Dickey Seeks Senate as Missouri Republicans Plot
Missouri Republicans gather at Planters Hotel to discuss plans to back Walter S. Dickey from Kansas City for Senate by pressuring Senator Selden P. Spencer to pursue the presidential nomination. Forrest Donnell attends, Babler and Marks coordinate, and Spencer remains a potential rival.
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Missouri
Selden Spencer
ST. Louis
Republican State Committee
Planters
United States
Selden P. Spencer
Walter S. Dickey
Kansas City
Reed
Spencer
Dickey
Ation
Forrest C. Donnell
Donnell
State Committee
Thomas R. Marks
Kansa
Jacob L. Babler
Babler
Joseph W. Felk
Felk
President Wilson's War Time Prohibition Dilemma
Washington reports show no clear plan on war time prohibition for wines and beer after July 1. Officials split between action or continuation, citing legal constraints that repeal requires Congress after treaty ratification. Congress expected to pass an enforcement bill banning beverages over 0.5 percent alcohol.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Officers Alliance Urges Holland to Spare Kaiser
In Coblenz on Thursday June 26 the German Officers Alliance advertised across unoccupied Germany asking the Netherlands to refuse delivering the Kaiser to the Entente. The plea, signed The German Officers Alliance, says Germans cannot defend their former leader but seeks Dutch mercy to avoid disgrace. No American-occupied papers are allowed to print the notice.
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Associated Press
Coblenz
Germany
Officers’ Alliance
Holland
Alliance
Netherlands
Crown Prince Hohenzollern Still at Holland Lodge
Frederick William Hohenzollern remained at his residence on the island of Wieringen in the Zuider Zee this morning, with official word from The Hague. Paris reports questioned the escape as a possible ruse, noting no extradition treaty forcing his return and the risk of adding him to entente lists if he travels into Germany.
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the Hague
Frederick William Hohenzollern
Holland
Germany
Wieringen
Zuyder Zee
Lark
Paris
Figaro
Wilson to Use Shorthand Seals on Paris Treaty
President Wilson will attach seals to the Paris peace treaty using shorthand characters, marking a first in international treaties. He will sign and seal with a ring bearing his shorthand name, an act tied to his student days and engraved on a stone. The great seal will appear later on ratification and proclamation stages.
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Bryan
Ptolemy
Washington
Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
White House
United States
United States of America
Earl Dear Expis Crime and Trial Report
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a Chicago murder case involving Earl Dear and a chauffeur named Wolfe. The account references an August date, a scaffolding scene, and remarks to an adviser Rev William about the defendant’s potential to do good, but many details are garbled.
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Chicago
Earl
Wolfe
Dear
William
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