Diplomatic ties with Bolsheviks amid Saxony unrest
Berlin dispatch reports government troops occupy the Krupp plant in Essen after clashes with workers. Two thirds of Essen’s labor force reportedly return to work as troops deploy artillery and machine guns. In Saxony, Vogthund separatists demand a Bavarian no soviet republic, while Zwickau meat workers and Saxon miners strike. Diplomatic relations with Russia and Bavaria are noted as tensions flare across central Germany.
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Berlin
Sassen
Krupp
Essen
Saxony
Vogthund
Zwickau
Chemnitz
Bamberg
Wuerzburg
Bavaria
Munich
Vossiche Zeitung
Magdeburg
Sparticanus
Elbe
Noske
Dom Plats
Kissingen
Marieberg
Michigan Day Vote Shows Large Prohibition Reforms Rejected
Detroit April 10 reports from 1625 precincts out of 2389 indicate a 115 400 majority against a constitutional amendment to modify prohibition laws. The margin exceeds the 1916 dry vote by 55 000, with lenders predicting the opposition could reach 150 000.
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Detroit
Mich
British Fear U S Competition Prime Impacts Motorcar Industry
The London Morning Post warns that once imports are allowed Americans will flood Britain with inexpensive, serviceable cars. This would ruin the British motorcar industry, the paper argues amid concerns over American competition.
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U. S
London
The
Morning Post
Eight killed in Delhi riots report
London dispatch says eight people were killed and twelve injured in Delhi during recent disturbances. The article notes the Indian capital is now quiet.
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Delhi
London
Reuter
O'Ryan Named Commander of New York Guard
Maj. Gen. John F. O'Ryan, former head of the New York National Guard and commander of the twenty-seventh Division, has been assigned to command the New York Guard in Albany.
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O’ryan
N. Y
Albany
John F. O'Ryan
Twenty-Seventh
New York National Guard
New York Guard
Beatty Hauls Down Flag At Grand Fleet Dispersal
London reports the dispersal of the grand fleet as Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty hauls down his flag as commander in chief. All newspapers publish articles marking the historic occasion.
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Beatty
London
Grand Fleet
David Beatty
Dowp
Hurley Breaks Down in Washington Visit
Chairman Hurley of the United States Shipping Board has broken down from overwork and is now at St. Augustine Florida where he went a week ago for a rest.
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Hurley
Washington
United States Shipping Board
Pla
Fate of Kaiser Agreed Upon by Allied Council
Paris reports the council of four has fixed German accountability for the war and reparations totaling 5 billion dollars over two years. An interallied commission will assess remaining damages over 380 years beginning May 1, 1921, with France and Belgium among parties seeking punishment or trial.
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Paris
Belgium
Council of Four
Urs
United States
George Washington
Wilson
Brest
Germany
Commission
Saar Valley
Saur
Government barred from fixing Illinois telephone rates
Chicago April 10 The United States government was permanently enjoined from fixing telephone rates in Illinois by Judge Hoell in injunction proceedings led by Attorney General Brundage. The ruling bars new intra and interstate rates and forms the first state suit preventing Postmaster General Burleson from raising telephone rates nationwide.
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Chicago
United States
Illinois
Hoell
Superior Court
Brundage
Burleson
Windstorm in Texas and Oklahoma Proofs of Deaths Reported
Reports from Dallas indicate more than fifty deaths in a storm that swept northern Texas and southern Oklahoma Tuesday night. Fragmentary dispatches describe a unusually severe windstorm affecting communities across the region.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Oklahoma
Draft Men to Stay in Service for Four Months After Peace
Secretary Baker states that many drafted men will remain in service until sufficient voluntary enlistments fill regular army needs. Enlistments are slow and the army must reach a strengthened force of 500000. Aimed to support a broader plan, this delays demobilization despite anticipated peace.
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Washington
War Department
General Staff
Baker
Senator Reed
Missouri
Europe
Congress
Six Hundred Irish American Soldiers Visit Ireland
Six hundred Irish American soldiers arrived from Holyhead in Dublin marking their first opportunity to visit Ireland during the war. The visit underscores cross Atlantic ties and wartime mobility.
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Emerald Isle
Dublin
Holyhead
Ireland
Peage Work Near Completion in Rare Peace Talks
Paris April 12 The League commission adopts a clause preserving the Monroe doctrine and Saar valley settlement gives France economic control of Saar coal fields for 15 years with a plebiscite to follow. International council also reassigns railway and postal duties as postwar trade opens. Teschen district coal dispute remains key for Czecho Slovakia and Poland.
