Prohibition debate and local press notes from Valley City
The weekly issue discusses prohibition trends, YMCA finances from WWI, Andrew Carnegie’s death, and local newspaper matters. It notes Barnes County paper choices, and critiques judicial actions against editors in Memphis, plus references to national prohibition effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joy
the Tribune
Minneapolis
New York World
Milwaukee
Baltimore
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Boston
Providence
Kansas City
Buffalo
Chicago
St. Paul
Louisville
New Orleans
Minneapolis Tribune
Press attacks farmers and town officials in Jamestown discourse
A Stutsman County press roundup criticizes Jamestown officials, businessmen, and organizations as part of a partisan farmer focused agenda. It accuses the Nonpartisan League of manipulating media and inflaming town farmer tensions while praising a Big Business group and denying soldier bias claims.
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Stutsman County
Jamestown
Jamestown Alert
Valley City
Rapid de m
Nonpartisan League
Aod
North ‘Dakota
Statsian County Press
I League
War Lords and Greed Refuse to Spare the World’s Woes
A charged attack on monarchs and conquerors driven by greed and conquest. The author rails against warlords stealing land and wealth while millions suffer, urging empathy for the hungry and the exploited amid global conflict. The prose condemns selfishness and calls out the bloodshed and poverty caused by greed.
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Egypt
Pedro Garcia
Diasis
Christ
Lydia
Sediment in Milk and Dairy Hygiene Rules
The notice argues there should be no sediment in milk as it signals dirty farming practices. It cites cows milkers and airborne dirt as sources and warns sediment can be unsafe. It promotes filter cloth strains and boiled strainers, and stresses clean cows, rooms, utensils and hands. milking must be done with cleanliness.
Make, the punishment fit the crime
A judge sentenced a convicted white slaver to one year in the state penitentiary, while a barefoot thief would face three years. The writer denounces this inequality, calling for judicial recall and harsher justice for white slavers compared to petty thieves.
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State
God's Fair Earth
Monkeydom and morals in review by a Philadelphia congress
The piece derides D B C Keister and other pessimists who warn of opium and vice. It argues Americans improve through education and wealth, defending civilization and condemning those predicting doom as disordered brains and vaunted specialists. It mocks monkeydom as a conceit used to scare the public.
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Europe
Wat
D. B. C. Keister
Congress of
Scientists
Philadelphia
United States
China
Eople Degenerating Back Into Something Worse Than Monkeydom. Mr. Keister
Severe wind and hail storm hits Griggs County towns
A Tuesday evening storm tore through Griggs County with strong winds and large hail. Farms near Cooperstown suffered damage including barns struck by lightning and toppled structures. Crops were destroyed around Jessie and surrounding areas, marking the season’s worst weather with widespread losses. Tom Costello departs for Fargo, passing the reins to Iverson as the weather chaos ends.
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Griggs County
Ooperstown
Webern
Iver Udguard
Fred. Widland
Steffena
Charley Ardt
E. Marquardt
Binte
Jessie
Cooperstown
Tom Costello
Fargo
Iverson
Tom
North Dakota Press Association backs 100 percent Americanism push
Mandan and Fargo hosted a two day assembly as editors backed testing the constitutionality of the nonpartisan league laws, a capital press bureau, and a campaign for an unbiased news service. The group urged English language supremacy, opposed foreign language schools, and honored late editors while setting plans for a state news bureau and future meeting in Fargo.
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Wonen
Townley Press
Perabanigas
Pap
League
Barnes County
Printing Commission
Press Association
Mandan
N. D
Nonpartisan League
Sar
Independent Newspapers of State
State Capitol
Townley
J. P. Sullivan
North Dakota Press Association
Esullivan
North Dakota
Earle H. Tostevin
Commonwealth
Washington
Idan
Mandan Commercial Club
Lewis & Clark Hotel Management
Darwin Streeter
John T. Charmley
Mott
E. Enge
George J. Smith
Plaza
E. H. Pierce
Grafton
A. L. Holland
Hettinger
J. M. Connolly
New England
William Jones
Lisbon
E. J. Conrad
Hugh Young
Fargo
Econvention
Andrew Carnegie Dies at His Summer Home
Andrew Carnegie died at his Lenox Massachusetts summer home shortly after 7 this morning from bronchial pneumonia. Born in Scotland November 25, 1835, he built a fortune in steel and iron and devoted his later years to philanthropy, funding libraries worldwide and major charitable works.
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Andrew Carnegie
Lennox
Mass
Duncaimline
Fire Shire
Scotland
United States
Pittsburg
Carnegie
Ohio Telegraph Company
T. Woodruff
Woodruff Sleeping Car Company
Keystone Bridge Works
Union Iron Works
Steel King
New York
Hague Peace Palace
Pereicam
Roumanians Promise Obedience to Budapest Evacuation
Paris reports Roumanians adopt humbler stance and commit to carrying out the conference orders for the evacuation of Budapest.
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Paris
France
Budapest
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P. R. Trubshaw
Postofice
Wm. Olson
Euclid Avenue
Navy Way
Times- Record
Sanborn Enterprise
State Printing Commission
Times-Record
Bro. McKean
Sanborn
John Andrews
Richland County
Wahpeton
Tripod
Ter
E. T. Leech
Memphis Press
Leech
Israel Peres
Congress
William R. Nelson
Kansas City Star
Charles H. Clogston
Terre Haute
Ind
Leavenworth
Negley D. Cochran
Toledo News-Bée
United States District Court
Memphis
Shelby
County
Tenn
Gang
PeThe Memphis Press
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Citizens’ Movement
Peres
Israel A. Peres
Bismarck Tribune
Stempkin
Tennessee
Hat City, Am
Shales Colummns
Daily
Tritone
Americanism League
Nei Dakota
American Legion
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