Secretary Glass Defies Five Percent Bond Demands
Chicago March 22 Secretary of the Treasury Glass spoke to 1,500 Liberty Loan workers at the Hotel La Salle. He dismissed five percent requests, pledging to preserve what has been won by American soldiers and noting the loan remains attractive regardless of rate. Abner Larned of Michigan urged quick peace and a rate high enough to mobilize buyers. Glass later addressed the Chicago Press Club and pressed a cold blooded investment stance for future loans.
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Treasury
Liberty
Hotel la Salle
Inter
Abner Larned
Michigan
Detroit
Sald
Chicago Press Club
Glass
America
France
Britain
Hotel Salle
Illinois
Indiana
Governor appointed for Lorraine in Alsace-Lorraine crisis
March 24 reports Alexandre Millerand was named minister of war and appointed governor of Lorraine replacing Charles C. A. Jonnart as governor general of Algeria. The move marks a reshuffle in French colonial and war leadership.
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Alsace-Lorraine
Alexandre , Millerimer
Lorraine
Charles C. A. Jonnart
Algeria
Egyptians in revolt threaten Beheira province unrest
A Reuters Cairo dispatch reports rising instability in Egypt with Bedouins entering Beheira province from the west robbing towns and villages. General Allenby is being summoned from Paris to Cairo as troops are reinforced. riots in Cairo and Tanta on March 12 were suppressed.
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London
Egypt
Reuter
Cairo
Allenby
Palestine
Paris
Beheira
Tanta
Distillers Plan Legal Challenge to Prohibition Amendments
The national distillers committee said it will seek to rule the federal prohibition amendment and wartime ban unconstitutional. Levy Mayer of Chicago was directed to file suit after peace is signed. Separately the Jacob Hoffman Brewing Co filed for an injunction to halt actions against its plan to produce beer at 2 percent alcohol.
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United States
Levy Mayer
Chicago
Jacob Hoffman Brewing Company
United States Brewers’ Association
Federal District Court
Collector of Internal Revenue
United States District Attorney
Yank Kills 3 in Germany
A Frankfort report says an American soldier shot and killed a German frontier guard after being denied passes by two U S troops. He fled and in the escape fired again, fatally wounding a German farmer and his American comrade.
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Amsterdam
Frankfort-on-Main
Hesse-Nassau
Railways Receive $100 Million From War Department
Washington reports the War Department advanced one hundred million dollars to the Railroad Administration to tide the railroads over until Congress provides further funds. The move aims to stabilize freight and passenger services during wartime operations.
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Washington
War Department
Railroad Administration
Congress
Huw Union Foe Visits Paris
Geneva reports Doctor Lammasch former Austrian premier and foe of the German Austria union travels to Paris. Local newspapers deem the visit politically important.
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Huw Union
Paris
Geneva
Lammasch
Austria
Germany
Bolsheviki Seize Ukraine in Heavy Fighting
Dispatches reach London claim Bolsheviki control virtually all of Ukraine with heavy fighting near Nikolaiev northeast of Odessa. Reports say Bolsheviki suffered about 5000 casualties.
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Ukraine
London
Nikolaiev
Odessa
Italy Threatens Quitting Peace Conference Over Fiume
Italian delegation votes to withdraw unless Fiume is allotted to Italy with peace. Premier Orlando defends Italy’s stance while seeking an outcome that preserves the city’s nationality and independence. Col. House predicts the peace treaty and league covenant ready for signature by March 29.
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Fiume
Italy
Adriatic
Dalmatian
Trieste
Orlando
Chamber of Deputies
Gulf of Quarnero
Hungary
United States
Col
E. M. House
Versailles
House
Lloyd George
U S Seeks Answers Over Attacks on Americans in Korea
The state department formally asks Japan for information about attacks on American women in Korea by Japanese soldiers. It seeks full details as a precursor to demanding protection for Americans if reports prove true.
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State ,Department
Korea
Washington
United States
State Department
Women Vote in Minnesota Senate Suffrage Bill
The Minnesota senate passed a suffrage bill granting women the right to vote for presidential electors by a 49 to 11 vote. The measure already passed the house and now goes to the governor for signature.
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Senate
St. Paul, Minn
House
Air service casualties report front line losses
Washington reports 554 United States Air Service personnel casualties with 171 killed in combat while serving with U S and allied forces at the front.
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U. Ss
Washington
United States Air’ Service
United States
Illinois draft list to label 12,000 men as delinquents
Springfield March 24 indications are that 12,000 men of war age in Illinois will be classed as delinquents under the draft law once the task of checking the list is completed.
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Illinois
Springfield
Ill
Tinois
Poles Capture Pinsk With Mitau Taken By Lettish Troops
Copenhagen reports Mitau a major railway hub southwest of Riga has fallen to Lettish forces. Bolshevik troops retreat under Polish pressure and Pinsk, 100 miles east of Brest Litovsk, is evacuated per Warsaw dispatch. Berlin cites planned bolshevik invasion of Germany. London notes Bolshevik defeat south of Archangel with casualties and prisoners.
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Mitau
Riga
L Lettish
Pinsk
Brest-Litovsk
Warsaw
Berlin
Germany
Austria
National Zeitung
Vienna
London
Archangel
Morjejovska
Uncle Sam Buys Many Autos in War Drive Cancellations
Washington reports 96,551 trucks delivered to the war department with 115,187 orders still unfilled after contract cancellations tied to the war’s end. Of delivered trucks 51,884 went overseas and nearly all but one of 20,038 ordered motorcars had been delivered by February 1 with about half sent overseas. Other nearing completion orders include 14,0723 ambulances and 39,239 motorcycles.
