Irving School Plans and Budget Moves By Board of Education
In a regular meeting the board adopted printing the $115000 ballot question for a 10 room fireproof Irving school. They endorsed playground use and moved arithmetic books for grades 3-8, with old books redeemed to save money. Janitors to be paid $1 per night for after hours, auditorium time to Home Bureau, and night-school expenses totaling $21115.77. Soldiers serve as janitors. moving pictures for campaigns discussed. several salaries and supplies itemized.
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Moving Picture Theater
Supt
Salares
Board of Education
Webster School
Home Bureau
Leidenainn and
Burgess
Ninth
Ohio Streets
Irving School
Laxative Bromo Quinine Ad Appears in Box
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets as safe for anyone with tonic and laxative effects not causing nervousness or head ringing. It notes only one Bromo Quinine and features E. W. Grove's signature on the box, priced at 30 cents.
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E. W. Grove
Amendment raises pay of wrong men in Missouri
Jefferson City March 12. Lawmakers debate whether an amendment to the Supreme Court Commission bill sets salaries too high. Representative Bales sought 5000, but lawyers say the total for judges and commissioners may reach 8700 or more, with Judge and Commissioner salaries combined at 7300. Chief Justice Bond faced criticism from Rep Derott over opposition to the bill.
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Jfferson City
Bales
Shannon County
Supreme Court Commission
Supreme
Slenry W. Bond
St. Louis
Representative Derott
Howell County
Dyott
Chinese Soldiers Sell Human Flesh in Russia War Report
Washington reports describe severe famine conditions in Petrograd and Moscow with fuel shortages and mass deaths from typhoid and smallpox. Chinese soldiers allegedly sold human flesh to famine victims. arrests followed. Embassies from Swiss, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, and Britain were looted as stores closed and church services declined. Traction and electric services are irregular with limited daily electricity.
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Washington
Russia
Petrograd
Moscow
State Department
Wilson plans shorter Paris stay by wireless update
President Wilson, aboard the George Washington, reports rising vigor after departure and hopes to shorten his Paris visit. He aims to expedite work at the peace conference while attending moving pictures aboard the ship and observing the Azores destroyers docking earlier.
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Associated Press
George Walington
Wilson
United States
Paris
George Washington
Azores
George Washingt
League Conference Opens In London
London March 21 The League of Nations Union conference opened at Westminster today electing Lord Shaw as president. Delegates included Oscar Straus Leon Bourgeois Jer Fridtjoff Nansen and Prime Minister Venizelos. A resolution supporting free exercise of religion was adopted.
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League of Nations Union
Westminster
Lord Shaw
Oscar 3. Straus
American League
Leon Bourgeois
Spty
League of Nations
Jer
Fridtjoff Nansen
Norse Society For A League of Nations
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Greece
Conference
School staff changes at Webster and Jackson schools
Mark Prinkley resigns as janitor at Webster School. Robert Hicks appointed at 75 dollars per month. Jesse Merrick appointed janitor at Jackson School to replace Oscar H Barnard at 74 dollars per month. Miss Isabel Mr. Nick resigns from High School Commercial department. Miss Myrtle Brown appointed at 90 dollars per month. Otto Wurl reappointed as physical instructor at 150 dollars per month. Miss Veneta Shumate resigns High School Commercial department. successor not named. Miss Edith Cordsieman resigns Washington fourth grade. Miss Winifred Van Doorn named successor. Mass Stibonan of the High School placed on leave for ill health. Miss Ella Schwagmeyer named temporary successor.
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Mark Prinkley
Webster
Robert Hicks
Jesse Merrick
Jackson School
Oscar H. Barnard
Isabel Mr. Nick
Commercial
Myrtle Brown
Cutler
Otto Wurl
France
Veneta Shumate
Commercial Department
Edith Cordsieman
Washington School
Winifred van Doorn
Mass Stibonan
Wigh — School
Fas
Ella Schwagmeyer
Floods Hit Melbourne in Heaviest Rain in Fifty Years
Heavy rain drenched Melbourne causing widespread flooding. Large areas submerged, hundreds of homes damaged and streets torn up by the intense downpour.
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Melbourne
Rough Outlines Of Treaty Take Shape In Paris
Paris March 11 The first rough outlines of the peace treaty are forming as the main questions are rapidly disposed of by the council of the great powers. Drafting will proceed this week to present a final document by March 20. The treaty will run long with five to six main divisions including military terms reparations German boundaries and economic provisions.
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Associated Press
Paris
Council of the Great Powers
Wilson
Foch
Helgoland
Wiel Canal
Germany
Council
Committee On Reports
League
Rouge effect of strike in Gotham
New York, March 12. The marine workers strike at the port disrupted trans Atlantic shipping and freight. Big liners were held up for coal and cargo piled up as the harbor strike affected troop ship shipments and port operations. The ILWU denied a 20,000 member walkout and said only non union crews were refused handling freight.
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New York
Marine Workers
Wholesale Coal Trade Association of
Beker
Army
Navy
International Longshoremen’s Union
Missouri law would protect auto owner
Jefferson City Mo March 12 protection to automobile owners is provided in a bill favorably reported by committees from both houses and announced Tuesday a transferrable license is provided but it will not become effective until January 1 next Anyone caught in possession of an automobile who cannot produce a license or a transferred license will be presumed in law to have stolen the car
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Jefferson City
Eichhorn Calls Independent State Move in Brunswick
Amsterdam March 11 Eichhorn former Spartacan police chief fled Berlin during January disorders and living under an assumed name in Brunswick addressed an independent socialist meeting Monday It is reported Eichhorn aids a movement to establish an independent state in Brunswick
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Amsterdam
Eichhorn
Berlin
Brunswick
Germany
British squadron arrives at Libau with British commission
British warship reaches Libau with members of a British commission aboard. Advices report the squadron’s arrival at the Baltic port as of March 11.
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Libau
Stockholm
Havas
New Districts Added by Bill in the Senate
Springfield March 12 Senator Adam C Cliffe of Sycamore president pro tem of the senate announced a bill to reapportion Illinois Congress with two new districts taking seats from at large. One new district would be in Cook county and northern Illinois would gain the other. Kendall and Grundy counties move to the 11th district to compensate for loss to the 12th. The two new districts are described as heavily Republican and Democratic opposition is anticipated. Senate acted on bills and postponed house contest decisions to next Tuesday.
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Ill
Adam C. Cliffe
Sycamore
Senate
Tlinois
Cook County
Chicago
Ilinois
Will
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Cook
Kendall and Grundy
Kendall
Grundy
Ith
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McHenry
Edward D. Shurtleff
John W. Lusk
Monmouth
Ernest O. Reaugh
Carthage
Tueday
Nebraska Senate backs law banning cigarette sales
Lincoln Nebraska March lawmakers vote to postpone indefinitely a bill to license tobacco dealers. The senate went on record favoring the current law which makes cigarette sales unlawful in Nebraska.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Nebr
March
Senate
Bolsheviki Invade Circles of Society in New York
New York March 12 Agitators for Bolsheviki and other radicals have turned to their advantage the uplift idea among certain New York society women Francis S Bangs a New York lawyer told the Women's Republican club here He urged women to lend their influence which she said was great either for good or evil to offsetting the Bolshevist program
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New York
Francis S. Bangs
Women's Republican Club
London Daily News Praises the Yanks
The Daily News praises the American soldiers for exemplary conduct after London rioting. It notes the quick inquiry is welcome and public opinion remains reserved until the court of inquiry condemns those involved. The report also mentions Leeds’ automatic telephone exchange as the largest in Europe.
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The
Daily News
Leeds
England
Europe
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