Export Restrictions Sought as Coal Prices Hit Highs
America First committee pushes ICC and Shipping Board to curb coal exports and car reassignments, and to cut water freight rates for coal to New England. The move, urged by Senator Calder, aims to shield domestic markets from rising prices while questioning whether booming exports aid or hurt U.S. citizens.
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Mittee
Interstate Commerce Commission
The
Shipping Board
New England
United States
Calder
Sasis
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Hampton Roads
Charleston
Canada
New York
Senate
District Employes Pay Clash Over Per Diem Demand
District commissioners face a near paralysis threat from per diem sanitary and water workers seeking a 49 cent daily raise to match Navy Yard wages. Critics say the public supports higher pay, with federal conciliators urging full-scale increases while the city cites no formal agreement. Workers average under $5 daily, with no leave and deductions for all days off.
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Acnitary
Washington Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Rowland B. Mabapy
Commissioners Face Question Over Small Wage Increase
The missive asks why officials assume public is reluctant to allow workers a modest raise, noting the 5iH group and its stance. It frames the debate around worker pay and perceived public sentiment toward increases.
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5Ih
Open the Jails Amnesties Debated in Congress and White House
A movement seeks general amnesty for espionage act prisoners including Debs Berger and others. Senator France will press for a judiciary committee report while labor leaders urge President Wilson to issue a broad amnesty. Debs opposes singled out pardons. critics warn mercy could corrupt national resolve.
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France
Maryland
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Samuel Gompers
Frank Morison
American Federation of Labor
Palmer
Wilson
Parley P. Christensen
Farmer-Labor Party
Harding
Guv Cox
Atlanta
Eugene Debs
Socialist Party
Debs
Victor Berger
Berger
Germany
Shakespeare Dethroned by Watterson in Satirical Outburst
Fragmented satire accuses Colonel Watterson of dethroning Shakespeare by endorsing a Marlowe authorship theory. The piece mocks the speculate rationale, cites Henry Watterson’s remarks, and lampoons political and literary quarrels touching European securities and suffrage debates.
Racecourse crime scare spurs new London police force
England’s Jockey Club plans a special race course police unit drawn from retired detectives and officers of Scotland Yard. Backed by the Home Office, the force aims to curb organized thefts at Salisbury Ascot Goodwood Doncaster and other meetings after wartime lawlessness and robberies anger attendees and threaten public safety. The funding comes from the Jockey Club with oversight by Home Secretary officials.
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England
Jockey Club
London
Salsbury
Salisbury
Ascot
Goodwood
Doncaster
Newmarket
Liverpool
Epsom
Sandown
London Police
Scotland Yard
Secretary of State For
Home Department
United Kingdom
Secretary of State For the Home Department
Cossacks Threaten Europe in Alarmist Letter to Editor
The writer warns of a Bolshevik invasion of Europe likening it to Attila and the Saracens, urges Allied defense of Poland and Germany, and argues for Washington to keep powder dry while Lenin seeks to Bolshevonize Poland and Germany. H.M. Seale letters from Washington, August 2.
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Dog
Wester Bays
Attup
Napoleon
St Helena
Europe
Unies
Poland
Trotsky
Genghis Khan
Germany
Rhuine
France
Attila
Chalons-sur-Marne
Theoderic
Spain
Marne
Lenine
Trotzky
Great Britain
Italy
League of Nations
Warsaw
Berlin
H.M Seale
Washington
Town Gains 4000 Per Cent Population Rise
Census figures show Wood River Illinois Madison county rising from 84 in 1900 to 3476 in 1910, propelled by annexations Benbow City and East Wood River. Georgia's 1930 census marks 2,983,601 with 109 percent growth the state’s smallest decade increase. Other localities Globe Arizona declines and Clearwater Florida gains 1256 persons. Washington North Carolina drops 45, Columbia Tennessee declines, Mansfield Louisiana gains 765.
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Wood River
Madison County
United States
Benbow City
East Wood River
Georgia
Globe Ariz
Clearwater
Fila
Washington NC
Columbia, Tenn
Mansfield la
Food imports rise and exports fall in early 20th century trade
Foreign trade data released by the Department of Commerce shows food imports into the United States for the year 1920 totaling $1,518,776,209, up from 1919, while exports of food products declined by more than $38 million. Crude materials for manufacturing imported in 1920 reached $9,141,644,421 with exports at $1,968,118,448. Exports of manufactures for consumption and for use in further manufacturing are also reported with varied totals across 1920 and prior years.
