Tuesday, August 22, 1922

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The Headlines

PLEA TO ALL UNIONS TO AID RAIL STRIKERS; Gompers and Other Federation Officers Appeal for Moral and Financial Support. CALL IT A COMMON FIGHT Statement Causes Surprise at Capital, Where Silence Is the Rule to Promote Peace.

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Walter Donaldson

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On This Day

• Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Deng Xiaoping (1904)
• Claude Debussy (1862)
• Ray Bradbury (1920)
• Leni Riefenstahl (1902)
• Pope Leo XII (1760)

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Technicolor Films, Water Skiing & Audiometer.

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