Candidate Announcement for Republican Railroad Commissioner in Third District
The notice endorses Mr. Clay Cisco as a Republican candidate for Railroad Commissioner in the Third District before the August state primary. Cisco, a Morgan County native from a prominent Republican family, has lived in Montgomery County and worked for party nominees. His campaign committees aim to push an aggressive districtwide bid, with the district viewed as Republican-leaning where nomination equals election.
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Third District
Clay Cisco
Rairoad
Cisco
Morgan County
Allen N. Cisco
Carter- Elliott-Lawrence
Montgomery County
Ky. Tax Reform
Courier-Journal
Democrats urged to nominate fresh, clean candidate for governor
Owensboro Messenger argues Democrats must field a new, untainted candidate with a forward-looking platform and no ties to past scandals to defeat Morrow in November. The editorial stresses rejecting insiders, machine politicians, and “old barnacles” to win in Kentucky.
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Morrow
Kentucky
Sad Faced Thinkers At Dana Library
A Newark News observation notes patrons in fiction appear happy while those in the technical room look miserable. It suggests thinking is the most violent human activity, more strenuous than football or running, leaving thinkers looking wretched.
Houses Without Nails in Alberta Village Built by Ruthenian Immi grants
In Alberta a Ruthenian immigrant village features houses with no nails, using traditional wide eaves, thatched walls, and twig doors. Roofs are thick woven straw and timber, praised for lasting about twenty years in any weather.
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Alberta
Canada
Peanut crops and byproducts offer diverse farm value
The article notes peanuts yield well south of the Tennessee Kentucky line and cites peanut oil as a rival to cottonseed oil. Peanut cake provides cattle feed free of toxins and boosts edible protein in wheat flour. Despite high price for other nuts, peanuts serve as meat substitutes nutritionally though not economically.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Inscription to British Dead Phrases Memorial Ruled
Rudyard Kipling proposes "Their name liveth forevermore" as the engraving for British war dead memorial stones. The Imperial War Graves Commission adopted the line after consultation with ranks and races in the armed forces and with families who sacrificed sons.
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Rudyard Kipling
Imperial War Graves Commission
First Native Alaskan Woman Receives Citizenship
The article notes a Hudah tribe daughter becoming the first native woman in Alaska to gain U S citizenship after evaluation as qualified to vote. It contrasts rising civic progress in southeastern Alaska with distressing spiritual destitution in Bristol Bay where no Protestant mission operates and one Russian priest has died.
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United States
Alaska
Hydaburg Presbyterian Church
The
Home Mission Monthly
Wireless telephony to connect worlds
Godfrey Isaacs of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company predicts rapid advances in wireless communication. He envisions peace treaties followed by Atlantic calls and wearable wireless phones enabling instant calls from Piccadilly to travelers in flight, with possible invitations from France, and eventual desk to New York conversations.
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Atlantic
Godfrey Isaacs
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company
Piccadilly Circus
France
London
New York
Sydney
Melbourne
New Zealand
Ohio’s saloonmen test new dry law enforcement
Ohio’s long noted as wet state becomes dry as saloon men declare they will challenge the prohibition law that took effect Monday night testing enforcement across the state.
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Ohio
Prohibition
Union
Navy and War Department Vessel Losses Excluded From Returns
The record notes these returns exclude navy and army losses and lives sacrificed, and omit merchant vessel losses not yet determined to be enemy actions. It emphasizes the separateness of naval and military casualty tallies from merchant shipping tallies.
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Bureau of Navigation
Department of Commerce
Navy
War Departments
Few Gold Miners Die Rich in Alaska Claim History
A. J. Blake, early Seward Peninsula pioneer, notes that most who strike gold in Nome district end poor. He says gold money is clean yet rarely sticks to its maker and contrasts mining wealth with writing success.
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A. J. Blake
Seward Peninsula
Alaska
Nome
Blake
Did His Part Anyway at Chicago Peace Celebration
Children formed a self driven parade during a Chicago peace day event and performed a program of patriotic songs. Buddy joined with the older kids and sang along though he did not know the words. His mother asked what was sung and he replied that he sang anyway.
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Chicago
United War Work Fund
Buddy
Mock Trial and Burning of Emperor Charles Effigy in Genoa
During Genoa celebrations a crowd gathered before the Garibaldi monument where English sailors conducted a mock trial of Emperor Charles of Austria. They condemned the emperor to death, hanged the effigy, and burned it on a pole as torches were applied. Americans and English joined in Italian festivities with evident enthusiasm.
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Genoa
Italy
Garibaldi
Charles of Austria
State Tax Commission mulls reopening Harkness tax suit compromise
The State Tax Commission is today considering whether it can reopen the Harkness tax suit compromise claiming the state lost a large sum of money. The issue draws considerable statewide interest.
Denhardt Denies Withdrawal in Governor Race
Col Henry H Denhardt denies Louisville reports that he will withdraw from the Democratic gubernatorial race He says he is in the race to finish and expects to be the winner The note ends with a remark on saving money from earnings
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Henry H. Denhardt
Louisville
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Montgomery
Menifee Counties
Thomas L. Caudel
MR. Clay Cisco
Mickie
Talking Machine
Victrola
Columbia
Edison
Bryan & Robinson Jewelers
Advocate
State Tax Commission
Knox and Hopkins
Formost
Panamas
Drop
Optimo
Walsh Company
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