Griscom Seen as Possible U S Ambassador to Japan
Lloyd Griscom, a New York lawyer with extensive diplomatic background, may be the next United States ambassador to Japan. A prominent Delaware shipbuilding family member, he studied at the University of Pennsylvania and New York Law School, then served in Constantinople, Teheran, Tokio, Rio de Janeiro and Rome. He accompanied Ambassador Bayard to London in 1893 and observed the Russo Japanese war from behind the scenes in Tokio, fueling a lifelong interest in Japan and its people.
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Lloyd
Washington
Tokio
Griscom
Japan
Birthday greetings for notable figures across states
On March 18 xenophon FP Wilfly formerly a U S senator from Missouri is noted as born in Audrain County fifty years ago. William Sulzer former New York governor born Elizabeth New Jersey forty eight years ago. Edith Storey actress born New York City twenty nine years ago. Frank Moran heavyweight boxer born Cleveland thirty four years ago.
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Xenophon FP
Wilfly
United States
Missouri
Audrain County
William Sulzer
New York
Elizabeth
N. J
Edith Storey
New York City
Frank Moran
Cleveland
A Daily Lesson in History Highlights
A compact timeline lists events and notable figures from 1768 to 1908. It notes Laurence Sterne's death in London, Grover Cleveland's nonconsecutive terms birth in Caldwell, John Miller’s Missouri leadership, the Paris Commune rise, Chile’s Chinese labor ban, Victoria and Empress Frederick at Eton, the Methodist Episcopal lay delegate vote, and Harry Orchard's Boise death sentence for the Steunenberg murder.
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Laurence Sterne
London
Ireland
Grover Cleveland
Caldwell
N. J
Princeton
John Miller
Congress
Missouri
Florisant
Steubenville
Intercollegiate Debates and Events Mark 84th Cleveland Birthday
Today features a schedule of intercollegiate debates among Harvard Yale Princeton Michigan Wisconsin Illinois Colgate Williams Sewanee Tulane and the South. Topics include open shop labor, recognizing Soviet Russia, federal coal mines, and congressional cabinet membership. A grand Americanization rally with Vice President Coolidge Taft Pershing and others is set at Madison Square Garden by the American Legion.
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Grover Cleveland
United States
Matamoros
Waseda University
Tokio
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Middle West
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ilnois
Soviet Russia
Colgate University
Williams College
Sewanee, Tenn
Tulane University
University of the South
Congress
Coolidge
William H. Taft
General Pershing
Madison Square Garden
New York
American Legion
Jewish shipping firm formed at Jaffa for Palestine mercantile marine
A Jewish shipping corporation is formed in Jaffa with capital of 1,250,000 dollars to establish a Jewish mercantile marine for Palestine. The move signals aimed development of maritime trade and Jewish commercial presence in the region.
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Jaffa
Palestine
Social Calendar Includes Hike and Cotillion
The Camp Fire Girls hike to the Chacon at 4 PM with Mrs Alfred Poggenpolhl as chaperon. Saturday night features a Cotillion Class at the Woman's Club at 7 30 PM and a dance at the Soldiers Club in the evening.
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Chacon
Alfred Poggenpolhl
Woman’s Club
Soldiers Club
The Fairy Gift and Local Social Notes
A poem by Samuel Minturn Peck appears alongside community news. The text notes friendly fairy gifts to a newborn and a moral gift from a pixie, then transitions to social updates: residents returning from trips, visitors in town, and church auxiliary meetings with planned events including an Easter eggs sale and a church social.
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Samuel Minturn Peck
Boston Transcript
France's Example in Indemnity Payoff Recalled
Paris dispatch notes French press compare France's stance on Germany's 1870 indemnity with Germany's current war debts. Taine's 1872 proposal urged universal sacrifice, each man contributing one thirtieth of income monthly, to speed repayment by about two years. Journal Des Debats cites Germany as an example of debt relief post defeat.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
Germany
Journal Des Debats
Hippolyte Taine
Taine
Wearied by Strikes in Styrian Doctors Plan Reprisals
Wearied by endless strikes of all classes, Styrian Physicians Association declares they will retaliate. If a strike endangers public health or traffic, they will refuse to visit or prescribe for the sick.
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Associated Presa
Gratz
Austria
Styrian Physicians Association
Amateur balkline billiardists prepare for Poggenburge Cup
New York reports amateur balkline billiard players are preparing for the Poggenburge Cup final in Brooklyn starting next Monday. The event is the premier tournament for Class A B and ranking under the National Association of Amateur Billiard Players. Robert Steinhbugler, last year's champion, will defend his title.
