Packing Houses Strike Threat Looms Over 200000 Workers
Chicago dispatch reports union officials plan a national conference in Omaha on March 9 and 10 to organize a fight against meat packers accused of starving wages. Dennis Lane cites wage cuts and 10 hour days as aims, with strikes possible if wartime agreements canceled. Strikes already in Mason City Sioux Falls Winona and Wheeling as packers defend wartime emergency pact.
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Omaha
Sioux Falls
Mason City
Chicago
Dennis Lane
Amalgamated Meal Cutters and Butcher Workers of America
Samuel A. Al~echuler
Lane
Parkers
Wheeling
Winona
Jolson Seeks Jazz Secretary in Cabinet Scheme
Washington March 5 I witnessed the inauguration and heard a retired trombone player propose a new cabinet post a jazz secretary to energize government. He praised Harding and Coolidge, joked about a brass powerhouse department, and suggested a ready candidate, a prominent retired trombone player.
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Jolson
Jazz
Washington
United States
Harding
Marine Band
Capitol
Coolidge
America
Marding
Christian
Udy
Two Washingtons In Same Prison Cause Near Riot
In Jersey City two men named George Washington face separate charges in Hudson County jail as a near riot unfolds. One is a white man indicted for receiving stolen cars, the other a black inmate linked to a romance with Mrs Nancy Halley. Mrs Halley pleads to an indictment but nearly faints. authorities remand all to jail pending clarifications. A sister’s reformation efforts and a flagged Idaho cigarette measure close the item.
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Jersey
N. J
George Washington
Hudson County
Nancy Halley
Bailey
George
Petrograd Held by Revolters Reported in Telegraph
London dispatch cited by Exchang Telegraph from Kiel says revolutionaries controlled Petrograd and Kronstadt with no Kremlin alarm in Moscow. Rebels reportedly captured key enemies including Gregory Zinoviev of Moscow and Kalden, former Cossack leader.
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London
Keval
Copenhagen
Petrograd
Kronvtadt
Kremlin
Moscow
Gregory Zinoviel
Kaledine
The
Cossacks
Bullet puts end to eastern triangle
In New York Rudolph Benzler, once filing for divorce to let his wife remarry, was killed on a trolley ride to a lawyer's office after a dispute between Benzler and rival Wilfred Ressing. Ressing fired a single shot, ending Benzler's life as Mrs. Benzler and Ressing were detained by police amid allegations of a love triangle.
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New York
Rudolph Benzler
Benzler
Mia
Benaler
Benszler
Ressing
Calvin Coolidge Biography Summary
A compact profile of Calvin Coolidge born July 4 1872 in Plymouth Vermont detailing education from local schools to Amherst College, and a legal career. It outlines political service in Massachusetts including speaker, senator, lieutenant governor and governor, and notes his authorship, family, modest finances, and later reception by industry figures. It also mentions Mills bomb inventor William Mills seeking royalties and wartime bomb production.
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Plymouth
Black Rock River Academy
Ludlow
Amherst College
Hammond & Field
Northhampton
Mass
Grace Goodhue
Burlington
Calvin
John
Washington
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Northampton
State Senate
Senate
Massachusetts
William Mille
Mills
Papa's Job and War Widow News
Mixed clippings describe a six year old girl's question about their father, Mrs Alfred Jones of Middletown reporting a relative in the war with many brothers affected, one blind wife left with four children and government pension under six hundred dollars annual. Other items include farm humor and a family anecdote about wartime discipline and habits.
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Alfred Jones
Middletown
Jones i
Hin
Washington Pays Tribute to Clark
Washington on March 6 marks the first full day of the Republican administration with bipartisan tributes to Champ Clark, Democratic leader. President Harding hopes to attend. Speaker Reed and Rep. Mann will speak. Clark lies in state. cabinet and other officials expected to attend. body to be sent to St. Louis with lawmakers, funeral held in Bowling Green, Missouri.
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Washington
Champ Clark
Harding
Woogrow Wilson
Wilson
Clark
Beaastor Reed
James Mann
Senate
House
Supreme Court
Pershing
March
Admiral Coontz
Baker and Burleson Take Cabinet Liquor Home
Washington reports that cabinet members will transport their private liquor stocks when leaving office. Permits have been issued to Secretary Baker and Postmaster General Burleson to ship supplies to their Ohio and Texas homes. Baker says he already has a permit and owns six or seven quarts of liquor and worried about disposing of it lawfully.
