Pan American Conference Plan to Extend Recognition
The report notes Wilson presenting a plan for the Pan American Conference to extend recognition to the Franza government in Mexico. The United States public health unveils a new nationwide campaign. A stereopticon loan library is described as a venture for libraries.
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Ton Bint Wilson
Franza
Mexico
United States Public Health
Estab
Carranza
Washington
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Nebraska and World War Era Notes Mention Carranza and Harvests
A sprawling clipping covers international updates including Mexico's Carranza de facto government and U S recognition prospects, British curbs on alcohol, and farm prospects. It notes Kansas wheat harvests approaching with mechanized aids, a Boston Red Sox World Series win, a Lincoln bakery shooting incident, and Nebraska crop and political news.
Agrivities of Women Across the Nation Noted in Briefs
Domestic servants in Philadelphia total over thirty thousand. Miss Ruby Tennyson, an expert, to conduct canning club work in Helena Arkansas. Mrs. Mary Green, with master’s and pilot’s licenses, commands the steamer Tacoma on the Mississippi. Newport society women wear birds on their wrists. Investigations show women sleep longer and harder than men. Mrs Jedsie Stillman Taylor, New York, now Munich resident, presented an Ambulance train to the Bavarian army. Mrs. Susan E. Howard of Wakefield Massachusetts runs a large apiary, among the largest owned and managed by a woman in the country.
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Philadelphia
Newport Society
Jedsie
General Dubain Reunites With Son Near Front Lines
A photograph captured within 700 yards of German trenches shows General Dubain meeting his son, who leads a regiment of chasseurs. Father and son exchange a brief moment amid wartime proximity and tension.
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Dubain
Searchlights in War: Military Power and Precision
The American Boy notes electric searchlights are essential to armies akin to battleships. European forces use portable field lights on motor trucks with generators. French industry excels. Lights with 38 inch reflectors emit 7000 candlepower, illuminate beyond half a mile, and can be remotely controlled from shelter, reducing operator risk.
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Europe
Avoiding Melancholy Through Breathing and Posture
The text explains melancholy as a congested liver and organ condition harming brain blood flow. Relief is said to come by lying on the floor with a pillow under the back, taking long deep breaths, and stretching the arms overhead to reinvigorate the brain.
Largest English Oaks Document Oldest Britain’s Parliamentary Oak
The largest remaining English oak is Cowthorpe's Oak, 78 feet in circumference. The oldest tree in Britain is the Parliamentary Oak in Clipstone Park, London, dating back about 1500 years.
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England
Cowthorpe
Britain
Clipstone Park
London
Property assessor faced overbilling dispute
A clerk from the assessor's office recounts a confrontation outside where a man accuses the assessor of underpricing real estate by $20,000. The assessor responds with a curt remedy, suggesting a cigarette to keep him quiet and to call the telephone clerk.
Water Stagnation Threatens State Health
State health inspector Dr. J D Case warns that prolonged wet weather has left stagnant water across the state and poses a real health danger. He urges local boards of health to address conditions to save doctors' bills and protect public health.
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Xed
Ps -Lincoln
J. D. Case
State. Health
Boards of Health
Tragedy at Table Rock: Veteran John Bush Fatally Injured
John Bush, an elderly soldier, suffered a fatal fall at Table Rock after leaving town in the afternoon. He returned home, then fell through a cellar trap door, striking his head on the cement floor and fracturing his skull.
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Table Rock
John Bush
Modern engines aid farmers progress in Jefferson county
Plymouth Plymouth area farmers adopt machinery with twenty farmers buying engines this fall. Engines run plowing pumping washing and other chores kerosene replaces gasoline. In York Martin Elliott was killed near Thayer by a Northwestern train crossing. The buggy occupant died after the collision and the team remained unharmed.
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Plymouth
Jefferson County
York
Martin Elliott
Thayer
Northwestern
Elliott
Gresham
Plymouth Considers Electric Lighting for Village
The Plymouth commercial club debates bringing electric lights to the village. With a $200,000 valuation and only $2,500 in indebtedness, several special meetings have been held to discuss the proposal.
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Plymouth
Commercial Club of
Planning for New Capitol Building in Lincoln
The city plans commission outlines a plan for a new Nebraska state capitol. It proposes locating the building at the twenty seventh street end of the principal business thoroughfare to beautify Lincoln.
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Lincoln
State Capitol
Twenty Seventh Street
City Plans Commission
Nebraska
Married at Midnight in Hastings Lincoln Train Escape
Jacob Batt and Emma Churchill wed at midnight in Hastings as a surprise marriage. They then slipped away two hours later on a train to Lincoln, both employed in a department store. The ceremony marks the culmination of a romance.
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Hastings
Jacob Batt
Emma Churchill
Lincoln
Neble estate lake undermined releasing flood of game fish
Springfield Muskrats undermined the estate lake at Sophus Neble in Omaha Danish editor causing several thousand tons of water to spill from the basin. Neble plans to repair the basin and restock the lake with fish afterward.
