Near riot at Newport Woodsville game and wedding
Woodsville and Newport fans witnessed a chaotic basketball event at Newport School Hall with a final score of 89 to 0. A disputed late basket tied the game as time expired. Elsewhere Miss Gladys Carpenter married Merle Colburn at No 28 Spring St St Johnsbury in a formal ceremony with family and colleagues attending.
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Bigelow
New Hampshire
House committee backs universal military training plan
Washington Feb 20 11 to 9 vote by the House Military Committee approves a general training provision within the army reorganization bill. Greene of Vermont among supporters as the policy moves forward. Washington Feb 20 presidential candidates to be rated on farmers questions panel to record positions via a questionnaire. Senate Commerce panel reports favorably Jones bill banning sale of 30 former German liners with possible exceptions by Congress.
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House Military Committee
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Vermont
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East
National Board of Farm Organizations
Senate Commerce Committee Today
Jones
Congress
Women Gossiping Harm of Gossiping
A Sunday School night talk at the Methodist church addressed women about gossip as misperception. The speaker urged sympathy and prayer, warning of ruin from unkind words and calling for self restraint and Christlike conduct, with a continuation note on page 5.
President Wilson Clarifies Adriatic Position in Reply
The President’s plain statement on the Adriatic settlement has closed the immediate path for arguments, according to admiralty officials, though further exchanges are not ruled out. Acting Secretary Polk now holds the president’s note for study, with a final agreement among great powers anticipated after review.
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Washington
Wilson
Polk
State Department
Bolsheviks Capture Archangle on White Sea
Bolshevik forces seized Archangle on the White Sea after the White army abandoned the town. The Bolsheviks’ possession would weaken the Dvina line, according to wireless reports received today. Bing home a tube of Nazol, the whole family need it.
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Bing
Goss Company Opens Evening Trade School in St Johnsbury Vermont
The C H Goss Company in St Johnsbury Vermont announces an evening school to teach mechanical and technical trades. Practical instruction by experienced staff will run Monday and Wednesday evenings at 7, aiming to equip young men with tangible skills for permanent positions and good pay. Applications invited at the company office.
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C. H. Goss
Noted Explorer Peary Dies at Home in Washington
Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary retired Arctic explorer and North Pole discoverer died at his Washington home from pernicious anemia. Funeral arrangements pending with full Naval honors. Peary, born May 6 1856 Creson Penn Bowdoin graduate, entered Navy 1881, reached North Pole in 1909 on his eighth Arctic voyage. His daughter, known as the Snow Baby, is married to Edward Stafford Nashington.
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North Pole
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Penn
Bowdain College
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Arctic
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St. Johnsbury
Apeaker
Greater Vermont Association
Montgeriey
Snow Baby
Edward Stafford
Nashington
Wendell P. Stafford
Robert Whittemore Twice Cited In Great War Bears Charmed Life
Morrisville Vermont February 20 Robert Whittemore a Yankee division man twice cited for bravery in the Great War by General Edwards bears a charmed life after being shot twice at close range by Henry Gangnon in a neighborhood quarrel Whittemore survived with two bullet holes one in the right breast that struck a bone and exited near the entry while the other bullet did not hit he is expected to recover quickly Gangnon 45 was jailed after the incident Whittemore is about 22 the son of Mr and Mrs Earl Whittemore and has a troubled past with his wife Miss Bentley of Jericho prior to overseas service he posted that he would pay no more bills of her contracting and they have not lived together since return.
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