Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-03-27
Wireless telephony between Ireland
and Canada has been established by
the Marconi company.

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the Marconi company.
Berlin announced that 1,25OOOO tons
Of German merchant shipping is ready
to sail from German ports for allied
use.
General Pershing Post No. 1, has
been formed as the District of Column
bia branch Of proposed world war
veterans organization.
The 42d (Rainbow) division will sail
from Brest between March % and
April 10, the War department was in
formed by General Pershing.
The bill recognizing the Texas
rangers, increasing salaries and linn
iting the membership to seventy-four
passed the Texas legislature.
The first reinforced concrete freight
car ever built was delivered to the
Illinois Central railroad at Chicago for
operation in it's coal service.
According to official Berlin statis-
tics the damage done in Germany by
air raids during the war period
amounted to 23,5OO,OOO marks.
Five million bushels of wheat have
been sold to Minneapolis millers by
the government in the move to prevent
an increase in the price Of flour and
bread.
Five hundred members of the Amer
lean expeditionary force in France
have taken the first step toward the
organization of world war veterans
association.
Women employed by the Cleveland
Street Car company, dismissed March
1, were ordered reinstated by a deci-
sion handed down by the various la.
Dor boards.
Emile Coffin, the anarchist, who
recently made an attempt upon the
life of Premier George Clemenceau,
has been sentenced to death by the
Hog prices since removal Of the
food administration minimum of SIT
a hundred weight, have bounded up
ward at Omaha, Kansas City and 9TH
er live stock markets.
The Australian government, is to
provide 100000 pounds for use by local
governing bodies throughout Australia
on works which will give immediate
employment to returned soldiers.
On March IL there were still 1903
113 officers and men in Europe, 1910
in Siberia, 47,218 in insular posses
sions, 64,203 at sea and 64OO13 in the
United States, the War department
stated.
Damage estimated at between So
100000 and 100000 was caused by
heavy rains in Dade and Broward
counties, Florida, which practically
wiped out the entire winter tomato
crop.
William 81. Taft has been chal-
lenged by Leslie M. Shaw, former
secretary of the treasury, to debate
the proposed constitution of the
league of nations in any city of the
east or west.
Dissolution on April i, of the volun-
teer medical service corps, with its
membership Of more than $4,000 physi-
clans, was announced by the Council
of National Defense under which the
corps was organized.
In thirty-one hours 9.72 inches Of
rain fell at Memphis, Tenn, it being
the heaviest downpour in SO years.
Many homes were flooded and street
car traffic was abandoned. Great
damage was done to crops.
Deportation of all aliens who claim
ed exemption on nationality grounds,
under the selective service act, was
unanimously recommended by the
county trades and labor council at
Sheridan, Wyo., to remove the menace
of bolshevism and I. w. W.-ism.
A tornado tore through section of
farming community a mile wide and
three miles long between Colon and
Cedar Bluffs, Nebraska, killing one
woman, probably fatally injuring her
husband, and seriously injuring at
least three others. The storm passed
over one Of the richest portions of
Saunders county and the damage
done will run into thousands of dol.
lars.
American missionaries who arrived
at PelSin, China, from Korea, describ-
ed the revolutionary movement as the
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