Oil Cities Route proposed from Tulsa to Wichita Falls
Ardmore and Ada chambers of commerce announce a plan for a new highway named the Oil Cities Route from Tulsa to Wichita Falls Texas. The proposed path would pass Sapulpa Okmulgee Henryetta Holdenville Ada Sulphur Davis Ardmore Wilson Ringling Waurika Byers and other towns with state aid expected for construction and maintenance. A promotive association may be formed to push the project to completion.
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Tulsa
Okla
Wichita Falls
Tex
Ada
O. N. Walker
Ada Chamber of Commerce
Paul B. Smith
Ardmore Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Ardmore
Chamber Commerce
Walker
Sapulpa
Okmulgee
Henryetta
Holdenville
South Canadian River
Francis
Sulphir
Davis
Wilson
Ringling
Waurika
Red River
Byers
Oklahoma
Peace conference moves toward finalizing Russian policy
The supreme council of the peace conference in Paris continued work on the Russian question. Officials expect an announcement of a mature policy soon as principles have been decided and the remaining step is to draft the agreement and obtain final consent from delegates.
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Paris
Supreme Council of the
Peace Conference
Pontotoc County Forms Board of Governors for State Goods Roads
W. J. Coffman and W. H. Brumley named to govern Pontotoc County in the new State Goods Roads Association with office in Oklahoma City. County holds a 40 member role and secretary O N Walker offers application blanks for prospective members. The piece notes a $56,000,009 backing behind the governor issue by Robertson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Coffman
W. H. Brumley
Pontotoc County
New State Goods Roads Association
Oklahoma City
O. N. Walker
R Robertson
Freshman Program Sparks Brief Campus Notes
Ray Palmer visits as a former graduate. Mr. MacMillan plans added frames of boys who served. Lee McKinney sends papers from France including a New York Herald issue with English outside and French inside. Miss Turner misses class due to illness. Freshmen held first program with Music Louise Miller Story Nolan Young Reading Faye Knotts Hazel Strohm Freshman Chorus. Hiram Lee arrives from Pennsylvania to visit Mrs Warren’s family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Palmer
MacMillan
Lee McKinney
France
New York Herald
Miss Turner
Louise Miller
Nolan Young
Faye Knotts
Hazel Strohm
Irish Republic Maps Program outlined in Dublin
The provisional Irish republic constitution provides for a deputy elected assembly to hold legislative powers. The ministry would include a president and secretaries of finance home affairs foreign affairs and national defense. Sir Horace Plunkett Edward De Valera and Arthur Griffiths expected to be named delegates to the peace conference.
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Bis
Associated Press
Dublin
Irish Republic
Secrpetaries
Horace Plunkett
Edward Devalera
Arthur Griffiths
Radicals Make Poor Showing in Berlin Delegates
Copenhagen reports from Berlin indicate 319 delegates elected to the National Assembly from 28 districts by 5 PM Tuesday. The tally shows Majority Socialists 132, German Democrats 58, Centrists 57, German National Party 28, Independent Socialists 22, German People's Party 14.
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Copenhagen
Berlin
National Assembly
German National Party
German People’s Party
Bremen Doies Government as Workers Seize City
Amsterdam Jan 22 The city of Bremen is effectively controlled by workers who have occupied the barracks town hall telephone offices and banks and posted machine guns in market places and key buildings according to a Berlin dispatch.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Bremen
Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin Leaders Die in Mob Killings
In Berlin on January 17 Dr Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were killed by a mob at the Eden hotel. Luxemburg was beaten and shot after being pulled into an automobile. Liebknecht was shot by a guard while attempting to escape toward custody.
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Berlin
Karl Liebknecht
Rosa Luxemburg
Liebknecht
Hotel Eden
Fraulein Luxemburg
Armistice Extended as Allied Sign Agreement at Paris
Marshal Foch Admiral Browning and German armistice commissioners renew the armistice for a month with possible monthly extensions until peace. Allies reserve rights to occupy Strasbourg forts and eastern bank defenses and a strip beyond. Germany agrees to swap locomotives and cars for implements and surrenders submarines and detained ships.
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Paris
Marshal Foch
Admiral Browning
Strassbourg
Germany
Peace Conference to Send Mission to Poland
The supreme council of the peace conference decided this morning to dispatch a mission to Poland. Present were the regular council members plus Marshal Foch General Leigand and his chief of staff and Rear Admiral Hope deputy first lord of the British admiralty.
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Associated Press
Paris
Supreme Council of the Peace Conference
Poland
Marshal Foch
Leigand
Hope
Portuguese Revolution Surges in London and Washington
The Lisbon movement for restoring the monarchy advances in London without Emmanuel support, per Marquis Depo. In Washington, officials report a second Portuguese royalist uprising within two weeks, signaling continued instability and royalist efforts abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Portugal
Emmanuel
Marquis Depo
Great Britain
the Mail
Washington
State Department
Moderates of Germany Likely to Form Stable Government
Early returns from German elections suggest a stable administration may form soon. Majorities for socialists and the German democrats lead the constituent assembly with Ebert Schiedemann and Fehrenbach allied. Eichhorn and Haase likely elected to the national assembly as Berlin reports slow results.
