Rada Favors Federal Socialist Republic Amid War in Ukraine
Rada rejects Bolshevik ultimatums and calls for a federal socialist republic embracing maximalists and socialists to settle Russia’s questions. Ukraine issues its own notes while bread shipments are blocked to the north. General Dutoff strengthens Cossack forces as clashes loom near Life Samara and Orenburg faces encirclement.
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Rekeen
Caigit News Service
London
rade
Russia
rada
insi steom
Mida
tada
Dutoff
Obiliabinsk
Siberia
Ukraine
Verkhovski
Kerensky
Dutof
Life
Samara
Sanoatov
Bank Officers Fight Ends in Bank Killing in Peoria
E A Strause president of the State Trust and Savings bank shot and killed Berne M Mead cashier in a bank room duel. Strause says the shot was in self defense after a long feud over Mead seeking to buy stock and topple the presidency. Directors note Mead held large bank interests while Strause held about 310000 in stock. Mead planned to become president at the next directors meeting in January.
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Peoria
E. A. Strause
State Trust and Savings bank
Berne M. Mead
Mead
Strause
galf
gay
Incendiary Blaze Damages Boston Factory and Warehouse
A fire on Congress Street in Boston damaged a factory and warehouse building tied to the Beston Seals Machine company a maker of rifle barrels. The loss is estimated at 100000 and investigators from federal state and city authorities say evidence suggests possible incendiary origins. The building lies in the alien enemy barred zone along the waterfront in South Boston.
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Boston
Congress Street
water front
south
Beston Seals Machine company
Wage Law Constitutional In Minnesota Supreme Court
The Minnesota minimum wage law fixing a living wage of 38.60 and 8.25 for women in industrial occupations in second third and fourth class cities was held constitutional by the state supreme court. Paper for Americans In France Paris The London Mall begins publishing an American edition from its Paris offices for Americas in France with cables and mall news. Seventh German War Loan Final figures for the seventh German war loan were 12 646 480 200 marks per Treuter dispatch from Amsterdam quoting Berlin. Death Toll at Halifax Halifax latest estimate of squad in the Halifax disaster December has placed at 1600.
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St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
supreme court
France
Paris
London
Apericana
mall news
Treuter
Amsterdam
Berlin
Halifax
hla
Vote in Australia Referendum Returns Strong Yes Lead
Reuter dispatch from Melbourne reports on the Australia conscription referendum. Complete returns show 764000 in favor and 38000 against. Troop votes are still being counted in London.
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Ottawa
Australia
Reuter
Melbourne
London
World War I Briefs From Across the Globe and Navy Actions
Reports from Washingon note strong Allied confidence in General Pershing and American military readiness on the Western Front. German peace proposals prize prewar borders with Russia paying reparations. A German plot to unite South American nations surfaces via gun shipments to Berlin. A submarine engagement follows an Atlantic liner’s departure from a British port. Lieutenant Samuel Miller reports a slight wound while with British forces. A national draft listing contemplates February conscription. Two sailors are saved by the destroyer Jacob Jones as per a German admiralty statement.
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Atlantic
Foreign telegrams spark clashes and secession talk abroad
A Buenos Aires publication cites Count von Luxburg telegrams to Berlin triggering mounted patrols to disperse crowds demanding rupture with Germany. The text notes a Quebec secession motion in Lotbiniere and Bolshevik proposals in Petrograd, with Petrograd's executive council declaring a state of siege to quell looting amid disorder.
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Buenos Aires
Count von Luxburg
Berlin
inguin
Germany
vorkimen
Petrograd
Train collision toll and multiple tragedies across regions
The report tallies 67 dead and about 50 injured after a Louisville and Nashville passenger train struck a Bardstown accommodation car near Shepherdsville Kentucky. The piece also notes widespread shortages, criminal and civil actions, and several other incidents including a fatal city policing event in Milwaukee, a factory slowdown in Michigan, a Detroit court verdict, and a fatal aviation training accident in Texas.
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Louisville & Nashville
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Bardstown, Toursville
Springfield
Shepherdsville
Washington wartime and prohibition era actions summarized
Washington hearings reveal Chicago stockyards profits and war materiel waste while war department expands troop support. Senate Naval hearings cover navy shipbuilding and reorganization with Daniels and Baker testimonies. Goe thals named acting quartermaster general. Constitutional prohibition amendment advances to states with seven year ratification window. House votes on woman suffrage timeline set for January 10.
