Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Aids Expectant Mother
Mrs Pearl Monyhan of Mitchell Indiana reports neuralgia relief and restored strength after using three bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound during pregnancy. She says her seven month old baby weighed 19 pounds and she feels healthier than in years. The message endorses maternal health benefits from the product.
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Mitchell
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Fastidious Landlord and the Mosquito Tale
A boy recalls his father’s habit of stretching the truth about mosquitoes for summer board seekers. The father, now aging and nearly blind, composes vivid tales to impress potential guests, claiming a ten-year skeeter drought unless guests please him.
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Pap
Red Cross Ball Blue for Housekeeping Needs
Every department of housekeeping needs Red Cross Ball Blue. Equally good for kitchen towels table linen sheets and pillowcases etc.
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Department of Housekeeping
Accomplished Child Tale Recounts Daring Incident
Gabe Yawkey meets Gap Johnson as they travel home from Tom Linville. They note Bearcat, the least boy, allegedly grabbed a gun and fired at a presiding elder from about 150 yards, striking his hat. The exchange ends with surprised astonishment at the youngster’s collar.
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Gabe Yawkey
Tomlinville
Gap Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Gap
Bearcat
Gabe
Kansas City Star
No Neighbors Life in a New Country Lonely
A brief fragment notes life in a new country as lonely with no neighbors to talk with or about. It conveys isolation and lack of social contact in the immigrant experience.
Man Believes One Whistler Is Not A Nuisance In World
A man contends that only a single person globally can whistle without causing annoyance. He asserts this rare talent belongs to one man, suggesting universal tolerance hinges on that individual’s skill.
Palmer vows aggressive action against food profiteers
Attorney General Palmer announces government plans to prosecute hoarders and profiteers to curb high living costs. The Justice Department will pursue all who charge extortionate prices, with Congress urged to widen the food act to reach retailers and large packers among first targets.
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Washington
United States
Palmer
Special Cabinet Committee
Department of Justice
Congress
Prices plunge as wheat policy fears hit Chicago market
Traders bet on government action on the 1919 domestic wheat crop and push corn to 32 cents below prior levels. December corn hit 1.41 then closed around 1.42 to 1.43 a bushel while September pork dove to 44.50 a barrel, showing no rebound from the low.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Secretary Baker outlines universal military training plan
The Washington war department recommends a universal military training system. It calls for a regular army of twenty one divisions with auxiliary reserves. Peace strength 510000 enlisted and war strength 1250000. Nineteenth year youths would be called for three months to attach to regular divisions, creating an annual class of 600000 for intensive instruction.
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Washington
War Department
Baker
Senate
Theuse Military Committee
Denial of A B F aircraft destruction before committee
Colonel Mason M. Patrick former chief of air service spoke to the house war investigating committee denying that any air craft of the A B F was wantonly destroyed. He said machines were destroyed after attempts to sell failed and salvage as junk followed an inventory showing their worthlessness.
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Washington
Mason M. Patrick
Air Service Abroad
House
iNoney
Patrick
Labor Demands Overhaul of Profit System in Railroads
Washington reports organized labor calling for private capital to be removed from railroads. A tripartite control including the public, operating management, and labor would govern, with profits shared among the three groups. The plan aims to reduce costs or increase service, with public consumers receiving half of any savings.
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Washington
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American Federation of Labor
Wilson
Congress
United States
Wall Street
W. G. Lee
Brotherhood
European morale warned of rage and despair before winter
Arthur Henderson, British labor leader, warned at the international social conference that a terrible spasm of rage and despair among Europeans could annihilate civilization, and he urged immediate thorough revision of the peace treaty.
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Europe
Lecerne
Arthur Henderson
Indiana Farmers Condemn Threats of Uprising
The Indiana Federation of Farmers associations representing over 100000 Indiana farmers denounced veiled threats of a railroad strike revolt and warned it may advise members to withhold farm products until the strike ends.
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Indianapolis
Wilson
Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations
Indiana
Labor leaders weigh firing squad response to profiteering
War ren S. Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers told the House Interstate Commerce Committee that organized labor may advocate a firing squad for some profiteers after a thorough inquiry. The remark was reported from Washington.
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Washington
Warren S. Stone
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Railroad Brotherhoods Demand Wage Relief Over Cost of Living
Four hundred fifty thousand members of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and Freight Handlers and other railway employees join in a demand for immediate wage increases unless living costs are reduced. The demands have been sent to the railway administration.
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Washington
The
Brotherhood of Railway
Railway Administration
Rumanians Plunder Budapest as City Falls to Invaders
Romanian troops entered Budapest and began looting in the suburbs as civilians faced violence. Reports say fifteen of twenty civilians were killed during the day, with Romanian forces demanding hostages and threatening to execute five hostages for every Romanian soldier wounded.
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Budapest
Paris
New Disease Strikes Horses in Arkansas Valley
The United States Bureau of Animal Industry reports a new horse disease in the Arkansas valley near Lamar Col. that has killed about 150 animals. Dr W B Howe says it resembles the Kansas horse disease that killed hundreds in Kansas Western Colorado and Nebraska. Experiments at the state agricultural college are under way to determine causes.
