Automobiles and Fatal Accidents: Call for Caution
The Telegraph urges vigilant care by pedestrians and drivers as traffic deaths rise with more cars. It cites National Safety Council data from Chicago Cleveland St Louis and New York noting increases in fatalities with growing vehicle use and warns of strict penalties and school reopenings increasing street activity.
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Sidney
National Safety Council
America
Chicago
Cleveland
St. Louis
New York
Rochester
N. Y
United States
Local American Legion Post Meeting Wednesday
Members of the local American Legion post are urged to meet Wednesday to elect representatives for the State convention beginning August 26 in Hastings. Sidney representation is emphasized and card notices will indicate the meeting location.
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The
American Legion
Hastings
Sidney
Golf Course Nearing Completion Sparks Local Trophy Race
The country club golf course should finish today and a hot contest for local honors will begin immediately. A number of players will likely be seen practicing for a fall tournament. Clubhouse work starts soon after material decisions. Initial plans favored native stone but brick appears cheaper and faster to erect.
Parks and Todd Seen in Bridgeport Ten Round Bout
Fred Parks travels to Bridgeport for a scheduled ten round bout with heavyweight Jack Todd. Both fighters express confidence in a quick finish though a ten round bout is possible. Locals plan to attend as crowds expected while R A Carlton returns to Sidney after a Colorado Hills outing and reports a good time.
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Fred Parks
Bridgeport
Jack Todd
Jack
Parks
R. A. Carlton
Sidney
Colorado Hills
The Man on the Street Opinion Log
A ranting survey of social quirks and urban woes. It critiques housing, rent, fashion, and social vanity, notes leap year effects, jokes about two million French husbands, lampoons Ponzi schemes, and mocks local housing and labor conditions with sardonic wit.
Boosters Defeat Kimball in 4 0 Victory at Athletic Field
Closman pitched a shutout allowing only one hit in the ninth inning as the Boosters routed Kimball 4 to 0. Kimball, led by Pickett, was kept in check by strong defensive support and timely offense from the Boosters.
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Closman
Kimball
Pickett
Athletic Field
Local and Personal News Mentionings Buckner family travels to Colorado
G. R. Buckner and his family along with Mrs. Dora Horne of University Place and Miss Louise Eppes of Boston are vacationing in Colorado this week. They left Tuesday for Denver to visit the mountain parks region as part of a brief trip. Mrs. L. Livingston returned from Billings, Montana after being called to a sister's bedside but arrived too late to say farewell. She was joined by three sisters T R Daniels, B H Topping of Denver and Murray Waywood of West Plains, who also visited Sidney.
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G. R. Buckner
Dora Horne
University Place
Louise Eppes
Boston
Colorado
Denver
2. L. Livingston
Billings
Mont
T. R. Daniels
B. H. Topping
Murray Waywood
West Plaines
Colo
Daniels
Topping
Haywood
Sidney
Livingston
Visit by Mr and Mrs M Livoni in Denver
Mr and Mrs M Livoni are visiting Denver this week marking his first out of town trip in years. He has been out of the city overnight only three times in sixteen years and believes the best home would be in Sidney.
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M. Livoni
Denver
Mr. Livoni
Sidney
Proclamation in Warsaw Urges Calm Support for Government
The Polish foreign office sent a note to the League of Nations outlining Poland’s peace terms with Soviet Russia. A government proclamation to quiet the public and urge backing for officials will be issued. Poland accepts Minsk talks for simultaneous armistice and peace, demands free direct communication with its government, and insists on sovereign rights and non interference in internal affairs.
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Warsaw
League of Nations
Russia
Poland
Moscow
Minsk
Christensen Denies McCurdy On Farmer-Labor Split
Parley P. Christensen denied Allen McCurdy of New York claims that the committee of 48 would withdraw from the farmer-labor party. He said McCurdy, J A H Hopkins, Amos Pinchot and George Record act alone, and that not a dozen would desert the party. Christensen was en route to Tennessee to support ratification of the suffrage amendment.
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Bristol
Allen McCurdy
New York
Committee of 48
Farmer-Labor Party
Parley P. Christensen
McCurdy
J. A. H. Hopkins
Amos Pinchot
George Record
Christensen
Tennessee
Amundsen Delays Arctic Voyage Departure
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen postponed his sailing from Nome on Friday as supplies were not ready aboard the Maud for the five year Arctic expedition to reach the North Pole. A gold medal was presented to him by the city council at a public reception.
