Budget estimate for League of Nations salaries proposal
Spencer of Missouri cites a Congressional Record estimate on League of Nations costs requested by the American Agricultural association. Dolph lists 170 tribunals and commissions, projecting payrolls for four salary classes plus travel, rent, and miscellaneous expenses totaling about 1.19 billion dollars annually.
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Yee
Spencer
Missouri
League of Nations
A. Dolph
Washington
American Agricultural Association
Germany
Two Decades of American Progress in Porto Rico
Gov. Arthur Yager lauds twenty years of American rule in Porto Rico showing major public improvements. He cites $15.03 million in permanent works against a $10.06 million debt, plus roads, buildings, irrigation gains, a modern free schooling system, literacy drop from 79.9 percent to under 60, road mileage from 160 to 712, health and taxation advances, and a surge in foreign business from 17.5 million to 141.8 million dollars.
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Porto Rico
Forgotten Debate Recounts State Mineral Royalties Totals
The article notes a house debate on bill 8S 2775 to promote extraction on public lands. Representative Andrews cites treasury deposits by states under the 1836 act totaling 28,101,644.91 dollars with 4 percent interest estimated at 121,000,000 dollars and suggests a joint resolution asking states to return funds.
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House
Andrews
Nebraska
Treasury
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Vermont
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ohio
Missouri
Indiana
Ilinois
Michigan
Arkansas
Federal crackdown tightens law against automobile thefts
The new federal act criminalizes interstate car theft and strengthens prosecutions nationwide. Chicago authorities began applying the law with three men held on charges of transporting stolen vehicles. Local districts expect sharp rises in federal cases as the law curbs fences and theft markets.
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Washington
United States
Department of Justice
Chicago
Detroit
Middle West
Clyne
Fred F. Lee
Indianapolis
Mark A. Foote
Muncie
Ind
Whilfred Louisberry
Carton Klorr
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Naval Reserves to Be Organized for Quick Action
The Navy plans to mobilize a mobile naval reserve force on shore in the Great Lakes district. Letters signed by Rear Admiral Prederie outline divisions battalions and brigades to be formed in districts. Reservists will be assigned to units and kept on reserve on a four year service basis.
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United States Navy
United States Naval Reserve Force
Great Lakes
Tenth
Grow Lakes
Premier Lloyd George outlines new Irish home rule plan
London December 24 Premier Lloyd George spoke to the House of Commons detailing a plan for two Irish legislatures with a single Irish parliament, full local control, and imperial taxation. He warned against secession and noted Dublin outrage as a backdrop to the proposal.
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London
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Commons
Dublin
Ulster
Southern Ireland
Trish
Treland
Ireland
Imperial Services
Exchequer Board
Europe
Russia
America
Westminster
United States
Reds Deportation Shocks New York Witnessed by Marines
In New York on December 23 247 Reds boarded the US transport Buford amidst armed Marines. A prisoner shouted defiant threats claiming the United States would be overwhelmed and the Armerion would return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
America
Buford
Mma Goldman
Armerion
Prohibition Party Adopts Labor Arbitration Resolutions
The Prohibition party for New York county adopted resolutions urging Congress to appoint a nonpartisan board of arbitrators with binding powers to settle all industrial problems. The plan was announced in New York on December 24.
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New York
Congress
Prohibition Party
New York County
London department store offers five room houses
Selfridge department store in London markets a complete line of five room houses to the public. The store, once a Chicago merchant, promotes the homes as attractive and ready for purchase.
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London
Selfridge
Chicago
Bandits Take $2000 Payroll From Packing Company Office
Two armed robbers held up the KE KL Pond Packing offices in Chicago around 3 PM and escaped with a payroll of $2,000. Police search for the culprits as authorities investigate the incident and secure the scene.
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Chicago
KE KL Pond Packing Company
Russians Advertise Tanks for Military Use
Washington dec 24 the soviet government offers prizes from fifty thousand to four hundred fifty thousand dibbles for plans to construct military tanks.
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Washington
Farmer and Family Slain at Cook County Farm
Adair Shank, wealthy farmer, his wife and three young children were murdered at their farm near Hilcrest. Authorities hunt an employee of Shank as a person of interest.
