Britain Faces Irish Crisis and Wheat Strike Echoes
The week centers on the MacSwiney death in Cork and a Dublin procession while Irish unrest looms in Britain. In the U.S. farmers in Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and the Northwest begin a wheat strike, with Iowa and Missouri reports of lower yields and price pressure.
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Iirish
MacSwiney
Prince Paul
Great Britain
Kansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Chicago Board of Trade
Wichita
Ikan
Towa
I AL Cunningham
State Farm Bureau
Lowa
Wilson
J. U. Barnes
Terence MacSwiney
Cork
Brixton
Ireland
America
Miners Reach Tentative Plan After Prolonged Negotiations
Lloyd George and his cabinet report a tentative settlement with miners, owners, and government agreeing to wage regulation and output cooperation. A national wage board will be formed before March 31, with the miners to submit the plan for federation approval. The government expands emergency powers while rail workers delay sympathy strikes.
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Lloyd George
Tabor
Agenes
Imén
Labor Party
Youngest Freshman Entering Columbia At Age Twelve
Edward R tardy twelve year old freshman enters Columbia University becoming the youngest ever. He began public school at three and high school at eight and now plans to study Chinese texts. An athletic boy he enjoys baseball gymnasium work and swimming.
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Edward R. Tardy
Moat
Tenter Columbia
The
Uiversity
Edward
Apple Butter Day Marked by Schwenkfelders Anniversary
The Schwenkfelder faith observed the 186th anniversary of Casper Schwenkfelder followers landing in 1734 aboard the Saint Andrew. In Worcester near Lansdale over a thousand members gathered at the Schwenkfelder church to celebrate with a bread butter and apple butter meal, a long standing custom begun by early settlers after landing in Philadelphia. General Bramwell Booth arrived in New York from Europe aboard the Mauretania and toured to observe the day.
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Worcester Schwenkfelder
Lansdale
Casper Schwenkfelder
Germany
Philadelphia
Market Streets
Philaedelphia
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