New Food Measure Seeks Stricter Rations Under Wilson
President Wilson orders tighter food controls nationwide with 70 percent wheat flour quotas for wholesalers and retailers and 80 percent for bakers. Wheatless days Monday and Wednesday and one meatless meal daily are required, with Tuesday porkless and Saturday porkless. The victory bread contains 20 percent non wheat cereals after February 24. porkless Tuesday added. Officials seek broad cooperation to conserve wheat for Europe.
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Washington
Wilson
Food Administration
Victory
Europe
Illinois Tops In Farm Crop Values For 1917
Washington Illinois lead the nation in banker farm crop value as Illinois surpasses Texas to take first, Iowa third with 1916 positions shifting. Nebraska seventh and Kansas fourteenth. U S farm crops valued at 13 580 768 000 in 1917, up from 8 985 870 000 in 1916 and 6 298 220 000 average 1911-16.
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Washington
Illinois
Texas
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
United States
Department of Agriculture
Wilson Named Publicity Director for Third Liberty Loan Campaign
Washington reports Washington.-Frank R. Wilson appointed publicity director for the third liberty loan campaign to replace Oscar A. Price. Wilson, former editor of the Sioux City News, has served with the federal farm loan board and acted as advance representative for Secretary McAdoo. The campaign date has not been announced.
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Washington
Frank R. Wilson
Federal Farm Loan Board
Oscar A. Price
McAdoo
Wilson
Sioux City
Liberty Bond
Farm Loan Board
The
Land Banks
Rhine Flood Deluges Cologne and Rhine Valley
Washington reports a flood on the upper Rhine that inundates Cologne and disrupts rail traffic. Bells tolled to wake residents as troops aid affected communities while tributaries rise and other Rhine valleys including the Moscelle cut off travel and provisions are destroyed.
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Washington
Upper Rhine Valley
Cologne
Rhine
Moscelle
Wide plot behind Atlantic fires targets shipyards and munition plants
A series of fires on shipyards munition ships war plants and storage buildings along the Atlantic seaboard and inland suggests a coordinated attempt to cripple U S war action. Most fires appear suspicious in origin and point to an organized plot.
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New York
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
Relief for Syrians Fund Boosted by American Committee
The American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief voted to wire at once 1 400 000 dollars to aid Syrians. The action aims to provide urgent famine and refugee relief through direct transfers and relief programs.
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New York
American Committee For For
Hans
Red Cross Sale Raises Funds With Corn Harvest
A Lincoln Red Cross chapter sale saw members husk and haul corn to town. The load of corn brought seven dollars and fifty cents, supporting Red Cross activities during last week’s event.
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Fled Cross
Lincoln
Red Cross
Plot Detained as Buenos Aires Police Break Bomb Plot
Police in Buenos Aires dismantle a planned attack on a public area and thwart an explosion. Authorities say several suspects were arrested and weapons seized amid the security operation.
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Buenos Aires
Petrograd Faces Organised Famine Amid Shortage
Madame Smith Kalkner of the city food control committees tells the Associated Press Petrograd is near famine. War civil strife and ruble depreciation lower food value. Difficulties stem from Ukraine supply cuts and late Siberian grain arrivals due to snowstorms. Peasants hold grain off market as paper money loses value.
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Petrograd
Madame Smith- Kalkner
Associated Press
Ukraine
Russia
Siberia
Allies' Peace Terms Rejected by Germany and Austria
Germany and Austria-Hungary issued formal replies to Allied and U S peace terms. Count von Hertling rejected the essential bases of Wilson and Lloyd George proposals, while Count Czernin found some common ground with the American president’s views, though with caveats.
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London
Germany
Count von Hertling
Austria-Hungary
Count Czernin
United States
David Lloyd-George
Wilson
Congress
Unrest in Germany Ahead of Hertling Address
Dispatches from Switzerland report growing public discontent in Germany on the eve of Chancellor von Hertling's Reichstag speech. Censorship hid Austrian strikes and peace demands for a time, but leaks reveal widespread Austrian events among German workers. Austrian hopes to incite German followship failed, and pro Austrian editorials faced repression.
