Bulgaria Agrees to Russian Peace Terms and Mediation Talks
Bulgarian and Russian negotiators reportedly reach three peace accords through Switzerland, with Bulgaria seeking no Russian annexations and aiming to recover territories from Romania and Serbia. Petrograd reports Germany seeks Sweden as middleman with Britain France Italy.
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Associated Press
Bulgaria
Russia
Switzerland
Rumania
Serbia
Austria
Germany
Petrograd
Sweden
Great Britain
France
Italy
England
Brest-Litovsk
Stockholm
Suffrage Victory Hope Grows as House Debates Amendments
Washington January 10 The house opened debate on the Susan B Anthony constitutional amendment backed by President Wilson. Suffragists expect to win two thirds to advance to the senate and then to the states, a milestone years in the making.
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House
Washington
Wilson
Susan B. Anthony
Senate
Hutchinson Grocers Cut Deliveries To Save War Costs
Hutchinson and other Wichita area retailers begin one daily delivery to customers following a conference. An extra 15 cent charge will apply to all deliveries of purchases, aiming to reduce operating costs and ease labor shortages. Government support noted as a wartime economy measure. Providers expect the policy to last at least through the duration of the war.
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Hutchinson Wawvers
Wichita
Kae
Hutchinson Grocers
Nera
DuPont Powder Plant Closure Imminent if Fuel Not Arrived
Patterson New Jersey January 10 War work at the DuPont Powder plant at Pompton Lake and Haskell faces a final closure within hours unless fuel deliveries arrive promptly.
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Patterson
N. J
DuPont
Pompton Lake
Haskel
Gas Supply Limited Tonight in Lawrence
A telegram from the K Natural Gas Company reports zero tonight and below zero Friday temperatures will hinder gas supply until emergency improvements in Oklahoma are finished. The note warns that adequate quantities may be difficult to source in the current cold spell.
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Lawrence
K Natural Gas Company
Oklahoma
Beneficial To Wheat Cold Wave Forecast For Tonight
Snow blankets Kansas with four to six inches in Wichita Dodge City Concordia Salina Junction City Newton and Winfield as forecast calls for a severe cold wave tonight and for the next several days according to the weather bureau. North and west temperatures may drop to fifteen below zero and Topeka is expected to see five below zero Friday morning.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Wichita
Dodge City
Concordia
Salvna
Junction City
Newton
Winfield
Lawrence merchants adopt 8:30 to 5:30 hours with lights out
Lawrence to open stores not before 8:30 and close at 5:30 each weekday, with Saturday 9:30 p.m. hours. Window lights to be extinguished at closing as part of a conservation move urged by E. H. S. Bailey and Mayor I. W. J. Francisco. Effective Friday morning January 11, 1918.
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Lawrence
Francisco
E. H. S. Bailey
Douglas County
I. W. J. Francisco
W. J. Francisco
Food admin to release 90 million bushels wheat
The food administration plans to release 90 million bushels of wheat despite a prior export surplus. Americans will be asked to conserve to help fill the European deficit as allied demand grows. Officials warn of a possible U.S. flour shortage by May if consumption is not reduced before the June wheat harvest.
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Washington
Europe
Food Administration
United States
Henry Allen Praises Red Cross Work In Speech
Henry Allen praised the American Red Cross during a university talk after a five month Europe tour. He argued the Red Cross is worth one and a half million soldiers to France and that every American doctor counts as 500 men to the Allies. He predicted the war would not end before 1919 and that by April American troops would hold a trench section near German territory.
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Henry Allen
Red Cross
France
Europe
Snow Halts Drive on Italian Front
Snow grounds Alpine offensives as 3 to 5 feet of snow buries the mountain front blocking communications and hampering supply lines. Western fronts show guns active near Scarpa Arras area Ypres Verdun as winter slows patrols and threatens further Italian offensives. Brest-Litovsk talks open between Russia and Central Powers with peace prospects likely. President Wilson's message endorsed in Britain, prompting attention to German response and domestic militarist tensions.
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Associated Press
Alps
Trentino
Carnia
Venetian
Piave
Lake Garda
Veneta
Scarpa
Arras
Ypres
Notheast
Verdun
Russia
Brest-Litovsk
Turkey
Wilosa
Labor Party
Germany
London
Indians Have Only Exclusive Company At Ft Bowie
The One Hundred and Forty-second Infantry at Fort Bowie Texas is the country s sole exclusively Indian unit with members from fifteen tribes The officers note rapid drill proficiency possibly aided by Indian school training among ex pupils of Haskell including Stacey Bohanan David Bohanan Luke Bond Elias Brown Robert Fulton Edward Larney and others The roster lists many educated men some fine penmen and a few able to use typewriters in expert fashion.
