Telephone rate reform cuts long distance costs nationwide
Burleson announces new basic rate system for station to station calls set at 5 cents per six miles up to 24 miles and 5 cents per eight miles beyond, with night rates half the day rate from 8:30 to 10 p.m. and one quarter after midnight. The plan aims to unify tolls, reduce disparities, and curb abuses by charging 30 percent and 25 percent penalties for particular person and report-based services respectively.
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Washington, D. C
Wileage
Burleson
Committee On
Ar. Buriewon
Jess
San Francisco
New York
United States
New York Banks Hold Large Excess Reserves
New York banks show a reserve of 29,889,510 above legal requirements for the clearing house. This exceeds last week by 20,747,160, indicating a substantial surplus in available funds across the trust company sector.
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New York
Hunts Aid Trust Companies
Berlin Strike Reaches Serious Proportions Reported
Dispatch from Amsterdam says Berlin labor unrest has grown to serious levels with only two newspapers published as mail service returns. About 359,000 workers are reported out, while Copenhagen reports the red flag at Potsdam town hall removed by the Prussian guard in a sign of rising tensions.
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Jandon
Neaamrdlig
Amsterdam
Mall Jeafiets
Copenhagen
Buldierg
Prusiah Guard
Pottadam
Zeitung Am Mittag
Mhert
Von
Constantinople
Rachid
Diarbekr
Chast
Haroun
World War News and Navy Plans Highlight 1914 Dispatches
The report outlines arm y quartermaster transfers to the shipping board for trade return and homebound ships, with the fleet set for December homecoming. Secretary Daniels to mark the homecoming. Pershing and Wilson approve awards. Admiral Badger cites costs to 1925 naval buildup, while Cuba faces a general strike amid propaganda claims.
British Peace Delegates to Attend January Start
Reports from London and Paris indicate Premier Lloyd George and other British peace delegates will depart by December 24 with formal peace congress sessions unlikely before the first week of January. Beside this, Krupp works plan to convert to a peaceful arts factory is announced in Cologne Gazette.
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Manchester Guardian
Ea Ae
Krupp Nomintion Works
Cologne
Venizelos
Paris
Acc
Potitics
Great Beltfin
Wilson
White House
U S and Teutonic War News from London and Berlin
A London dispatch reports thousands of American soldiers in France may be granted leave to visit England with transport costs paid. General Harries and Lieutenants Gaillard and Schelting arrived in Berlin for repatriation work. A Washington note cites 65 dead and 81 injured aboard the U S Brooklyn after a December 9 berth deck blast from coal dust while coaling at Yokohama. Amsterdam reports little change in Coblenz as American authorities say public life proceeds normally.
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London
France
England
United Kingdom
Harries
Gaillard and
Schelting
American Commission For
Berlin
Spa
Washington
U. S
Brooklyn
Yokohama
Japan
Paris Marines Enter Odessa in Sign of Allied Aid
Paris dispatch reports French marines allied troops occupied Odessa and drove German soldiers from posts after a cordial welcome. An Amsterdam dispatch notes Germany would seek Allied occupation of Berlin to ease Bolshevik growth. Sir John Lloyd George urged permanent peace to end continental conscription and prevent future horrors in Europe.
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Paris
Odessa
Russia
Lloud George
Bristol
Europe
Maritime losses and troop arrival amid wartime dispatches
A French minesweeper reported lost in a recent storm was sighted by Midland Prince officers in Richardson's bay near Sault Ste. Marie Ontario after arrival. The Sierre brought 3,411 American troops to New York from England training camps, cheering as the ship berthed. Private Isadore Carson of Philadelphia, who deserted then refused to wear a uniform, was court martialed at Camp Dix, sentenced to 40 years at Ward labor in Wort, N. J.
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Richardson’s Bay
Midland Prince
Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
Sierre
New York
England
Isadore Carson
Philadelphia
Ward
Wort Day
Sioux City Jury Awards 7000 in Breach Suit
A Sioux City jury awarded Marie Hanson seven thousand dollars in a breach of promise suit against George P. Johnson, a stock and bond salesman, after she sought fifty thousand. The trial highlighted tensions between a claimant and a businessman in a late 19th or early 20th century local dispute.