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France
London
Paris
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Maynard Shortt
League of Nations
Saar Valley
Saar
Council of Four
Supreme Economic Council
Austria
Adriatic
Esthenia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Rhine
al Hed Maritime Transport Council
Roumania
Czecho-Slovakia
Teschen
Farm wages to top one billion in coming year
Washington reports farm wages in the United States are set to exceed 1 billion dollars as a stronger prosperity spreads to workers on 6,717,000 farms. The department of agriculture notes a 72 percent wage rise last year and forecasts a "greatest" wheat crop this year benefiting hired hands and farmers alike.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
United States
U S Troops Near Revolt Near Archangel
A company of American troops near Archangel in North Russia showed hesitation about returning to the fighting front after declaring the war with Germany was over and the U S was not at war with the Bolsheviks. The regimental commander appealed for them to stay and fight a desperate defense, then they returned to the front.
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Archangel
North Russia
Germany
United States
Ccmpany
Restrictions on Pershing Over Court Martial Abroad Revoked
Regulations limiting General Pershing's authority over court martial proceedings abroad have been revoked. The notice notes the change and explains the prior objections raised by the general.
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Washington
General Pershing
Johannesburg
Union of South Africa
Nice
Wiliam Bank
Harold Scott
Cannes
Paris
Cheng
China
Frank W. Woolworth Dies at 66 in Glen Cove
Frank W. Woolworth founder of the 5 and 10 cent stores and a merchant prince of mass retailing died at his Glen Cove home after illness. The New York magnate, born in 1852, built a retail empire from a dry goods venture into a vast chain. He was 66.
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New York
Frank W. Woolworth
Glen Cove
L. L
Death sentence for Hungarian reported in Budapest
A revolutionary tribunal in Budapest on April 21 sentenced Stephen Farckar to death for spreading alarming and false news about the advance of French and Czech troops.
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Budapest
Stephen Farckar
British Relief Expedition Sails to Archangel Front
The advance guard of a new British relief expedition to northern Russia sailed from Tilbury Tuesday night. The force heads for the Archangel front to aid Allied efforts in the region.
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Russia
London
Tilbury
Archangel
Yankees Do Good Work Says Craven On Submarine Losses
Boston April 10 French records credit United States naval flyers with damaging and possibly destroying 12 German submarines. Capt Thomas C Craven, USN, states the claim and notes air force success in anti submarine patrols.
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Boston
United States Naval
Thomas C. Craven
U.S. ON
French Battleship Refloated After Black Sea Grounding
Paris April 10 the minister of marine reports to Admiral Amet that the French battleship Asi rabeau struck in a Black sea storm has been refloated.
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Paris
Minister of Marine
Amet
Asirabeau
Black Sea
Shipping Board Holds Line On South America Freight Rates
Washington April 11 the shipping board denied any plan to cut ocean freight rates to South America. Officials said reductions are not contemplated despite persistent runners spreading word that rates might fall.
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Washington
South America
The
Shipping Board
Aviator Killed as Plane Falls at Langley Field
Lieut. John J. Neely of Seattle was instantly killed and Sergt. J S Richardson seriously injured when the airplane he was piloting at Langley field fell during an incident reported from Hampton Virginia on April 11.
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Hampton
John JE. Neely
Seattle
Wash
J. S. Iichardson
Langley Field
Neely
Bolsheviki Defeated in Archangel Sector Fighting
An official Russian report from Archangel dated April 9 states that in the Sred Mekhrenga sector fighting on Friday the bolsheviki suffered 700 dead and wounded and 108 were taken prisoner by Allied forces.
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Archangel
Sred Mekhrenga
Joan of Arc Canonized in Rome with Papal Ceremony
At the Vatican on April 9 Pope Benditel presided over the canonization of Joan of Arc. High church dignitaries attended with Admiral Robert S. Griffin among the notable participants.
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Joan of Arc
Rome
Pope Bendilet
Vatican
Robert S. Griffin
Loot Red Cross Depots In Nuremberg Pillage
Armed crowds raided Red Cross storage sheds in Nuremberg on Tuesday, stealing goods valued at about 175000 dollars from multiple food depots, according to dispatches received from Basle on April 11.
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Nuremberg
Basle
American Red Cross
Pork and Beans Patent Suit Tops State Damages
Louise Osborn Ferson and Grace Osborn sue 47 defendants in Omaha for 120 million dollars alleging patent rights on a pork and bean biscuit. The defendants include major packing firms Standard Oil Rockefeller interests and several banks. The action is described as the largest ever filed in Nebraska and possibly in the United States.
