Vicious assault on local doctor by drug addict shocking midday attack
A 38 year old man named F L Malone from Horse Cave entered Dr G J Mack’s fourth floor Syndicate Block office at noon claiming a sore throat. He overpowered the physician, seized morphine and a medicine case, drank morphine on the desk, and fled. Police arrested him within half an hour. The doctor, though exhausted, was not badly injured and notified authorities. Malone faced assault, battery, and larceny charges.
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G. J. Mack
F. L. Malone
Horse Cave
Mack
Llone
Iman
W. G. Wood
Iit
Staton
Tangled Traffic May Cause I C C to Take Control
The nation’s railroads face severe congestion after federal control ends. The Interstate Commerce Commission is expected to assume broad authority to move freight, starting with coal shipments, with possible passenger-service curtailment as a last resort. Officials warn of no early improvement and risk to large plants.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railroad Offits
Tampico Becomes Target in Mexican Politics
May 17 report from Mexico City states Tampico was captured without bloodshed, per Gen. Alvaro Obregon's headquarters. Other late items note immigration legislation unlikely this session, Minneapolis chosen as northwest division HQ for prohibition enforcement, and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling voiding a 1917 maritime compensation law.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Mex
Tampico
Alvaro Obregon
Minneapolis
Minn
Northwest
National Prohibition Enforcement Department
Minnesota
Dakotas
Iowa
Nebraska
Paul D. Keller
Washington, D. C
Congress
States
Supreme Court
Tent Ville Emerges As War Dept Aids Evicted Families
Newark, May 17. One hundred ten families evicted by landlords found shelter in Vailsburgh Park tents under a War Department plan. By summer, about 200 more may join. Captain Thomas W. Reilly supervised the setup, tenants chose canvas homes, and a city tent kitchen, sewerage, running water, laundry, showers, and toilets were provided. The cost of improvements ran under $500, with $120 for insulated wiring among major items. Residents sleep on cots as they await better days.
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N. J
Vailsburgh Park
War Department
Altho
Thomas W. Reilly
Edwards
Reilly
Tentville
Tecat
Flat Price Reductions At Omaha Department Store
One of the largest department stores in Omaha Nebraska announced a flat 80 percent price reduction today after 20 percent cuts by three stores Saturday. The move follows a wave of discounting aimed at attracting shoppers in a slow retail period.
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Omaha
Neb
Probers Examine Shoe Costs Amid Price Discrepancies
San Francisco May 17 Hides are stored in California warehouses by thousands and sold at lower prices than in 1919 says Mrs Edward F Scanlon president of the local State Housewives League which has been investigating the leather industry The league found finest hides once 70 cents a pound now 40 cents and labor cost on a pair of shoes never exceeds one dollar
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Cal
California
Edward F. Scanlon
State Housewives’ League
League
Bay District
Slain Webster City Slayer Eludes Police
The article reports the Webster City slaying remains unsolved as police search continues. A. Nson, head of the agriculture extension division at the University of Minnesota, refused the post of assistant secretary of agriculture offered by Earl Meredith, citing satisfaction with his university work and Minnesota.
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Washington
Webster City
Sociated Press
Minneapoli. Ing
A. Nson
Division of Agriculture Extension
College of Agriculture
University of Minnesota
United States Secretary of Agriculture
Meredith
Secretary of Agriculture
Ashington
Wilson
Peace Resolution Heads to Conference Over Veto Fears
The Republican peace resolution, adopted Saturday by the Senate in a different form, returns to the House where it originated. Chairman Porter of the foreign affairs committee plans to request a conference to iron out differences so it can reach the President this week. Republicans anticipate swift action and a possible veto.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Senate
House
Porter
Foreign Affairs Committee
Train Bandit's Chia Knew Robbery Plans
May 17 in St. Joseph, Mo. federal officials announced that Dick Smythe admitted knowing Walton's robbery plans before the mail car heist on the Illinois Central. The confession also said Walton claimed involvement in a previous Santa Fe theft at Lexington Junction, Mo., on April 15.
