Poland and Lithuania at Odds Amid Calls for U.S. Mediation
A long Warsaw note released to Washington outlines Poland and Lithuania accusing each other of invading and seizing territory. Poland cites Lithuanian cooperation with Soviet troops and demands withdrawal to prewar frontiers while accusing Lithuania of attacks on Sejny Suwalki and Augustow with Russian backing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Poland
Lithuania
State Department
Warsaw
Augustaw
Sejny
Supreme Council
Grajewo-Augustaw
Suwalki
World War Order Formed In Detroit
Organization of the Military Order of the World War completed in Detroit with a new constitution and officers. The body unites American Officers of the Great War and allied groups, open to all commissioned World War veterans, and mirrors the American Legion in structure while pursuing a consistent military policy and banning political activity within the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
United States
American Legion
British seize Shereban town north of Baghdad
British forces under Brig. Gen. Conyngham occupy Shereban on the left bank of the Dlala river about 60 miles north of Baghdad. The expedition releases Indian prisoners and Mrs Buchanan widow of a killed irrigation officer. Local reports say Mrs Buchanan was well treated by the Arab tribesmen prior to the British arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bagdad
Shereban
Dlala
Bakuba
Conyngham
Bu‘chanan
Buichanan
Cured of bolshevism echo in German workers arrival
In Swinemunde 70 German workmen who emigrated to Soviet Russia two months ago arrived aboard the steamer Belina and voiced the opinion they were cured of bolshevism. In Sarregemines a vehicle with 900 pounds of silver ingots in a false bottom, traveling from Germany to Strasbourg, was halted by frontier guards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swinemunde
Prussia
Soviet Russia
Belina
Sarregemines
Germany
Strasbourg
Frontier
Mexican General Francisco de P. Manuel Released From Prison
Mexico City reports General Francisco de P. Manuel, once commander of Puebla military forces during Carranza’s flight, has been released from military prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Franccisco de P. Manuel
Puebla
Carranza
First Transcontinental Postal Plane Leaves San Francisco
The mail flight carried 700 pounds and departed Marina field at 6 15 am under pilot Raymond J. Little marking the first transcontinental air mail from San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Marina Field
Raymond J. Little
Polish Forces Break Through on Northeastern Front
Polish armies on the northeastern front punch through Russian lines and seize 3,300 prisoners four guns and two armored trains in a series of successful attacks reported from Warsaw dated September 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
D'Annunzio to Order Release of US Steamer Coyne
Rome dispatch quotes Gabriele d Anunzio disapproving the seizure of the American steamer Coyne and ordering its release. Also brief note from Lens France reports a coal mine mishap with a crew member killed and coal output halted after flooding.
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D’annunzio
U. S
London
Gabriele d’Annunzio
Coyne
Rome
Exchange
Fiume
U S Emergency Army Planned With 1.2 Million In Three Lines
Washington announces a vast emergency army organization. The first line is the regular army of 300 000 troops, the National Guard adds 435 000, and a reserve force of about 70 000 officers with 12 000 more under consideration forms the final and largest segment. Pay scales are set for officers and enlisted ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
National Guard
United States
United States Army
Leutenant
Seven Die In Auto Wreck Near Dobbs Ferry
Seven persons died and another was dying after a touring car plunged from a 20 foot embankment in a fierce rainstorm near Dobbs Ferry. Victims include Dr. George H. McGuire and wife Florence, their son George H. McGuire Jr, daughter May, guests John J. Hawley and wife, Edward Mulrooney, and Capt Mulrooney’s son. Francis McGuire survived, thrown clear and unconscious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dobby Terry
George H. McGuire
Florence McGuire
May McGuire
John J. Hawley
Hawley
Edward Mulrooney
Mulrooney
McGuire
Francis
Dobbs Ferry Hospital
Wilson declines reconvening coal scale committee
President Wilson telegrammed Pennsylvania anthracite workers to refuse their demand to reconvene the joint scale committee of operators and miners. He stated no action on reopening the 1918 wage scale.
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Washington
Wilson
Anthracite
Pennsylvania
Joint Scale Committee of
Movie Star Actress Olive Thomas Dies in Paris
American actress Olive Thomas wife of Jack Pickford died at the American hospital in Paris from mercurial poisoning after swallowing bichloride of mercury. The death ends a career marked by beauty and a string of popular silent films.
