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Plainfield Messenger

Location

Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Jul 01, 1920

Page

2

Herrera government recognized by United States in Guatemala

The Herrera government in Guatemala, which followed Es tracing Cabrera, was recognized by the United States, announced by the State Department in Washington. The 1920 U S population is about 105 million per Hill of the Census Bureau. Benedict Crowell resigns as assistant secretary of war effective July 1 to enter business. Van S Merle-Smith named third assistant secretary of state succeeding Breckenridge Long who resigned to run for Missouri Senate. Daniels and Payne to Alaska next month to study conditions for their departments.

Herrera Guatemala Estrada Cabrera United States State Department Washington Continental Joseph A. Hill Census Bureau Benedict Crowell Wit van S. Merle-Smith Breckenridge Long Mlissouri Daniels and Payne Alaska Boston Edison Company Boston William Hale Thompson Chicago Abraham Lincoln Committee of Senator la Follette Wisconsin Hearst Republican Party Thompson Supreme Court Alexander Moore Tittsburgh Harding Poindexter Senate Harding-Coolidge San Francisco United States Geological Survey Interstate Commerce Commission Londonderry Ireland Belfast

Democratic convention opens with unity after resolutions vote

At San Francisco the Democratic National Convention elected Carter Glass chairman unanimously as protests against the administration were quashed. Homer Cummings opened the session with a sharp attack on Republicans, while demonstrators cheered for Wilson.

San Francisco The Resolutions Committee Carter Glass Virginia Homer S&s. Cummings Wilson White House Illinois

Notable deaths of Watts Post and Ford mark losses to public service and industry

Richmond A. Watts eighty two former acting adjutant general who helped in the Lincoln conspirator trials died in Adrian Michigan. Philip Sidney Post vice president of International Harvester died at Winnetka after brief illness. Edward Ford founder of Edward Ford Plate Glass and owner of Ford and Dime Savings Bank buildings in Detroit died at Toledo after long illness.

Richmond A. Watts Lincoln Adrian Mich Watts Philip Sidney Post The International Harvester Company Winnetka Edward Ford

War debt and postwar shifts in Europe and beyond

A Paris interview reports Germany in 3,000,000 tons arrears on coal deliveries under Versailles terms. Corfu dispatch notes Tepeleni fortress surrender to Albanian insurgents. British Austrian German Finnish POWs drowned in Neva. Greeks land at Fanderma. Paris says Britain and France may float an international loan to repay US loans due in October. Pittsburgh arrives Southampton for drydock. Germany’s April 30 floating debt totals 117,148,755,623 marks. The Hague jurists call for a permanent court at The Hague. Ambassadors Laurant Abernon and Martino named for Germany. Fehrenbach forms Berlin cabinet. Perfect peace in London after civil strife. Luis Cabrera reported in Texas City.

Paris America Germany Great Britain France United States Berlin

Two Big Questions In 1920 US Politics And War Clouds

Political observers debate the 1920 Democratic nominating scene with McAdoo and Wilson as central enigmas. The piece traces party splits over the League of Nations liquor Ireland and potential third parties while noting labor demands and a turbulent Irish and Turkish crisis shaping global affairs.

Ireland Resolutions Committee

U S Relief Efforts Abroad Cut Back as Occupation Grows

The American Red Cross aids refugee relief in southern Russia from Constantinople and assists in Poland Baltic states Montenegro Albania Serbia Czecho Slovakia Greece and Italy while U S foreign activities rapidly shrink. Outside Germany the only U S military mission is Col W N Haskell's in Asia Minor for Near East relief. In Germany 80 U S officers serve on the inter allied high commission among 771 officers and 16 631 enlisted men of occupation forces.

American Red Cross Russia Constantinople Poland Baltic States Montenegro Albania Serbia Czecho-Slovakia Greece Italy United States Germany W. N. Haskell Wilson Near East Relief Committee Asia Minor Inter-Allied High Commission United States Army of Occupation

Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Casco Reader

Mrs Jules Bero of Casco Wisconsin writes that after childbirth she suffered displacement and weakness. She found relief using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for fifteen years with only a minor recent return, and urges others to try it. The advertisement claims the remedy is non narcotic, made from native roots and herbs, and invites letters to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. for confidential advice.

Casco Wis Lydia E. Pinkham Jules Bero, Jr Lydia E Pinkham Lydia Binkham

Realism and the enfant terrible in a publisher's view

A New York publisher argues realism cannot sell to Americans, citing a young writer and a scene where a gentleman shows a swastika ring to a mother. The enfant terrible of the tale observes the back of the hand and answers with wreckles and brown hair.

J. Jefferson Jones New York Urechin Enfant Terrible

Woman Sings Baby to Sleep Then Soothes Husband

A woman soothing her baby transitions to comforting her husband with gentle singing before both fall asleep, in a domestic moment described by the report.

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