Germany bids for Spain friendship by oily promises
Berlin dispatch reports a German foreign under-secretary told a Spanish journalist Germany seeks friendliest feelings with Spain after the Pa tricio sinking. He blamed England for delaying ships and said Germany would aid Spain postwar by all possible means, including plans to form a company to buy Spain fruit crop.
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London
Berlin
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Spain
Patricio
England
German minister regrets sinking of three Swedish steamers
The German minister in Stockholm told Swedish foreign minister he deeply regrets the sinking of the steamers Vesterland Viken and Aspen in the Gulf of Bothnia. The grain laden ships were recently released from a British port and several crew members died. The incident caused intense indignation in Sweden.
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London
Stockholm
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Viken
Aspen
Gulf of Bothnia
Vessela
Sweden
Oho Workmen Horton Board Ships 10 Get Compensation
Washington May 21 The New York workmen s compensation law upheld by the supreme court was construed as not applicable to workmen injured while on ships in New York s navigable waters The Ohio workmen s and employers lability laws are applicable to workmen injured while on ships in Ohio s navigable waters The court held the Ohio law limited to vessels engaged in interstate commerce and cannot interfere with federal law as supreme on interstate vessels
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New York
Supreme Court
Ohio
Gable
Mob frees socialist editor after court martial sentence
Paul Grabe, a Socialist national consular, was freed from bail by a mob after being sentenced to eight days in prison by a court martial for libel tied to an article in La Sentinelle. Neuchatel’s consul requested protection, prompting a garrison to occupy Chaux de Fonds as Socialists held a mass meeting that led to rioting before calm returned.
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Switzerland
Paris
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Abel
la Sentinelle
Neuchatel
Reunion of Two Branches Presbyterian Church Vote
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States voted in favor of reuniting the North and South branches. A copy of the resolution was ordered sent to the Southern Assembly in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Texas
General Assembly of the
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United States of America
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South
Southern Assembly
Birmingham
Alabama
War Revenue Bill Held Up by Mail Rate Fight
Washington May 21 The war revenue bill's fate in the House remained uncertain as Ways and Means Committee members debated second class mail rates and the advertising tax. A new graduated mail zone proposal drew strong interest, while a proposed factory auto tax faced stiff opposition and an amendment to tax only manufacturers earning over eight percent on capital stock was adopted.
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Banner
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Ways and Means Committee
Kelly
Michigan
Doremus
Heinz loses antitrust suit on copper monopoly case
Washington May 21 Arthur P Heinz representative of Heinz copper interests lost in the supreme court decision today on treble damages under the Sherman antitrust law against Amalgamated Copper Co Lewison Interests William Rockefeller and others charged with an attempted monopoly of the Montana copper industry The court sustained dismissal of the Heinz suit.
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Washington
Arthur P. Heinz
Heinz Copper
Supreme Court
Amalgamated Copper Co
Lewison
William Rockefeller
Montana
Heinz
Stores stormed by hungry mobs in Lisbon riot
In Lisbon, Portugal, on May 21, riots broke out over bread and potato shortages. Mobs attacked several stores before order was restored by the authorities.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Via
Parta
Red Cross Nurses Die In Naval Shelling Accident
Two American nurses aboard an ambulance unit were killed when a shell fired in practice ricocheted off water and struck the ship. A third nurse was seriously wounded as the steamship, carrying 60 women nurses among about 260 base hospital crew, sailed for Europe with bodies brought ashore at an American port. Official causes withheld by army and navy officials pending explanation.
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New York
France
Europe
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Waas
Voth Arty
Navy
Nurses killed on ship named Edith Ayres and Helen Wood
Washington May 21 two Red Cross nurses killed on the American steamship were Edith Ayres and Helen Burnett Wood. Both had served at Cook County Hospital Chicago before joining hospital unit No 12. Ayres aged 36, from Attica Ohio, graduated from Illinois Training School for Nurses in 1913.
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Red Cross
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Helen Burnett Wood
Cook County
Chicago
British French Push In Northern France Front
General Haig and General Petain press offensives in northern France with gains. British forces crossed into the Hindenburg line near Bullecourt, took a special trench, and held firm. French troops resumed action in the Champagne, capturing several trench lines and about 150 prisoners on the Aisne front.
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French German torpedo boats clash off Flanders coast
Berlin reports an engagement between German and French torpedo boats off Flanders on May 20. German artillery hit enemy boats. German vessel returned unscathed. French statement says four French torpedo boats drove back a German destroyer patrol with one French vessel damaged.
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Berlin
London
Admiralty
Markets Update From Pittsburgh to New York
Today’s cattle, calves, sheep and hog receipts show market trends across Pittsburgh Chicago Buffalo and Toledo with varied pricing. Chicago grain and livestock futures list wheat corn oats pork lard and ribe while New York stock listings include major rail and steel firms with mixed prospects.
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Pittsburgh
Chicago
Toledo
Home Rule in Ireland Looms Big
Irish Convention to meet in Ireland to draft a constitution for future British rule. Premier Lloyd George announced a Crown nominated chair and a closed doors convention. Britain will submit the proposal to Parliament once a substantial agreement is reached. Rumor says the Duke of Connaught may be chosen chairman.
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Lloyd George
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Great Britain
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Big Four seeks 2.97 million equipment notes to buy stock
The Big Four Railroad petitions the public utilities commission for authority to issue 2.97 million dollars of 5 percent equipment notes to be sold at no less than 93 percent of face value. Proceeds will pay for rolling stock equipment already contracted for. An early hearing is planned.
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Columbus
Big Four Railroad Company
Public Utilities Commission
Commission
Germany's plan seen as aiming at Prussian world empire
Washington reports reveal a purported German plan to create an impregnable north sea to Mediterranean economic military unit. The aim centers on a Prussian world empire backbone via Dardanelles Aegean and Battle control, following Bismarckian methods. The article argues much of the Kaiser’s war program already achieved regardless of France Belgium or Russia outcomes.
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Germany
North Sea
Mediterranean
Europe
Dardanelles
Aegean
Battie
Bimmarck
France
Belgium
Russia
Market in War Time Topic for Grocers Meet
delegates to the 20th annual convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers will discuss market conditions in war time. Prominent speakers from Iowa New York Providence and Davenport will address the gathering with social events planned including a dance banquet and Yankee lunch for visiting members. Local grocers prepared to entertain about thousands of attendees as the event opens tomorrow and runs four days.
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Rannee Toledo
National Association of Retail Grocers
Tomorow
Williard McIntyre
Davesport
Theodore F. Whitmarsh
W. Weir
New York
Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Rosa, W. Wair
National Coffee Roasters’ Association
William L. Sweet
Providence
R. 1
American Specialty Manufacturers’ Association
John S. Schaefer
Davenport
National Grocers
Iowa
Cleveland
Overthrow Plot Suspected in Costa Rica
A May report from San Jose alleges a far reaching plan to depose Costa Rica's government with President Tinoco at the helm. Exiled ex-president Alfredo Gonzales, other former officials, and a German agent in New York are named, with $100,000 said to have funded the effort. Reverend William Woodford of Oakland, Illinois, is noted as visiting Coshocton Avenue.
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Alfredo Gonzales
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United States
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