Prohibition Bills Spur Wyoming Lawmaking Rush
Wyoming’s WTA President notes rising prohibition sentiment across counties as two bills face early action. One measure by Barbin proposes total liquor elimination effective July 1, 1819, with a prohibition commissioner and inspectors to enforce, while a second “Story Giant” bill promises stricter controls. The legislature awaits action amid expected clashes with liquor interests and public debate.
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Vesta Bridges Tyson
Wyoming
T. A. Yrenpae
Solona
Barbin
Fremont County
United States
Exceptons
Churchill heckled by women in Dundee parliamentary stop
In Dundee Scotland January 21 Winston Churchill minister of munitions faced a women only audience that heckled him loudly. He retorted I am only a man not an encyclopedia. The women then adopted a resolution supporting his candidacy.
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Pundee
Scotland
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Horses to be sold or destroyed due to transport limits
London January 21 wartime decision by Major General Sir W H Birkbeck director of remounts to reduce Britain’s 750000 horses in Europe. About 160000 horses and mules will be sold to Arabs or destroyed as ships to England are unavailable. Belgium gets 50000 for reconstruction.
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London
England
W. W H. Birkbeck
Europe
United States
Belgium
Birkbeck
Corfu Returns to Prewar Look After Serbian Retreat
Corfu, Jan 21. Serbian government and refugees return home restoring the island’s prewar quiet. Across the harbor the ruins show the harsh war’s toll with cemeteries on the island of the dead. Mexico City reports hull fighting persists in the Pedras District under central government control.
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Corfu
Wute
Grias
Tarvetion
Iim
Berbians
Mexico City
Hull
Renaine
Son
Thelal
Paderas
Conditions in Belgium and postwar living costs
Brussels January reports describe very high prices for food and goods, with coffee at about $5 a pound and meals around $5. Stores have little to sell as prices rise, and unemployment funds encourage idleness. Rail and telegraph networks are largely destroyed, hindering transport and provisioning as restoration proceeds.
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Brussels
Jen
Belgium
Droseels
Becuse
Adenkerke
Bruges
Ghent
Profiteering in Turkey Reaches Utmost Limits During War
A British press representative in Constantinople reports Turkey’s wartime profiteering by Enver Pasha and Talaat Pasha. He describes serial corruption, rail wagons sold for 1000 pounds, profiteers buying sugar at a shilling then selling at 400 pounds, and widespread economic devastation. A parliamentary debate on a decree prohibition follows with limited support.
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London
Turkey
Constantinople
Enver Pasha
Talaat Pasha
Tukey
Tole
Austria
Germany
Definition of an English gentleman by Ray Inge
The dean of St Pauls, Ray William Health Inge, cites Bernard Shaw to define a gentleman as one who tries not to take out of life more than he puts in. He says this revolutionary notion underpins training for young recruits and reflects core English virtues: truthfulness courage justice fair play and respect for others.
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London
Van
Ray William
Inge
St. Paul's
Bernard Shaw
Sion
Indians Harassed by Influenza in Utah Reservations
Reports from Utah state health officials and Indian service sources indicate widespread influenza deaths among Navajo Uinta and Uncompahgre groups. Up to New Year’s Day two Uinta Indians died and more than twenty Uncompaghre members died, with some tribes possibly wiped out and communities dispersed.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
State Board of Health Re
Arizona
San Juan County
Uinta Reservation
Uinta County
Indian Service
Ouray
Thomas Redmond
Government Bureau of Animal Industry
Willow Creek
Bitter Creek
Sugar beets grow big near Dawson Alaska
Sugar beets weighing a pound or more and thick as a man's arm were grown within forty five miles of Dawson Alaska. The beets on Bureks creek yielded syrup rated equal to any syrup. Officials see potential for a large scale sugar beet industry in Yukon and Alaska mirroring tomato and other vegetables.
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Dawson, Y
Dawson
Alaska
Postoffice Inspectors Probe Missing War Savings Certificates
Visalia reports postoffice inspectors examining the disappearance of 70 War Savings certificates valued over 700 dollars, earlier cited missing by Tipton postmaster F J Kilendera. Findings could decide if Kilendera bears loss or if government reimburses after his admitted possible wood stove disposal. Kilendera hints the stamps may have been used to start a fire for his ill daughter.
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Visalia
F. J. Kiladera
Tipton
Klindera
Kia Sick Daughters
Frontier Days Treasurer Reports 1918 Profit Turned to War Fund
Frontier Days profits from auto races concessions and entry fees totaled 28 804 88 with disbursements for advertising judge policing lighting and show expenses. Funds were paid to the United War Committee of Laramie County and the 1918 show fund recorded 117 94 in hand.
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Frontier Days Trenasurer
United War Work Fund
Frontier Days
Denver
I Ag Xaos
Irwin & McCarty
Fusgoes
United War Committee of
Laramie
Jews Appeal to Wilson for Free Palestine
Jewish residents of Mexico City cable President Wilson asking him to present their demands for a free and independent Palestine as a Jewish homeland. They also request use of his influence to prevent pogroms reported in the old Austro Hungarian provinces.
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Vexico City
Wilson
Palestine
Austria
Carbonate Precipitation Sold in City Drug Store
In this city A. E. Roedel Sands Hays Drug Store offers carbonate precipitate preparations from Out omics U. S FP Cascarine Bitter. The notice identifies local sale and supplier details for these chemical items.
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Omics U. S
Cascarine Bitter
Bae Carbonate
A. E. Roedel
Sands-Hays Drug Store
Divided Dutch Views on Kaiser Wil liam Hohenzollern Displayed in Utrecht
An Associated Press observer reports a split in Holland over what to do with former German emperor William II. In a rural Utrecht village, locals debate punishment versus mercy, with farmers and laborers voicing harsh and measured opinions amid wartime memories.
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Ambronen
William Hohenzollern
Holland
Utrecht
Averoogen
Hohenzollern
Associated Press
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Bach
Kaiser
Hohengollern
Paul Kruger
Cheyenne
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