Russia warns allies over Black Sea coast approach by ships
A Moscow message warns that submarines and shore batteries will respond to any allied boats within 12 miles of the Russo Black Sea coast. The report notes a warning from Constantinople and cites a Berlin dispatch about Russian Bolshevik agents ordered to leave Germany amid wartime controls.
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Moscow
Constantinople
Alveysels
Russafan
Black Sea
Masan
London
Russia
Germany
Jess
Berlin
Mail Robbery Inquiry Focuses on Missing Sacks
Mount Vernon Illinois June 17 federal authorities continue probe into four sacks of registered mail missing while being moved from the post office to the Chicago and Massachusetts Illinois station. One sack reportedly held 90000 in cash for miners at Benton. Other sacks valued at about 500000 were due to meet mine payrolls in the region. Coal operator expected 280000 to pay Benton Coal and Mining employees. the missing pouch was shipped from Chicago for Benton via the Federal Reserve in St Louis.
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Mount Vernon
Fibelr
Chicago & Mastern
Benton Coal and Mining Company
P&he
Chicago
Federal Reserve
St. Louis
Paris Ace Gives Up Auto Racing
Auto risky for air ace Paris Charles Nungesser, famed French war ace, quits automobile racing after a fatal bicycle crash in Netany. He faces a 30,000 franc damages ruling to the cyclist's widow, amounting to about $6,000, and vows to stay with airplanes.
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Charles Nungesser
Bicychet
Paris
Torenck
Nungesser
Netany
Hoover Plea by Wireless Phone in Pittsburgh Meet
Herbert Hoover urged funds for the European relief council in a dimmer here, transmitted by wireless telephone to amateur radio operators within about 1,000 miles of Pittsburgh. A transmitter was set up in the banquet hall by a radio company conducting experiments.
Markets Report Grain and Livestock Prices
Grain and provisions prices listed for hard spring wheat, best and hard winter patent grades, rye flour, and barley. Hay, butter, live poultry, dressed poultry, potatoes, and extensive cattle hogs and sheep price ranges follow with quality grades and typical weights.
Polish nobleman Count von Niezychowski tours US to aid Poland
Count von Niezychowski of Poland now in Washington to win American support for the Polish state. He notes his boyhood home would be destroyed without America and recalls his past as the only Polish nobleman in the German navy before a 1915 Newport News internment. He has toured Poland amid hardship, then returned to seek American citizenship.
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America
Count von Niezychowski
Poland
Washington
Newport News
United States
Leonard Beats Mitchell In Madison Square Garden
Benny Leonard retained the lightweight title with a sixth round technical knockout over Richie Mitchell in Madison Square Garden. The bout drew about 14,000 fans, gate receipts hit a record $150,600 with Leonard earning $40,000 and Mitchell $20,000. Anne Morgan chaired the American committee for devastated France which raised $90,000 from the bout. Mitchell predicted a rematch.
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New York
American Committee For
France
Benny Leonard
Richie Mitchell
Leonard
Mitchell
Madison Square Garden
Anne Morgan
Billy Gibson
Man Held After Two Shootings In Milwaukee Office
A drunken suspect identified as John Fuller shot at Georgia Brown and fought with real estate dealer Louis Harms and Robert Berkes in Harms office injuring two people. Earlier he tried to rob J D Franey Coal Supply and Dock clerk Miss Georgia Brown firing three rounds. she escaped unharmed though wounded.
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Milwaukee
Wic
John Fuller
Louis Harms
Robert Berkes
Harms
Berkes
Fire destroys St Louis YMCA building with $500000 loss
The Central Young Men's Christian Association in St Louis burned, reportedly from crossed wires, causing about 500,000 dollars in damage. The 500 night school students inside at the time escaped unharmed.
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St. Louis
Central Young Men's Christian Association
Fie
Moonshine Still Discovery Shocks Bayard Officials
Bayard police seized a fifty gallon per day moonshine operation at the old Wisner homestead after a tip led to the uncovering of a hidden distillery, mash, and finished product. Nelson and Sudderth were arraigned. Sudderth fined 150 dollars plus costs, Nelson 250 dollars plus costs, with a third man held awaiting investigation.
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Bayard
Elty
North Vlatte
Lee Sudderth
Rupert Nelson
Wisner
Layard
Nelson
Bayard Lane
North Carolina
Suddreth
Bridgeport
Wild Horses Kill Texas Ranchers Tale From Washington Post
Amarillo observer recounts a young eastern lawyer who hunted a claimed herd of wild horses for a bounty. He shot two horses at daybreak only to find them hobbled, bought from a camper, revealing the prank and prompting his return east.
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Texas
O. T. Thomas
Amarillo
Ebbitt
Panhandle
Washington Post
Fear Is Acquired By How We Teach Our Children
A physician reflects on how early fear is learned in children. A bright patient becomes fearful when warned by well intentioned, inexperienced aunts and anxious parents. The article argues fear is taught, not innate, and children mirror parental anxieties and cautions.
No Two Jobs for Judges or Public Officials in Baseball Inquiry
A discussion of the propriety of public servants holding private employment. It notes that federal judges serve for life with strong salaries and retirement, and argues the public may rightly question a judge who mixes judicial duties with private business to defend or rehabilitate a dubious enterprise such as organized baseball. It cites a Chicago lawyer seeking an inquiry into Judge Landis and baseball, suggesting such concerns are warranted.
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Chicago
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Rexall Store offers pens chocolates and a laundry note
The fragment mentions Conklin Medium Priced Fountain pens at the Rexall Store and special safe convex chocolates every Saturday. It also references an Electric Shop near American Bank and a laundry note with the line Send it to the Laundry. Sidney Lumber Co and a Telegraph subscription are noted.
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Conklin
Rexall
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Gotham
Alec
ST. Louis Y. M. C
American Bank
Sidney Lumber CQ
U.S.A Theatre
Madge Lucas
Kirk & Wilson
Morris & Adeline
Little Bros
Hobart Bosworth
LGTY
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