Reach Agreement on Wire Control Plan End Government Supervision
Congress and Senate conferees adopt a plan to end government control of telegraph and telephone lines. Rates for toll and local exchange telephone services will be continued for four months unless state commissions change them sooner. The accord aims to restore private operation within about four months, with signatures expected in July.
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Washington
Senate
House
Taree
Cam
Forty Nine Years to See Advocates of the Malled Fist
The passage cites Varin Meinenotante declaring after forty nine years that the malled Tat of the celtre and the German trooper have governed Germany for decades. He remarks on a council of three meeting and the return of Middle Ages warfare spirit, urging caution and preparedness.
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Varin
Wileroorbent
Germany
Council of Three
Toenday
Willan
Train Runs Without Engineer After Crane Strike
Lincoln to Chicago Burlington train travels five miles without an engineer after Jamon Eiger Johnson of Lincoln was struck and killed by a mall crane a mile east of Waverly. Fireman Kurt J. Zimmerman halted the train at Cheenwood then brought the engine back to Waverly where the engineer was found.
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Lincoln
Neb
Burlington
Chicago
Jamon Eiger Johnson
Waverly
Greenwood
Kurt J. Zimmerman
Cheenwood
Fount Beetle
Tiger Ready to Retire Amid War Debacle
Clemenceau declares he has accomplished his mission and plans to resign. Parliament’s ratification of the treaty is anticipated. American casualties total 240,016 with 37 listed as hostages. Sixty-six German sailors interned at Fort McPherson depart for Germany. Townley trial jury selected in Jackson Minnesota. Germans celebrate peace terms causing patriotic demonstrations. Sixty-three Villa soldiers killed in a federal pursuit near Paso.
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Clemenceau
Varia—Prowler
Clemenceau Law
Wifloe
Marcel Hutin
Ene de Paris
Ht Ss
Caauattion
Walington
War Department
Pen
Daige
Atlanta
Fort McPherse
Swin Ofer
United States
Charleston
Germany
London
Exchange ‘Telegraph
Copenhagen
Wipy
Villa Alumaila
Marginal poem fragment on Liberty Goddess and a marshal
An archaic verse fragment portrays Liberty's Goddess with a cap and wand, a procession banner, and a marshal riding along a patriotic parade. The narrator recalls the goddess and marshal, with talk of duty, color symbolism, and a distant familial claim, ending with a copyright remark.
Designer of Independence Hall Revealed as Andrew Hamilton
Philadelphia lawyer Andrew Hamilton, famed for defending the liberty of the press, is identified as the designer of Independence Hall, the Pennsylvania statehouse where the Declaration of Independence was signed with John Hancock prominent. The hall remains well preserved, its red brick front and belfry lending romance to its antiquity.
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Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Pennsylvania Statehouse
John Hancock
Old State House
Ence Hall
Pennsylvania Historical Sciety
Andrew Hamilten
New York
Ter
Zenker
Court of Law
Jefferson and Adams on Declaration Committee Roles
A fragment recounts Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1776 as the key drafter and chair of the Committee of Five tasked with drafting the Declaration of Independence. It notes Adams and Livingston supporting Jefferson for chair and lists the committee members including Franklin Sherman and Livingston.
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Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin
Roger Sherman
John Adama
Robert H. Livingston
Franklin
Jefferson
Livingston
Adama
J. Adams
Doctor Franklin
Robert B. Livingston
Continental Army Struggles Amid Dark Days in Revolution
A fragment from a historical account recalls June 28 when a Declaration passage was debated and printed as Jefferson presented it. It notes the creed that all men are created equal, endowed with unalienable rights, including life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that governments derive power from the governed. It recalls early Revolutionary tax burdens shifting from money to food for the army and the army's bleak period.
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Jefferson
Freemont
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bice
M. Gooden
Napoleon St
Bremont
Farm information for seekers from U S Mailroad Admin
The U S Mailroad Administration offers free farming information to seekers, promising no sales or fees. Readers are urged to name the states and farming topics they wish to learn about, with contact details for J L Edwards in Hayton D. The ad emphasizes information over products and invites inquiries.
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U. & Mailroad Administration
J. L. Edwards
U. & Kmaltroid Administration
Hayton
GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Capsules advertised for kidney and bladder health
An old ad promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Capsules as a remedy for kidney and bladder troubles. It warns health declines from weaker kidneys and urges daily use to relieve pain, claiming a long Holland heritage and money-back guarantee through druggists. The copy cites a 1696 Dutch charter and urges readers to seek the sealed box with GOLD MEDAL branding.
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Holland
Ment
Netherlands
Haarlem
Human encyclopedia Davis dares mind to match battle facts
London doctors value Davis known as the human encyclopedia at £2000 for dissection while he boasts a £10,000 worth head. He read Two Thousand Facts About the War in hours and answered dates, raids, ships sunk, and generals career with ease. He recalls dinners with Babbacombe murderer John Lee and exexecutioner James Barry. Shell-cloth fabric enters clothing after the war, promised to yield stylish outfits, as one woman jokes about being dressed to kill in shellcloth.
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Davis
Datas
London
John Lee
Babbacombe
James Barry
England
Philadelphia
Boy's Bill of Fare in 1870 North Carolina
George Bailey answers the inquiry on a boy’s diet in a 1870 North Carolina view. He prescribes daily green fruit pine resin young cucumbers raw new potatoes and green blackberries with doughnuts branch water and two hours in the swimming hole.
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George Bailey
North Carolina
Atlanta Constitution
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