Stop These Horrors Help Banish Famine Forever Near East Aid
A 1919 appeal by Charles Evans Hughes urges Americans to donate thirty million dollars for Armenians in the near East. The message stresses orphaned children in Armenia, Syria, Caucasus, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine, and cites heavy Ottoman–German actions and mass starvation.
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Charles Evans Hughes
Armenia
Syria
Caucasus
Persia
Mesopotamia
Palestine
America
Near East
France
Belgium
Italy
United States
Department of State
Wm. Howard Taft
Asia Minor
Black Sea
Turkey
Germany
Bourne Opposes Plan to Finance Europe After War
Washington statement from the Republican Publicity Association questions continued U.S. lending to Europe after victory. It argues financing abroad should rest with private banks and domestic tariffs, noting war aims ended and urges restraint to protect American industry and jobs.
Primary Law Debate Sparks Cheyenne Editorial Clash
The Cheyenne Tribune campaigns to block repeal of the primary law while critics accuse its editor of flouting the law in Cheyenne by backing a self chosen nomination committee. They challenge consistency between city and state approaches and seek an explanation.
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Cheyenne Tribune
Cheyenne
the Tribune
Tribune
Year 1919 Prospects for Big Horn County Wyoming
The piece urges Big Horn county business leaders to actively pursue mining and oil development irrigation and industrial projects to attract capital. It argues that capital will flow to areas offering clear investment value and calls for immediate coordinated efforts to present favorable facts to investors and make 1919 a banner year.
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Wyoming
Big Horn County
Oregon Basin Project Nears First Unit Completion
Frank L. Houx has announced that the first unit of the Oregon Basin project will be completed this year. The release of lands by the secretary of the interior and secured funding support the early completion, promising substantial benefits to the Big Horn Basin.
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Cheyenne
Frank L. Houx
Oregon Basin
Mr. Houx
Secretary of the Interior
Big Horn Basin
Stockholders Meeting for Tillard Canal Company at Basin Wyoming
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Tillard Canal Company will be held in the county agent's room in the courthouse at Basin Wyoming on Monday January 18 1919 at 1 o'clock p m for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. BooTreas
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Cornell
Highway Improvement Society
United States
Tillard Canal Company
Basin
Wyo
Treas
Wilson Urges Generous Aid for Rebuilding Oppressed People
The White House statement dated November 29, 1918 calls on the people of the United States to contribute more to help re-establish a persecuted group in their former homes on a self supporting basis. It frames the appeal as a humanitarian effort tied to postwar recovery.
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United States
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Relief for Starving in the Near East Appeal
An appeal urges readers to donate to relief efforts in the Near East. It requests sacrifices of 17 cents daily or 5 to 60 dollars monthly or yearly to aid starving populations. The appeal emphasizes charity in gratitude for personal fortune and urges immediate giving.
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Near East
Hunger map shows famine threat across Europe and calls for relief
A detailed hunger map indicts most European nations as facing serious food shortages before next harvest. Belgium, France, Serbia and Ukraine are highlighted as in urgent need, while the United States is urged to export all possible food to alleviate famine and prevent revolt and chaos threatening postwar peace.
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Europe
Ukraine
Belgium
France
Serbia
United States
America
Finland
Bohemia
Roumania
Montenegro
Greece
Albania
Trownania
Italy
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Turkey
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P. P. Anders
Billings Advertising Company
Billings
Montana
Death Valley
Near-East
Mmi Ins
I. Rie
Bourne
Washington
Repubican Publicity Association
Jonathan Bourne, Jr
McAdoo
England
Finnerts
Red Cross
Republican
New York
E. 8. Carnell
National Highways Protective Society
War Idustries Board
Rome
West
Great Plains
Prairie Pioneers
Kansas
Southwest
Plains
Cornell American
Igium and
Germa
Ber
Othy Gish
the Little Disturber
J.W. Griffith
Stockholders’ Meeting
Conmmisabelief
Bippin
Mngland
Jorlande J
Portugal
Spain
Norway
Sweden
Yhia
Rea’s Ps
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