Sunday Tratton debate ends in anti liquor victory
A Sunday debate held at the Stratton Theatre under the Committee of Three Hundred for a Dry City drew a large audience. Participants included Abner B. Brown impersonating Fane Goodrich and D Blakeslee as Luke Lorimer, with religious services largely omitted and anti liquor sentiment voiced by speakers and audience. A Moose meeting in Olean and a weather note on possible snow with warming trend followed.
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Dry City
Stratton Theatre
Abner B. Brown
Sended
Elon R. Brown
Ani-Saloon
Fane Goodrich
Peat Equor
D. Blakeslee
Bing Nea
Cazenovia Seminary
Luke Lorimer
Stanard Dow
Ward C. Vollmer
PF. E. Weale
G. W. Grinton
F. S. Smithers, Jr
Butler
Buiter
Fiddletown
Taxpayers and Business Bren’s League
Breverr
Five Carloads of Coal Distributed in City
Five carloads of coal arrived Sunday and are being distributed to residents. Archibald Taylor, head of the County Fuel Administrator Advisory Board, will travel to New York tomorrow for a special committee meeting to address city needs. The report notes efforts to curb hoarding and collusion between dealers and consumers, with coal to be removed if found.
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Archibald Taylor
County Fuel Administrator
New Yor
Jabor
State Dairymen Elect Officers at Syracuse Convention
The New York State Dairymen's Association yearly meeting at Syracuse elected officers led by President A. L. Brockeoy and Prof H H Troz Eicheen as secretary with Thomas E Quinn as assistant secretary and RR Horkiend as treasurer. Directors include W T Dana Avon W N Gites Skanesie les BE G Dietich Syracuse EL J Richandon Lowville Dean F AW cae Syracuse WL AL Stocking Jr Hnaca. The group pledged support to the government during the war and backed forming an agricultural army branch for farm work.
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Syracuse
New York
BE G Dietich
EL J. Richandon
Lowville
Dean F. Awcae
AL Stocking
Hnaca
Jury Acquits Gaston M Means in King Murder Case
Concord, December 17. Gaston Bullock Means was found not guilty of murdering his benefactor Mrs Maude A King at Blackwelder Spring near here on August 25. Verdict delivered at about 10:05 am after about fifteen hours of deliberation by Judge E B Cline.
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Concord
N. C
Gaston Bullock
Maude A. King
Blackwelder Spring
Here
E. B. Cline
House To Vote On Prohibition Question In Congress
Washington reports Congress will vote in the House on a national prohibition amendment today at 5 o clock. Prohibition supporters expect more than the two thirds required for submission to the states with tight deadlines for ratification. A lively House debate is anticipated as adjournment nears for a holiday recess.
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Congress
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Senate
Poth
Postponed Play Me and Otis Delays Until After Holidays
Unsettled weather forces postponement of the four act play Me and Otis at North Street Congregational Church in Circleville. The Circleville CBE says a new date will be announced later after the holidays.
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Otis
North Street Congregational Church
Circleville Cbe
Attitude Shift Influences Peace Talks In 1917
U S influence tips allies toward leniency with Bolsheviks as Paris conference delegates work toward a peace agreement after the armistice between Russia and the Central Powers takes effect. Fronts in France Belgium and the Ikalin area report little activity.
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Associated Press
New York
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London
Paris
France
Belgium
Petrograd
Moon Sound
Black Sea
Baltic
Naval General Staff
White Sea
Arctic
Lear
British seize Jerusalem after Turkish assaults near Nebi Samuel
London reports in a Palestine dispatch that British forces stormed Jer Salem area after heavy Turkish shelling and assaults. Turks held strong lines west south and northeast of the city with machine guns and guns atop crests. Bethlehem saw resistance as British advance continued amid described desperate Turkish defense.
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Associated Press
London
Jersalem
Nebi Samuel
Holy City
Palestine
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Questionnaires Sent Out by the Exemption Board
Exemption Board offices distributed 138 more questionnaires across Middletown Maybrook New Berlin Roseton Montgomery Winsted Center Jinnlboro Burnside Waterville Me A committee arranged for a lawyer to attend city hall during the next 27 days to assist propistrant matters. Officials and staff will be on duty evenings and the public is urged to write or attend in person.
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Exem
Middletown
Maybrook
Newhersh
Roseton
Montgomery
Winsted
Center Jinnlboro
Ville Station
Burnside
Waterville
Ela
Lesa Advisory Committee
John Wright
Mr Put
Adlen Wo Corwitch
Pere Teeta Wall
Mayor's Proclamation on The Red Cross Campaign
The Red Cross Christmas membership drive targets 15 800 000 members by Christmas. Middletown Mayor Thompson urges all residents to join and support the campaign, praising the Red Cross as selfless and vital for boys everywhere. The city aims for Middletown’s 6000 member quota, pledged in the mayor's December declaration.
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American Red Cross
Middletown
the Red Cross
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City of
Ros of
Red Cross
Middietown
A.D
A.C. N. Thompson
Cay
New Paltz Man Among Missing in Action
Private Van De Mark of New Paltz is reported missing in action in France as part of seventeen enlisted men from the United States Army Engineers. He was with a detachment aiding the British during the German turning movement on November 30.
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van de Mark
Connate
War Department
United States Army Engineering Corps
France
Cambra
Wakeman Injures Foot On Nail At Pine Bash
A man named Wakeman stepped on a nail while boarding a Pine Bash train, penetrating the sole and causing a painful foot wound. In a separate note, Mr and Mrs W Averell Harriman announce the birth of their second child, a daughter, at their Manhasset home, joining their older daughter born last January.
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Wakeman
Evie
Dent
Harriman
W. Averell Harriman
Manhasset
Mr. Harriman
Canvassers of the Red Cross canvass the city drives
Canvassers of the Red Cross, led by Four Minute Men, push a city drive to fund relief. They urge volunteers to report each afternoon at 3 p m at City Hall as calls for funds amid wartime urgency continue. Thomas C Rogers chairs the Four Minute Men with the local Red Cross Chapter presenting at the Show Shop.
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Biter
At. Goons Co
Cy Hall
Despie
Red Cgps
Red Cross
Cty
Thomas C. Rogers
John Bright
Middletown
American Red Theca
King Sentenced to Life in Sullivan Co Supreme Court
Monticello December 17 jury found Chester King 17 guilty of second degree murder in the July 4 auto death of Samuel Stein. King received life with a minimum term of 24 years for good behavior. Defense argued hereditary insanity. expert witnesses testified. King showed no visible emotion at sentencing as court adjourned.
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Times-Press
Monticello
Supreme Court
Det
Venryck. Gardner
Chester King
Venth
Porestbore
Samuel Stein
Maplewood
Young King
John D. Lyons
Ab Jamney Lyons
Maurice G. Ashley
Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital
W. H. H. Hoar
Grahamsville
Stein
King
Eva
Cir
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Myron van de Mark
Hackman
Jef Maplewsed
Sullivan County
Sullivan CO
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