Lawsuit filed over five year old’s drowning in pond
Ira W. Blough administrator sues Chicago Great Western Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern and the city of Waterloo seeking damages of 15000 for the death of Velma Leone Gregson five who drowned in a pond along the railway right of way March 29 The complaint claims negligence by the defendants led to a dam an elevated water level at a local playground where children swam.
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Ira W. Blough
Velma Leone Gregson
Chicago Great Western
W., C. F. & N. Railway
C. G. W. Company
Orlando's Rome reply excites readers and crowds
The Rome press printed Premier Orlando's reply to President Wilson and crowds formed in the streets. Central News dispatch reports readers are thrilled and processions moved through Rome as in the previous night.
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Associated Press
London
Orlando
Wilson
Rome
Boy Escapes Detention Hospital Wrapped in Blankets
Merle Wilcox, 11, an inmate at the detention hospital northwest of the city, fled today while being treated for scarlet fever. He was found at 11 a.m. wrapped in a bed blanket in a residential area. He was admitted to the hospital on April 22.
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Merle. Wilcox
Palmer Sees Wilson Possible Re-Election for Dry Law Enforcement
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in Philadelphia predicts President Wilson could be nominated and re-elected, but says the Justice Department will enforce Prohibition starting July 1. He notes mobilization and funding limits for enforcing the dry law and cites support for woman suffrage.
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Palmer
Wilson
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Sndh
Mitchell Palmer
Internal Revenue Department
Department of Justice
Daniels in England to Stay Fortnight on Navy Visit
Josephus Daniels secretary of the American navy arrives in London with Mrs. Daniels for a two week visit. He is greeted by Vice Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, dines with Ambassador Davis, and plans to view the captured German ships before visiting Edinburgh and Sheffield then returning to London for a ten day stay.
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Soress
London
Josephus Daniels
Daniels
England
Rosslyn Wemyss
Guard of
Ambassador Davis
Scapa Flow
Edinburgh
Sheffield
Italy Must Stand Fast on National Rights Says Premier Orlando
Rome reports that Premier Orlando’s reply to President Wilson stirred Italian papers with calls for unity behind national rights. Editors praise the document as a powerful defense of Italy and accuse Wilson of threatening Europe’s fate. Protests in Rome cry long live America down with Wilson.
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Associated Press
Rome
Orlando
Willson
Populo Romano
Italy
Corriere D'Italia
Europe
Nazionale
Wilson
Italia
Amerita
Italy Fights War Amid Wilson Obstruction
The Epoca declares Italy fought a desperate war for noble aims, while Wilson’s obstinacy endangers victory. The Associated Press reports surplus war materials sold by the War Department for 140 million dollars at an average of 91 percent of cost. Military railway gear brought 71 million, aircraft materials at 90 percent, and ordnance at 67 percent.
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Italy
Wilson
War Department
Temperature notes and small ad snippet from April 25
The short fragment lists April 25 temperatures supplied by Buchanan Optica with cryptic time entries and a brief line about a 26 word want ad in the Courier for 25 cents per day. The readable items include past temperatures 34 to 45 and 38 to 49 with stray codes and times.
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Buchanan Optica) Co
Costa
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