Poindexter criticizes the League amid internationalist clash
Senator Poindexter denounces the League covenant and warns against global despotism amid heated debate in the foreign relations committee. He contrasts elite and proletarian internationalism, defends wartime sacrifice, and argues centralized world control erodes national sovereignty as Bulgaria's minister Panaretoff attends.
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League
Poindexter
M. Stephen Panaretoff
Germany
St Aloysius Carnival Plans and New Members Admitted
A large St Aloysius T A B meeting admitted ten new members and received five applications. Carnival committees report progress for the four night event with minstrel shows dancing and entertainment nightly. Home Coming Day May 30 receives cooperative support from city committees. Also notes Pythian Sisters Apollo Temple program and bowling trip to Meriden with Middletown team members among the players.
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St. Aloysius T. A .B. Society
Jace
Common Council and
War Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
M. Dunn
David Fitzgerald
Tosephi Rafftery
Meriden
Middletown
Winchester Arms Company
Dan. Ahern
Ex Ambassador Herrick Stricken After Friend's Death
Myron T. Herrick of Cleveland former ambassador to France and Ohio governor is seriously ill at the Hotel Huntington Pasadena Ca. A heart attack is linked to the sudden death of his friend Howard T. Eells of Cleveland. Herrick, in his 65th year, led Ohio 1908 to 1910 and 1912 to 1914 and once presided over the American Bankers Association.
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Frotf. Herricn
Herrick
Myron T. Herrick
Cleveland
Ohio
France
Huntington
Pasadena
Cal
Howard T. Eells
American Bankers’ Association
Stock Quotations and The Loyal Wife Story
New York stock market opened irregularly with initial declines then rallied, with Baldwin Locomotive and United Cigar Stores among top movers. Grain and cattle markets saw modest shifts in Chicago. Feature fiction tale A Loyal Wife by Everybody's Magazine follows Lena and her mountaineer husband George as they navigate daily life with sly humor.
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New York
Marine Preferred
Southern Pacific
Reading
United States
Pan-American Petroleum
Baldwin
Interborough
Baldwin Locomotive
United Cigar Stores
General Motors
Bribery Claims Hit Third Naval District Officers
Secretary Daniels received proofs from Major John G. Muir alleging three naval district officers in New York accepted bribes to abuse authority. One officer allegedly took 1000 dollars to pass an unfit man into service, another transferred a man for 500, and a yeoman is accused of 300. Other arrests anticipated. investigators say irregularities seem limited to the third district and naval reserve.
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Daniels
Muir
Washington
New York
John G. Muir
Naval Reserve Force
Miss Hannah Leahy Dies in New York Gas Incident
Greenwich, Feb. 19 Miss Hannah C Leahy formerly of this town and secretary to attorney Frederick N Watriss of New York was found dead yesterday in her 156 Waverly Street apartment. The gas line to a heater had been detached and gas turned on, death believed accidental. Survived by a brother in army service at Sandy Hook, another brother Daniel of Greenwich, and two sisters Mrs Thomas Hasset and Mrs John Manion. Body brought here for burial.
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Greenwich
Hannah C. Leahy
Frederick N. Watriss
Nassau Street
New York
Waverly Street
Miss Leahy
Sandy Hook
Daniel
This Place
Thomas Hasset
John Manion
Baker Sends Message To Clemenceau For Recovery
Secretary of War Baker via General Pershing sent to Premier Clemenceau a message expressing hope for a speedy recovery. He praised Clemenceau's genius and determination and wished the same spirit to help him triumph over the assassin's bullet and to save him for further service to France and the world.
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Baker
Washington
General Pershing
Clemenceau
France
Hold-up Man Arrested Near Boston State House
Assam Panian was arrested after attempting to hold up two women with a pistol near the Boston State House. He tried to force Mary Cunnoigs of Milton and her sister, who was with two children, to surrender money as crowds looked on. Panian likely to be sent to the hospital for examination.
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Boston
Assam Panian
Panian
Mary Cunnoigs
Milton
State House
Shipping Board Policies Reported to Congress
Washington February 19 the shipping board must report to Congress on policies for construction and operation of ships for the American Merchant marine under a House resolution. The House discharged the Merchant Marine Committee from further consideration of the measure sponsored by Representative Gould Republican New York.
