19 Aug 1921
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Newspaper
Sheboygan Press
Location
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1921
Page
1
The readable fragment notes a local matter dated 2244 with unspecified details. Names, places, or exact actions are unclear in the OCR and the item reads as a brief community notice or classified snippet without full context.
London and Dublin dispatches report Premier Lloyd George defending Irish peace terms as final, outlining that all concessions were offered to win peace. In Dublin, Sinn Fein questions the plan and prepares counter proposals while the Irish Republican Army strengthens guards around Mansion House and Dublin Castle amid a tense truce.
A Dodge home on a six and a half by five and a half foot chassis leaves Sheboygan just after 5 PM for a six month Pacific coast journey. Alfred P. Balzer school commissioner and family plan to stop in Appleton Neillsville Seattle and Portland then relocate if satisfied.
Generally fair tonight and Saturday. Thunder showers expected this afternoon or tonight, with women precipitating chances and no significant storms anticipated beyond brief activity.
Thousands attend the Sheboygan county fair in Plymouth with stores closing for clerks and Rotary members joining the turnout. Ford races draw big crowds as track fills. officials predict record attendance. Firemen's tournament and a monster parade headline Saturday events amid a festive program. The Buddhist temple sacred fire near Bakroh and U S wage data round out the items.
Berlin reports say the Wirth government would be overthrown if it signs the proposed American peace terms. Loring Dresel and Chancellor Wirth negotiate while German leaders complain the terms are too high and too French. American comments and Vanderlip interviews in the German press fuel the dispute over Versailles obligations and U.S. property questions.
Mrs Manulita Balk and her husband were questioned by the sheriff in the John B Kennedy murder case. Balk said the allegations of romance with Kennedy are unfounded and recalled a 1930s outing with Kennedy and others to Beverly Glen.
Madison officials discussed a county grand jury to investigate bootlegging and moonshine manufacturing amid rising drunken cases. Police raids in Little Italy yielded little evidence, with eighteen sites raided on Mayor Kittleson’s orders but no arrests or barrels found.
The article notes that cottages once housing Shakespeare’s acting troupe remain in Southwark, England, highlighting their link to the early modern stage. It references a claim by Mrs Balk denying involvement with a Kennedy love affair and clarifies that TJ only met Kennedy once, with her husband present.
The seventy fifth annual Methodist Episcopal conference for the eastern district of Wisconsin opens in this city on Tuesday Sept 6 and closes Sept 12. Rev J W Perry in charge reports 176 to 200 ministers and 60 to 60 lay delegates expected with host families offering lodging. Sessions between church ministers and lay delegates will be held separately with joint sessions planned. Bishop Bayard Mitchell of St Paul will preside. The program includes memorial services missionary sermons reform meetings foreign missions anniversary events and lectures by bishops and doctors from Evanston Philadelphia and Washington among others.
Jack Blair the diver reported three bodies imprisoned in a car coupe at the bottom of an 80 foot quarry. He described an “auto grave” where cars were abandoned to collect insurance and by thieves. Blair planned further dives with police guidance after locating a second time and failing to find the coupe. Nearly 100 automobiles were left abandoned in the site.
The first United States Naval Reserve Force unit in Wisconsin was organized in Milwaukee last night with 22 members under Ensign A. A. Mullen. The group will receive clothing arms and training gear as requisitions are approved and a 23 member naval band may be formed.
Boston gubernatorial proclamation urges calm as a Worham crowd surrounds Barnstable jail over the alleged attack on Miss Helen Butler and escort. Guards fire volleys to avert mob violence. Prisoners Joseph Andrews John B Gomez Benjamin Gonen denied crowd’s demand.
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