Donated Land for Reform School Site in Jefferson County
Deeds filed with the attorney general show 260 acres of land donated by citizens of Dure Bluff and Jefferson County for a reform school site. The land, valued at 112,500, includes about half arable for immediate cultivation. The committee plans frame buildings with limited funds and aims to open by spring for 150 inmates to work crops, with Pulaski County site reserved for girls.
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Little Rock
Dee
Jefferson County
Gener Arbuchle
Julia Houston
Weelie
Due Bluff
Pulissi County
Girls of
Arkansas
12000 Germans Glad to Be Taken Prisoners
Jefferson City, Mo December 8 In defending a French assault on the Royal Prussian Guards somewhere on the French front during October Willis K Gardner son of Governor river who returned from Europe recently said that 12000 prisoners who were taken were tickled to death to the captives Gardner was in the French ambulance service and was honorably discharged when the Americans took over the service Gardner says much of the future battles will be decided by air and he hopes to join Royation camp here the advertisements in this issue We have a number of good merchants in Prescott who will appreciate your patronage
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Jefferson City
Will K. Gardner
Governor River
Europe
Gardner
Americana
Ganiier
Royation
Man Says Kaiser Will Rule This Country
St Louis police arrest Louis Lemm 50 after he allegedly remarked that the kaiser would be ruling this country before many months. The incident occurred December 8 as authorities charged him with the statement.
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Man
Kaiser
St. Louis
Louis Lemm
Convention committees asked to get busy
Tom M Mehaffy president of the constitutional convention sent letters to all members of his appointed committees urging meetings soon after the new year. They should begin gathering information needed to draft the constitutional provisions under their charge.
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Tom M. Mehaffy
St Louis Boy Joins Aviators on Germany Bombing Mission
In a letter to his parents in St Louis, Stuart Sutherland recounts accompanying a fleet of aviators into Germany on a bombing expedition. He notes it was so dark they could not tell how much damage occurred.
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St. Louis
Stuart Sutherland
Germany
Governor Grants Pardon for Tuberculosis Victim
In Little Rock on Friday Gov. Brough pardoned Andy Riddle of Sevier county who had four years for burglary and grand larceny. He has served nearly three years and is in the final stages of tuberculosis, with officials warning continued confinement endangering other prisoners at Tucker farm.
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Little Rock
Andy Riddle
Sevier County
Gov. Brough
Riddle
Penitentiary Commission
Penitentiary
Holup
St. Francis County
Bolshevik Uprising Recap With Kerensky Heroic Resolve
Stockholm report recounts Kerensky facing death threats during the July 1917 Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd. Delegations from the machine gun regiment pressured him to surrender to workers and soldiers. He refused to kill, led a perilous response, and after three days of terror ordered arrests, with Trotsky jailed and Lenin fleeing.
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Kerensky
Petrograd
Council of
Dancer’s Palace
Lenine
Trotsky
Leninens
Sey
Pal Trotsky
Tomeel
Nicholai Station
Drowsiness Blamed by Man Indicted as Slacker
Emil Rinifleisch of St. Louis faced four months in federal prison after an unusual drowsiness prevented him from registering on pepistration day. The indictment labeled him a slacker and placed the blame on his condition.
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St. Louis
Emil Rinifleisch
Governor Grants Stay to Former Senator Sims
Gov Brough grants a stay of execution to former Senator S C Sims who was convicted in Pulanti county of bribery and sentenced to serve time in the penitentiary. Attorneys Walls and Trimble sought a 30 day delay to wind up business affairs amid large dairy and land interests in Hazen. A petition for pardon was filed. the stay indicates Sims will proceed to prison.
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S. C. Sims
Pulanti
Air
Sims
Hazen
Albert Walls
T. ©. Trimble
Brough
Loyalty Week Declared in Arkansas for December
Little Rock officials announce December 23 to 29 as Loyalty Week with Col H L Remmel and Gov C H Brough delivering a patriotic speech to about 500 four minute men. Proclamation directs copies to county Councils of Defense and interested speakers. Also a classified notice offers a seven room house on East Main Street in Arkadelphia for sale with cash or liberal terms.
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Little Rock
Col
H. L. Remmel
Gov
C. H. Brough
Arkansas
East Main Street
D. Brown
Arkadelphia
Ark
Anti-Saloon League Plans Biggest Prohibition Drive
The Anti-Saloon League reports its most successful year and maps a major push for nationwide prohibition during Congress. The gathering in Kington signals plans with 2000 delegates and speakers including Senators Sheppard Ter and Borah and Representatives Barkley Webb Fess and Bryan. Regional wins and setbacks shape strategy as states like Michigan Indiana and New Mexico shift dry. Ohio and other industrial states loom large in securing three fourths support within six years.
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Senate
Sheppard
Ter
Borah
Ida
Barkley
Webb
N. C
Fess
Ohio
Congress
Newspaper man Nomi Nominated for Alderman
Parke Harper News Service reporter Clio Harper, a familiar figure to Arkansas journalists, won the aldermanic nomination in Little Rock’s First Ward at Friday primaries. He defeated W D Kennedy in a clear race though Harper sought a fourth term as alderman.
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Dec
Clio Harper
Parke-Harper News Service
F Arkansas
Little
W. D. Kennedy
Rock Island
Harper
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