Changes in Pact: League Authority and World Peace
The article argues for a strengthened League of Nations as the binding authority to enforce treaty terms and international understandings. It critiques past reliance on fleets and armies as false peace, urging universal adjustment and collective action to sustain peace and oppose the old order. It highlights American contributions and the duty ahead to fulfill the new global hope.
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League of Nations
Saads
League
Europe
Germany
America
Vision of America guides the peace talks in Congress
An address outlined a path for the country and the world, urging the United States to lead. Afterward the president met with senators and representatives to discuss the peace conference and related subjects. Republican leaders and most Democrats visited the president in the cloak room and near the senate chamber.
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America
Senate Chamber
Borah
Brandigee
Fall
McCormick
Kenyon
Marital Advice From Probate Judge Sparks Nupial Union
Probate Judge C F E Lindley urged discipline to a Topeka couple, Pred Mason and Jessie Turpin, after declaring them man and wife. The groom, a Topeka colored soldier freed from service this week, married and brought his bride to Lawrence immediately.
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C. FE. Lindley
Pred Mason
Jessie Turpin
Topeka
Lawrence
Deserter Bertha Mayes Arrested on Desertion Charge
Bertha Mayes was arrested in Kansas City and brought to Lawrence by Officer Charles Crowder on a desertion complaint sworn by her husband Tom Mayes in Justice Mantey s court. The subject allegedly left Cecil Mayes 11 and Dora Mayes 9 in destitute conditions in Lawrence and faced arraignment later that day.
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Lawrence
Bertha
Mayes
Kansas City
Charles Crowder
Hoar Trio to Take Seven Week West Coast Tour
C A Hoar and Miss Ethel Hoar and Miss Florence Hoar depart this evening for seven weeks visiting Los Angeles Tacoma and Seattle with plans to tour major sights and return home afterward.
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California
C.A. Hoar
Ethel Hoar
Florence Hoar
Los Angeles
Tacoma
Seattle
Keeping Cut Flowers Fresh
The text notes that the fourth time cut flowers can be kept longer by adding saltpeter or bicarbonate of soda to the water to preserve them.
Unskilled Labor Reflected in Civic Repair Duty
A man volunteers to repair water faucets and remove screen doors, illustrating how unskilled labor can expose practical civic duty and everyday problem solving beyond self interest. The anecdote highlights hands on effort over formal skill.
Left Foot Fashioned From Mischief Tales
A confused clipping blends shoe advice with a cautionary tale about Chiclie Russ who lured a child away. The jagged text mentions measuring left feet and a father narrating the danger as a child listens with growing concern about a missing friend.
Dashir Man Invents Novel Punctuation Invention
An odd Detroit Tablet report claims Dashir Man created a new interrogation symbol and an exhumation mark, described as innovative punctuation developments.
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Rozen
Poehlering
Teter’s
Squire
Brooker Bros
Marian
Kansas
Charley Brooker
Nophene
Belgium
Ostend
Belguum
Sage Advice
Columbus Dispatch
Science
Prince Albert
P. A
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
N. C
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