German Kultur rally urges propaganda and aid for Fatherland
A large crowd at the Deutscher Liederkranz in New York supported a plan by the Central Committee for the Relief of Distress in Germany and Austria to raise funds exceeding 49 million dollars for relief. Speakers urged German American unity, German kultur, and German education while decrying English press coverage and stressing duty to the United States.
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Deutscher Liederkranz
Fast Fifty-eighth Street
America
Department of State
Central Committee For the
Germany
Austria
Re Cross
Futile Forays Said to Worsen Mexican View of United States
William B. Mitchell, former Bank of London Mexico City manager, told the House Rules Committee that two American military expeditions into Mexico and their withdrawals deepened anti American sentiment in the Southern Republic. He said Mexicans resented what they saw as U S vacillation and noted insults to Ambassador Fletcher in Mexico City while the German envoy was cheered.
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Tashington
William B. Mitchell
Bank of London
Mexico City
House Rules Committee
Mexico
America
Henry P. Fletcher
Carranza
Associated Press
U. S. S. Cheyenne
Juan Barragan
Tamesi
Ricardo Gonzales
Tampico
John W. Correll
Vall
Barragan
Vill
Juarez
Villa
Charles F. Hunt
Senator Fall
Gonzales
Hiram Hughes
Gonzales Dipatches
Hughes
Peter Catron
Catron
Germany
Vie
Ygnacio Bonillas
United States
Candido Aguilar
Enacr
Oasis Saloon Boom Draws Broadway Thirst Crowd
A dry Manhattan era backdrop fuels openly selling oasis bars near Broadway. Hotel clerks direct thirsty travelers to saloons where crowds and luxury cars signal success, with managers admitting lawbreaking yet continuing open sales.
Patrolman Ends Peril After Truck Foot Crush
Patrolman Ed Mund Mahoney saved himself from a crushed foot after a five ton Wilson truck rolled onto his left foot at Seventh Avenue and Eleventh Street. A crowd and passing motorists improvised a jack and levers, lifting the wheel enough to free him. He was then taken to St Vincent's Hospital with a foot in danger of amputation.
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Edmund Mahoney
Seventh Avenue
Eleventh Street
Wilson & Co
Mahoney
Josaph Pawlowiak
Greenwich Avenue
Win
St. Vincent's Hospital
Ford Admits He Kept Son Out of Army
Ford testified that his son Edsel wished to go to war but was persuaded not to by Henry Ford. The elder Ford described Edsel as a great relief to him in war work and confirmed Edsel declined a commission. The testimony touched on Edsel’s draft status and Ford’s stance on enlisting.
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Ford
Son
Edsel
Mt, Clemens
Mich
Henry Ford
Chicago Daily Tribune
Elliott G. Stevenson
Tribune
Alfred Lucking
Edsel Ford
United States Senate
United States
Lucking
Fac
Yee
Stevenson
Mr. Ford
the Tribune
Nin
Dodge
Dodges
Supreme Court of Michigan
Dodge Brothers
Mr. Stevenson
Edael
Ford Company
Poushkeepsie, Y
Duhannes
Herman Martin
Augustus von Tillin
John R. Lee
Ford Motor Company
Edward Marshall
L le
Marshall
Ecuador Closes Port to Block Yellow Fever
The Ecuadorian Board of Health has closed all ports to vessels arriving from northern Peru due to reports of yellow fever. The action aims to protect Guayaquil and other coastal areas from infection.
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Ecuador
Guayaquil
Peru
Ecuadorian Board of Health
Ece
Germans Forced to Surrender Cash for State Bonds
Berlin reports a new German financial program envisages withdrawing all paper money, replacing it with bonds and emergency papers exchangeable for future notes. The plan, backed by Finance Minister Mathias Eraberger and experts, seeks 2.1 billion marks annual revenue plus taxes on business turnover, life essentials, and profits from invested capital, with income tax reforms to take effect by April 1, 1920.
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Weimar
Associated Press
Germany
Imperial Finance Ministry
Eryone
Berlin
Mathias Eraberger
Japanese Delegates Deny Shantung Deal
Paris dispatch reports the Japanese delegation at the peace conference denying that the Shantung settlement in the German peace treaty exchanged for withdrawing Japan’s stance on the racial clause in the League Covenant.
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Shantung
Paris
Juny
Germany to Lose 303,700 Animals
Paris July 23 Germany must surrender 600 stallions 71000 fillies 90000 milking cows 100000 sheep and 10000 goats to France under peace treaty clauses A further 200 stallions 5000 mares 69000 cows and 40000 heifers go to Belgium Deliveries to be monthly over three months per commission expert report presented to the French Peace Commission led by Rene Vivian.
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Paris
Associated Press
Germany
France
French Peace Commission
Rene Vivian
M. du Bois
Ecumonic
Belgium
Britain Names Fisher As Ambassador To U S New Yorker
London reports urgency to appoint an ambassador to Washington before the Prince of Wales visit. H J Fisher, president of the Board of Education, has been forwarded as the likely appointee. Other contenders included Lord Rothermere and Lord Lytton. Wisner, MP for Hallam since 1916, is noted as a candidate in the draft list.
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Britain
Fisher
U. S, New Yorker
European Bureau
London
Washington
Prince of Wales
America
H. J. Fisher
Board O Education
Lord Rothermere
Lord Lytton
Wisner
House of Commons
Hallam
Sheferd
Board of Education
Oxford
Paris
Goettingen
Boston
Courtenay Hbert
Fincher
Prince of Wales to Visit United States as Guest of Government
The Prince of Wales will tour the United States next month as a guest of the American government. After Canada he will spend a few days in Washington and later brief visits New York aboard the British battleship Renown, living there as a government guest.
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London
Prince of Wales
United States
King George
Wilson
Washington
Canada
New York
Harl Curzon of
Kedleston
John W. Davis
Great Britain
Dominion
Bives Toaise
West
Cowd
Taft Outlines Reservations on League Covenant
Taft writes reservations to the League covenant arguing the Senate may ratify with limits. He lists six stipulations including U S withdrawal after ten years, preserving Monroe Doctrine, and keeping immigration and domestic issues out of league settlement. He notes differences from Wilson era and cautions against broad British dominion voting in the council.
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Washington
Trea
William Howard Taft
League of Nations
League
Wilson
Senate
Hays
Republican National Committee
Taft
Aya
Shantung
United States
Congress
League For Settlement
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Mr. Klingensmith
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