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Hilcrest
Adair Shank
Shank
Jenkins Case Still Alive
Mexico City witnesses in Puebla testified that United States consulate agent William O Jenkins delivered arms to rebels. The trial continues as new Indian witnesses appear in the case.
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Mexico City
Puebla
William O Jenkins
States
Chilean Harbor Improvement Contract Awarded
Chilean government awards harbor work at Antofagasta to a native construction company. Washington report to the department of commerce notes the contract details and government involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Antofagasta
Department c Commerce States
Wilson names coal commission to mediate strike
President Wilson announced a three member commission to mediate between bituminous coal miners and operators. Henry M Robinson John T White and Rembrandt Peale named to represent the public workers and operators. Alexander Howat freed from jail pledging telegrams to Kansas board to end strikes.
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Wilson
H. M. Robinson
John P. White
Rembrandt Peale
Washington
Ah Commission
Palmer
United Mine Workers
Indianapolis
Ares Tlenry M. Robinson
Pasadena
Cal
Pubiic
John T. White
Pennsylvania
Zoner
Alexander Howat
Kansas
United Mine Workers of America
Marion County
United States
A. B. Anderson
Howat
Kansas Miners’ Executive Board
Central Coal & Coke Company
Mutiny on U S Transport America Ends with Arrests
Seven crew members including two petty officers were taken from the transport America in irons at Hoboken after a voyage to Europe. Police report an open rebellion since leaving New York in November. Six men remain in the ship hospital with gunshot wounds from mutiny or fights aboard. Authorities say Bolshevik and I W W agitators fostered trouble in the transport service.
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New York
America
Irons
Hoboken Army Pier
Europe
TW. W
France
First Cuban Sugar Cargo Reaches New York
The Matanzas arrived with 24 000 bags of the new Cuban sugar consigned to American refiners in New York. In Arkansas at Tine Tituff near Altheimer an extra work train collided with passenger train No 481 in dense fog injuring twenty people.
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Cuba
New York
Matanzas
Tine Tituff
Ark
Cotton Belt Railroad
Altheimer
Will Reopen Historic Factory in Chauny
In Chauny France on December 25 the historic mirror factory founded by Dean Baptiste Colbert once employed 2 000 workers before the war and will resume operations.
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Chauny
France
Dean Baptiste Colbert
Louis XIV
San Antonio Officials Arrested in Conspiracy Case
Ten civilian clerks and a San Antonio physician were arrested on conspiracy to defraud government supply programs. About $1,500 worth of army goods were recovered.
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San Antonio
Pex
Vienna Stations Stormed Amid Rail Disruptions
Dispatches report riotous scenes at Vienna railway stations as traffic is suspended following government announcements. Local authorities struggle to restore order as crowds clash near stations and trains halt nationwide.
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Vienna
Tertia
Sonsoumence
Court Bars Near Beer in Minnesota
Minnesota Supreme Court rules that manufacture of near beer or beverages near intoxicating, though not actually intoxicating, is unfit. The decision bars creating such products even for personal use, reflecting strict state standards on intoxicating beverages.
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St. Tuiah Minn
Minnesota
Klute
France fixes two year military service duration
Paris December 22 technical officers who had debated whether to submit to military law have agreed on a bill setting the term of service at two years.
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France
Paris
Victor Berger Re-Elected in Wisconsin District Race
Victor L Berger Socialist incumbent was re elected to Congress from Wisconsin fifth district defeating Henry Bodenstadt fusion Republican by 4806 votes. Berger 24807 Bodenstadt 19561 about 9000 staying away from polls 53000 total registration. If seating refused by house a vacancy would persist until 1920 as Governor Philipp declines another special election.
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Milwaukee
Dee
Victor TL. Berger
Wisconsin
Henry
Bodenstad
Berger
Bodenstah
House of Representatives
B. L. Philipp
Largest U. S. submarine S-16 launched at Bridgeport yard
In Bridgeport Connecticut on December 25 the submarine S-16, the largest in the U S Navy, was launched by Lake Torpedo Boat Company. Sponsor Mrs Archibald McNeil Jr broke a champagne bottle as the vessel slid down the ways. S-16 has a 12000 mile cruising radius, measures 220 feet, and speeds of 12 knots submerged and 15 knots on the surface.
