Four Courts siege in Dublin and coal strike talks
In Dublin the Four Courts battle between Michael Collins forces and insurgents raged from dawn to night with walls breached and seven killed. Across the Atlantic, Washington reports continued White House efforts to settle the coal strike through delicate negotiations and possible stronger measures if needed to protect public welfare.
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Dublin
Michael Collins
Irish Free State
Rory O'Connor
Four Courts
Free State
Washington
White House
Harding
Coal famine feared in Chicago rail system
Chicago and the central and northern states face a coal car famine next fall and winter, rail officials say. Only a small tonnage is moving now and immediate settlement of the coal strike will raise railroad coal tonnage by about 100,000 cars a week, causing congestion and shortages. Movement to Chicago has fallen 50,000 to 100,000 carloads compared with last year.
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Chicago
China
Berlin Flag Boycott Pushs Referendum Likely This Year
Systematic boycotting of Germanys new black red and gold republican flag has reached a stage where a referendum on returning to the old standard is regarded as likely in the course of the present year.
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Berlin
Germany
Chinese Minister Wu Ting-Fang Dies in Canton
Wu Ting-Fang, former minister to Washington and later foreign minister for Sun Yat-Sen in the Canton based southern republican government, died in Canton after a long career in diplomacy and public service.
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Shanghai
Wu Ting-Fang
Washington
Sun Yat-Sen
Canton
Carriers to Wear Badges With Route and Office
Washington reports an order requiring all city and village mail carriers to wear badges displaying their route number and post office. About 45,000 carriers must comply, paying roughly 15 cents each for the badge.
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Washington
United States
Bartlett
Livestock Prices at South Omaha July 4 1922
Light cattle run on Monday, prices up 10 to 25 cents. Top beef price 9.75, hogs sold 8.75 to 10.25, native lambs top 13.00, fat wethers 8.00, movement of cattle and feeder sheep and lambs liberal with 139 loads of stock cattle to country and 7,428 head feeder lambs.
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Union Stock Yards
South Omaha
Omaha
Sex ratio and female survival shape ancient human society
The article notes that among births there are 105 boys per 100 girls, but by age one year 100 girls remain for 95 boys. Survival favors females at all ages, leading to a persistent female excess. It suggests primitive peoples observed this without mortality tables, turning to practices like drowning excess infants, slavery, or polygamy.
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Caroline BE. MecGill
Scribner's Magazine
Gloria Swinson Overcomes Real Ocean Rescue Stunt
Paramount star Gloria Swinson recalls filming perilous ocean sequence for Beyond the Mocks at Catalina Island. In WV. 8. A. Theatre shoot, she leapt from a boat and was rescued by leading man Rudolph Valentino after a simulated capsize. She swam for about twenty minutes and swallowed salt water.
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Gloria Se
Ason
Paramount
Neces.ry
Catalina Island
Lodolph Valentino
Miss Swinson
Mack Sennett
Hereditary Talent and a Quizzical Neighbor
Uncle Si observes Professor Jenks entering the grocery and debates how such intellect arose while a neighbor jokes about his literacy. Lew Carker challenges the claim as the two discuss ancestry and talent amid a casual town scene with Chevrolet ads.
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Uncle Si
Jenks
Lew Carker
Nebuchadnezzar
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