British Meat Shipments Spark Trade Row in London
London reports a stalemate in talks over detained meat cargoes bound for Scandinavian markets. American packers demand contract prices and sale rights, arguing auction would depress prices. Britain seeks settlement and ongoing trials set for June while packers stall over terms and unloading conditions.
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Weather and tide notes from Washington May 21 191%
The report outlines fluctuating conditions across the United States with forecasts for Friday through Sunday. It notes cooler readings in parts of Maryland, warmer spells in the southern upper Midwest, and widespread fair to partly cloudy skies, with scattered showers in New York and the Florida gulf coast area. Temperature readings and humidity are listed, alongside sunrise and sunset estimates.
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Bonaparte Princes Seek Entry into Italian Army
A Rome dispatch reports Prince Victor head of the Bonaparte house Prince Louis Napoleon his brother and Prince Alfonso of Portugal have asked the Italian war ministry for permission to enlist in the army. Victor and Louis Napoleon are grand nephews of Napoleon I their mother Marie Clotilda a Savoy princess.
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Paris
Rome
Victor
Mud River Flood Hits Hat Creek Valley From Lassen Peak
Peak eruption sent mud cascading down the Hat Creek valley in Shasta county California. The flood swept 15 miles from midnight to 10am destroying bridges roads and several houses and livestock. Residents fled to hillsides under guidance of forest ranger Fred Seaborn as lava beds and dense smoke filled the area.
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Lassen Peak
Hat Creek
Shasta County
Oelock
Fred Seaborn
Cassel
Russia to Buy 8000 Freight Cars in Chicago Deal
Chicago May 21 Russian Imperial government officials visit Chicago to purchase 8000 freight cars. Negotiations with several firms ongoing, contract eyed at about 12 million dollars. The move could boost car shop employment and involve Pullman interest.
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Chicago
Cara
Vatican Army May Face Disbandment in War
A Washington Post report from New York on May 21 notes Italy's wartime mobilization could force the Vatican to disband its guards. Since most papal guards are Italian citizens, exemption is not possible and many staff and custodial workers would be called to service, leaving few to guard pontifical premises. The Swiss guards eligible for service were recalled, and the papal gendarmes palatine guards and noble guards all face Italian military duties.
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Washington Post
New York
Vatican Army
Italy
Vatican Guards
Switzerland
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Noble Guards
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Vatican
Four Overcome by Gas in Basement Children Revived
Mrs William J Long found her four children unconscious in the basement of their home at 777 Harvard Street Northwest. An Emergency Hospital ambulance staff treated them with a pulmotor after carbon monoxide from a hot water heater gas escape left them near death. The children John five, Margaret four, Katharine eight, and Marian two were revived and are reported out of danger.
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Harvard Street
H C Neblett
John
Margaret
Katherine
Marian
6000 pupils drill in Washingtons field day festival
More than 10 000 parents and friends attended the graded schools field day at League Park. The event featured color coded divisions, an Indian story pantomime, dumb-bell and somersault relays, folk dances, and a grand finale with singing America. Organizers expect proceeds likely to exceed 4000 to fund summer playgrounds.
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Department of Physical Training
Rebecca Stoneford
Aucceas
Jessie Manheim
Thomson School
Clarence Bicher
Carberry School
America
Stoneroad
Elsie Sanders
Belle Myers
Misa Ruth Oberly
Grace Houchen
Lulu Burkett
Dorothy Breuninger
Mildred Clark
Leila Pritchard
Imogens Stockett
Elizabeth Lacey
Woman Harriman Sits In Judgment At Labor Hearing
Mrs Harriman a young attractive figure at the industrial relations commission hearings held at the Shoreham. She sits near Chairman Walsh and notes questions and answers as John D Rockefeller Jr testifies. Heat in the banquet room drives coats off while she fans herself and surveys the proceedings.
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Shoreham
Mra. J. Borden Harriman
Mra Harriman
Walsh
John D Rockefeller, Jr
Harriman
Commissioner Wein[stock
City News in Brief Near DC Chamber Meeting and Events
Secretary Redfield and John Fahey of the U S Chamber of Commerce will address Washington Chamber members at the final season meeting on June 2. A birthday lawn party at St Thomas Church and a hospital benefit at Columbia Theater funder George Washington University Hospital are planned. Community programs discuss labor conditions in Colorado and Wyoming at Pythian Temple and Bahai celebrations. Hamline church Epworth League event features Lowry Post and Walter Sorrel. Potomac Woman's Relief Corps holds a ritual instruction session at Grand Army Hall.
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Hamline
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Woman's Relief Corps
Department of the Potomac
District of Columbia
Gerard expects agreement with German officials
London May 21 Ambassador Gerard in Berlin urged Americans not detained there for business to depart. American consuls in all cities advised registration. Dispatch from Hague via Daily Mail notes only 49 Americans had left. Embassy officials say no cause for alarm and expect a peaceful settlement to Lusitania notes. Gerard says warning mainly affects those without real business in Germany.
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Tere
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Horse Show Under Fire Near Paris Trenches
Paris May 21 French cavalry officers staged a horse show behind the trenches amid shell fire, near 1500 yards from the enemy. The event featured obstacle jumping trek riding and horse wrestling open to officers and men of nearby regiments. An enormous water jump formed by a Jack Johnson shell hole heightened the danger as German shells burst throughout.
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Washington Post
Paris
Tiny Chorus Ladies Dance at Arcade Cabaret Show
A carnival cabaret at the Arcade last night featured short performers from Estelle Murray and Sadie Lipp's school of dancing. Young pupils in fancy costumes sang and danced in varied numbers while Miss Charlotte Plankinton won a gold medal for selling the most tickets for Co A B Shreve’s Columbia Heights Citizens' Association unit.
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Gladys Hice
Catherine Wecker
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Thelma Crismond
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Masters Nesbit Morrison
Bertram Robertson
Joseph Arnold
Gustav Weckel
Charlotte Plankinton Savas
Co A B Shreve
Columbia Heights Citizens' Association
New Plea for Frank Speaks for the Dead
Former Georgia appeals judge A G Powell seeks clemency for Leon Frank urging Governor Slaton and the State prison commission to commute his sentence. Powell says Judge Roan, who presided at the trial, believed Frank innocent and that Roan asked Powell to prepare portions of the jury charge based on his private view.
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Georgia State Court of Appeals
Atlanta
Governor Slaton
State Prison Commission
Leon Frank
A G Powell
State Court of Appeales
Roan
Frank
Mary Phagan
$500000 Tomb For Busch In St Louis Plans
Plans have been drawn for a $500,000 mausoleum for the late Adolphus Busch. The plans await approval from Mrs Lilly Busch widow, who is in Germany.
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Adolphus Busch
Lilly Busch
Germany
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