Senate Re-Adopts Mandatories Reservation In Treaty Vote
Washington Feb 27 The Republican reservation on mandatories attached to the peace treaty last November was readopted 65 to 4 in the Senate after administration leaders withdrew opposition. It allows no mandate to be accepted by the United States without Congress consent. Thirty Democrats and 38 Republicans supported the measure, with four Democrats voting no and Senator Hitchcock not voting. The vote followed opposition from irrecunciable foes and a bid to keep the treaty under consideration. A separate article ten reservation and a future ratification plan were discussed for later action.
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Washington
Senate
Hitchcock
United States
Congress
Jones
New Mexico
Kendrick Wyoming
Walsh
Montana
Wiliams
Mississippi
France
Maryland
Kered
Missouri
Wilson
Bain- Leidee Colby
Mo Colbey
Ashurst
Anzona
Lodge
Cassion
Germany
Prance
Senate Ani
Millerand
Lloyd George
Italy
Fiume
Albania
Jugo-Slavia
Fiame
League of Nations
Liver Towns Promise Sanitary River Cleanup
Peoria February 27 Representatives from several Illinois river towns met to discuss river pollution. Charles TE Sergel, president of Chicago's sanitary district, sent a telegram promising a square deal to Peoria and the valley. The Illinois River pollution will be addressed as treatment works are erected and added. Three board members explained progress and plans to combat pollution.
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Peoria
Himois
Charles TE Sergel
Chicawo
Sanitary Board
Chivapo
Umnois
Wool growers push for direct sales to mills reform
M D Campbell of Coldwater Michigan told the city club that wool growers must organize to save dollars lost to middlemen. He cited the Boston Wool Dealers Association as taking most wool from fifty million sheep and selling it as secured wool after buying from farmers in grease.
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Loston
M.D. Campbell
Coldwater
Mich
Caty Club
Hite
Boston Wool Dealers’ Association
Deaser
Quaker Oats Reports $1 Million Loss From Exchange Rates
Peh Chagoo reports the Quaker Oats company showing more than a million dollars loss due to foreign exchange in its annual 1919 readjustment year. Gross profits reached $3,732,728, down $215,536 from the prior year, with a $1,055,825 allowance for exchange-rate declines.
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Chagoo
Peh
Quaker Oats Company
Diplomatic row over Adriatic policy tests American stance
President Wilson reaffirms his demand that any settlement must echo the December 9 terms or risk withdrawal of the peace treaty with Germany and the U S French alliance. British and French premiers defend a London framework while urging U S input to avoid a new European crisis.
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Wilson
Fiume
Ele
Italy
Czecho-Slovakia
Ruthenes
Poland
Istria
Dalmatia
Adriatic
France
Great Britain
Germany
Bar story links woman and doctor in Arsenic murder case
On cross examination Mrs. Alice Clugston admitted a long illicit relationship with Dr. Alverson. Prosecutors sought full details of the pair, claiming a plot to poison Lawrence Clugston. Clugston testified she gave only doctor prescribed medicine and described capsules with white powder. Dr. Alverson testified on his background from Sheboygan to Iowa, Janesville, Chicago, and other towns before practicing medicine.
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Alverseny
Clugston
Alverson
Shebovean
Wis
Iowa
Janesville
Chicago
Waconda
Sir Auckland Geddes Chosen British Ambassador to Washington
In London it was stated in the House of Commons lobby that Sir Auckland Geddes, minister of National service and reconstruction, has been elected British Ambassador to Washington. An official announcement awaited Washington notification that Geddes is persona grata. Sir Robert Stevenson Horne would become president of the board of trade. In Washington reports said no decision from the British foreign office had been communicated to the state department and no inquiry made about the US reception.
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Wilscan
Italy
Fiume
Al-bania
London
House of Commons
Sir Auckland Geddes
Washington
Washigton
Sir Auckland
Robert Stevenson Horne
Board of Trade
British
Foreign Office
State Department
United States
Great Britain
Russa
Moscow
India
Japan
Rumana
Romania
Supreme Council
Copenhagen
Maxim Litvinoff
Denmark
Russia
Poland
Litvinoff
M. Krazan
M. Nogin
Paper prices to rise on international contracts
NEW YORK February 27 The price of newsprint on international paper company contracts will be increased from 44 cents a pound to 3 cents for the quarter beginning April 1 an nounced.
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New York
International Paper Company
Barracks Siege in Cork County Ends with Casualties
In Timoleague and Mount Pleasant, Cork, armed men besieged two constabulary barracks after midnight. They blocked roads with felled trees and cut telegraph lines. Attacks lasted over two hours with fire attempts. assailants were driven off and several civilians were found dead in the morning.