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Nome
Alaska
Roald Amundsen
Arctic
North Pole
Geity Council
Cox Warns Democrats on League and Suffrage
Governor Cox declares league of nations essential and repudiates a separate peace with Germany. He supports ratification of the treaty and two interpretations to preserve league principles, while urging strict law enforcement and backing woman suffrage as a right and civic good.
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Germany
Dayton
America
League of Nations
James M. Cox
Cox
Wilson
Flarding
Harding
Friends of the League
League
Trade balance dips as exports and imports rise in 1919
The Department of Commerce reports America's 1919 trade balance with Europe fell by over 500 million dollars year over year, while trade with South America shows an unfavorable balance near 400 million. Exports to Europe reached 4.864 billion and imports 1.170 billion. Asia trade totaled imports 1.869 billion and exports 798 million. Argentina led South American exports with 20.43 million, while Brazil exported 8.97 million but ran a larger import bill.
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Washington
America
Europe
Department of Commerce
South America
Asia
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Japan
Argentina
Republic
Brazil
Baltic Crew Divided Over Arch Bishop Mannix Voyage
In New York on August 2, disagreement among Baltic crew over Archbishop Daniel Mannix of Australia sailing aboard the ship for Queenstown and Liverpool sparked meetings of the National Cooks and Stewards Union and the Seaman and Firemen Union. Irish and Irish descent crew favor Mannix as honored guest, while others oppose a voyage on a British-flag ship. Ship officers hoped for a reconciliation as the noon sailing decision loomed.
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New York
Baltic
Daniel J. Mannix
Australia
Queenstown
Liverpool
National Cooks’ and Stewards’ Union
Seaman’s and Firemen’s Union
Mannix
Seek Bodies in Fire Ruins in Philadelphia
Police and firemen search the Fourth Street salt factory ruins north of Arch for possible victims after a blaze at Harry Horner's salt works. Two bodies recovered, but several believed missing as more than 500 workers, mostly women, were inside when the fire started.
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Philadelphia
Aung
Fourth Street
Arch
Harry Horner
Wilson & Co Acquire Balti meat packer in major deal
Wilson & Co announce purchase of the plant of D. D. Martin & Co. of Baltimore. Under the Wilson-Martin company name, officials estimate annual business will exceed $25,000,000.
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Chicago
Wilson & Co
D. D. Martin & Co
Baltimore
East
Wilson-Martin Company
Peace Delegates To Meet Russians In Minsk Mission
Poland's peace delegation of sixteen members with aids and a woman travels to the battle front to meet Russian soviet officials in Minsk to discuss feeding 300000 children. American relief representatives Werscher Walker and Maurice Pate will accompany to negotiate aid and provisions for the children inside bolshevist lines. Delegates carry blankets and food amid reported scarcity. meeting likely with soviet authorities.
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Warsaw
Poland
Foreign Office
M. Dombski
Foreign Affairs
M. Wroblewski
M. Olzowski
Gen. Kulinski
Maj. Stamiroski
Diet
American Relief Organization
Werscher Walker
Philadelphia
Maurice Pate
Moscow
Minsk
Court in New Tangle in Kansas Industrial Relations case
Topeka authorities report Judge McCamish ruling the act unconstitutional in part for lacking clear expression in the title. Judge Huggins and Attorney General Hopkins anticipate appeal to the Supreme Court and confidence in the law’s validity remains. The case involves a switchman accused of agitating a strike in a sector deemed essential to public welfare.
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Topeka
Kan
McCamish
Kansas Industrial Relations Court
W. L. Huggins
Hopkins
Wyandotte County
Supreme Court
Industrial Relations Court
Saving of Paper is Urged by Newspaper Group
New York August 16 news agency reports a paper shortage remains acute despite imports of German and Scandinavian paper and new domestic mills. The American Newspaper Publishers Association paper committee calls strict conservation as the remedy, noting recent spot market quotations around 11 cents per pound with futures at 10 cents.
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New York
American
Auto Crash Kills One Near Chicago Heights
Chicago Aug. 16 Guy S. Riggs 24 an insurance agent was instantly killed and G F Graddey likely to die when the car they rode in overturned and rolled down an eighteen foot embankment south of Chicago Heights Riggs was driving the vehicle The accident was found by a farmer
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Chicago
Guy S. Riggs
G. F. Graddey
Chicago Heights
Riggs
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Boosters
C. B. Mayo
Claude B. Mayo
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Marine Corps
Farmer-Labor Bolt
Christensen Saga
Amundsen
Explorer
Arctic Voyage
League Supreme
Zimbrakakis
Asia Minor
Archbishop Mannix
U. S
Dombski
London
Lloyd George
Millerand
Wrangel
Associated Press
New Tangle
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