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Paris
Olive Thomas
Jack Pickford
American Hospital
D Annunzio Proclaims Fiume Free State
Gabriele d Annunzio proclaimed Fiume an independent state declaring he received private news from Paris that compelled the declaration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiume
Gabriele d'Annnunzio
D’annunzio
Paris
U S Mall Plane Wrecked Near Elkhart
The Chicago New York United States mail plane piloted by Lieutenant Riddles barger was wrecked in a cornfield during landing near Elkhart Indiana. The pilot escaped unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Treasury tightens sale of stills to curb illicit distilling
Washington September 10. The treasury announces stricter regulations on still sales and new tracing measures to identify users as part of efforts to end illicit distilling of intoxicating liquor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Washington
The
Treasury
Harding at St. Paul Minnesota Fair Speech
Senator Harding outlined an agricultural program at the Minnesota State Fair aimed at national self sufficiency and farm improvement. The Sept. 10 address in St Paul highlighted plans to bolster farming and rural prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
St. Paul
Minn
Senator Harding
Minnesota
U. S. Still Wet Admits Kramer Wide Open Cities
Prohibition Commissioner Kramer reports that major cities remain wet and hard to police under the Volstead Act. He cites rampant illicit drinking in New York Chicago Baltimore and Philadelphia and describes bribery graft and widespread suspicion among officials. He notes three thousand arrests in New York with few convictions and highlights a new “skirt squad” targeting exclusive restaurants as part of enforcement.
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Washington
New York
Chicago
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Prohibition
Kramer
Wlineis
Louisiana
Pennsylvania
Broadway
State Street
Navy Ends Whisky Use With Medical Supplies Ban
The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ordered a complete end to issuing spirituous liquors to naval vessels for medicinal purposes. Medical depots may only supply whisky to hospitals, with no further purchases once current stock runs out in two to three weeks. If alcohol is essential, ethyl alcohol from supply officers may be prescribed.
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Washington
United States Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Medical Department of the Navy
Marines Seize Oil for Navy at Mare Island Yard
Two thousand barrels of fuel oil seized for the navy by Capt E M Beach commandant at Mare Island Navy Yard. The Shell Oil Co property, seized with Marines after approaching the plant with a detach ment to enforce the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Beach
Mare Island
Fire destroys Jelke dairy barns and prized bull
A $20,000 registered bull owned by John F. Jelke, a Chicago butter maker, perished in an early morning fire that consumed Jelke dairy barns near Elgin. Also reported, Rudolf Mosse, renowned Berlin publisher of Berliner Tageblatt and Berliner Volks Zeitung, died in Berlin.
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Elgin
John F. Jelke
Chicago
Jelke
Mosse
Berlin
Rudolf Mosse
Herr Mosse
Gratz
Berliner Tageblatt
Berliner Volks Zeitung
Prohibition Agents Raid Auditorium Hotel
Chicago authorities raid the Auditorium hotel at 2 Michigan Avenue as agents seize two trunks suspected of containing liquor amid a surge of prom enaders. authorities describe the operation as part of a broader crackdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Michigan Avenue
Auditorium Hotel
Foch Visits Coblenz with American Escort
Premier Mitlerané of France Marshal Foch General De goutte and General Lecomte escorted by American cavalry met at Weissenturn and toured Coblenz on September 10 as Yanks watched in postwar dispatches.
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Foch
Yanks
Olive Thomas Dies After Poison Drinking Quarrel Claim
Paris dispatch reports Olive Thomas, U.S. actress, died after drinking bichloride of mercury at Neuilly hospital following a quarrel with her husband. Dr Joseph Choate said she swallowed a solution containing dangerous mercurial poison, apparently by error after revisiting night spots with friends.
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Paris
Olive Thomas
Jack Pickford
Neuilly
Joseph Choate
Miss Thomas
Choate
Pickford
Montmartre
Ritz
Olive
Paraguay faces monetary crisis cited by president
Asuncion reports President Gondra chairing a congress message about Paraguay's acute monetary crisis caused by low economic mood, banking immobility, rising prices, the Bank of Sprain suspension, and shrinking credits. Separately in New York nearly 900 million in gold bars is moved to a new assay building, mostly melted from English sovereigns and French 20 franc pieces. In Cheyenne a fireman is murdered and a DOJ agent wounded in a shooting involving a Chinese national.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Gondra
Congress
Bank of Sprain
New York
Assay
Cheyenne
Wyo
Bohn
Federhan
Cheyenne Fire Department
Sam Holland
Department of Justice
BE. Yop Geow
United States
Body of Heiress Found Floating in Potomac
The body of Mrs. Gertrude Virger Kuehling, reported drowned Wednesday night, was recovered in the Potomac Sunday according to her husband Roy Harper Kuehling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potomac
Washington
Gertrude Virger Kuehling
Roy Harper Kuehling
Hosiery Mills Workers Accept 10 Percent Wage Cut
About 200 workers at Herbert Hosiery Mills in Conshohocken Pa agreed to a ten percent wage reduction to prevent the plant from closing. The announcement was released today in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Herbert Hosiery
Conshohocken
Harries Elected World War Order Commander Chief
Maj. Gen. George H. Harries of Chicago was chosen to lead the Military Order of the World War as commander in chief at the closing session of the organization’s first meeting in Detroit Michigan on September 18.
