World headlines note rail rate pressures and labor talks
Washington reports 51 billion in rail expansion costs may rise with possible wage increases for 2 million railway workers. President Wilson warns anthracite miners and operators against strikes and suggests submitting disputes to a presidential commission. Officials discuss weights and measures to curb living costs and Congress considers Armenia mandates. Freight congestion shows signs of easing as orders centralize control. Reports cover bank robbery, mine disasters, and a deadly train crash.
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United Mine Workers of America
Wilson
Wilkes-Barre
Campaign Finance and Primary Returns Highlight 1920s Politics
Governor Lowden's campaign fund totals 404 984 78 with testimony from campaign manager L L Emmerson. Oregon primary favors Hiram Johnson with 1347 margin. Wood second, Lowden third. Delaware Democratic primary hints at Wolcott control of Dover convention with 97 vs 75 delegates for Saulsbury. Hitchcock cites 15060 spent in New Jersey. Michigan Democrats back Wilson and the League covenant. Boies Penrose to attend Chicago convention. Robert Coontz elected commanding general of the Military Order of Foreign Wars in New York. Frank Taylor dies in Seattle at 78. William H. Gay dies in Grand Rapids pneumonia.
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Oregon
Hiram Johnson
California
Wood
Lowden
Delaware
United States
Wolcott
Dover
Saulsbury
Robert F. Coontz
Military Order of Foreign Wars
New York
De la Huerta Named Interim President of Mexico
Foreign Adolpho de la Huerta of Sonora was named president ad interim by an extraordinary congress session in Mexico City. The vote tally reached 924 for de la Huerta and 28 for Pablo Gonzales. Also noted were Paul Deschanel’s fall from a train window near Montarges France with praise for him. Four drownings occurred near Ninetic Manitoba on lake near tuberculosis institute. Frank Moran defeated Frank Goddard in a second round at London.
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Adolpho de la Huerta
Sonora
Mexico
Mexico City
de la Huerta
Pablo Gonzales
Paul Deschanel
French Republic
Montarges
France
M. Deschanel
Ninetic
Man
Winnipeg
Government Institute For Treatment of Tuberculosis
Frank Moran
Frank Goddard
London
Banks Curtailing Credits and Rail Wage Slidings
The piece surveys banking credit tightening and stock liquidation reducing prices across goods. It notes a proposed sliding wage scale for railway labor, with moves to relieve congestion and avert a coal famine in Chicago, plus broader political and international developments including Bolshevik activity and diplomatic shifts.
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Federal Reserve Board
Uncertain Cause Behind Broad Price Reductions Seen
The article notes widespread price cuts across the United States with merchants lowering costs mainly for clothing and shoes. It says consumers hope the trend signals a lasting movement toward lower living costs, though the exact cause and scope remain unclear.
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America
Virginia Democrats Back League of Nations Peace Policy
The Virginia state Democratic convention endorses a League of Nations as the best path to permanent world peace and to end burdensome military buildup. The plank, drafted by Senator Carter Glass and approved by Wilson, urges ratification of the treaty without reservations and credits Wilson with Paris outcome and global leadership. Delegates pledge to support Glass for the nomination as Democrats in Michigan Indiana and South Carolina back Wilson and his policies. Georgia Democrats are described as controlled by leaders backing the broader peace push.
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Hoke Smith
Tom Watson
Paris
San Francisco
Palmer
Nebraska
Hitchcock
Wilson
France
McAdoo
Barney Baruch
Virginia
Democratic Convention
Carter Glass
Democratic Party
League of Nations
America
Senate
Washington
Glass
Michigan
Indiana
South Carolina
Mexico Elects New Provisional President of Mexico
Adolfo de la Huerta, Sonora governor, elected provisional president by Congress with 222 votes to 28 for Gen. Pablo Gonzales. Carranza funeral held amid grief. Herrero summoned by Obregon to explain his telegram claiming Carranza died by own hand. Autopsy suggests Carranza killed by two rifle bullets. Obregon sends message to Wilson promising harmonious US relations and denying revolutionaries' responsibility.
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Mexico City
Adolfo de la Huerta
Sonora
Mexico
Mexican Congress
Congress
Senor de la Huerta
Pablo Gonzales
Venustiano Carranza
Dolores Cemetery
Carranza
Obregon
Hidalgo
Santiago
Ygnacio Bonillas
United States
Juan Barragan
General Murguia
Vera Cruz
Tlaxcalantonge
Rodolfo Herrera
Washington
General Obregon
Wilson
White House
Luis N. Morones
Morones
Mr. Morones
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Tumulty
Pig swimmer foils theory aboard Staten Island boat
A small white pig was found swimming in the Atlantic by two Staten Island fishermen and towed to their motorboat. The sight dispels an age old theory that swimming swine will cut its own throat with its feet.
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New York
Atlantic
Europe
Staten Island
George B Leonard Dies After Illness In Danville
George Ben son Leonard aged sixty nine a Vermilion county attorney for 22 years and a noted Republican figure in southern Illinois died in St Elizabeths hospital Danville Ill from an abscess of the brain following an attack of mastoiditis.
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G. B. Leonard
Danville
Ill
George Benson Leonard
Vermilion County
Illinois
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
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Frank Taylor
Seattle
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