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Dublin
Timoleague
Mount Pleasant
County Cork
Free calendar offer from Uncle Sam via The Whig
A patriotic promotion invites readers to request a free colored calendar by mailing a completed coupon with name and address, two cents for return postage, and sending it to the information bureau in Washington.
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Uncle Sam
The
Whig
Free Information Bureau
Washington
Quincy Whig Information Bureau
Frederick J. Haskin
Washington, D.C
Wilson Urged to Veto Railroad Bill Passed
In Washington on February 27 President Wilson faced memorials from railroad brotherhoods farmers and the American Equity Society urging a veto of the railroad bill. They warned of higher freight rates and questioned government backing of railroad debt while noting labor clauses and owner's 5 percent valuation claim. The same day in Macomb the trial defense in the Clugston murder case concluded with Dr Alverson admitting relations with Mrs Clugston and detailing residence sites and a strychnine dose given to Mr Clugston.
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Walington
Wilson
Railroad Brotherhoods
Farmer’s National Council
American Society of Equity
Tumulty
American Equity Society
Farmer's Organizations
Handwriting expert testifies in Newberry trial case
Grand Rapids February 27 A handwriting expert testified on the 106 signatures on nominating petitions in the Newberry elections conspiracy trial. He argued the same hand signed Fletcher’s name on a Grand Rapids hotel register the Lansing payroll and petitions opposing Henry Ford in 1918. The witness was withdrawn after objections.
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Grand Rapids
Midh
Richard R. Fletcher
Newberry
United States
Judd Relland
Henry Detsch
Escanaba
Earnest C. Smith
Kalkaskia
August Vield
Manistee
Frank Guinan
Manistique
George H. Brownell
Chicago
ISIS
Paul King
Newberry Campaign Committee
Michigan
Werkine
Brownell
King
Derfg
Fraternal Society Dept Proposed by American Congress
A resolution at the American Fraternal Congress calls for creating a fraternal society department and appointing a state commissioner for fraternal groups. The aim is to remove fraternal insurers from state insurance commissioners jurisdiction to avoid direct personal supervision. A second resolution backs the mobile bill with the New York conference amendment, urged for adoption in several states including Indiana, Iowa, and six others.
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Chicago
American Fraternal Congress
State Commissioners of Insurance
New York
Tindos
Iowa
Transcontinental airship lines announced by Charles Ora
New York announces cooperation of three transcontinental airship lines for passengers with smaller midsize fleets. Charles Ora says Goodyear Tire and Rubber will build 35 ships for middle western routes and five ships for cross continental lines, with capacities ranging from six to fifty passengers. The first route includes Springfield Wisconsin.
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New York
Charles Ora
Asad
Commercial Aircraft Syndicate
Ora
Goodyear Tire and Krabber Company
Springeld
Soviet peace overture promises reforms and debt plan
In a new peace proposal the Soviet government pledges democratic principles in Russia, a constituent assembly, debt restoration, arrears payment, and mining conversions to an Anglo American syndicate. It asks Britain and other nations to end intervention and offers the United States a credit tied to concessions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Soviet Russia
Russia
Royal Baking Powder firm seeks restraining order
The Royal Baking Powder Company obtained a temporary order restraining J R McLaughlin, superintendent of the Illinois bureau of foods and dairies, and Charles Atkins, director of the state agricultural department, from instituting or threatening to institute actions against sellers of Ler Price's cream baking powder. The move follows findings that the powder was made with phosphate and cream of tartar.
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Chicago
The
Royal Baking Powder Company
J O R. McLaughlin
Bureau of Foods and Dairies of
Lh«Nois
Charles Atkins
State Agricultural Department
Price
W. CG. Moody
Department of Agriculture
McKaughlin
Oklahoma Senate considers referendum on woman suffrage amendment
Oklahoma City Feb 27 A majority report from the Senate committees on constitution and constitutional amendments recommends submitting the federal woman suffrage amendment to a referendum at the August 2 primary election. A minority report urges passage of the joint resolution ratifying the amendment. The House has already passed the ratification resolution.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Senate
House
Reds Continue Their Advance in Siberia
War office dispatches report Bolshevik forces pushing toward the Chinese frontier in Siberia. Reds demand Chinese governor surrender the Russian consul and all refugees, and permit Bolshevik consuls in the province of Th. Hed. A Moscow message notes the revolutionary movement growing strong.
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London
War Office
Siberia
Hed
Moscow
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