League of Nations debate grips U S senate politics
Republican leaders view the Covenant as a political issue while Democrats stay silent awaiting President Harding's briefing. Senator Borah’s attack on the League shapes campaign talk as Borah emphasizes America’s Monroe Doctrine and non entangling alliances. Senator Reed rebutts the Covenant, underscoring the presidentially driven debate as March tours loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ngton
of Nations
Taft
League
Reed
Missouri
Senate
Borah
America
Recans
League of Nations
Washington
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Demobilization Nears End in U S Troops
Washington reports General March’s weekly briefing shows demobilization orders for about 1,530,000 troops. US-based personnel total 1,281,000. overseas returnees 249,000. Discharged overall 1,238,000, including 74,313 officers. Remaining US-bound 42,169 designated for discharge. about 280,000 overseas still to be processed. Also notes a Farmers Extension school planned in Meriden March 4-7 with Connecticut Agricultural College Extension Service, County Farm Bureau, and Meriden Chamber of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Washington
United States
General March
Ccidents
March
Farmers
Meriden
Farmers of Meriden
Chamber of Commerce
Connecticut Agricultural College Extension Service
Ew Haven County Farm Bureau
Meriden Chamber of Commerce
Washington Honors Washington on Birthday Centennial
Washington observed the birthday of the nation’s founding father with government and business closures and numerous organizational celebrations. In the capitol, Washington’s farewell address was read in both the senate and the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Capitol
Senate
House
Wilson Keeps In Touch By Wireless On Board
President Wilson travels aboard the George Washington en route to the United States from Brest. He plans a Boston arrival, talks peace conference matters, and weighs potential Attorney General successors A Mitchell Palmer or Sherman Whipple. He signs 350 war service checks and prepares to brief Congress on covenant details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
George Washington
Wilson
United States
Thomas W. Gregory
Washington
A. Mitchell Palmer
Sherman Whipple
Boston
North Carolina
M. Jusserand
Congress
Russia
Clemenceau
Paris
Senate
Bernard N. Baruch
War Industrial Board
League of Nations
House of Representatives
White House
Borah
Brest
Azores
Germany plans rival League of Nations with Nordic support
Amsterdam reports Count von Bernstorff says Germany aims to form a rival League of Nations at Berne with Germany Denmark Norway and Sweden as core members. Neutrals would attend if passported, to aid Germany’s war aims, following Wilson’s plan. In Willimantic, American Thread cuts hours to 85 weekly, affecting 2,500 workers across departments beginning Monday, after a 48-hour week four weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Germany
League of Nations
Count von Bernstorff
United States
Handelsblad
Berne
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Bernstorff
Wilson
Willimantic
American Thread Company
Announcing & Cw Ment
Lant
Building Trades Leader Agrees to Discuss Strike
William L. Hutchinson, president of the Building Trades Union, accepts a three‑way offer from Secretary Baker and Secretary of Labor Wilson to dispatch delegates to Washington to handle the strike. About one hundred thousand building trades workers are on strike nationwide, with a possible international dimension as foreign unions are urged to oppose contracts for American contractors in Europe. Workers plan to return to work as plans for schedule readjustment proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Building Trade Union
William L. Hutchinson
Building Trades Union
Baker
Wilson
Washington
Europe
Hydroaeroplanes at New London Harbor Arrival
Seven naval hydroaeroplanes landed in New London harbor and await a favorable moment to proceed from Far Rockaway to Boston. They will join the fleet expected to greet President Wilson on his arrival. Twenty one hydro aeroplane service officers supervise operations from a local hotel as weather shifts from snow to clearing skies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New London
Far Rockaway
N. Y
Boston
Wilson
What the Sardines Said
In the Louisville Courier Journal item a sardine quips about being packed like street car passengers on a cold day with little ventilation, offering a humorous anthropomorphic take on crowded transit conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier-Journal
200000 Will Strike For Beer In U S Labor Stand
New York Feb 22 Over 200000 workers affiliated with the Central Federated Union pledge to strike July 1 if deprived of beer. Six unions signed to a no beer no work strike after meetings. Leader Ernest Rohm said about 590000 total nationwide have joined the stand against national prohibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Central Federated Union
Ldébor
Ernest Rohm
United States
Wells Sentenced to Seven to Twelve Years for Manslaughter
In Norwich on February 22 Mortimer Wells a 36 year old Black man was found guilty of manslaughter by a Superior Court jury for the October 22 shooting of Samuel Johnson in New London. Judge William M Maltbie imposed a sentence of seven to twelve years in state prison after brief consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wells
Norwich
Mortimer Wells
Samuel Johnson
New London
William M. Maltbie
Bartlett Dies Willimantic Publisher and Former Assembly Member
Willimantic publisher George A. Bartlett of the Willimantic Daily Chronicle and president of Chronicle Printing Co. died last night of meningitis at 45. He represented Windham in the general assembly in 1907-1908 and leaves a wife and one son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willimantic
George A. Bartlett
Willimantic Daily Chronicle
Chronicle Printing Co
Windham
General Assembly
Goes on Forever Washington Post installment war tally
Newt Baker advocates printing casualties by installments to imply a prolonged war, likening the plan to an installment bill for furniture and shaping public perception of duration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Newt Baker
Happenings from the Vicinity Twenty-Five Years Ago
Items from February 1913 style notes record social events at Wesleyan and Hartford, with a bishop consecration in St. Joseph's Cathedral, a $11,000 purse for the bishop, local announcements from Berlin and South Farms, jokes and sayings about George Washington and Mark Twain, fishing on Lake Pocotopaug, jail and charity mentions, a Modjeska troupe skating, and community figures like L. D. Brown Son & Co. resuming full work, funeral quotes, and 1898 statistics on Berlin marriages births and deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesleyan
Edward Barrett
South Farms
Tierney
St. Joseph’s
Hartford
George Francis Train
George
Washington
Haddam
Lake Pocotopaug
Modjeska
Mark Twain
George Washington
Tom O’connel
L. D. Brown Son & Co
Edwin Rockwell
Silverstreet
Robert T. Pattiser
Adams Express
Berlin
Mansfeld Post
Also Mentioned on This Page
March’s Weekly Report
R.J. Atwell
Psweler
Main 8&T
Gregory
Willliam I. Hutcheson,vee
Central
Federated Union
G. A. Bartlett
Swift & Company
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Illinois
Arthur Young & Company, Certified Public Accountants
U.S.A
The
Washington’s
Victor Huge
J Brower Cor
Wain and
Court Streets
Committee For Relief In the
Near East
Brainard & Logan
Toggery
Mallory
Main St
J. F. O'Connell
Prop
W. T. Fields CO
Tel
Liberty
New Haven, Conn
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!