Tragic Dirigible Crash Kills Twelve in Chicago Bank
A dirigible crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago after a blaze aboard the airship. Twelve dead, twenty six injured as flames swept through the counting room. Goodyear and officials offer damages, while authorities exam Goodyear staff and consider flight restrictions over the city.
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Chicago
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
Mitchell
Ilinois Trust & Savings Co
Goodyear Company
Boettner
Goodyear
President Wilson resumes talks with Republican senators
Washington July 22 President Wilson resumed peace treaty and League of Nations discussions with Republican senators. He is said to be improving but still weak and sensitive to the weather. Senator Edge was the first Republican guest at the White House today.
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Washington
Wilson
League of Nations
Graygon
Edge
White House
Thompson Harry Wilson
Kenneth Crall
Thompson
Albert Luck
Pullman
Treaty Passed Commons on Third Reading in Germany Peace Pact
London July 22 The House of Commons voted down an Irish bid to defeat the treaty ratifying the peace with Germany on its third reading. The measure passed amid opposition losses as Devlin's attempt was rejected.
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House OF Commons
London
Germany
Devlin
Most Unique Bolshevik Money System Described By Frank Taylor
United Press reports on the Bolshevik attempt to abolish money through mass printing. Prices soar as ruble value falls while wages rise. peasants demand gold or old money for goods, and shops are forced to confiscate yet struggle to supply. Large two inch notes circulated as daily cash.
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Frank J. Taylor
United Press
New York
Bolshev’k
Russia
Soviet
America
Dr Ingalls Cited for Courage in Divisional Orders
Lieut.-Colonel Henry A. Ingalls Medical Corps commander of the Sanitary Train of the 2nd Division receives a Division Orders citation for unusual bravery under fire. He directed field hospitals at Thiaucourt in September 1918 and Somme-Py in October 1918 while under shell fire and helped document hospital operations for the division.
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H. A. Ingalls
AE. Ff
Col. Ingalls
Ingalls
Roswell
Germany
Henry A. Ingalls
Thiaucourt
Somme-Py
B. W. Miller
Med
Dr David S Hill Named UNM President In Who's Who Sketch
Dr David Spence Hill elected president of the University of New Mexico is profiled in Who's Who in America. A Tennessee native aged forty six, he holds degrees from Randolph-Macon College Harvard summer school Clark University and the State University of Kentucky among others. His career spans teaching at Smith Academy Peabody College University of Tennessee Tulane and several universities with roles in education psychology and research. He authored works on child differences delinquent boys and educational research. Albuquerque Journal.
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David S. Hill
David Spence Hill
University of New Mexico
America
Tennessee
Randolph-Macon College
Virginia
Harvard
Washington University Law School
Clark University
Mass
State University of Kentucky
Megan
Smith Academy of Washington
University
Ralph Sellew
St. Louis
Peabody College For Teachers
Nashville
Public Schools and Common Council of
New Orleans
University of Montana
Cornell University
University of California
University of Wisconsin
University of Illinois
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Southern Society of Psychology and Philosophy
American Psychological Association
Hill
Albuquerque Journal
England absorbing fighting men after armistice
After the armistice 2,750,000 British soldiers have been discharged with only 400,000 unemployed, an 80 percent absorption into industry. Statisticians say this exceeds rates in France, Italy, or the United States. A pre-war level of unemployed persists as the mighty unemployed, but female labor influx is pushing figures toward satisfactory progress.
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England
London
France
Italy
United States
Ruble stamps and tearing notes mark postwar economy
The piece describes scarcity and wartime practices in a country using rubles. Citizens tear notes to pay, large notes are split into strips, stamps replace coins, and old regime stamps bear a czar’s bust. The public sends letters without stamps, and the treasury prints ruble sheets when funds run short.
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Czar
Lenine
Marx
Treasury Printing Office
Army
California adopts cabinet government in wide reform
California launches a cabinet style experiment with a new department of agriculture led by G. H. Hecke as a test case for a 12 department system. The era also sees equal testamentary rights for wives, higher orphan and school funding, a delinquent women farm, and stricter milk labeling amid vehicle safety updates plus naval transfer provisions.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
Department of Agriculture
G. H. Hecke
Gov. Stephens
Miss Ruth Jeffries Returns Home After Surgery
Miss Ruth Jeffries of Suffs, after an appendectomy at St. Marys hospital early last week, was able to be sent home this afternoon.
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Jeffries
Ruth Jeffries
St. Mary’s Hospital
Back from Mountains
W A Vickers and family return to Roswell after spending two weeks at the Reese cabin near the Ruidoso mountains.
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W. A. Vickers
Reese
Roswell
Congress Members Propose Martial Law in District
Washington July 22 Representative Emerson introduces a house resolution urging the President to proclaim martial law in the District of Columbia amid race riots. Vaile of Colorado follows with a similar measure.
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Washington
Emerson
House
District of Columbia
Vaile
Colorado
Senate panel blocks Wilson on reparations committee appointment
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a close 8 to 7 vote, rejected the President's request to appoint an American member of the reparations committee before treaty ratification. Senator Knox offered a substitute resolution denying the appointment until ratification. Debate on the treaty and League of Nations resumes on the Senate floor.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Wilson
Senate
Knox
League of Nations
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