France Reaches for U S Support on Upper Silesia
World affairs move toward negotiated restraint as Briand resists a Ruhr occupation, British troops aid in Upper Silesia, and an autonomous Silesia under League or supreme council administration seems likely. China makes a peace arrangement with Germany over Versailles clauses and war crimes trials begin in Leipzig. Sinn Fein raids Dublin’s Custom House trigger fierce clashes, while riots flare in Alexandria and Egypt amid anti foreign sentiment.
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Upper Silesia
Sinn Fein
Dublin Custom House
Senate
Borah
Edward W. Pickard
Europe
Briand
France
Ruhr
Liogd George
Wirth
Germany
Korfanty
Upper Siesia
Berlin
Chamber of Deputies
Upper Silesian
Reichswehr
Poland
London
United States
Supreme Council
England
Paris
League of Nations
Postmaster General Hays lifts Burleson censorship on press
Postmaster General Hays ends the Burleson policy that suppressed radical papers for three years. He says the Libertator may receive second class mailing privileges if legally mailable, otherwise the publication is banished from the mails. Treasonable proprietors should face prosecution.
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Hays
Burleson
Liberator
Fanatics Fight With Police at Bullhoek Uprising
London dispatch reports 75 South African natives of the Israel Ites sect slain in a clash with police near Bullhoek. About 4,000 insurgents built 350 huts on holy ground and refused government authority, insisting Jehovah commanded resistance. Police employed service rifles as casualties rose to over 150 before surrender.
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London
Bullhoek
Cape Bown
South Africa
Israel
Ites
Germans Spy on Red Moves in Central Germany
In Halle, police track daily citizen activity amid Bolshevik clashes as 4,000 communists are arrested. An Associated Press correspondent faces repeated arrests and cross examination, with police admitting palpable nervousness stems from communists outnumbering them ten to one.
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Halle
Germany
Middle
Associated Press
Cowboy roped a live eagle near Gregory South Dakota
A Gregory dispatch reports Thomas Hale a ranch cowboy captured a live eagle with a lariat after observing it swoop on a calf. He waited for the bird to feed then rode up roped it and brought the captive home.
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Sioux City
Thomas Hale
Gregory
S. D
Hale
Greek Queen Aids Refugees in Saloniki Barracks Crisis
Queen Sophie of Greece head of the Greek Red Cross urged the cabinet to action as 20,000 refugees from the Caucasus crowd Kalamaria barracks near Saloniki. Typhus dysentery and influenza spread, 1,000 died in a month, and 1,000,000 drachmas were raised for relief. American Red Cross sent Col. Henry A. Shaw and a medical team. ten physicians joined. Lillian Spellman runs a camp dispensary distributing milk and soon clothing.
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Saloniki
Sophie
Greece
Greek Red Cross
Caucasus
Kalamaria
Cy Colonel Olds
Red Cross
Europe
Theophanos Aggelopoulos
American Red Cross
Henry A. Shaw
United States Army Medical Corps
Shaw
French Barracks
Lillian Spellman
Boston
Macedonia
Kemal Pasha
Zazitos
Bullet Proof Man Tries Suicide Then Gives Up
Walter Stewart, a Hartland Hollow, Connecticut farmer, attempted suicide by shooting himself twice in the forehead and twice in the body with .22 caliber pistols. He later told the doctor he was discouraged and would not try the gun route again after surviving the failure.
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Walter Stewart
Hartland Hollow
Conn
Pet Monkey Adopts Kittens in Astoria Yard
Jane the pet monkey of Mrs. Mary F Halpin in Astoria Queens has taken in four kittens. The kittens were found in the yard of Mrs Halpin when their mother cat was believed killed several days ago.
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New York
Jane
Mary F.halpin
Astoria
Queens
Polite Turkish Elite in Constantinople Compared to Occupied City
In Constantinople the courteous and affluent Turk retains a grand manner that contrasts with the soldiers and civilians drawn by Allied occupation. Abdul Medjid Effendi, heir apparent, embodies restrained dignity. In Stamboul by night the area grows sedate while Pera turns into a hub of vice with gambling dens and sailors staying out all night.
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Constantinople
Ottoman Empire
Abdul Medjid Effendi
Europe
United States
Mike Champion Runaway York Youngster Rescued
Six year old Michael Clementi known as the hop a wagon runaway is back home after his forty fifth wanderlust episode. He vanished weekly for ten months, prompting a police alert. He rode through Coney Island to Manhattan then hid under a Fifth Avenue bus before a patrolman intervened. He returned to school the next day.
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New York
Michael Clementi
Mike
Papa Clementi
Coney Island
Manhattan
Fifth Avenue
Adopts Woman of 50 Years in New York
Miss Mary Sherwood, raised as Maimee S. Webb by Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Webb since 1877, has won legal right to continue using the name given by her foster parents. The Webbs took her in when she was six, and she has since been known by that name for forty four years.
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New York
Mary Sherwood
Henry C. Webb
Foster daughter named heir under old adoption papers
Surrogate Foley signed papers at Mr. Webb’s request confirming a fifty year old woman as legal daughter and heir of her foster father, effectively formalizing the adoption status. The action ties to a long-standing legal recognition of familial relation and inheritance rights.
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Foley
Black Cat Rides On Car Top In New Jersey Town
In Haddonfield New Jersey Dr A K Wood backs his sedan from the drive family members watch for Tee a black cat perched on the car roof seeking a ride. Neighbors have found the pet on the top during outings leading to stops along the street. A separate note mentions an Iowan invention allowing one man to plant an acre of onion sets daily.
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Haddonfield
N. J
A. K. Wood
How She Got In Aunt Dolly Spencer Milford Mayor
Aunt Dolly Spencer wins Milford mayoral race by popular vote, with strong community support attributed to her famous cherry pie and welcoming persona. The Philadelphia Public Ledger notes her election hinges on her crust.
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Dolly
Spencer
Milford
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Swamp Root Aid for Kidney Trouble Ad
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder issues without realizing it as the ad promotes Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root a physician s prescription available at drug stores. It urges immediate treatment and offers a sample for ten cents from Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY and notes to mention the paper.
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Dr. Jimer & Co
Binghamton, N
Unseen Pulls in Local Assessor Networks
A terse remark suggests that in modern local government, knowing an assessor is advantageous only with strong backing. The comment implies influence matters more than merit in property evaluations and approvals.
Sort of a Fellow This Tite Wadd
A humorous aside about a man named Smythe-Well and his reluctance to denounce a certain fellow. The speaker claims the man would charge a blind helper for aiding him and notes a sharp exchange about wealth in marriage with a quip about his wife holding the money.
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