Scotland fights temperance drive with 10 percent petition rule
Glasgow dispatch explains Scotland 1914 Temperance Act rules. If 10 percent sign a petition a voting district must hold an election with three options no license, license with restrictions, and liquor allowed with conditions. Drys face tough odds against wets amid population, press attitudes, and district turnout constraints.
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Kentucky
Great Britain
Scotland
Ken
Kew
Glasgow
Fishermen and Dry Voter Attitudes in Scotland and America
The article notes fishermen near Glasgow and Kilmarnock voting patterns on dry versus wet laws, contrasting American towns and Scottish districts. It claims coastal villages lean churchward and dry, while cities like Glasgow Edinburgh show mixed inclinations with urban commerce and culture shaping votes.
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Americs
Glasgow
America
Scotland
Eatipurgh
Kilmarnock
Arton
Stewarton
Agit
Edinburgh
New York
Boston
Gasp Over Henry Street Telephones Ends With A Snoozing Poodle
An early morning call leads police to 449 Hicks Street, the John DeMaye machine shop, where a faint moan precedes discovery of Fritz the white poodle asleep beside a telephone. Officers break in, find the dog gently snoring as the source of the strange sounds. In other news from Aris, Bernard P Scheinberg, 74, Austrian, holds the world record for paternity with 18 children from his second marriage and many more from the first.
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Brooklyn
Henry 1622
Butler Street
Hicks Street
James Shannon
Hugh McNally
George Schmidt
Shannon
McNally
Schmidt
John DeMaye
Mc ‘Nally
Mc Nally
Schmidt Vantyhea
Aris
Bernard P Scheinberg
Scheinberg
Pope’s Retiring Cook Linda From Vatican Service
The aging Vatican cook Linda, known as Miss Toddotinda, has served the pope since his early years and will retire soon by papal counsel. Now 70, she prepared meals including soup, fish, or vegetables with a small wine portion, a simple diet aligned with papal meals.
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Toddotinda
Ranil Ia Cailed
Roma
Nelesthand
Digger Minnie Dies Aged 108 In Downieville County Hospital
Minnie, a Digger squaw known as Min nie, died at the Downieville county hospital at about 108. She lived near Ponta Hotel and was a familiar sight to stage passengers who gave her coins. Despite a ban on Aquor sales to Indians she drank heavily after tourists arrived and was jailed until sober.
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Minnie
Downieville
Call
Sterrag
Ponta Hotel
University bans auto and bootleg cars rule continues says dean
A university official reiterates a strict ban on autocar use and bootleg vehicles despite student efforts. The dean defends policies as officers maintain campus discipline amid ongoing enforcement across the student body.
Drink Outlawry Promises Happy Homes and Clearer Duty
A 1920s style exhortation urges women to resist alcohol to protect marriage and family budgets. It argues drink impoverishes households, harms health, and threatens future youths, urging voters to support prohibition to end the whiskey influence.
Salt on cyclone tail upends long weather theories
A 1925 New Orleans meteorologist Dr Cline claims cyclones are storm areas driven by heat from water vapor. He argues tropical air currents fuel cyclones and tradewinds push them toward U S coasts, with warnings preceding their approach.
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Cling
U. S Weather Bureau
New Orleans
U. S
Cline
Caribbean Sea
United States
Carelessness Approved by Dad's Club Sparks Campus Car Ban
Illinois University actions curb student autos amid a broad critique of youth distraction. Dr Kendrick Babeork warns cars fuel social irresponsibility while Dean Thomas Arkle Clark reports reduced campus congestion and improved scholastic averages since the no-car rule.
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America
Kendrick Babeork
College of Liberal Arts and Aclérices
University of Ilinois
Illinois University
Lfe
Dlinois
Illnois Dads Association
Carless
Thomas Arkle Clark
Widow swindled by message from dead husband
In Urin a widow Francesca Felissero was duped by two con artists who claimed to carry a message from her deceased husband. They produced an egg with a paper bearing his name and persuaded her to lend all her money to "release" him from obligations.
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Francesca Felissero
Min
Bia
More Intelligent and Honest: School Children Studied
Columbia University psychologists report that higher intelligence correlates with honesty in kids. Tests in public and private schools found more intelligent children less likely to steal lie or cheat, with notable cases in an orphanage and private settings.
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New York
Mark A. May
Syracuse University
Hugh Hartshorn
Columbine
College Institute of Education, Research
Edward Lees Phorndtke
New
Esther
Do Not Worship Money In U S Says Englishman Do Not
British essayist Gilbert K Chesterton told the American Club at Oxford that Americans should avoid worshiping money and urged a clearer, distinct Anglo American understanding. He argued newspapers and politicians use pretty phrases that fail to bring the nations closer and urged identifying what is distinctively American and what is English. The remarks were made in Oxford on January 22.
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Oxford
Chesterton
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England
Xford
House Votes to Prohibit Publication of Divorce Testimony
In London on January 22 the House of Commons approved a measure restricting newspapers from publishing divorce testimony. Publication would be allowed only for the norms alleged offense and verdict. Lestle is expected to plan it before the session ends.
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