Nicaragua Canal Move Sparks Great Power Interest
The United States paid 8 million dollars to secure exclusive rights to dig a canal across Nicaragua. The plan aims to avoid Panama due to volcano risks and lower elevation, offering an 884 mile shorter route from New York to San Francisco and costing about one third of the Panama project. The lake and river system along the route ease the digging, with most work already effectively done by nature.
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Ashington
Unite Y W States
Nicaragua
Great Britain
Japan
Panama
Nica
Alaska
Cape Horn
New York
San Francisco
San Juan
Caribbean Sea
Tehuantepec Neck
First Wireless Heard Round the World From Lafayette Station
The Lafayette radio station at Bordeaux, France, built by the U S Navy, completed tests and transmitted the first world spanning wireless message. Secretary Daniels lauded the achievement as a symbol of Franco American unity and naval power. The station features eight twenty foot towers and surpasses German signals in audibility by fivefold.
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United States Naval
Lafayette
Bordeaux
France
Daniels
United States
United States Navy
Republic
United States Navy Department
Bureau of Engineering
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Pershing
Arlington
Annapolis
Naval Radio Laboratory
Bureau of Standards
Nauen
Sawdust as cattle feed touted by dairy researchers
The article reports on hydrolyzed sawdust being used as cattle feed after acid treatment to extract sugars. At the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Products Lab in Madison experiments showed cows thrived and produced more milk while gaining weight, prompting a national-scale government study and future reports.
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Ian
Sam
Industrial and Engineering Chemists
American Chemical Society
University of Chicago
E. C. Sherrard
G. W. Blanco
Forest Products Laboratory
United States Department of Agriculture
Madison
Wis
Uncle Sam
If. C. L
Possible Election Hitch Plays Into Suffrage Tangle
Article discusses constitutional pitfalls if Tennessee ratification of suffrage is deemed illegal after election. If so no candidate may have a majority, House would elect the president. Also notes distribution of President Wilsons sheep and Brig. Gen. Barrett’s demotion. Warns buyers to register stills use for water only.
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Tennessee
Connecticut
House of Representatives
George Barrett
Marine Corps
Navy
New Marine Act Targets Renewed Abrogation Of Treaties
The state department reports the merchant marine act may require abrogation of 24 to 27 commercial treaties with the United States as signatory nations. Section 34 demands 12 months’ notice to foreign governments before revoking conventions that block American preferences. Ten treaties, including with Belgium, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, Spain and others, likely fall under this provision.
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State Department
United States
Fins
Department
Cials
Congress
Belgium
Bolivia
Costa Rica
Denmark
Great Britain
Honderas
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Parasguay
Serbia
Spain
Japanese Standpoint Urges Calm Talk On California Land Law
Washington officials study a Tokyo Mainichi editorial seen as reflecting Japan's stance on the California alien land law controversy. It calls for strict observance of the gentlemen's agreement and no further Japanese emigration, while urging opposition to changes seen as anti Japanese. The piece notes American negotiations show progress but no expected agreement before the November election.
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Washington
Oet
ficAu
California
Osukai Mainichi
Japan
State Department
Matnichi
America
Second-hand gowns delight Queen Mary and court
Palmeral Castle reporting on a London dress agency visit to Scotland shows second-hand dresses, including many for Queen Mary and Princesses, selling at prices from a few pounds to forty. The sale responds to record-high prices for new gowns, with the queen and ladies of the household purchasing nearly the entire lot.
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Palmeral Castle
Scotland
Queen Mary
London
Princess Mary
Foreign trade of United States for 1910 estimated
New York City reports the 1910 foreign trade is expected near 14 billion dollars per estimates compiled by the National City Bank.
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New York
United States
National City Bank
Lane Ordered Rest by Physicians After Public Life
Franklin K. Lane former secretary of the interior has been ordered to take a complete rest by his physicians after seven years of public life. The notice comes as doctors warn of a possible physical breakdown.
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New York
Franklin K. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Chicago Woman Wins Angling Record In Tuna Fight
At Catalina Los Angeles on Thursday Mrs. Keith Spalding of Chicago captured the world amwoman angling record after a three hour battle reeling in a tuna weighing 16544 pounds.
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Chicago
Los Angeles
Cal
Catalina
Keith Spalding
World Mormons Gather for General Conference
Believers from around the globe are expected in Salt Lake City for the ninety first semi annual general conference of the church on October 8 9 and 10.
