McCombs Opens Publicity Bureau For Wilson Campaign
In 1911 McCombs outlines a West to East speaking tour plan for Governor Wilson to build presidential support. He discusses avoiding political topics, securing civic groups invitations, and funding the trip with limited early donations, while noting Wilson’s reluctance due to political baggage.
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New York
Kansas
City
Denver
Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle
Portland
Princeton
ton mien
Wilson
West
Heart of Polish City in Flames Wrecks Pinsk
Fire devastated the center of Pinsk Poland starting Wednesday leaving 60 000 destitute and 400 buildings destroyed. American relief sources warn the conflagration may destroy the city as five of six relief kitchens were wiped out and field workers are needed to issue double rations. The blaze consumed the boyhood home of Prof Chaim Weizmann and an ancient synagogue over 1600 years old.
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NEW YORK
Pinsk
Poland
American relief administration
BOSTON
Mann
Abraham Alpert
Jawjah Armerican
Chaim Weismann
Zionist movement
syna
American Woman Bags Big Game in Africa Tour
Mrs Frederick Dalziel of New York completes a six months big game hunting expedition in former German East Africa. She shoots two elenbants two rhinocerones even lilons one leopard and one cheetah and is knocked down by a charging rhinoceros on arrival back in Paris.
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German East Africa
Frederick Dalziel
New York
Paris
Brumfield Surrenders in Oregon Slaying Case
Dr. R K M Brumfield, long a fugitive from Roseburg Oregon, waives extradition and agrees to return for trial after breakdown and plea to the district attorney. Police found a letter in his farmhouse room describing events surrounding Russell’s slaying, including a rifle sale and a car crash. CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN.
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CALGARY
Alberta
Roseburg
Ore
RK. M. Brumfield
Oregon city
Polos Ghiet
Ritchie
Ressbury
Razeell
Dr. Brumfield
Brumfield
Owensville
Ind
Ruussell
Weather forecast for Indianapolis region shows showers coolers
The forecast calls for Sunday and Monday showers and thunderstorms with cooler conditions. Indianapolis and vicinity expect cooler weather Sunday and Monday with fair skies and moderate temperatures. northerly winds become moderate to fresh.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Fire Department Crash Injures Chiefs During Storm Response
Two city firefighters, Battalion Chief John W. Blackwell and driver Tredway, were injured after their unit collided with a touring car while racing to a factory struck by lightning. Blackwell suffered severe arm cuts and shock, while Tredway was cut and bruised but likely saved from being run over. The crash also hit a streetcar inflow, with bystander A C Wheeler aiding the touring car driver. Fire crews tackled fires at Art Craft Manufacturing and other minor incidents, including a collapsed barn floor freeing a horse, as six alarms responded to storm damage and a damaged armature box caused aerial sparks near East Ohio Street.
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John W. Blackwell
Meridian street
Ralph Thedway
Shefield avenue
Washington street
White River boulevard
A. C. Wheeler
Barth avenue
Tredway
Blackwell
Art Craft Manufacturing Company
Weat Market street
Greeley
Washington streets
Merich & Hopkina Artificial Limb Company
East
Ohio street
East Ohio street
Max Bergman
South
Capitol avenue
Bernauer and
Drinkut
Chicago fines raised for drunkenness in revised schedule
Aug 13 Chicago judge Charles F. McKinley announced new fines for drunkenness to offset rising prisoner feeding costs. Plain drunks face $3, noisy drunks $5, those who sleep in public $5, those who fight or are drunk and wanting to fight face $10, and fights range from $10 to $25. Further increases for misdemeanors and disorderly conduct will be announced.
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CHICAGO
Charles F. McKinley
Chicago avenue posses court
Bernhardt Reported Seriously Ill by Paris Friends
Paris August 18 Associated Press says the management of Sara Bernhardt's theater in Paris reports she is in good health but Parisian friends disclose she is seriously ill. Friends at her summer villa off Belle Île emphasize concern as communication remains blocked.
