World events in brief from around the globe
A compilation reports Wright losing the British amateur golf title to Bernard Darwin in Hoylake. Outlaws sack a Yucatan hacienda. Frick Coke shuts 19,800 jobs in Connellsville. Tulsa jail break frees twelve inmates. Presbyterian assembly condemns a boxing mill in Jersey City. Cloth hat workers take 10 percent pay cut in New York. Rail wage disputes rise. 100 plus new cases filed nationwide. Gompers warns of sales tax. Tennessee battleship Tennessee ordered to Pacific. Internal revenue chief nominee Blair confirmed. James Farrell declines US Shipping Board chair. House passes $100 million deficiency bill. Several notable deaths and international tensions noted. Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, and Britain face strikes, revolts, prosecutions, and naval developments.
National Parks in Peril Call to Action by Stockholders
Antele Sam urges readers to defend national parks and monuments from private irrigation and dam projects. He labels iStock as the greatest mutual benefit association and calls for congressional action to restore full control to Congress, citing Yellowstone and other sites at risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antele Sam
Grand Canyon
Ariz
Sequoia National Park
Congress
National Parks and Monuments
Water-Power Commission
Yellowstone
Yellowstone Lake
United States
Call to defend local self government against federal overreach
A fiery call warns that idolizing the federal government weakens states and the people. It urges Americans to reclaim liberty, conscience, and local self rule, insisting the future rests with the people, not officials or bureaus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic
Atlantic
New World
Reconsecration of Every Living American to America's Cause
A wartime era speech calls for unity and loyalty within the United States. The speaker, in a large hall with many supporters outside, urges Americans to reaffirm dedication to American ideals against disloyal elements. Messages from states and patriotic groups praise the reconsecration and honor fallen heroes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Union
New York
Life of the Typical American Woman in Her Thirties Is a Tragedy
The piece argues that married life loses novelty for women in their thirties and they seek love and companionship husband’s long work hours deny. It contrasts devoted husbands seeking wealth with wives needing affection, claiming the wife suffers until husbands provide balanced care and companionship.
Inland Steel buys land for Portage mill
The Inland Steel Company of Indiana Harbor bought 85 acres in Portage township Porter County for about 105000 dollars. The tract lies south of 219 acres bordering Lake Michigan and the company plans to build a steel mill on the site near Waverly Beach. The purchase has boosted nearby land values and Lake Longins would provide an inland harbor.
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Valparaiso
Inland Steel Company of
Indiana Harbor
Portage Township
Porter County
Lake Michigan
Lake Longins
Steel Company
Waverly Beach
Fort Wayne
C. ©. Warrington
J. Frank Mongovan
Peter Fox
J. R. Burns
Arthur Silbert
Chicago
Joseph Byers
Knox
Culver
Laine
Indianapolis
Frederick van Nuys
United States
Washington
Marion County
Indiana
Ohio
West Virginia
Kentucky
E. A. Root
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Lafayette
Purdue University
Jeffersonville
Froman M. Coots
Clark County
John H. Grimm
Indiana Reformatory
Grimm
Shelbyville
Minerva Thompson
Waldron
Shelby County
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Hoylake
Frederick J. Wright
Boston
Bernard Darwin
Hdward Hompson
Mexico
Merida
Yucatan
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Connellsville (Pa
Reion
Tulsa County
Tulsa
Oklo
Jersey City
N. d
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
Winona Lake
Ind
Country
Railroad Labor Board At
Joe Moreschi
Hod Carriers and Building Laborers’ Executive Council
Special Building Grand Jury
Fifi
Potter Stillman
A. S. Embree
T. W. OW. Leader
Wallace
Idaho
M. P. Ryan
St. Paul
Walla Walla, Wash
George Henry
Bay Hotel
Dallas Tex
LeRoy M. Warner
Chanutefield
Rantoul
Fort Snelling Minn
Masonic Order
Fort Worth
Tex
Garcia
State Department
United Kingdom
Hays
Senate
Richard Washburn Child
Italy
Foreign Relations Committee
J. Pierpont Morgan
White House
Samuel Gompers
Senate Finance Committee
Tennessee
Pacific
Navy Department At
David H. Blair
Winston Salem
N. C
Internal Revenue
James A. Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
Harding
United States Shipping Board
House
A. F. Fletcher
Fifth Naval District
Norfolk Yard
Hampton Roads
Mme
Marie Curie
Pittsburgh
Curie
Henry B. Ledyard
The
Michigan Central Railroad
Detroit, Mich
Leipzig
Kaiser
Rhine
Upper Silesia
Cologne
Silesian
Berlin
Ireland
Cork
Alfred Webbin
Dublin
Hamar Greenwood
House of Commons
London
Sir Greenwood
France
M. Cheron
Paris
Badajoz
Spain
Alfonso
Sarah Bernhardt
Madrid
Cross of
Alfonso Ail
Tokyo
Shanghai
Big Custom House
Germany
Ebert
Europe
Russia
Balkan States
Hoover
Department of Commerce
Ballymason
Kenyon
Derisio
Triand
Tf Ruhr
Ius
Polis
Germa
iStock
Col
F. W. Galbraith, JR
Indiana State News
George C. Bryan
Co-Operative Crop Reporting Service
Petersburg
Hartwell
Hartwell Mining ‘Company
Kansas City
Pike County
Haydén Stedner
Stantly
Harry Black
Stedner
Pierceville
Jessie Szczypanec
Ida Wolfe
Margaret, Wolfe
Steve Waite
Liberty Trail
Michigan City
Noblesville
E. E. Cloe
Hamilton
Wainwright Trust Company
C. W. Booth Farm Supply Company
Westfield
Arcadia
Atlanta
Western Rock Island Plow Company of
Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations
South Bend
Grand Trunk
New York Central
George F. Hershman
Crown Point
Grand Lodge of Indiiana
Order of Odd Fellows
Hershman
Otto A. Boyer
State Anatomical Board
Indiana Dental College
Indiana University
McCray
Estes Duncan
Indiana General Assembly
Greencastle
Logansport
Terre Haute
Madison
Indiana Ground Council
United Commercial Travelers
Boonville
Washington, D. C
Bert C. Morgan
Charles J. Orbison
State Industrial Board
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