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war department of Washington
United States
Sharpe
senate military committee
Daniels
McGowan
navy
house naval subcommittee
Washington
Baker
Maoj
George W. Goethals
war department
congress
senate
house
European War News Reports on Front Gains and Negotiations
The Home War Office says Italian forces recaptured much of the ground won near Monte Azolope east of the Drenta river. Berlin reports German troops have taken many prisoners in Italy since December 21. Lloyd George, in Parliament, calls for restoration of territories and compensation as war aims.
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Drenta river
Home war office
Berlin
Teutops
Italy
Prouter Lloyd George
house of commons
London
Iowa Exceeds War Y M C A Fund Goals
Iowa raised over 1.5 million for the army Y M C A, more than doubling its $760,000 national quota. Counties organized with district canvassing, letters from soldiers boosted support, and colleges contributed 75000 toward the total while Humboldt, Davis, and Cherokee counties posted large boosts.
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Des Moines
Iowa
army
national organization
W. M. Parsons
national war council
Red Triangle
Parsons
Humboldt county
Davis county
Cherokee county
Colfax City Marshal Dies In Apparent Auto Exhaust Incident
Colfax city marshal Elmer E. Kenedig, 47, was found dead in his garage behind his home at 1 a.m. The car engine was running and investigators think carbon monoxide fumes caused his death after he went to the garage to work on his car. He had served as marshal for five years.
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Colfax
Elmer E. Kenedig
Kenedig
Prisoners Must Work in Woodbury County, Iowa
Sheriff Jones declares future convicts will not have easy time. Prisoners now clean the new county courthouse and may be put to road work when weather allows. He argues labor benefits the prisoners physically and prepares county projects.
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Sioux City
Sherif Jones
Woodbury
Evangelist Claims Sioux City Faces Greater Vice
Dr Charles G Jordan an evangelist from Pittsburgh pa visited Sioux City and voiced that vice conditions here are worse than in New York Pittsburgh and other eastern cities He cited a downtown stroll of a dozen blacks in which ten prostitutes accosted him during a recent night to illustrate the severity of the problem.
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Sioux City
Charles G. Jordan
Pittsburgh
New York
Chicago
Humboldt Pays Tribute to Frank Gotch Icon of Wrestling
Humboldt honors Frank A. Gotch as the world champion wrestler dies Sunday in town. The city observes a tribute as businesses pause and the local school he attended closes while residents reflect on his storied athletic career.
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Humboldt
Frank Gotch
Union
Frank A. Gotuch
Gotch
Men for Officers' School Ames Selects 32 for Camp Dodge
Thirty two Iowa State College men were chosen to report for duty at the third officers reserve training camp at Camp Dodge starting January 5. Of the group fifteen are undergraduates and seventeen alumni or former students. An additional twenty eight men were named as alternates. List includes J L Abart Dow City DG Arnold Lewiston PA G Bliss Corning AF Clow Albert Lea MN and others.
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Ames
biate college
Gamp Dodge
Afteen area
Iowa State college
J. L. Abart
Dow City
DG. Arnold
Lewiston
G. Bliss
Corning
A. F. Clow
Albert Lea
Minn
H. Cornell
Postville
R. S. Damuth
Red Oak
A. C. Douglass
Wray
Colo
John Dockendorf
Charles City
I. M. Edwards
Belle Plaine
W. CG. Eggera
James G. Emerson
Manhattan
Kan
Gottéehmidt
Davenport
S. S Graham
Selma
H. L. Hilliary
Oskaloosa
J. E. Holland
Long Beach
Cal
E. T. John
Clinton
Jones
Tabor
L. W. Kube
Mathison
Windom
Harold L. McKinley
St An
Des Moines
G. M. Stoughton
Osage
W. G. Warnock
Guernsey
Meyer Not Guilty in Guthrie Center Trial
Fred Meyer was found not guilty of murdering his wife Ida E Meyer in a Guthrie county court after a sequence of prior convictions reversed by the Supreme Court and a later retrial. The earlier Madison county trial and venue changes between Madison and Guthrie counties are noted.
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Meyer
Guthrie Center
Fred Meyer
Winterset
Supreme court
Madison county
Guthrie county
Ida E. Meyer
Hotel Men In Council Holds Food Conservation Meet
Sioux City hosts the Iowa Hotel Men's Association annual convention with speakers B G Warden of the Chamberlain hotel Dan Moines opening remarks on food conservation. Attending are J F Deems Burlington food administrator and Dr Alexander Cairne of Washington a Hoover administration representative, plus state administrators W A Poocoke Minnesota J R Hubbard South Dakota D A Klaus North Dakota.
