Deming Discharges 424 Guardsmen from Minnesota Division
Weming New Mexico February 2 Four hundred twenty four alien soldiers of the thirty fourth national guard division formerly from Minnesota Iowa South Dakota and Nebraska were discharged for the good of the service. The men training at Camp Gets will be allowed travel pay and allowances to return home and are not being considered for re enlistment. Earlier seven Austrians and one Finnish were held for officers as enemy aliens.
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Weming
N. M
Thirty-Fourth National Guard Division
Minnesota
Yewa
South Dakota
Nebraska
Washington
Gavision
Parsons College Opens War Time Operation At Ballard Hall
Parsons College operates in Ballard Hall after the fuel administration ordered all other buildings closed. The office library and classes moved to Ballard with books moved only if essential. Foster Hall remains largest but overcrowded, forcing doubling up. voice classes meet at Professor Mountain’s home. piano practice arranged at nearby war time houses with instructors Miss Louise Kearville and Miss Mary Nutting accompanying.
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Parsons’ College
Foster
Ballard Halls
Ewing Hall
Ballard
Foster Hall
Professor Mountain
North Sixth Street
Local News Briefs Highlight Travel and Visits
Local notes report R C Gillette of Ft Morgan visiting his aunt Mrs Anna Harris before returning from the Chicago auto show. Miss Mable Gantz stayed with the Pequignots on Taft Adams street, and Joseph James of Cedar Rapids visited his mother Mrs M F James before going home.
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R. C. Gillette
Ft. Morgan
Cole
Anna Harris
Rom
Mable Gantz
Moose Jaw
Canada
New York
A. Workman
South B
Heroic Platoon Foils German Raid Near Listening Post
In France February 2 the American sector remained quiet under fog with minimal artillery and no infantry activity. A platoon in trenches nearest the listening post repelled a German raid, delaying their advance until withdrawal into the fog. American rifles and equipment were found beyond the position.
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France
Taft to Tour Cantonments for War Education Tour
Former president William H. Taft will visit four of six central department cantonments and the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in February. He will address 220000 enlisted men and officers on war causes and America’s role, staying in army quarters and dining with troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Central Military Department
William H. Taft
Funston
Taylor
Sherman
Custer
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Taft
Central Department
Licenses Required for Bread Firms Under New Proclamation
Washington February 1 President Wilson ordered all persons firms and associations manufacturing bread or bakery products to obtain licenses by February 4 with exceptions for those licensed or using less than three barrels of flour monthly. Hotels restaurants and clubs serving their own bakery products fall under the rule. The order extends the food administration’s control to thousands of previously unregulated small establishments and requires importers and distributors of green coffee to obtain licenses as well. Violations carry penalties under the food conservation act.
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Washington
Wilson
Food Administration
Asse
United States Food Administration
MISS RANKIN BILL TABLED IN IMMIGRATION COMMITTEE
Washington February 1 The House immigration committee tabled the Rankin bill to let American women married to foreigners keep their citizenship. The panel declined to act further. Philadelphia February 1 Frederick Roe Searing a Philadelphia builder was sentenced for conspiring to defraud two insurance companies of 18000. Elizabeth Rendell his former stenographer who eloped after he staged his drowned death at Atlantic City received six months.
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Washington
House Immigration Committee
Searing
Philadelphia
Peb
Prederick Roe Searing
Wissen
Elizabeth Rendell
Atlantic City
U-Boat Losses Rise in Official Weekly Summary
The weekly official report shows Britain losing nine merchant ships over 1000 tons and six under 1000 tons to mines or submarines. Arrivals total 2,502 and sailings 2,300. merchantmen 1,600 tons plus sunk, eight attacked unsuccessfully.
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London
Minstrel Star Frank Kirk Dazzles With Cigar Act
The Lowery Greater Minstrels showcase Frank Kirk who builds odd instruments and performs a cigar swallowing banjo number with smoke erupting like lava. The show features Watts brothers tumblers Whitmores dancers Means couple and Prof P G Lowery. Noonday parade and wardrobe outshine rivals. Booked for Orpheum February 6 matinee and evening.
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Frank Kirk
Kirk
Watts Brothers
Whitmores
P. G. Lowery
Lowery Minstrels
Orpheum Theater
The Town Slouch by Ellis M Clarke
A light humorous piece notes how some men like Cy Dawkins fish in a lazy manner yet stumble into luck. It jokes about clumsy people and a woman loses her temper, aiming for a sharp attitude.
For Sale and Rent Notices in People’s Column
Classified brief listings include heating appliances cows buggies and houses for sale or rent near Riverside Oak and West Washington with phone contacts. several farm and land offers. exchange for a 280 acre farm near a rail town. address and contact details listed for each item.
Wanted notices from a local classifieds page
A column of short classifieds lists multiple WANTED ads seeking housing, rooms, farm land, a coal stove, and a general house worker. Entries include contact addresses or box numbers and some phone references, plus one FOR SALE item for dining furniture and home goods at C. M. Cantrall.
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Fairfield
Iowa
City
A. K. Harper
C. M. Cantrall
West Hempstead
For Sale Notices From Property Listings
For sale notices list a modern home at 202 West Adams Street with liberal terms and quick sale, two rental or acreage offers including 80 acres and 160 acres with possession March 1st, and a new five room modern dwelling with contact names J L Hicks H B Wisecarver and phone numbers 2307 948 126 964.
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West Adams Street
J. L. Hicks
H. B. Wisecarver
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Deming
College News
Louise Kearville
Mary Nutting
Last Eat
Miss Searville
Powersville
Lulu Schmadaka
Pleasant Plain
Avery
Wagte
Ed Anestead
Brighton
Ben West
Adam Ball
Hirmingham
Joseph Proventee
Davenport
Lewis West
Baardatown
BF. West
Unt Adame Street
HW. T Tedrow
Labertyville
Leland Holgate
South Second Street
Mise Myrtle Faulk
Stanton
Ows
Pershing
Miss Rankin
Leeser
Ellis M. Clarke
Cy Dawkins
William Fox
Virginia Pearson
Artcraft Pictures Corp
Mary Pickford
Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm
A. M. Harvey
Minstrels
Jericho & Easton’s
Metro Picture Corp
Ethel Barrymore
Metro
Triday
Jesse L. Lasky
Sessue Hayakawa
The
East
People’s Column
Elite
Telephone
Jersey
West
T. S. Waters
van Buren
B Street
Lon H. Israel
Square
South Third Street
Sierra N. Carl
West Washington
Waters
Minneapolis
Will D. Garmoe
Lasdoloto
Skidmore Land Co
Skidmore Lbidg
Marinette
Wis
Occu
Walter Peck
Court Hotel
J. M. McKain
Goeke’s
West Broadway
Fairfield Steam Laundry
Down Town
Jericho
Easton
C. F. Long
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