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Washington
War Department
Department
Subs on Way to Surrender
Basle reports ten German submarine boats have sailed from Hamburg on their route to surrender to the Entente powers.
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Hamburg
Basle
Wireless Telephony Between Ireland and Canada Announced
The Marconi company announced the establishment of wireless telephony linking Ireland and Canada. London reports the system aims to enable direct speech between the two regions.
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Ireland
Canada
Marconi Company
London
Acting secretary Polk leaves for ten day vacation
Acting Secretary of State Polk travels to White Sulphur Springs West Virginia for a ten day vacation. Assistant Secretary Phillips will act as secretary in his absence.
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Washington
Polk
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Phillips
Conductorettes Prepare Suit Over Reinstatement
Cleveland news reports the Conductorettes' Association will sue to enforce the war labor board decision demanding reinstatement of women conductors. The plan follows delays in restoring female workers to routes and positions.
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Conductorettes
Cleveland
Conductorettes’ Association
War-Labior Board
New Yorks Noted Houses of Past Presidents
A New York correspondent notes four city houses where former presidents lived. Monroe’s Prince Street home endures, Grant’s Sixth Avenue area residence stands out, Arthur’s Lexington Avenue house has collapsed into commerce, and Roosevelt’s East Twentieth Street dwelling is now a shop and offices though still linked to his legacy.
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United States
New York
Pittsburgh
James Monroe
Prince
Lafayette Street
Charleston
Philadelphia
Boston
Salem
Portsmouth
White House
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Hiram Grant
Sixty-sixth Street
Fifth Avenue
Chester A. Arthur
Lexington Avenue
March of Trade
Theodore Roosevelt
East Twentieth Street
Roosevelt
New Plant for America Jujube and Tung Oil Trees
The article notes the Chinese jujube Ziziphus juju ba gaining cultivation in California and the semi arid South for its edible fruit used with sugar or honey. It also mentions Tung oil trees from China supplying drying oils for paint, spurred by wartime demand, but not yet considered American trees.
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America
China
California
Far East
Not a Question of Height
Lawrence Orr, a state board of accounts examiner, meets Simeon L. Henderson the county recorder in Jackson County. Orr admires Henderson’s height but Henderson quips that the question is not his height but how short he is, as Henderson’s books balance to the penny.
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Lawrence Orr
State Board of Accounts
Jackson County
Simeon L. Henderson
Mr. Henderson
Orr
Henderson
Chicago First Negro City
Chicago emerges as the first negro city in America with an estimated 125,000 negro residents up from 25,000 two years earlier. The influx is linked to labor demand wages and wartime travel. Negro labor dominates packing houses and is organized within labor federations.
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Chicago
America
Question on a Multimillionaire and a Carefree Tramp
A Birmingham Age Herald reader asks about a multimillionaire who claims a desire to live as a carefree tramp. The reply suggests answering with a question and references a song line about wishing to be an angel as a test of sincerity.
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Birmingham
Age- Herald
Their Plight and Wireless Fighting Says Foch Order
A fragment notes German forces may resort to wireless fighting after Field Marshal Foch ordered them to stop stringing the Poles. The dialogue implies urgent military tensions and strategic wire guidance.
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Foch
Woman musician praises Pepgen tonic in Terre Haute
Miss Vera Baxter of 1526 Liberty Street, Terre Haute Indiana, claims Pepgen cured her nervous dyspepsia and stomach pains. She says the tonic restored her appetite and strengthened her nervous system, allowing normal meals without bloating. She notes many locals endorse Pepgen for stomach kidney liver and nerve ailments and urges purchase at leading drug stores.
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Vera Baxter
Liberty Street
Terre Haute
Ind
Adv
The Addition reveals marital rift and broken crockery
A comic dialogue hints at Mrs. Hasty's temper ending a family harmony with a sharp exchange and most of the crockery shattered.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Deafness Cure
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional cure for deafness caused by catarrh. Claims the medicine works through the blood and mucous surfaces to restore the Eustachian tube, with a money back offer of 60 dollars for incurable cases. Includes price 60 cents and Toledo Ohio maker F J Cheney & Co. Players: none.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Last Straw Sparks Exit in Tangled Conversation
A tense exchange centers on a repeated declaration of the last straw. She exits in anger, tapping the floor with her toe as he apologizes for a misstep that forces him to follow. She never again offers lemonade to be served with a straw.
Sensible Girl and Engagement Gaffe in Comic Script
In a Boston Evening Transcript style exchange, Maud notes no piano practice after engagement while Edith quips she now practices on the gas range. The brief humorous dialogue contrasts music with domestic stove use.
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Maud
Edith
Boston Evening Traz
Be a Patriot Don’t Mar the Declaration of Independence
A terse exhortation urges readers to honor the Declaration of Independence, defending its emblem of humanity against desecration or criticism. It emphasizes national pride and the enduring moral significance of the founding document.
The Budding Mustache of Youth Twists Freely
A playful look at how young boys learn facial hair, exploring the awkward phase when a budding mustache first appears. The piece uses light humor to reflect teenage self image and growing pains.
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