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Arkansas Valley
Lamar
Col
United States Bureau of Animal’ Industry
W. B. Howe
Kansas
Western
Colorado
Nebraska
State Agricultural ‘College
Omaha
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Harvard
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Standard Oil
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New York
George Washington
Oscar Mason
Stella
Social Science
Teachers’ College
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Jansen Equity Exchange
Jansen
Congress
Reavis
Jeffries
McKelvie
Lancaster County
Amsberry
Reward Offered for Bombers in Lawler Home Explosion
Authorities post rewards totaling 11500 dollars for arrest and conviction of those responsible for the bombing that destroyed the home of Oscar Lawler, a former assistant United States attorney general, in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Oscar Lawler
United States
Twenty Five Cases Set for Special Grand Jury
Twenty five cases involving about thirty people of black and white race, charged with murder and panic, are prepared for presentation to a Chicago special grand jury.
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Chicago
Delicate Buenos Aires Britain Argentina Ties Strain Over Bahia Blanca Purchase
Diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Argentina grow delicate after Argentina's purchase of the German steamship Bahia Blanca, La Nacion reports. The deal becomes a flashpoint in international ties.
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Buenos Aires
Great Britain
Argentina
Bahia Blanca
la Nacion
Pershing Sails Sept 1 for Europe Command
Coblenz will become the American forces headquarters in Europe after the Paris base closes around August 20. Antwerp will serve as the Rhine area base for the American contingent to stay indefinitely. General Pershing plans to sail from Brest about September 1 with the composite regiment from the Paris and London victory parades possibly joining the commander-in-chief.
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Pershing
Coblenz
Europe
Paris
Antwerp
Rhine
Brest
Londons
Chinese Residents Boycott Manilla Victory Day Observance
Chinese residents in Manilla refuse to participate in the victory day celebration. A spokesman for the Chinese organization says the peace council awarding Shantung to Japan marked a defeat for China’s war aims.
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Manilla
Shantung
Japan
China
Eight killed in explosion at Raritan arsenal Metuchen
An explosion at the Raritan army arsenal in Metuchen New Jersey killed eight people and injured twenty five. Fire caused three magazines to blow up as a box car fire reached them.
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New. Brunswick
Nebraska News Summary Highlights From State Ledger
Nebraska items cover election dates for the constitutional convention, a Fremont air flight venture, wheat yields and shipments, Omaha livestock receipts, liquor home use ruling, state budget and department secretaries, street rail fare changes, suffrage ratification, paving for Lincoln and Beatrice, and a large World War transit train tour through the state.
Palmer Announces Antitrust Push Against Major Meat Pack
Attorney General Palmer declares concrete development in the government campaign to lower consumer costs by pursuing antitrust suits against Armour Swift Morris and Cudahy. Special prosecutors will bring civil or criminal actions as needed while federal agents target profiteering and hoarding under food control law.
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Washington, al
Palmer
Armour, Swift, Morris
Cudahy
Federal Trade, Commission
C Halen
Potash Imports Eased by War Trade Board Ruling
German potash may be imported into the United States as the war trade board removes it from the restricted list. The move ends long running disputes between potash producers and farmers groups who argued over prices and protection. Congress considers a higher tariff on potash in pending legislation.
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New York
United States
War Trade Board
Germany
Congress
Packers blamed for pyramid of shoe prices in report
Washington charged the packers with starting a pyramid of shoe prices by unwarranted hide price hikes, with tanners earning exceptional profits, manufacturers seeking unusual margins, and retailers charging unjustifiable prices. The four year period 1914 to 1918 is covered.
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Washington
Federal Commission
Congress
Thousands On Strike In Chicago Railroad Walkout
Chicago district council of the Federal railway shopmen's union reports about 275000 members on strike. President Hawver says the responsibility lies with rank and file who demanded the walkout and will stay out until their demands are met.
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Chicago
Chicago District Council
Federal Railway
Hawver
Grand Lodge
Unusual Demand for American Coal to South America
Marine traders report a unusual demand for American coal for west coast South American towns. Shipments through Galveston will total about five thousand tons weekly and seem set to continue indefinitely. Most coal exported from Galveston is mined in Oklahoma.
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South America
Galveston
South American
Oklahoma
Allies Maintain Plan to Try German Emperor in London
In the House of Commons Andrew Bonar Law said the decision to try the former German emperor in London stands. He noted action in the matter could wait until the German peace treaty is ratified.
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London
Early Convoy Assignment Includes Sir Washington
The third regular army division and attached units have been assigned to early convoy duty with the seventh machine gun battalion omitted from this group.
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Sir Washington
Jury Probes Chicago Race Riots as Grand Jury Seeks Evidence
Jurors in Chicago demand that the State's attorney present evidence in the race riot cases involving white persons. The grand jury recessed for twelve hours to allow preparation time.
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Chicago
Chicago approves 1000 extra police to curb unrest
Chicago city council authorizes adding one thousand officers to the police department to protect the city during a period of unrest. The move aims to bolster public safety amid rising tension and crime concerns in the metropolis.
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Chicago
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