Brest-Litovsk Taken by Poles in War Advances
Polish army occupies Brest-Litovsk and pushes Bolsheviks back along the Warsaw to Wolodawa line. French General Weygand calls the victory a Polish savior moment while Warsaw reports heavy Bolshevik losses and prisoner captures as Polish forces advance on Kaluszyn Siedlce Milzyrec and Wlodaw on the Bug river.
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Washington
Brest-Litovsk
State Department
Berlin
Posen
Wrangel
Russia
Dnieper
Paris
Foreign Office
Warsaw
Weygand
J. J. Jusserand
Lord D’abernon
Poland
Danzig
Reginald T. Tower
Wolodawa
Pilsudski
Ivangorod
Cholm
France
Germany
Kaluszyn
Siedlce
Milzyrec
Wlodaw
Bug River
Foss sets world pole vault record at Olympics
In Antwerp on August 23 F IK Foss of Chicago U.A. won the Olympic pole vault final, achieving a world record with a vault of 13 feet 5% inches. The previous mark of 13 feet 2% inches was held by an American.
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Antwerp
F. IK. Foss
Chicago
U.A
Geddes to Speak in St Louis on August 25
Sir Auckland Geddes the British ambassador who arrived August 8 for a vacation left for St Louis where he delivered an address before the nation on August 25.
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Geddes
St. Louis
Dark Harbor
Sir Auckland Geddes
Wilson Works Daily Makes Steady Recovery Says Doctor
President Wilson continues to improve steadily says Dr Grayson his personal physician He has regained weight to 179 pounds and performs substantial desk work with daily executive activity He exercises twice daily walks stairs reads and writes as he nears full strength with steady progress noted and he tolerates heat well
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Washington
Wilson
Cary T. Grayson
Grayson
Police Court Safe Robbed in Los Angeles
The safe in Police Judge Chesebro's courtroom at Central police station was robbed of 25,000 dollars. 17,000 was left behind. The courtroom sits above the detective bureau with seven detectives and twenty policemen on duty. Entry appears to have used pass keys and the safe combination.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Chesebro
Central Police Station
Detective Bureau
Harding to Stay on Porch in Campaign
Senator Harding will press the front porch campaign as planned despite Democratic strategy. Harry M. Daughtrey, Republican executive committeeman, said the nominee will not abandon the porch approach though some speeches may occur in other cities.
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Marion
Harding
Harry M. Daughtrey
Republican Executive Committee
U S to Sell Hog Island Shipyard in Philadelphia
Washington Aug. 21. Bids for Hog Island shipyard will be called soon by the Shipping Board. Offers for the government fleet of more than 1,200 vessels will also be asked within a few days.
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Washington
Hog Iand
Philadelphia
The
Shipping Board
Yellow Fever In Vera Cruz Increases Among Spanish Youths
Vera Cruz reports rising yellow fever in the first half of the week with an average of five new cases daily. All patients are Spanish youths and are listed as receiving care locally.
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Vera Cruz
Waterways Meeting Set Over St. Lawrence Improvements
Montreal crowd awaits international joint waterways commission talks due by October 15 to review proposed St. Lawrence river improvements. Canada and the United States plan joint consideration of the project and its regional impact.
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Waterways
Montreal
International Joint Waterways Commission of Canada
United States
St. Lawrence River
Vatican Warns Mannix On British Questions In Rome
Rome directs Archbishop Mannix to practice moderation on British political issues. In Tralee Ireland fourteen soldiers were ambushed and surrendered after fighting. four wounded. Civilians disarmed them then released them after tea. In Macroom Ireland Lieut Sharman and four troops were wounded in a clash with armed civilians. In Dublin gangs loot mail trains and mails, including Buncrana and Kilbrittain, with several bags seized and officials’ letters removed.
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London
Rome
Daniel J. Mannix
Melboure
Australia
Tralee
Ireland
Dingle
Macroom
Sharman
Ballyvourney
Dublin
Farns
Kilbrittain
Buncrana
99 Year Term for Private Mosher Arrives at Federal Prison
Leavenworth Aug 19 John Mosher a former private in the army of occupation was brought to the federal prison to serve a 99 year sentence for killing Sergt Lester Cull in Coblenz Germany during an attempted arrest for AWOL. He arrived with nine other military prisoners from Coblenz.
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Leavenworth
Wan
Coblenz
Germany
John Mosher
Federal
Mosher
Army of Occupation
Lester Cull
Riot in Randolph County Near Town of Coulterville
A riot between whites and negroes broke out in Coul terville Randolph county Illinois a mining town about 40 miles south of St Louis. A negro man and woman are reported shot and their homes burned amid unrest linked to the arrival of black workers in the mines.
