Bolshevists Lose Ants Win Bolshevists Lose Ants Win
Bolshevik attempts to bombard Reval, capital of Estonia, from the sea ended in failure with reports that every vessel in the fleet was sunk. Ufa has fallen to Bolsheviki as arms delays hindered Vladivostok aid and Czecho Slovak forces retreated toward the Ural gorges while Kama river fighting continues.
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London
Bolshevists
Reval
Estonia
Ufa
Valdivostok
Vladyoatock
Ural
Perm
Gaida
Kama River
Strike at Belfast and Dutch miners strike
Belfast reports heavy rioting with broken plate glass as police clash with rioters. The Belfast strike committee asserts new authority while avoiding violence. In West Holland miners join sympathy strikes, 70 000 Clyde strikers noted.
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Itv
Associated Press
Belfast
London
Manchester Guardian
West Holland
Clyde
Disturbance in Marburg as U S embarkation party arrives
Reports from Marburg state that a serious disturbance erupted on the arrival of the American embarkation committee led by Colonel Miles. Five were killed and thirty injured in Styrian Marburg on the Drave river.
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Associated Press
Laibach
Marburg
Miles
Styraia
Austria
Drave River
Prohibition Amendment Proclaimed by Acting Secretary Polk
Washington announces the ratification of the federal prohibition amendment proclaimed by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk. The document is dated today and confirms the amendment becomes effective January 16, 1920 despite the proclamation date.
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Associated Press
Washington
Frank L. Polk
Local Flu Outbreak Causes School Closure and Social Visits
Weather remains pleasant as the school shuts down due to influenza affecting Mr. Waldby and his child. Other families including Mr. Burleson and Mrs. Dodd report illness but improving. Community members visit Knox, Ada, and Mr Felix Harris's burial amid health concerns.
Latta Items News Brief
Knox misses the paper due to illness while Mr Selph the teacher recovers from a light flu. Miss Clara Teel begins student teaching. A Saturday night party at Mr Scates’ erfre is noted. LF line service improves with Miss Lou Aan Cope as operator. Summers and Wauson ill but recovering. Beecher Blankenship returns from camp. Singing at Elzie Smith’s Sunday. Emma Dodd of Colbert visits Retha Anderson.
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Knox
Selph
Clara Teel
Beecher Blankenship
Elzie Smith
Emma Dodd
Colbert
Retha Anderson
Baby Doll
Mrs. K. H. Palmer Dies in Wetumka
Mrs. Clarence West and Misses Zuma and Lola Horton mourn the death of their mother Mrs. Robert H. Palmer in Wetumka at 5 AM after pneumonia. She had heart trouble before the illness. She lived in Ada previously and will be buried in Wetumka once her son Archie arrives from the coast.
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Clarence West
Zuma
Lola Horton
Robert H. Palmer
Wetumka
West
Miss Zuma
Palmer
Ada
Archie
Pary
Connecticu
Soldiers occupy German ground in letters and billets
Clarence Wallace and Lee McKin ney report they occupy German ground in a letter to Mr. E. A. MacMillan. Their billets are shown as hotels and inns seized for that purpose and they provide no hint of when they will return home.
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Clarence Wallace
Lee McKinney
E. A. MacMillan
Bolshevik Propaganda Nets Across Nations
Danish minister Harold de Scavenius reports from Petrograd that Bolshevik propagandists were dispatched to Germany and to China England and France with 400 in Berlin before the revolution. He cites Russian aims to spark international revolutions and notes Radek as a leading organizer. He doubts entente intervention would meet resistance.
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Copenhagen
Associated Press
Russia
Germany
China
England
France
Harold de Scavenius
Petrograd
Berlin
M. de Scavenius
Geman Revoluton
Baltic
Ukraine
Moscow
Bolshevists
Radek
Soviet
Europe
Distillers Begin Fight to Invalidate Prohibition Amendment
A meeting of the executive committee of the Distillers' Association of America opened in New York to map a legal campaign against ratification of the federal prohibition amendment. Chair Samuel Wollner of Peoria presided. actions were postponed pending further deliberation.
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New York
Distillers’ Association of America
Samuel Wollner
Peoria
Ill
Daring Lawrence of Arabia Exposed as War Hero
London dispatch describes Colonel T. E. Lawrence as a remarkable war figure who aided Arab independence efforts. He joined Sheriff Feiseul to blow up Hadjaz trains, earning bounties and risking capture. he falsified to remove Turkish commander Djemal Pasha from a famous bombed troop train.
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London
Associated Press
T. E. Lawrence
Mecca
Lawrence
London Daily Mail
Mohammed
Oxford
War Office
Egypt
Hedjaz
Medina
Sheriff Feiseul
Hadjaz
Djemal Pasha
Lawrance
Norwegian sailors boycott Germany over indemnity demand
The Norwegian sailors organization passed a resolution declining assistance in carrying food to Germany until Germany pays an indemnity of 4 million dollars for submarine victims among its members.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
Norwegian Sailors Organization
Germany
Attorney General Upholds Pentecost In Oklahoma Guard
Assistant Attorney General Bleakmore upholds Brigadier General Harry Pentecost's official status with the Oklahoma National Guard. The opinion recognizes Pentecost's salary and expense claims denied by State Auditor Frank Carter and clarifies whether a brigadier general position can be created by the governor and filled by his appointee.
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Oklahoma City
Bleakmore
Harry Pentecost
Oklahoma National Guard
General Pentecost
Frank Carter
Britton Turner Visits City to See Friends and Relatives
Britton Turner is in the city visiting friends and relatives, after residing here for several years.
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Britton Turner
Claude Pitt and Wife Return From Texas Visit
Claude Pitt and his wife have returned from Van Alstyne Texas where they visited relatives.
