Irish Dynamite Plot Barred at Liverpool in Commons Debate
London reports Sir Hamar Greenwood revealing a Liverpool plot using 25 pounds of high explosive gelignite at 21 points to attack docks and a Manchester power house. Asquith spearheads Irish pacification debate urging immediate steps to end reprisals and blame shifts.
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Liverpool
Hamar Greenwood
London
House of Commons
Ireland
Manchester
Sir Hamar
Asquith
Dublin
Donald MacLean
Arthur Henderson
Mr. Asquith
England
London Liberal Federation
House of Lords
Viscount Grey
Lords
Ulster
Sinn Fein Plot Threat From British Secret Service
The British secret service reportedly uncovered a Sinn Fein plot aimed at London residents and property. Targets named include the Manchester Ship Canal and Liverpool docks with heightened precautions at both sites. A Sinn Fein bulletin allegedly warns police inspectors that Irish women may be used to commit outrages, advising caution during inquiries.
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Thority
Secret Service
Sinn Fein
London
Manchester Ship Canal
Liverpool
Trish Bulletin
Trish
Poles Begin Demobilization Decree Orders Seven Classes
Warsaw reports the government issued a decree to demobilize seven classes of soldiers. The order formalizes the reduction process as the nation moves toward postwar security and reconstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Canada Steamship Lines to Launch Aerial Route
Canada Steamship Lines plans next summer to start an aerial passenger service linking Montreal Toronto and New York. The move marks the company as a major operator on the great lakes expanding into air travel between major eastern cities.
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Can ®Ian Company
Montreal
Toronto
New York
Que
Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd
Great Lakes
Fire destroys Magnolia cotton plant and 2300 bales of cotton
Fire swept the Columbia Cotton Compress company plant at Magnolia Arkansas along with 2300 bales of cotton. Loss estimated at 275000 dollars. The blaze occurred on November 25 in Little Rock reporting.
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Columbia Compress Company
Little Rock
Ark
Columbia Cotton Compress Company
Magnolia
President commutes Rintelen sentence for exile
President Wilson frees Franz Rintelen, the German wartime conspirator, on condition he depart the United States by January 1. The action grants clemency contingent on exile.
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Washington
Wilson
Franz Rintelen
United States
All Conscientious Objectors Released by War Secretary Baker
Washington November 25 All army conscientious objectors imprisoned during the war have been released according to Secretary of War Baker. Thirty three have been discharged by recent orders including Benjamin J Salmons who began a hunger strike in a government hospital here a month ago.
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Washington
Baker
Benjamin J. Salmons
Western Union Cable Halted by Armed Naval Guard
In Miami on November 25 a U S submarine chaser halted Western Union Telegraph plans to link Barbados cables with a Miami line at the west end of the causeway. Navy orders had already directed preventions. 15 armed sailors boarded a barge, seized the site, and placed the Western Union crew under guard.
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Miami
Fla
Western Union Telegraph Company
Barbados
United States
Navy Department
Western Union
Harding Studies Panama Canal In Zone Visit
Senator Warren G. Harding and his party toured the Panama Canal Zone on a government mine sweeper with stops at Gatun lock for inspection. He plans further engagements with Panamanian officials and will stay on the Pacific side through Friday.
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Harding
Canal
Congress
Col
Chester Harding
Canal Zone
Pacific Terminal
Pacific
Mr. Harding
Porras
Panama
Palace
Ford to pay over seven million in employee bonuses
Detroit, Nov 25. Ford Motor company announces bonuses totaling more than 7 million dollars for employees. Distribution starts January 1. Edsel B. Ford also states an extra 3 percent for Ford investment certificates held by employees for the six months ending Dec 31, bringing total certificates return to 14 percent for 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Ford Motor Company
Edsel B. Ford
Ford
Bandits Rob Messenger and Firms in Chicago Robbery
Auto bandits held up Eric Marks a 20 year old messenger for the Sixty third and Halsted State Savings bank and took a satchel with 2887 and 1269 in checks. Pursuit failed due to a mistaken address. Two payroll bandits escaped with the 2700 payroll of Schoenbrun Co tire makers.
