England recalls troops on leave from Ireland amid rising concerns
Allied communications report that all soldiers on leave in Aldershot and Farnborough were ordered to return to their regiments. Reports from Belfast say Ireland cancelled all leave for officers and men as a precaution against surprise. In Dublin, Eamon de Valera calls for separation from Britain and asserts the Dail Eireann ministry is the valid government.
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Associated Press
London
Ireland
Aldershot
Farnborough
Telegraph
Belfast
Dublin
Dail Eireann
Eamon de Valera
Great Britain
Dail
Eirean
Steam propulsion for airships proposed by Captain Burtnall
London reports Captain W. Durtnall, ex Royal Air Force staff captain, claims a steam propulsion system for airships. The design uses internal combustion heat to generate superheated steam for reversible motors, eliminating boilers and placing engines inside the airship frame to cut drag and power needs.
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London
W. 2 Durtnall
Royal Air Force
Burtnall
Mexico to Sell Land on Terms to Farmers
Mexico City reports national lands in Quintana Roo idle since 1909 will be divided into small tracts and sold on easy terms to farmers with suitable financial references. The distribution was suspended on December 18 1909 for a complete survey.
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Mexico City
Quintana Roo
Vienna passes key law enables early bedtimes for concierges
In Vienna on August 16 the famous atehkey law was passed allowing concierges to retire earlier without admitting late homecomers. The front door keys, now made of aluminum, fold on a pivot to ease carrying in pockets.
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Vienna
Mills to raise weekly hours using American cotton
Manchester August 16 The federation of master cotton spinners association votes to increase mill work with American cotton to 35 hours weekly from 24 hours. Mills using Egyptian cotton will resume full time operations immediately.
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Manchester
Eng
Federation of Master Cotton Spinners Association
Drunkenness Rise Seen in England Postwar
London reports official licensing statistics show drunkenness up over 65 percent from 1918 to 1919. Convictions reached 95,763 after the war sobriety, up from 57,948 in 1919, compared with 29,075 in 1918.
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London
England
Pool Refill To Open Wednesday For Ladies Use
Manager W. W. Raper announced the pool was drained this afternoon and will be closed and refilled by one o clock Wednesday afternoon The pool will be ready for use Wednesday afternoon for ladies only.
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W. W. Raper
Miss Robertson Doubts American Women at Major Conference
Representative Alice Robertson of Oklahoma the only woman in Congress visited the White House to say she does not urge appointing a woman delegate to the disarmament conference. She asks to see a qualified woman in the United States before supporting any nomination.
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Washington
Alice Robertson
Oklahoma
Congress
White House
United States
Miss Robertson
Black woman and children injured in razor attack
Elizabeth Moore and her three children were slashed at their home on Vail and Fairview street by her husband Nick Moore. Doctors reported the mother and two older children resting but the infant worsened. Moore, believed mentally ill, was arrested and jailed.
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Elizabeth Moore
Chhildren
Nick Moore
Aera
Vail
Fairview Street
Moore
Troopers hunt alleged Canadian liquor shipments
Michigan state troopers watched for a carload of Canadian rye whiskey reported to have reached Windsor from eastern Canada for shipment into the U S across the Detroit river. No trace found on this side. Officers intensified Detroit raids with several arrests and said much of the liquor moves toward Toledo via cars on the Dixie highway.
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Detroit
Mich
Michigan
Windsor
Canada
U. S
Detroit River
Toledo
Missing bank official and clerk vanish with cash in Denver
Edwin A. Morse head teller of the International Trust company and Mabel Henfold a filing clerk have disappeared in Denver along with about 75 000 in currency, announced by John Evans president of the bank.
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Denver
Col
Amng
Edwin A. Morse
International Trust Company
John Evans
Mabel Henfold
Evans
Tariff Congress Debates Politics Free Trade Stance
William Burgess and Senator Brussard urged divorcing tariff from politics at the Southern Tariff Congress in Greensboro. A resolution aims to standardize tariffs on southern products to equalize production costs with foreign rivals while protecting living standards across industries.
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Greensboro
William Burgess
Washington
D. C
United States Tariff Commission
E. F. Brussard
Louisiana
Southern Tariff Congress
Brussard
Burgess
Congress
AIR BUSINESS AT OPENING OF MARKET
New York cotton market opened with fair business and mixed orders. Prices showed narrow, irregular fluctuations as weather reports and rains in Texas stirred conflicting opinions. December sold at 13.58 and later 13.43 with a steady undertone. futures quoted October 13.90 December 13.40 January 13.45 March 13.70 May 13.81.
