General Bliss Reflects on Versailles Ten Years Later
Maj. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, 76, recalls signing the Versailles Treaty for the United States on June 28, 1929. He argues the treaty was not perfect and notes seeds of future conflicts yet endorses the goal of lasting peace, cautions on future territorial changes, and stresses the League of Nations as a mechanism to curb violent shifts.
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Lyle C. Wilson
United Press
Washington
United States
Tasker H. Bliss
Versailles
Gen Bliss
France
Germany
Berlin
Europe
Alsace Lorraine
Teschen
Bessarabia
Tyrol
Hungary
Poland
Czechoslovakia
League
Restore That New Car Appearance
Offer to restore dull colored cars to a new appearance using Lust-R at home or business. Claims high gloss, toughness, and durability for $4.00. Ends Wednesday evening July 3. Customer to place name and address on Lust-R Book.
Old Glory Grange Holds Regular Meeting with 21 Members
In a regu lar session Thursday evening Old Glory Grange, with 21 members present, conducted a general discussion about the fair committee and a lively program led by the lecturer. Roll call featured pie, notes on gender roles, calling and riddle contests, and a dinner invitation to husbands. The traveling gavel was set for Huntington Grange on July 18, 1929. Lucille Spicer won the prize for the evening and the men will serve lunch at the next meeting.
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Old Glory Grange
Huntington Grange
Lucille Spicer
Amphibian planes may cut transcontinental mail schedules
Chicago June 29 tests with amphibian planes could shave more than two hours from the current thirty one hour air mail schedule on the transcontinental route. Land and water planes will meet incoming mail planes at Chicago Municipal Airport twelve miles from the lake front as tests proceed.
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Chicago Municipal
Uptown Lake Front
Amphibian planes shift Chicago air mail route
Report describes amphibian planes delivering mail from the central post office to uptown Lake Michigan, reducing transit from fifty minutes by truck to eight and a half minutes by air. If successful, a similar system would move New York air mail from Hadley Field or Newark to Manhattan, then by truck to the city post office, with sea flights expected to reach the North River within eight minutes of the general post office.
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Central Post Office
Lake Michigan
Chicago
New York
Hadley Field
N. J
Newark
New York City
North River
34Th Street
General Post Office
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General Bliss
Bills
Peyton
March
John J. Pershing
Hanson
Harald
Sbs Heller Cos
Brown Printing
Compan
Sinclair Refining Company
The
Colson Company
American Legion Memorial
Elyria Belting & Machinery Company
Savings Deposit Bank & Trust Company
West Side Lumber and Coal Co
Gordon
Longfellow Ave
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