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London
Switzerland
Germany
von Hertling
Reichstag
Death Toll at Camp Cody during the 1918 period
During the fifteen week period ending January 5 there were sixty six deaths at Camp Cody. Adjutant General McCain reported to Senator Hitchcock that the rate averaged under five weekly in a command ranging from 12 000 to 28 000 men.
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Camp Cody
Washington
Hitchcock
McCain
Army
Royal Theatre Closures Hit German Venues to Save Coal
The Royal Theatre in Stuttgart is closed by Wartemberg government order to conserve coal. Other German royal theatres are expected to follow with similar closures for the same energy-saving measure.
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Close Royal Theatre
Basel
Switzerland
Stuttgart
Wartemberg
Germany
McAdoo Calls for Govt Control of Railroads After Peace
Director General McAdoo told the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that government operation of railroads should continue after peace and not be returned to private owners until new laws are enacted. He denied involvement in the fuel restriction, but approved the order as beneficial.
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Washington
McAdoo
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Russia Rejects German Brest-Litovsk Peace Terms
Russian and German delegates at Brest-Litovsk met with an unanimous decision to reject the German terms. M Kameneff, a Russian delegate, announced the outcome to the Associated Press as the Germans claimed the proposals were their final offer and warned of no further concessions.
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Russia
Germany
Petrograd
Brest-Litovsk
Associated Press
M. Kameneff
Revised program for wheat conservation and licenses
Federal Food Administrator Wattles releases new directives in Nebraska households mills and feed sectors must obtain licenses by February 15. Sugar and flour sold in specified pound lots to urban and rural buyers. mills require licensing regardless of capacity. porkless and meatless days urged for households with new wheatless requests forthcoming.
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Omaha
Food Administration
Wattles
Nebraska
Plot to Curtail Sugar Supply in Scottsbluff
E T Westervelt of the Republican reports a pro German movement urging high prices for sugar beets to force growers to avoid planting and weaken next year’s sugar production. A Bayard leader heads the beet producers association, rejects arbitration, and calls for exorbitant beet prices amid pro German accusations.
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Scottsbluff
E. T. Westervelt
The
Republican
Bayard
Beet Producers’ Association
Minister Wins $10,000 Verdict in Arlington Case
Walter Ernstmeyer, former Lutheran pastor at Juanita, injured when an electric light pole toppled on him near Arlington last October, was awarded a $10,000 verdict against Arlington Heat Light and Power Co. The minister, disabled by injuries, relied on his wife’s relatives for support after the accident occurring while returning from a Lutheran conference at Brown Creek church on the way to Arlington depot.
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Fremont
Walter Ernstmeyer
Juanita
Arlington
Blair
Arlington Heat, Light and Power Company
Arlington Depot
Brown Creek
Stella Boy Receives Medal and Promotion in France
Stella-Owen Chaney of the Thirteenth Canadian machine gun company in France is awarded a military medal and promoted to corporal after thirteen months of severe fighting on the western front.
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Stella
Owen Chaney
France
Western Front
Tubercular Cattle Found in Fremont Dairy Herd
Local veterinarian tests show a high rate of tuberculosis in Fremont dairy cows. In a herd of 37, 32 animals tested positive and were ordered shipped to market.
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Fremont
Sugar Factory Finishes Campaign With 67000 Bags of Sugar
The American Beet Sugar company reports completion of its 1917 campaign in Grand Island. It produced 67 000 bags of sugar each weighing 100 pounds, equating to just over six pounds per Nebraskan resident.
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Sugar Factory
Grand Island
American Beet Sugar Company
Nebraska
Rooster Sale Raises Funds for Red Cross
A rooster donated by Mr and Mrs Alfred Anderson at a Fremont public sale sold seventeen times totaling 225 dollars. All proceeds go to the Red Cross.
