Londonderry Riots Prompt British Ireland Policy Shift
Reports from Londonderry describe serious disorders with gunfire, bombings, and casualties including Constable Higgins killed. London announces Field Marshal Viscount French will be succeeded as lord lieutenant by Lord Edmund Talbot, a move driven by Home Rule needs and policy questions.
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London
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Ypres
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The
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Duke of Norfolk
London Times
England
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French
France
Flanders
Sir Douglas Haig
Sinn Fein
Lord Leutenant
Horne
Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law
Robert §. Horne
Exchequer
Austen Chamberlain
Impeachment Charges Fail in Oklahoma House
The Oklahoma house investigation committee failed to obtain the required votes to impeach Governor Robertson. Final roll call: 42 for, 42 against, 8 absent. Also note: Britain begins summer time at two AM, clocks moved forward one hour for daylight saving.
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Oklahoma House of Representatives Investigation Committee
Robertson
House
Britain
London
Great Britain
United Kingdom
England
James Cox Davis Named Director General of Railroads
James Cox Davis of Iowa is appointed by President Harding as the new director general of railroads to succeed Judge John Barton Payne. Davis, then general counsel for the railroad administration, has a background as solicitor for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad.
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Iowa
President Harding
John Barton Payne
Mr. Davis
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Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Charles to Go Back Escorted by Allied Officers
Paris reports say former Emperor Charles abandoned plans to regain the Hungarian throne and will return to exile in Switzerland without abdication. Dispatches from Vienna claim he will be escorted by British French and Italian officers to Switzerland, with the attempt having nearly succeeded last week.
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Switzerland
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Budapest
Vienna
Europe
Hungary
Steinamanger
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Austria
Spanish heir tills garden in Madrid palace greens
Prince Alfonso, heir to the Spanish throne, tends a royal palace vegetable garden under a gardener’s direction. The harvest serves Madrid kitchens for the poor, run under Queen Victoria’s patronage through charity efforts.
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Madrid
Spain
Alfonso
Royal Palace
Queen Victoria
Oberammergau to stage passion play in 1922
Bavarian village elders vote to revive the Passion play in 1922 in Oberammergau after a 1910 last performance and a 1920 postponement due to unsettled conditions. The peasants who portray the suffering and death of the Savior are to perform once more in the village.
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Oberammergau
Bavaria
Germany
France Plans Ruhr Invasion and Economic Takeover
Paris reports a May first seizure of the Ruhr basin by French troops in a planned move approved by the government and aided by a secret committee of economists and industrial leaders. Britain’s assent is claimed, with the occupation aimed at exploiting mines, plants, banks, and railways for reparations, managed by French authorities with German labor cooperation.
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Ruhr
Great Britain
Washington
United States
Europe
America
Yves Guyot
Prediction of Sheppard-Towner Bill Passage by Next Congress
Cleveland Apr 11 Predictions that the Sheppard-Towner maternity and infancy bill will pass the next Congress were made by directors of the National League of Women Voters after an executive session. Mrs Maud Wood Park reported an interview with President Harding in Washington ten days earlier and declined to reveal details. The board believes the Harding administration's new foreign policy will be discussed at the league convention opening here Monday.
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Cleveland
National League of Women Voters
Maud Wood Park
Boston
League
Harding
Washington
Independent yards reject price rise for steel plates bars
Youngstown Ohio April 11 independent steel companies in the district say they will not follow Republic Iron and Steel in raising plate bar and structural steel prices by two dollars a ton.
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Youngstown
Youngstown, O
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Potatoes Sell For 18 Cents A Bushel In Traverse City
In Traverse City Michigan on April 11 potatoes sold for 18 cents a bushel the lowest price in years and the drop followed growers holding thousands of bushels for better prices since last fall.
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Traverse City
Mich
Rain, hail devastate Rockford with heavy 1.01 inch dump
In Rockford Illinois on April 11 a severe storm produced 1.01 inches of rain in 90 minutes causing hundreds of birds to die and considerable property damage. The rainfall was among the heaviest in years.
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Rockford
Old Blue Laws Printed In Full From History
The document presents the drastic Sunday observance statute detailing prohibitions on work, rail and postal operations, and publication on Sundays. It specifies fines from 100 to 10 000 dollars and up to six months imprisonment for individuals and up to 100 000 dollars for corporations. It ends with a note praising home and a signature line Sidney Lumber Co.
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United States
The Case of Debs and the Law in America
A New York Globe editorial argues Debs is jailed for breaking laws not for his beliefs. It defends trial fairness, cites Holmes, and stresses democracy requires majority rule and obedience to law, noting Debs chose jail and should stay until he agrees to obey the country’s laws.
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Europe
Debs
Hhe
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Ile
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Cleveland
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Tme
Deb
Supreme Court
Holmes
Czar
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Sidney, Nebraska
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