Militia Guard South Side as Racial Riots Rage in Chicago
Illinois militiamen restrain white mobs that have killed and injured dozens in fiery districts. They block streets between LaSalle Wentworth and Fifty-fourth Fifty-fifth streets, safeguard a black family under threat, and escort Richard Duide of St. Louis from a pole where he faced hanging. Negro workers resume stockyard toil as troops stabilize the area.
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Chicago
South Side
South LaSalle Street
Tenth National Guard
LaSalle
Wentworth
Fifty-fifth
Fifty-fourth
Dickson
Richard Duide
St. Louis
Sixty-third Street
Campbell Avenue
Fraud charge filed against New York shipbuilder Strang
New York Aug 2 Charles A Strang a shipbuilder was arrested in West Brighton on a federal indictment charging conspiracy to defraud the government through a fraudulent payroll. The Emergency Fleet Corporation states Strang worked for the Duval building company in Florida and may be connected to concealing a million dollar loss.
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Charles A. Strang
East
New York
Charles Atrang
West Brighton
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Duvall Building Company
Florida
Strang
Rang
Aurora and Elgin Men Vote to Strike
Chicago July 31 employees of the Aurora Elgin and Chicago urban road voted yesterday to strike at two o clock this morning. The walkout will halt transportation on the third division and leave towns including High West Chicago Iron Glen Ellyn Villa Park and others without light. Large industrial plants in those towns will be without power supplied by urban dynamos.
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Hicago
Aurora
Elgin
Chicago
Uurban Road
High
Iron
Glen Ellyn
Villa Park
Bard
Wheat receipts rise in week ending July 31
Figures from the United States Grain Bureau show 33 entries of wheat received from farms in the week ended July 31, compared with 17 493 000 the previous week and 32 516 000 a year earlier. A related notice mentions U S Americans in relation to events after May 25 1911 and a cryptic reference to Kaiser.
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Ington
United States
Senate Firms Franco American Pact Aimed at Immediate Help
President Wilson sent to the Senate a Franco American treaty pledging United States aid to France in case of unprovoked German attack, aligned closely with the British-France pact. Unlike Britain’s text it commits immediate assistance and is described as not independent of the League of Nations but under it.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
France
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Council of the
League of Nations
Seven-cent car fare authorized in Illinois and nearby cities
Orders by the public utilities commission extend to Oct 31 1919 setting seven-cent cash street car fare for the Alton Granite City and St Louis Traction Co affecting Alton Brooklyn and Venice. Six-cent cash fare set for Rockford street railway service and six-cent fare for East St Louis. Temporary rates for interurban Sterling and Dixon line by Sterling Dixon and Eastern Electric Railway Co.
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Springfield
Trl
Public Utilities Commission
Alton, Granite City and St. Louis Traction Company
Alton
Brooklyn
Venice
Rockford
East St. Louis
Sterling and
Dixon
Sterling, Dixon & Eastern Electric Railway Company
Slaughter 19 Japs Across Clash At Kuanchenghu
An official report received by the Japanese embassy says sixteen Japanese officers and men and three Japanese policemen were killed in a clash with Chinese troops at Kuanchenghu on July 19. Seventeen Chinese soldiers were seriously wounded. The Chinese government expressed regret and dismissed local commanders while reprimanding Kirin governor Meng An Yuan.
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Washington
Kuanchenghu
South Manchuria
Meng An Yuan
Kirin Province
Chicago Walks Out Over Pay and Hours
Chicago union leaders and transit company officials failed to reach an agreement after a week of talks. The surface and elevated car workers began a walkout, demanding 85 cents an hour, an eight hour day, 60 percent of runs at straight time, and time and a half for overtime.
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Chicago
Mayor Reveals Planned Big Fire Plot in Riot District
Chicago August 2 Mayor Thompson said a statement supplements his earlier notice. He announced that Wednesday night was chosen for a widespread plot to start fires in the riot district, prompting him to call out state troops. He cited police fatigue from continuous duty.
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Chicago
Thompson
Strike Throws 100000 Out in Scranton Valley
The Lackawanna valley strike has nearly halted Scranton Electric Co operations. Industry after industry is forced to quit and more than 100000 workers are now idle.
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Scranton
Lackawanna Valley
Scranton Electric Company
Hungarian Communities Move Toward Independence From Soviet Hungary
In Hungary 283 communities in the countryside seek independence from the Budapest led Soviet government amid protests by striking metal workers. In Washington the senate commerce committee backs nominations for the U S shipping board. Senator Chamberlain introduces universal military training bill.
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London
Hungary
Budapest
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph
Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
John Barton Payne
Chicago
Henry M. Robinson
Los Angeles
Thomas Scott
New London
Chamberlain
Oregon
Senate
Germans Vote Extra Wealth Tax in Weimar
The council of state in Weimar approved the proposed extraordinary wealth tax by a favorable vote on July 31.
