Prohibition Triumphs and Scientific Arguments Highlight Prohibition Debate
The piece recounts Prohibition triumphs and the Union Signal view, noting numerous state victories in 1937 and new federal measures. it also presents the Scientific Argument praising temperance science to sway opinion. Wilbur F. Heyant of Hartington, Nebraska, opposed statewide Prohibition but now argues repeal would be harmful. the piece likens liquor to a fire that would spur reconstruction if burned, underscoring economic and moral stakes.
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Prohibition
Union
Todiens
Utah
New Hampshire
New Mexico
Porto Rica
Congress
Alan
District of Colom
Enya
United States
Alcohot
Wilbur F. Heyant
Harting
Neb
Minys
Harrington
Frondway
Denke
Lettus
Brigadier Edwin B Babilite Receives Major General Rank
Edwin B Babilite becomes the sole brigadier general in the regular army as spring promotions elevate him to major general. His career as chief of ordnance and head of the division of ordnance supply marks a shift to commanding a brigade of artillery in the regular army.
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Edwin B. Babilite
National Army
Triga- Miler Grnerale
Babtattell
Artiifery
Secretary of War
Babbitt
Ordmine
Menthe
Une Ueting
General Crozier
Ordnanee
Roosevelt on Prohibition War Time Liquor Ban
President Theodore Roosevelt urges strict liquor prohibitions to protect soldiers and workers aiding the war effort. He argues no grain should be wasted on intoxicants and extends the rationale to railroads factories mines and shipyards near military camps. The message praises Congress for criminalizing alcohol near soldiers and calls for firm national discipline.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Simtler
Citiowns
Ensign Krylenko Aims From Revolution to Leadership
The Russkoye Stave profiles Krylenko as Rum armies chief, tracing his rise from the 1917 upheavals and earlier revolutionary activity. It notes his early life, alleged Jewish origins, persecution, and role in the Black Sea fleet uprising and Sveaborg revolt, with a claim he hid after 1905 and reemerged in 1917.
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Kavien Krylenko
Rusekoye Stave
Holsheviki
Russkoye Stave
Krylenko
Caturade Abram
Tod Minny
Wiys
Lite Kiedi
Lonine Wind
Dostoyovsky
Black Sea
Sveaborg
Eatora
Holsteviks
Renin
Official Chantie Man Stanton Tf King of Boston
Stanton Tf King named official chanty man for the American merchant marine to revive singing among sailors joining new cargo ships through a wing recruiting service. Boston heads note declining sea shanties though revival seen as key for sailor morale. King, a veteran mariner and author, began singing years ago and later founded Hullore Tlayen at Charlestown.
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Stanton Tf
Boston
United States
Tre Rensona
Mr. King
Frog the Marbadows
Deepewater Vinekee
Deepewater Vinekee Ships. In January, 1886, He Found Himvelf
Hayling
Mondy School
Hullore Tlayen
Charlestown
Maas
King
Famine Fears Warned as War Ends and Rationing Looms
Lord Rhondda warns Britain faces hard times after the war with rationing likely to continue. He says property owners may lose property and the state could become farmer or butcher to sustain supplies. Lord Ithopidda cites rent and distribution difficulties amid the global famine scare and Allied tensions.
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Rhondda
Great Britain
Indi
Vidunlawn
Ithopidda
Marriage by the numbers reads love into common life
Horace Blair and Caroline weigh money woes against a future together as war cuts earnings. She insists on doubling income before marriage, then proposes a simple solution: sharing one apartment and joint finances. Their engaged plan hinges on arithmetic versus emotion, with hope for a modest future.
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Caroline
Hye Grare Agaim
Horace Blair
Horace
Caroling
Olle
Horace Dear
Cutter
Liorice
Theo
Ale
Jeniler
Bradford
Railway Official’s War Sentiments Spark Secret Service Arrest
An unnamed railway official in Philadelphia who praised Germany faced possible arrest after his private secretary exposed his anti allied, pro Kultur remarks. The secretary, a secret service agent, confronted him as a fire in a nearby city framed the context. The incident ends with the official believed to be in custody or at least restrained.
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Philadelphia
Girard
Philadelphia Ledger
Germany
Secret Service
Disturbing Element Remark Triggers Protest at Pera High
A Greencastle area teacher faced a patron's protest after a claimed insult at a Pera Ind high school meeting. The patron alleged the teacher called her boy a senrry elephant, but the teacher recalls saying he was a disturbing element, which the boy misheard as the elephant phrase.
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Greencastle
Pera Ind
Wingliy
Indianapolis News
Mothers JO BE Should Read Mrs. Mon Letter Published
Mitchell Indiana appears to publish a reader letter about a vegetable compound and household welfare. The fragment mentions permission, neuralgia relief, and a family scene with a seven year old child assisting with housework, suggesting a local guidance tone.
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Mrs. Mon
Mitchell
Ind
Ila Finkham
Ned Sand
Fragmentary Notice From An Old Paper
Reader fragments reflect a lighthearted, fragmented slice of a 19th or early 20th century newspaper page. Dialogue snippets, misspellings, and stray phrases hint at humor columns and social observations rather than a single event or report.
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Christian Temperance Union
Josephus Dualela
Ensign Krylenko
Chantie Man
Mone Corles
Igi
Law
Newapaper Syndicate
Hee
Twista Teachers Worde
Detroit Pree Press
Josh Pingson
RED Cross
Orion
Blood Cartel
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