Prohibition Victory in House Sends Hope for Federal Amendment
Joins with Representative Webb of North Carolina in proclaiming victory as nationwide prohibition advances in the House by a 128 to 28 vote. The measure mirrors Senate language but extends ratification to seven years, with Senate passage seen likely and no presidential assent required.
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Univ. News Serve
Washington, D. C
House
Senate
United States
Wets
Drys
Clark
Bryan
Webb
RAIL PROBLEM PUT OFF UNTIL JANUARY
President Wilson delays action on the railroad problem until after the Christmas recess. Advisers expect stronger federal control and a possible federal administrator to be named. Senator Borah opposes recess and urges Congress to act in Washington after the holidays.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Congress
Senate
Borah
Washington
May Join the Colors under Crowder's Rules
General Crowder issues guidelines allowing men at draft age to enlist on request with white-only service in infantry signal corps medical corps and quartermaster. Coast artillery field artillery cavalry and engineers not accepting. Also reports the death of Jewish writer Mendele Mocher Seforim in Odessa at age 82. Yankee airmen in Paris claim two German aircraft brought down by Lafayette squadron members.
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Washington, D. C
Ceneral Crowder
Infantry
Signal Corps
Medical Corps
Quartermaster’s Department
Crowder
Coast Artillery
Field Artillery
Cavalry
Engineers’ Corps
New York
Petrograd
Jewish Daily Forward
Sacob Sholom Abramavitch
Odessa
Mendele Mocher Seforim
Logan
Fort Worden
Washington
Des Moines
Pottawattamie
Shelby
Cass
Audubon
Adair
Guthrie
Madison
City of
4Th
Dvision
Harding
Crowler
Aviation Corps
Washington BD C hears peace bid amid neutral diplomat hints
Information received among neutral diplomats aligns with abroad intimations that Germany is weighing a fresh peace offer. A te deum marked Notre Dame's cathedral in Paris for Jerusalem's liberation from Turkish rule. Julia BR Armbruatar of Syracuse pleaded guilty to sedition in U S court. fined $300 as Judge Geo W Ray warned against seditious speech.
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Washington
BD. C
Germany
Holy City
Paris
Cathedral of
Notre Dame
Jerusalem
Ultra
Julia BR
Armbruatar
Seed 46
Syracuse
Socialist Party
United States
Geo. W. Ray
Separation Checks Begin for Camp Dodge Dependents
Uncle Sam will issue the first monthly separation checks to wives mothers sisters and children of guarding troops at Camp Dodge. At least 14 000 checks expected soon covering one month of compensation with $30 for unmarried dependents and increases for each child. Hundreds of Washington clerks work on vouchers as the war continues and Christmas payments start.
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Canty Dodge
Des Moines
Santa Claus
Uncle Sam
Camp Dodge
Washington, D.C
National Army
Meatless days spark a food administration defense
A Chicago meeting is denounced by J F Daems food administrator as misleading. He says meatless days created a visible meat surplus allowing partial compliance with Allied December quotas. Wheat exports are limited to savings for domestic needs and the U S aims to load 490000 tons for December to aid allies.
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Chicago
J. F. Deema
Towa
Mr. da
Food Administration
United States
The
Deming Iowa review honors Thirty-fourth division
Governor Harding of Iowa witnessed a spectacular Deming New Mexico review of the Thirty-fourth division. Major General Blocksom and Adjutant General Logan joined Harding at a banquet with Camp Dodge officers while prominent Iowans observed.
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Dee Moines
Jowk
Deming
New Mexico
W. L. Harding
Iowa
Blocksom
Guy B. Logan
Des Moines
Harding
Republican State Committee
Towa
Fredarick Larrabee
Fort Dodge
L. W. Ainsworth
Camp Dodge
F. #. Hivcrest
Counsil Bluffs
Sixty-seventh Brigade
Camp Golly
Aunt Lucy Brown Dies at 108 in Clarinda
Lucy Brown aged 108 a former slave born in Parkersburg West Virginia in 1809 died at Clarinda at her nephew I Cook’s home. She moved from Missouri to Kansas where she was freed during the Civil War. Her funeral drew many local residents who remembered her service in Clarinda households.
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Clarinda
Lucy Brown
I. Cook
Parkersburg
W. Va
Missouri
Kansas
Enlistment Delays as Recruiting Office Runs Short
Local recruiting office faced a paper shortage causing a delay for nearly a hundred men waiting to enlist at noon. Officers warned they must turn away about 200 men daily until blanks arrive, while 25 were accepted recently, bringing two day total to 150 enlistments in the community.
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Qedar Rapide
Memorial Blaze Leaves Youth Burned and Dog Killed
Logan Murial Hoag aged 34 the son of Bert Hoag of California Junction was blown twenty feet into the air while priming a engine with a gallon gasoline can exploding and setting his clothes on fire. He jumped into water to extinguish the flames and was badly burned about the face and head. The dog accompanying him was killed and burned. Meanwhile Toledo High school boys on Elmer Reinig’s farm cut wood for cordwood sale to fund Y M C A pledges.
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Logan
Murial Hoag
Bert Hoag
California Junction
Toledo
Elmer Reinig
Y. M. C. A. Army
Record Sioux Baye recruits in a single day
Ninety six young men enlisted in the United States services at the local recruiting station in one day. Eighty one joined the army while fifteen chose the navy. This marks the highest number enlisted in a day at Sioux Baye's station.
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Sioux Baye
Sioux City
United States
Army
Navy
Thresher’s Arm Amputation After Shredder Accident
Osceora near Jamison witness Wesley Emery a farmer suffers arm loss when his limb is drawn into a shredder he was aiding a crew nearby. The amputation was required and his condition is listed as serious.
