Russia seeks to exchange exports with Germany barter plan
Berlin reports the Soviet government abandons gold payments and aims to fill warehouses with Russian goods to barter for German manufactured articles. It will deal directly with German producers, eliminating middlemen, to obtain farm machinery electrical gear chemicals and railroad material for Russia.
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Berlin
Germany
Russia
Russian Trade Commission
England
America
Esthenia
Latvia
Edison Rebels at Civilization Says Humans Long for Wild Life
In a camp near Oakland Maryland Thomas Edison argues civilization is a veneer and that every man harbors a rebellious urge for barbaric life. He cites a dog returning to wildness in three days and notes education cannot erase primal instincts. Edison comments on Florida and Everglades youth.
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Oakland
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Henry Ford
H. 38
Firestone
Fort Myers
Florida
Everglades
Negro lynching in Virginia mob takes killer from jail
In Petersburg Virginia on August 3 a mob seized one of two Black men jailed in Brunswick County for the murder of Tingley Elmore a Tobacco Virginia postmaster and storekeeper. The man was lynched before dawn while the second suspect remained in custody unmolested.
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Petersburg
McKinney
Tingley Elmore
Tobacco
Brunswick County
Lawrenceville
Cups for American yachts at Cowes
The Royal Yacht squadron awards a special prize to the first American six meter yacht to finish in the inaugural British American cup race at Cowes. Cowes town will present a cup for the first American yacht in the second cup race. The article notes paper source experiments and a large foreign born population.
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Cowes
Royal Yacht Squadron
Cowes Regratta
Irish Loyalists Flee to London Seeking Compensation
Southern Irish loyalist refugees arrive daily in London in dire straits. Women and children lose breadwinners as homes and possessions vanish. Despite decrees granting compensation under the malicious injury act, payments are rare. The London committee of the Irish Unionist Alliance seeks a British government appeal to make life and property compensation a first charge on funds to Ireland.
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London
Iish Unionist Alliance
Mechanical sugar cane cutter unveils new labor solution
London reports Sir Percy Scott, the gunnery expert, has invented a belt driven mechanical sugar cane cutter. Weighing about 200 pounds the device features a projecting knife and makes 3000 revolutions per minute, aiming to ease planter labor worldwide.
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London
Percy Scott
Patent office crippled by delay in job actions
The United States patent office is crippled by a changing staff and record case load. Delays have lengthened from 39 days to six or seven months, hampering industrial development. Causes include high resignation rates, strict hiring standards, and a surge in patent and trademark applications.
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Wasiqiingson
United States Patent Office
Beause
Loway
Patent Office
Incomplete OCR Blurb Catalogs 1918 1919 Figures
Fragments report figures for 1918 5 447 and 1919 7 946 across a period with garbled words and mismatched letters. The readable portion lists yearly totals but lacks clear context or entities.
Auto Electric and Battery Company Serves City
The Auto Electric and Battery company on East Commerce Street offers ignition and lighting work, rewiring, generator repairs, and battery service. D B Mitchel manages the shop and represents Exide batteries with ample stock and rapid service.
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The
Auto Electric and Battery Company
East Commerce Street
D. B. Mitchel
Mr. Mitchel
Exide
Soviet Russia Is Hell Says Chessin
Vladnir Chessin former envoy to Danish and Swedish missions in Petrograd and wife, once with the imperial opera, arrived in Copenhagen after a perilous flight from Persia. Their last memory of Russia is of danger and upheaval.
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Copenhagen
Vladnir Chessin
Ogations
Petrograd
Imperial Opera ii
Sandits Sack Mall Witte Big Su
Fragmented OCR notes describe a mall-related incident and a suspect, with addresses in Wood River Illinois and mentions of protection payments and a 1920s era figure. The text is garbled but centers on a theft or assault event tied to a group labeled as sandits and a protection scheme.
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Fom Saihio
Wessen Fey
Wood River
Wir
Lares Masouch
Ieries
Wood
Russia Freeing American Prisoners Reported
Reports from Riga claim American prisoners in Russia have been released from confinement though details on numbers timing or crossing the border are not clarified. The note includes an unrelated remark from Dr Jenette M. Bolles of Denver.
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Associated Press
Russia
Bolshevist
Lega
Jenette MH. Bolles
Denver
Col
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