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War Order
Harries
Detroit
Mich
George H. Harries
Chicago
Fire claims four aboard Aeolus in Baltimore
Four men burned to death in a fire on the Aeolus steamship undergoing reconstruction in Baltimore Maryland. The vessel, formerly the Hamburg American liner Grosser Kurfurst, is the scene of the tragedy as crews battle the blaze and inspect damage.
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Baltimore
Aeolus
Woolen Salts Cheaper This Fall By Major Reduction
New York Sept 11 The American Woolen company announced a substantial and unexpected price reduction for woolen salts this fall predicting a drop of 15 to 85 percent from last year. The exhibit was shown to buyers to illustrate the savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Woolen Company
Violent Emilia Quake Strikes Again in Morning
Rome reports another strong earthquake in the Emilia district at 2 35 AM causing loss of life and extensive damage. The tremor was more violent than the previous Tuesday quake.
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Rome
Emilia
Provisional Kirghis Congress Aims at Autonomy in Southern Siberia
Peasant leaders in the Kirghis steppes of southern Siberia plan a congress to draft a general program independent of the soviet government. Representatives would come from Semipalatinsk Akmolinsk and Turgulik provinces spanning from the Altai to the southern Urals, to be held at Akmolisk or Semipalatinsk.
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Peking
Kirghis
Siberia
Semipalatinsk
Akrolinsk
Tur“unl
Altai Mountains
Mongolia
Urals
Akmolisk
London
Berlin
Bug River
Wrangel
Brest-Litovsk
Constantinople
Poloughi
Ekaterinoslav
Warsaw
Kovel
Liel-Koryta
Malorovpa
Mielniki
Lemberg
Burszenya Huynczowce
Nastragzyn
Ulster Castle Burned and Curfew Enforced in Ireland
Belfast reports Castle Lambert house at Athenry County Galway burned, likely by Sinn Féin. Galway joins six Irish cities under curfew law alongside Belfast Dublin Londonderry Cork and Limerick plus several towns.
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Belfast
Castle Lamberthoue
Athenry
County Galway
Sir Edward Carson
Galway
Dublin
Londonderry
Cork
Limerick
Profits Among Five Packers Decline in 1919
Thomas D. Wilson of Chicago president of the Institute of American Meat Packers reports profits and sales data for 81 corporations at the Atlantic City convention. He says none of the big five packers earned more than fourteen percent profit on each dollar of sales in 1919.
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Meat Packers
Atlantic City
N. J
The
Institute of American Meat Packers
Thomas D. Wilson
Chicago
Wilson
Mystery Garroting Beats Body Found in Cicero Dump
Police find a man’s body behind barrels and rubbish at the Grant works in Cicero. He appears to have been garroted and had lain in the rubbish heap about two days, the investigation shows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cicero
Grant Works
West Forty-ninth Avenue
Sherman Faces Possible Blindness From Overwork
Springfield Sept 15 United States Senator Lawrence Y Sherman of this city may have to rest from work or risk blindness as specialists report no other treatment left due to extreme eye strain. The Pittsburgh cruiser, after going aground off Libau, was lightered of coal ammunition and provisions before reaching Libau roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
United States
Lawrence Y. Sherman
Pittsburgh
Rocks
Libau
Baltic Sea
Wis
Belfast Victim Raised Riot Toll With Curfew Death
John Toner of Belfast was shot dead on the Newtownards road after curfew becoming the thirty second riot victim here. Including July disturbances, the total reaches fifty second casualties in Belfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
John Toner
Newtownards
American champagne king George Kessler dies in Paris
George Kessler known as the American champagne king died in Paris after an illness confined him to his home. Funeral services were held at the American Church of Paris on Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yank Champagne King
Paris
George Kessler
Navy Yard Face 25% Force Cut Over Wage Dispute
Washington Sept 15 Secretary Daniels warned a 25 percent reduction in navy yard forces may be required unless machinists accept a five percent wage increase granted to naval employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Yard
Washington
Daniels
Earthquake Shocks Comrie Residents in Scotland
An early morning quake woke inhabitants of Comrie in Perthshire Scotland as beds and furniture rocked signaling a tremor recorded on September 15. Local residents report furniture shaking and beds moving during the seismic event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Comrie
Relief Supplies Stolen From East Relief Organization
In Constantinople on September 15 officials report that relief supplies valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars were stolen from the American organization for relief in the near East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
American Organization For Relief In the
Near East
Iowa City and Waterloo Crime News Highlight Iowa State Briefs
Iowa reports include Lydia Kimball’s death in Iowa City and Roy Welch’s arrest in Waterloo with alleged confessions to a series of thefts. The roundup cites injuries, court actions, and state fair notes across multiple Iowa locales.
