American Troops to Stay in Siberia Under Railroad Protection
President Wilson advised the Senate that U S forces would remain in Siberia as long as railroad protection and supplies to allied operations required. The mission aimed to aid the Russian people without sovereignty interference, with troops to stay under agreement with Japan while the railroad work continues.
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Teller
Ssia
Wilson
Sherin
Benater Johnson
Ifth
United States
Liberia
Biberig
Arquet
ITA
Jepin
Lipton to attempt again for America's Cup
Old presswire notes Lipton plans another bid for the America's Cup next year amid a new plan for sailing fiat. Also reported: thirteen platinum blocks sold by the army ordnance department at £13 each. Wilson signs agricultural appropriation. Aland Islands neutralization report. Father Koickerorker incident in New York. St Joseph war reserves beer sale reversal. bank messenger robbed of 64680.
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Lovnion
Sir Thomas Lipton
Fiat
Old York
Erin
Daily Express
U. & Selle
New York
Ordosece Department
Army
le Rae
Iter
Taft Sought Democratic Aid On Treaty Debate
Washington July 26 former President Taft has sent letters to several Democratic and Republican leaders urging reservations to the peace treaty that could win broad support. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska received a Taft communication not made public but aligned in tone with those sent to Republicans. Administration leaders say they will push for ratification without reservations while reserving the right to oppose any qualifying clauses later. The debate focused on the reservations and Taft’s suggestions as Senate votes on the treaty and its articles loom.
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Taft
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Senate
Administration
Wilson
McNary
Oregon
McCumber
North Dakota
League
Foreign Relations Committee
Mr. Tatts
Edward W. Pickard
William H. Taft
League of Nations
Republican Nations
Hays
Mr.Taft
White House
Committee On Foreign Relations
Knox
Congress
United States
Chicago murderer confesses in Janet Wilkinson case
Thomas Fitzgerald, charged with abducting and killing six-year-old Janet Wilkinson in Chicago, confessed after a long police grilling. He described luring her with candy, choking her, and burying the body under coal in his building basement, then led officers to the corpse. Prosecutors move swiftly with inquests and legal steps following the sensational confession.
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Chicago
Thomas Fitzgerald
Janet Wikinson
Fred Howe
Chicago Avenue
Janet
Fitzgerald
Howe
June
Alegek
East Superior Street
Tanet
Col
Jimmy” O'Brien
Peter M. Hoffman
Cyroll
Alcock
de Maniet
HITS MOONEY TRIAL DAY MEASURE PASSES
Washington July 25 reports the housing of the Mooney trial day measure by the House. The document cites alleged interference by labor fees and criticizes the district attorney and a San Francisco crime investigation. The report, dated November 1 1918, was sent to Secretary Wilson with comments on trial conduct and witness reliability.
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Labor
Washington
Thomas J. Mooray
Ial
San Francisco
John B. Densmore
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Densmore
Wilson
Charles M. Fickert
Sunee Ne Paet
Dee Densmore
Alstriet
Mar
Ward
Pickerton
Frank C.oxmen
Yanks Out of France August 1
Paris July 24 American uniforms on Paris streets may be barred if plans by the Allied authorities succeed. Military police, under general headquarters orders, are sweeping Paris. Every officer and soldier on the streets is being questioned about authority to be in the city. those lacking official papers are ordered to depart on the next train.
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Brent
Russia
Bolshevists
Denikine
Trotsky
Kolchak
Omsk
Bessarabia
Roumania
Kolechak
Galicia
Tarnopol
Vladivostok
Suchan
Colman
Hershevikt
Siberia
Sve
Mexico
Rilo Grande
U. S
Cheyenne
Tampico
Tuerto Lobos
Atlantic Refining Company
Seilors
Carranza
Henry P. Fletcher
Chihuahua City
el Paso
Ville
General Angeles
Japan
Regulate Air Navigation Bill Introduced in Congress
Washington July 24 Congress considers a bill to regulate air navigation following the Chicago blimp disaster. Senator Sherman and experts argue for a formal code of aerial rules to ensure safety.
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Washington
Sherman
Milacle
Chicago
Sparks From The Wire Sparks From The Wire
A compilation of brief international and national notes including Governor Sproul vetoing a Ramsey prohibition act, Georgia Senate voting against ratifying the suffrage amendment, Miss Mary Bishop honored for relief work, a fatal plane crash near Portage la Prairie, a Massachusetts war bonus bill, the death of LaVerne W. Noyes, Japanese princes planned U S visits, U S to sell horse shoes as surplus, and the Pirat battalion engineers arriving from Archangel with Three Hundred and Tenth.
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Harristarg
Sproul
Atlanta
Georgia State Senate
Paris
Mary Bishop
New York
Soissons
Chicago
Fire kills captain and infant in South Chicago blaze
Chicago dispatch reports Captain Hugh Murray of the Sixteenth fire engine company was killed and an infant died as a major fire destroyed an entire residential block in South Chicago. About four hundred residents were left homeless by the conflagration.
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Chicago
Murray
Hugh Murray
Wee
Lynch Law for Auto Theft Remarks By Judge Newcomer
Chicago July 25 Judge Newcomer rejects defense request for more time in the Frank Surace auto theft case. Surace is charged with five counts of larceny for stealing cars altering numbers on imports repairing and selling them. Bond set at 10000 dollars.
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Chicago
Newcomer
Frank Surace
Surace
Airplane falls in Grant Park during test flight in Chicago
John Skoning tests a plane between Chicago and Cleveland when another aircraft makes a somersault and lands on its back in Grant Park. Skoning is uninjured and immediately returns to his regular flight to Cleveland.
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Chicago
John Skoning
Goverment
Matt
Cleveland
Grant Park
Skoning
Cleve Stand
Deputy kills a constable in Davenport Iowa
Reported in Davenport Iowa, deputy constable Elva Cooper found whisky at a home. Marshal Mike Azizlon of Bettendorf shot Cooper in the head while he was en route to a hospital. Local authorities offer few details as the case unfolds.
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Becmise Elva Cooper
Deparse
Mike Azizlon
Bettendorf
Cooper
Coopred
Armin
Pineselhaun
Taft Plan Seeks Interpretive Reservations On Leagues Pact
Edward W. Pickard reports Taft proposing interpretive reservations to gain Republican votes for ratifying the peace treaty and League covenant. Wilson resists unreserved ratification while pressing diplomacy. debate shows party lines and shifts around Shantung and reparations.
German Premier Warns Against Revolution Urges Sanity
German Premier Gustav Adolph Bauer addressed the national assembly warning against a hasty revolution and urging a policy of socialization. He proposed regulation of workers councils and economic bodies, nationalization of electric power, and socializing lignite mines to stabilize Germany’s economy.
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Gustav Adolph Bauer
Germany
Asquith Free Trade Speech Tops Plymouth Meeting
Former British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith spoke in Plymouth urging free trade and denouncing import restriction. He argued free trade aided wartime logistics and mercantile power, warned against price declines and competition limits harming British manufacturers, and said unrestricted imports risk monopolies. The address left a strong impression.
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Plymouth
Herbert TL. Asquith
Asquith
Britain
America
Uuit
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