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Ft. Bowie
E Company
Fort Bowie
Texas
Haskell
Stacey Bohanan
David Bohanan
Luke Bond
Elias Brown
Robert Fulton
Edward Larney
Joseph L. Bark
Alexander R. Chuculate
John F. Davis
John B. Gritts
Barney _ Grits
Richard Keener
John C. Triplett
John Berryhill
Levi Goodeagle
Jesse Quapaw
Richard Hinman
Former Governor Stubbs Eyes Senate Run After Topeka Conference
Former governor W R Stubbs travels with Douglas County leaders to Topeka for a conference with state agricultural officials and supporters. Friends say an immediate candidacy announcement is possible, timed with the agriculture meeting as Kansas seeks an experienced lawmaker. Mrs Walter Watson, 68, died at her daughter’s home on Indiana Street. funeral plans to be announced.
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W. R. Stubbs
Douglas County
Topeka
State
Agriculture
Stubbs
Kansas
United States Senate
Walter Watson
Walter O. Watson
Ssoree H. Rising
Indiana Street
Publicity clash as city commissioners meet in secret
Journal-World reports reveal Mayor Francisco called a special meeting of the Lawrence Commissioners to discuss an Interurban railway franchise. Commissioners Holyfield and Cleland barred press representatives, prompting criticism that public proceedings belong to the people and should be fully public. The piece condemns closed doors and urges transparency.
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The
Journal-World
Francisco
Lawrence
Finance
W. W. Holyfield
Holyfield
Cleland
Municipal wood yard in Lawrence proves successful
The Lawrence municipal yard, opened about a month ago by W. W. Cleland, sold two hundred cords with half delivered and six loads arriving by yesterday. The venture boosts fuel supply, stabilizes prices, and may lead to a year round municipal market for hay, wood, vegetables, and other farm products.
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Lawrence
W. W. Cleland
Wood Yard
Ten Yaqui Indians Captured After Cavalry Clash
A detachment of American cavalry patrolling Bear Valley twenty miles west of Nogales clashed with Yaqui Indians and captured ten. One of the captives died later in Nogales hospital from wounds. The telegram from Nogales commandant confirms the action and casualty.
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Douglas
Ariz
Bear Valley
Nogales
Powder Plant Wrecked by Terrific Explosion
Wilburton Oklahoma January 10 James Garvin superintendent of the glazing department Patterson Powder Company Patterson Oklahoma was killed when a terrific explosion wrecked the plant Only one man killed as far as learned
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Wilburton
Okla
James Garvin
Patterson Powder Company
Patterson
Oklahoma
Here
Dynamite blast injures men on freight locomotive
Memphis January 10 engine boiler explosion at Harahan Bridge due to dynamite in coal fatally injuring several workers with at least two reported dead. Authorities report multiple injuries as rescue efforts continue on the Mississippi River span.
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Memphis
Harahan Bridge
Mississippi River
Kansas Weather Report Summary Card
Weather report notes yesterday afternoon minus 19, today minus 14 in the morning and afternoon. Cloudy and colder tonight with snow and a cold wave in the eastern portion. Friday generally fair but colder in the extreme east.
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Kansas
iEven
Compulsion to Vaccinate Fans University Students
A smallpox outbreak at the University leads Dr Crumbine to order compulsory vaccination for all susceptible students after Chancellor Strong discussed the move with him. The first case is Andrew Schoeppel, a sophomore from Ransom Kansas, confined at 1222 Mississippi Street.
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Rudolph
Crumbing
Strong
Andrew Schoenpel
Ransom
Kansas
Mississippi Street
Schoeppel
Crumbine
University Health Department
Signers Securing Good Roads Petition in Leavenworth County
J Frank Smith of the Kansas Good Roads Association reports strong signer turnout in Leavenworth County. The drive to connect the fort to Fort Highways and to Kansas City routes continues through Saturday night aiming for a larger share of signatures. Farmers show notable participation with fifteen of eighteen signed in one day.
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Leavenworth
Fort
Kansas City
J. Frank Smith
Kansas Good Roads Association
State Highway Commission
Appeal Planned Over Shaffer Classification
Boston Jan. 10. An appeal will be taken to the district board against a draft board decision denying deferred classification for Joseph M. Shaffer, personal stenographer to Wm. G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury and director general of railroads. McAdoo telegram says he will seek Shaffer's exemption, calling him indispensable to him in tasks imposed by the war.