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Shipping Board
Washington
The
Congress
House
House Merchant Marine Committee
Gould
Republican
New York
New Haven County Caucus Nominates Commissioners
Hartford February 19. At the New Haven county caucus Jacob D. Walter of Cheshire was renominated county commissioner by 18 votes to 14 for Manley J. Cheney of Milford. On Walter’s motion Col. Geddes of Waterbury was unanimously renominated as county commissioner.
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New Haven
Hartford
Jacob D. Walter
Cheshire
Manley J. Cheney
Milford
Walter
Col
Geddes
Waterbury
Resolution Urges Allied Force Into Russia
Senator McCumber of North Dakota introduced a senate resolution urging the United States and its allies to send a sufficient force into Russia to subdue the Bolsheviks this afternoon.
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Russia
Washington
United States
Senate
McCumber
North Dakota
Hal Chase Traded to Giants for Ratden and Holke
Hal Chase, recently exonerated of gambling on ball games, is traded to the New York Giants this afternoon from Cincinnati in exchange for catcher Ratden and first baseman Holke.
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Hal Chase
Giants
New York
Cincinnati
New York Giants
Ratden
Holke
Soweheag Encampment Chooses New Patriarchial Degree Candidates
Sowheag Encampment, Nep. 6, I. C. O. F. raised 12 candidates to the Patriarchial degree at their meeting last evening. The ladies of the Eastern Star plan a meeting at the Red Cross rooms Thursday.
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The
Eastern Star
Red Cross Rooms
Thurs
Americans Quell Mutiny at French Reform School
American soldiers were called in to quell a mutiny at a Bordeaux girls reformatory on February 19. Fire hoses were used to disperse the defiant detainees and the uprising was routed.
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Bordeaux
CIGARS AT LEAST EIGHT INCHES LONG
A Hartford house petition by Representative Covert of New Britain would ban smoking cigars under eight inches in the chamber. The public health and safety committee will host a February 26 hall viewing of Fit to Fight for a male audience. An $80,000 reform school project at Cheshire’s reformatory was tabled.
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Hartford
Representative Covert
New Britain
Public Health and Safety Committee
Judiciary and Appropriations Committee
William Higgins
Coventry
Reformatory
Cheshire
Antonio Vertuccio
Charles Morgan Smith
Old Salybrook
Henry A. Taylor
Seymour
Legislature urged to curb coal adulteration in Minnesota
Duluth Herald argues the Minnesota Legislature should protect the public from paying high prices for adulterated coal and proposes practical measures. The piece notes rising costs and poorer coal grades, urging action through existing railroad and warehouse commission machinery to prevent fraud and ensure fuel content truthfulness.
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Minnesota
Duluth
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Alleged gunmen seek release in habeas plea
Hartford February 19 Attorney Edward J Meyers filed for a writ of habeas corpus in Judge Edward L Smith’s court on behalf of William Bessler and Michael O Donnell two of the Manchester gunmen arrested in Hoboken N J and held on murder charges He contends they were denied a court hearing and that the delays in their cases are unreasonable Hearings on the application are set for tomorrow If granted the writ may not help as they could be re arrested on technical charges pending the murder trial
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Bessler
McDonnell
Hartford
William Bessler
Michael O’donnell
Manchester
Hoboken
N. J
Edward J. Meyers
Edward L. Smith
Restaurant diner bent roast beef coupon in protest
A diner ordered roast beef with a whole coupon and was served. He tried to cut the beef but failed and demanded a replacement. The waiter replied that the coupon could not be reused because it had been bent.
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Pearson’s Weekly
Obituary notices for Margaret Murray Clarence Priest and Lois Camp
Obituary notices report Miss Margaret A. Murray of Somerville Mass dying Feb 18 1919 with funeral plans and local arrangements. also funeral of Clarence A Priest held at Higganum with interment in Higganum cemetery. and funeral for Miss Lois Camp set for Durham Congregational church with Rev Mr Ruge officiating.
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Clarence A. Priest
Higganum
S. E
Lawson
Psigee
Miss Lois Camp
Durham
Ruge
Invalids Chair Enables Independent Motion
An electrically driven wheel chair, featured by Popular Mechanics, aids independence from attendants. Its three bicycle-like wheels include a large forward guiding wheel to mount curbs and obstructions. A lever on the left arm allows full control of speed.
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Popular Mechanics
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