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Claude Pitt
van Altyne
Tex
Mysterious Gray Automobile Robbers Lose Chief
Mexico City January 25. Francisco Oviedo, a prisoner long linked to the so called gray automobile robber band, was killed in the Federal Penitentiary by a black prisoner amid a string of deaths among key witnesses. The band robed using forged credentials and a gray auto, conducting raids since 1916 17 with high speed chases and fatal firefights. Efforts to uncover leaders have been hampered by suspect deaths of Mercadante and Oviedo and silence from remaining inmates.
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Mexico City
Associated Press
Francisco Oviedo
Oviedo
Rafael Mertadante
Paseo de la Reforma
Dies
Mercadante
Oiviedo
Wilson Names Two Appointments to Treasury Posts
Washington Jan 29 Jouett Shouse of Kansas was named assistant secretary of the treasury. John Skelton Williams was nominated for another term as comptroller of the currency.
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Associated Press
Washington
Capture of Ignacio Morelos Zaragoza Reported in Mexico
The War Department announced the capture of Ignacio Morelos Zaragoza, former federal general, who had led forces in Nuevo Leon against the government. He was captured at a ranch, taken to Monterey for trial, and had previously defended Tampico under Huerta. Zaragoza sought amnesty, fled to the United States, then returned to operate with Juan Almazan.
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Mexico City
War Department
Ignacio Morelos Zaragoza
Nuevo Leon
Monterey
Zaragoza
Tampico
Huerta
Pablo Gonzalez
United States
Mexico
Juan Almazan
Son Harris to Begin Furlough From Pro metheus at New York
Mrs. Anna Ingram receives a wire from her son Harris chief yeoman aboard the naval ship Pro metheus stating he has landed in New York and plans to return home on furlough around February 15.
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Anna Ingram
Harris
New York
Berlin Prussian elections yield light turnout and socialist lead
In Berlin the sharp winter weather kept many at home while Sunday’s Prussian elections produced a large lead for the Social Democratic party in Greater Berlin. By 3 o clock today returns show two thirds of seats in the new parliament for the Social Democrats, with Democrats clericals conservatives and national liberal parties splitting the rest. Other Prussian areas report Socialist majorities holding their edge.
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Associated Press
Berlin
National Assembly
Social Democratic Party
Greater
National Liberty
Prussia
Indian appropriation bill passes house with Oklahoma provisions
The Indian appropriation bill clears the house including $185 000 for the Five Civilized Tribes superintendent with authority to pay undisputed claims and approve uncontested leases. It also provides $225 000 for eastern Oklahoma common schools and a $150 per capita payment for the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The Hastings amendment granting full leasing and claims powers passed by a large majority.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Five Civilized Tribes
Secretary of the Interior
Competency Commission
Cherokee Orphan Training School
Tahlequah
Muskogee
Questions on Hungolonies and Polish Question At Paris
Paris reports the supreme council debating the future of former German colonies with proposed international control and differing views beyond Wilson’s plan. American delegates are urged to push the American plan at the outset. The Polish question is scheduled for discussion with Polish and Czech-Slovak representatives to present their views.
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Associated Press
Paris
Germany
Supreme Council of the
Peace Congress
Wilson
Supreme Council of the Peace Conference
Poland
Milwaukee to abolish German language in schools
Milwaukee scholars face elimination of foreign language instruction with the February term. German classes may end in June after a board vote to abolish the department. Leo Stern, assistant superintendent in charge of foreign languages, resigns after five years of service.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Leo Stern
Stern
Wisconsin
German American Alliance
National Organization
By Way of Explanation
A brief aside clarifies the phrase piping times of peace, noting Carrie rejects linking it to smoking the peace pipe and separates idiom from tobacco usage.
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Carrie
Let a Want Ad Get It for You
Classified notice invites readers to place want ads for quick results. Local paper promotes affordable inserts to connect buyers and sellers, with emphasis on clear contact options and prompt responses.
Ocean rates cut as cotton buyers face higher costs
Washington Jan 29 Reductions of nearly 75 percent in trans Atlantic freight rates on cotton carried in American bottoms were announced by the shipping board division of operations. The move follows rate cuts by British ship owners and signals a possible rate war between the American merchant marine and British interests. Cotton prices jumped to the daily limit on New York and New Orleans markets, moving up $10 a bale.
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Washington
The
Shipping Board
Capitol
New York
New Orleans
Ada Schools Close First Semester Work
Ada public schools end the first semester work next week due to influenza. Examinations are set for Thursday and Friday with promotions announced February 10. Supt Hickman urges patrons to enroll new students promptly, especially beginners newly reaching scholastic age.
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Ada
Supt
Hickman
Member of 90th Division Returns to Ada
Perry M. Scott, whose mother lives in Ada, returns from Camp Bowie with discharge papers. A Nineth division veteran, he fought about five months on the St Mihiel and Argonne fronts, was wounded twice, and spent two months in hospital. He plans Ada as his future home.
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Perry M. Scott
Ada
Camp Bowie
Mr. Scott
Nineth
St. Mihiel
Argonne
The
Camp Travis
Denison
Tex
Okmulgee approves bond to buy Creek council house
Okmulgee Okla Jan 29 a $100000 municipal bond issue to purchase the Creek council house was approved at a special election by about 200 votes. For the first time Okmulgee women voted in the election.
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Okmulgee
Council
Okmulgeer
Okla
Creek
Ada High School Applies for Northwest Association Membership
Ada High School applies for affiliation in the Northwestern Association of Schools and Colleges. Membership would allow graduates to enter any college within the association without examination, enhancing the school’s value.
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ADA High School
N. W
Northwestern Association of Schools and Colleges
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