Illinois Blue Sky Bill Seeks Stringent Securities Rules
Illinois senators introduced a blue sky bill to supersede the 1917 act, requiring every corporation doing business to file detailed data for public inspection with the secretary of state as custodian. Violations include false advertising and selling securities without proper filings, classification into three security types, and felony penalties for insolvent stock sales.
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Springfield
Blue Sky
Illinois
Harold Kessinger
Aurora
Kessinger
Secretary of State
Proclamation Free Nationalist Leaders in Egypt
General Allenby issues order releasing four nationalist leaders arrested and deported weeks ago. They will be allowed to land in Begget. President Wilson reports good progress in negotiations in Paris according to advices from Washington.
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ENSY
Eeaders
Catro
Egypt
Montreal
Allenby
Begget
Whelson
Washington
Wilson
Les
Springfield Dry Yet Not, Many Licenses Proliferate
In Springfield Illinois a dry vote two years ago hides a network of places selling liquor. Government licenses total 266 with at least 48 to women including druggists. many are private or password protected. Bootlegging arrests occur and soft drink parlors fail to close during elections. Police report three arrests for drunk and disorderly behavior.
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Springfield
Ill
Passenger Trains In Nebraska Snowbound
Officials of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad said two branch line passenger trains between Hastings and Kearney and near St. Paul were stalled in snow drifts. Snow plows were dispatched to dig them out as wire communication remained badly crippled in Nebraska after a winter storm.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Wedr Star
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Hastings
Kearney
St. Paul
Ydig
Bavarian Diet Opens in Bamberg Tuesday
Berlin reports that the Bavarian diet opened at Bamberg on April 8 with ministers expressing confidence and rejecting outside help. The government says the diet moved from Munich to continue its work peacefully and restore constitutional order. Troops and volunteers are available, loyalty protests have arrived, and North Bavarian bourgeois parties urge cooperation against Munich terrorism amid unrest in Murzburg.
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Berlin
Bamberg
Munich
Murzburg
Bavaria
Mrs Gerard Identifies Spy Seen in Berlin Now Serving Ten Years
Mrs James W Gerard wife of the former ambassador recalls the face of Henry Bode the sole American convicted of spying for Germany. He is serving a ten year sentence in the disciplinary barracks at Governors Island after confessing to appearing at the American embassy in Fort Bliss Texas in July 1914 and later entering German service. He was sent to Mexico to stir anti US sentiment and to blow up Tampico oil fields before fleeing to California where he surrendered at the border.
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New York
James W. Gerard
Germany
Henry Bode
Governor’s Island
Bode
Gerard
Fort Bliss
Texas
German Intelligence Service
Mexico
United States
Tampico
California
Censorship Removal on Cablegrams Announced
Washington April 1 removal of censorship on cablegrams between U S and possessions and Japan and China is announced by the navy departments chief censor Cuban Blanco once president of Venezuela who had his portrait painted about 200 times and erected in a dozen states. A South Berkshire mass man in his eighty third year has just inhaled smoke cigarettes.
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Blanco
Venezuela
Berkshire
Mass
Hungary's Communism Regarded Doubtful By Some Of Its Sponsors
Budapest residents fear a reign of terror and loss of property under communism yet reluctance to oppose it remains. An engineer with a nationalized home and factory explained wage demands and potential collapse when capital runs out. A socialist lawyer supported nationalization but warned of destruction of the rich and middle class if resistance continues.
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Hungary
Associated Press
Vienna
Tuesdy
Budapest
America
Lenine
Demobilized Americans Return From British Service
Nearly 2,600 Americans who enlisted in the British army were demobilized at CAMP MILLS New York after war transport home. They arrived aboard the Mauretania amid disagreements over status between immigration authorities and British officials. Negro troops in Scotch kilts with swagger sticks stood out. most came from west of the Mississippi, a few from Canada.
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Camp Mills
N. VY
Mauretania
Mississippi
Canada
Missouri Wheat Crop Sets Record with 103 Percent Outlook
JEFFERSON CITY Mo April 10 The state board of agriculture reports a projected wheat crop of 80 million bushels from 4 243 000 acres suggesting the largest Missouri harvest by 27 million bushels. The April outlook reaches 103 percent the best in 37 years at the corresponding period.
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Jefferon City
Missouri
State Board of Agriculture
Whippet Tanks Parade in Boston for Victory Loan Opening
Boston on April 10 announces twelve camouflaged whippet tanks manned by 2,000 overseas tank corps men. They will parade through the business section Saturday as the opening feature of the Victory Liberty loan campaign.
Texas Wonder for Kidney and Bladder Troubles Ad
Advertises Texas Wonder for kidney bladder and rheumatic issues in men and women. Claims may regulate bladder problems in children and offers mail order for $1.25. Describes a two months treatment and potential cures. Provides address Dr 15 W Hall 2928 Olive St St Louis MO. Sold by druggists.
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Texas Wonder
W. Hall
Olive St
St. Louis
Solder Druggists
Adv
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