President's Message Headlines the Sixty Fifth Congress
The text presents the presidents annual message to Congress detailing wartime achievements, postwar plans, and the path to peace. It highlights troop deployments, homefront mobilization, women's contributions, economic readjustment, public works, land reclamation, and railway policy as key postwar tasks. It notes preparations for peace treaties, international diplomacy, and the president's forthcoming trip for peace talks.
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Local grocer lists assorted produce and meats for sale
An advertisement from a grocer enumerates potatoes cabbage carrots onions and Rutabagas, plus No 1 tomatoes corn pease and beans. It promotes teas coffee juices and baked goods, with prices per pound or per unit. Fresh meats include ham bacon spare ribs pigs feet heart and veal offerings.
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Sixty Fifth in Final Session Opens Congress Today
Washington December 2 the Sixty fifth congress opens its third and final session with key items on the railroad problem army and navy programs reconstruction retrenchment war revenue woman suffrage and the Colombian treaty. President Wilson says peace unlikely before spring observers doubt the current senate will act on the peace treaty before expiration March 3. Senator Hitchcock notes expected treaties from the Paris conference on general war settlement and separate pacts such as freedom of the seas and a league of nations. Debates on all war questions are anticipated as the Senate reviews views for the conference. The Senate military committee will probe delays in army reports and review the war department demobilization plans.
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CUMMINGS HAS A PLAN KELLOGG WOULD KILL IT
Senator Cummins of Iowa introduced a resolution proposing a Senate committee of eight evenly split Democrats and Republicans to travel to France for the peace conference and report back on questions arising. Senator Kellogg of Minnesota opposed, hoping the measure would be sent to the foreign relations committee where it might be killed. The resolution was referred to the Foreign Relations Committee at Senator Hitchcock's motion. aside from Kellogg's remark, no merits discussion occurred.
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California High Court Upholds Convictions in Mail Fraud Case
San Francisco December 2 The US circuit court of appeals upheld the convictions and sentences of W F Hallowell and W F Lick of Portland Oregon for defrauding by mail in railroad land grant sales. They claimed to hold 160acre lots to sell at 2.50 per acre, a claim deemed unfounded. Hallowell received 13 months at McNeil Island and Lick three months at Multnomah County jail.
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Rescued Survivors From Schooner William Cobb
London dispatch reports the steamship Alexandrian rescued six men and the captain from the wrecked American schooner William Cobb. The 424 ton Calais Maine vessel was found several hundred miles southeast of Nova Scotia after reaching Gibraltar from Wilmington.
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Cycle Race at Madison Square Garden Ends with Leaders Near Pace
Thirteen of the six day bicycle race starters at Madison Square Garden York reached 167 miles and 7 laps by 8 am after midnight start. The Hawker brothers Hello and Markey trailed by one lap while Lawson and Drobae set the 12 hour record in 1914 with 189 miles and 9 laps.
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Jury Selection Delays Amid Influenza Fears
Judge Dwyer in Venice began assembling a juror panel of 46 from about 180 names for long pending criminal cases. Many excused for business reasons. trials postponed to week after next unless influenza conditions improve. Jurors excused until Monday. next week’s cages kept as planned. