Influenza closes Missouri University amid deaths and cases
Missouri University will close from Friday until the new year due to an influenza outbreak. About 60 cases on campus and 14 deaths in the faculty are reported, with 200 city cases and 800 total in the town and school since the outbreak began. Dr Louis Selbert, a romantic languages professor, died last week.
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Columbia
James C. Jones
Missouri University
Army Training Corps
Louis Selbert
Barrington seeks Christmas parole for St Louis turf murder
F Seymour Barrington known as Lord may receive parole after eleven and a half years in state prison and four in the county jail. J Kelly Pool says parole is nearly decided if he can be sent to England. Barrington has never violated rules or failed to work satisfactorily. Folk campaign expenses total 8224.64 including rent postage travel and publicity and issuance of circulars. University of Missouri wins at Chicago livestock show with top placements for Decoration and Mis Dedication. Kansas State and Iowa State figures noted in the same event.
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Dry Alliance
Citizens’ Dry Alliance
Jefferson City
Anti-Saloon League and
Dry Federation
St. Louis
Anti-Saloon League
F. Seymour
Lord
Barrington
James P. McCann
J. Kelly Pool
England
Folk
United State
Chicago
University of Missouri
University of Fourth
Rupert
Kasisas Agricultural College
Iowa State
Lacy
Pie Buffalo
N. Y
Americans Return From Coblenz Train Journey Report
The article notes a German crew manning the train to Coblenz with American soldiers in former German coaches. It mentions Lt. Col. James Lockett and Maj. Fred Hackett, plus peaceful behavior of Americans and wide press freedom in Amsterdam. It covers armistice details, repatriation, and Allied signals across Europe after World War I.
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Coblenz
James Lockett
Fred Hackett
McAdoo Urges Five Year Extension of Railroad Control
Director General McAdoo calls for extending federal railroad control to five years until January 1924 to remove the issue from politics, enable an ambitious improvement program, and test unified control’s effectiveness. He warns private return without legislation would harm public and railroads, urging Congress to act.
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McAdoo
Washington
Congress
Mr. McAdoo
Senator Smith
South Carolina
Sims
Senate
House Interstate Commerce Committees
United States
Hearst Resented as Hearst Chosen For Soldier Welcome Committee
New York December 12 The protest storm over Mayor Hylan’s appointment of William Randolph Hearst as chairman of the city committee to welcome homecoming soldiers has grown so strong that prominent figures named to the same committee refuse to serve with Hearst He is named chairman of two committees one for welcoming soldiers and one for a memorial in France
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Washington, D. C
France
Gov. Gardner
Missouri
Frank M. Cracker
Missouri Woman’s Society
St. Louis
Fifth Avenue Association
Fifth Avenue
New York
Hylan
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst
Reduced corn estimate released by Agriculture Dept
Washington reports final corn crop estimate for the year at 2,582,814 bushels, down 167 million from the prior month and 410 million less than last year. The wheat forecast stands at 917 million bushels, 2 million below the preliminary figure and 266 million above the 1917 crop.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Government ends steel industry price controls
Washington reports government supervision of the steel industry and price fixing ends December 31 following a War Industries Board conference with industry spokesmen.
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Washington
War Industries Board
Turkey Demands Extradition of Enver and Talaat Pashas
In Copenhagen on December 12 Turkey demanded the extradition of Talaat Pasha former grand vizier and Enver Pasha former war minister along with other ex government members who fled to Germany.
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Turkey
Enver
Copenhagen
Talaat Pasha
Enver Pasha
Germany
Eatonic the sure cure for acid stomach misery
This ad claims acid stomach ruins health and promises instant relief by taking Eatonic to absorb excess stomach acid. It touts reduced belching gas and heartburn, renewed strength and energy, and a money back guarantee if no relief. It urges buying a big box from the druggist today.
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Eatoni
Eatonic
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Missouri Board OF Health
Civic League
League
Jones
State Board of Health
Lobarya
St. Joseph
Springfield
Dunklin County
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Pemiscot County
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Sullivan
W. B. Robison
Anti-Prohibition Public League
Missouri Supreme Court
American Manufacturing Company of
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Macon
Jay Junior
W. J. Ward
Fred Schnebile
Kansas City
Missouri State Highway Commission
Migesourt
War News
Amsterdam
Berlin
Cologne
Republic of
Esthenia
Marva
Petrograd
Reval
Riga
Mathias Erzberger
Treves
Rhenish
Prussia
Thirty-ninth Infantry
Belgium
Great Britain
London Daily Mail
Ashington
Internal Revenue
Daniel G. Roper
Wilson
American Red Cross
Post Office
House
Herman Wessels
Albert Paul Fricke
Mount Vernon
League of Nations
Charles M. Dchwab
The
Emer
Sierra
Comfort
Foch
Isit
Harvard
Harvard War Records Office
Army
Navy
Overseas Services
S. W.W
Federal Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Kan
Federal Grand Jury
Streetcar
War Labor Board
O. C. Carrat
Proctor
Ark
Browns, Ark
Arizona
Joseph E. Curry
American Mining Congress
Brooks Field
San Antonio
Tex
L. W. Bird
North Platte, Neb
Bird
Charles Clayton Cole
Houston
Ellington Field
Cole
New Rochelle
Cornell University Ground School
William Hohenzollern
Amerongen
the Express
Munich
California
Haskell
William M Hohenzollern
Exchange Telegraph Company
Thomas Nelson Page
Italy
Vatican
Pope Benedict
Cardinal Gasparri
Ghent
United Kingdom
Lansdale
Havas
Tangier
Hannibal, Mo
Mary Ellis
Fulton
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Elizabeth
David Roberts
David Rob
David Jogs
Grand Ave
Waukesha
Oklahoma
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