Harding at Washington Plays Golf and Delays Statement
Republican presidential nominee Warren G Harding arrives in Washington after Chicago trip. He plays golf, poses for moving pictures, and hosts informal reception for Senate staff. Harding says no statement yet, plans to rest, may meet Hays and leaders, with Marion home ahead. He receives telegrams from Taft, Sousa, and Longworth among others.
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Senate
Warren GC Harding
Chicago
Moving Picture
Good Hammer
George Harding
Andsteter
Abigail
Taft
Charles F. Hughes
Hiram W. Johnson
Coolidge
Senator Knox
Senator Harding
John Philip Sousa
Mayid
Pomerene
Ohio
Nicholas Longworth
Harding
Will H. Hays
Republican National Committee
Marion
Four Young Explorers Rescued Near Detroit
Four youths ages three, six, nine, and eleven sailed from Lake Side Michigan in a frail rowboat to hunt treasure islands in Lake Erie. They drifted 80 miles off shore for hours before being rescued. Five children, three boys, were aboard at start.
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Detroit
Mich
Lakeside
Treasure Islands
Lake Erie
Rescue of Mer win Dasco of Toledo family by steamer
A girl, her two sons and a niece of Mer win Dasco of Toledo were rescued by a passenger steamer after being endangered. The incident highlights emergency response aboard the vessel and the safe return of the family.
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Merwin Dasco
Toledo
President Wilson to take up bicycling exercise
June 15 news item reports President Wilson will begin bicycling as exercise. Admiral Grayson, physician to the president, placed an order for a bicycle with a local manufacturer and sent a letter stating the bicycle is for the president's personal use.
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Westfield
Mase
Wilson
Admiral Grayson
Wesley Sellers gun battle ends in wife's defense
Gary June 15 Wesley Sellers a steel worker attacked his wife in a restaurant. He fired twice but she wrestled the pistol away and killed him. She escaped unharmed.
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Gary
Tud
Wesley Sellers
Gompers Warns Nonpartisan AFL Favors League Pact
At Montreal June 15 Samuel Gompers urged the AFL to keep its nonpartisan stance while backing a League of Nations covenant. He urged labor to support the league in concrete form to win rights and recognition and aid workers in backward countries as part of a broader peace effort. J W Ogden of the British trades urged caution toward international groups and warned against foreign entanglements.
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Montreal
Que
Organized Labor
Republican Party
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Gompers
League
United
Sen
Nerions
MeocGortpers
Third Party Will Hold Convention
The Committee of Forty-Eight announces a national convention to form a new party ticket to head president and vice president. The meeting is set for July 10 at the Auditorium hotel in Chicago, with statewide organizers in New York and Chicago. Leaders include J A W Hopkins, George Rebord, Allen McCurdy and Athos Pinchet. The group claims Roosevelts and La Follettes voters will back a constructive program against special privilege. It notes organization in more than 30 states and plans ballot access nationwide.
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New York
East Fortieth Street
North la Salle Street
J. A.W. Hopkins
George Rebord
Allen McCurdy
Athos Pinchet
Republican Party
Roosevelt, Johnson and la Potlette
New Party
Blaine’s Buried At Augusta In State Funeral
Bodies of James G Maine and Harriet Stanwood Plaine were buried in Forest Grove cemetery after arrival from Washington under Maine auspices. The Blaine house memorial noted in the last session as an executive mansion survivor. Lieut Walker Bisine Reale, Blaine’s grandson, killed at St Michiel, had body moved from Rock Creek cemetery. Members of James Fitzgerald post American Legion served as bearers.
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James G. Maine
Harriet Stanwood Plaine
Washington
State of
Maine
Forest Grove
Blaine
Walker Bisine Reale
St. Michiel
Rock Creek Cemetery
James Fitzgerald Post
American Legion
Democrats Ready for Meet in San Francisco Journey
Chicago Democrats prepare for the national convention in San Francisco. Local chieftains grin at Harding and Coolidge ticket. Some leaders depart early in the week as Illinois delegation departs on a special train Saturday night.
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Chicago
San Francisco
Harding
Coolidge
Workers Want to Free Prisoners in United Labor Appeal
Montreal June 15. The International Ladies' Garment Workers' union presses a resolution urging the federation to demand the release of all political prisoners and repeal wartime laws. The New York central body backs the call citing 15 291 imprisoned since April 1 1917 through February 28 1920. A separate AFL convention condemnation targets unauthorized railroad strike backers led by International Switchmen's union head R Cashem of Cleveland Ohio.
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Montreal
Que
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
United States
Central Labor Conference
New York
American Federation of Labor
R. ©. Cashem
Cleveland, O
International Switchhmen
Unclear Quote on Workers and International Organization
A quotation argues that the only effective control is by uniting workers into a global organization. The speaker promotes an international labor alliance as the method to achieve power and prevent suppression. The fragment hints at broader labor or political discourse on global solidarity.
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Workers of the World
Tragedy in Slatersville A Man Kills Self
In Shiriy near Slatersville West Virginia Fred Seckmen an oil driller stayed five then killed himself by slashing his throat with a razor. His wife and four children were present and had fed upon his victims prior to the fatal act.
