Russians Build on Rock as Co-op Societies Multiply
In Petrograd a leading co operative organizer explains Russia’s drive to unionize peasants. Since 1907 reforms and wartime pressures boosted 14 000 co operatives across the empire with credit producers and consumers forming networks from Siberia to the Baltic. Co op societies opened lines of steamers and a London bank, elevating peasants from putrid butter to fair cash markets.
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Tehaykovsky
Central Co-operative Committee
Zhukovskago
Zemstvo
Prince Vassilechskov
M. Yakoulef
Moscow
Petrograd
Siberia
London
Siberian
Agricultural Co-Operative Society
Cooperative Society
Cosumers’ Society
Russia
Stolypin
Mir
Tchaykovsky
Baltic
Pacific
Junior Naval Reserve Camp Opens at New London
New London Conn July 14 The summer encampment for the United States Junior Naval Reserve opens with more than two hundred cadets enrolled. Army and navy officers conduct training in naval and military tactics through the two months. Admiral George Dewey is honorary commander in chief with Josephus Daniels Franklin Roosevelt Whitman Mitchel as honorary vice presidents. Daily routine runs from reveille to taps including hiking in full marching order and grove-side instruction by the Thames between New London and Norwich.
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New Londer
Conn
Dewey
Thames
States
George Dewey
Josephus Daniels
Navy
Franklin Roosevelt
Governor Whitman
New York
Mayor Mitchel
New York City
Oscar Straus
Louis M. Josephthal
New London
Norwich
Birth Control Advocates Speak in St Paul Meeting
Mrs. Robert Liggett of Duluth and Mrs. Margaret Sanger of New York lectured to several hundred Minnesota women in St Paul without police disruption. A planned clinic exhibit was deemed illegal and abandoned. The article notes Liggett’s controversial Seattle remarks and Sanger’s recent New York federal indictment outcome, with public support from New York society figures.
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St. Paul, Minn
Robert Liggett
Duluth
Minnesota
Margaret Sanger
New York
Woman Rebel
New York Society
Federal and State Share in Road Fund Approved
Congress approves a five year federal state road fund plan totaling 150 million dollars with 75 million from the federal treasury and a matching state contribution. The first year provides 5 million dollars with annual increases, plus a separate 10 million for roads near federal forests. Western states push to link federal aid to established state systems.
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House
Senate
George ©. Diehl
Good Roads Board
American Automobile Association
Faithful Missionary Dead in Japan
Miss Mary J. Melton a missionary of the American Methodist Episcopal church in Japan since 1879 died in Nagasaki on June 9 from typhoid fever. A native of Jacksonville Illinois she had served for several years as superintendent of the Biblical department of the Methodist Girls' school.
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Nagasaki
Japan
Mary J. Melton
American Methodist Episcopal Church
Jacksonville
Miss Melton
Methodist Girls’ School
Vigorous U S Protest Over Turkish Actions in Syria
The United States protested to the Turkish government over the governor general of Syria breaking into French and British consulates in Beirut and removing archives after the American consul general had sealed the doors. Prominent Syrians executed by the Turks were condemned because their names appeared in papers taken from the violated consulates. Official word says the mere appearance of a name in the records was enough to issue a death warrant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syria
Beirut
United States
Foley Kidney Pills Quick Relief Claims
Advertises Foley Kidney Pills as prompt in action for health failing kidneys and relief from rheumatism sore muscles aching joints backache internal pains and sleep disturbing bladder troubles. Sold by Mann Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mann Drug Co
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America
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Sia
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