Secret Police Plan in Neutral Zone Rebuffed by Army Chief
A wartime document from Remscheld reveals a January 1920 order by the Ministry of Imperial Defense proposing to shift Fourth and Fifth army district staff into a Security Police within the neutral zone. The plan, seen as a military takeover, faced oral-only coordination limits and was to avoid signaling an alliance suspicion, with no decision yet received from the Prussian interior ministry. The byline notes the Bureau of Volunteer Corps Luetzow fled amid unrest, leaving archives exposing the confidential order.
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Paris
Berlin
Versailles
Ebert-Bauer-Noska
Luetzow
Remscheld
Rhenish
Prussia
Ministry of Imperial Defense
Army Command
District Five
Prussian
Ministry of the Interior
Schnlewind
Grave of Lincoln's Mother Is Unmarked in Kentucky
In LaRue county Kentucky the grave of Nancy Hanks mother of Abraham Lincoln sits unmarked in a rural churchyard with only a sandstone rock. Col Berry Long recalls attending the burial and visiting the site again in 1900 as groups pursue a proper marker.
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Chalybeate Springs
Nancy Hanks
Abraham Lincoln
Col
Berry Long
Lincoln
LaRue County
Kentucky
Col Long
President Lincoln
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Abolish Whip in School Declared by Decree
A decree from the public instruction ministry announces the abolition of corporal punishment in German schools. Caning and other forms of punishment are deemed incompatible with modern times and to be discontinued. Female students are protected from corporal punishment. Schoolmasters must report on the effects of moral education within a year.
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Berling
Oil leases in Texas may pass to new owners under disputed titles
Washington reports doubt over the validity of thousands of oil leases in Texas after ancient documents connected to Texas annexation and treaty history are reviewed by the Department of Justice. If unsettled, more than a billion dollars in land could pass from current holders to the first claimant, invoking questions of Spanish mineral law, international law, and U S statutes.
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Washington
Texas
Department of Justice
Oklahoma
Red River District
Palmer
Supreme Court
Republic of Texas
Waington
John ©. Calhoun
United States
Isaac Vansant
J. Pinckney Henderson
James K. Polk
Congress
Turkish women reveal faces as veil custom fades
A Prizrend near Monastir report details a Turkish woman abandoning the veil amid Western ideas. Her male relative pursued with a revolver, firing shots that wounded her seriously and left her for dead in the street before hospital treatment.
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London
Near East
Prizrend
Monastir
American Red Cross
Held Eggs for a Raise Got Chickens Instead
A California woman near Rio Vista kept 48 eggs in a warm corner of her room hoping price rises would yield profit. An investigation found 42 eggs hatched into chicks, revealing an unexpected poultry outcome from her scheme.
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Rio Vista
Cal
Real chivalry among hoboes in open West tale
Two college women, Miss Hazel Gage and Miss Virna Haskins of Indiana, recount a year and a half riding freight trains across western states in 1917. They describe respectful hobos, friendly cowhands, and rare improper advances as they survived on shows of knightly courtesy, culminating with a cross continent walk home dressed as men.
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Indianapolis
Galahad
Knights of the Road
Hazel Gage
la Grange
Ind
Virna Haskins
Or Iand
Tri
East
Tonopah
Nev
Big airship for tourists in Barrow England
Airship 1d 1-80 built for the admiralty will launch in two to three weeks. It measures 535 feet long and 70 feet wide with 88 tons lifting power and four 240 horsepower engines enabling up to 65 mph. Crew of 15. Intended for war use, gun platforms removed to seat passengers. may carry tourists over France and Flanders battlefields.
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Barrow
England
Admiralty
Atlantic
France
Flanders
Preservation urged for Okefinokee swamp in Georgia
Washington reports a biological survey by the Department of Agriculture recommends making Okefinokee swamp a permanent government reservation. Spanning 700 square miles in southeastern Georgia, it warns commercial timber removal would ruin primeval conditions, noting the swamp has no worldwide counterpart and is among the largest freshwater swamps east of the Mississippi.
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Washington
Okefinokee Swamp
Georgia
Department of Agriculture
Atlantic Seaboard
Mississippi
Everglades
Ferret Breaks Loose at Huntington Drug Store
Pandemonium erupted at Fountain drug store as a ferret escaped its enclosure and wandered upstairs from the cellar. Four girl clerks vaulted the counter, taking positions until a male clerk corralled the animal back to work.
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Huntington
W. Va
Fountain Drug Store
Conserving Oil Warns U S Director Sees 20 Year Supply Gap
Director Manning of the bureau of mines warns that U S oil consumption already surpasses production. He predicts underground reserves may be exhausted in less than twenty years if demand for gasoline and fuels continues to rise. He cites 40 percent of U S oil supply already exhausted and notes 1920 Texas yields will drop. Louisiana finds large fields but not as extensive, and reliance on foreign oil, especially Mexico Venezuela and Colombia, will grow.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Manning
Bureau of Mines
Geological Survey
North Texas
Louisiana
Mexico
Venezuela
Colombia
Russia
Great Britain
France
Netherlands
Gets Drunk to Supply Investigation Data
London reports a Kings College study where a patriotic citizen volunteers to get drunk weekly to provide data. He draws a circle with a square inside and diagonal lines from the square every half hour, with the drawing worsening over four hours and twenty minutes, especially after whisky.
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London
Kings College
New Orleans Dons Old Duds As Cost Drive Opens
New Orleans acts on high cost of living with Old Clothes day proclaimed by Acting Mayor Hicks. Tulane University led a campaign to form Weaver and Patchem clubs aimed at lowering clothing costs. Hundreds of business men wore discarded garments to their offices.
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New Orleans
Hicks
Tulane University
First Hundred Years the Hardest in Jackson, Iowa
Mrs Peggy Mc Daniel celebrated her 106th birthday at the McDaniel home in Jackson Iowa with family and friends noting her long life and milestones. The event highlighted her century plus journey and community ties as she enters her 106th year.
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Jackson
Peggy McDaniel
McDaniel
Monster catfish swallows boy during Kentucky river swim
In Paducah Kentucky a group of boys swimming on the Tennessee river at Birmingham were startled when a large catfish surfaced and reportedly swallowed a rooster tied to a line. The incident cured the boys of their taste for swimming that day.
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Kentucky
Paducah
Birmingham
Tennessee River
Death Invades a Crap Game in Elkins Raid
Police raid on a crap game in Elkins West Virginia led to six men fleeing a second story window. John Coleman was impaled on a picket fence and died almost instantly, leaving a chaotic scene as authorities investigated the incident.
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Elkins
W. Va
John Coleman
Ancient note ties Perryville judge to 1764 land grant
A long thought lost note from 1764, used by Perryville judge W G Prewitt's great grandfather, David Prewitt, on a land settlement in Lincoln County Virginia appears on an aged sheepskin document. The £850 note was found in a gent’s furniture, unearthed in Danville Kentucky.
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Danville
W. G. Prewitt
Perryville
David Prewitt
Lincoln County
Virginia
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