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Fremont
Alfred Anderson
The
Red Cross
Nebraska counties back gymnasium for Camp Funston recruits
Counties including Colfax Platte and Merrick plan to raise about 12000 for a Camp Funston gym. Grand Island pledges 1000 and Hall County aims for another. Sergeant Joseph Martin leads the drive with Lt. F B Manning initiating the project endorsed by Governor Neville and camp officers. The facility will train Nebraska boys in evenings and provide rest rooms for visitors and relatives.
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Camp Funston
Nebraska
Neville
Kansas
Douglas
Lancaster County
Four Killed in Car Smash in Omaha
A runaway freight car loaded with cinders derailed on a two percent grade near a street car crossing and struck a trolley, killing two conductors James Hutchinson and John Bradhoft instantly. Passenger Mary Tighe aged 14 and Frank Karasek aged 60 died of injuries, with seven others seriously hurt. The freight car reached about fifty miles per hour before the collision.
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Omaha
James Hutchinson
John Bradhoft
Mary Tighe
Frank Karasek
Warrant Issued in 1891 Unpaid for Wolf Scalp
Lincoln A state warrant issued in 1891 by Gordon for one dollar remains valid 27 years later. State Treasurer Hall received it. it has several endorsements including signatures of T. H. Benton state auditor and J. E. Hill state treasurer, with deputies G. E. Bowman and G. M. Bartlett.
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Lincoln
Hall
Gordon
T. H. Benton
G. E. Bowman
J.E. Hill
G. M. Bartlett
Threat Letter for Pro German Article Targeting Publisher
Beatrice editor W B Cissna of the Filley Spotlight received a threatening letter signed by One of the Bunch after publishing The Devil's Letter to the Kaiser. The note warns of burning the plant if further articles appear. Authorities at county and Washington are notified.
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Beatrice
Regust
W. B. Cissna
Filley Spotight
Washington
Beatrice Dedication Marks First Gage County Consolidated School
The Union Center consolidated school near Blue Springs was dedicated Friday. Nine miles west of Blue Springs, the building cost $12,000. It is the first consolidated school in Gage county after four districts joined to build the schoolhouse.
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Beatrice
Union Center
Blue Springs
Gage County
Negro found guilty in Florence murder case
A jury in criminal court found Charles Smith, a Negro, guilty of the murder of Mrs. G L Nethaway near Florence on August 26 1917. In his first trial the jury disagreed after thirty six hours deliberation.
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Negro
Omana
Charles Smith
G. L. Nethaway
Florence
Sheriff Heads Home Guarda at West Point
West Point forms a home guard company with fifty men signing the muster roll. Sheriff Arthur G. Sexton elected captain of the new unit.
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West Point
Arthur G. Sexton
Blair man, 87, killed in auto crash near Pender
Al Harris of Pender, aged 87, died instantly when the car they rode in overturned after the front wheels broke loose on a sharp turn. Two other men suffered minor injuries.
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Blair
al Harris
Pender
Aurora Schools Drop German in Unanimous Vote
The Aurora school board voted unanimously to drop German from public schools and replace it with Latin.
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Aurora
Wooden Orchestra in Lom bardy Plays with Wood Instruments
Edwin Tarrisse describes a unique band in Brianza Lom bardy whose players use reed pipes and other wooden instruments including drums flutes and a wooden trombone. They improvise without written scores relying on keen ears and often learn from a phonograph producing a curious but agreeable harmony.
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Brianza
Lombardy
Pan
Edwin Tarrisse
Truly Modest. A slang exchange on bootlimbing terms
A Farm Life dialogue features a playful exchange about liquor peddling slang. A woman blushes as the man asks for the term bootlimbing, confirming the period flavor and rural humor.
Learn a Little French The Questioning Word In U S
Americans study a French word at least one daily habit takes hold as "questionnaire" becomes common in households across the United States. The trend reflects growing interest in basic language learning and word awareness.
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United States
Jollying Term Explained In Gentle Conversation
A playful exchange defines jollying as soft soap with a wink to its root in He as a playful clue. The dialog hints at linguistic quirks and regional speech in a light, humorous tone.
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