Thompson choice of Chicago GOP for city's mayor
Chicago voters returned Thompson as the Republican nominee for mayor with 123,976 votes, defeating Harry Olson and Charles B. Merriam. Democratic candidate Sweitzer led in the county race for clerk with 109,175 votes, over Carey. Labor front groups discuss a full ticket for April, while Carter Harrison plans a possible nonpartisan bid.
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Thompson
Harry Olson
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Charles B. Merriam
University of Chicago
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Sweitzer
Robert M. Sweitzer
Thomas Carey
Rich Muanufacturer
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Lver Carey
John M. Collins
Shes
Quan Fitzpatrick
Chicago Federtion of Labor
Carter Harrison
Carter
Harrison
Thame
France
Maclay Hoyne
Hilous
Knitting Needles Unstacked for Red Cross War Aid
An avier from central division headquarters sent to H. B. Cropper chair of Water Joo notes continuing Red Cross effort. Local chapters must unstack knitting needles to hasten garments for women and children in war-devastated Europe. Waterloo quota set at 54 mufflers 46 sweaters and 1248 children’s stockings.
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Convent Foul Play Case Seeks Unwilling Witness
Traverse City Mich Feb 26 Authorities probing the 11 year old disappearance from the Isadore convent of Sister Mary Johns say they seek more information about correspondence exchanged twenty years ago between Isadore relatives and Chicago and other cities. Mrs Stanislawa Lypchinski housekeeper to Father Andrew Bienowske stood mute when arraigned on a murder charge last night and is to return to Manitowee after release on 4500 dollar bail obtained through the pastor's efforts.
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Traverse City
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Isadore
Here
Mary Johns
Chicago
Stanislawa Lypchinski
Andrew Bienowske
Manistee
Father Bienoweke
Grenadier Tommies Homeward Draw London Crowds
London February 28 The second battalion of the Grenadier Guards returned from Germany to a huge, spontaneous welcome with crowds at St Pancras station and along the city streets. An estimated 12 of the 1914 unit survived to rejoin the march amid unprecedented scenes as the exodus-like procession moved through central London.
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Germany
St. Pancras Station
England
Last Night's News in Brief from World War I Era
AP brief notes from Washington and Paris report Wilson delaying a new congressional session until after Europe trip, Pershing set to return most expeditionary forces by August, Clemenceau’s convalescence, China Japan notes on loans and rail concessions, Poland's independence recognized, Foch disarmament pact for Germany, Bolsheviks halted at border, Hohenzollern optimistic in Copenhagen dispatch.
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Paris
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Special Agent Disguised as Alcohol Thief Steals Train Baggage
A man posing as a special agent aboard the Illinois Central took charge of two suitcases filled with liquor on a westbound sleeper. Sheriff Henderson arrested O W Bandy, a Dumont music dealer, after resisting search demands. Four suitcases of liquor were later found in a Sioux City sleeper berth. The arrest followed a train-wide search ordered from Parkersburg, with authorities confirming the capture and continuing identification efforts.
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Sioux City
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Randy
Parkersburg
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U S Commander And Russia to settle fate of Cossack rebels
Vladivostok February nineteenth report notes Brig Gen Inagaki of the Japanese staff in Siberia says he is not concerned with the Cossacks fate. He asserts mutineers who killed officers should be tried. Arms supplied by Japan must be returned to Gen Kalmikoff, as they were loaned to aid Russia.
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Siberia
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Kalmikoff
Japan
Graves
British Held Captive Unaccounted 3000 Many Probably Dead
In the House of Commons Capt. Frederick Guest said about 3000 British officers and men were still unaccounted for by the Germans. The figure includes imperial and colonial troops and the navy but excludes Indian troops. A recent German search found 16 sick and wounded prisoners, who could not be moved, plus a few who preferred to stay in Germany.