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Osceora
Wesley Emery
Jamison
Indicted in Disloyalty Case in Dubuque District
Federal grand jury returned charges including disloyalty against Leunis Bishop of Dyersville. The grand jury also handed up numerous other indictments not announced at that time.
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Dubuque
Leunis
Dyersville
24000 Selective Service Men Report to Camp Dodge
Provost Marshal Genewil Crowder informs the War Department that about 24,000 selective service men are ready to report at Camp Dodge. Camp Dodge officers expect them here soon once the War Department arranges transportation. An order to supply turkey for Christmas dinner signals arrival before Christmas.
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Dodge
Camp Dodge
Genewil Crowder
War Department
Selective Service
Fire destroys Odd Fellows Temple in Ames
A severe blaze in Ames near thirteen degrees below zero destroyed the Odd Fellows Temple and several businesses including Cagwin's drug store Cobin's paint store and Royal Tailors along with the offices of two doctors and two lawyers. Estimated total loss is 73,000 with building damage at 56,000 and limited insurance. Fire suspected to have started from spontaneous combustion and escalated after turpentine flames.
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Ames
Boone
Odd Fellows’ Temple
Cagwin's
Cobin’s
Royal Tailora
Odd Fellows and
Rebekahs
Boone Department
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
Postman Freed of Theft Charge
Des Moines lawyer Christina, a 52 year old Des Moines postman, was acquitted by a federal jury on charges of embezzling United States mails after being arrested over two letters including a decoy. He denied guilt throughout and the jury, out about thirty minutes, delivered not guilty.
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Des Moines
John W. Christina
United States
Christina
Charles Bradshaw
Moon
New Job for Nutting at State University
Town City Professor C. C. Nutting of the State university has been asked to help examine and classify materials brought back by Arctic explorers Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Rudolph Martin Anderson. Nutting focuses on blond Eskimo tribe data said to be found by the explorers. Nutting believes Stefansson, missing in the Arctic months ago, is alive and will return with information and material.
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Camp Dodge
Nutting
C. C. Nutting
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Rudolph Martin Anderson
Stefansson
Arctic
War Council roles filled by two Central college alumni
Polly Misses Geraldine and Ruth Aschenbrenner have gone to New York City to join the war council of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States. They are Central college graduates. Geraldine has taught at the college academy and Ruth has taught in Tripoli High School, Iowa.
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Polly
Geraldine
Ruth Aschenbrenner
New York City
Young Women's Christian Association of the United States
Central College
Mise
Aschenbrenner
Academy of the College
Tripoli
Iowa
Sailor's son loses leg in saw accident
George Blandford, home on furlough from the navy, probably will lose a leg after his leg was caught in a saw while he and his father were loading a winter supply of wood. The injury occurred while they operated a saw at their Sioux City home.
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Sioux City
George Blandford
Navy
Grinnell Men Serving in France Major Update
Grinnell College reports fifteen Grinnell men are with the troops in France, a revised tally reflecting many others possibly overseas or en route. News is limited by strict military censorship, leaving some casualties and statuses unconfirmed.
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Grinnel
Grinnell
France
College
Girl Ends Her Life at Perry Despondency Thought Motive
Martha Warringer aged 22 drank poison to end her life at Perry. She was the daughter of Mrs. H Ii Bradley. Despondency is believed to have driven the self inflicted death.
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Perry
Martha Warringer
H. Ii Bradley
Recruits Rush at Des Moines as Draft Deadline Looms
United States army and navy recruiting officers reported a surge of enlistments in Des Moines as draft age men rushed to sign up before the December 12 deadline. By midnight December 11, 782 men were accepted for the army and 287 for the navy, a rush likened to a wartime mobilization.
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Des Moines
General Byng
United States Army
Navy
Army
In Far Northland Interesting Items From the North
A survey of German influence in Norway Sweden and Denmark after Russia's collapse with warnings of a Germanic empire from Brussels to Constantinople. Mention of Baltic power shifts Baltic papers and a Hanseatic league risk to Scandinavia. Also notes on concrete shipbuilding and Norway's food embargo impact and Bergen cultural ambitions.
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Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Ruasia
Kim Anker
Germany
Russia
Brussels
Constantinople
Persia
Asia
Hamburs
Copentingen
Engaand
America
Rusia
Uberal
Gotheborg Shipping Gazette
Baltic
Riga
Scandinavia
Hanseatic League
Hansahund
Sweden pledges neutrality and mutual aid among 3 kingdoms
Sweden Norway and Denmark agree to harmony and neutrality during the war with mutual aid in merchandise. They plan immediate talks on exchange, foreigners' relations, and cooperation for shared interests. A Swedish fire in Gothenburg destroys Abrahamson & Moberg shipyard, six ships, and a warehouse. The government to prosecute Goteborg Aftonbladet over an August attack on England.
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Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Swneil
Goteborg Aftonblad
England
Danish Hall Centers Aid Copenhagen Poor Districts
A Danish report from Copenhagen notes several halls opened to aid the poor districts by offering evenings of reading and sewing as days shorten. Families retire early to save light and fuel, and a strike at a Helsingor technical school has closed classes after teachers refused higher wages.
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Denmark
Copenhagen
Helsingor
Finland Declares Independence and Proclaims Republic
Reports from Stockholm via Haparanda state the Finnish senate has followed the landtdag in proclaiming Finland’s complete independence. Premier Soini hubiuvud says efforts will seek international recognition while urging immediate relations with foreign powers. The senate proposes Finland become a republic with a president elected for a six year term, with a January 15 election and April 16 inauguration. Strong anxieties over public safety and ammunition depots arise along the West Baltic coast amid alleged German submarine activity and arms deliveries to Finnish volunteers.
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Haparanda
Landtdag
Wise
Syinhuafvud
Finland
Senate
Hetstagfors
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