Illinois votes close 220 saloons in anti liquor drive
The Illinois Anti-saloon League reports broad victory for local option across 18 counties. About 80 percent of the voting territory becomes anti-saloon, with roughly 220 saloons closed. Eight counties go entirely dry, others mostly dry with few precinct exceptions. Republicans Democrats and Prohibitionists united, including men women and children, to push the campaign.
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The
Sun
Springfield
Ill
Antisaloon
Ernest A. Scroggin
Illinois Anti-saloon League
Calhoun
Cass, Menard, Morgan and
Scott
Illinois
Ilinois
Morgan
Cass
Pulaski
Perry County
Menard
Randolph County
Anti-Saloon League
Anti-ealoan League
Bedford G A R post backs Capt John D Alexander for commander
Bedford G A R post supports Capt John D Alexander for department commander. Selection postponed to May or June next year. Alexander, a well known soldier and jurist, enlisted in 182 as a private in the Ninety seventh Indiana Infantry. State encampment set for Kokomo next year.
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Bedford
John D. Alexander
Alexander
Indiana Infantry
Kokomo
Mobile Wins Shreveport Southern League Franchise
Special to The Sax reports the Shreveport Southern league ball team franchise has been sold to Mobile Alabama. The deal was confirmed by the local club president Chambers and completed several weeks ago.
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Montgomery
Ala
Mobile
Chambers
Mars canal findings spark life debate in Boston
Boston reports Prof. David Todd of Amherst College returning from the Andes with 7,000 Mars photographs. He declares Mars a dying world with double canals likely built by intelligent beings, suggesting a long history of engineering to irrigate and sustain the planet.
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Boston
Mars
David Todd
Amherst College
Andes
Man Struck by Ball In Warsaw Game
Warsaw Indiana November 8 William Sellers was struck in the stomach by a ball during a game yesterday. He was rendered unconscious and may die.
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Warsaw
Ind
Wiliam Sellers
Heart Right It Makes a Great Difference
A woman recounts her husband’s heart fainting spells triggered by coffee and how Postum improved his health after preparing it properly per directions. She notes more than a year without heart trouble and better overall health, crediting the beverage from Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan. Read The Road to Wellville in plugs. There's a Beacon.
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Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Pligs
Will Parcels Post Show a Deficit
Mr Ingram of the Manufacturing Perfumers association argues the British parcels post shows government costs can be covered by reform. He contrasts England and Germany rates, cites private carriage savings, and says rural free delivery bleeds the post office. He asserts a self supporting parcels post could attract store deliveries nationwide.
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Great Britain
Heaton
England
Post Office Department
United States
Postoffice Department
Front
A Power in Germany
Berlin reports Maximilian Harden, editor of Zukunft, as a fearless critic of the Kaiser era. Known as the enemy of the Kaiser, Harden has sparked public disgrace for Moltke and relentlessly targets officials from top to bottom with merciless onslaughts. Over twenty years he has grown into a force for reform in German politics and society.
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Berlin
Maximilian Harden
Germany
Harden
Round Table
William
Count von Moltke
Zukunft
Firebrand
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