patent scent free in each package with ordering through Owl Chemical Works Terre Haute Indiana.
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Owl Chemical Works
Terre Aute
Indiana
Brief exchange over crops at southern plantation
A plantation owner asks his renter about crop progress and is met with a playful reply. The renter warns that she may have to produce the rent this fall, hinting at tight finances and a witty exchange.
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Mister Smith
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