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Salt Lake City
The
Church
Galveston Pier Fire Ravages Waterfront
Galveston Texas October 2 fire started in sulphur bins at pier 85 spread quickly along the waterfront destroying pier 35 and its contents. Loss estimated at 2 500 000 dollars.
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Galveston
Tex
Pier 85
Pier 35
Polish Forces Capture Lida and Pinsk in Latest Advance
Warsaw reports Polish troops seized Lida an important town 45 miles south of Vilna and Pinsk a fortified city 90 miles east of Brest-Litovsk in the latest official statement issued Tuesday.
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Warsaw
Lida
Vilna
Pinsk
Brest-Litovsk
Russians flee as Polish forces seize Grodno area and push to Pripet
Polish authorities report a decisive victory on the northern front with 26 000 prisoners captured after the Grodno win. A Russian division allegedly surrendered and its commissars were killed. Front reports Poland advances to Paranovitch and pushes Russians south of the Pripet.
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Riga
Grodno
Fourth Sted
Warsnaw
Trotzky
Warsaw
Posen
Paranovitch
Pinsk
Pripet
Slutsch
Wall Street fears in Illinois exhibitors alliance meet
Resolutions at the Illinois Exhibitors' Alliance session critique rising costs for poorer pictures. President Joseph Hopp of Chicago comments on a possible Wall Street monopoly. The group frowns on star contract jumping and unanimously backs anti censorship. Screens statewide to back legislators opposing industry harming laws.
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Springfield
Illinois
Motion Picture Owners
American
Joseph Hopp
Chicago
Wall Street
German Army Now 150000 Men Evacuates Rhine Zone
Oct 4 reports state the German army has 150000 troops and has evacuated about 21 miles of the Rhine zone. The Reichswehr reduction follows peace treaty obligations per a defense minister announcement. Buffalo fire destroys W A Morgan store worth about 1 million. Mrs Anna Rogers of Vern Fayette county files to run for state legislature.
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Buffalo
N. Y
W. A. Morgan
Mor ZA
Siegrist & Fraley Company
Springfeld
Anna Rogers Arr
Vern
Fayette County
Hare Motors Cuts Locomobile Mercer Prices
New York October 4 Hare's Motors Inc operator of Locomobile and Mercer brands announced price cuts. Standard Locomobile cars reduced by 1350 dollars and Mercer models by 1000 dollars.
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New York
Hare's Motors, Inc
Locomobile
Mercer
Football Captain Killed in Scrimmage Accident
Melvin Keppler seventeen year old captain of Lockhaven high school football died at University hospital from a broken neck after a scrimmage practice.
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Philadelphia
Melvin Keppler
Lockhaven
University Hospital
Swift Fined Eight Dollars for Speeding
Chicago October 2 William Billy Swift son of the millionaire packer declared himself cured after seven continuances on a charge of speeding. He was fined eight dollars in court.
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Swift
Chicago
William
Billy) Swift
Millionare Packer
Governors to Convene in Harrisburg December First
The conference of governors will meet in Harrisburg on December 1 for a three day session, after plans to hold sessions in May in the city were adjusted.
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Harrisburg
Vere
World Trade Debate Shapes Postwar Economic Outlook
At the Brussels International conference, speakers foresee a return to active trade and argue for freer exchange. Ministers and bankers urge reducing barriers, with India favoring protection and Italy proposing pooling of raw materials. The conference plans extended committee work and a midweek adjournment for plenary results.
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Brussels
Spoakers
Gellers
Charles Wauters
Henry Bell
Lloyds’ Bank
London
Japan
M. Mori
Don Jose Figueras
Spain
Fazubhoy Currisabhoy
India
Miners Leave Spain for United States in Large Exodus
More than 900 miners from the Rito Tinto district plan to emigrate to the United States, leaving Spain about mid October. An additional group of 400 is bound for another Spanish province.
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Rio Tinto
Huelva
Spain
Rito Tinto
United States
Recognition of Fiume council as provisional Quarnare regency
Rome reports that the municipal council of Fiume is recognized as the provisional government of the Quarnare regency following the proclamation by Gabriele d Annunzio.
