Wilson Meets With Cabinet In Paris Peace Era
President Wilson and nine cabinet members met in Washington for over two hours to discuss demobilization, postwar plans, and the Paris peace negotiations. Lansing was absent. Polk filled in. Postmaster Burleson announced postal relations with Germany, while Tumulty unveiled a new policy to receive lawmakers daily from 10 a.m. to noon.
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Washington
Wilson
Paris
Lansing
Polk
Germany
Mexico
Palmer
Missouri
Ohio
Georgia
Burleson
White House
Tumulty
Three Transports Arrive With Troops
NEW YORK July 16 The transports South Bend from St Nazaire with 2247 troops and Floridan from Bordeaux with 1829 troops arrived Tuesday night The South Bend carried units of the 131st engineers the 61st 158th and 164th transportation corps the 120th camp hospital and 100th base hospital and casuals for Camps Grant Dodge Pike Dix Upton Shelby and Fort D. Russell The Floridan carried the 337th field remount squadron and casuals for Camps Dodge and Bowie.
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New York
South Bend
St. Nazaire
Floridan
Bordeaux
131St Engineers
Transportation Corps
120Th
Germany Names Its Minister To Austria
Vienna reports Count Von Ul rich Brockdorff Rantzau has been accepted as Germany’s minister to Austria. The appointment marks the first word of his posting after heading Germany’s peace delegation at Versailles, with Herman Mueller having held the foreign affairs post since late June.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Count von Ulrich Brockdorff-Rantzau
Austria
Count von Brockdorff- Rantzau
Germany
Versailles
Herman Mueller
Daily Express Prize Flight Aims For Global Air Link
The Daily Express announces a 16,000 pound prize for an air flight establishing a commercial link with India and South Africa. Open to all except late enemy countries, contestants must carry at least one ton of cargo outward and homeward.
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London
Daily Express
India
South Africa
Ir. Wer and Arthur Heldbredey Skin Tonic Ad Claims Youth
An advertisement touts a skin tonic as a wonderful product for sun protection and wrinkle reduction. It promises clear skin, rosy cheeks, and a ten year younger look after a single application, urging readers to ask their druggist about the remedy.
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Ir. Wer
Arthur
Heldbredey
Hays on League Covenant Demands for Reservations
Hays chairman of the Republican national committee issued a statement on the League of Nations covenant. He urged essential American reservations to preserve sovereignty including Monroe Doctrine protections and the right to withdraw with notice. He said the administration must decide if it will accept these guarantees, which other nations would likely accept.
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New York
Hays
Republican National Commission
League of Nations
League
Tts
French Peasants Defend on U S French Relief
New York July 16 One hundred thousand peasant families in the Aisne district rely on American relief effort for devastated France. John Kendrick Bangs reports that most peasants are homeless or penniless with scanty food for winter. He notes France will allot only 25 percent of 1914 claim values when Germany pays reparations.
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New York
Aisne
France
American Commission
John Kendrick Bangs
Espagne
Germany
Deer fly disease reported again in Utah
Salt Lake City July 16. A new disease said to be unknown outside Utah reappeared today with several Salt Lake City cases cited by physicians. The Utah Public Health Board will investigate under State Health Commissioner T B Beatty. The illness causes disability for six to eight weeks and has caused death in some instances.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Cen
State Public Health Board
T. B. Beatty
Von Tirpitz laments Germany's republic demise
Berlin July 16 Admiral Von Tirpitz says Germany as a republic cannot rise again in a forthcoming book. He blames the revolution for losing Germany's chance at greatness and absolves the ex-kaiser of war responsibility. He argues a stronger navy could have secured a better peace and accuses Bethmann-Hollweg of monopolistic control keeping leaders from Berlin.
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Berlin
Germany
von Tirpitz
Bethman-Holweig
Tirpitz
Army
Navy
Pershing To Address Parliament Members
General Pershing will speak Thursday before the army commissions of both houses of Parliament in London. Colonel Winston Spencer Churchill and Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston will also speak. Pershing was entertained at dinner Tuesday by Ambassador and Mrs. Davis.
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London
Pershing
Winston Spence- Churchill
Aylmer Hunter-Weston
Third Army
Davis
Tramway Strike In Berlin Is Ended
Berlin July 16 strike by tramway employees ends after a fortnight. Following a union vote 10 643 ballots favored resuming work, 6545 against continuation. Four mass meetings supported immediate return to service. Agitation spreads in provinces for a potential general strike of agricultural laborers before harvest.
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Berlin
Bitter House Debate Over Vocational Training Funds
Washington July 16 A heated House session over the sundry civil appropriation bill and a vocational training funding rise triggered a party line clash. A motion to adjourn passed 198 to 160 after votes shifted on amendments, with Republicans and Democrats aiming to record positions on veto implications and funding for wounded soldiers and sailors.
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Washington
Rules
Vocational Training Board
Gillett
Champ Clark
Madden
Ilinois
Good
Germany Not Opposed To a Rhenish State
A Cologne Volkszeitung report, cited by French wireless, says a rumor circulates in the Rhenish provinces claiming the central German government is no longer opposed to creating an independent Rhenish state as long as it remains part of the German empire.
Value fixed on Great Lakes land for naval station
Appraisers for the navy fixed a valuation of 1.5 million dollars on 7,000 acres the navy department plans to buy for the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Captain John B. Boddie, representing the federal district attorney, said Tuesday private owners had asked 3 million dollars.