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W. Va
Fred Seckmen
Chirley
Shiriy W. Va
Here
Train Crew Arrested After Crash In Chicago Yards
A head on collision in Chicago yards left one conductor dead and several passengers injured after a misheard order failed to switch a freight train from the passenger path. The Pere Marquette Summer Special, delayed by weather, struck a freight train at One Hundred and Third Street and Indianapolis Avenue. Engineers and fireman from both trains jumped clear as engines were scrapped. the engineer Louis Bekkering and fireman Carl Bradley, both Grand Rapids men, were detained for investigation.
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R. Bartuna
Bais
Besse Oetrich
Janesville
Wis
Robert Oetrich
Amelia Holliday
Michigan City
Ind
Clyde Anway
Grand Rapids
Mich
Michigan
South Chicago
Louis Bekkering
Carl Bradley
Train wreck devastates heavy freight yard
Report describes a collision that sent orders crashing into heavy freight, destroying two engines and a passenger train coach. Local residents alerted police as fire engines and ambulances rushed to the scene. Fire companies found widespread confusion and debris on arrival with fire starting atop wreckage.
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British Forces Seize Irish Towns and Requisition Homes
London reports Gen Sir Neville MacReady has occupied southern Ireland towns abandoned by the peace, taking over strategic dwellings and provisioning lines. A Lismere shopkeeper and a Charleville attorney were given hours to remove belongings before soldiers moved in. Walls were pocked with loopholes and lined with sandbags as Belingeary and Bellyvourne dispensaries were seized.
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Neville MacReady
Ireland
Lismere
County Waterford
Charleville
County Cork
Freight rate boost debate in West echoes rail demands
Washington June 15 Western shippers argued before the Interstate Commerce Commission against railroad plans for higher freight rates, urging increased revenue. H W Prickett of Salt Lake City presented earnings and expenses data to back western transcontinental needs. Mount Vernon June 15 Five auto bandits robbed a bank at Walter Franklin County of 12900 dollars and fled.
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H. W. Prickett
Traffic Bureau
Salt Lakery
Utah
Mount Vernon
Walier
Franklin County
U S Senate Bill Aims to Create Oil Resource Corp Abroad
Washington June 15 The administration approves Senator Phelan's bill to form a United States Corporation to explore develop refine transport and store oil in foreign countries with a nine member presidentially appointed board American citizens must own the majority of stock while foreigners may hold minority shares The measure seeks to assure future oil supplies and permits U S access to foreign sources when domestic stocks run low The corporation cannot restrain trade to raise prices and would operate under market prices for the foreign oil supply
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Phelan
United States
John Barton Payne
Secretary of the Interior
Senate Public Lands Committee
United States C Corporation
Tayne Gata
America
United States OW Corporation
Passenger on Santa Fe Flies Track in Colo
Heavy loss of life and many injured in derailment at La Junta. Passenger on Santa Fe train states rough impact and chaos as officials work to account for survivors and rescue injured passengers. Local authorities initiate emergency response and investigation into cause.
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Colo
Four Coaches Leave Track After Engine Breaks Crank
LA JUNTA Colorado June 15 Eight killed and fifty injured in a Santa Fe derailment. The east bound California limited, a premier train, suffered a broken crank on the locomotive causing coaches to derail at high speed.
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LA Junta
Colo
Santa Fe
California Limited
Dynamite blast kills 193 at Hungarian mine depot
A dynamite depot explosion at Aninu, a major Hungarian coal and iron mining center about 55 miles southeast of Temeswar, reportedly killed 193 miners and seriously injured 36, according to a dispatch from Temeswar.
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Aninu
Temeswar
Bolsheviki Pour Into Kiev Region In Polish Retreat
Reports from Warsaw dated June 15 describe large Bolshevik forces entering the Kiev region from the south as Polish troops withdraw their main lines. The Red Army meets resistance crossing the Dnieper opposite Kiev.
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Warsaw
Kiev
Budeny
Dnieper
Davis Named to Polk's Post in State Department
Norman H. Davis of Tennessee has been appointed by President Wilson as under secretary of state and will assume duties today. He replaces Frank L. Polk who resigned due to ill health. Davis had just resigned as assistant secretary of the treasury to accept the new post and was an adviser to the American peace delegation in Paris.
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Norman H. Davis
Tennessee
Wilson
Frank L. Polk
Davis
the Treasury
State Department
Paris
WU Simke Witcowow Rune
Resolution to End Strikes by Police Adopted at State Convention
Aurora June 15 Illinois policemen in annual convention here adopted a resolution opposing strikes by men or women in the police service because the public looks to them for protection. The resolution was introduced by a Chicago policeman and was adopted unanimously.
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Aurora
Til
Ilinois Po Ncemen
Plane Crash at Fort Bragg Kills Three Aboard
Lynn Melindy, a San Francisco pilot, and brothers Wallace and Clarence Johnson of Inglenook died when their aircraft collided with another at about 1,000 feet, plunging to the ground near Fort Bragg California. The accident occurred June 15 as both planes crashed in James.
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Lynn Melindy
San Francisco
Wallace and
Clarence Johnson
Inglenook
James
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