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Chicago
Eric Marks
Sixty-third
Halsted State Savings Bank
Schoenbrun & Co
Burn Alderman in Effigy
Sheboygan Wisconsin reports a public demonstration with a captured German cannon as part of a protest. The event, dated November 25, features the effigy burn aimed at a local alderman amid wartime sentiment.
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Sheboygan, Wis
War protest action blocks city storage site
A fragmented report describes a war related dispute in the city council where a storage location was blocked and an effigy of a leading alderman mounted as a trophy near a park and tool shed. The event reflects local opposition and symbolic protest during the period.
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Nte
Pole Finance Minister Out In Warsaw Reports
Finance minister Ladislaïg Grabski is reported to have left the government after taking a leading industrial post. Warsaw sources say he resigned as minister of finance and accepted a new role.
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Ladislag Grabski
Indus 1
Gnation
Say
Warsaw
Aerial Training Flight From San Diego to Panama Canal
The aerial force of the feet will leave San Diego California on January 28 for a flight to the Panama Canal and return covering approximately miles.
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Washington
San Diego
Cal
Panama Canal
Rockefeller gifts reach new charitable total in memory tribute
New York reports a memorial sum announced by John D. Rockefeller raising the Rockefeller benefactions toward about a half billion dollars. Laura Spellman Rockefeller died in 1915 and had long supported religious and charitable enterprises. John D. Rockefeller Jr. noted plans to guide future giving toward improving conditions for women and children in line with his mother’s interests.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Laura Spellman Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Thirty two army death sentences in last fiscal year
Washington reports thirty two men in the army were sentenced to death by courts martial in the last fiscal year but none carried out. Crowder says twelve disapproved, ten reduced to imprisonment, and one pending. Nine involve military offenses. eight for misbehavior in face of the enemy and one as a spy.
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Washington
E. H. Crowder
Baseball Pitcher Stabbed in Domestic Trouble Case
James Hippo Vaughn, pitcher for the Chicago National League club, was stabbed at his Kenosha home by his father-in-law. He is in serious condition. Vaughn had recently been sued for divorce, and authorities believe the stabbing stems from his domestic troubles.
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James
Hippo) Vaughn
Chicago
Kenosha
Wis
James (Hippo) Vaughn
Vaughn
Black man found hanged in Georgia after fatal shooting
The body of Curley McKelvey, a Black man and brother of Ophelius McKelvey, was found hanging from a tree in Dewitt Georgia after he struck and fatally hurt James E. Adams of Worth County. The corpse was riddled with bullets.
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Curley McKelvey
Dewitt, Ga
Ophelius McKelvey
James E. Adams
Worth County
Chicago Seeks End To Vast Illegal Liquor Trade
Attorney General Edward J. Brundage filed injunction suits in federal court against seventy Chicago saloons under the Volstead act. The action targets property owners and aims to close most wet spots for a year, with further suits expected against hundreds more. Brundage says enforcement is essential to curb corruption and crime linked to open liquor sales.
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Chicago
United States
Edward J. Brundage
K. M. Landis
Powers
West
Washington Street
Jamm
North
Clark Street
Federal Penitentiary
Brundage
Police Department
Ilinois
American Women Teach International Faculty at Robert College
In Constantinople Robert College hosts teachers who are American women while students include Armenians Greeks Persians Tartars and Turks. The article highlights cross cultural education under an all American teaching staff.
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Robert College
Constantinople
International staff idea debated at Versailles follow-up meeting
Geneva reports a prolonged discussion on reducing armaments. Leon Bourgeois pushes for an international staff to enforce the Versailles treaty before disarmament. The committee remains wary of a general scrapping of war materials, while Signor Schanzer warns of league danger if no action proves possible.
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Geneva
Leon Bourgeois
France
M. Bourgeois
Committee On Disarmament
Signor Schanzer
League
Hoover Launches $200,000 European Relief Fund
Chicago began a relief drive led by Herbert Hoover with a $200,000 initial contribution to fund a European relief council to feed starving children. Hoover spoke at the Blackstone hotel dinner declaring the goal to aid 3,500,000 waifs in 3,000 facilities and to keep doors open for American charity. The former food administrator emphasized placing the American flag with Europe's hungry children.