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United States
Department of Carmmneres
Army short 96,900 men under new mobilization bill
The regular army stands about 95,000 men below the 297,000 maximum under the mobilization act effective July. By July 29 the force listed 187,197 enlisted men and 15,366 officers, versus an authorized 220,000 enlisted including the Philippines units and 17,008 officers.
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Philippines
Federal effort to move WWI veterans into government hospitals
The Bureau of War Risk Insurance, with the United States Public Health Service, plans to transfer disabled veterans from private and partially government hospitals into government owned and controlled facilities within the next year. Director R G Cholmeley Jones said the move will begin after current accommodations are taken over and upgraded. Veterans’ wishes will be considered only if moving benefits them. many are already in government hospitals, with most care in 1,000-plus facilities nationwide.
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Hoa
R G Cholmeley-Jones
Bureau
United States Public Health Service
United States
British Vote Aid to Germany Advances in Commons
In London Aug 1 the house of commons approved a £3,000,000 advance to Germany linked to Spa coal agreements with little opposition. Lloyd George called the coal plan preferable to war, while noting Germany cannot yet supply enough coal and the population suffers food shortages. Labor welcomed the move as a pragmatic revision of the Versailles treaty amid postwar hardship.
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Germany
Spa
House of Commons
Liogd George
Porras Wins Panama Presidency in Liberal Conservative Victory
Panama elects Belisario Por ras as president defeating rival Cire Arriola. Por ras, former president, had resigned six months earlier to reenter the race but the constitution bars immediate succession. Protest filed with State Department in Washington noted.
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SppEreny Umeeesen
Panama
Belisario Porras
Liberal Conservative Party
Republic of Panama
Cire Arriola
Panamia
the Republic
Ibr
Interstate Commerce Commission assumes jurisdiction over Mackay companies
An order issued yesterday by the Interstate Commerce Commission takes jurisdiction over the Mackay companies the Petit al Companies and the Commercial Cable Company and requires annual reports starting 1917 and full access to their books. The firms had refused to report or allow inspection until a conference with government officials led to a stipulation acknowledging the commission’s authority, which covers only the companies operating within the United States.
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Intestate Commerce Commission
Mackay Companies
Péatal Companies
Commercial Cable Company
United States
Philippine certificates sold for nine million six thousand six hundred
The Chase National Bank of New York and partners bought government of the Philippines indebtedness certificates totaling 16,000,006 at 4 percent interest. The certificates were issued under May 6, 1518 approval by Philippine legislators to regulate currency and establish reserves.
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Chase National Bank of New York and Associates
Philppineg Islands
Argentina bans sugar exports amid price rise and limits
President Iri noyen has decreed a ban on further sugar exports from Argentina with the May permit cap of 108000 tons extended. Domestic prices rose as more than 75000 tons were earmarked for the United States. Wheat exports also remain restricted after reaching the 804000 ton limit. In New York, a wireless message said the former German warships awarded to the United States will arrive around August, delayed by heavy towing.
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Huprés Airés
Argentina
Irinoyen
United States
New York
Public Resents Rail Rates Yet Sees Hope in Better Service
Washington hotel chatter treats a hefty Interstate Commerce Commission rate award as necessary, with demand for improved service. Farmers lament transport bottlenecks as grain markets rely on available cars, while prison reform debates flag a failed welfare league and call for a new discipline system.
Labor and economic strains challenge union claims
The article discusses Gompers' bold stance on layoffs by the Pennsylvania Railroad and other corporations. It notes economists argue the move is driven by capitalist cycles, not politics, citing Federal Reserve data on rising unemployment, reduced orders, and tighter capital. It predicts continued layoffs as competition tightens and labor efficiency rises.
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Gompers
Pennsylvania Railroad
American Federation of Labor
Drisco
Columba
Willard
Féderal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Board
Senator Hitchcock to Debate in League of Nations Event
Senator Hitchcock of Nepeathy named by Gov Cox to represent the Democrats in a joint League of Nations debate at Winths Lake Indiana. Republicans will select a debater to oppose. Hitchcock to speak tomorrow at Digon H and Big Meren Indiana on the matter. Also notes postponement of Ludwig C. A. Martens deportation hearings with possible resumption next month. In Bath Maine a torpedo boat destroyer Pruitt was launched during Maine state centennial celebrations.
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Hitchcock
Nepeathy
Gov. Cox
Democratis Party
League of Nations
Hala Bt
Pruitt
Bath
Maine
Aus
William Khim
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