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Constituent Assembly
Radical Party
Friederich von Payer
Democrats
Ebert
Schiedemann
Konstantin Fehrenbach
Eichorn
Haase
Berlin
Eichhorn
Hugo Haase
National Assembly
New Era Conference Planned for Oklahoma City
Hundreds of delegates from Oklahoma and Arkansas are expected for the New Era Conference of the Presbyterian Church U S A in Oklahoma City on February 4 and 5. Nationally prominent speakers will present as the movement promotes evangelism education and missions and unifies church boards under one agency.
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Okklahoma City
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Presbyterian Church
General Assembly of the Church
J. Frank Smith
General Assembly
W. F. Weir
William Hiram Foulkes
New Era Movement
John A. Marquis
Board
Home Missions
Charles N. Wonaco
World religious groups by numbers per latest figures
From the People’s Home Journal figures Christians 564,510 Confucianists and Gaoists See See 30,000 Mohammedans 227,825 Hindus 210,540,000 Animists 158,270,000 Buddhists 138,083,400 Shin toists 25,000,000 Jews 12,205,000 unclassified 15,280,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People's Home Journal
Mob burns Negro in Hillsboro execution
Bragg Williams, convicted in the Itasca double murder, was taken from Hillsboro jail and burned on the public square after a mob overran the jail. Williams admitted the killings but denied assault, as crowd members watched with little disruption to business.
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Hillsboro
Texas
Bragg Williams
Williams
Dallas
Horton Porter
District Court
Walter Collins
A. M. Frazier
Cap
Ada Women Vote Quietly in Bond Election
Few ladies cast ballots in Ada bond election as newly enfranchised voters exercised their rights on Monday. Mrs J A Biles became the first woman to vote.
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Ada
J. A. Biles
Oklahoma City Judges Small Toll Hike By Southwestern Bell
The Oklahoma state corporation commission ordered Southwestern Bell Telephone to halt new intrastate long distance rates approved by Postmaster General Burleson. Attorney General Freeling filed the complaint, and the commission warned of daily contempt fines for any collection. An engineer report backed the finding that the rate schedule would raise tolls by 36 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
State Corporation Commission
Southwest Bell Telephone Company
A.S. Burleson
S. P. Freeling
W. H. Lamar
Post Office Department
Washington
Southwestern Bell Company
Corporation Commission
Paul A. Walker
Commission
W. D. Humphrey
Telephone Department
Postmaster General
Ruskin Quote on Possessions and Communication
A literary remark by John Ruskin notes that as soon as we can repurpose our possessions for good, the urge to share that use with others grows alongside our capability.
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Ruskin
Monarchists Take Another Town Valencia Surrenders
Valencia a small town on the Bipno river in northern Portugal surrendered to the monarchists this morning. The peace conference supreme council met again to discuss the Russian question with full attendance.
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Paris
Valencia
Bipno River
Portugal
Supreme Council of the Peace Conference
Soldier Zoe Stegall Returns From France With Honor
Seret Zoe Stegall son of W H Stegall and wife has arrived from France with an honorable discharge and a soldierly record. He served in Co M 1411th infantry 36th division and was discharged for wounds sustained on the Champagne front. He was aboard the Northern Pacific when it ashore at Fire Island and saved, wounded five times, with one hand permanently disabled. He recalls Red Cross kindness and praises Gen Pershing as an ideal hero.
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France
Champagne
Stegall
Red Cross
Gen. Pershing
European inventor develops compressed peat as insulation material
A European inventor works on compressed peat as a new insulating material. The Ohio State Journal notes potential use in building profiles and energy efficiency, highlighting material properties and development status.
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Ohio State Journal
Mrs. Annie Belle Patterson dies at 33 in Ada area
Mrs. Annie Belle Patterson wife of G W Patterson died early today at the Fischbeck place near Ada from pneumonia. She was 33 and leaves her husband and three children. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
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Annie Belle Patterson
G. W. Patterson
Fischbeck Place
Ada
Americans Find More War Riches in Coblenz
Coblenz January 14. American troops uncover more war material in the city and surrounding warehousing. Officers report over 150 guns of 77 calibre and leather valued at about five hundred thousand dollars. The weapons are remnants from abandoned German stocks under the armistice terms and appear nearly new after recent repairs.
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Coblenz
Roosevelt would have accepted 1920 Republican nomination
Brigadier General Bird W. Spencer inspector general of rifle practice in New Jersey says Colonel Theodore Roosevelt would have accepted the 1920 Republican nomination if offered. He notes plans to revive the Roosevelt Republican committee of New Jersey which backed him in 1916.
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Associated Press
Passak
N. J
Theodore Roosevelt
Bird W. Spencer
Spencer
Roosevelt Republican Committee of
New Jersey
Lake Elevators Filled Up As Wheat Rush Continues
Great Lakes shippers report rapid grain inflow to upper lake ports and the need for ship storage for early spring deliveries. Duluth and Superior elevators held 20.995 million bushels of wheat and other grains on January 8, with capacity to 28 million for all grains. arrivals run 300,000 to 400,000 bushels daily and coal shipments total about 1,000 cars daily.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Great Lakes
Upper Lake
Duluth
Canadian Head of the Lakes
Lake Michigan
Superior
Head of the Lakes
Belgium Seeks Indemnity From Germany Over War Damage
Brussels reports difficulty in estimating the extent of German caused damage in Belgium and in fixing the amount Belgium will demand as indemnity. The uncertainty covers both physical destruction and financial compensation due from Germany.
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Brussels
Belgium
Germany
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