Revisions Aim to Make Reservations Part of League Pact
United States would reserve sole right to determine all domestic and political questions including immigration and tariff under a proposed ratification resolution. It would curb obligations under Article 10 and preserve the Monroe Doctrine as not subject to arbitration or inquiry.
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United States
Senate of the
League of Nations
Council of the League of Nations
Congress
Assembly
Council
Union Leaders Alarmed by I W W Propaganda in Ohio Mines
Disturbing reports reach United Mine Workers of Ohio headquarters about I W W propaganda spreading in Eastern Ohio mining districts. Haywood group agents hold meetings with foreign workers promising $8 daily wages for shorter hours if they abandon the unions. President John Moore travels to Indianapolis to confer with national officers on the threat.
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Columbus
United Mine Workers of Ohio
Ohio
Haywood Organization
John Moore
Union
Indianapolis
Lenine to Resign and Test New Power Tile
Stockholm reports from Svenska Dagbladet sources close to the Russian Soviet Government that Nikolai Lenine plans a drastic policy shift then retirement. Lenine suspects power transfer to other Socialist parties but says a temporary withdrawal will prove no other party can reorganize Russia led by Admiral Kolchak at Omsk.
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Stockholm
Svenska Dagbladt
Nikolai Lenine
Lenine
Admiral Kolchack
Omsk
Russia
Chinese and Japanese Clash Deepens Manchuria Tension
The official statement declares a significant clash between Chinese and Japanese forces in Manchuria over the Shantung question. Tension remains high in Manchuria and reports of a separate clash between Chinese and Japanese civilians near Mocheng in Shantung with casualties.
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Tokyo
Manchuuria
China
Shantung
Manchuria
Mocheng
Shantung Province
Death toll and claims from Mexican depredations referenced in Senate briefing
Washington reports 217 American citizens killed in Mexico since Diaz era end on May 25 1911. Senate inquiry notes 942 claims filed by Americans for damages from Mexican depredations. Attention drawn to events at the site Chinese at Toronto on May 15 1911.
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Washington
Mexico
Porfirio Diaz
Senate
Lansing
William H. “Democrat
Utah
Torteon
Mexican Train Bombing Kills Sixty Travelers Near Mexico City
Private advices report July 19 bandits exploded a train between Huamantla and San Marcos killing about 60 people including 12 German College boys in scout uniforms. Gunfire from 800 attackers followed the blasts. several wounded were killed with stones. Eighteen boys reportedly survived and were taken to San Andres Cal ehicomula.
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New York
Huamantla
San Marcos
Mexico City
Pueblo
National Association For the Protection of American Rights
Mexico
Eigh German College
San Andres Calehicomula
Aliens Plan Emigration From Baltimore In Large Numbers
Baltimore residents including many foreigners are preparing to emigrate to their birth lands. Steamship agents report over 1,000 inquiries in the past month about returning to Europe and other destinations as about 20,000 are believed ready to depart.
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Baltimore
United States
East Baltimore
Weimar approves new German constitution by large vote
The German National Assembly in Weimar approved the new constitution by 262 to 75. President Konstantin Fehrenbach formally declared adoption, with opposition from the German National People’s and Independent Socialist parties.
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Berlin
Weimar
Konstantin Fehrenbach
German National People’s
Independent
Socialist
Hammerstein Dies in New York Hospital
Oscar Hammerstein theater builder and producer of grand opera died in a New York hospital after a several days illness. He had been in a coma for days and did not regain consciousness. His wife and son Arthur Hammerstein were at his bedside at the end.
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Hammerstein
New York
Oscar Hammerstein
Mr. Hammerstein
Arthur Hammerstein
Housewives Demand Food Portfolio in Presidential Cabinet
Mrs. Julia Heath of the Housewives League argues housewives deserve a place in the President’s Cabinet. She says a food portfolio should be created and notes every class is represented except housewives. She warns continued high prices could push housewives toward Bolshevik positions.
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New York
Julia Heath
Housewives’ League
Mrs. Heath
All Public Places Closed in Chicago Riots
Chicago eased after five days of sporadic race rioting that left 85 dead and 1,500 injured. State troops police and special officers patrol the South Side while Garritty shutters saloons cabarets and athletic clubs except churches to curb further bloodshed. Colonel Lorenzen calls the scene an armed truce though Attorney General Brundage says weapon searches would be unlawful.
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Chicago
Garrity
A. F. Lorenzen
Illinois Reserve
HE. J. Brundage
Few U S Units to Remain in Germany After 1st Sept
Secretary Baker told the House Military Committee that after September 1 the Allied occupation force in Germany would be largely French and Belgian with few American troops. A permanent American force will be kept on the Rhine from the First Division, while the rest move to base ports on August 15 for return home, per a Pershing cable.
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Washington
Germany
House Military Committee
Baker
Rhine
France
War Department
J. J. Pershing
Salvaging Submarine Demonstrated Off Bridgeport
Simon Lake unveiled a salvage submarine designed to reclaim 75 percent of about 6 billion dollars in wartime ship and cargo losses. Demonstrations occurred off Penfield Reef near Bridgeport Harbor Connecticut at 50 feet depth, with claims it could operate successfully in waters up to 800 feet deep.
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New York
Simon Lake
Penfield Reef
Bridgeport Harbor
Conn
London Police Strike Broadens Across City and Provinces
London and the English provinces see a police walkout protesting pending police organization legislation. About 65,000 policemen and prison officials reportedly left their duties nationwide. House Secretary Edward Shortt told the House of Commons the strike failed in both London and the provinces.