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Meidea
Boston
District Board
Daft Board
Joseph M. Shaffer
Wm. G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Shaffer
Indicted for Forgery in Queen Liliuokalani Will
In Honolulu on January 10 the indictment charges Princess Theresa Belliveau with forging the late queen's name to a purported will that names her as chief beneficiary. Sam Kamakai and H Kealoha are charged with aiding the forgery in the estate plot.
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Liliuokalani
Honolulu
T. H
Theresa Belliveau
Sam Kamakai
H. Kealoha
Belliveau
Tegatee
Kamakai
Kealoha
Classification list shows draft classifications by First District Board
The First District Board and Topeka district board released classifications this morning listing Class 1 4 5 and other categories for numerous individuals across Lawrence Eudora Overbrook Baldwin and nearby towns. Delinquents who failed to return questionnaires are named along with in service status and miscellaneous class notes.
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Topeka
John Alexander Montgomery
Lawrence
Axel R. Hellstrom
Elroy Ayer Lothrop
William Fredarick Miller
Eudora
Henry M. Desque
Overbrook
Charles Webb McPike
Thomas Fountain Gideon
Lecompton
John Spencer Tryon
Luke Guy Martin
Willis O. Miller
Lone Star
Kans
Robert Roy Irvin
Pittsburg
James Lee Sellers
Roy M. Coder
Baldwin
James Corbet Carter
Lecomton
Ralph Owen
Virgil Wilson
George Fred Leese
Joseph Thomas Casey
Clinton William Kanaga
First District Board
John Lamont Smith
Pearl Thurber
Richland
Edward Henry Thoren
John Raymond Miller
Loren Milton Williams
Appeal Board Returns Narrow View on Draft Deferments
In Topeka January 10 the First district appeal board found most agricultural and industrial deferment claims doubtfully necessary. Of 49 questionnaires heard yesterday two thirds involved such claims and the district board placed registrants in class two or three, with county decisions upheld in 16 cases. Names and outcomes for Douglas county include Pearl Thurber class two, John R. Miller class three, Edward H. Thoren class two, Cecil C. Hite class one, among others.
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Topeka
Kansas
First District
Douglas County
Pearl Thurber
John R. Miller
Edward H. Thoren
Cecil C. Hite
City Franchise Requests Raised At Special Meeting
At the request of Kaw Valley Interurban Superintendent W R Taylor the city commissioners held a special meeting to consider franchise requests. The company seeks a twenty seven year term, entry into the wholesale district, and passenger trains to the car barn, with limited daytime operations and night trucking. No action was taken.
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W. R. Taylor
Kaw Valley Interurban Company
Taylor
Seventh Street
New Jersey Street
Tenth Street
Poehler’s Mercantil Company
Barteldes Seed Company
Pendleton’s
Krum’s
Standard and Mutual Oil Company
Leiy
Union Pacific
Locust Street
North Lawrence
Fourth
Fifth Streets
Kaw Valley Company
Bowersock Industries
Massachusetts Street
Renight
City Commission
Tom Harley
Old County Jail Destruction Prompts City County Dispute
The old county jail, a historic Kansas structure, is being torn down for junk steel bars and space for a Social Service Hospital. Jailer Ike Johnson recalls 1888 duty and mob hangings, noting title disputes between city and county linger after a 1900s suit. City seeks clear title and a landmark redevelopment.
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Kaw River
Ike Johnson
Middle West
Hest
Kansas
Ike
Tke
Colorado
Bert Nga
Lawrence
Thata
North Lawrence
Social Service Hospital
Service League
Douglas Aunty District Court
Supreme Court
Havin
W. J. Francisco
Mayors Invited to Kansas War Conference at Topeka
Invitations go to 506 incorporated towns in Kansas for a War Conference. Richard J. Ho of Garden City, president of Kansas Municipalities, will send notices from the State Council of Defense. The meeting aims to explore how cities and towns can support the government to win the war.
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Council of Defense
Topekea
Kansas
State Council of Defense
Richard J. Ho
Garden City
of Kansas
KU Men in SRD Reach Forties Five in Regimental Draft
About forty five Kansas men from the University of Kansas are enlisted in the 358th Infantry at Camp Funston. James B. McNaught, Italian sergeant major of the regiment, says seven are commissioned officers and most of the men are Kansans. Clarke Braington, a Lawrence alumnus, reports from France that he is serving after enlisting in the Corps.
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Ale
Kansas
Usag
K.U
358Rd Infantry
Te ‘Ment
Camp Funston
James B. McNaught
Iment
McNaught
Clarke Braington
France
Clarke
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Brest- Litovsk
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Interurban Company
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OLD County
K. U
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