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Rome
Fiume
Quarnere
Gabriele d'Annunzio
Moroccan Tribesmen Routed by Night March Troops
Moroccan tribesmen have been driven from positions in the Spanish zone by a mixed column of native and European troops on a forced night march from Ceuta and Tetuan. The action marks a significant engagement in the region and underscores ongoing unrest in northern Morocco.
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Morocco
Madrid
Ceuta
Tetuan
Puts Ban on Reprisals in Ireland Speech
Dublin reports Sir Hamar Greenwood warns the royal Irish Constabulary against reprisals, regardless of provocation, in a nine point speech. Fire destroys Moselle castle Eltz near Coblenz, a famed twelfth century residence of the counts of Witz.
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Dublin
Royal Irish Constabulary
Hamar Greenwood
Ireland
Moselle
Castile
Coblenz
Sehioss Eltz
Treves
Witz
Timken plant lays off 900 workers in Columbus
Nine hundred of the 1,600 Timken Roller Bearing employees in Columbus were laid off as the plant announces it will not operate a night shift until further notice.
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Columbus
Timken Roller Bearing Company
Vienna Doctors Strike for Private Fees
Four thousand physicians in Vienna went on strike refusing to visit patients unless paid the regular private practice fees. They had previously treated under rich benefit associations.
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Vienna
Arnison Named Captain of Minnesota Football Team
Minneapolis Oct 1 Nen Arnison of Red Wing Minn was elected captain of the University of Minnesota football team succeeding Trygucinson who was ineligible.
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Gopher U
Minneapolis
Nen Arnison
Red Wing
Minn
University of Minnesota
Trygucinson
Hoyne says 1920 games fixed by gamblers in baseball scandal
Chicago state attorney Hoyne returns from New York with evidence alleging six or more 1920 major league games were fixed by the same gamblers who bribed White Sox players to throw the World Series. He says investigations will continue and promises more scandal in baseball.
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Chicago
White Sox
Cincinnati
Hoyne
New York
Grand Jury
Runaway Cars Kill Six at Piedmont Station
In Piedmont Montana an east bound Chicago Milwaukee St Paul freight train on a mountain grade broke away from the main train and struck a gravel standing. Engineer A E Mutz was killed, brakeman Joe Gormley seriously injured, five unidentified men killed and three others injured.
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Butte
Mont
A. EE. Mutz
Joe Gormley
Piedmont
Price cutting grips wholesale trade warns reserve board
The federal reserve board reports a renewed wave of price reductions in wholesale trade and predicts lower consumer prices soon. Officials say the trend stems from more exacting demand by buyers for favorable price and quality.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Col. Galbraith Heads Legion Commander in Cleveland
Col F W Galbraith Jr from Cincinnati was elected commander of the American Legion in Cleveland Ohio on October 1.
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Col. Galbraith
Legion
Cleveland
Col
F. W. Galbraith, Jr
Cincinnati
American Legion
Drowned Fishermen In Green Lake Accident
Spicer Minn Oct 5 Two men C P Bates a Sioux Falls S D attorney and Jack Brenzier a local fisherman drowned when their boat capsized on Green lake during fishing.
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Spicer
Minn
C. P. Bates
Sioux Falls
S. D
Jack Brenzier
Green Lake
Fort Collins Hunter Dies In Rifle Accident
Fort Collins Colorado October 5 Walter Sherrod a prominent local man was fatally shot when his rifle discharged during opening deer season authorities reported.
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Fort Collins
Colo
Walter Sherrod
Yanks Return From Rhine with Troops and Bodies
Nearly 500 soldiers returned from Rhine duty aboard the army transport Anti gone. Seven hundred American service members who died in France were also brought back on the same ship.
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Rhine
New York
Rhineland
France
Kings County DA to Probe Brooklyn Nationals Bribe Plot
District Attorney Lewis of Kings County announced an immediate investigation into reports that a gamblers clique plans to bribe members of the Brooklyn Nationals.
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New York
Lewis
Kings County
Brooklyn Nationals
Whisky Raid Seizes 500 Quarts in Terre Haute Op
Federal officers seized five hundred quarts of bonded whisky valued at six thousand dollars in Terre Haute Indiana in a raid on a saloon run by Thomas Gardner a former proprietor.
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Terre Haute
Terre Tiante
Ind
Federal Oftcera
Prince
Thomas Gardner
Reds Submit Peace Offer
Russian Bolshevik representatives at the Peace conference here have submitted proposals to Polish delegates on the boundary line between Poland and the east.