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Omaha
Neb
United States
Louise Osborn Ferson
Grace Osborn
Standard Oil Company
Rockefellers
State of War Declared in Nuremberg April 10
Piccards posted notices in Nuremberg announcing a state of war starting April 10 in the northern Ta Virng region. The edict bans aid demonstrations and forbids the public from street presence at night.
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Nuremberg
Serting
Ta- Virng
800 Yanks Leave Genoa Sailed for New York
Genoa dispatch says the Italian steamship Duca Degli Abruzzi sailed from Genoa for New York carrying 500 military members of the American Red Cross and Italian reservists aboard with a Genoa message received here.
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Genoa
Paris
Ttalian Stemmeer Duca Degli Abruzzi
New York
S0u
American Red Cross
AUC
Talian Reservists
Koard
Suys
Deport I. W. W. members from Leavenworth prison
Federal warrants order the deportation of 400 inmates at Leavenworth including 12 of the 87 I W W members who were recently admitted to bail.
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Leavenworth
Kan
First hospital train carries German prisoners home
The first hospital train moving invalid German prisoners from France to Germany via Switzerland arrives here. Three thousand more Germans will be transported in the next four days.
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Berhe
France
Germany
Switzerland
Japanese Defeat 600 Bolshevists Near Irkutsk
Japanese forces defeated 600 bolshevist troops in a seven days battle west of Irkutsk. The engagement left 344 Red soldiers dead, more than half of their force. Japanese casualties were 60.
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London
Irkutsk
Wilsons Visit Queen in Paris Ahead of Council Session
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson visited Queen Marie of Roumania at her temporary Paris residence with Rear Admiral Grayson, his physician, ahead of the council of four session.
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Wilsons
Paris
President Wilson
Wilson
Grayson
Queen Marie of
Roumania
Council of Four
Two Million Rifle Cartridges Transported to Mexico
April 12 report notes two million rounds of rifle cartridges were moved to the Mexican side of the border with permission from American authorities for use by Mexican government forces.
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Mexico
Laredo
Cox
Dutch Financiers Visit Paris Over German Loan Deal
Amsterdam reports Van Den Hoven and Ter Meulen in Paris discussing a neutral states loan to Germany amounting to 200 million pounds. The visit signals potential approval or negotiation steps in securing the funds.
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Germany
Amsterdam
Paris
van den Hoven
Ter Meulen
Iowa News Roundup Highlights Trials and Local Deals
Fort Dodge painters win 20 percent wage rise. Dysart soil sold at 335 an acre. nearby farm sold at 345. Davenport man cleared of larceny after brave service in France. County seat removal petition drives Cedar Rapids from Marion. Many small notices include Red Cross work, guardianship case, and highway engineering changes in Iowa.
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Fort Dodge
Marion
Cedar Rapids
L. B. Speers
Davenport
Uncle Sam
France
Krebs
Dysart
Butler County
Walter Craddock
John C. Higgins
J. Lankton
Minot
N. D
Forest City
Iowa
Iowa Penitentiary
Henry F. Lamphere
Grinnell
Camp McClellan
Ala
Red Cross
Lamphere
Lyon
Siberia
Carmela Agnes, Fines
James Edmund Fines
Des Moines
Charles W. Odell
Chicago
Charles G. Hipwell
Hampton
Hampton-Kelley Canning Company
Geneva
U. S
Oscar Ruff
Sioux City
Western Iowa Company
Woodbury
Western Iowa
Supreme Court
Ruff
C. A. Barden
Oskaloosa
Thomas H. MacDonald
Department of Agriculture
MaccDonald
Iowa State Highway Commission
MacDonald
Charles Norton Hunt
West Liberty
Hunt
Macon
Board of Supervisors
Crawford’ County
Lincoln Highway
Denison City
Arion
Boyes Bridge
Dow City
Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Promises Health Benefit
Historic advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a strong blood maker and tonic made from wild roots and barks. It claims to cure colds and protect against disease, with emphasis on lungs digestion and blood formation, plus a Catarrh remedy offer and 10 cent trial package.
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Dr. Pierce
Oregon
Sage
Pierce
Invalids
Buffalo
N. Y
Whiskers Return as Military Style or War Fashion
The London Chronicle notes a growing army fashion of whiskers inspired by prince consort trends. Whiskers start short two finger breadths and may grow longer as officers with injured arms avoid shaving high on the cheek.
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Albert
Prince Consort
Crimea
London Chronicle
Freezone promises quick corn and callus relief
A brief ad states a tiny bottle of Freezone costs only a few cents at drug stores. Apply drops to corns and hard skin on feet, then lift away. The skin beneath remains pink and healthy, never sore or tender after treatment.
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Freezone
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