Governor Morehead Urges Wide State Reforms in Message
Governor Morehead outlines recommendations to Nebraska lawmakers including prisoner transport costs, drug store sales records, state printing reform, banking and investment law updates, four year terms for officials, district based supreme judges, road and water power development, public warehouse law, and budget discipline. He calls for expedited appropriations, better penitentiary use, and harmony with federal laws on game, fish, and licensing while stressing nonpartisan schools and financed university limits.
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Union News Service
Nebraska
Morehead
State Bureau of Printing
Supreme Court
Congress
State Railway Commission
House
Governor's Address Urges Reforms and Consolidation
The governor outlines legislative recommendations to Nebraska lawmakers, urging county costs for fugitives to be shifted, stricter drug sale controls, consolidation of the veterinary and stallion boards, support for the swine industry and anti cholera serum, and reorganization of the bacteriological lab under the state health board. He praises past laws, notes strong finances, and calls for scrutiny of department reports and commissions.
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State Veterinary Department
Sanitary Livestock Board
Stallion Registration Department
Holding Monterey Missionaries Ill Treated in Holy Land
Western Newspaper Union report from Laredo says Monterey is held by Carranza troops. General Maclo vio arrived with a large force and Herrera’s troops caused initial panic as citizens mistook them for Villa forces. Banks and businesses closed. telegraph operators fled. scouts reassured the public that Villa troops were not present and normal conditions are returning.
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Union News
Laredo
Tex
Monterey
Carranza
Maclovio
Herrera
Urging Philippine Self-Government Policy Stated
Secretary Garrison of the War Department urged prompt passage of a bill to extend self government for Filipinos. He said the preamble promising independence after a stable government echoes long-standing U.S. policy and previous administrations' pledges.
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Washington
Secretary Garrison
War Department
United States
Garrison
Missionaries in Holy Land Face Starvation Amid Turmoil
Washington reports hundreds of missionaries and other religious workers in the Holy Land face starvation as Turks expel Franciscans from most convents in Armenia upper Syria and Galilee leaving only St Saviour in Jerusalem and the Annunciation of Nazareth shelters. Local religious orders including Assumptionists Dominicans Fathers of Zion and White Fathers and various nuns are said driven to the streets.
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Washington
Holy Land
Godfrey Schilling
United States
Father Schilling
Armenia
Upper
Syria
Galilee
St. Saviour
Jerusalem
Relief Aid Reaches Belgian Outlying Areas
Daily News Rotterdam correspondent notes American relief committee extends into sparsely settled districts. Conditions are dire in southeastern provinces and western areas near the fighting line. Starvation prevalent. investigators find cellar dwellers and cave shelters for hundreds of families around Namur.
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London
American Relief Committee
Belgium
Daily News
Rotterdam
Namur
Prosperity on the Way, Says McAdoo After Western Trip
Secretary McAdoo برگ returns to Washington reporting improved business conditions from the Pacific Coast to Chicago. He says prosperity is not partisan, though some try to make it one, and that recovery is underway across the nation.
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Washington
McAdoo
Bac
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Roumanian Mobilization Planned for January
Paris reports that Roumania will begin mobilization in the last week of January calling up three classes totaling 135,000 men. The effort will continue until 600,000 troops are ready for the field.
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Paris
Ski in Warfare at Bonhomme Forces German Retreat
French Alpine troops charged down a snow covered slope at Bonhomme near the Alsatian frontier. They forced German forces to withdraw toward Orbey on the Weiss river as heavy French artillery bombarded St Die on January 2, threatening the rail line from St Marie to St Croix.
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St. Die
Department of Vosges
France
Bonhomme
Orbey
Venus Procrastinates as Apollo Prepares for Olympian Games
A playful dialogue shows Apollo asking Venus to ready for the Olympian games. Venus delays, muttering in frustration about hair, while Apollo grumbles about ten minutes turning into half an hour. The exchange ends with a judge-like remark.
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Appollo
Venus
Pape's Diapepsin Promises Quick Stomach Relief
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as the fastest harmless cure for indigestion and stomach distress. It claims rapid relief from gas heartburn sourness and bloating and urges readers to keep a fifty cent case handy for all family members.
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Pape
When a Bride Marries a Man, Light-Haired Love Fades
Sne Dyed muses on lost love as a joke about married life. A wry line notes that every wedding starts trouble for a man, with a quip about a light-haired woman who dyed.
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Sne
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