Bank Robbery in Sully Iowa Stuns Town
The Sully state bank was robbed with over $1,000 in Liberty bonds taken. Entry was gained by breaking the front door and the bandits escaped by automobile.
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Sully
Iowa
Geggs
Mexico
el Paso
Alberto Ruiz Sandoval
Edward Sharing
Milwaukee
Frank Travers
Eureka
Calif
National Hotel
New York
Lincoln
Neb
Chicago
Protestant Episcopal Diocese
Missouri
St. Louis
United States
Charles Perizki
Salt
International notes on policy and politics in 1920s Europe
A survey of global events shows Lloyd George proposing a Great Britain referendum on coal nationalization, France eyeing women's equality, Germany warning of hard times, and Bolshevik clashes with Japanese forces in Siberia. Reports cover postwar divorce rises in Britain, labor politics, and regional economic plans across the Americas.
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Lloyd George
Great Britain
Jules Guesde
Chamber of Deputies
France
Madrid
Huerta del Sol
Maggiora
Bologna University
Rome
Margaret Bondfield
National Federation of Women Workers
Washington
Laborites
Northampton
Prussia
Legislative Assembly
Oil land leasing bill approved by House Senate conferees
After three months of deadlock the House and Senate conferees reached agreement on an oil land leasing bill. The measure opens about 75 million acres in western states to development as leases, not sales, with specific roy alties and acre limits for oil coal phosphate and sodium lands.
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Arizona
Thomas E. Campbell
Arizona Oo Roads Association
Tucson
Pecos
Fort Sumner
N. M
San Juan
Texas
Phoenix Public Schools
Phoenix Union High School
Albuquerque
London
England
Southwest
el Paso
Globe
Phoenix
Roosevelt Dam
New Mexico
Capitan-Nogal Hill Forest
Lincoln County
Roswell
Carrizozo
Forest Service
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Washington
House
Senate
Smoot
Utah
Reclamation Fund
Secretary of the Interior
California
Wyoming
Sinnot
Oregon
Draft Conspirators Sentenced in Espionage Case
Frank P. Howenstine of Los Angeles is sentenced to ten years and Ideil Kennedy to eleven years in the federal penitentiary at MecNeil's Island after the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms their conviction for conspiring to impair recruits eyesight to cause rejection from military service.
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San Francisco
Calif
Frank P. Howenstine
Ideil Kennedy
MecNeil’s Island
Federal District Court of
Los Angeles
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Howenstine
Miss Kennedy
Poland Possibly Accepts Soviet Peace Offer
London reports confirmation that Poland and the allies are considering Moscow's peace proposal from Soviet Russia. Polish foreign minister Stanishius Patek has been in London consulting with Prime Minister Lloyd George on a settlement of disputes and pending questions between Poland and Soviet Russia.
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London
Ben
Moscow
Poland
Russia
Stanishius Patek
Lloyd George
Bibles in Strange Bindings Across Animal Skins
A survey of Bible bindings bound in the skins of animals from bears and serpents to sharks and giraffes. The article notes collectors and royal printers in England seeking unique covers, often as Christmas gifts, and highlights the whimsy and expense of such bindings.
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England
Asia
Whitby Abbey Endures After Zeppelin Raid
The 1915 Whitby raid left half the historic abbey destroyed while the seaside town clings to its legendary religious site. Hilda, founder of the abbey, Caedmon’s stay, and the famed Whitby council anchor the ruin’s reverence amid wartime shock.
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Whitby
Yorkshire
Hilda
Oswy
Caedmon
Whitby Abbey
Chicago Journal
Increased Coffee Use
The United States is consuming more coffee and paying higher prices. The National City Bank of New York reports 1919 imports likely to exceed all prior years, with ten months ending in October showing about 1.14 billion pounds versus 0.94 billion the previous year and 1.122 billion in 1917.
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United States
National City Bank of New York
Boy Confuses Book Title for Cheese at Library
A Brightwood library visit ends in a playful misunderstanding as a small boy asks for cot tage cheese. The librarian corrects him by suggesting the book Scottish Chiefs, and the boy replies with a cheerful I knew it was something like cheese.
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Brightwood
Indianapolis News
Metal market prices from Colorado settlement journal
Bar silver sells at $1.35 per ounce. Copper trades at 18 19 cents per pound. Lead at $8.06. Spelter at $9.31. Tungsten priced between $6.50 and $12.00 per unit.
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Colorado
Eastern live stock market prices headline Chicago session
Eastern live stock quotes from Chicago show hogs at top $15.65 with heavy hogs $14.85 15.25 and light hogs $14.75 15.30. cattle ranges include beef steers $11.50 17.25 and butcher cattle $6.75 13.65. veal calves $18.00 19.50. sheep and lambs with 84 lb lambs at $19.00 and ewes around $10.75 13.50.
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Seacion
Eialsnje
Creistership
Ecuioanium
Colo
Lima
H. H
Chicago
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Bureau of War Risk Insurance
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American Red Crosss
Ussuri
Siberia
Pokio
Vale of Tears
Braun
Germany
Pittsburg
Carnegie Steel Company
Clairton
John H. Patterson
National Cash Register Company
Dayton
Ohio
National Automobile Underwriters
H. B. Harper
Philadelphia
National Automobile Dealers’ Association
P. H. Greer
Maj
Richard Lloyd George
Mauretania
Southampton
Cherbourg
America
Walter P. Phillips
Columbia Graphophone Company
Vineyard Haven
Mass
United Press
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Orme Mercantile Company
Edward Shoe Company
County of
Bernalillo
Gilbert, Ariz
Post Office
McKinley County
N. A. Field
Tularoosa Basin
Tularosa
Otero County
Panhandle
Socorro
Widder
Southwest News
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Denver
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