World War News Highlights Rail Strike and Global Tension
Washington cancels all sailings to Great Britain amid a major rail strike as 600000 shopmen reach wage and hours deal. President Wilson returns ill from a western tour while labor and political figures testify to Congress. Immigrants deported, steel workers strike, and naval actions frame a world of unrest.
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Great Britain
Shipping Board
Wilson
Cary T. Grayson
Wichita
Admiral Grayson
Six Villa followers surrender in Chihuahua amnesty granted
General Dieguez reports six Villa followers surrendered to Carranza troops in Chihuahua and were granted amnesty. A El Nacional message from Mexico City warns American aviators will be fired upon by Mexican troops. Wilson may travel to Paris again if Senate amends the League or treaty clauses. Berlin cites German gov turn from radicalism as Fokker’s property is seized. A Thingny movement seeks Archduke Francis Joseph Otto as king. Paris strike leaders call the fight a life and death struggle. Countess Montgelas holds a U S visa.
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Mexico City
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League of Nations
Eamon de Valera
Ireland
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Batavia
Union Miners’ Hall
Frankfort Heights
Pana
Federal Distributing Company
Covington
Carbondale
Brundage
First District
Illinois Bar Association
H. M. Shriver
Rock Island
Williamson County
D. T. Hartwell
Chicago
Food Bureau
Chicago Health Department
Len Benton
Billy Lovett
London Mills
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Hugh
Johnson
George N. Peck
Moline Plow Company
Taylor
Emden
Lincoln
John Burkhead
Oliver
Clark County
Marshall
Ethel Marrs
Public Health and Safety
Department of Streets
Rockefeller gift for medical education headline
The General Education Board announced a gift of 20,000,000 dollars from John D. Rockefeller to improve medical education in the United States. The announcement was made in New York.
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National Adjustment Commission
United States Shipping Board
United States
Owen
Oklahoma
St. Louis
John D. Rockefeller
General Education Board
Illinois Briefs Report Campaign Against Cigarettes
Knox county churches join a statewide anti smoking drive. Local items note a teacher institute in Daviess County, a farm sale near Nokomis, and county road projects in Cass and Winnebago. A Cairo hotel death, hidden riches in Wheaton, and railway strikes affect Illinois towns.
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Daviess County
Teachers
Galena
Nick Berns
Pana
Sibley
Adam Betzold
Nokomis
Cass County
Winnebago County
Board of Supervisors
Wed Jones
Cucagy
Cairo
Seth Smith
Wheaton
Chicago, and
Thinois Midland Railroad
Taylorville
Jersey County
Edwain Chappell
Chappell
Alice Clugston
C. W. Alverson
Lawrence Clugston
McDonough County
Macomb
Aurora
Kane County Association of Police Magistrates
Justices of the Peace
George R. Thompson
Alexander Stark, Jr
New York City
Sixty-first Regiment of Infantry
David W. Shand
Illinois
New York
Woodstock
Barnes
McHenry County
Ilinois
Lexington
Terman Ochs
Pontiac
Harry Williams
Springfield
Williams
Emma Simpson
Cook County
Wilda Exhind
Frank
Mme
Vera Trepagniér
Paul F. Volland
Mother Goose
Graves Takes Action Over Siberia Incident With Cossacks
Washington reports Major General Graves demanded apology from Russian General Rozanoff for arrest and flogging of American soldiers in Iman Siberia. Japanese interference alleged as a major intervening factor. incident cited as most serious since Allied landings. Sixteen Americans entailed a hostage exchange and release order from Khabarovsk.
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Washington
Graves
Siberia
War Department
Army
Vladivostok
William
Iman
Johns
Spasske
Twenty-seventh Regiment
Sperling
Walmikoff
Khaberovsk
Kalmikoff
Khabarovsk
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Bakeries Fined for Bread Price Fixing in Columbus
Four large Columbus baking firms pleaded guilty to violating the Valentine anti trust law by price fixing bread. Columbus Bread Co Brenneman Baking Co Reynolds Baking Co Occident Baking Co were fined 1000 dollars each and ordered to restore bread prices to pre agreement level, plus 50 dollars daily penalties from indictment date.
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Columbus Baking Companies
Columbus Bread Company
Brenneman Baking Company
Reynolds Bakine Company
Occident Baking Company
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National Committee For Organizing the Steel Workers
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Key West
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Whitney Brothers
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Iowa
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Navy Department
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