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New York
Liverpool
Texas
Revenue Bill Cuts Nationwide Tax by 709 Million
Washington reports a $709,320,000 reduction in the annual tax bill due to changes in the 1918 revenue tax in the administration tax bill. Chairman Fordney of the ways and means committee announced the savings in a majority report filed with the House.
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Washington
Fordney
Ways and Means Committee
House
Five Million Plus Jobless In United States
Secretary of Labor Davis informed the Senate that about 5,735,000 persons are out of work in the United States, according to the best estimates available in response to a resolution seeking figures. The report frames elevated unemployment across the nation as of mid August.
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Washington
United States
Davis
Senate
Austria Cashes In On Wealth Levies
The wealth levy has yielded about 7.3 billion crowns. Vienna is estimated to have paid six billion. About half the payments were made in war bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Vienna
Roscoe Anthony in Court Again and Courtroom Fallout
Roscoe Anthony faced court today amid local worries over his freight train street risks. Others, including Thomas Chambers and Nick Henderson, were charged with assault and affray with varied outcomes. Sallie Warner forfeited bond for vagrancy, while Herbert Apple’s assault and reckless driving case lingered after an Archdale road auto crash.
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Roscoe Anthony
Roscoe
High Point
Rescoe
Thomas Chambers
Nick Henderson
Arthur Holmes
Henderson
Holmes
Sallie Warner
Herbert Apple
Archdale Road
Pellagra Deaths Estimated at 6000 in 1921
Washington reports conservative estimates show five thousand Pellagra deaths and one hundred thousand cases in the United States for 1921. A White House statement accompanying a Public Health Service report notes food shortages in the South nearing famine levels in a scientific sense. The surge is tied to increases in Alabama Arkansas Mississippi Oklahoma Texas and likely North and South Carolina with possible Georgia rise.
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Washington
White House
Harding
Public Health Service
South
Albama
Arkansas
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Texas
North
Carolina
Georgia
Harding urged to name an umpire in wage dispute
Omaha reporters say the Amalgamated Beef Cutters and Butchers plan for a national working agreement will be presented to President Harding. If the plan fails to satisfy packers an appeal to the president to appoint an arbitrator to adjust differences will be made, said union president C. J. Hayes.
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Omaha
Neb
Harding
Amalgamated Beef Cutters and Butchers
C. J. Hayes
Union International
Texas Mob Hangs Black Man After Attack Near Grosbeck
A Black man named Alex Winn was hanged yesterday by an armed mob at Dapura near Grosbeck Texas after an attack on a white girl. The justice of the peace at Dapura supplied the report received today.
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Grosbeckk
Texas
Alex Winn
Dapura
Justice of the Peace
Georgia Demands Cooper's Apology Over Jail Raid
Augusta Georgia August 16 Gov Hardwick requested an apology from South Carolina Governor Cooper for the invasion of Georgia by a mob from South Carolina. The raid aimed to free C O Fox and Jess Gappins jailed after the slaying of taxi driver William Brazell. Judge Henry Hammond urged SC to turn over at least one mob member to Georgia.
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Augusta
Hardwick
Georgia
Cooper
South Carolina
Richmond County
C. O. Fox
Jess Gappins
William Brazell
Columbia
Henry Hammond
Fox
Gappins
Georgia mob inquiry in death case sparks apology drift
Governor Cooper said he would be surprised if Georgia's governor demanded an apology for a mob from South Carolina seeking Fox and Gappins, accused in William Brazell's death. He has not heard from Governor Hardwick about an apology or delivering a mob member to Georgia authorities.
Lodge Named to U.S. Delegation for Disarmament Conference
President Harding definitively selects Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, as a member of the American delegation to the disarmament conference. Formal announcement at the White House confirms his appointment, making him the second delegation member after secretary Hughes.
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Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Harding
Senator Lodge
White House
Hughes
Steals Auto While Officer Watches Car Disappears
Police hunted for the car of City Councilman W. A. Davis after it vanished from a main street Saturday night. Chief Blackwelder reportedly had a foot on the running board when the thief drove away, though he did not realize the vehicle belonged to Davis.
