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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1920
Page
2
Officials announce expenditures for the year ending June 30 totaling 23 441 83 564 with 6 403 343 481 in ordinary disbursements and 17 083 039 723 in public debt payments. Other items cover German warships sailing from Brest to New York and notable deaths and appointments across the U S including the Red Cross field director, census population of Hawaii, and various political nominations.
The allied note to the Turkish peace delegation at Versailles rejects their objections to the peace treaty. Other items report Joachim of Hohenzollern’s death by suicide in Potsdam amid financial troubles and a Sinn Fein food blockade in Derry with a food train seized by armed men.
Danville Galesburg Rock Island and Moline raise street car fares with Galesburg up from 7 to 10 cents. A Decatur auto shop owner Gus Ahrens is shot dead resisting a holdup. Mrs. Ahrens is the sole witness.
Cork battles erupt after the killing of a former army man. Two lorries carrying troops were attacked with bombs. 60 to 70 soldiers were injured and casualties surpass 100, with gunfire injuring about 40 civilians. Sinn Fein fighters use guerrilla tactics. volunteers rush to aid residents. London debates banning Archbishop Mannix from Ireland over anti English remarks.
Ruth belts two homers in a doubleheader to set a new major league single season home run mark. The Babe hits a four bagger in the fourth inning of the second Yankees White Sox game and adds another in the ninth, giving him 31 on the year. He had predicted reaching 40 before the pennant race ends.
Teheran July 21 reports the Armenian government refused a Soviet ultimatum, and Bolshevik troops have moved into Karabagh. The advance continues with plans to cooperate with Mustafa Kemal Pasha’s Turkish nationalists.
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