Harper on Stand in Slander Trial in Fairfield
In Fairfield on May 6 the slander suit Ward versus Harper features Etta Murphy testifying that Mrs Ward was seen entering the car of Shan Campbell after alighting from a Burlington train. Harper denies making undignified remarks about Mrs Ward at a 1918 city council meeting and the case proceeds to the jury.
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Fairfield
Etta Murphy
A. K. Harper
Ward- Harper
Harper
Ward
R. H. Munro
Bennett
Fairfield Theatre
Beast
Berlin
Ralph Ward
Munro
Methodists Will Aid French Towns After Chateau Thierry War
Twelve villages near Chateau Thierry will be rebuilt by the American Methodist Episcopal church under a War Emergency program. Funds and supplies will flow through the Methodist Centenary Committee with aid including clothing, farm equipment, seeds, small tractors, and some cattle. Community centers will be built in each village to provide light, rest, reading, music, and children’s care as evangelistic and reconstruction work proceeds.
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New York
Chateau- Thierry
Paris
American Methodist Episcopal Church
Bouredches
Vaux
le Thiolet
Dept of
Chateau-Thierry
Earnest W. Bushee
France
Department of War Emergency and Reconstruction
Methodist Joint Certenary Committee
Dr. Bysshe
Prehistoric Almanac in British Museum Unearthed
A medieval style almanac sits in the British Museum dating 1,200 years before Christ during Rameses the Great era. The artifact links ancient Egyptian and early Christian calendars and attracts scholarly interest.
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British Museum
Rameses the Great
German banker Merr Melchier a key peace conference member
Merr Melchier of Hamburg stands among the most important members of the German delegation to the peace conference, shaping early postwar diplomacy.
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Merr Melchier
Hamburg
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A Boston Transcript quote urges self respect over fault finding noting that finding fault drains energy and harms honorable people while encouraging constructive effort instead.
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Boston Transcript
St Louis Baptist Offer Aids Northern Victory Campaign
Dr Fred P Haggard reports Second Baptist Church of St Louis has pledged 7100 plus 1000 from deacons to back the 6 million Victory Campaign across 1000 churches. He cites North South Baptist unity and aims to finish the drive by the Northern Baptist convention opening at Denver May 21.
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New York
May
Second Baptist Church of
St. Louis
Fred P. Haggard
National Committee of Northern Baptist
William CC. Bitting
Second Baptist Church
Haggard
Dr. Haggard
New England
Northern Baptist Convention
Denver
Barefoot Freedom And Simple Joys Of Shoes
In a playful Harper's Magazine voice Burgess Johnson recalls preferring barefoot days. He describes choosing to go without shoes, finding hard paths kinder on the feet, and losing his hat daily while wishing for shoes or more money to avoid loss.
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Burgess Johnson
Harper's Magazine
168th Infantry Formally Thanks Colonel Tinley at Camp Upton
The 168th Infantry held its last battalion formation at Camp Upton New York to honor Colonel Matt Tinley for their war service. Governor Harding and Adjutant General Lasher were present as officers and men awaited demobilization details and possible transfer plans. Officers said no definite departure time had been set for the regiment with routing arranged by Captain Roy and hoped for a banquet tonight by the Iowa club of New York.
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Camp Upton
N. Y
168Th Infantry
Matt Tinley
168 Regiment
W. L. Harding
New York
Lasher
Camp Dodge
Roy
Hoboken Pier
Iowa Club of
Jugoslav Troops Make Gains in Carinthia Operations
A Vienna dispatch reports seventeen thousand Jugoslav troops pitted against four thousand Carinthian troops in Arnoldstein Villach Rosenbach and Rainer. Jugoslavs crossed the Drave river and passed the armistice demarcation by six miles cutting lines to Arnoldstein and Klagenfurt and severing German Austria from Italy.
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Paris
Arnoldstein
Villauch
Rosenbach
Rainer
Vienna
Zurich
Drave
Klagenfurt
Luxury tax list targets refined goods under 1919 law
The new luxury tax, effective May 1 1919, imposes a 10 percent levy on excess prices for items like carpets frames trunks purses hats boots and many garments. The purchaser pays the tax to the vendor at sale and vendors remit it to the U S Treasury.
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Washington
United States
Sir James Drummond Named Secretary General of League
Sir James Eric Drummond has been selected as secretary general of the league of nations. Since 1910 he has served as private secretary to Arthur J. Balfour British foreign secretary and accompanied Balfour to the United States in 1917.
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James Eric Drummond
League of Nations
Arthur J. Balfour
Balfour
United States
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Herr Melchier
Baptist Victory
Saint Louis
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Armistice Commission
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Lote As
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