Ex Crown Prince Returns as Germany Faces Turmoil
Ambitious postwar upheaval hits Berlin Hamburg with riots and clashes as authorities deploy troops. Reich leaders warn of counter revolutions while Germany wrestles with the peace treaty and Allied demands. De Valera pushes US for Irish independence and American labor strains widen.
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Berlin
Hamburg
von Lettow-Vorbeck
Junkers
Hindenburg
Prussia
Germany
Ebert
Poland
Posen
West Prussia
Paris
Holland
Sio
William
Clemenceau
Signing of Peace at Versailles Ends German Dream of Conquest
At Versailles Hall of Mirrors the German delegation signed the peace treaty ending their pursuit of world domination. President Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau and others signed as Chinese delegates abstained over Shantung. The Rhineland protocol and US Britain France accord were also signed.
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Edward. W. Pickard
Germany
Sarajevo
Wyllson
Dame
Reniier Lloyd George
Hun
Haniel von Halmhausen
Hermann Mueller
Herr Leinert
Bell
Col‘cries
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Hon
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Tonecum
France
Paris
William I
Archduke Ferdinand of
Austria
Gavrio Prinsip
Hall of Mirrors
Clemenceau
Mueller
Wilson
Lloyd George
United States
Great Britain
Italy
Japan
Shantung
Peking
General Smuts
South Africa
Silerice
Hotel Des Reservoirs
Entente
Poland
League of Nations
Alsace- Lorraine
Rhineland
Britain
Deporting Undesirables in New York
The deportation of alien agitators who abused their stay by preaching against the government has begun. In seven days fifteen have been deported, including editors of two anarchist newspapers, with eighteen more awaiting ships to return to their native lands.
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Winnipeg
Chicago
New York
Navy
Atlantic Fleet
American Federation of Labor
Pacific Fleet
York
America
Wilson
German papers vow vengeance over 1919 disgrace
Berlin newspapers report a defiant stance against the postwar treaty. Deutsche Zeitung urges national honor and a return to past glory, while Tageblatt dismisses the pact as parchment and declares the treaty a mockery of reason and morality.
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Berlin
Deutsche Zeitung
Tageblatt
Peace Treaty Text To Be Shown To Chamber July 1
Premier Clemenceau will present the peace treaty text to the chamber of deputies on July 1. The move sets the stage for parliamentary debate and potential ratification.
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Chamber of Deputies
Clemenceau
Alaska government railroad project completion plan
The Alaskan engineering commission informs Congress that the Alaska government railroad will be finished in 1921 at a total cost of 50,486,971 dollars, about 73,200 dollars per mile.
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Congress
The
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Alaska Government
Quiet Capitol Peace Treaty Signing Noted
Official Washington marked the peace treaty signing without ceremony. Senator Hitchcock read President Wilsons message to the American people but received no comment as the marine band performed on the capitol plaza. Private talk among senators suggested more opinion but few spoke publicly.
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League of Nations
Borah
Senate
House
Wilson
Pacific Coast
America
Washington
New York
Free Ireland
Eamonn de Valera
Irish Republic
Ireland
United States
India
Egypt
Korea
Europe
Capitol Washington
Hitchcock
Congress
Capitol Plaza
Bear vs Loggerhead Turtle in Florida Harbor Fight
A dramatic harbor encounter near Florida ends with a loggerhead turtle overpowering a large black bear. The bear bites and rips as the turtle drags the foe toward the water, finally subduing it and swimming away with the bear sinking in the waves. The following day the bear’s remains wash ashore.
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Florida
Brain
Surprig
New York Herald
Can An Auto Prance Can an automobile prance
A rough Spring street scene in Jeffersonville features a truck loaded with long boards that balance on the rear axle. When hits a street hole the front wheels rise and the driver is thrown upward before recontrolling the vehicle. The anecdote ends with a playful aside about speed.
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Spring Street
Jeffersonville
Indianapolis News
Electric mattresses aid warmth for cripples at Treloar
In Alton England the Treloar Cripples hospital uses two wards with electric mattresses. The differential heating gives maximum warmth at the foot end, less in the middle, and none at the head, ensuring safe convenient care for patients including children.
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Treloar Cripples’ ‘Hospital
Alton
England
Western irrigation boom may lift 1919 food output
Prospects across the western reclamation belt show food production set to surpass 1917 and 1918 records. High prices make large scale farming profitable, labor is plentiful though paid well, credit is ample, and native farmers face no financial constraints, signaling a bumper year for rubber-boot farmers of the far West.
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Reclamation Belt
Far West
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Scheidemann
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Nitti
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Turkey
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Greece
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Berlin Press Defiant
Ben King
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