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Sioux City
Iowa Hotel Men's association
tts
B. G. Warden
Chamberlain hotel
Dan Moines
J. F Deems
Burlington
Alexander Cairne
Washington
Hoover
W. A. Poocoke
Minnesota
J. R. Hubbard
South Dakota
D. A. Klaus
North Dakota
Convention Meeting Iowa City features notable wartime speakers
Dr Ray Wilbur former To wa boy and president of Leland Stanford University addressed the gathering on food conservation and wartime saving. Speakers included Homer A Miller president of the Iowa National Bank Des Moines state war savings chairman W W Marsh Waterloo state war savings committee member and Mrs Francis E Whit ley Webster City chairwoman of the national council defense women’s committee.
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Iowa City
Ray Wilbur
towa
Leland Stanford university
Homer A. Miller
Iowa National bank of
Des ‘Moines
war savings campaign
W. W. Marsh
Waterloo
Entertain Registered Men at Winterset Farewell
Winterset citizens gathered at the courthouse to bid farewell to forty-one men bound for national army training camps including Camp Dodge. H W Byers of Des Moines delivered the main patriotic address and music echoed the ceremony. Each man received a lunch box with home cooked eats for departure. Bill Boynton, former Ames basketball captain, has enlisted in the aviation service and waits to be called after officiating Camp Dodge and Simpson games.
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national army training campe
Camp Dodge
H. W. Byers
Des Moines
dolns Aviation Corps
Ames
Bill” Boynton
Ama
aviation
Germans Give $1,300 to Red Cross Auction
In Decorah Spillville Winneshirk county a small village of 14 residents with German and Bohemian background held a Red Cross auction sale raising 1300 dollars. Other details describe the community and its ethnic makeup and the successful fundraiser for relief efforts.
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Decorah
Spillville
Winneshirk county
Red Cross
Dedicate New School Bellevue Miles Consolidated Echoa
The Miles consolidated echoa school at Bellevue was formally dedicated with a public program. State Superintendent A M Deyoe delivered an address. The building cost 40000 to build and equip and contains twelve well lit rooms. The gymnasium floor measures 1968 square feet and the basement houses the manual training room domestic science kitchen and dining room. There are 140 pupils enrolled.
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Bellevue
Miles
A. M. Deyoe
War session likely called to address Iowa war costs
Governor Harding weighs a special ten to twelve day war session of the Iowa General Assembly in January to authorize the State Council of Defense, fund state institutions, and handle rising costs. The plan would limit to war-related measures, with elections in the forty-eighth district and Cedar Rapids Senate races noted, and per diem expenses projected around two thousand dollars for the session.
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W. L. Harding
Thirty Seventh General Assembly
State Council of Defense
state board of control
general assembly
board of control
ita
Milton B. Pitt
Harrison county
house
Moore
Cedar Rapids
senate
Carroll
Greens
Bac
Charles G. Helmer
Cedar county
A. W. Jackson
Harding
Des Moines Coal Prices Cut by County Officials
Des Moines coal price changes announced by state coal boss Chea Webster and county committee chair Webster reduce to $4 per ton by the mines and $5.16 delivered by retailer. Prices, tentative and subject to revision, align with Mayor MacVicar’s local fuel committee findings but reflect Webster’s initiative. Twenty one state prison inmates at Ft. Madigan to be released on Christmas morning after board of parole decision. names withheld. Camp Dodge cooks begin testing ground glass warnings in breakfast foods and canned tomatoes following a directive from Major General Carter amid reports of contaminated goods nationwide.
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Des Moines
Chea
Webster
MacVicar
hts
Ft. Madigan
state board of parole
Camp Dodge
W. F E. Carter
tomyfovg
Bank Deposits Rise as Farmers Borrow. Census Planned
Bank deposits in 351 state banks and 25 trust companies rose to 465.9 million by November 20, up 71.2 million from last year but down 5.0 million from September. The report shows increased borrowing by farmers to feed cattle, with total due banks and others at 14.98 million and overdrafts around 4.05 million. Governor Harding plans January census registration to gauge manpower, labor, agriculture, and manufacturing for war needs.
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Iowa
George M. Chappel
Iowa Weather and Crop service
Chappel
state agricultural board
State house
gor savings
stam
due bank
benka
othara
George Messanger
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R. K. Rilea
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