The Farmer January 1 1917 Editorial on Peace Terms
A Bridgeport Evening Farmer front page excerpt discusses wartime outlook and hints at peace terms if Germany and the Allies share minimal terms. It notes the need for national labor and health cataloging, critiques theatre safety post Iroquois disaster, and recalls Memorial Day for the unidentified unknown victim.
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Controlling Food Prices and Distribution
The New York food price inquiry finds little fruit from past efforts. It urges a state market department to report supply sources and costs, supervise sales, promote cooperative buying, and address three price drivers: monopoly, European demand, and waste in local distribution.
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New York
Europe
Automobile Killings in 1916 Show Law Enforcement Fails
The 1916 data show 729 motor vehicle deaths nationwide with 392 in New York City and 248 of those being children. New Jersey saw 216 deaths. Despite population and vehicle counts, fatalities scale with these factors, and law enforcement level seems to have little effect except that motor cycles injuries dropped 50 percent after registration and numbering were required.
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New York
New York City
New Jersey
Cheapen the Food Supply to Solve Prices
A columnist argues against reducing the public to cheaper and poorer foods as a cure for high prices. He warns such moves would boost monopolies and lower quality. The path forward, he says, is abundant production of the best foods and an equitable exchange system.
Getting the primaries for a free Republican party
The speaker argues that Republicans seeking independence from a boss system should wage primaries with zeal, organize a primary contest, register unregistered voters, and use a card index to maximize turnout. They claim dissatisfied forces can outvote half the party and urge decisive action.
Bridgeport Tops Connecticut Grand List With 44 Million
Boosting grand list I increases Bridgeport to the lead in Connecticut cities with a total of 44 million dollars in property listed for taxation. A 20 mill rate would raise about 820 thousand in revenue, though not improve the economy. The city has spent lavishly for six years, getting what it voted for, perhaps the government it deserves.
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Street Sprinkling Tax Policy Debate
An urban proposal argues for a general rate funded street sprinkling program. It would provide universal benefits and spread the cost across all residents who enjoy the service.
Allies say peace note replies to Wilson urged
Allies have voiced views in a note to Germany, a document meant for domestic consumption as the German proposal was. Replies to President Wilson’s note are to be prepared.
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Germany
Wilson
New Year Dates Across Cultures and Calendars in History
The article surveys how different cultures mark New Year from 5677 in the Jewish calendar to Moharram in the Muslim tradition and Old Style Julian reckoning. It notes Egyptian solar years, Romans and Merovingians, and English change to New Style in 1752, with shifts from March 25 to January 1.
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Atlantic
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Rome
Romulus
Egypt
Ethionia
France
Charles IX
William the Conqueror
William
England
American
Iroquois Theatre Remembrance Marks 13th Anniversary
REMEMBER THE TROQUOIs, Members of the Iroquois Memorial Association of Chicago will observe a day the thirteenth anniversary of the Iroquois theatre holocaust which claimed about 600 lives mainly women and children.
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Iroquois Memorial Association of Chicago
Iroquois Theatre
Canadian Humorist Stephen Leacock a Key Light of Laughter
A Canadian by adoption born in England forty seven years ago celebrates his rise as a leading humorist. Educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto, Leacock later earned a PhD at Chicago and taught at McGill. His works include Nonsense Novels and Literary Lapses, with more witty volumes to follow.
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Mark Twain
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Swanmoor
Hants
England
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University of Toronto
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Leacock
University of Chicago
McGill University
Montreal
Empire
Cecil Rhodes Trust
Union of South Africa
Trinidad
Roy W Howard a boy editor at thirty two in 1917
The piece recalls Roy W Howard as a youthful head of a vast news gathering network on January 1 1917. It notes his early start on the News in Indianapolis and rise through the Indianapolis Star and other papers before taking charge of the Scripps McRae metropolitan bureau at age twenty two. It mentions his scoop with Lloyd George and his standing beside the Associated Press in scope.
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Roy W. Howard
Associated Press
Howard
United Press
Lloyd George
England
Big Little Man
John Bull
Tieward
U- George
News
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Star
St. Louis
Cincinnati
New York
Metropolitan
Scripps-McRae League
Scripps-McRae
Hoosier journalist rises to head national news association
United Press origins trace back to Mr Howard who became New York manager then climbed to the top, guiding a wire service relied on by hundreds of U S newspapers. The war reshaped news gathering but Indiana journalist met the challenge. Paris obituary notes Dr John H Pike 72, former Charity hospital superintendent, Legion of Honor honoree for yellow fever work. London confirms Wilson’s alcohol needs increase and Fed Compensation Board selections finished by Wilson.
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New York
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Association
United States
United Press
Howard
Paris
John H. Pike
New Orleans
Charity Hospital
Legion of Honor
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