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St. Louis
Coulterville
Randolph County
Tinois
Illinois Central
North Carolina House defeats woman suffrage ratification
Raleigh Aug 21 ratification of the woman suffrage amendment failed in the North Carolina house by 71 to 41. With the body having already voted to postpone until the regular session in January, the state’s ratification fight is effectively halted for the time.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
House
Emigrants Seek Return to Europe from United States
Paris reports a Serbian official says over one million emigrants in the United States want to go home. He is organizing a commission to travel to America to arrange repatriation of about 800000 Jugoslavs who have signified they wish to return to their homeland.
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Paris
United States
Europe
America
Thieves Take $100,000 Mail Pouch at Pullman Station
A mail pouch carrying $100,000 for payrolls was stolen near the Illinois Central station in Pullman. Thieves seized the bag from 13 year old Leo Wilgus as he moved it from the station chute toward a post office cart and fled in a black Marmon car with two men, an elder gray man and a younger driver, speeding north on Cottage Grove Avenue.
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Chicago
Ilinois Central
Pullman
Leo Wilgus
Langley Avenue
Othe
Ind
Wilgus
Cottage Grove Avenue
Hunger Strikers to Stay Held Without Acquittal
Dublin announces that hunger striking prisoners will not be released unless acquitted. The government says it will not be responsible for consequences of abstention from food. On awaiting trial for political murders, most remain detained while 22 inmates in Cork jail are temporarily freed for less serious offenses. In Cork County, Derrygallon house search ends with two occupants firing on soldiers. one attacker is killed and the other wounded.
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Dublin
Dublin Castle
Cork
MacSweney
Derrygallon
Kanturk
Balloon pilot badly hurt after electric line collision
An army balloon exploded near Elizabeth Lake 76 miles northeast of Los Angeles injuring Kenneth Frazier the pilot. A surgeon from the balloon school at Arcadia was sent to the scene after a carrier pigeon with a message arrived.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Elizabeth Lake
Here
Kenneth Frazier
Arcadia
Frazier
Bandits Steal Mail Pouch With Payroll Funds
Chicago police report a mail pouch stolen from the Illinois Central station platform at Pullman. The pouch contained $100000 intended for payroll disbursement.
Two Die in Airplane Crash Near San Antonio
San Antonio Tex August 28 Lieut Irving C Stemson and Cadet Everett H Burson were instantly killed when the airplane they rode collapsed and fell in a cornfield near the city.
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San Antonio
Tex
Lieut
Irving C. Stemson
Everett HH. Burson
Popocatepetl Volcano Shows Activity Near Ayctngo
Mexican City reports Popocatepetl volcano is active with luminous plume above the crater and ashes falling on the nearby town Ayctngo in the State of Mexico. The eruption draws attention from residents and authorities monitoring seismic signals and ash drift.
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Mexico City
Popocatepetl
Ayctngo
State of
Mexico
Indiana Miners Out
Indianapolis reports many Indiana mines closed as Frank Farrington president of the Illinois miners wires workers to stay on the job saying a strike now could prompt government action.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Frank Farrington
Ilinois
St.e
Nation Gains Equal Suffrage After Long Battle
Washington reports that the United States has ratified the constitutional amendment granting women the vote, with Washington and Delaware sessions in March and the 36th state Tennessee joining. The piece traces key leaders Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B Anthony Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt and outlines the suffrage movement history and organizational shifts to the League of Women Voters.
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Washington
United States
Tennessee
Delaware
Congress
Union
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Ohio
United States Supreme Court
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
South Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Connecticut
Vermont
Marcus H. Uolecomb
P. W. Cle
Beth Cady Stanton
Adams
Mass
Miss Anthony
Rochester
N. Y
Senate
Sargent
California
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National Woman’s Party
Alice Paul
White House
Ment
Florida
Louisiana
North Carolina
T. W. Bickett
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls
Lucretia Coffin Mott
Nantucket
The
Friends
James Mott
Johnstown
Henry B. Stanton
National Woman’s Suffrage Association
Susan B.anthony
Eliza
National American Woman Suffage Association
Stanton
Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
Anna Howard Shaw
Catt
Frank Leslie
National Association
St. Louis
League of Women Voters
Chicago
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Maud Woo Park
Richard Edwards
Indiana
Solon Jacobs
Interesting Briefs From the Era of Inventions and Trades
A Californian inventor simplifies gathering nuts with a new device. French wine regions harbor little-known vineyards producing district wines unsuited for transport. The earliest lace likely began in Egypt as embroidery rather than true lace. Bible-era references to lace refer to embroidery by many so called lace makers. Gold occurs in Sumatra Celebes and Dutch Borneo in beach deposits gravel beds and veins. In 1914, 58 concessions were granted for prospecting and mining of gold and silver.
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France
Sumatra
Celebese
Dutch Borneo
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Trallee
RN. C
Giacomo Puccini
Pullman, Ill
Illinois Central Railroad
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