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Weimar
Council of State
Six Army General Hospitals to Close in September
Washington reports the closure of six army general hospitals. The facilities are in Ontario North Carolina Biltmore North Carolina New Haven Connecticut Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana Fort Douglas Utah and Fort Snelling Minnesota, with the shutdown set for September 30.
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Army
Washington
Army General Hospitals
Ontario
N. C
Biltmore
New Haven
Coca Cola sale to New York interests reported for 25 million
Atlanta August 2 sale of the Coca Cola company of Atlanta to New York interests for 25 000 000 was revealed with final details awaiting auditors reports before finalizing the transaction.
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Atlanta
Coca Cola Company of
New York
One Hundred U S Ships Sold to New York Firm
Washington reports the Shipping Board has sold 100 Great Lakes steamships built during the war to the Anderson Overseas Corporation of New York for about 80 million dollars.
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U. S
Washington
Great Lakes
The
Shipping Board
Anderson Overseas Corporation of
New York
Mrs. Barton Payne Dies at Elmhurst Country Home Near Chicago
Mrs. John Barton Payne, wife of the newly appointed United States Shipping Board chairman, died at her Elmhurst country home near Chicago after a brief illness of two weeks.
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John Barton Payne
Chicago
United States Shipping Board
Elmhurst
Here
Wilson asks Congress to create wage commission for rail labor
President Wilson urged Congress to appoint a special investigating body to rule on wage increases sought by railroad workers and to make rate increases retroactive if needed. He asked postponement of the recess until action is taken and backed including labor and public representatives on the panel.
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Gillett
Washington
Wilson
Congress
Cummins
Esch
House
Senate Interstate Commerce Committees
Hines
Speaker Gillett
Representative Mondell
L. F. Shepherd
Brotherhood of Railway Conductors
Railway
Shepherd
United States
White House
Kaiut Volcano Eruption Kills Up To Fifty Thousand
Miss BE. W. Cranen, who survived the Kaiut eruption in Java, describes the disaster that began May 20 and wiped out 20 villages near Sourabaya. A river of boiling mud and lava four feet deep and ten miles wide overwhelmed Blitar, where she stayed, as death toll estimates ranged to 50,000.
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Java
Singapore
Kaiut
BE. W. Cranen
Sourabaya
Blitar
Chinese and Japanese Clash Reported in Shantung
Honolulu reports via Tokyo cable that serious anti Japanese disturbances occurred at Tsi Nan Fu Shantung China. The Chinese garrison commander has declared martial law as tensions rise between the two nations.
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Honolulu
T'si- Nan-Fu
Shantung
China
Tokyo
Nippa Jili
Abnormal Demand Boots Philadelphia Mint Penny Output
The Philadelphia mint produced 38,931,000 pennies in July as demand remains high. The heavy run strains the presses, reflecting persistent production volume in the coinage.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Mint
Gwen Ciphers and Ras Goora in New York Square Romance
Gwen Ciphers meets Ras Goora in Washington Square as she mentors him in English and drafts a book about Beirut relief. Sam Cody, Indianapolis entrepreneur, disrupts their plans by challenging Gwen to marry and move west, revealing motives and financial tensions behind her literary dreams.
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Gwen Ciphers
Indianapolis
Archibald
Gwendoline
Ras Goora
Washington Square
Gwen
Indiana
New York
Ras
Caiffa
Syria
Tufa Goora
Tufa
Eela
Tafa
America
George Washington
Goora
Pere
Old Ras
West Eleventh Street
Madame Blanc
Madame
Nah
Beirut
Supreme Court
Ras Gogra
Gwendoline Ciphers School
Sam Cody
Miss Ciphers
Sam
Missionaries
Rases
Simms
Sam. Cody
Quixotic Duels From Pills to Baseballs to Germs
The piece recalls Count Cagliostro proposing two poisoned pills as a duel, one man dying and another surviving. It notes an American student in Paris using baseballs to duel and knock out an opponent, and a 1916 Chicago physician proposing a deadly germ duel that never occurred as the challenger withdrew.
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Count Cagliostro
Cagliostro
Paris
Chicago
Habit as a Small World of Habitual Action
The article discusses how humans are creatures of habit sharing primitive instincts. A habit is described as an outgrowth of an instinct, become second nature through repeated action. Leading psychologists note the limitless reactions of the human system to environment.
Gold Tarnish Facts In Jewelry Displays
The text notes that a black mark on a white cravat from a gold pin is due to friction not tarnish. It adds gold jewelry can tarnish in shops from cheap tissue paper poor box wrappings or rubber bands and may tarnish in sympathy with exposed unlacquered silver in the same display.
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Illinois
Irora
Shurban
Qsen
Kaiser
Mikado
BIG
Scranton, Pa
Special Commission
Ele
McClure
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