Government moves to lower prices with army surplus sale
Washington August 2 The War Department plans immediate sale of army surplus food including meals beans pumpkins squash at prices well below market. Items will be sold by parcel post starting Monday August 48 with buyers paying postage and storage. Officials Hines Glover and Leffingwell attended a Palmer conference to cut living costs. committee reportedly approves further steps.
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Washington
War Department
Hines
Glover
Leffingwell
Palmer
Wiro
Cherry Creek Flood Threat Reaches Denver
A cloudburst at Melvin 22 miles from Denver sent Cherry Creek flooding toward the city. A nine foot wall of water was expected to reach downtown Denver by 1 am tomorrow. Police warned that the lower business district could be inundated as several Cherry Creek bridges were washed out.
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Associated Press
Denver
Melvin
Cherry Creek
Holy Relic At St Ann’s Heals Thousands In New York
A relic used by Rev. John H. Southwick at St. Ann’s church in New York is credited with many cures during a Novena. Brought from Rome twenty five years ago it aided infantile paralysis and blessed ten thousand soldiers in World War I. Relic expected to bless fifty thousand this year after last year’s forty thousand sought its healing powers.
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John H. Southwick
St. Ann's Church
New York
Rome
St. Ann’s
Britt Dempsey Rated Above All Former Champions
Britt rates Jack Dempsey as above all former champions based on close observation and friendship with the heavyweight figure. The State Leader explores how Dempsey stacks up against past greats like Corbett Jeffries and Garbett while addressing widespread questions about his place in boxing history.
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Britt
Jack Dempsey
O Nere
Jack Dempsy
Ring Man
Agee
Mrs Mae
Pee
Cess
Wyoming Sheep Firm Buys 200 Trainloads Hay Amid Drought
Kinch McKinney of Yellowstone Sheep Co orders 200 carloads at 25.75 a ton totaling 61800 from Nebraska to feed Wyoming flocks. The purchase aims to prevent moving sheep to other states. Shoshone farmers report a strong hay crop with potential third alfalfa cut.
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Riverton
Wyo
Wyoming
Kinch McKinney
Yellowstone Sheep Company
Nebraska
Yellowstone Company
Around Rim Flight Ends in Lake Placid Disaster
A remarkable photograph shows a closeup of the Martin bomber before a disaster halted its planned around the U S border endurance flight. The voyage, over 7000 miles, would have been the longest by air if completed, named the around rim for tracing the nation’s rim.
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RIM” Martin
Lake Placid
Wyoming Still Part of Colorado District
Democratic politicians in Wyoming await in Washington word on who will be named Internal Revenue collector for the Wyoming territory after its separation from Colorado. The district creation was planned for August but delays in agreeing on a collector have postponed the new district. Several prominent Democrats seek the post, regarded as one of the state’s top federal offices.
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Wyoming
Interet
Washington
Internal Revenue Collector
Wyoming Territory
Colorado
Massacre Reported in Odessa Jewish Quarter
The Associated Press reports a three day siege in Odessa where troops of General Gregorieff surrounded and massacred the Jewish quarter. Polish sources cite a Jewish mourning period of fourteen days as Ukraine and Bessarabia Jews react to the incident.
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Associated Press
London
Odessa
Gregorieff
Ukraine
Bessarabia
Shopmen Move to Strike Vote Over Living Costs Plan
Washington August 2. Railway shopmen oppose President Wilson's plan to have Congress create a special body to handle their wage demands. They want the railroad wage board of the railroad administration to pass on issues. If no favorable action is taken, a 600000 man strike may be voted.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Congress
Railroad Wage Board of the
Railroad Administration
Prohibition Raid Seizes Five Hundred Gallons of Whiskey
Five hundred gallons of liquor were seized by State Prohibition Commissioner Fred L. Crabbe County Attorney Floyd A Walker and deputies in raids on six places in Glenrock Converse county Friday night after detectives had worked there for days The liquor was taken to the county seat and action against Douglas an son of the owners will be instituted
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Fred L. Crabbe
Floyd A. Walker
Glenrock
Douglas
Praetorian and Nettie Walcutt Dominate Oklahoma Irish Card
The race card lists multiple thoroughbred entries with vantage placements for each event. Praetorian and Nettie Walcutt feature repeatedly across the First and Second races, with notable showings from Positano and Sweet Alyssum in various legs.