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York
Brooklyn
National Association of Amateur Billiard Players
Robert Steinhbugler
Seventh annual National Negro Health Week planned
Tuskegee announces the first week of April as the seventh annual National Negro Health Week. The initiative comes after resolutions from the Tuskegee Negro Conference and in cooperation with the National Negro Business League and other groups. The article notes a national decline in Negro death rates and cites a life insurance company report showing a nine percent drop over eight years among 1,300,000 Negro policy holders due to health education and public health nursing.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Tuskegee Negro Conference
National Negro Business League
National Negro Health Week
United States
Western Intercollegiate Conference Indoor Meet at Northwestern
Chicago hosts the Western Conference indoor track and field championships at Patton gym Northwestern University with several hundred runners jumpers and weight hurdlers competing tonight and tomorrow Trials eliminate the weaker athletes and the team with the most points wins the title.
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Chicago
Wvanston
Patton
Northwestern University
Service to Hamburg to Start May by Royal Mail Line
Regular passenger and freight service from Hamburg to New York will be inaugurated in May by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company of Great Britain calling at Southampton and Cherbourg, it was announced today.
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Washington
Hamburg
New York
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company of
Great Britain
Southampton
England
Cherbourg
Ireland and Britain suffer alike, Stuckert letter says
Brenham Texas reports Robert C Stuckert Instructor at Rob erts College Constantinople writes of Ireland’s year long crime wave. He notes widespread murders arson and violence across the island with both Dailireann and Black and Tans influence. He recalls a hotel room inquiry revealing religious bias.
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Brenham
Texas
Ireland
C Stuckert
Robert C. Stuckert
Roberts College
Constantinople
Stuckert
Dailireann
Prohibition Leaders Scramble for House Judiciary Seats
Reports indicate congress prohibition leaders plan to tighten the Volstead act. A scramble for assignments to the house judiciary committee forms as members seek seats to help frame any amended law if an extra session next month opens with action.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
House Judiciary Committee
Nashville Farmer Shot Dead Near Cottonwood Doorstep
Tom Mitchell a 45 year old wealthy farmer of Sumner county was shot to death at his door near Cottonwood by a group of men. A passerby found the unidentified body about daylight a hundred yards down the road.
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Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
Tom Mitchell
Cottonwood
Sumner County
Two Meet Death From Balloons In Cuban Waters
On the U S S Pennsylvania off Guantanamo Cuba March 18 Walter Jones chief gunners mate was killed when he jumped from an observation balloon adrift from the battleship Florida during fleet maneuvers. His body was recovered A R McNiel of the seaplane division was killed Thursday by a seaplane propeller shortly after the seaplane rescued crew of another balloon that broke loose from the battleship Nevada. The second body was not yet recovered.
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Associated Press
U. S. S. Pennsylvania
Guantanamo
Cuba
Walter Jones
Gunnner
Florida
A. R. McNiel
Nevada
Exchange Fire Across Border Near El Paso
United States soldiers and immigration officers patrolled the Mexican border near El Paso after a night of gunfire with a group suspected of smuggling. Three Americans were wounded in the exchange that began around 10 o clock last night and extended into the morning.
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Associated Press
el Paso
Texas
United States
Here
Birthplace of Liberty at Washington on the Brazos
Washington on the Brazos Texas marks its anniversary with few visitors to the site of Texas independence. Citizens propose designating the old Washington road as a state highway to connect the birthplace with state roads and boost pilgrim visits to the historic site.
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Associated Press
Washington-on-the-Brazos
Texas
Mexico
San Jacinto
Washington
West Texas Chamber Seeks 90 Day Labor Recall Extension
Ort Worth Texas March 18 The West Texas Chamber of Commerce announced the recall period for Mexican labor has been extended by 30 days by federal authorities. It seeks a further 90 day extension to ease hardship for Texas ranchmen during lambing and clipping season.
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Ort Worth
Texas
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
World Industry Notes and Labor History Highlights
Iowa reports 208120 farms with about half owned by their operators. Mexico bans substituting a striking worker in four states. The Seventh National Exposition of Chemical Industries will be in New York City next September. England saw 1716 trade disputes last year affecting 1,920,000 workers. The largest zinc mine in Sussex County New Jersey has operated since colonial days. Chinese flour now reaches Europe for sale in Holland and beyond. The Order of Railroad Telegraphers began 35 years ago after 25 Cedar Rapids members met June 9, 1886.
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New York City
England
Sussex County
New Jersey
China
Holland
Order of
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
America
UMWA Opposes Wage Reductions for Coal Miners
Indianapolis March 18 The United Mine Workers of America announced opposition to any cuts in miners wages. The union said contracts currently in force run at existing rates until March 31 1922.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
Weather forecast from New Orleans bureau
The Times receives the daily forecast from the U S weather bureau at New Orleans. Tonight and Saturday expect cloudy skies with a chance of scattered showers and continued warm temperatures.
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United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
the Telephone Co
Planning to Leave Ardmore After Murder Charge Dismissal
Clara Hamon, freed of murder charges, plans departure from Ardmore Oklahoma where she spent ten years with Hamon. She may visit her sister in Wilson before heading to El Paso to be with her ailing father.