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PARIS
Associated Press
Sara Bernt
Paria
Mme. Bernhardt
Belle-lle-En-Mer
Brittany
Drafting of 1918 tax bill advances in House
Washington August 13 revision of the 1918 tax law by Republican members of the House ways and means committee features repeals of excess and pipeline taxes effective Jan 1 and a new $10 license tax on soft drink vendors upon enactment. It replaces the luxury levies with a 5 percent manufacturers tax on carpets trunks and similar goods and imposes a 2.5 percent tax on fur manufacturers selling price above set levels. The plan aims to raise about 3 billion dollars with much from back taxes, and the bill will go to the House Monday for debate before Senate consideration in a late September reconvening.
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WASHINGTON
Hosewaya
means” committee
yao
Mellon
White House
revere
treasury
House
Bousett
Senate
finance ‘committee
congressional
Congress
contac
House Republicans
Four Bandits Steal $114,000 Payroll in Bank Heist
In Springfield ML on August 13 four armed bandits stopped Deputy Jeremy Lockhart and a bank cashier at Kincaid. They overpowered the deputy, seized his two revolvers, and escaped with a miners payroll of $114,000 from a Trust and Savings Bank car. Police suspect the robbers followed the shipment from Chicago.
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SPRINGFIELD
Kincaid
Chicago
Trust and Savings bank
Jeremy Lockhart
Mystery girl freed after vague diamond case in city court
Marie Doe, later identified as Mary Lewis, was arrested Monday for vagrancy tied to a two karat diamond ring. Judge Walter Pritchard ordered her release after the state failed to prove charges. The woman refused to reveal her identity or whereabouts despite inquiries from detectives and her attorney.
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Marie ‘Doe
M. L. Clawson
Walter Pritchard
Mary Lewis
Inter
Barnaby
Church
Clawson
Isabelle Phillipa
Explosion at Atlantic Refining Plant Injures 20 in Philadelphia
A massive explosion at the Atlantic Refining Company Point Breeze plant in Philadelphia caused a major fire. Twenty workers were injured and hospitalized after the blast struck during the night shift. 25 tanks ignited as reinforcement crews battled flames across the sprawling facility covering over 300 acres.
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PHILADELPHIA
hoaptals
Point Breeze
Atlantic Refining Company
Michigan man given tar and feather coat
Aiviem Krieger, an admirer of Glendora, Michigan, was tarred and feathered near New Carlisle Indiana. About twenty men from Glendora carried out the assault and Krieger was later brought home by Sheriff Floyd Linder. He had reportedly been arrested recently on a charge of beating his wife.
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NEW CARLISLE
Ind
AIVEM _KriegeR
Glendora
Mich
Krieger
Ciendora
Floyd Linder
Gallen
Youth, 17, Identified After Danville Train Death
The body of a well dressed youth was found on the main tracks of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois near Danville. He is identified as Clarence Everett Bennett, 17, of Marion near Decatur, Illinois. He left home August 1 with another high school boy who separated at Terre Haute and returned home hours before the accident.
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DANVILLE
Chicago & Eastern Nicois
Clarence Everett Bennett
Maron
Decatur
Ill
Ang. 1
Terre Haute
Invitation to President Harding to address G A R encampment
Senator New of Indiana delivered a White House invitation for President Harding to speak at the Grand Army of the Republic national encampment in Indianapolis in September. The President indicated he may be able to accept depending on his schedule.
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WASHINGTON
Harding
Grand Army of the Republic
Indianapolis
White House
New
Indiana
Smuts presses peace in Irish talks as Ulster stands firm
London dispatch reports Gen. Jan Smuts’ letter to Eamon DeValera proposing dominion status for twenty six counties with safeguards while Ulster Premier Sir James Craig refuses to negotiate. Smuts says force is out, negotiations may take time, and urges focusing on a free constitution for Ireland while Ulster remains unmoved.
