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12/11/1917, Proclamation Declares Finnish Republic; Finns Can No Longer Depend on Russia Due to Famine & Chaos

1/1/1918, Finland Asks for Recognition; Swedish Army on Border if Needed to Defend Finns from Bolshevik Troops

7/28/1919, Resurrection of Finland; Finns Defied Armed Bolshevik Supporters Leaving Fire & Murder in Their Wake

1/8/1920; Soviet Petrograd Denies Designs on Finland & Estonia, but Emancipation from Yoke of Capitalism Is Near

9/10/1921, Forest Management in Finland (Since 1859); Private Forest Owners Planning on Large-Scale Exploitation

6/23/1922, Baroness Wrangle (60) Describes Social Conditions in Russia Prior to Her Escape to Finland in Fishing Boat

10/13/1923, Women of Finland Are Most Emancipated in World; Many Labor Side by Side with Men in Ag & Industry

3/8/1924, Finland Aims to Create Large Class of Small Land Owners Not Inclined to Support Future Revolutionaries

2/21/1925, Lively Chess in Finland; Candolin Pins Horhammer in 28; Maroczy Methodical, Mitchell Quits After 47

5/19/1926, Saima Canal Finland; Completed in 1856 After 10 Years; Lakes & Islands … Map, Saima Canal, Google

7/29/1927, Baltic States & Finland Feel Politically Menaced by Possibility of Fanatical Bolshevik Aggression Westward

4/21/1928; Finns Arrest 30 Communists, One Commits Suicide by Poisoning; Bolshevik Literature from Russia Found

4/21/1928, Lincoln Giants Blank Mt. Vernon 16-0 Behind Rector, but Giants Lose Game Two 10-9 to Philadelphia Pros

4/21/1928, Baltimore Black Sox Fall to Bethlehem Steel 13-5 at Cold Maryland Park; Game Features Heavy Hitting

4/21/1928, Philadelphia Southpaw Grove Limits Champion Yanks 2-1 in New York A.L. Home Opener Before 50,000

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3/13/1929, Crime Wave in Finland; 168,217 Arrests, 123,000 Due to Prohibition & 45,000 (Mostly) Drunks Fighting

3/13/1929, Champs Need Batting Practice; N.Y. Yankees Open Exhibition Season with 1-0 Win Over Class "B" Tampa

3/13/1929, Nineteen Ballplayers Unsigned as Spring Training Opens; Vance Wants $25,000, Brooklyn Offers $22,500

4/3/1930, Finland's Ag. & Dairy Production; 16% of Finns Live in Towns; Tenant Farmers Became Owners in 1918

4/3/1930, Bama Golf Team to Open 1930 Season Against Birmingham Southern at Tuscaloosa … Map, Alabama, Google

4/3/1930, Connie Mack's Philadelphia A's Picked to Win A.L. Flag; McGraw's Giants Favored in N.L.; Cubs Will Fade

4/5/1930, Baltimore Black Sox & Bethlehem Steel to Play Twin Bill; Newly Acquired "Big Boy Satchel" [Paige] to Pitch

6/14/1930, Baltimore Black Sox Divide with Hilldale Daises; Paige (4h,8k,3w) Wins Opener 14-0; Sox Lose Nightcap

6/18/1931, Visit to Finland; Lakes, Boulders, Forests; Shops Stocked, Peasants at Work in Fields; Summers Are Warm

6/18/1931, Stock Market Lulled to Sleep Again by Increasing Summer Quiet in Industry; Share Prices Drift Lower

6/20/1931, Ford Lays Off 20,000; Spirit of Uneasiness Prevails in Detroit; Flop Houses Full; Business at Standstill

3/31/1932; Writer Describes Finnish-Russian Border Crossing, Pleasant Cottages to Ramshackle Frontier Station

3/31/1932, A's Connie Mack Says Yanks Will Be Dangerous this Year … 3/31/1932, Phils Humble Crackers in Atlanta

4/2/1932, U.S. Recognition of Gov't of Liberia Will Be Withheld Pending Abolition of Slavery ... Map, Liberia, Google

12/7/1932; Finnish Sea Capt. Erikson Owns Fleet of Windjammers, Part 1 … Part 2 … Photo, Windjammer, Wikipedia

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1/26/1933, World Unemployment Numbers Still Increasing; Finland 73,379, Australia 122,340, Austria 329,707

2/23/1933, Finnish Farmers Suffer from Depression; Fall in Ag Prices Makes it Difficult to Meet Interest on Debts

3/28/1933, Finnish Soviet of 1917 Smashed When Capitalistic Dictatorship Installed by German & Allied Troops

5/4/1933, Finnish Native Describes Soviet Prison for Bourgeoisie at Solovetsky … Map, Solovetsky Islands, Google

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5/6/1933, Finnish Political Groups Such as Lappo Movement Now Prohibited from Wearing Nazi-Like Uniforms

5/6/1933, Federal Drive Using Tax-Evasion Violations Opens Against Chicago Gangs & Allies, Part 1 … Part 2

5/6/1933, Unknown Number of St. Pete Hoarders Turn in Gold i.a.w. F.D.R.'s Order ... Map, St. Pete., Google

5/6/1933, Florida Governor Sholtz Will Sign Bills Legalizing 3.2% Beer & Wine on Monday, Part 1 … Part 2

5/7/1933, Soviet Communist Central Control Committee Orders Drastic Purge of Party from June Through Nov.

5/10/1933; Journalist Describes Arrest by Soviet OGPU, His Interrogation, & Prison Conditions; Part 1 … Part 2

5/10/1933; King Solomon of the Zulus Passes Away, Most Envied Man in Africa … Map, Zulu Empire, Wikipedia

5/19/1933, Stalin's Wife Buried in Moscow; Last Seen Happy on Sun., Elaborate Funeral Thur.; Rumors & Mystery

5/27/1933, The Nazi Fad in Germany; Pictures of Hitler Everywhere; Uniformed Men with Sidearms Stalk About

6/15/1933, Famine Raging Over Great Parts of Russia; Farmers Avoid Ag Work to Protest State Collectivization

6/17/1933, Finland Pays Off War Debt to U.S. in Full at $148,592; Great Britain Makes $10,000,000 Payment

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