Verdict of the Judges on Germany After Lusitania Sinking
The piece portrays the postwar judgment of Germany as a universal court trial. It condemns German actions in World War I, detailing losses of territory and wealth, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the demand that Germany pay for crimes and endure occupation. It closes by lamenting Germany's lost soul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newell Dwight Hillis
Lusitania
Berlin
Germany
Lualtania
Moselle-Meurthe
Aleace
Lorraine
Belgium
Kaiser
Franz Joseph
Young American Knights health reform of schoolchildren ranks
A historical health campaign frames children as knights in a lodge like the Masons with pages and squires. Teachers authorize badges for a National Tuberculosis Society program promoting open air play, clean habits, diet, hygiene, and yearly medical exams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squire
Page
Masons, Oddfellows
Knights of Columbus
B'nai B'rith
Health Crusaders
Oklahoma
Why Note Writing and the German Peace Terms
The Dallas News explains why the peace conference required German delegates to submit objections in writing. It argues written protests emphasize that terms are dictated, not negotiated, and prevent broad justification of each point in oral debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas News
Fragmentary Chronicle Excerpt From Papers
A garbled newspaper fragment describes a servant girl told to order vegetables, a grocer inquiry about home goods, and a mistress dismissing wants. It mentions Mary Tossing Me, a robe of harmony torn, and a Boston Transcript reference with words about darning and patching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh Chronicle -Telegraph
Mary
The
Boston Transcript
Wile Bates
Shorter quarantines urged based on Hill and Fill studies
Health investigator Dr H W Hill finds four weeks of isolation yields only 2 percent secondary cases in whooping cough, suggesting shorter quarantines could safely cut time. Across mumps measles and other diseases, studies imply two weeks or less suffices for many, with scarlet fever requiring five weeks and infantile paralysis and meningitis two weeks. If safe, faster releases could boost reporting and compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Hill
Fill
Why Sims Can't Run
A Buffalo News editorial notes Admiral Sims as a potential presidential timber but concludes he cannot run due to not being born in America and a constitutional barrier. It acknowledges his wartime service and Canadian birth during his parents’ temporary residence in Canada.
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Sims
Buffalo News
Perdhing
Wood
Admiral Sims
Sailor
Navy
America
Canada
Pennsylvania
New York
Fational Agitation From the Chicago News
A Chicago news piece attacks radical editors and violent minorities, arguing Americans will reject Bolshevik methods and preserve self government. It condemns threats and calls Congress to distinguish and extirpate violent actors while protecting peaceful reform and free speech.
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Chicago
United States
Russia
Germany
America
Washington
Congress
Sulgrave manor subscription aids Anglo American unity
The Christian Science Monitor notes King George funds the Sulgrave manor restoration in Northamptonshire, highlighting the house once home to Lawrence Washington and the Washington family. It suggests the manor’s coat of arms links England and America, with the Stars and Stripes in its heraldry.
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Christian Science Monitor
George
Sulgrave Manor
Northamptonshire
United States
Lawrence Washington
Henry Viet
Washington
George Washington
Mt. Vernon
England
America
Red Serial Reports Bolshevik Atrocities Across Russia
From the Providence Journal two items condemn Bolshevik cruelty. Reports from Libau and Omsk describe mass killings in Riga Ufa and Ossa with thousands murdered or shot. The Russian Information Bureau notes devastation at Yaroslavi and Okhansk with mass executions and threats of destroying cities.
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Providence Journal
Stockholm
Riga
Libau
O Hasen
Dvina
London
Ufa
Omsk
Kerensky
Russia
Russian Information Bureau
United States
Ossa
Yaroslavi
Sidis Education Questioned By Unusual Arrest Case
The Times notes William James Sidis, Harvard graduate at 15, later assaulted a policeman during a May Day protest and voiced bolshevist sentiments in court where he received a lengthy prison sentence. The piece questions whether his rapid schooling produced a more rounded education.
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New York
Vimer
William James Sidis
Harvard
Sidis
Voon
Prejudice and the Habit of Partial Judgment
A London Spectator piece argues prejudice is inherited from past traditions and social surroundings rather than purely original thought. Authors assert people rarely see their own bias until catastrophe reveals it, and claim virgin minds cannot be fully free of environment, kinship, education, trade, and self interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
London Spectator
First Hand Information On Bolshevist Crimes
A reporter recounts alleged Bolshevist crimes from Russian interior towns, citing C D Wood's Swiss reports of proclamations and press clippings. Claims include polygamy, forced labor, food denial to non Bolshevists, mass executions, and caste-like repression as claimed by Bolshevik sources.
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Bolsheviata
Rumala
C. D. Wood
New York
Berne
Switzerland
Nevel
Rednota
Nourzillovka
Savelieff
Russia
Red Guard
Trotzky
Lenine
Pity the Poor Little Rich Children Malnutrition Study
Dr W R P Emerson of Boston finds malnutrition more common among rich children than poor. He lists faulty health habits, dental issues, enlarged tonsils, and fatigue as causes. At schools, underweight children are weighed, examined, and treated with open window rooms and mid morning rest, then a hot noon meal.