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W. A. Davis
Davis
National Southern Retail Merchants Meet Opens in Richmond
Delegates from across the south gathered in Richmond for the National Southern Retail Merchants association meeting. Murray McKinnon of Hartsville South Carolina presided as welcome speeches were given by Mayor Ainstee and Governor Davis, with a reply from McD. Holliday of Dunn North Carolina.
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Richmond
South
National Southern Retail Merchants Association
Murray $5 McKinnon
Hartsville
South Carolina
Ainstee
Davis
McD. Holliday
Dunn
North Carolina
Florida Woman Becomes Grandmother at 28
Tampa, Aug 16 A remarkable family note emerges as Mrs. Ethel Coulmop, 28, is named grandmother after her daughter Mrs. Francis McCullough, 15, gave birth to a girl yesterday. The young mother is the eldest of three children and Mrs. Coulmop married at 15.
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Graciela Martin Rivero
Cuba
Mexico
Thomas N. Ransdell
Washington, D. C
Tampa
Fla
Ethel Coulmop
Francis McCullough
Coulmop
McCullough
Railroads Seek Tax Relief and State Fair Premia
Railroads petition North Carolina officials for reduced property valuations with major lines like Southern and Seaboard among the critics of assessments. The state health department reports thousands of students treated in dental and tonsil clinics, while the 60th state fair plans 170 page premiums totaling twenty thousand dollars and highlights agricultural progress under Col. Joseph E. Pogue.
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Raleigh
State Board of Equalization
North Carolina
Commissioner of Revenue
A. D. Watts
James &. Manning
Corporation Commission
W. T. Lee
Southern
Seaboard
Atlantic Coast Line
Norfolk Southern
Watts
Department of Revenue
State Board of Health
G. M. Cooper
Medical Inspection of
Cooper
The
Fair Association
Colonel Pogue
Desi
Arrests at Locke mill as Hartsel suspects face warrants
In Concord, Aug 16, a man was arrested at Locke mill after refusing to move as troops ordered. Warrants were issued for four people at Hartsel mill for stopping a special officer and seizing his pistol. A woman and one man posted bonds of 100 and 200 dollars. Adjutant General Metts arrived to assume command and later departed for Kannapolis to direct Winston-Salem guards at Cannon mills.
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Charlotte
Concord
Hartsell
Locke Mill
Hartsel Mill
Hartsell Mill
Metts
Kannapolis
Winston-Salem
Palestine Advances In Its Education
London April 16 So comprehensive is the education plan of the government of Palestine that at the present rate of progress the whole country will be provided with schools within four years. Since January 34 new village schools for 1,360 children have opened and 46 state aided village schools have been taken over. A further 35 schools will be opened this financial year. Training colleges for teachers are being developed and Bedouin education staff expanded. A central education committee with four Muslims three Jews and three Christians has been formed. Villages provide buildings and upkeep while the government pays salaries and maintenance costs.
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London
Government of
Palestine
New Generator Takes Electricity From Air in Denver
Denver demonstrations display an atmospheric generator claimed to harvest electricity from the air. Inventors J E Ammann of Denver and C E Ammann of Spokane say the device contains no moving parts and can power any electrical apparatus. They guard the secret, store it in a hotel room, and have not offered to sell yet.
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Denver
Col
J. E. Ammann
C. E. Ammann
Spokane
Wash
C. BE. Ammann
Argonaut Hotel
Landru Prepares for October Trial in Paris
Henri Desire Landru, facing charges tied to the disappearances of 11 women promised marriage, studies a docket of about 7 000 documents. A warden retrieved him for a voluntary statement, and Landru asked the judge to postpone, calling it his busy day.
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Versailles
Henri Desire Landru
Landru
Sandru
World War War Casualties and Domestic Accidents Reported
A historical note records that America suffered 31 000 battle deaths in World War I while 126 000 Americans were killed accidentally at home. No further context provided.
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America
McAdoo Refused Expert Testimony On Railroad Bill
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee declined to summon William G. McAdoo former director general of railroads to testify on the administration's railroad bill. The motion by Senator Pittman failed seven to three with Pittman Stanley and Lafollette supporting it.
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Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
William G. McAdoo
Railroads
Mr. McAdoo
Pittman
Nevada
Stanley
Kentucky
Lafollette
Wisconsin
Auto bandits hold up elevated station in Bronx
Six automobile bandits robbed an elevated station in the Bronx early today. They locked the ticket agent and the officer in the rafters booth and escaped with 613.
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Auto Bandits
New York
Bronx
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William Taft
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Alvan T. Fuller
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