Morehead Vote Surges Toward 17 000 Majority
Voter turnout grows as Morehead supporters push toward a projected 17 000 lead. With ongoing counts, the vote tally expands and signals a strong majority trend for the Morenead initiative.
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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1914
Page
2
Voter turnout grows as Morehead supporters push toward a projected 17 000 lead. With ongoing counts, the vote tally expands and signals a strong majority trend for the Morenead initiative.
The article notes tight outcomes in Workmen's Compensation and Armory funding figures tied to precinct results and party control. It highlights Speaker Clark facing a shrinking Democratic majority as December closes, forecasting shifts in committee control and the need for near-perfect organization to retain leadership and House influence.
California prohibition forces vow to return liquor issue to voters in 1916 by challenging the measure limiting elections to one per year. They seek a united anti liquor proposal backed by all sects of the traffic and will pursue legal challenges to the measure.
Still working for ballot measures, suffragists report improved support in western counties while Lancaster and York show poor turnout. Mrs Harrison says organizers are mobilizing workers across the state, aiming for an 85 percent governor vote, and Governor Morehead receives congratulatory messages as markets react to election news.
Readable fragments show governors race and suffrage tallys. Montana joins equal suffrage states though overall vote remains uncertain. Final statewide result on women’s suffrage shows 60 457 against and 45 154 for with majorities against.
Tokyo announces that Tsing Tao has fallen with the German fortress surrendering to Anglo Japanese forces at midnight. Casualties show British two killed and eight wounded, Japanese 200 killed and 878 wounded. German attacks elsewhere focus around Arras and Ypres as Allied forces press gains.
The war report portrays a major Russian advance after Warsaw with 3,000,000 German and Austrian troops massed from Thorn to Cracow. It notes rapid pursuit across Polish roads, comparing the feat to Napoleonic maneuvers and calling it the greatest wartime success to date.
Belgian troops hold a silted sector as German assault stalls along the Yser line. The weeklong effort to breach the fortified river front has not succeeded and lines remain in place.
Nov. 7 dispatches report France declares war on the Ottoman Empire as Greece seizes Epirus. Turkey faces potential extensions of hostilities with Serbia and involvement in the broader Allied cause. London notes Epirus was denied to Greece but hints Greece may aid Allies.
Fragmentary report mentions agents and a 200,000 figure tied to Japan's prestige, but details are unclear and context incomplete. No identifiable persons or organizations are fully readable to anchor a precise summary.
Official figures report 265 cholera cases in Galicia last Thursday with 126 in Preemysl. The spread links Galicia with Vienna and Amsterdam as routes of outbreak activity.
A fragment references the transport of cholera into Europe in 1830 31 and notes its return from somewhere as part of a broader discussion of warfare penalties and historical outbreaks.
The article compares costs of major wars, noting federal government outlays near 000,000,000 for the Civil War over its 190 days, Germany’s 450,000,000 in a brief war with Turkey, 400,000 per day for a small war, and England’s Boer War cost of 1,055,000,000 across two and a half years with 200,900 troops.
In a small Ohio tow n the justice of the peace juggled duties from judging cases to performing marriages. He struggled to separate the functions as he presided over a ceremony and asked the bride if she would take her husband while turning to the groom for his defense.
Twobbie is praised for his relentless pursuit of perfection. Some say his zeal extends to encouraging others to improve, a commendable but demanding trait observed by peers and observers.
A reader asks how the writer achieves a Sowing style. The response suggests use of a fountain pen as the tool behind the handwriting approach.
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