Financiers of South American Nations to Meet With McAdoo
Washington April 24. The Pan American Financial Conference to be held May 24 in Washington aims to bring together about sixty Latin American delegates plus U S bankers. Seventeen of twenty Latin republics have accepted with Brazil and Haiti still undecided. The gathering, under Secretary McAdoo, seeks closer U S Latin American financial ties and practical steps to restore commerce and transport after wartime disruptions. Public and private entities plan receptions and tours to major U S centers, with possible California expo visits.
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Pan American Financial Congress
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Joan Barrett
Pan American Financial Conference
Secretary of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo
United States
James G. Blaine
Wilson
Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
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Paraguay
Peru
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South America
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California
Railways cancel cheap excursion tickets and slash services
Correspondence from London reports the railway executive committee's decision to cancel all cheap excursion tickets to curb passenger traffic and free railways for war business. They also withdraw many regular trains, reducing service on most lines by half or more, leaving some places with only one or two trains daily. The note ends with a separate figure stating annual crop damage from insects at $580,000,000.
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Associated Press
London
Railway Executive Committee
Railway Committee
Man Has All Inner Organs Reversed at Chicago Hospital
Charles Schuppel, a 43 year old patient at Cook County Hospital, is described as having situs inversus with his heart on the right and liver on the left. Doctors say the condition is rare and would not affect organ function, while Schuppel jokes about turning around as a boy and living inverted for decades.
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Cook County Hospital
Chicago
Charles Schuppel
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Nuppel
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Scuuppell
Lim
Mim
Wayer
HW. HW. Slominski
Natal
Becker May Get Another Trial Soon
Albany April 24 report says Charles Becker’s second murder conviction for Herman Rosenthal is to be reversed by the court of appeals and a third trial ordered. The decision may appear before summer recess, with Becker hoping to avoid the electric chair and prove innocence. The report centers on rebuttal testimony by Mrs Lefty Louie Rosenberg and the involvement of Rosenberg’s family in the case.
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Albany
Charles Beecker
Herman Rosenthal
Court of Appeals
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Becker
Rosenthal
Harlem
Lefty Louie Rosenberg
Dago Frank
Tiliian Rosenberg
Lefty Louie
Martin T. Manton
Turkish Soldiers Interned At Toura
Nearly a thousand Turkish prisoners captured by British troops along the Suez canal are interned at Toura in former Egyptian government small arms factory buildings. Twelve Turkish officers are separated by a barb wire fence, housed in a large room with rugs beds and kit racks, plus a mess room and bathrooms. Officers receive half pay from British paymasters though their treasury pay lags. Men stay in a large dormitory and smaller rooms with clothes issued by the government. A mosque space is screened off in the great hall.
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Associated Press
CALRO
Suez Canal
Toura
Therr
Prisoners urged to notify kin of where abouts
German authorities grapple with prisoners of war not informing families of their location. Many English POWs or hospital patients are presumed dead. To fix this, Dochberitz officials print postcards bearing My Address Is Gefangenenlager Dochberitz Deutschland. Prisoners are urged to write home so relatives know their whereabouts.
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Rence
Associated Prese
Doeberitz
Dochberitz Deutschland
Germany
Wolf terror grips Holden as county hunts gray wolf
A gray wolf began a spree in Holden Apr 24 is seen in a chicken yard and later in the street with a stray dog. After an exciting chase the wolf was killed and hauled through town in a wagon as a caution to runaway children. Believed to have wandered from beyond Pine Creek.
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Holden
Fountains
Pion Creek
Spring Vegetables Best Tonics Says Mrs Anna B Scott
Mrs Anna B Scott a Philadelphia cookery expert urges spring vegetables as tonics to lift dull winter appetites. She highlights rhubarb dandelion greens asparagus and new potatoes and notes how fresh greens from home gardens will soon arrive. She advises buying wisely avoiding waste and enjoying greens daily.
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Anna’ B. Scott
Philadelphia
South
Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware Bridge
Atlantic City
Nature
England Must Fill Germany with Love Says a Professor
London Apr 24 Dr Lyttleton headmaster of Eton urged Christian charity toward Germany to prevent German hatred after the war. He warned against keeping territory or privileges, suggesting canal and Gibraltar diplomacy, and argued true empire strength lies in mercy. The Evening Standard mocked the view as idyllic but cited past peace efforts.
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Associated Press
London
Lyttleton
Eton
St. Margaret’s Church
Westminster Abbey
England
Germany
Globe
Kiel Canal
Gibraltar
The
Evening Standard
Mary
Great Britain
India
Wealthy donor funds Baumburg orphans high school
In Berlin on April 24 a secret benefactor given Baumburg school authorities 200000 marks to provide high school education for orphans whose fathers died in the war. The gift converts into about 25100 dollars and strengthens local postwar relief efforts.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Baumburg
East Prussia
Elk Creek Banks Property Clean-Up Order
Property holders along Elk Creek are required to rid the banks of filth paper and trash this week and keep them in sanitary and healthful condition by order of Mayor G H Gordon.
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Elk Creek Bank
G, H. Gordon
Yankee slang invades Britain in popular culture
Correspondent notes American slang and Yankeeisms rapidly enter English speech via variety acts ragtime songs and books. Londoners adopt phrases like fix him up back to the wood and step lively and press of terms such as made good some peach make a date freeze on to and surest thing you know.
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Associated Press
London
England
Globe
Health Resorts at Christiania Refuse War Officers
Applications from belligerent nations chiefly England and Germany to use Norwegian health resorts for convalescent officers have been refused by the association of Norwegian hotel keepers. Only those incapacitated for further service will be received, preventing clashes between British and German officers. The winter in Norway has been unusually fine and resorts are crowded with tourists who usually go to Switzerland.
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Associated Press
Christiania
Apr
England
Germany
Norway
Switzerland
Bear on Rails Terrifies Crew Near Big Bear
A big black bear trotted toward a Philadelphia & Reading train near Big Bear Rupert Pa as the crew shouted. The animal climbed toward the locomotive steps, retreated to a water tank, then fled into a nearby thicket after being sprayed with coal and a long whistle from Engineer David Hess.
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Rupert
Philadelphia & Reading
Brain
Davd Hess
Beveridge Sees War Accelerating Democracy in Europe
Ex Senator Beveridge of Indiana spoke at a New York Sphinx Club dinner, recounting front-line experiences and predicting the European war will spur democracy and social justice. He noted government control of industry in Germany England and France, urging U.S. adoption of coop erative, socialized economics to prevent being left behind.
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New York
Beveridge
Indiana
Sphinx Club
New York City
Germany
Europe
England
France
America
Skank Farm Report From Fairmont Rivesville County
Clyde Stewart starts a skank farm in Rivesville in Marion county with 15 skanks. Estimated combined annual income for three farms reaches about 10 000 dollars. Gooch holds 130 skanks and Thornon also mentioned. Pelts sell for 3 to 5 dollars each and a mother polecat may yield about 250 dollars yearly in kittens.
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Fairmont
Clyde Stewart
Rivesville
cWarion County
Stewart
Gooch
Thornon
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