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Poland
Japanese former minister calls anti-Japan moves phase of election
Baron Shimpei Goto former foreign minister and potential prime minister cautions against anti American Japanese press outbursts. He says the anti Japanese sentiment is a presidential election phase and calls for calm and honorable settlement addressing land issues and discrimination. Japan American society plans a two member mission to America to ease tensions and promote understanding.
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Japan
Tokyo
Shimpei Goto
Reuters, Ltd
California
Pacific
America
United States
Japan-American Society
Japan Society of
New York City
Ten Vessels For $1,400,000
The Shipping Board announced a sales agreement with Louis M. Atha of New York to buy ten composite vessels totaling 400000 deadweight tons for 1400000 dollars. The buyer may select any ten composite ships and will pay the initial sum on delivery of the first vessel.
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Washington
Louis M. Atha
New York
The
Shipping Board
Senator Underwood Predicts Extra Session To Revise Revenue Laws
Washington on October 6 Senator Underwood minority leader and finance committee member predicted that regardless of the president elect Congress would be called into an extra session late next spring. The aim would be to revise revenue laws and place the United States on a peace time financial basis.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Underwood
Senate
Committee On Finance
Schiff Millions Aid Charity
New York on October 6 reports charitable bequests totaling about $1,300,000 in the will of the late Jacob H. Schiff filed in the surrogate court.
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New York
Jacob H. Schiff
New York Population Tops Ten Million Mark
Washington reports New York state population at 10,384,144 in the census Bureau tally, rising by 1,270,530 since the last count for an 18.9 percent increase.
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New York
Idaho
New Jersey
Texas
Washington
New York State
Japanese Evacuate Nikolaevsk to Sakhalin Island
Japanese naval and military forces begin evacuation of Nikolaevsk in Siberia withdrawing to the northern part of Sakhalin Island, according to cable dispatches received in Honolulu Hawaii on October 6.
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Nikolaevsk
Honolulu
Hawaii
Sberia
Sakhalin
Parachute Jumper Missing in Lake Michigan Case
Empire Michigan October 6 search units scoured Lake Michigan for Deborah de Costello a 26 year old aviatrix and parachute jumper who drowned when her parachute blew into the lake the body remains unfound.
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Empire
Mich
Lake Michigan
Deborah de Costello
Twentysix
Prosperity Seen Rising in U S Banks Conference
Prosperity is on the wing in the United States bankers from distant places converge in Boston for a conference and agree profiteering is dying, signaling a healthier economy ahead.
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Boston
United States
Promise Equality for Jews Stated in Warsaw Conference
The Polish government will take all steps to secure civil equality for Jews. Vice premier Ignace Daszinski told delegates at the Polish Jewish conference in Warsaw on October 6.
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Warsaw
Ignace Daszinski
Russian Grand Duke Alive Reported as Safe in Paris
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch of Russia, brother of the late Emperor Nicholas, is said to be alive and in Slam after rumors of Bolshevik assassination, with Paris reporting he was not killed.
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Paris
Michael Alexandrovitch
Russia
Nicholas
Two Indiana Flyers Die in Pine Fall Near Coldwater
Devon Bartholomew of Waterloo and Cecil Keyes of Orland were killed when their Pine tree fell 8,500 feet after stay wires snapped, about 12 miles south of Coldwater Michigan on October 6.
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Indiana
Coldwater
Mich
Devon Bartholomew
Waterloo
Ind
Cecil Keyes
Orland
Here
Green's August Flower A Marvelous Digestive Remedy
An advertisement extols Green's August Flower as a gentle laxative and effective aid for indigestion nervous dyspesia and other digestive disorders. It claims fifty four years of use in thousands of households worldwide with no failures and promotes restoration of nature's functions and health. Also cites a promotional tip and a separate Boston Transcript headline about tipping in a restaurant.
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Green
Diamond Dyes Promise Easy, Rich Color for All Fabrics
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as simple to use for dyeing wool silk linen cotton or blends. It claims perfect results and urges buying Diamond Dyes and the Color Card from a druggist for 16 colors.
Mrs Peevish Bets on No New Habits for Mr Peevish
Fully Occupied. Mrs Peevish says she feels confident that Mr Peevish will never acquire another bad habit, as it takes all his waking hours to practice those he already has, and when he sleeps he snores, according to the Dallas News.
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