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Associated Press
Ardmore
Okla
Clara Hamon
Hamon
Wilson
Hi Paso
Excellent Remedy for Constipation Champlain Chamberlain Tablets
An advert praises Chamberlain's Tablets as an excellent remedy for constipation. It emphasizes their ease of use and mild, gentle effect and urges readers to try them when needed.
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Chamberlain
Fort Mclntosh 24 Hour Weather Summary
Observations for the 24 hours ending 7 a m report max temperature 94 degrees and a min of 71. Winds favored the southeast. Sky clear throughout the period.
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Fort Mclntosh
Oklahoma Delegation Urges Ambassadorship Posts
The Oklahoma congressional delegation urged President Harding to appoint W. H. Fuller of McAlester as minister to Venezuela and Arthur Guesler of Oklahoma City to a diplomatic post, in a March 18 recommendation.
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Associated Press
Washington
Oklahoma
Parding
W. H. Fuller
McAlester
Okla
Venezuela
Arthur Guesler
Oklahoma City
Shoemaking School Opens in Vienna with Former Officers
Vienna March 18. A new shoemaking school opens with army and navy veterans among the pupils. One student is a 68 year old former vice admiral enrolled as a cobbler's apprentice and carrying his union card.
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Vienna
New England Colleges Debate U S Immigration Policy
In Boston March 18 six leading women’s colleges will debate whether the United States should further restrict European immigration. Participating schools are Vassar Barnard Smith Wellesley Mount Holyoke and Radcliffe.
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Ltoston
Mass
United States
New England
New York
Vassar
Barnard, Smith
Wellesly
Mount Holyoke
Radcliffe
Rail unions cross-examine railroad executives before labor board
Chicago March 18. Rail unions begin counter attack, seeking to prove insincerity of road dealings by cross examining executives summoned by the labor board. Frank Walsh leads the questioning as Binkerd and Atterbury testify on the executives' associations and the national agreements amid efforts for a conference on the agreements.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Labor Board
Craig
Frank Walsh
S. Binkerd
Executives’ Labor Committee
Binkerd
DeWitt Cuyler
Association
National Board
W. W. Atterbury
Atterbury
Executives’ Association
Eleven labor principles outlined for railroad disputes
In Chicago on March 18 HB M Jewell of the AFL railway employees department presented eleven basic principles to the railroad labor board. They cover eight hour days overtime rates shifts for family living needs health and safety rules craft work definitions apprenticeship rules with four years for mechanics craft representation majority rights to choose organizations grievance committees seniority limits by shop, nondiscrimination and the right to organize. Jewell urged these essentials as a peaceful framework likely to be sanctioned and deemed necessary.
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
HB. M. Jewell
Railway Employees’ Department
American Federation of Labor
Jewell
Railroad Labor Board
Texas Cotton Association Opens Two Day Session
Galveston Texas March 18 The tenth annual convention of the Texas Cotton Association opened here for a two day session About Zou mInmemberg were present In his annual address W L Clayton of Houston the president defended the cotton futures act and minimized marketing cotton with the speculative element while attacking tariff policies of the Republican administration as a spectacle of economic fallacy and unenlightened selfishness.
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Galveston
Texas
Texas Cotton Association
ZoumInmemberg
W. L. Clayton
Houston
Rumor of Mob to Lynch Negro Resident in Wichita Falls
Wichita Falls Texas March 18 Governor Neff telegraphed commutation of life imprisonment from death for Floyd Ray a negro who was to hang today but whose execution was stayed by an appeal. After the telegram rumors of mob violence reached officers and the prisoner was moved to an unknown destination.
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Associated Press
Wichita Falls
Texas
Neff
Floyd Ray
Railroads urged quick meeting to avert costly conflict
The speaker argued that meeting with selected railroad employees’ rank and file could have settled the issue and created a smooth running system. He said peace between management and workers would prevail, replacing growing dissension and rumblings of an impending costly clash.
Railroad Traffic Stopped by Management Order in Harrison
Harrison Ark March 18 Traffic on the Missouri and North Arkansas railroad is halted by order of the management until the road is protected. The move follows interference and lawlessness tied to last month’s union employee strike.
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Harrison
Ark
Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad
Reduced Cotton Rates Announced for New Orleans Shipments
Memphis March 18 L C Bouchard general agent hero of the Southern Pacific announced that effective March 1 freight rates on cotton shipped by water from New Orleans to New York would be reduced from 6e a hundred pounds to 4éc Rates on similar shipments from New Orleans to the Atlantic seaboard will be cut by a hundred pounds effective the 21st
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Cure and Reward
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine offering a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh. It claims the remedy works through the blood to cleanse mucous surfaces, expel poison, and improve overall health after short use. Testimonials are requested by mail.
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Hall
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