Pacifist Baker Faces Retirement From Public Life
The dispatch profiles Newton D. Baker once secretary of war and famed pacifist turned lawyer. It notes his controversial stance shifts from League of Nations advocacy to restraint in foreign entanglements, and surveys his career from Cleveland mayor to national figure, including labor cases and open shop debates.
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Baker
Newton D. Baker
Bonita Keller Central Press
Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
Nfe Long
Europe
Wilson
Encyclopeddia Britannica
United States
John J. Pershing
Winfield A. Scott
Harry A. Garfield
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Painesville
Washington
Interstate Commission
van Sweringen Brothers
Cleveland Public Square
Peter Witt
Tom L. Johnson
Witt
Gompers
Samuel L. Gompers
Youngstown Sheet & Tube-Bethlehem Steel Company
Stanley McCormick
California
Ohio
George White
League of Nations
New London Briefs Spotlight Local Visitors
New London notes list weekend visitors including Mr and Mrs J L Fuller and family and Percy Parnell from Spencer. Oberlin School of Commerce students Leonard Brundage and Mildred Jordan visited their families. Mrs Richard Holeker of Cleveland and Mr and Mrs Ed White with family of Cleveland were dinner and Sunday guests respectively. Goodyear racing balloon sightings near the village were noted, describing a huge silver ball passing just north and west around noon.
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J. L. Fuller
Percy Parnell
Spencer
Leonard Brundage
Mildred Jordan
Oberlin School of Commerce
Richard Holeker
Cleveland
Paul Snyder
Ed White
A. A. White
Roman Winters
Local Notes From Willard Area And Obituary Happenings
Rapid rate headed in a south westerly direction notes Mrs Cora Broughton and Mrs H Reed Culbertson tending a meeting of Superior Chapter No 328 C E 5 at Willard Friday evening. Word of death reached here Sunday of Mr Homer A Pember in Toledo Ohio on Friday May 20 burial in Pemberville Ohio. Mr Pember, a Civil War veteran, lived in New London about sixty years. Mr and Mrs A B Hart Jr left for a month’s vacation in Boston MA and Peake’s Island ME. Mr and Mrs C A Blackman received the Georgetown University 103rd commencement announcement for Georgetown University Georgetown KY June 1. Randolph
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Cora Broughton
H. Reed Culbertson
Willard
Mae Roasberry
Nebraska
Colorado
Homer A. Pember
Toledo
Ohio
Pemberville
Pember
New London
A. B. ‘Hart Jr
Boston
Mass
Peake's Island
C. A
Uncertain OCR item on local families and visits
Fragmentary note lists Mr and Mrs Blackman with Marjorie Peck and William Parnell visiting relatives. Mentions Grant street residents, Elisa Howard, Katie and Hattie, and Crestline area. Mentions Mrs Alice Holcker and a week’s vacation, with scattered family references.
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Blackman
Marjorie Peck
William Parnell
George Parnell
Grant Street
Elisa Howard
Ters
Katie
Hattie
Erine
Chas
Mayberry
Bis
Alice
Holcker of Land
Holcker Rem
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Britannica
League
Chrysler
Phion
Connie Ngs
H. M. Andress & Son
Broad Street
the Baron
Scholls
Star Shoe Shop
Court Street
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