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St. Joseph
Dick” Smythe
Horace Wale
Len
Chicago
Milinois Central
Walton
Smythe
Santa Fe
Lexington Junction
Whisky-Laden Truck Stolen in Cleveland May 17
A motor truck carrying whisky valued at 18000 dollars was driven away in Cleveland when the driver left the vehicle during a break. Police pursue suspects as details emerge about the liquor shipment and theft.
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Resis
Cleveland
Laquor
Soviet Forces Seek to Reclaim Kiev Front
Moscow reported that Soviet bolshevik forces launched a counterattack against Polish and Ukrainian troops who captured Kiev about ten days ago. The official statement said Soviet troops began an advance and were engaged about ten miles southeast of Kiev.
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London
Kiev
Moscow
I Wireless
Joan of Arc Canonized in Rome Saintly Triumph
Rome May 16. Joan of Arc was canonized before about thirty thousand witnesses including French dignitaries churchmen and pilgrims. Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed the canonization after litany prayers as bells rang across St Peter's and a mass sermon followed with a portrait unveiled and a benediction to conclude the ceremony. American churchmen and officials attended the grand procession through Vatican spaces led by cardinals and bishops.
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Associated Press
Rome
Joan of Arc
Domremy
France
Benedict
St. Peter's
Monsignor Galli
Pope Benedict
Peter’s
Vatican
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Pontifical Court
Sistine Choir
Eegme
Cardinal O'Connell
Boston
Mass
Edward J. Hanna
San Francisco
Indict Packers for Food Profiteering
A federal grand jury in Brooklyn returned indictments against Morris & Co. and the Cudahy Packing company of Chicago for profiteering in foodstuffs. Branch managers for both firms were indicted, with superseding indictments filed against Swift & Co. Armour & Co. and the Wilson company and certain representatives.
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Associated Pres
New York
Federal Grand Jury
Brooklyn
Morris & Co
Cudahy Packing Company
Chicago
Cudahy
Swift & Co. Armour & Co
Wilson Company
Forgers Balked by New German Banknote
Fifty gangs of banknote forgers have been discovered and arrested in Germany as a result of a new reichsbank department fighting counterfeiting. New Germen bank notes are claimed to be absolutely foolproof or forzer-proot.
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Berlin
Germany
Reichabank
BAPTISTS BLAME EPIGY FILMS FOR EAILG OF DIVORCE
Washington May 17 The Southern Baptist committee on temperance and social service blames moving pictures and sex laws for divorces in the United States. It urges a uniform marriage and divorce code. 1916 saw 714000 divorces. 1919 likely higher due to wartime marriages. The report condemns many films for suggesting marital discord and the eternal triangle. It calls for 30 day marriage bans, medical exams, and a Bible based ground for divorce with limited remarriage rights.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Committee of Tamperamce and Social Service
Southern Baptist Convention
Memory of Captain Butt Honored by New Ship Launch
New Bern New York May 17 memory of Major Archibald W Butt press aide to Taft and whom the Titanic disaster killed is honored. A vessel named for him is being prepared for war department transport use after a New Port Shipbuilding plant launch. Mrs Hines christened the ship with champagne.
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New Bern
N. Y
Archibald W. Butt
Presswelt
Taft
Daskey
Greuimer
Archibald Butt
Dion
War Department
Newport Shipbuilding Corporation
TL FL Hines
Hines
Decision on Dry Amendment Delayed to June
Washington May 11 the supreme court failed to decide the validity of the prohibition amendment and recessed until June 1. With no ruling today and two more decision days before adjournment a decision before adjournment is generally expected.
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Washington, DL
James
France and Germany war indemnities plan outlined
Paris reports that Britain and France agree on a reparations total of 240,000,000,000 francs in gold, about 66,000,000,000 marks, with Germany allowed to issue bonds to settle debts. The plan aims to discount parts of the claim and ease payments to the United States and allies, with a Spa Conference postponed to June 21 and an Ostend allies council to discuss finance.
