The Kentuckian., 1919-04-23

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as they sound.
The cross roads oracle says; The
more machinery farmer buys the
more brains he's apt oput in farmin'
Detroit wiped out the disgrace of
sending regiment of mutineers to
Russia by exceeding its Victory Bond
quota by $4,000, 900 in one day.
Still another Bowling Green man
has SHE'D his. castor into the ring.
ThiE time it is Prof. R. S. Eubanks,
who wants to be Superintendent of
Schools.
Louisville's new directory gives the
\ city 278, ,426 population, an increase
f 1852 in one year. A two per
INT increase looks like Louisville is
about grown
Officers Of Evansville Saturday
poured $4,000 worth of contraband
whiskey into the Ohio river. They
didn't, even pour it in the rivers
mouth.
There is some speculation as to what
will be done if the Huns refuse to
sign their own death warrant. There
are still enough Americans over
there to ram peace down their
throats.
The Department of Commerce an
nounces that it is about to begin "a
general price stabilization" to reduce
the high cost of living. Why not be-
gin by stabbing the profteers?
The Canadian Princess Pat Infan-
try has returned home. The boys
"stood Pat" which is more than the
Princess did. She "desertedv and
married an officer of another branch
of the, service.
Nine British ariships have been
entered in the Daily Mail flight
across the Atlantic. They evidently
think it is to be an aerial baseball
game with everybody knocking flies.
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Sixteen American soldiers who had
survived trench warfare and started
home were killed in railroad colli-
sion in Franes. Such is the irony Of
atel ~.
The remnant of Austria which in
cludes Vienna is to be joined to Ger
many and Vienna made secondary
capital, according to the latest, an
nouhcement
Corporal Walter Backes, an Amer
lean soldier from Evansville, found
his grandmother at the ancestral
home in Woellstein, Germany. He
is with the army Of occupation.
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"a Chas. E. Keith, Chairman of the
National Lumber Manufacturers AS
6ciAtion, predicts that lumber prices
will go one-third higher before the
end of the season. He uses the same
old argument of all the profiteers.
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Germany has notified the Allies
that she win accept the Allied ccndi-
tiohs of peace and that her delegates
will reach Versailles April %. West
Prussia1 Germans say they will not
agree to yield territory to Poland.
The Italians are not yet satisfied.
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Secretary Lansing is given the
credit of recognizing the Omsk gov
ernment of Russia and bracing up the
Siberians to make their winning fight.
They have started general advance
and captured whole division at one
point. The Bolsheviki are holding
Crimea but are on the run every
where else.
Maj. R. S. Stone says there were
9,288 deserters from Camp Merritt
at Hoboken, during the sailings for
France, and that "maudlin sentiment
is now asking that their sentences be
mitigated. Those with cold feet
were rounded up and forced to 60,
while the fagrantly guilty were sent
to prison.
Grain Director Barnes, with bill
lion dollars at his disposal, is now
working on the problem of having
high wheat and cheap flour without
loss to the government. His idea
seems to be that Uncle Sam can cor
ner the market and eventually make
up the subsidy losses by selling the
surplus abroad at higher prices than
the American millers will pay, Great
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