Business Men of Countries May Combine for Trade
Edouard Herriot, French senator and Lyons war mayor, urges closer ties between American and French business leaders at the International Commercial Conference. He envisions a Lyons Fair branch called the Business Men's Exchange to foster action, with Americans invited to attend next March and possibly August or September. He cites past American business at Lyons and seeks heavy American machine parts and quick American business practices, aiming to link France with Italy England and Spain through new projects like a Geneva Lyons canal and electrified railways.
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Rome
Germany
Edouard Herriot
France
Lyons
French Economic Council
United States
Lyons Fairs
Business Men's Exchange
Tam
America
Geneva
Switz
Sland
Marseilles
Rhone-Marseilles
Timid beggar seeks missing right left in door knock
A brief New York Times item describes a timid beggar at a house. the resident lady refuses to help and slams the door after the request for a missing right leg is made.
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Indy
New York Times
The Barnum and Bailey Circus Clowns Parade in Town
The Barnum and Bailey circus arrives July 13 featuring sixty clowns with new tricks. Performances promise pure fun, Aladdin pageant, acrobats, and a greatly enlarged menagerie including baby camels and giraffes.
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Barnum & Bailey Circus
Big Top
Europa
Atlantic
New Taxes Take Effect in Mexico July 1
Mexico City reports July 1 start for new taxes on untaxed items. Residence telephones taxed 50 centavos monthly, office phones one peso. A laa stamp and advertising tax apply nationwide. Newspaper ads taxed 10 percent, electric lamps 10 centavos monthly, alcoholic beverages taxed per bottle with foreign drinks at 20 centavos and beer 10 centavos. Native liquors and beers taxed about half the foreign rates.
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Mexico City
Republic
Powder and explosives plant funded by Japanese gear for Mexico
Mexico City reports the government has purchased machinery from Japan to equip a complete powder and explosives plant. The equipment will be installed at an addition to the Santa Fe facility, near the capital, where government powder is already produced.
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Mexico City
Japan
Santa Fe
Oil Companies to Use Wireless Outfits Near Tampico
Oil firms operating near Tampico petitioned the government to erect and operate wireless stations for business. If granted, the plan would place stations under government control and manned by government operators.
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Mexico City
Oll
Tampico
Jewel purchases in Japan indicate enormous wealth
Table, June 22. Enormous jewel purchases mark wealth flowing to Japan from the Star. Dealers report high prices paid to families gaining wealth quickly. Public sale of the late Viscount Akimoto’s household heirlooms brought about $750,000. An old landscape album sold for $70,000, a record price for a single curtos fever item in Japan.
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Japan
Akimoto
Japan urged to build many submarines for defense
Tokio June 22 Japan's leading newspaper the Jif calls for a large number of submarines to defend Japan\u2019s extended coastline alongside battleships cruisers and other warships. It also urges keeping submarine numbers secret.
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Tokio
Japan
The
Jif
A Yankee Grit Anthem On Deck For Uncle Sam
A fragmentary verse recalls Washington Marion and Decatur in a rousing flag waving refrain. The piece urges courage and steadfastness with callouts to Barbary coast battles and a drum tattoo defending the nation and liberty, ending with a rallying pledge to play the game.
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Washington
Marion
Decatur
Buckie
Old Uncle Sam
Paris sew girls favor American flag during strike
Paris correspondence notes American flags worn by many Parisian sew girls during a strike to demand a shorter work week. They cite America as a symbol of freedom and relief, praising the Star Spangled Banner and American aid to soldiers and civilians. The piece links patriotic sentiment to wartime alliance and French affection for the United States.
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Paris
América
George Washington
Lincoln
Wilson
France
United States
America
Etrest Music
Sorbonne
United States of America
Woman solves Cruger mystery sees white slave plot
Grace Hamiston the lawyer who uncovered Ruth Cruger’s disappearance says the case exposes white slave trafficking in New York. She linked Cocchi to the murder and asserts she forced the case past police red tape, pursuing morgues and dives to recover the girl’s body.
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Cruger
Ruth Gruger
New York
Grace Hamiston
Ruth Cruger
New York City
Mia
Hamiston
Alfredo Cocchi
Cocchi
Athorities
Italy
Hur Ieras
Cocchi Place
Aliilmiing
Hisarch
Misa Cruger
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Grand Forks
Marshall Oil CO
Iowa
J. F. Lewis
P.O. Box
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Clinton Scollard
Vigilantes
Wirand Forks
Grand Forks Herald Co
Columbia
England
Lloyd George
Flanders
Grace Hamilton
Lowell
Red Cross of Mercy
Reel Theatre Esiion “the Rosary
Kathryn Williams
Sey Cisyecs
Areed i
Silverman’s
lIimark
Bestware
Gur
Ught Bibbs
D, Btyis Union
Northwestern Clothing CO
DéMers
Empresa'Cafe
Mahonalds
Herman Silverman
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