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LONDON
Associated Press
Jan C Smuts
Eamon DeValery
Lloyd George
Sinn Felp
Atse
James Craig
Ulster
DeValera
Sinn Fein
Smuts
DeValeri
Craig
Ireland
Ulater
Briuts
Smuth
Russians to Run Famine Relief in Soviet Areas
At Riga on August 13 the Soviet famine relief committee agreed in principle to let the American Relief Administration manage food distribution in famine districts. Maxim Litvinoff and Walter Lyman Brown signed the accord, with details to be set at a later conference next week. The arrangement aims to harmonize U S relief work with the Soviet government and provides protection and freedom of movement for American staff.
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RIGA
Associated Press
American’ relief administration
Russia
Maxim Litvinoff
soviet famine relief committee
Walter Lyman’ Brown
American relief administration
M. Litvinoff
Drug addiction rising in New York under Prohibition
New York City hospital statistics show tripling of drug addiction admissions from 1918 to 1920 under Prohibition, with 116, 339, and 493 cases respectively in those years. Alcoholism remained high, with 1145 in 1919 and 1024 in 1920, and 567 alcoholics in the first half of 1921.
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NEW YORK
city hospitala
department ‘of public welfare
Bird
Coler
Manhattan
Mqnor
Allies To Lift Paris Economic Barrier Sept 16
Allied supreme council final session at Paris decided to lift the Rhine barrier on Sept 16 if Germany meets payment terms of the London ultimatum and agrees to remove the ban on French goods. Ruhr occupation of Duisburg Ruhrer and Duesseldorf to continue until the next meeting. Briand defended keeping Ruhr forces. Curzon pressed cost reductions. An inter Allied financial experts commission including United States to study reducing occupation costs was proposed.
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PARIS
Associated Press
Rhineland
Germany
London
allied supreme council
Ruhrer
Duisburg
Duemelborg
Washington
Briand
Rhine
Upper Silesia
M. Briand
Lord Curzon
Robert Stevenson Horne
Ruhr
Curzon
United States
Jord Curzon
sontimient
France
Duesseldorf
England
Italy
Belgium
Find 23 Chinese Stowaways Hidden on Vessel
Twenty six Chinese stowaways, nearly starved after three months hidden aboard a steamship from Shanghai, were removed to Ellis Island from the Bowencastle. Federal probes follow claims they were duped into boarding for free transport, then kept below decks with meager rice rations. A crew member allegedly profited, and customs officials uncovered the smuggling after discovering a loose bolter on a water tank lid near the engine room.
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NEW YORK
Shanghai
Ellis Island
America
Smuggling War Unfolds At Windsor Docks As Rum Runners Rally
Ontario and Michigan authorities mobilized to curb beer and whisky smuggling. Rum runners in motor boats and trucks pressed from Sandwich Walkerville and Detroit area to offload beer shipments, with waterfront observers noting dozens of boats moving since morning. Authorities report 9 per cent beer and Ontario exports fueling the illicit trade as U S agents coordinate tests to halt crossings. A smuggler boat stalled at Ojibway and was towed away, while Canadian police claim limited evidence of backflow into Canada.
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WINDSOR
Ontario
Michigan
pee Sandwich
Walkerville
Ecorse
Windsor court
Ontario temperance
Detroit
Toledo
Fort’ Huron
Michigan state
United States
U. S
Onsta
Federal
prohibition
unaary
oasis
Ontaro
Heap department
Canada
Ojibway
Detroit mobilizes 171 state troopers to curb rum trafficking
Detroit authorities and federal agents deployed 171 troopers and officers to halt what they call an export flood of interior alcohol from Canada. A raid in Ecorse seized 1200 pints and 12 quarts of liquor as the effort aimed to curb cross border smuggling following Windsor ruling on Ontario temperance export. Campau and other precincts ferried troopers to patrol Detroit river and nearby suburbs.
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DETROIT
Mich
United States
Canada
Windsoroom
Federal offeara
Ecorne
alvert
Charles P. Conmmm
state public safety
Nici Nguor
Campau lastee
Transthe
cers
A. C. Graham
profi
meted
Irving J. Coffin
sher
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Smith
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Mary Doe
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De Valera
Erin
dn North
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