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Germany
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Reds Offer to Swap Prisoners With U S Death Sentence Off
Stockholm Feb 26 American Minister Morris was advised by the Danish Red Cross that an American citizen Kalamati aho, sentenced to death by the Bolsheviki, is held in the Kremlin Moscow with the sentence commuted. A former Bolshevik financial representative in Norway, now in Petrograd, presented Morris a Soviet proposal to exchange Kolomatiano and other Americans in prison for Soviet representatives detained by American forces in Vladivostok.
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Vladivostok
Patriotic Duty in Bene Burdens on Public War Tax Appeal
Secretary Glass urged the American people to cheerfully pay the higher war taxes now in effect under the revenue bill. He called the income tax a victory tax this year, noting it funds a world war that has brought peace and urged cooperation in tax collection with the steadfast spirit shown last year.
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Wilson
United States
Lignite Deposits to Be Surveyed by U S for Aid
President Wilson approves a bill authorizing the interior secretary to survey domestic lignite and peat deposits. The Bureau of Mines will locate an experimental plant in Texas or the Montana-Dakotas region to test carbonizing. A coking-like process aims to yield industrial gas and a usable solid residue.
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Quiz Night Shooting Fails to Yield Suspect Details
Chicago police and the state attorney failed to solve the Labor Union shooting at a plumbers meeting. J H Smythe business agent and Steven Kelliher organizer remained in critical condition, Charles Bubal lightly wounded. Four hundred union members were questioned but no clear leads emerged.
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J. H. Smythe
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Steven Kelliher
Boston Telephones workers vote on strike authority
Boston February 26 employees of New England Telephones and Telegraph, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, voted on granting authority to union officials to call a strike to push for wage increases. It was expected about 15 100 workers, mostly women, would vote.
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Boston
New England Telephones & Telegraph Company
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Misery and remedy advertise Lydia E Pinkham's Woman's Plant
In Oska loosa Iowa a reader testifies to relief from years of weakness and pain after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad urges women facing dis placements irregularities inflammation ulceration backache nervousness or menopause to trial the root and herb remedy and offers advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
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Reds in Saxony decree strike and uprisin g aid
Berlin reports Spartacists and radical Socialists launching a movement to overthrow the government in Saxony as a general strike spreads. Plauen and other centers seized, power stations disrupted, newspapers seized, and railway links broken, with Dresden and Leipzig still under government control.
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Nationalist Party to send deputation to England and Paris
In Cape Town a Nationalist meeting decided to accept a War Office offer of a warship to transport a Nationalist delegation to England for arguments supporting a republic in South Africa. The plan includes extending discussions to Paris.
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Rathbun Sentenced to Life Term with Shortened Perjury Sentence
Rathbun, son of an Ida County farmer, received a life term for criminal assault with a brief two year perjury sentence. He may seek early release for good behavior after serving a mandatory period and learning a trade at the Anamosa reformatory. The case sparked a dispute between the governor and attorney general over alleged third degree methods used to obtain his confession. An Ida County grand jury opened an inquiry with local bankers among witnesses as Governor Harding travelled between Carroll and Des Moines.
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Tay Kol
Eracet Rathbun
Dda
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Eriest Rathbun
Gneral
Frontier Protection Bill for Reichswehr Debated in Assembly
In Webuar the German national assembly debated a bill creating a frontier defense force. Noske said the Reichswehr would be mainly for border protection against Bolshevik threats. critics warned of militarism. After amendments, the defense bill passed second reading and faces third on Thursday.
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Webuar
Rolehwehr Nadional Defenga
Gualave
Noske
Sid
Derlin
Reichswehy
Taxpayer counsel aid expands nationwide network
The Internal Revenue Bureau today urged taxpayers to seek help from public and private agencies now operating to assist with returns and tax calculations. More than 180,000 persons, excluding 10,000 revenue officers, are at work urging citizens to comply with income tax obligations.
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Internal Revenue
Burenu
Paris Butcher Strike Ends as Workers Accept Authority Remedies
Paris February 26 The strike of slaughterhouse workers here has been declared off as employees fretful over conditions agree to authorities’ measures. Advertisers note Illinois Lump at $7.00 and phone contact 1501.
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