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London
Edward Shortt
House
House of Commons
Plebiscite Proposed Over Teschen District Fate
Poland and Czecho Slovakia fail to settle Teschen. Supreme Council likely to assign the district’s future to a vote. Conferees expect Poland to win due to Polish dominance though religious divisions could blur national voting lines.
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Paris
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Teschen
Supreme Council
Capitol Opens High Cost Fight in Congress
Congress considers measures to ease living costs. President Wilson asks for an extended recess to address railroad wage demands. Senate debates currency reduction while the House backs an FTC shoe price investigation. A three member committee begins studying ways to cut expenses.
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Washington
House
Wilson
Senate
Myers
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Federal Trade Commission
Congress
New Naval Order Demands Immediate Salutes by Foreign Warships
Washington reports revised War Department orders on returning salutes to foreign warships entering U.S. harbors. Fort commanders must man saluting batteries from 8 a.m. to sunset and return the flag salute immediately. If ships enter after sunset, crews should expect the salute the next morning.
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Washington
War Department
Martial law declared as anti-Japan disturbances rise
Cable advices from Tokyo report serious anti-Japan disturbances at Tsi-Nan-Fu the capital of Shantung province in China. The Chinese garrison commander has declared martial law according to Nippu Jiji Japans daily newspaper.
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Honolulu
T, H
Tsi- Nan-Fu
Shantung
China
Tokyo
Nippu Jiji
Proposes Packers Divorce to Cut Costs in Meat Trade
Washington Senator Atlee Pom ene of Ohio proposes a drastic remedy to curb high living costs by divorcing the packers from all lines of business except slaughtering and meat sales.
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Washington
Atlee Pomerene
Ohio
Rebels Gain in Honduras as Captured Towns Reported
Dispatches indicate revolutionists have captured four towns in Honduras while government troops report successes at three points. The clashes signal mounting momentum in the conflict as both sides claim territorial gains.
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Honduras
San Salvador
Kfour
High cost of living measures eyed by Palmer group
Government officials pressed to curb profiteering and lift living costs as Attorney General Palmer chairs a conference with Hines Leffingwell and Colver of the FTC. Grain official Julius Barnes attends, signaling a plan to sell wheat in a free market with price support differences absorbed by the government.
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Union News Service
Washington
Palmer
Hines
Leffingwell
Colver
Federal Trade Commission
Palcher
John F. Fitzgerald
Massachusetts
White House
Navy Yard
Children’s Bureau
Department of Labor
Hat maker Joseph Cohen slain in Manhattan linked to Johnny Spanish
On West Twenty second street near Surf avenue in Manhattan hat manufacturer Joseph Cohen is dead and furrier Harry Korman is dying from three bullet wounds. Police believe the shootings are connected to the Johnny Spanish gang killing and were well planned features of a wider feud.
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Coney Island
N. Y
Joseph Cohen
Manhattan
Harry Korman
West Twenty-second Street
Surf Avenue
Johnny Spanish
Manhatttan
Cohen
Korman
High Power Explosives Used in Italy Strike Plot
Radicals planted high power explosives in Taranto near Chiatona during a planned general strike on July 21. Five people were killed as parts of bodies flew several hundred feet. Police say no railway damage occurred.
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Italy
Explo
Chiatona
Taranto
Sives
Fletcher Attacks Shipping Board Vessel Sales Policy
Senator Duncan Fletcher condemns the United States Shipping Board policy of selling undesirable steel and wooden vessels to foreign agents at private sale. He notes his past role as Commerce Committee chair and challenges the practice.
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Washington
United States Shipping Board
Duncan Fletcher
Commerce Committee
Quake Shakes Pacific Fleet Off Coloma Coast
Six dreadnoughts of the Pacific fleet were shaken by a double earthquake shock about 20 miles off the west coast of Coloma Mexico. No warships were reported damaged.
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New Mexico
Coloma
Mexico
Plane Crash in Ames Kills Child at Takeoff
An airplane piloted by Lieut. Walter Harriman failed to rise at takeoff in Ames Iowa and crashed into a crowd of spectators. A six year old girl was killed and another child was probably fatally injured while several other persons were hurt.
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Ames
Iowa
Walter Harriman
Storage Tax Urged By Representative Washington Novel plan to tax stored foods
Representative B. F. Welty of Ohio introduces a bill to tax staple foods held in cold storage. The tax scales with storage duration and would apply to pork veal lamb kid poultry fish eggs butter and manufactured food products.
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Washington
B. F. Welty
Ohio
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Praised by Expectant Mother
Mrs Pearl Monyhan of Mitchell Indiana reports neuralgia relief and renewed strength after three bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound during pregnancy and asserts the medicine aided her health for both mother and seven month old baby. Her letter endorses the product as essential to maternity care and notes positive feedback arriving to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Mitchell
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pearl Monyhan
Boston Recruit Protests “Restoad the status quo ante”
In a southern training camp a profane infan try sergeant drills raw rookies. Each recruit executes a movement differently, yielding unsatisfactory results. A Boston recruit, formerly a Harvard student, interrupts with a mock formal plea for regular military phrasing.
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Boston
Harvard
Beg Pandon
Sargeant
Moah Propah
Cartoons Magazine
Typist Confusion Over References and Marriage
A humorous exchange shows Jones asking for references from a former employer. The typist responds with a twist revealing she is married to him, complicating the request.
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Jones
Try Phosphate To Aid Nervous, Thin People
A historical health note argues that phosphorus deficiency causes nervousness and thinness. It cites experiments and a 1918 chemistry text noting underestimation of phosphorus needs and promotes organic phosphate as a remedy to restore vigor and health.
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