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Oklahoma Irish
Praetorian
Frosty Morning
Positano
Nettle Walcul
Mack O'Day
Sweet Alysaum
Thirty Seven
Riposta
Roadmaster
Mex
Zim
Christie Holters
Bob A. Cobrita
Pie
Yukon
Heads
Scallawag
Moonlighter
Bill Deitchman
Oklahoma
Helen Burke
Nettie Walcutt
Chas
Cannell
Toy Miss
Sweet Alyssum
Rika W
Opening Day Handicap Signals Golden Chance Victory
The Cheyenne Thoroughbred Breeders association opening meet at Frontier Park drew a large home crowd as Golden Chance won the Opening Day Handicap. Koppleman guided the South Dakota horse owned by Dr H R Davis to victory with two dollar mutuals paying 14 60. An army officers mounted race, won by Captain H Walking of the Fifteenth Cavalry, and brisk betting highlighted the program as clear skies and warm weather lifted spectator spirits.
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Golden Chance
Frontier Park Track
Cheyenne Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association
Paris Mutual
South Dakota
H. R. Davis
Two Dollar Mutuals
Captain H. Walking
Fifteenth Cavalry
Sei
Toul
Chevaweet
Arrest over forged signature ties banker case to Panos
Casper Wyoming August 2 News reports that Gam Panos of North Platte Neb was briefly jailed and then released after proving a check bearing his name was forged. Panos faces possible damages suit for false imprisonment while questions grow over a Wyoming fraud statute that presumes guilt.
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Casper, Wyo
Gam Panos
North Platte
Neb
Durance
Casper Bank
Wyoming
National Prohibition Opponents Claim Anti Nicotine Drive
After a two month inquiry in Chicago San Francisco and elsewhere the Association Oppose to National Prohibition charges the Woman's Christian Temperance Union backs anti-nicotine laws across states The drive launched last March by the White Ribboners is said to aim at demon nicotine and the anti prohibitionists claim a 4 million dollar campaign funds moral education and church backed propaganda to suppress smoking and chewing.
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Associated Press
Washington
Chicago
San Francisco
Elgewhire
Wbacco
Ue Board
Woman's Christan Temperance Union
Ho W. GC. T. U
Congress
BEER INTOXICANT LAW UPHELD AS NONMATERIAL ISSUE
A legal opinion from counsel for the United States Brewers' Association argues Congress lacks power to prohibit beer manufacture or sale until the Eighteenth Amendment becomes effective. The document notes prior wartime acts do not bind peacetime prohibition and cites Elihu Root William Guthrie and William Marbury.
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Washington
House
Senate
Elihu Root
William J. Guthrie
William J. Marbury
United States Brewers’ Association
Congress
Cristian W. Felgenstin
Brewers’ Association
Hand
New York Circuit Court of Appeals
Baker accuses propaganda on Yellowstone Park plan
Les ter Baker editor of the Kenmerer Republican charges reports from Salt Lake Ogden and elsewhere are propaganda aiming to sway opinion for enlarging Yellowstone Park into Jackson Hole Wyoming He says murders and unrest are exaggerated by propagandists to boost funding and political support for the boundary extension sought by Mondell and others.
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Kemmenrer
Wyo
Salt Lake
Amien
Jackson Mole
Wyoming
Lester Baker
Kenmerer Republican
Yellowstone Park
Jackson Hole
Ogden
Baker
Mondell
Hlolo
Fire at Chicago stockyards sparks plan to bar Black workers
A Chicago stockyards fire prompted Governor Lowden and packers to bar 15000 Black laborers to prevent further racial unrest. The blaze killed a plan for 18000 workers to return and fueled accusations of arson amid a tense labor race crisis.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Lowden
McQabe
Pace
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Root
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