World News Digest Highlights Prewar Secrets and Modern Crises
A Washington report lists President Harding backing Navy and Interior oil reserve policies. Other items note WWI German high command mistakes shared with U.S. officers, labor and anti trust cases, a senate fight over soldier bonuses, and a White House lawn party for disabled veterans. Also covered are a deadly collapse in Poland, deportations, and varied domestic incidents from Mississippi to California.
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Harding
Senate
Washington
Navy
Interior Departments
United States Army
White House
Notable deaths and marriages populate short news notes
Personal Marshall Neilan and Blanche Sweet wed in Chicago then flew to New York. Judge Joseph Sabath’s health faltered after hearing 6,500 Chicago divorces. Lillian Russell Moore funeral in Pittsburgh drew many notables. Anna Swift leaves nearly $500,000 to charity in Swift & Co. heirloom probate. Helen Potter, pioneer suffragist, dies at 85 in Flushing. Sterling Porter dies in Toledo auto race crash. Lillian Tussell dies in Pittsburgh. Royal London court opens with 21 American women in attendance. Everest party reaches 26,800 feet without oxygen and returns. Greek fleet bombards Samson, Black Sea. International loan talks to Germany are abandoned. Eight U.S. sailors possibly drown near Liberia. Belleek fort taken by British. White’s yard fire at Southampton destroys yachts worth over $1 million. Arthur Griffith presents revised Irish constitution to Churchill. French plane crashes near Croydon. two bodies recovered. Ottawa panel backs 20 percent wage cut for miners. Lenin reportedly suffered stroke but improves. Princess Marie of Roumania marries King Alexander of Yugoslavia. Stinnes opposes short-term German loan. Klemperer summoned to Moscow.
National Woman's Party at new Washington headquarters
A photo shows Mrs O H P Belmont president of the National Woman's Party at its new Washington home, the old capitol mansion. The party aims to push a federal constitutional amendment for gender equality, while the National League of Women Voters opposes a federal change and favors state by state action.
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O. H. P. Belmont
National Woman’s Party
Washington
National League of Women Voters
Barnes Named Head of United States Chamber of Commerce
Julius H. Barnes of Duluth elected president succeeding Joseph H. Defrees. Barnes, a wheat and grain market leader and former president of the United States Grain Corporation, received the Order of the Crown of Belgium in 1919 and was named an officer in France’s Legion of Honor. The chamber has 46 directors from across the country, meets six times yearly, and maintains offices in New York Chicago St Louis and San Francisco. Its services reach over 1 400 associations and more than 14 000 firms and individuals, with Nation’s Business circulating over 75 000.
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Julius H. Barnes
Duluth
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Joseph H. Defrees
Chicago
Barnes
United States Grain Corporation
Order of the Crown
Belgium
Legion of Honor
France
Chamber
New York
St. Louis
San Francisco
the Nation’s Business
Pinchot Denies Presidential Ambition After Pennsylvania Win
Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania governor candidate, dismisses talk of a presidency. His wife credits women voters for support while rural counties back his ticket and urban centers oppose. Pinchot plans a summer budget study and to form a top volunteer committee to craft a financial plan for the legislature.
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Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
George Alter
North Carolina’s Governor promotes road bonds and rural lift
The piece profiles Governor Cameron Morrison unveiling a road building and rural development program financed by bonds. It notes Representative W. Hammer citing a Poll speech at the Raleigh Democratic state convention, noting North Carolina currently taxes only inherited and certain other revenues while funding state education and equalizing school funds to weaker counties.
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Cameron Morrison
North Carolina
W. ©. Hammer
2. W. Poll
Raleigh
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Child Receives Treat From Opera Glasses Man On Front Steps
A Florence girl was told to sit on the front steps. A neighbor with heavy shell-rimmed glasses passed by, spoke to her, and offered candy. The child ran in shouting to her mother about the opera glasses man gifting sweets.
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Florence
Opra
Sad Mockery John Howard Payne noted minstrel with Paris days
The article recalls John Howard Payne author of Home Sweet Home as an American minstrel who wandered widely. After losing both parents at age twelve he never had a real home and was stranded in Paris when he wrote the song on a dreary October day in 1822.
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John Howard Payne
Paris
Ohio Gleanings missing names and incidents prompt diverse notes
A wide ranging Ohio digest reports injuries from auto crashes and fires, deaths including attorney S. Wheeler, and train accidents like Lawrence Fickel. It notes new church and hospital plans, political candidacies, bond votes, derailed freight cars, and police cases across Akron Lima Youngstown Columbus and Dayton.
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Great Britain
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Italy
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Hillsboro, Ill
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Daytona
Fla
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North Plainfield, N. J
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Los Angeles
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Board of Education
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Rochester
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Delaware River Valley
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Buster”. Keaton
Natalie Talmage
Constance
Norma Talmage
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Atlanta
W. D. Vinson
Marshall Neilan
Blanche Sweet
Joseph Sabath
Lillian Russell Moore
Pittsburgh, Pa
Anna Swift
Gustave IF. Swift
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Flushing, N. Y
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Detroit
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London
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Black Sea
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Dublin
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Berlin
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Ohio
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Akron
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Lima
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Bucyrus
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Youngstown
New Hospital of Pythian
Springfield
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Urbana
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Erie
Diamond Glass Company
Cleveland
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Baltimore and Ohio
Dayton
William H. Miller
Olympic Movie Picture Theater
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Richwood
Marion County
May Killian
Brunswick
Ravenna
Fred Sanderson
Alliance
George Katuse
Tom Dunn
Secrist
John C. Dunn
Sandusky
Harold Howell
Waynesfield
Allen County
Harry Young
Homer Atkinson
D. Q. Morrow
Hillsboro
Earl William
Miami River
William Oaks
Edward Webster
Columbus
Timken Roller Bearing Company
Canton
George J. Hoster
Hester Brewing Company
John Russ, Jr
Bethel Ridge i
Athens
John Russ
Glouster
Dykeman
Jean Wyler
John Wyler
Newark
Chester Miller
Norwalk
Milan
Tucker & Robinson Company of
Akron School Board
Charles Hammack
Cold Spring Hills
Fairfield County
Earl Gross
Santa Fe
Bellefontaine
Court of Appeals
Common Pleas Court
Henry Klopfer
Fremont
Michael
Frank Solderits
Paul Fox
Warren
Clint Cole
Findlay
William Bayne
Tabor
Lake Erie
Dewey Allen
Quaker City
Edna Starr
Barnesville
David B. Robertson
Brotherhood of Locomotive
W. S. Carter
Carmen
Pennsylvania and Ohio Electric Company
William Terry
F. W. Geiger
Crabbe
Terry
Walter Daniels
Paul Koznin
James G. Johnson
State Supreme Court
G. Domer
Massillon
Canton-Massillon
Allen J. Seney
Lucas County
Rufus Deeds
Lancaster
Addison E. Nichol
St. Clairsville
Tracy
George L. Oles
Bert Hawthorne
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Jane Rose
Anton F. Gross
Eugene P. Rowe
Barberton
Kentucky
Ray Ballard
Greenville
Emmett Wilford
Leslie Coan
James Hatcher
Mount Pleasant
Neb
Presbyterian Church
Price
Charles Snyder
National Cash Register
Bateman Heald
Bluffton
Public Utilities Commission
East Liverpool
Wellsville
John Maybee
Federal
Secret Service
Davis
John Bryan
Yellow Springs
Green County
P. R. Nicholson
Dillonville
Nicholson Coal Company
Sharpers
Florida
Fred Dorman
Frank Kolt
Miele
W. J. Fisher
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