New Independent Packing Plant in Omaha Launched
Officers of Omaha's New Independent Packing Plant Dakota organize Skinner Packing, backed by prominent businessmen and regional farmers. The plant will sit on a 33 acre tract south and west of the Swift plant on the South Side, promising growth for local shippers and livestock producers across Nebraska and neighboring states.
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Swift
Appealing His Case
Dialog sketch shows a boy named Tommy urged to seek forgiveness for a day’s wrongs including a fight with another boy’s father. The speaker reflects on wickedness and plans to wait for his father to return and settle the matter.
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Tommy
Alleged Speeder Challenges Police In Quip
A driver accused of speeding yells I can show you plenty who are violating the law worse than I am. The officer replies I don t need help catching motorists. Louisville Courier Journal report suggests a tense exchange during a traffic stop.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Past Understanding on European Situation
Senator Sorghum comments on the European situation stating that if the issue could be fully grasped by human understanding the fight would have been unnecessary. He notes that reaching full comprehension would have avoided conflict.
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Senator Sorghum
Front foot worth more than back yard in city real estate
A quirky real estate maxim notes urban space value favors the front area over the rear yard. The line frames a broader view of city living priorities and property presentation.
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Cities
Ingenious Argument About a Stray Dog
A boy named Billy longs for a dog and believes a stray will suffice. His mother refuses due to the war and expense, but Billy insists the tiny dog can live on meal scraps. She instructs him to return the dog immediately.
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Billy
Lemon Lotion for Bright Skin by Simple Kitchen Method
This ad promotes a lemon skin softener using two lemons and three ounces of orchard white to create a quarter pint beauty lotion. It claims to bleach freckles sallowness and tan while softening and smoothing skin and rough hands with daily facial massage.
Flax Control Rules Tighten Imports and Processing
The British flax control board bans spreading, carding, or making flax products without a permit after January 12. No yarns containing flax or tow may be spun without a permit, and no yarn or flax product may be boiled or bleached after January 5. All spinning licenses are canceled and future permit applications will be received.
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British
Flax Control Board
Foods Taste Better Cooked
A brief discussion notes that humans have long moved from raw foods to cooked ones, explaining why meat, potatoes, and coffee are best when prepared. The passage contrasts ancient practices with modern culinary science and implies widespread culinary progress.
The Last to Use Them in Garden Delay
Fragmented dialogue notes a backlog of garden access as neighbors delay use. One speaker explains they must wait until others finish, delaying their own planting plans.
French Envoy Urges America to Prepare for Long Bitter Siege
M. de Billy the French high commissioner to the United States warns in Washington that the west front faces a long bitter struggle with months of heavy fighting ahead. He stresses renewed troop shipments from the United States and a massive mobilization of manpower and transport to sustain Allied forces through 1919 and into 1920. He notes Allied morale remains strong and praises Pershing's troops as reported by Foch and Petain.
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United Press
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West Front
M. de Billy
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England
Germany
Russia
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M. Ide Billy
Foch
Petain
Pershing
Glass elected president of American Newspaper Publishers Assn
Frank P. Glass of the Birmingham News was chosen president of the American Newspaper Publishers association in New York. Elected officers include Vice President George McAnemy secretary John Stewart Bryan Leader Edwin P. Call and directors K. D. Moore Charles H. Taylor Jr Harry Chandler J F McKay T B Williams.
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Frank P. Glass
Birmingham
News
Today
American Newspaper Publishers Association
George McAnemy
New York Times
John Stewart Bryan
Richmond
Edwin P. Call
New York Journal of Commerce
K. D. Moore
New Orleans Times- Picayune
Charles H. Taylor, Jr
Boston Globe
Harry Chandler
Los Angeles Times
Five Fire Fatalities as Brook Company Burns Down
Five men died in Boston on April 26 when a Brook company building caught fire. The workers were trying to save their clothing and were burned to death in the blaze.
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Boston
Mass
Brook Company
Strategy That Destroyed Napoleon Wrecking Roche
United Press war expert J W T Mason reports on Von Hindenburg pressing the Ypres Hasebrück front after German heavy casualties. He argues German strategy mirrors Napoleon in Russia and predicts Hindenburg will exhaust manpower before America can aid. General Foch’s tactics may force heavy German losses to end the war.
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United Press
New York
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Hasebrouck
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Mont Kemmel
Gallent
Tlon
Hindenburg
Marta
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Foch
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Russia
Russa
Zeebrugge Raid Claimed Complete Victory By British
London reports a high naval source says the Zeebrugge operation was a complete success. Cement ships blocked the channel and German guns, a dredger was sunk, hindering German exits while the Flanders flotilla shifts to the Ostend route.
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Rehroeder
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Lokal Anseiger
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Weser Zeitung
Borat
Koelnische Volks Zeitung
England
London
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Flanders
Oe Ostend
Dubuque Woman Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy Charge
Mrs. Clifford Brown of Waterloo pleads guilty to conspiracy and is sentenced by Judge J Henry T Reed to six months in Black Hawk county jail. Brown conspired to conceal her husband, an army deserter, by donning his uniform and returning to camp with Eugene La Heeres.
Wounded South Dakota Journalist Wounded in France Marine Corps
Chester W Ruth, former Mitchell newspaper man and noted Dakota Wosle yan University debater, was wounded in France as a U. S. Marine. He edited the Phreno Cosmian and served in Cleveland before enlisting. His wife Laura Manston works in Washington government service. His brother and father were prominent in South Dakota.
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Chester W Ruth
South Dakota
France
United States Marine Corps
Washington
Ruth
Dakota Wosleyan University
Mitchll
Phreno-Cosmian
Cleveland
Marine Corps
Laura Manston
Wessington Springs
S. BD
Washington, D.C
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R. EB. Ruth
Ash Port Blamed for Sinkng of Line r
New York reports an ash port left open flooded the American liner Bt. Paul at her pier. The sinking likely cost three lives with twenty injuries among 360 aboard. Army investigators probe responsibility as salvage work continues.
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New York
Bt. Paul
Indictments in Collinsville Lynching Probe
Edwardaville April 2. Seven men sought on murder indictments linked to the lynching of Robert Pracer at Collinsville three weeks ago. Twelve men indicted total. four Collinsville policemen charged with malfeasance for not stopping the mob. Witness list includes 37 names, among them 14 year old Gilmore whose testimony involved her father.
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Robert Pracer
Collinsville
Joseph Riegel
Westerly Weaver
Woikklampiremeier
Old Fimoré
Richard
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Fletcher
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