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Washington
Wilson
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Baker
Burleson
Ohio
Texas
Ohlo
Outlaw Robbery Case Yields Unrecovered Bonds
Council Bluffs Ind March 6 Judge Wade declared half a million in government bonds stolen in the Burlington mail car robbery have not been recovered or accounted for causing a scene when Mrs Daily fainted. Sentences were handed to Meyrle Phillips 17 years Fred A Poffenberger Hugh A Reed and T A Dailey four and a half years each in federal prison. Mrs Maury A Daily four and a half years in Canon City or Rockwell City reformatory. Fort Leavenworth transport for the four men and one woman will be made Saturday morning under heavy guards.
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Council Bluffs
Martin B. Wade
United States District Court
Burlington
Mra
Clarence A. Daily
Meyrle Phillips
Fort Leavenworthie
Fred A. Poffenberger
Poffenberger
Hugh A. Reed
T. A. Dailey
Mra. Maury A. Daily
T. A. Daily
Canon City
Colo
Rockwell City
Reformatory
Fort Leavenworth
Long Prison Term for John M Swiney
Mark March 6 John Sean Mac Swiney brother of Corks former lord mayor was one of 10 men sentenced to 15 years in prison for waging war against crown forces.
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Cork
Mark
John
Sean) MacSwiney
Germans Plan Revolt Calls for Soviet State Overthrow
The German Communist Party issued a revolutionary proclamation after the Allied ultimatum in London, urging workers to overthrow the government and establish a Soviet state. It also announced demonstrations for Sunday and pledged political and economic alignment with Russia, while addressing public health and industrial hygiene through the Rockefeller Institute experts.
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Fierlin
Mareh. S
Communist Party
London
Hemen
Husala
Australiaia
Rockefeller Institute
Industrnl
National Prohibition Enforce Chief Haines Urged
Washington March 5. Members of the executive committee of the National Anti Saloon League agreed after a meeting to urge President Harding to appoint Maj. R. B. E. Haines of Hillsboro Ohio as national prohibition enforcement commissioner to succeed John F. Kramer of Mangs Held Ohio.
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U Wahington
National Anti-Saloon League
Harding
Maj. R. BE. Haines
Hillsboro
Ohio
John F. Kramer
Mangs- Held
Noted Army on the Rhine Praised as Most Up To Date
The United States Army on the Rhine is described as the most up to date of all the armies of the world, highlighting its modernization and readiness amid postwar occupation.
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Crane
Geren
Emmy
United States Army On the Rhine
South Dakota approves heated censorship plan deadlock ends
Purre South Dakota March 6 Special The state legislature halted moving picture censorship after a five day Senate House deadlock and tabled all conference reports. No censorship for two years. House backed the livestock fight for the present censorship board. Attorney General Payne said he would not advise paying 200 a month expense money to lawmakers until July and questioned the constitutionality of such expense accounts. Pierre March 5 Special The session paused for Harding's inauguration with optimism and condolence resolutions. Two money bills to meet federal highway aid passed both chambers a 1 cent gasoline tax expected to raise about 325000 and a license tax to complete the 1700000 needed. Senate rejected submitting the moral merit system bill. No apportionment deal reached as adjournment looms.
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Purre
S. D
South Dakota
Senate
House
Payne
Supreme Court
Pierre
Harding
Harding to receive scribes regularly
Washington reports President Harding will hold regular conferences with newspaper correspondents. He has ordered the iron gates around the White House grounds unlocked so the public may walk through the property as before America’s entry into the war.
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Washington
Harding
White House
America
Albert Cables Cheers for Harding and Wilson
King Albert on Friday cabled congratulations to President Harding and former President Wilson from Brussels dated March 6. The message signals cordial ties and recognition of both leaders amid postwar diplomacy.
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Drussels
King Albert
Harding
Wilson
Two Ex-Service Men in German Jail Help Bergdoll Case
Indianapolis dispatch reports that Seegt Frank Zimmer and ex-service man Carl Nout are jailed at Würzburg Germany amid failed efforts to arrest draft evader Grover C. Bergdoll. The information came via a cablegram to the American Legion national headquarters from Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen.
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Indianapolis
Seegt
Frank Zimmer
Germany
Carl Nout
Wicderbach
Bequel
Grover C. Bergdoll
American Legion
Henry T. Allen
Held for manslaughter in Porter tragedy
Valparaiso Ind March 5 Willam Long engineer and George Block fireman of the Michigan Central train were fatally struck by a New York Central train at Porter Ind Sunday night a disaster that claimed 47 lives. A coroner jury ordered both men held for trial on involuntary manslaughter charges. Additional text appears to be incoherent and from a Sydney Bulletin dispatch.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Willam Long
George Block
Michigan Central
New York Central
Porter
Couroners
Harding Address Means No League of Nations
Washington March 5 Senator Hiram Johnson an ardent opponent of the League interprets President Harding’s inaugural address as reaffirming his policy. He calls it the end of the League and praises the republic mandate against internationalism, predicting support from the American people.
