Propaganda suspicion must end in news reporting
The article argues private investigators aided wartime spy hunts but produced false reports, while readers overinterpret routine news as propaganda. It warns against assuming hidden interests behind every report, noting newspapers serve subscribers and should drop perpetual suspicion.
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Department of Justice
Herbert Corey
England
Equor
Associated Press
League of Nations
Paris
ONE MUNICIPAL OVERLORD IN ILLINOIS PUBLIC UTILITY POWER
A critic argues the Illinois Public Utilities Commission wields excessive power, potentially outlasting a constitutional convention. The piece contends the governor appointed body controls utility rates and street use, threatening city home rule and possibly deciding water and sewer extensions and street paving.
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Public Utilities Commission
Illinois
Springfield
Woolworth's Rise From Farm Boy To Industrial King
The article extols Frank W. Woolworth's life from poverty to wealth, highlighting persistence and achievement. It traces his early struggles, first ventures in five and ten cent stores, key openings in Utica Lancaster Scranton Reading NYC and beyond, his incorporation and the Woolworth Company, and cites his temple like building as a symbol of American enterprise. It emphasizes vision, courage, and faith as the drivers of his success and urges youth to emulate his resilience.
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Frank W. Woolworth
America
Business College
Watertown
N. Y
Utica
Lancaster
Scranton
Philadelphia
Reading
New York City
Chambers Street
Trooklvn
Washington
New York
Boston
Chicago
FE. W. Woolworth Company
Where is the painter Michal Angelo buried in Florence
The painter Michal Angelo is buried in the Church of Santa Croce in Florence Italy. The excerpt also covers tax changes for pianos and details on Red Cross care in France and a note about Polish division movements under Marshal Foch.
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Michal Angelo
Church of Santa Croce
Florence
Italy
American Red Cross
France
Medical Corps
Army
Postal Workers Get Work Day Shortened
New York May 9 Charles P Bruch general manager of the Postal Telegraph system announced here Thursday that effective June 1 the eight hour day and time and a half
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United States
Bruch
Burleson
Washington
Postal Telegraph Company
Post Office
Clarence H
New York
Charles P. Bruch
Postal Telegraph System
Miller's Antiseptic Oil Snake Oil Ad Appeal
Rheumatism and various aches promised relief from Miller's Antiseptic Oil, formerly Snake Oil. The ad claims deep penetration and inflammation relief, with money back guarantee if not satisfied. Bottles priced 20c 50c and 1.60, available from druggists.
Foch Sends Troops To Aid Polish Legions
Berne report states Marshal Foch in Warsaw sent message to General Hallier, head of Polish troops in France. He promises an army under the French flag will move into liberated Polish territory to support the long fight for liberty and civilization.
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Berne
Marshal Foch
Warsaw
Hallier
France
Wisconsin Troops Land and Attend Baseball Game
Three hundred Wisconsin soldiers from the 120th field artillery and 180th machine gun company were welcomed by Governor Coolidge on Thursday. The group attended the Roston Washington baseball game before departing Camp Devens Monday to be mustered out in Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin
Poston
120Th Field Artillery
Hainhow
Coolidge
Camp Devens
President Wilson attends Longchamp races in Paris
May in Paris President Wilson rode to Longchamp races this afternoon accompanied by Mrs Wilson. The outing highlights a social moment in the French capital as the presidential party enjoys the sporting event.
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Wilsons
Paris
May
Wilson
Longchamps
Edtail the Hawk and Mrs Redtail Return Home
In Thornton Burgess tale Edtail the Hawk and his mate Mrs Redtail journey north from a warm winter south to the Green Forest near Farmer Brown. They travel with patience behind Mistress Spring, eager to resume annual nesting and home life before summer arrives.
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Edtail the
Hawk
Mrs. Redtail
Redtails
Redtail
Green Forest
Farmer Brown
Mistress Spring
Regret over Hungary fall reported by Zurich press
The Frankfurter Zeitung comments on the fall of the Budapest soviet government. It says it is no partisan of Bolshevism but notes the event as a great misfortune and acknowledges the Hungarians’ dramatic political change.
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Zurich
The
Frankfort Zeitung
Budapest
May 9 in history: voyages, treaties and notable births
On May 9 events span 1502 Columbus sails from Cadiz on fourth voyage seeking a passage east. 1657 secret Paris treaty pits Louis XIV against Cromwell to ruin Spain. 1781 Spaniards seize Florida. 1793 French Directory decrees seizing neutral ships bound for Britain, straining Franco American ties. 1800 John Brown born. Harper's Ferry raid in 1859 and his later execution feed Civil War tensions. 1816 American Bible Society founded with Ellis Boudinot as first president.
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Columbus
Cadiz
Southea
Paris
Louis XIV
Cromwell
Spain
Florida
France
Directorate
Great Britain
United States
America
John Brown
Ossawatomie
Harper’s Ferry
Tee
Virginia
Johann von Schiller
American Bible Society
Ellis Boudinot
Philadelphia
Bakery Corps Returns From Marseilles With Troops
New York May 9 1998 soldiers who biked for the American expeditionary force were among 1 998 troops brought home from Marseilles aboard the steamship Columbia bakers numbering 170 split to Camps Grant Sherman and Upton others include casuals Wisconsin 14 and Iowa 23
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Bakery Corps
New York
American Expeditionary Force
Columbia
Marseilles
Grant
Sherman
Upton Fie
Wisconsin
Iowa
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Missouri
Towa
BY McKee
Huh
Woolworth
Frank Crane
Fred Haskin
Daily Quiz
A.V. A
William B. Wilson
Labor
Scotland
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Gompers
Alexander G. Bell
William S. Sims
Ontario
Canada
Franklin K. Lane
Interior
Quincy Whig Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Poland
Foch
Gen Tfaller
Germany
Thornton W. Burgess
Hoeischer
Seifert’s
8Th
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S. W. Mills
Mast Lynn
W. Wa
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