Chicago Vote on Prohibition Up to Board
Chicago March 8 liquor interests pressed the board of election commissioners to rule on the petition signatures to place the liquor question on the April ballot. If many signatures are invalid the measure could fail by about 10 020 names, while lawyers for both sides argued over the board’s authority to scrutinize signatures.
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Chicago
Chle Liquor Interests
Board of Elecion Commissioners
Boand
Sa!goon
Election Board
Obituary notices for Mrs. E J Schultz and Mrs. Mary Kelly
Mrs. E J Schultz died at home on Franklin Street after a seven year illness. Services planned at home and at First Evangelical church with interment in Cedar Falls cemetery. Survivors include husband and two children. Andrew Osman funeral held at O Keefe Towne. burial at Hudson. New arrivals advertise dresses at Wilhelm.
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I. Z. Schulte
E. J. Schultz
Franklin Street
First Evangelical Church
Cedar Falls
Schultz
Buffalo
Wn.y
Kate Hollacher
Fr. Schultz
W Terloo
Mattie Jurgensen
Clinton
Schiltz
Thomas E. Kelly
Lafayette Street
Andrew Osman
O'Keefe & Towne
Hudson
Mrs. W D Ralston Placed in Restraint After Husband's Murder
Mrs. W D Ralston was taken into custody at 10:30 a m for the murder of her husband and was moved to the County jail. An autopsy showed the bullet entered the back, passed through the kidneys, missed the heart, and exited the body. The case involves an impending inquest at Top.
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Ralston
Imayjuest
Enemy Planes Raid London Dark Night Attack
An official report says seven or eight airplanes raided London last night. One aircraft reached the city and dropped bombs in northwest and southwest districts, while another raided the northern district demolishing several houses.
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London
England
Women to Have Equal Power in New National Party
The National party convention in Chicago endorses Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment and endorses equal voting power for men and women. Chairman David Coates states women support the party financially and will hold equal representation on all committees, with the group to be named the man and woman party.
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Chicago
National Party
Wilson
Senate
Susan BR. Anthony
David Coates
Monard Gould
New York
Central Powers' Breach Widening
New York reports relations between Austria-Hungary and Germany worsened by the strike in Austria-Hungary and editorials framing it as protest against pan German propaganda. The Cologne Gazette criticizes Viennese utterances and argues peace benefits were not served. German press debates which nation rendered greater service during the war.
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New York
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Austria- Hungary
Cologne
Wheat and corn on farms fall 1917 crop figures released
Farmers hold 111,272,000 bushels of wheat and 1,292,905,000 bushels of corn on March 1, with oats at 599,195,000 bushels and hemp of earlier crops shipping percentages noted. An separate Dubuque typhoid outbreak reports over two dozen cases with several deaths and water contamination suspected.
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Washington, D D. C
Department of Agriculture
Harley
Dubuque
Iowa City
Polish Brigade Revolts in Austrian Army
The Polish brigade serving Austria has revolted and deserted the main command over the Ukraine peace treaty. The unit is in northern Bessarabia acting independently, with reports of rising anarchist movements in Moscow and broad dissatisfaction with Russia’s postwar terms.
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Washington, D. C
Russia
State Department
Austria
Ukraine
Bessarabia
Summers
Moscow
Revised Wheat Standards Set for Public Hearings
Washington March 8 tentative revised wheat standards under the grain standards act were announced by the secretary of agriculture. The changes ease moisture and mixture constraints and rye content rules. Five public hearings are scheduled in Philadelphia Indianapolis March 16 Kansas City Spokane and Minneapolis to discuss the proposed standards.
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Washington, D.C
Secretary of Agriculture
Philadelphia
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Spokane
Minneapolis
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Coleridge
Bryan and Chaplin to Speak for Liberty Loan
William Jennings Bryan and Charlie Chaplin were booked for Liberty Loan speaking tours. Bryan will open the campaign April 6 at Lime Rock Arkansas and spend two weeks in the west then two weeks beginning April 15 in the south. William S. Hart will also tour the west for two weeks.
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Washington, D
William Jennings Bryan
Charlie Chaplin
Liberty Loan
Lime Rock
Ark
West
Pleeture
South
William S. Hart
Freezone Corn Remedy Promoted By Cincinnati Authority
An advertisement warns against cutting corns and touts Freezone as a quick fix. A few drops on the corn allegedly removes the entire root without skin irritation, with a quarter-ounce costing little at drug stores.
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Cincinnati
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