Outrage in Sofia Triggers Bulgarian Martial Law
Bulgarian authorities blame Bolshevik plotters for cathedral bombing and sabotage across Sofia killings. Martial law enforces curfew and bans public gatherings as officials discuss international pressure and retaliatory actions.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
M. Paskalef
Davidof
Kissof
M. Kedelechef
Colonchef
Ratchef
Lekarski
Berlin
Germany
Popoff
Moscow
Boris
Belgrade
Zambrod
London
Europe
Austria
Balkans
Georghieff
Great Britain
Bolshevist Committee
U S Sues Bethlehem Steel for Excess Profits
The United States filed the first major war contract profit suit in this district seeking overpayments exceeding 15 million dollars from Bethlehem Steel and four subsidiaries tied to ship construction contracts over 50 million dollars. The government claims profits above the 10 percent allowed on war work were paid on these contracts under the United States Fleet corporation directed by Charles M. Schwab.
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Philadelphia
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Bethlehem Companies
Charles M. Schwab
United States Fleet Corporation
Father and Son Executed for Killing U. S. Marshal
In Raleigh North Carolina a father and son executed in the state prison for the murder of Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Lilly and Leon George. W Stewart aged fifty one and Elmer Stewart aged twenty three died in the electric chair after multiple shocks. The elder spoke to guards before dying saying he was not in a hurry.
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Raleigh
N. C
W. Stewart
Elmer Stewart
United States
Samuel Lilly
Leon George
Illinois Senate Votes 50 000 to Halt Bandits
Springfield lawmakers react to Illinois bank robbery surge with an appropriation of 50 000 dollars as reward money and 1000 dollars per bandit. The background notes claim 53 holdups last year netting over 516 000 dollars, constituting a large share of national robberies.
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Llinois
Senate
Springfield
State Senate
Hlinois
Kessinger
U S Fleet Heads for Hawaii for Major War Maneuvers
The steamship Seattle sails from San Francisco to Hawaii marking the start of a vast naval war game. Admiral Robert E. Coontz relinquishes flagship duties as the Seattle serves as umpire ship with senior umpires from Navy and Army supervising the Blue and Black fleets.
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San Francisco
United States
Seattle
Hawaii
Grand Fleet
Robert KE. Coontz
Admiral Coontz
John L. Hines
Army
Navy
War Departments
William H. Stanley
War Plans Division
Joint Army and Navy Board
Leroy Eltinge
Bay
Robison
Nebraska items sweep state events and appointments
The Cornhusker News reports Governor McMullen appointing John H. Dumont as state insurance commissioner and plans for a Lincoln Legion convention. It notes Omaha hosting Odd Fellows and Knight Templar events, flu and plague impacts in Burwell, Pawnee county fair dates, and various local civic and school activities across Nebraska including oil prospects in Neligh, cattle shipments to Chicago, and the Grand Commandery meeting in Omaha.
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Altrusa
Omaha
Hastings
Burwell
Samuel B. Cobb
Adam McMullen
John H. Dumont
Pawree County
Neligh
Samuel M. 2Iggs
Plymouth
Beatrice
Cleveland
McMuhen
War Department
Wolu
Sargent
State History Teachers Association
State University
Schoolmasters’ Club of Nebraska
William McAndrews
Chicago
Dehkosh
Union Pacific Railroad
Harry Wilson
Milligan
Tobias
American Legion Convention
Legion Convention
James Elkins
Nebraska
W. C. Cox
Elkins
Antry W. Elkins
Gerben
University of Nebraska
North Platte
Orin Meloy
Sidney
Friend
Lincoln
Grand Commandery Knight Templar
Temple
Pawnee
Loek
Charlies Robbins
Ser Bome
United States
South Omaha
American Legion
George E. Michel
Lexington
Conn
State Department
Agriculture
H. Smith
Orcada
Charles McLeland
H. S. Hoover
Albion
Loretto
Elgin
William Rothschild
Rothschild
Table Rock
J. Ww. Bass
Gas Tax Bureau
Ashland
Robert Batton
Memphis
Neb
Secunda
Over Mays
Anu
K’ E Green
E. H. Meyer
Char
Otoe County
Mamorp
Everett Buckis Bonn
Crown Point Woman Confesses to Poisoning Five Children
Anna Cunningham, 49, jailed in Crown Point, tells investigators she poisoned three of her five children with arsenic and attempted to poison her son David, who remains hospitalized. She claims she used bread with butter for Isabelle and Walter, while denying other killings.
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Crown Point
Ind
Mae
Anna Cunningham
David
Columbus Memorial Hospital
Harry
Isabelle
Charlie
Little Walter
Doctor Watts
Mee
John Sargent, Noted Portrait Painter, Dies
London reports the sudden death of John Sargent at his Chelsea home after a stroke. John Singer Sargent, born in Italy in 1856, was a leading portrait painter famed for works including a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt. He spent most of his life in European capitals with ties to Boston.
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John S. Sargent
London
John Sargent
Chelsea
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Bancroft Burns Incense at Japanese Shrine
United States ambassador Edgar A. Bancroft commemorated the eighteenth anniversary of Commodore Perry s landing in Shimoda Japan by burning incense at the Budd hist shrine. He paid respects to the first American pioneers of 1855 and opened ceremonies marking Japan s opening to world commerce.
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Shimoda
Japan
Edgar A. Bancroft
United States
Commodore Perry
Bancroft
State Moves to Battle Wolves in Illinois Counties
Springfield approves a state program to combat wolves invading western Illinois counties. The plan aims to protect livestock and local farms as officials authorize funding and actions to reduce the wolf threat.
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Springfield
Protee Spares
World Radio League to Establish International Union Headquarters
The first world congress of listeners in appointed the International Union of Amatee for the Radio with headquarters to be in the American Radio Relay League offices in Hartford Conn. An international group urged government action to extend authors rights in radio transmission of artistic and literary works.
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U. S
World Radio League
Ithe
International Union of Amatee
American Radio Relay League
Hartford
Conn
Tors
Govert
Death toll ties to last year with 260% rise in child tolls
A garbled excerpt notes a death toll rising by 260 percent and mentions property losses and children in a 10,000 unit figure, attributed to crab incidents and officials named De.
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Nne
Tess
Cuban Congress Proclaims New President and Vice President
The Cuban Congress proclaims a new president and vice president with Carlos de la Rosa named as president and Machado as the vice president. The assembly confirms leadership in the senate and government.
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Cuban Congress
Ntate Machadom
Carlos de Te Rosa
Guba
Senate
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Gen
Paul B. Malone
Second Field Artillery Brigade
Fort Sam Houston
Preston Brown
U.S. Fleet
Islands
Cornhusker News
Frode Eskesen
Omabhap
Frode
Camp Gifford
Fairbury
Northwest Nebraska Baseball League
Alliance
Crawford
Chadron
Hemmingford
Hot Springs
Edgemont
Lincoln Knife and Fork Club
Joan J. Pershing
South America
D. M. Butler
May Persbjaz
Matzen
Bancroft Barns
Illinois
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