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Bridgeport
Conn
United States Navy
Lake Torpedoboat Company
Archibald McNeil
Boston Teachers Receive 384 Dollar Pay Raise
The Massachusetts House passed a bill increasing each Boston school teacher’s salary by 384 dollars after Senate approval. The measure targets all district teachers and awaits final steps for enactment.
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Boston
House of Representatives
Senate
Shoppers Witness Wife Kill Husband in Tallas Street Shooting
In Tallas Texas on December 24 Mrs Andrew Ott shot and killed her husband a 24 year old salesman amid Christmas shoppers. The woman is 21. Authorities investigate motive and charges are pending.
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Tallas
Tex
Andrew Ott
Irish raiders seize explosives at Lisduff works
A band of armed men attacked the smallway works in Lisduff County Cavan on December 25. They surprised sentries and seized the stock of eelignite explosives stored at the site.
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Lisduff
County Cavan
Treland
Smaullway Works
Army Stock Heist Leads to Arrest in Stop Nagaire
Police in Stop Nagaire arrest Wrench, Spanish and American robbers who had been stealing U S Army stocks and smuggling them away, according to the Matin reporting from Paris.
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U. S. Army
Paris
Stop Nagaire
Wrench
Princess Patricia Gives Birth to Royal Heir
Princess Patricia Wis quarried to OMcer Alexander Robert Mieide Simsay of the royal navy in February. Lady Riameny confirms the birth of a son to Princess Patricia in London with details yet to be released.
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Pat
London
Dee
Riameny
Patricia of
On Ment
Patricia Wis
Omcer Alexander Robert Mieide Simsay
Royal Navy
Mother Drowns Three Babies in Idaho Pree Case
Mrs Taney M Mullennex thirty four wife of a farmer was arrested on charges of murdering her three infant children and attacking her mother in law in Coom Alene Idaho.
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Coom Alene
Idaho
Taney M. Mullennex
German Retreat Ends in Looting Across Lithuania
The last units of Col. Aviloff Bermondt evacuated Lithuania on December 14. Reports note widespread looting and outrages accompanying the retirement and pervading Riga and Lithuania.
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Lithuania
Riga
Aviloff-Bermondt
Safe Conduct Sought for 249 Russians Deported to Soviet Russia
The State Department cabled foreign capitals detailing plans to ensure safe conduct and humane treatment for about 250 Russian radicals aboard the Buford on the way to Bolshevik Russia. Immigration Chief Caminetti says the aim is delivery to Soviet authorities, with voyage conditions and en route orders guiding final destination.
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State Department
Bolshevik Russia
Washington
Buford
Soviet
Russia
Europe
Anthony Caminetti
Soviet Russia
United States
United States of America
Virgo Suspect Confessed in Daughter Maud Virgo Death
Mrs. Sarah I. Tabor, Lawton Michigan, admitted to Van Buren county authorities that her daughter Maud Virgo was killed and buried in a trunk in the cellar. She broke down saying Joe Virgo claimed responsibility and had taken Maud away in an auto for three days in April prior to May 1 death.
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Lawton
Mich
Sarah I. Tabor
van Buren County
Maud Tabor Virgo
H. H. Adams
Glenn Warner
Joe
Warner
Adams
Joe Virgo
Lenine Bets on China as Next Bolshevik Power
Dispatches from Paris and Warsaw claim Nikolai Lenine sees China rising as a Bolshevik power and Trotzky plans a spring invasion of Poland with a vast Chinese army.
Supreme Court Recesses On Beer Prohibition ruling
The Supreme Court recessed until January 5 without handing down an opinion on the constitutionality of Volstead enforcement sections that do not affect beer's alcoholic content.
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Supreme Court
Wrhshington
Volstead
Bogardus Convicted in Sitton Slaying at Winona
Howard Bogardus, who confessed to killing Roy W. Sitton at Winona on Thanksgiving Day, was found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to 85 years in the state penitentiary in Springfield Missouri.
