Navy to send diver fleet on Mississippi tour in May
In a nationwide salute the Navy will display an anti sub marine flotilla on the Mississippi River. The group led by Lieutenant-Commander Thomas G. Berrien includes the U S S Isabel destroyer the submarine K 65 three submarine chasers and two flying boats. It will visit cities and towns along the river from New Orleans to St Louis with extensive shore events and demonstrations.
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Louis
West
Navy Department
Mississippi River
U. S
Isabel
Thomas G. Berrien
U. S Navy
Key West
T. N. Vinson
U. S. Navy
Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Florida
New Orleans
St. Louis
Mississippi
Wells Hawks
U.S. ON. Kh. OF
U.S S&s
Union Square
New York
Navy
Mississippi Valley
River Porte
Home dry cleaning with gasoline advert promises bellwether savings
An advertisement urges readers to dry clean all household items with gasoline and Solvite soap. It claims items like suits coats waists silks and furs come out like new without fading shrinking or wrinkling. Instructions emphasize outdoor work away from flame and buying Solvite soap from drug stores.
Cummins Opposes World Covenant In Iowa Senator Speech
In St Louis on May 1 United States Senator A B Cummings of Iowa spoke to the City Club denouncing a world league of nations and a Geneva seat. He warned that postwar Europe would split into fifteen sovereignties and that a world covenant to guard their political integrity could provoke war rather than prevent it.
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ST. Louis
United States
Washington
Geneva
A. B. Cummings
Iowa
City Club
League of Nations
Middle Europe
Island Peoples Urge Greek Annexation Across Dodecanesus
Dispatches from Athens quote Greek peace conference circles claiming the Dodecanesus Islands favor unity with Greece. Proclamations were made in Rhodes and other Italian-occupied islands with church gatherings. Italian troops reportedly dispersed the crowds.
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Associated Press
Paris
Athens
Dodecanesus
Greece
Rhodes
Riot Call Halts May Day Picnic On Coast
A riot call ended a May day picnic of garment workers in Los Angeles. A discharged soldier in uniform tried to speak in favor of the government but was booed down. Radical speakers followed. Two arrests were made.
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Los Angeles
Quebec Goes Dry For Sale Of Spirits But Brewers Plan
Quebec Province votes to allow sale of beer light wines and cidr while whisky remains prohibited. In Montreal crowds wait in line as bars close and many purchases occur by bottle or cask. Carters strike delayed deliveries. brewers scramble with vast beer stocks and licenses issued for table service.
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Quebec
Montreal
Providence
Carters
Reporter Tells Envoys They Look Like Bowie
In Versailles on May 1 German peace delegates arrived at Vaucresson Station to a press melee. Reporters crowded a small room as they mingled with envoys, sparking awkward moments when an American correspondent whispered that the delegates “look like bodies” and Prof Schucking replied with a smile “Do you think so.”
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Versailles
Vaucresson Station
Joe
Schucking
Home made kraut and local society in brief
Local notes from Quincy area list guests at university events in Champaign. People travel for cattle and hogs inspections in Missouri. Victor Records on sale at Weilers. multiple messages about hospital visits and local trades. Names include Musselman Lepper Mast Herr Meyer Littleton Hemme Murray Terwische and others with short updates.
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Ridder
T. E. Musselman
University of Illinois
Champaign
May Victor
Weilers
Lawrence Mast
Edward Lepper
Charles Herr
Melrose Township
Rusk
Marion
Ralls
Missouri
H. F. Lafler
State Bank
Ella Littleton
Loraine
Blessing Hospital
New Victor
Big Victor
Robert Burrows
Ursa
E. Shepherd
Thos. Knox
Majestic
Anne Hemme
Ernst Plumbing & Heating Co
Hamp
John Meyer
Payson Avenue
Flora K. Wendorff
Osteopath
Wells
Woars
Mildred McMillen
Hannibal
Quincy
Victor Records
C. F. McGuire
Berling
N.S. B.C
Lena Murray
la Grange
Isabelle Terwische
Monroe City
Agnes Bell
Lioness fatally mauls keeper then escapes into woods
In Woodbury New Jersey a circus lioness killed her keeper during a side show. The animal slipped from its cage and fled into nearby woods where a posse of men and boys pursued and killed it with guns pikes and stones.
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Woodbury
N. J
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P. G. Lind
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Mary Kemnel
Mt. Sterling
Ralph Goodapple
Wabash Station
Lew Mellen
McCormack
Aleta
Caruso
Lauder
Victor
P. J. Zimmerman
Camp Johnston
Jacksonville
Fla
Dr. Chapman
Herman Freese
Fort Madison
Lioness
Circus
Keeper
Hood
Mrs. Eastside
Mrs. Westside
Mrs. Southside
Mrs. Northside
South Side
Northside
Southside
Eastside
Westside
Yara
Ein Ae Scout
Roma Eed Es
Men’s Athletic Union
Ladies’ Union
Ladies' Union
Dolman
Cape
Jacobs Manufacturing Company of
Adams County
Ilinois
Choice
Dolmans
American Cloak & Suit Co
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