Tolstoy Son Advocates Nonresistance in World Peace Plea
Count Iya Tolstoy, arriving in America for a lecture tour, proclaims his father Leo Tolstoy’s Christ spirit and nonresistance as the path to world peace. He describes Christmas at the front with the Wild Division under Grand Duke Michael in the Carpathians, noting no gifts and a stark black bread supper.
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Ilya Tolstoy
Europe
America
Grand Duke
Michael
New York
Leo Tolstoy
Russia
Count Iya Tolstoy
Ya Tolstoy
the Star
Hut
Tolstoy
Carpathians
Christ
Kansas City Police Chief Shakeup With Suspension
Kansas City Missouri faces a leadership split as two chiefs sit side by side and a fifth year chief Hiram Hammil is suspended amid charges linked to a stranger's assault on girls. He refuses to resign while Capt. Thomas P. Flahive is named acting chief by the police board.
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Hiram Hammil
Police Board
Thomas P. Flahive
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Flahive
Blind Chums Skate Through Eaton Streets
In Eaton Ohio Keaton notes William Bennett and Scott Rayburn two blind men who roller skate on public streets. Both attended the state blind school in Columbus and played football there. They are broommakers and piano tuners, each married with one child, using canes as their eyes while skating.
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Columbus
Local residents memorize city layout with ease
Two men from Eaton, Bennett and a companion, navigate without asking directions. They claim to know every street and building by heart, enabling direct routes from their homes to any store or office.
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Eaton
Bennett
MATESTLESS WOMEN TO BEAR BABES CLAIMS PROFESSOR
In Oshkosh Wis Prof F R Crow told the Congregational Church Men's club the war will drive new social laws. He said husbandless women may bear children to rear a new generation replacing those slain, with eugenic regulations to remove the slain from offspring.
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Oshkosh, Wis
Congregational Church Men's Club
F. R. Crow
Pension funds cover 159 cities for municipal workers
In this country 159 cities maintain pension funds for municipal employees. The initiative aims to secure retirement benefits and financial stability for public workers across multiple municipalities.
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Fleer
North
Serge Poplin
By K. W. Payne
City
Kansas City, Mo
Bolivia
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