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Springfield
Howard Bogardus
Roy W. Sitton
Winona
Murrer
House Passes Anti Alien Bill in Washington
The immigration committee's bill to deport all aliens affiliated with subversive organizations was approved by the House in an unanimous vote.
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House
Washington
Immigraton Committee
Fall Fatal to Flyer in Arcadia Collision
Arcadia Indiana December 22 Lieut Norris Dadley of Worcester Massachusetts was instantly killed and Lieut I W Drandenstein was injured in a collision of their airplanes at an altitude of 4000 feet.
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Arcadia
Norris
Dadley
Worchester
Mass
Stantly
W. Drandenstein
Government Victory in Washington Strike Probe
Attorney General Palmer described the termination of the soft coat strike as a victory for the government to a senate subcommittee investigating the dispute. He noted that the issue was not settled but resolved in a way favorable to federal authorities.
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Washington
Palmer
Senate
Proclamation Restores Railroads to Private Ownership March 1 1920
President Wilson announces that railroads and railroad express companies will be returned to private ownership on March 1 1920 and that the transition timing allows a window after the proclamation. Walker D Hines is authorized to settle compensation and disputes as federal control ends.
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Washington
Wilson
Tumulty
Congress
United States of America
Secretary of War
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Walker D. Hines
Newton D. Baker
District of Columbia
Iowa Farm News Reflects Shifts in Agriculture and Education
Iowa counties report rising soil testing and lime use as tractors surpass horses in field work. Milk clinics appear in Davenport schools to combat malnutrition while a Chilean commission seeks Iowa teachers fluent in Spanish. Farm programs note record corn shipments, limestone spread in Wayne county, and poultry shipping improvements.
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A. W. Monosmith
Webster County
Iowa
Davenport
P. BE. McClenshan
Chilean Educational Commission
Fontanelle
Cedar Valley Trap Rock Co
Wayne County
Bureau of Chemistry
United States Department of Agriculture
J. O. Westrum
Stratford
R. E. Kallem
Ellsworth
Hamilton County
Ames
Ames Breeders and Poultry Association
Merrill
Muscatine County
Farm Bureau
Decatur County
Iowa Farm Federation
County Farm Bureau
Cherokee County
Cherokee
Osage
Mitchell County
Treasury
Bee Men
Hampton
Albert L. Johnson
Hayes Township
Ida County
Lindberg
Kiron
O’brien County
Stole
John Harden
Poland
Polands
Will of Cincinnati capitalist leaves $1,000,000 for relief
The will of Jacob G. Schmidlapp, a Cincinnati capitalist who died recently in New York, leaves an estate estimated at one million dollars in trust. The income will be devoted to the relief of suffering and distress.
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Cincinnati
Jacob G. Schmidlapp
New York
McClure’s Magazine Purchased by Herbert Kaufman
New York December 27 McClure's Magazine has been bought by Herbert Kaufman Frederick L Collins president of the company announced All the stock of McClure's publications went to Mr Kaufman
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New York
McClure's Magazine
Herbert Kaufman
Frederick L. Collins
McClure’s Publications
Mr. Kaufman
Mexican Army Graft Sparks Government Action
Washington reports in Mexico City that graft in Mexican military circles has provoked civilian unrest and forced government intervention to curb the corruption.
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Washington
Mexico City
Rector Emeritus Rev John Wright Dies at 83 in St Paul
Rev John Wright rector emeritus of St Pauls Episcopal church died in St Paul Minnesota at age eighty three, regarded as an international authority on Egyptology.
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St. Paul’s
St. Paul, Minn
John Wright
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Doctor Wright
Real estate dealer kills two children then self in Washington
William Potter, a real estate dealer, delirious from pneumonia, shot and killed two of his young children and seriously wounded a third before killing himself in Washington on December 27.
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Wash
Dee
Wilam Potter
Three Holdup Men Raid Duffy Club in New York
Three gunmen raided the Eugene R. Duffy associated clubrooms in New York on December 27, diverting 2000 dollars in cash and personal property from 18 members held at gunpoint.
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Baid Club
New York
Eugene R. Duffy Associated
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