Oklahoma Guards Readiness for Coal Mine Labor Demands
Two squadrons of the Thirteenth Cavalry will move to McAlester Oklahoma Saturday to guard coal mines as Governor Robertson orders national guard on readiness. White troops are to be furnished. black troops to be excluded. Headquarters set at McAlester with 500 miners expected to report. colleges to organize student work crews for future mobilization.
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Oklahoma City
United States
Columbus
Oklahoma
Robertson
Adjt
Charles F. Barrett
McAlester
Oklahoma National Guard N
Holdenville
Tulsa
Dickman
Southern Department
United States Army
Oklahoma Field
D. A Whitehurst
State Council of Defense
Whitehurst
A. and
WM. College
East Central and Southwestern Normal Schools
Ech
School Children Slow starve in Columbus schools
In Columbus Indiana parents report malnourished children amid high living costs. An investigation finds about 49 percent of school kids more than four pounds underweight and only 1 percent normal. Officials seek daily pint of milk with bread, ban tea and coffee, and nine hours of sleep nightly.
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Columbus
Ind
Donald Dustane
Governor Robertson testifies in federal court trial
Governor Robertson of Oklahoma testified for the government in a Kansas City federal court trial against 28 alleged J W W members. He identified the signature of Michael Sapper on a questionnaire and noted his role in the organization. Robertson served on Oklahoma's legal advisory board during the selective service act era. The piece also notes an aside about gooseberries.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Robertson
Ohlahoms
John C. Pollock
Kans
Michael Sapper
Oklaoma
Huns Expected to Sign Protocol in Paris
In Paris on December 8, Allied negotiators agreed to modify parts of the mines treaty protocol to assuage German objections. Indemnity for the Scapa Flow fleet is tied to the Hague Tribunal, and provisions on post treaty enforcement and Baltic evacuation were removed. Germany is expected to sign promptly.
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Paris
Germany
Scapa Flow
Hague Tribunal
Republican Leaders Gather in Washington for Conference
Republican leaders from across the nation arrived in Washington to participate in conferences on candidates and policies tied to the Republican National Committee meeting. The main purpose is to set the date and location of the 1919 convention as Chairman Will Hays and officials take part. Chicago and St. Louis are contending for the honor.
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Washington
Dee
Republican National Committee
Gelvet A. Lime
Will FL Hays
Totes East
Chicago
St. Louis
Missouri Court Grants Temporary Prohibition Injunction
Federal Judge Farris issued a temporary injunction barring the District Attorney and internal revenue from enforcing wartime prohibition on whiskey and wine in four St. Louis liquor firms. The order allows sale of whiskey and wine across the eastern Missouri district including St. Louis and fifty four counties.
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Associated Frese ST Louis
Farris
United States District Court
Cole
Intermal
St. Louis
White
Missouri
St. Touls Andifty
Not a Foolish Mind But A Restless Talker
A fragmented excerpt contrasts pride in wit with the urge to enlighten others and the futility of preaching. It muses on accepting differing views, satire of self assurance, and the stubbornness of fools in argument. It then shifts to a note on American submarines versus captured U boats and a dubious claim about musk export and deer destruction.
Russians Will Simply Submit Bolshevik Rule
Helsingfors December 8. A Finnish art dealer, M Saponen, fleeing Petrograd after bribery schemes by Bolsheviks, insists Russians will die rather than revolt. He details arrests, losses of art valued at 4 000 000 rubies, and says Germans did not by themselves spark the revolution. He criticizes Allied aid as ineffective and notes Bolshevik regime still holds central power while local Soviets grow.
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Helsingyfors
Finland
Petrograd
M. Sapaiten
Russia
Yudeniteh
Trotzky
Maxim Gorkey
M. Saponen
Fayleh
Helsingfors
Associated Press
Sehlovsky
Tehiteherin
Aken
Moscow
Owas
Sehtovsky
White
Kerensky
M. Suponen
Petrograd Og
Boasting or Law Is Army Man's Grief Declared Today
The article reports a naval court martial discharging Captain Edwin George Chamberlain, a Marine aviator, for boasting of defeating German airships on the Western Front. Secretary Daniels approved the sentence as witnesses supported his claim, while British officers disputed it. Chamberlain's case goes to President Wilson for final action. Also notes Oklahoma martial law across six counties by Governor Robertson to secure peace and coal, with Brigadier General Barret to command troops.
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Washington
Dec
Edwin George Chamberlain
Marine Corps
Daniels
Chamberlain
San Antonio
Tex
Navy Department
Wilson
Associated Press
Gov. Robertson
State Bar Association Meeting Set in Oklahoma City
The annual State Bar Association meeting will be at the Shirvin Hotel in Oklahoma City on December 8th and 19th. The principal speaker will be A. Mitchell Palmer former U.S. Attorney General. Other national figures include Herbert H. Harley and Albert M. Kales. State attorneys listed include J. P. Freeling H. Simith and others. A banquet on the 19th will close the event with ladies admitted free.
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State Bar Association
Shirvin Hotel
Oklahoma City
Dee
A. Mitehell Palmer
United States
Herbert Harley
Mineriea
Judicature Society
Albart M. Kales
Northwestern Law School
Chicago
Har O. Simith
Jimes A. Veasey
Joseph OC. Stone
John Embry
H. G. McKeever
Governor asks for old Indian school building
Governor Robertson appeals for Oklahoma tuberculosis soldiers urging use of vacant Indian school buildings in the Sac and Fox agency Shawnee for a tubercular hospital. Indian Bureau considering, likely designation. Costa Rica's nine constitutions since 1821. Remains of extinct elk found in Ireland peat bogs with ten foot antlers.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Robertson
Sac and Fox Agency
Shawnee
Hastings
Indian Bureau
Merritt
Bureau
Ireland
Pontotoc County weighs Oil Cities Highway plan
Paul B. Smith urges Pontotoc County to join the Oil Cities Highway effort linking Kansas oil center to Wichita Falls Texas Ada and Ardmore. A county fee of six dollars funds markers aiding future outside support. Dr I M Overton calls a mid winter convention to push the road project as a vital boon to Pontotoc.
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Pontotoc County
Paul B. Smith
The
Highway Association
I. M. Overton
Good Roads Association
Oil Center of Kansas
Tulsa
Ada
Ardmore
Wichita Falls
Texas
General Association
National Association
Oil Cities
Oklahoma
Overton
Calcutta Jal Temple Adorned Like Jewel Box In Marble
The Jal temple at Calcutta is built chiefly of white marble and every square foot of the surface is decorated as if it were a jewel box. Germans are said to have devised noiseless airplane motor.
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Calcutta
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