Prohibition Bills Stir Wyoming Legislature Over Liquor
Wyoming legislators debate two prohibition bills aiming to ban liquor statewide. One measure sets July 1, 1819 as the start of enforcement with a prohibition commissioner and inspectors. The other, the Story Giant bill, tightens penalties and enforces strict control as debates intensify.
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Solona
Barbin
Fremont County
Wyoming
United States
Exceptons
Tate
Churchill heckled by women in Dundee campaign stop
In Dundee Scotland January 21 Winston Churchill then minister of munitions faced a hostile all female audience during a parliamentary campaign. He replied I am only a man not an encyclopedia. The women voted to support his candidacy after he urged them to stop heckling.
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Pundee
Scotland
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Horses to be sold due to LAC transportation limits
London, Jan. 21. Due to lack of ships to bring them to England, 160000 horses and mules of the British army in the eastern theatres will be sold to the Arabs or destroyed. Of 750000 horses in Europe, only those under twelve years will be shipped. about 125000 will come to England and 50000 to Belgium for reconstruction. General Birkbeck plans redistributing them nationwide, noting a prejudice against mules though they are economical and eat less.
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London
England
W. W H. Birkbeck
Europe
United States
Belgium
Birkbeck
Corfu Island Returns to Prewar Face After War
Corfu resumes prewar appearance though harbor shows signs of destruction from the Serbian retreat of 1915. Cemeteries on the island of the dead honor thousands of soldiers and civilians who suffered during the 1915 retreat. In Mexico City fighting continues in the Paderas District under central government control as tensions persist.
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Corfu
Wute
Grias
Tarvetion
Iim
Berbians
Mexico City
Hull
Renaine
Son
Thelal
Paderas
Conditions in Belgium and Gost of Living Out of Reach
Brussels January 21 conditions in Belgium are harsh with sky high food prices. Coffee costs about 5 a pound, meat and butter 2.60, sugar 0.62, eggs 0.40 each, clothing prices high. Daily life shows little work, closed shops, and scarce goods. Many amusements exist amid economic distress and unemployment funds encourage avoidance of work. Railways and telegraphs torn by Germans hinder travel and communication, delaying restoration and provisioning.
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Brussels
Jen
Belgium
Droseels
Becuse
Adenkerke
Bruges
Ghent
Profiteering in Turkey Reaches Extreme War Era
A British representative in Constantinople reports Turkey during World War I suffered rampant profiteering under Enver and Talaat Pasha. Goods like railway wagons sold for huge sums while subsistence conditions worsened, with proposals to rescind decrees blocked by Parliament after heated debate.
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London
Turkey
Constantinople
Enver Pasha
Talaat Pasha
Tukey
Tole
Austria
Germany
What is an English gentleman according to Bernard Shaw
In a London speech, Ray William Health Inge, dean of St Pauls, cites Bernard Shaw defining a gentleman as one who tries not to take out of life more than he puts in. The rector says this revolutionary yet true standard should guide training of young Britons and highlights values of truthfulness courage justice and fair play.
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London
Van
Ray William
Inge
St. Paul's
Bernard Shaw
Sion
Influenza Decimates Utah Indian Tribes Reported
Jan 21 Salt Lake City reports unconfirmed boards say influenza has nearly wiped out several Utah tribes on the Navajo and Uinta reservations. Up to New Year’s 2 Uinta Indians died and 20 Uncompahgre Utes and Willow Creek members reportedly left the reservation amid the epidemic. The plague has driven Indians from villages and hindered death counts.
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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 large 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 at Bureks creek yielded syrup judged equal to the best. The success suggests a profitable, large scale sugar beet industry across Yukon and Alaska bottom lands.
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Trick
Dawson
Dawson, Y
Alaska
Postoffice Inspectors Probe Missing War Savings Certificates
Visalia reporters reveal 70 War Savings certificates valued at about 700 dollars disappeared after being reported missing by Tipton Post Office Postmaster F J Kilendera. Investigators will decide whether Kilendera bears the loss or if the government reimburses him, as he suggests he burned the stamps home to help his sick daughter.
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Visalia
F. J. Kiladera
Tipton
Klindera
Kia Sick Daughters
Frontier Days Show Profits Donated to United War Work Fund
Frontier Days financials for 1918 show profits fully turned over to the United War Work fund for the county. Treasurer’s report lists income from auto races, concessions, entry fees, refunds, and a parade expense, totaling about 32 266 dollars, with disbursements to Irwin & McCarty and various show costs. The Laramie county United War Committee received a 3 000 dollar hand payment and the show fund closed with a final balance near 117.94 in a 1918 show fund account.
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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 a request to President Wilson urging he present the peace conference with their demand for a free and independent Palestine as a Jewish homeland. They also ask him to use his influence to curb pogroms reported in Austria Hungary.
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Vexico City
Wilson
Palestine
Austria
Bicarbonate Precipitated Sold in City by Roedel
A. E. Roedel of Sands Hays Drug Store offers carbonate precipitate to customers in the city. The product, discussed in trade notes, is marketed for chemical or pharmaceutical use and appears via the Roedel storefront.
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A. E. Roedel
Sands-Hays Drug Store
Divided Dutch View on Ex-Emperor William Hohenzollern
An Associated Press observer reports broad but divided Dutch opinion on what to do with former German emperor William Hohenzollern. In a village near Utrecht, locals debate justice versus compassion, mentioning wealth, war guilt, and differing motives among gentry, a cattle dealer, a landlord, and workers.
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Ambronen
William Hohenzollern
Holland
Utrecht
Averoogen
Hohenzollern
Associated Press
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Omics U. S
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