War Makes Paris Women Amazons
Paris August 1. Two rival women’s groups issue ultimatums to force suffrage and peace. The Socialist International women urge universal revolution to secure a world peace treaty and end capitalism. Wealthy aristocrats demand the vote and threaten violence if suffrage is blocked. The aristocratic manifest calls for senate action and proclaims French women equal to others.
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Senate
Paris
Clara Zetking
Women's Socialist International
Wee Place
Marguerite Dewitt Schlumberger
Cecile Leon Brunehavive
Fauline Rebour
French Union For Woman Suffrage
Chamber of Deputies
Women’s Socialist International
Avery
Wnd
Monuhs
Spruce Scandal to Be Heard by House Committee
The House committee chaired by Congressman Wren of Wisconsin will tour to investigate charges of waste and devious dealing in spruce production for aircraft during the war. Charles W. Silck of Grand Rapids and W. B. Morley of Cleveland will be examined, then witnesses in St Paul, Seattle, and Portland before the main hearings on the spruce situation.
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Washington
St. Paul
Miun
Seattle
Portland
Soldier to Seat Soldier Sea Cliff Candidate Raft for Assembly
Elias Raft, twenty six, of Sea Cliff, named by Nassau County Democratic committee as candidate for assemblyman in the First district to oppose Theodore Roosevelt next November. Raft has lived there since childhood and returned in May from service as a doughboy with Headquarters Company Three Hundred Fifth Infantry in the Baccarat sector and the Argonne.
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Sea Clif
Elias Raft
Sea Cilif
Democraticeounty Committee
Nassau County
Theodore Roosevelt
Alt. Raft
Prince
Chicago Stockyards calm after work restarts amid pullback
Chicago August 11 conditions in the Stockyards district returned to normal as police and deputy sheriffs withdrew from guard duty. Sunday shift workers returned to duty with no trouble reported. Lieut. Ben Byright noted police outside the packing district and Packers hired guards inside. Union leader Jolnstone said concessions were won and no racial outbreak is anticipated. Stock Yards New City and Deerleg stations reported no trouble. union HQ area was nearly deserted.
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Chicago
Ben Byright
Stock Yards
W.jolnstone
Stock Yards Labor Council
New City
Deerleg
Union
Forty-Eighth
Pauling Streets
Rail men to seek conference with President Wilson
Washington Aug 11 representatives of railway brotherhoods and allied interests backing nationalization of the railways will seek a conference with President Wilson early this week if they conform to his suggestion in Fridays address to Congress. The president said there are small things to be corrected in capital and labor relations and is ready to confer with any group that knows what they are talking about and will remedy coalitions by frank counsel rather than violence. The railway workers representatives have decided to take his remark as an invitation to consult with him.
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Washington
Thunb Pla
Wilson
Congress
Xillway
May Operate Most Trains As Sleepers Go On Strike
Reports from Chicago indicate regional railroad directors see a split among striking shopmen over President Wilson's call to return to work pending wage settlement. In some cities workers voted to return, in others to stay out. Directors believed enough loyal workers would allow operation of most trains across the South West and Northwest regions.
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Chicago
Wilson
Railroad
Reans
Attacks on Jews in Budapest Amid Food Crisis
In Budapest Aug 11 Roumanians have stripped the area of provisions for miles. The American food mission at Vienna plans to feed Budapest schoolchildren. Anti Jewish sentiment runs high as Jews are beaten dragged from cabs with Toumanian troops present, provoking further violence.
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Budapest
Viena
Train Hits Auto Near Kewanee. Four Die or Injured
Near Kewanee Illinois a Chicago Burlington & Quincy train crashed into a car killing Mr and Mrs George M McMunsters instantly and seriously injuring Mr and Mrs John Gondu. McMasters was secretary treasurer of Mutun Wheel Co of Moline and Conda was his assistant. Mrs Conda suffered a fractured skull and is not expected to survive. Conda had broken legs.
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Kawanee
George M. McMunsters
John Gondu
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Kewanee
McMasters
Mutun] Wheel Company
Moline
Conda
Survey Details Europe Production Crisis After War
Dr A E Taylor reports for the American Relief Administration on central Europe's postwar production failures. He details country by country conditions from Poland to Hungary, notes Russia's instability, and warns Europe faces a deficit of over 150 million tons of production in the year.
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New York
Europe
A. E. Faytor
American Relief Administration
United States
Taylor
Russia
Exodho
Slovakia
Pragus
Austria
Hungary
Budapest
Bulgaria
Germany
Finland
East Battle
East
Ballie
Yale R O T C to Get New Course Leader Hoyle
Yale military plans for 1919 20 gain momentum as Col R E D Hoyle secretary of the school office at Fort Sill is assigned to run the reserve officers field archery corps course. Hoyle, a West Point graduate and regular army officer, is known to Yale officers who trained at Fort Sill where he served as assistant commandant during the war.
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New Waren
Conn
Yale
R. E. D. Hoyle
Fort Sill
Hoyle
West Point
Fort Sil
Germans Train Chinese Army With 8000 Officers
Washington reports say Field Marshal von Mackensen and 8000 German officers have been in China since early spring to organize and drill a Chinese force of 5,000,000 men at the invitation of the Chinese government. The letter, received from Germany, claims Mackensen returned to seek more officers for the program.
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Washington
von, Mackensen
China
B. L. Scharf
Germany
Mackensen
Ching
Prance's 1919 Budget Approved by Chamber and Senate
Paris reports the civil service budget for 1919, submitted by Finance Minister Louis Hotz, has been adopted by both chambers. The chamber of deputies and the senate approved the budget on August 11.
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Prance
Paris
Louis Hotz
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Influenza Now Reportable Under Wisconsin Law
Wisconsin makes influenza a reportable disease with physicians required to log each case to local registrars for state reporting within 24 hours. Despite scattered cases, no official reports yet. emphasis on rapid reporting to map foci of infection and prevent outbreaks. Public health officials note improved medical resources, Red Cross support, and hospital space planning for fall and winter, citing past epidemics and mortality worldwide.
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Wisconsin
State Bureau of Vital Statistics
State Board of Health
C. A. Harper
State Health cMeer
France
Red Cross
United States
the Times
Cure for Dysentery in Ashland Story
In Ashland Kansas a Des Moines Iowa man relays an overheard account of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy saving a dying daughter with violent dysentery. A neighbor advised use and the family physician had given up. The gentleman reports the remedy helped the girl and the family.
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Ashland
Kansas
Chamberlain
William Whitelaw
Des Moines
Iowa
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