Urge Senate 10 hasten peace treaty without amendment
A diverse group of 250 leading Americans says ratify the peace treaty with Germany without delay or changes. They warn that each day of inaction risks new war, unrest, and economic strain, urging immediate senate action and warning amendments could reopen negotiations and delay peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Senate
League
Senate
George , Wickersham
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard
Charles C. Moore
San Francisco
George Gray
Wilmington
Del
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Harry A. Wheeler
Chicago
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Carrie Chapman Catt
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Cyrus H
Germany
Paris
United States
Lusitania
West Virginia award for school thrift contest set
State Director John E B Norman announces the Robert L Archer Trophy prize for West Virginia schools with the largest per capita thrift savings. The contest runs through the school year ending June 1 1920 with awards on June 15 1920 and prizes include the silk Archer Trophy and thrift stamps. Schools of all sizes are eligible. per capita savings determine winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
John EB. Norman
West Virginia War Loan Organization
Robert L. Archer
Norman
Archer
War Savings
West Virginia
Ea Denen
Wisdom Teeth Troubles for Dentists
Wisdom teeth pose special challenges especially lower teeth with backward bending roots. Nerve death is hard to confirm as root canals are twisted and narrow. Upper teeth often have three fused roots, while lower teeth have two compressed roots. When a brooch cannot reach the nerve, dentists may abandon it and use iodine to dissolve the tool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gray
When the World is Too Much with Us and Sacrifice
An essay reflecting on life as an investment, citing American WWI figures and quotes on courage and sacrifice. It argues possessions and status fail as returns, while true value lies in acts of service, love, and duty, warning that selfish living bankrupts the soul despite worldly wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Livy
Constantinople
Vatican
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Lusitana
Flanders
Dinsmore Ely
Chicago
Charles Frobinsn
Cicero
Seneca
Rochester Post-Express
The Claim of Runymede by Josephus Daniels
In a London speech Josephus Daniels, secretary of the U.S. Navy, declared that no Englishman has a greater claim to Runymede than the ironclad Monitor, a phrase seen as a heaven sent moment for reflection on justice and memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephus Daniels
United States Navy
England
Mr. Daniels
Queen Marie Appeals Roumania to Aid Child Relief
Queen Marie of Roumania has urged every housewife theater owner storekeeper hotel owner and landlord to join a national army for child relief. In a Hoover Paris cable the queen asked Roumanians to skip one dinner each month and donate the saved amount to the Child Relief fund. She specified allocations: stores and hotels one tenth of net proceeds monthly aid, landlords a quarter of net proceeds weekly aid, banks on an equivalent basis, churches a share of collections each Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meorie
Roumania
Dren’s Relief Association
American Relief Administration
Hoover
Paris
Broadway
Marie
Calfee Family Trip Ends in Cincinnati Visit
Mrs. H. T. Calfee and her small son Lionel returned Tuesday from a brief Cincinnati trip where they visited Miss Muriel Calfee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. T. Calfee
Lionel
Cincinnati
Muriel Calfee
Bedstead and Earthen Pots Cross Flooded River in India
An American consular official recounts a method to cross flood rivers using a bedstead as a raft and four earthen pots as floats. Native swimmers tow the improvised raft as the traveler is carried across, a practice observed to be common in orient regions during freshets. The account contrasts this with Western notions of comfort and safety.
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Addit
India
Dim
Orient
Mount
Medicine by Inhalation Shows Promise for All Diseases
Dr. P. D. Schulz of New York reports years of experimentation suggesting inhalation could treat all diseases. Previously used mainly for anaesthetics and respiratory issues, the method claims success for digestive and nervous troubles as well. A liquid medicine saturates a sponge inside a tube, inhaled as a conveyor of nitrous oxide, with absorption into the bloodstream more efficient than the stomach and no food interaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. D. Schulz
New York
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Berlin
Shantung
China
League Between Nations
Suantung
Japan
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Desha Breckinridge
J. N. Camden
U. S
Thomas Combs
William Rogers Clay
Justice State Court of Appeals
E. ¥. Farquhar
University of Kentucky
James Melvey Hunzelrigg
State Court of Appeals
W. E. Settle
Charles Stewart
Augustus Thomas
Indiana
Frank Duffy
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
William Dudley Foulke
Jacob, Kisecher
Journeymen Barbers’ International Union
William Green
United Mine Workers of America
Elwood Haynes
John H. Holliday
Franklin McCray
Daniel J. Tobin
Ulric Z. Wiley
James A. Woodburn
Michigan
Caroline Bartlett Crane
Loren D. Dickenson
Woodbridge N. Ferris
Clay H. Hollister
Harry B. Hutchins
University of Michigan
W. D. Mahon
Ohio
James M. Cox
John P. Frey
International Molders’ Journal
W. G. Lee
Brotherhood Railway
Timothy Shea
Brotherhood Locomotive
L. E. Sheppard
Warren S. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
W. O. Thompson
Ohio State University
Charles F. Thwing
Western Reserve University
Joseph F. Valentine
International Molders’ Union of North America
George Burnham, Jr
Civil Service Reform Association
R. H. Conwell
Temple University
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Samuel Harden Church
Carnegie Institute
A. B. Farquahr
A. B. Farquhar Company
Samuel Fels
William Flinn
Richard Gilbert
Miner’s State Union
Vance C. McCormick
War Trade Board
Benjamin Shaw
John A. Voll
Glass’ Bottle Blowers’ Assocation
John J. Cornwell
Robert le Archer
John E. Norman
Huntington W. Va
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