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Springfield
Sophus Neble
Omaha
Neble
Nebraska items of state interest and local events
Nebraska news briefs report the Fremont school board opening its gym for public use the Weeping Water quarry supplying stone for the Omaha Ford plant, a death in Auburn of a pioneer leader, Wahoo church debt burned, a life term convict captured at Council Bluffs, M E Dickson appointed poultry professor at Nebraska State University, Marine Band concert in Kearney, accidents and fires across towns, and notable agricultural yields including a 12 inch ear of corn and a 6 foot mastodon jaw exhibit at the state university.
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Ruskin
Fremont Board of Education
Nebraska
Weeping
Ford
Omaha
Church Howe
Auburn
Wahoo
John Sanford
Penitentiary
Council Bluffs
Iowa
M. E. Dickson
Department of
Poultry ‘Husbandry
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Kearney
U. S. Marine Band
Otis McElroy
Ainsworth
T. J. Knoor
York County
Springview
Wayne McDermott
Cook
George Howell
McCook
Farmers’ Union
Richardson
Ben K
W. B. Douglas
The
State University
Plan Prohibition Campaign and Open Government Spending
National W C T U plans a coming dry battle while suffragists elect officers. The Western Newspaper Union notes President Wilson and his cabinet will face a large open government budget with an estimated increase of about 150 million dollars over last year. The overall expenditures are forecast to reach about 1 240 million dollars due to European war costs and new tasks for the state department and other branches.
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Wilson
United States
J. P. Morgan
New’ York
el Paso
State
Lansing
Houston
Department of Agriculture
Mexico
State Agricultural Board
Nebraska
Union Newns
Washington
Treasury
Conees
Deta
Calines
Gether
Suffragists Elect Officers in Nebraska Association
Columbus Neb Mrs Warkley Jr of Lincoln was elected president of the Nebraska Equal Suffrage Association at the convention closing. The active board expanded to 14 with vice presidents for each congressional district. New officers include President E W Barkley Jr Lincoln first vice president Mrs Anna Kovanda Tit Rock second vice president Mr L Burke Omaha recording secretary Mrs M Bruegger Columbus corresponding secretary Miss Ida Butt Lincoln treasurer Mrs Bo Head Omaha first auditor Mrs W I Hardy Lincoln second auditor Lydia Pope Silver Creek.
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Columbus
Neb
Warkley, Jr
Lincoln
Nebraska Equal Suffrace Association
INC
E. W. E. Barkley, Jr
Anna Kovanda
M. Bruegger
Columbua
Ida Butt
Bo Head
Omaha
Prohibition Plan Adopted by National Women’s Christian Temperance Union
The national convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union approved fifteen recommendations for a constitutional prohibition campaign. They urge December 2 as a day of prayer, December 3 church services for the new congress, a December 12 Washington mass meeting, and local union events with speakers arguing for prohibition and linking women’s ballot to liquor restriction.
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Seattle
Wash
National Convention of Womens Christian Temperance Union
Sixty-Fourth Congress
of. Jooman
Lancaster Sheriff Not Eligible for Reward for Murder Case
Lancaster Nebraska sheriff's staff member will not receive any reward for the apprehension of the murderer Frank Bohuslov, killed near Denton a week ago. Governor Morehead's proclamation includes this condition, a first in the state's history, with the reward set at $200.
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Lancaster
Lincolln
Lancaster County
Vu Frank Bohuslov
Denton
October 19 Apple Day in Nebraska Statewide celebration
Lincoln Nebraska plans for Apple Day October 19 promote use of Nebraska grown apples in pies cobblers and other dishes. The campaign urges patriotic citizens to embrace local fruit and raise awareness of regional produce.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska Banks Pass Usury Review Amid National Check
The comptroller of the currency reports nationwide bank interest rate investigations. On September 1, 1,203 banks charged over 1 percent, but only one such bank was found in Nebraska, indicating Nebraska banks largely avoid usury rates.
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Washington
Nebraska
German potato crop hits record 60 million tons big
London reports Germany’s potato harvest reaching 60 million tons the largest in its history. The abundance allows a withdrawal of the export prohibition to Switzerland as noted in a Berne dispatch to the Post. Washington marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the Daughters of the American Revolution with a silver Jubilee. Regents and delegates from across the nation attend.
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London
Germany
Switzerland
Washington
Dautters
Monarchy Restoration Petition Reported by Yuan Shikai
In a dated October 10 mandate Yuan Shikai acknowledges petitions from all provinces calling for restoring the monarchy. He emphasizes the people’s will on governance and constitutional compliance guiding any change. Armenian massacres in Asiatic Turkey renewed after Bulgaria joined the war, with the state department noting heavy Armenian casualties.
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Peking
Yuan Shi Kaar
Yuan-Shi_ Kai
Washington
Turkey
Bulgaria
State Department
Morgenthau
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