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Lydia Kimball
Iowa City
Roy C. Welch
Waterloo
Washington State
Iowa
Joseph Kadlee
Richard Wood
Constant Pickering
James Callahan
F. W. Hadgell
J. F. Mentor
Mason City
Midland Packing Company
Sioux City
Sergt
August C. Jansen
American Legion
Wilma Myers
Winterset
Myers
Towa Supreme Court
Andrew Long
Anamosa
Roscoe Satterlee
F. R. Hutchinson
Boone
J. E. Piper
Board of Supervisors
Charles Young
Board of Appraisers
Joe Andrews
Shenandoah
United States Army
France
MURDERER LEAVES PRISON RICH MAN IN TEXAS OIL DISCOVERY
Eastland Texas resident Uncle Bill Edwards, once sentenced to ten years for murder, was released on a gubernatorial pardon on his seventieth birthday. The 320 acre hillside farm yielded oil, making him a millionaire despite his prior conviction for the murder of neighbor G A Rogers.
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Eastland
Bill” Edwards
G. A. Rogers
Aged Prisoner Granted Pardon After Tenure
An elderly inmate named Edwards, who served years of a near ten year sentence, received a posthumous pardon from Governor Hobby after previously declining offers from Colquitt and Ferguson. Relatives managed his farm profits until release. Edwards plans to use much of his wealth for humanitarian aims.
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Edwards
Colquitt
Ferguson
Hobby
Bill
Money Makers Held on Grand Larceny Charges
Stanley Waitkas twenty five and Martin Koleja forty were held on ten thousand bail each for examination on grand larceny charges. Affidavits allege they swindled Joseph Norwich of two thousand two hundred fifty dollars on May 18 by selling a so called money making machine. Police say they have obtained at least eighty seven thousand dollars from twenty four victims in multiple cities and states since 1919 by selling the devices.
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Mike Baldizar
Mason City
Nick Grba
Sioux City
Miss Gelfand
Epstein
Smith & Paine
Eagle Grove
Robert Hurt
Woolstock
Wallen
Standard Oil Service
Iowa
Thomas Arthur
Logan
Republican State Committee
State Supreme Court
Arthur
Frank Gaynor
Greater Low
Iowa Chamber of Commerce
Omaha
Felix Dolan
Peter Hagerman
Joseph Boyler
Floyd Goddard
Griswold
Lord Baron the Ninth
Dean C. F. Curtiss
Iowa State College
Indiana
Gossard
Mendo Glazer
M. Glazer
Des Moines
Melvin Banker
E. J. Osgood
Charles City
Osgood
Beloit College
New York
Stanley Waitkas
Martin Koleja
Joseph Norwich
Wales Avenue
Boston
Bridgeport
Bayonne
Philadelphia
Newark
Arlington
Mass
Bangor
Pinned Fifteen Hours by Horse in North Dakota Gulley
Olson, a rancher, spent 15 hours trapped under a horse and brush after the animal fell into a gulley near here. The horse could not rise and Olson’s legs were caught, bruising him as the horse struggled to its feet and he dug a hole with a knife to bury his head during the perilous moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concrete
N. D
al Olson
Olson
Bank Run Thwarted as President Flies for Cash
In Jefferson Iowa a threatened run on the Farmers and Merchants Bank was stopped when President Jay M Wig gins flew to Des Moines secured several thousand dollars and returned to the city with funds to reassure depositors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Bank
Jefferson
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank
Jay M. Wiggins
Des Moines
Brother Stole Prisoner's Wife
Walter Pierce served time in an Oklahoma reformatory while his brother W G Pierce ran off with his wife. They were arrested and W G Pierce faced a Mann Act violation charge. John Pedro Sanchez in New Orleans argues a man cannot rob his wife after being released from Chicago over a $1200 theft claim.
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Wichita
Kan
Walter Pierce
Oklahoma
W. G. Pierce
Pierce
New Orleans
John Pedro Sanchez
Chicago
Baby Drowns In Milk Jar in Guthrie Incident
One year old Baby Manion wandered to an uncovered ten gallon milk jar and fell head first into the crack. In the absence of her mother she drowned. A barren sow is never kind to pigs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
Okla
Manion
Pinkham Medicine Ad Chronicles Women Relief
Harrington Maine resident Mia Minnis Mitchell shares relief from backache bearing down feelings and regularity restored by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims many women benefit from the herbal remedy for displacements inflammation irregularities and nervous prostration and offers confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
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Mia
Minnis Mitchell
Harrington
Mrs. Mitchell
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
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Fort Wayne
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Hamilton
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