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Chicago
European Relief Council
Herbert Hoover
Blackstone Hotel
Europe
Knox seeks peace with Germany despite Wilson veto
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania says he will reintroduce a peace with Germany resolution at the new congress session. He expects no passage before the special session next spring after President-elect Harding is inaugurated, despite President Wilson's veto.
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Knox
Pennsylvania
Congress
Washington
Nev
Germany
Wilson
Harding
Revolt Plot Aims to Organize Soviets in United States
Moscow reports two Third Internationale envoys will travel to the United States in December to form unemployed committees and soviets by trade with the aim of uniting the American revolutionary movement for an armed uprising. The estimate cites up to five million jobless, a figure government officials doubt. Authorities tighten entry controls.
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Washington
Third Internationale
Moscow
Internationale
United States
Communist Party
America
Europe
3 Day Week Stems From Fisk Rubber Plant Cutback
Springfield Mass. The Fisk Rubber company in Chicopee Falls will cut its Chicopee Falls plant schedule from five days to three days weekly. About 1,800 workers are affected as management seeks to maximize overall employment, following a broader tire industry trend cited by officials.
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Springfield
Mass
Navy
Fisk Rubber Company
Chicopee Falls
Quirk Arrested in Milwaukee Manslaughter Case
Robert G. Quirk son of a Rome banker was arrested in Waukesha near Milwaukee on a manslaughter charge after his auto struck and killed William H. Schacht who stepped into the road to fix his car. Police say the car was driven at high speed.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Robert G. Quirk
Rome
Waukesha
Here
William H. Schacht
Schaeht
Quirk
Boiler Explosion Claims Five At Wisconsin Plant
Five people, four men and one woman, were killed when a boiler exploded in the condensary of a Madison area marketing plant in Stoughton Wisconsin. The bodies were so mutilated it took more than an hour to identify them.
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Stoughton
Wis
Madison, Wis
Pete Fons
Irish tensions rise as arrests sweep cities
Lotton reports two priests detained by police and military at Carrieck on Shannon amid broader actions in Athlone with over 50 arrests. Dispatches from Cork note notices signed by And Sinn Fein society threatening action if kidnapped officers are not freed within 48 hours.
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Lotton
Carrieck-on- Shannon
Athlone
London
Cork
Sinn Fein Society
Sinn
Man strangled by corn sheller accident in corn sheller incident
Ralph Gibson aged 43 died when his coat became caught on a screw of a baseline propelled corn sheller he operated. In a separate item, the State Bank of Mohult failed to open its doors becoming the tenth North Dakota bank to close in ten days due to depleted resources.
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Sheil Rock
Ralph Gibson
N. Dakota Bank
State Bank of
Bismarck
N. D
State Bank of Mohult
North Dakota
Gems Sold Value Hits 180 Million in Maiden Lane
New York reports jewelry valued at 180 million dollars sold last year in the Maiden Lane district. Samuel Comover, president of Fidelity International Trust company, estimated the figure as one of the world’s largest jewelry markets.
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New York
Maiden Lane
Samuel Comover
Fidelity International Trust Company
Pioneer’s Body Found in Kellogg Water Digging
Workers digging water mains in an alley behind William Milligan’s Kellogg property unearthed a black coffin containing human bones. They believe the remains are of Mr. Olson killed on the railroad years ago before Kellogg had a cemetery. The body was moved to the local graveyard. Old settlers recall the accident but not the details.
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Kellogg
William Milligan
Mr. Olson
Notice from Volunteer Rescue Army appeals for clothing
The Volunteer Rescue Army formerly the Slum Army seeks clothing shoes hats and related items for charity distribution. Anyone in need should call 417 Green or visit 429 S. T Ave. Major and Mrs. Sneath are officers in charge at 328q.
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Green
S. T Ave
Mrs. Sneath
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