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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1915
Page
4
In chapel Monday Mr. Vettel directed exercises while Reverend Yung spoke on life’s value. The Junior Class promotes Poe The Raven photoplay and the school annual plans. Health notes cover nurse visits, eye and throat exams, adenoids and tonsils cases, and sanitation via school physician or nurse.
North Dakota Personal Liberty league in Bismarck adopts resolutions to resubmit the liquor clause of the state constitution and to launch an aggressive campaign to repeal prohibitory laws. Petitions to place the prohibition clause on the next general election ballot will begin after the new year. The league will back several candidates for the Chicago Republican delegation and opposes appointing non residents to state posts. It also condemns arms shipments to warring nations as violating neutrality and approves the state immigration law despite earlier questions.
London December 20 British troops at Sulva and Anzac districts of the Gallipoli peninsula have been withdrawn with their guns and stores. The official statement says troops and materiel were transferred successfully to another sphere of operations, with insignificant casualties.
Reported Allied withdrawal near Anzac Cove and Sulva Bay prompts debate on whether this signals abandoning the Dardanelles campaign or a strategic troop adjustment. Turkish communiqués note heavy land and sea fire, while some fear Gallipoli may be abandoned amid calls for more Saloniki troops.
Harrisburg Virginia McDonald claimed as the only four legged person to reach five years old died recently from tonsillitis. She had four arms and was mentally normal. Other notes include a freak potato found in Springdale West Virginia grown through a silver pipe stem band with Taft bust. balloonist Bobby Watson fell from 500 feet but survived with injuries. Pauline Turner of Bremerton entertained Rotary via long distance telephone to Radio N Y. Buffalo Wyoming Mrs Martha Early 94 drove sixty miles from Sheridan to Buffalo. The Misses Sloan, 85 and 83, made their first railroad trip to Oklahoma with feeble health and never married.
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