Hazing incident ends in tramp costume arrest at Carthage
Albert Nicholas freshman son of a pastor faced a hazing ritual by Theta Tar Sigma members in Carthage Illinois. They dressed him as a tramp and he was arrested for vagrancy but later rescued as the fraternity threatened a publicity stunt. The student wrote his father seeking forgiveness for the disgraceful episode.
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Princess Louise Inherits Vast Fortune Amid War
Berlin December report states Princess Louise divorced wife of Prince Philip of Saxe Coburg and daughter of the late King Leopold II of Belgium has become a millionaire many times over. She held Austrian kronen estimates and seventies worth while in Central Powers territory at the war start. recently she secured 5,900,000 francs from her father’s estate, with exchange boosting her amount to about 50,000,000 kronen. She resides at Hitzing near Vienna.
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Outlandish Indian Girl Names Reported at Pine Ridge School
Sioux City report lists unusual names among Pine Ridge reservation students. Examples include Victoria Holy Rock Julia Afraid of a Hawk Mary Brown Ears Julia Crazy Ghost Mercy Yellow Shirt Emma No Fat Ella Red Eyes and Julia Stands Up. The playful catalogue prompts readers to reconsider naming trends among the community.
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Canada loans for soldiers in agricultural program reach 50 million
Ottawa says returning soldiers who entered farming secured loans totaling 50,699,003 from the Soldiers' Settlement Board. Of this amount 41,990,112 funded farm purchases locally. More than 16,000 loans have been issued at an average of 3,134 dollars.
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Mexico Catholic Church to undergo broad reconstruction in December
Mexico City reports that the Catholic Church will undertake a comprehensive rebuilding program with numerous bishop consecrations parish reassignment and private church repairs. Archbishop Jose Morao del Rio will supervise the effort as top prelate in the republic.
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Republic
Two Indian deaths amid frontier ambush at a 1917 post
In 1917 at a hillside post near Allahabad a small garrison is overrun by tribesmen after a decoy, leaving fifty nine rifles and six thousand rounds. Lieutenant H and his men counterattack, with one raider killed and the officer mortally wounded while aiding wounded combatants.
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Germany plans 1919 unemployment relief reach
Berlin reports that end of December expenditure for unemployment support will total 1 billion marks with another potential 1 billion before the period ends. 550,000 unemployed now receive aid as Moellendorf pushes for a 5 billion mark fund to address joblessness. Idle Baden textile workers move to Ruhr to seek work as coal mining grows.
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Raider Death Reported Moments Apart
An affair noted that the raider died in the same manner precisely one minute later, confirming a synchronized end to the incident.
Rheumatism cured by Number 40 for the Blood
Augusta Georgia May 20 1919 a man recounts suffering rheumatism and indigestion and inability to feed himself. after trying many remedies he reports splendid results from Number 40 For The Blood and plans to continue using it. he recommends it to friends and credits the product with a notable improvement. sold by Hart Drug Co.
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Wesley Royal
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J. G. Mendenhall
Evansville
Hart Drug Co
Rush of Hunters After Skunks Foxes and Braverh
Webster Massachusetts December 29 About 600 men and boys stalk fur rich fields driven by high fur prices trapping skunks muskrats minks foxes and beavers Barns and sheds display valuable pelts awaiting curing Fred Sherman of Sterling Hill Conn skins seventy five skunk pelts in two weeks worth about 300 His fox hunter father over seventy holds a local record Skunk meat is not wasted and is eaten at gatherings the so called skunk dinners with claims it rivals spring lamb
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Fred Sherman
Sterling Hill
Conn
Substitute Who Kill All Topers Judge Says
In Asheville North Carolina Judge Wells forecast a sobriety era if prohibition lasts. He says chronic inebriates will die as substitutes for liquor harm their systems. A prisoner reported drinking an unlabeled mix of beef iron and wine sold for $6, far above drugstore price, with the judge noting extreme effects.
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Asheville
N. C
Wells
Railroad Station Seized in Irkutsk Uprising
Advices to the state department say revolutionary socialists who began an uprising at Irkutsk the new seat of the Kolchak government took possession of the railroad station across the river on Christmas day.
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Washington
State Department
Irkutsk
Kolchak
Special Notice from The American Cooperage Company
The American Cooperage Company, the largest barrel maker in Maryland, offers the highest prices for old empty barrels. Main office at 1 Fayette Street in Baltimore. Morris Latinakyr, Proprietor.
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