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Washington
Hiram Johnson
League of Nations
Harding
Johnson
California
United States
Warren G. Harding
Wis Hearerm
Calvin Coolidge
Thomas R. Marshall
Marshall
Harding Assumes Wide Ranging Federal Duties
President Harding takes the oath and becomes commander in chief of about 220000 soldiers and 976 ships, inheriting duties as head of the Red Cross, Smithsonian, National Monument Society, and numerous other organizations. The transfer marks a sweeping shift as Wilson’s cabinet hands over wealth and power.
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Robert J. Bender
Washington
Wilson
Harding
Ita
National Red Cross
Smithsonian Institute
National Monument Society
Columbia Institution For the Deaf
Congress Reports Over One Billion Dollar Budget Cut
Washington March 6 The total appropriations for fiscal year 1922 stand at 4 506 020 047 a reduction of 14 504 85 26 from estimates and a cut of 505 247 010 from 1921 figures announced by Senate appropriations committee chairman Warren in the Senate today.
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Washington
Congress
Warren
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
Wall Street Pleased With Harding Inaugural Address
Wall Street welcomed President Harding after his inaugural address. The Dow Jones Financial News Service cited the pledge that the United States will not seek foreign entanglements or form a permanent military alliance. Readjusted tax proposals also drew favorable reaction.
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New York
March
Wall Street
Tromldent Harding
Dow-Jones Financial News Service
United States
Four Die in Erin Fights
Four people die in three Friday clashes between crown forces and rebels in Dublin. The incidents occurred in a short sequence with reports of gunfire and casualties amid ongoing hostilities.
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Erin
Dublin
Crown
Queen of Heaven figure placed in county hospital ward
Marie Mrede, dubbed queen of heaven, faced lunacy proceedings in county court. She was taken into custody by the sheriff and committed to the insane ward at the county hospital under Josiah Jehovah Sykes as head of the movement.
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Denver
Priday
Marie Mrede
Queen of Heaven
Josiah Jehovah Sykes
Sherif
Man dragged to death near Clear Lake
A 18 year old man named John Ramasy of Mason City was fatally injured when dragged 200 yards under the wheels of a loaded ice wagon in Clear Lake Louisiana on Friday morning. He was employed by A Randall and Bon Ice Company.
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Clear Lake
Jce
John Ramasy
Mason City
A. Randall & Bon Ice Company
New Chief Ares Proms for Normalcy
Washington on Friday marked the inauguration of President Warren G. Harding amid mass cheering. The new president urged independence, cautioned against entangling alliances, and pressed for disarmament talks while opposing a world supergovernment. Hoarded crowds, Sunlit Plaza scenes, and displays of military leaders highlighted the ceremonial day.
London Anchors Pleblacite Plan to Restore Territories
London reports allied nations backing pleblacites that could restore Vhrnce and Emyrna to Turkey. Diamond prices rose sharply from 1880 to 1000, hitting a peak in 1919 then easing. U S imports show diamonds valued at 99 million dollars with a one million export year noted amid Seide discoveries.
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London
Cgirepenham Rose
Vhrnce
Emyrna
Turkey
Chicago
United States
Wilson era ends as he retires from power
The article recalls Woodrow Wilson's last day as president and his relief at leaving office. It quotes McAdoo defending his peace conference legacy and describes Wilson with family at his home, his recovery, and post presidency tributes from foreign diplomats praising his wartime leadership and humanitarian aims.
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Robert J. Bender
Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Dr. Grayson
Margaret
Margaret Wilson
Wilson
Grayson
Evanston Drunk List Doubles In Dry Year
The annual report of Chief of Police Charles W. Seegett to Alderman Roberts shows drunkenness rising in Evanston, with 72 percent of arrests linked to drinking and a dry year claim amid temperance leadership. The document notes enforcement changes since prohibition and highlights local concerns in Chicozo and Evanston figures.
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Evanston
Chicozo
March
Vanston
Mraneves B. Wileford
Charles W. Seegett
Roberts
Ehowe
Fatal Injury After Wire Strike In Lincoln
A worker in Lincoln suffered fatal harm after a live wire struck the head, causing instant death. The incident occurred amid ongoing divorce proceedings involving a central figure, with authorities noting the victim died at the scene and parents were informed.
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Lincoln
Web
Albert ‘Center
Forntery
Crain
Unclear Cold War Era Note on Alleged Aid Policy
Fragmented report mentions deaths at La Fas Bolivia and a debate among factions about aiding Japan. Vague references to a Republican group, possible discussions of terms of a bilateral alliance, and a question about whether Great Britain should provide assistance to Japan are noted without clear specifics or dates.
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John M’swiney
Kramer
U. S
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Zimmer
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