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Germany
United States
Ostend
League of Nations
Brussels
France
Rioting and troop landings rock West Cork
London diary reports intensified rioting in Londonderry between nationalist and unionist mobs with bottles bricks pistols firepower and gunfire. Dozens injured or killed as police withdraw and armed factions claim control while 2000 British troops arrive in Bantry to deploy across West Cork amid clashes.
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Associated Press
Londonderry
Ireland
Fountain Street
Sinn Fein
Bridge Street
Doherty
Carlisle Bridge
No Man’s Land
America
Cork
England
Bantry
West Cork
Skiboermen
Thomas Johnson
Trades Congress
Workers of
Judges Wigless As Help Strikes in Vienna Courts
In Vienna on May 17 courts sat in ordinary clothing after surs and attendants left with keys to robes and wigs. Judges conducted proceedings without regalia for the first time in history amid the staff strike.
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Vienna
Airlke
Levi P Morton Dies at Home on 96th Birthday in New York
Former U.S. vice president Levi Parsons Morton died at his Poughkeepsie home on his ninety sixth birthday. Born May 16 1824 in Shoreham Vermont he founded several New York banking houses and served as minister to France from 1881 to 1885 and as governor of New York in 1895 and 1896. He also served in Congress and chaired multiple financial and trust firms.
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Associated Prats
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Devi T. Morton
United States
Levi Parsons Morton
Shoreham
Daniel Oliver Morton
George Morton
Battery
Yorkshire
London
Plymouth
Morton Qarried
Jancy Kimball
Anna Livingston Street
L. PF. Morton & Co
Morton, Bliss & Co
New York
Morton, Rose & Co
Morton, Chaplin & Co
Lemion
Morton Trust Company
France
Aguilar Escapes With 300 Men to Join Carranza
Vera Cruz governor Gen Can dindo Aguilar and about 300 followers broke from revolutionary forces near Orizaba and fled toward Carranza. Carranza, who had retreated to the mountains, remained unlocated as pursuing generals press the search. A dispatch from the battle zone says food and water shortages lowered Morale and aided revolutionary victories. Gen Liberado Lara Torres, wounded May 12, died yesterday.
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Associated Press
Vera Cruz
Candido Aguilar
Carranza
Orizaba
Pedro Sanchez
Higinio Aguilar
Medina
Veraruz
Liberado Lara Torres
Leity
Atlantic Fleet in Practice Run
The Atlantic fleet, which had been anchored in the Hudson River for two weeks, went to sea today. The battleship Pennsylvania, flagship, will proceed to Hampton Roads directly while the other ships conduct maneuvers and practice runs before joining the flagship.
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Mytre Associated Press
New York
Hudson River
Pennsylvania
Hampton Roads
First of Navy's Dead Back From Overseas
The navy returned the first of its World War I dead from overseas, as the transport Nereus docked at Brooklyn’s naval supply base with over 150 flag draped coffins. Sailors and marines in salute formed a double line as each casket was carried ashore.
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Associated Press
New York
Navy
Nereus
Naval
Brooklyn
Railroads Admit Wage Increases Needed Says Chairman
The Association of Railway Executives told the railroad labor board that wage advances are necessary to meet high living costs. They cited a potential increase in payroll exceeding a billion dollars and urged adjustments to maintain employment stability and regularity, noting automatic or periodic reviews to align wages with living costs.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Association of Railway Executives
Railroad Labor Board
E.T. Whiter
Executives’ Association
Whiter
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railroad Board
Des Moines Theft Suspect Surrenders in Denver
Louis J. Hassen, 28, surrendered to U S Marshal J B Burris in Denver declaring he was wanted in Des Moines for the theft of 3490 from the American Express company.
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Associated Preagy
Denver
Colo
Louis J. Hassen
J. B. Burris
Des Moines
American Express Company
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