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W. R. P. Emerson
Boston
Emerson
Americans Adaptable Liberty Shown in State Sports Acts
A Seattle Times analysis notes how Massachusetts barred Sunday amateur sports with admission free while Michigan allowed 10 round boxing. It cites the broader U S federal system with 48 states designing domestic policy, and reports World War I casualty figures showing heavy losses among regular army divisions and Marines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle Times
Massachustts
Michigan
Tite
Masachusetts
United States
Ita
Kerensky’s Plea for Trotsky’s Return From Exile
The report describes Kerensky’s appeal at a public address by Ole Hanson for Trotsky’s return to Russia. It notes Kerensky’s attempts to appeal to other lands and the lack of passport support from the United States, while the government finally granted Trotsky a passport and allowed his return, amid upheaval and accusations of compromise with radicals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kerensky
Wretty
Ole Hanson
Trotsky
United States
Rumala
Daslet
Unemers
World in turmoil after war and rising anarchy
The piece laments postwar disorder with bombs mailed to threaten and harm, workers boasting while lawlessness grows, and society unable to quickly return to normal. It predicts lingering fear, upheaval, and the cost of rebuilding as criminals and agitators persist.
Airplane Traffic At Kendallville Recalled In Nostalgia
Residents drop daily chores to watch the majn air planes pass overhead with eastbound due at 10 40 am and westbound at 11 50 am traveling about two miles a minute. Older railroad memories recall locals naming trains and crews while farmers paused plows to check a delayed No 6 due to a broken connecting rod.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiianapolis
Kendallville
Majn
A Grandma Schooner Visits Bangor Harbor
An aged eco¢sting schooner named Joanna Purghain arrives at Bangor Maine drawing waterfront gossip. Built in New York over a century ago as Hudson she sailed coastwise for about 49 years as cargo schooner before being refitted unnamed in Maine and later restored twice, preserving a long Navy era legacy.
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Christian Science Monitor
Joanna Purghain
Bangor
New York
Hudson
United States
Great West
Maine
French Women Vote Right Sparks Global Move
The New York Sun reports France’s deputy or senate body adopting a bill granting women the vote in municipal and departmental elections. It frames French women as historically cautious yet practical, likely to use the new franchise once granted. The piece views the move as part of a broader worldwide trend rather than a uniquely French affair.
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France
New York Sun
Italy
Auto Blue Book reveals vast U S road network
The Automo bil Blue Book expands practical travel data across about 200000 miles of roads in the United States. The touring car range is stated as about 0 more than earlier catalogs. The fragment mentions a Wis seed catalogue comparison and notes about general information on strings and places, plus a wartime loss context involving Chicago women.
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Christian Science Monitor
United States
Automobil
Allies set to hand German reply on June 12
Paris June 6 United Press reports the big four will deliver their counter proposal to Germany before June 12. Paderewski presents Poland's stake on upper Silesia and a Polish–Ukrainian ceasefire. Britain shifts toward modifying the German treaty while Clemenceau resists changes. Turkey to be called as witnesses with limited role.
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United Press
Paris
Big Four
Paderewski
Upper Silesia
Germany
Poland
Lloyd George
Clemenceau
Orland
Italy
France
Ble
America
Delegates in Berlin Await Allied Peace Terms
Basle June 6 German peace delegation members who returned to Berlin will stay at the disposal of their government until the allied powers declare readiness to negotiate on peace terms. The German cabinet has not yet decided its stance if the allies refuse to negotiate or demand signing the terms as presented.
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Basle
Berlin
Nachrichten of
Frankfort
New Federal Commission Named to Study Street Railways
President Wilson forms the federal electric railways commission to investigate and solve the nationwide street railway problem. Members include Nidwin F F Sweet Royal Meeker Louis B Wohile Charles F Mimquist Charles W Heall Phillip H Gadsden and William O Mahon with a representative of the American Citizen's League of mayors to be named. Sweet serves as vice chairman and Mimquist as chairman.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Federal Electric Railways Commission
Redfield
Nidwin FF. Sweet
Commerce
Royal Meeker
Labor Statistica
Department of Labor
Louis B. Wohile
Finance Corporation
Charles F. Mim- Quist
National
Wes Ciation
Charles W. Heall
Investment Bankers’ Association
Phillip H. Gadsden
American Electric Railway Association
William O. Mahon
Amalgamated Association of Street and
American Citien’ League of Mayors
Bimauiet
Sweet
King's Hay Fever Delays Wilson Trip
Paris reports President Wilson's Belgian visit is postponed to about June 15 at the request of King Albert who is suffering from hay fever.
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Paris
Wilson
Belgium
Albert
Release Two Americans After Ransom Payment in Mexico
Nognies Arizona June 6. After five days in ransom by bandits American farmers A D Ayle and MH Barton holdings near Mexico in Jalico state were released when the chamber of commerce paid $2,000 to the bandits. Minnesota soda clerks organize to keep bartenders out of soda business after July 1.
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United Press
Nognies
Ariz
Bandita
A.D. Ayle
MH. Barton
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