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Sioux City
Marie Hanson
George P. Johnson
Dutch Cross
Des Moines
C. Jackson
Urose
Camp Dodge
Towa
Varialta Aero Squadrons
England
Camp Mills
N. J
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Iowa
Ilinois
Havner
Tao
State Adjutant General's Ofice
Tribute to French Women and War Orphans Aid
A collage of wartime notes praising French women as strong, practical partners in marriage and motherhood, with reflections on monogamy and resilience. Included are a boyish tale of a fish trapped in a tomato can and news of Lafayette home shelters for French war orphans near Chaviniac, run by American funds to educate and repatriate them with godfathers in the U.S.
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Lynn Powell
France
Joffre
Petain
Foch
Poilu
Waterloo
Eton
Rugby
Harrow
Marne
Verdun
Somme
Allen Woffin
Blairsville
Lone Bar
Wiifin
Wifin
Lafayette Home
General Tatayette
Chaviniac
Department
Haute Lotre
Lafayette Fund
Chavunine
America
Accidents in iron and steel industry drop two thirds
A Bureau of Industrial Statistics report finds accidents in iron and steel fell by more than two thirds over the last decade due to weak safety enforcement. It cites 1907 at four per 1 000 employed and 1911 at eighty one per 1 000, noting 1917 disruption from war needs hindered further reductions.
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Bureau of Indar
Hemp Experiment At Lansing Prison Island Hemp Crop
Lansing penitentiary officials conducted an island experiment on the Missouri river raising 16 hemp plots. Leavenworth Lines notes a four bumper crop with experts saying hemp could replace Yucatan sisal for twine, promising savings for the wheel makers.
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Lansing
Missouri River
Leavenworth Lines
Yucatan
Kunsag City Star
In the Trenches Quizzical Family Banter
A playful exchange mocks a tense scene with misheard lines about wheat and a joking question about which brother-in-law wears the speaker’s white Walsh coat. The dialogue hints at domestic humor amid wartime phrasing.
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Bill
Ielaw
Wireless breaks static with new antennae system
Roy A. Weagant of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America perfects a static free radio method. The system promises clear transmission under all atmospheric conditions, avoids interference, and reduces the need for tall towers. After 16 years of work and wartime secrecy, the invention may mark a new era in global communications.
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Roy A. Weagant
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company
Amwerica
Hue
Marconi
Wengant
United States
Fraulein Baumer's Diary Illustrates German Reaction to Wilson
Excerpts from Fraulein Gertrud Baumer of Berlin dated October reveal harsh lines about President Wilson calling him an arrogant school master and show German anger at armistice terms. By mid month Baumer and Alice Salomon signed an appeal to Mrs Woodrow Wilson seeking a mitigation of terms for Germany.
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Fraulein Gertrud Baumer
Berlin
Wilson
Pnd
Frantein Baumer
Alice Salomon
Woodrow Wilson
National Council of Women of Germany
Talking with the Birdmen Col Culver credited for wireless air radio
Col Clarence C Culver of Washington is credited by the war department for developing the wireless telephone that lets allied airmen send messages and receive ground instructions while flying. He recalls experiments from 1910 to 1917, demonstrations in France, and early field deployments. He notes no new invention but adaptation of existing radio laws to aviation.
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Clarence C. Culver
Washington
War Department
Culver
Chatsworth
Cal
San Diego
France
Captain Moffett to command superdreadnought at Mississippi
Captain William A. Moffett, commandant at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, is assigned to command the new superdreadnought at Mississippi. He will be rear admiral after six months at sea. Under his leadership Great Lakes expanded from 2,000 to 75,000 capacity and produced 91,000 trained seamen, earning him prominence as a guiding, temperate figure for families and recruits alike.
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William A. Moffett
Great Lakes
Mississippi
United States
Captain Moffett
Middle West
Hig
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