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Chicago
Navy
Navy Department
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
John B. Boddie
Federal District
Police Break Up Riot With Clubs in Chicago Strike
In Chicago on Tuesday policemen with clubs and revolvers dispersed a riot of striking workers. Two men were arrested while several women and girls tried to recruit other workers at a nearby factory. One officer was severely beaten amid hair pulling matches. Advertisements in The Whig Want section offer farm land and real estate partnerships.
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Chicago
Enandy
Substitutes for Booze Spark Plots in Prohibition Era
In Washington July 5 a column argues music books and candy as substitutes for alcohol. It notes women’s music patronage, cites Malibran and Berlioz, cites Plato, and mentions hospitals and wars. It also warns candy can cause bon bon drunkenness and previews film scenes of reform. Travel and emigration to Europe and China are discussed as responses.
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Fredericc J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Polk
John
Tohn
Malibran
Berlioz
Chicago
de Maupassant
Ambrose Bierce
Compton McKenzie
Algernon Blackwood
John Barleycom
Angela
Littl
Europe
China
Orient
Medical Student Shot By Burglar Identified
Philadelphia police identified the victim as Anthony W Holfelner, a second year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, shot at the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity house. Detectives found clothing and wearing apparel worth about $2,000 in his West Philadelphia room.
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Philadelphia
Petee
Alpha Chip Rho
University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin Schappeile
Anthony W Holfelner
Buffalo
West Philadelphia
Transcontinental Air Service Planned for Freight and Passengers
San Francisco officials hear plans for a two daily airship trains in each direction. Fred W. Lawson, Milwaukee company head, seeks landing facilities here as the firm builds 26 passenger airplanes. The arrangement aims to carry freight and people across the continent.
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San Francisco
Fred W. Lawson
Milwaukee
Pierson Attends Cape Girardeau Road Conference
In Cape Girardeau Missouri a record Scenic Highway meeting drew about 600 delegates from Missouri Arkansas and Tennessee. The southern central division Mississippi Scenic Highway was formed to run from St. Louis to Memphis with plans to extend toward New Orleans. Quincy will host the general headquarters and Vicksburg was chosen for the August 1 organizing meeting for the Memphis to New Orleans leg. Officers elected include Charles McMullen J P Reynolds Joseph Wilder S P Browning and H L Albert. Truman T. Pierson opened the session detailing the northern divisions already organized and routed the Keokuk to St. Louis link via Quincy.
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Arkansas
Tennessee
Cape Girardeau
St. Louis
Memphis
St. Paul
New Orleans
Minnesota
Gulf
Vicksburg
Illinois
Quincy
Charles McMullen
Sikestown
J. P. Reynolds
Caruthersville
Joseph Wilder
St. Genevieve
S. P. Browning
Blytheville
Ark
H. L. Albert
Truman T. Pierson
Dubuque
Keokuk
Iowa
Hamilton
Ill
East Hannibal
Quincy Soldiers Return Home From France
HORONEN New York July 16 More Quincy soldiers to land in the United States from service in France were Corporal Frank J. Wassong of 605 Maunch street, Sergeant Leo Lewis of 605 Maine street, and Sergeant Clyde V. Andrews of 13144 North Sixth street.
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Horonen
N.Y
Quincy
France
Frank J. Wassong
Mauachtson Street
Leo Lewis
Maine Retreet
Clyde V. Andrews
North Sixth Street
Extradition of the Turk Leaders Asked
Paris reports Constantinople newspapers say the Turkish government will seek entente help to extradite Talaat Bey Enver Pasha and Djemal Bey from Germany. They were condemned to death on July 11 in absentia by the Turkish court martial probing wartime conduct.
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Paris
Constantinople
Entente
Germany
Talaat Bey
Enver Pasha
Djemal Bey
Hava
War Medals Sold To Get Money For Meals
In New York on July 16 American Distinguished Service Crosses and French War Crosses, earned by American soldiers in France, are reportedly obtainable in pawn shops for five dollars. Pawn shop owners displayed the emblems and said many crosses were sold outright because their value could not buy a square meal.
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New York
France
Prominent Democrat J Herman Diereckes Sentenced
Cincinnati news reports J Herman Diereckes once a leading Democratic figure was convicted of espionage act violations and today received a five year sentence in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta.
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Cincinnati
J. Herman Diereckes
United States
Atlanta
Increase in Phone Rates Is Suspended
The Public Utilities Commission suspended until November 6 the Central Union Telephone Company rate increase across 23 communities including Rockford Decatur and Quincy. The order delays approving higher charges for telephone service and may signal a broader denial. The ruling leaves patrons wondering how past extra charges will be treated.
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Quincy
Associated Press
Whig
Springfield
Public Utilities Commission
Central Union Telephone Company
Rockford
Decatur
Utilities Commission
Dispatch
Melrose Firemen Slosh Berry Patch Protest
E D Humphrey, owner of a Melrose township blackberry patch, says Chief Marriotte and five firefighters entered outside fire limits to harvest berries. Humphrey, upset at the intrusion, ordered them to leave while warning fire danger, noting his plans for jam and pie were thwarted by the raid.
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Marriotte
E. D. Humphrey
Humphrey
Melrose Township
Marriette
Twenty six killed in Welsh tank steamer Roseleaf explosion
In Caidence Wales on July 16 a blast aboard the lit ts tank steamer Roseleaf killed twenty six people and injured several more. The sea disaster occurred aboard the Roseleaf while the vessel was loading at the dock, authorities reported.
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Caidine
Wales
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