Freeman Profiles Japanese Plans in Uplifting White Race Fear
Miller Freeman of the Anti-Japanese League discusses alleged Japanese expansion schemes and propaganda aimed at influencing American policy and church leaders. He cites hearings and documents to claim Japan seeks to outpace whites in farming, fishing, and business, warning that racial mingling will threaten American civilization.
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Miller Freeman
United States
Congressional Committee On Immigration
Congress
Pacific
Japan
Freeman
Pacific Slope
Freeman cites Japanese penetration in U S labor and ports
Freeman recounts early 1900s Japanese recruitment of American fisheries students, fleet incursions into Alaskan waters, and the 1907 gentle man's agreement. He notes Seattle port entries in 1919 and wartime roles, arguing Japanese colonization extended into employment and finance, justifying defensive action.
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Department of State
Department of Commerce and Revenue Cutters
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Roosevelt
Seattle
Washington
Naval Training
Veterans’ Welfare Commission
Belgian Girl Seeks Divorce After Lusitania Ordeal
Marie La Monte Neil testifies she endured repeated cruelty from husband James L. Neil, a Denver Navy ex, after survivor accounts of the Lusitania sinking. She recalls beatings, unemployment, and a desire to return to Belgium to find her sister and recover family property, and the court grants an interlocutory divorce.
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Pretty Marie la Monte
Atlantic Ocean
Japan
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Monte Neil
James L. Neil
Greeley Whitford
America
Union Station
Belgium
Charleroi
Aunk
Marie
New York
Ellis Island
Neil
Nell
Altho Neil
Third Party in Chicago Echoes British Labour Movement
Berkeley July 22 Prof R H Tawney of the British labor party says the Chicago movement marks a significant postwar political milestone in America. He notes British labor seeks both political and economic power and predicts gains in parliament, while urging the world be run by workers not owners. He connects this to the American third party as a converging force of labor and liberal elements.
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Berkeley
Cal
Chicago
R. H. Tawney
Labor Party
Coal Industry Commission
Tawney
University of California Summer School
Lloyd George
Russia
Sive
America
42 Lives Lost in Wreck of Schooner
Bodies washed ashore on the California coast explain the fate of the Mexican power schooner Jacks Conde. Forty two men on board are all believed to have perished after the schooner capsized and founder ed according to word received by the motorship Jeanette R.
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California
Jacks Conde
Jeanette R
Woman Killed in North Dakota Cyclone Near Anamooe
A cyclone swept McHenry County ten miles south of Anamooe North Dakota killing Mrs Immanuel J Kandt and injuring her husband and Mr and Mrs Andrew Fitzitzer. Farm buildings of both families were wrecked.
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McHenry County
Here
Immanuel J. Kandt
Andrew &Titzer
Japanese Press Hails Harding Nomination for President
Tokyo newspapers praise the Republican convention nomination of Senator Harding for president. The Asahi notes that Wood’s election could shift toward militarism and Johnson could empower anti Japanese agitators, but says Harding’s nomination dispels these anxieties.
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Mall
Senator Harding
United States
Japan
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Tokyo Asahi
Gen. Wood
America
Johnson
Blue Laws Probe Moves to Governor Cox
Canton Ohio July 23 a petition signed by 170 residents asking Mayor Samuel Hampton of Navarre a village near here be ousted for too strict enforcement of blue laws has been sent to Governor Cox The petition follows the mayor and his son Frank Bampton town marshal closing the town tight last Sunday with all places but churches shut even livery stables were closed and conveyances for Sunday use had to be hired Saturday night and held until Monday morning The article notes his moderate stance toward the league of nations.
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Canton
Ohio
Samuel Hampton
Navarre
Cox
Frank Bampton
Satisfaction or Your Money Back Fahey Brockman Bidg
Notice refers to the Fahey Brockman Building at Third and Pike Arcade, over Rhodes Co, with details on a satisfaction or money back offer and location on 2nd Ave.
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Fahey-Brockman
Pike Arcade
Rhodes Co
2Nd Ave
Japs Plan New Rules on Land
Plans for a counter move against anti Japanese land legislation in California are under way in Japan. Justice Minister Oka indicated a bill likely to be introduced in the Diet session governing foreign ownership of land in Japan. The feature lies in reciprocal rights, improving the old law by recognizing land ownership by foreigners with reciprocal rights in their countries.
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Tokyo
Califor
Oka
Japan
Taft’s cooling system compares to Wilson in summer stay
Taft kept cool with a large ice cooled plant under the White House west wing during severe heat. The report suggests President Wilson might benefit from similar precautions if he must stay in Washington this summer. In Oregon, auto salesman George W Adams and a woman companion were injured when their car skidded into a pole near Gervais. the woman’s identity was not released.
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Washington
William Howard Taft
White House
Wilson
Taft
Portland
Ore
George W. Adams
Gervais
Vanderbilt Dies in France at 79
Paris July 23 The funeral of William K. Vanderbilt will be held at the American Church of the Holy Trinity at 11 am Monday. The body lies in the church mortuary while plans for shipping to the United States are made. Final interment will be in a Vanderbilt mausoleum on an island. He was 79 and the oldest surviving Vanderbilt. Consuelo Vanderbilt, his daughter, married the Duke of Marlborough in 1895.
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Wiliam K. Vanderbilt
American Church of the Holy Sty
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Consuelo
the of Marlborough
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