Partisan Debate Over League Of Nations In U S Politics
The national Republican chairman avoids turning the League of Nations into a partisan battle, arguing peace terms must reflect public consent. The piece questions who deserves a voice in shaping fundamental laws and critiques the GOP for blocking partisan engagement in key postwar policies. It contrasts democratic consent with a Senate seen as largely unaccountable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hays
League of Nations
America
Senate
Party of Sin
McKinley
Wilson
Lloyd George
Clemen
Seattle Fourth of July Promises Peaceful Celebrations
Seattle plans a peaceful Fourth with two Coast League games between Seattle and San Francisco, morning and afternoon, plus a public dance on Stewart Street. Families picnic in city parks enjoy speeches, music, and athletic events under cooperative weather. The piece notes wartime sentiment shifts and discusses indemnity attitudes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Broad Green
Se-He
San Francisco
Stewart 1St
Fifth Ave
Westlake
First Ave
Why Not Advertising Meets and World Affairs
A column sketches a whimsical Akron style classified ad to meet strangers in a new town, notes the value of welcoming outsiders, and notes broader issues from Vanderlip quitting banking to world revolutions, blockades, and neutrality debates. It questions motives and risks of ideas and policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Wallace
Akron
Sam
Expert Gets Ten Dollar Eyestain at Toledo Amusement
A Toledo July Fourth feature advertises a pine emporium attraction with ten dollar seats and moving pictures. The piece mocks high prices and ice shortages while noting curious items from Latin translations of songs to wartime insurance referrals and local curiosities in a wry newspaper column.
The Phone Strike Editorial Perspective
A reader defends telephone office supervisors and instructors from being labeled scabs during a strike. The writer notes union guards and insists officers should stand with the company. He urges strikers not to harass workers and hopes for a sensible outcome. He signs as a strong union man.
Men Needed More Than Machines
Staff Writer on Religious Topics for The Star argues progress tests reveal many are unfit for service, with physical and mental shortcomings common. He says moral willpower, not science or industry, drives a nation and shapes future outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Star
Kipling
Tomato Garden Collar Against Cutworms Advised
The old gardener warns cutworms prey on tomatoes and even valuable stems. Use paper collars three inches above ground and one inch below to deter them. tarred or brown paper works. If dahlias are up, dig to remove pests, then install collars to prevent further damage.
Coal Tar Drugs and Hun Propaganda
Dr W A Dewey of the University of Michigan argues many harmful drugs were German manufactured and warns against broad anti Teutonic drug bans. He criticizes aspirin propaganda, notes patent history, and links indiscriminate use to influenza mortality while urging caution with coal tar products and synthetic substitutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Dewey
University of Michigan
American Institute of Homeopathy
Dewey
Farbenfabriken Company
Elberfield
Germany
Council On Pharmacy
United States
Charles H. Herty
American Chemical Society
How Ya Gonna Keep Him Down On The Job
The verse imagines Miss Columbia and Uncle Sam debating Woodrow Wilson returning to public life after Paris. The song lampoons changes a President could bring, joking about reshaping institutions and playing politics with references to Jersey, Paris, and cabinet mischief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rubicon
Paree
Columbia
Skeerin
Sam
Woodrow
Jersey
Samuel
Paris
White House
Ned
Senate
Lodge
July Fourth Milestones Across American History
The text recounts July 4 events: the 1776 Declaration ratified by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia with Jefferson as author. It notes the 1789 tariff act championed by James, plus Hawthorne’s 1804 birth and 1864 death, Foster the 1826 birth, the 1836 patent bureau creation, and the 1863 Vicksburg surrender under General Grant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Congress
James
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Salem
Mass
Hawthorne
Out World
America
Plymouth
N. H
Pierce
Stephen C. Foster
Piburg
Old Kentucky Home
United States Patent Bureau
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Grant
Little Elizabeth and the moulted rose tale
A child named Elizabeth gathers a rose and watches petals fall. She jokes the rose is moulting while her mother corrects a clothing mix up in a humorous domestic scene. The little girl Dorothy explains she wore a stocking wrong to cover a hole on the other side.
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Elizabeth
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Seattle Star
R. F. Paine
Seattle
Frank A. Vanderlip
Hungary
Sweden
Denmark
Switzerland
Norway
Rio Grande
Knox
League
O. B
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Charles R. Flivver
Tusmataha
Ala
Charles K. Ford
Tushmataha
George J. Judge
Buffalo
N. Y
Alex Dines Dines
Wellsville
Edith Rice
Germantown
Caesar
Marc Antony
Cleopatra
Abner Whiffletree
Fin
Seaat
McKee
Pall
Donsid Mckee
Fourth Ave
Charles Stelzle
Frank Crane
Uncle
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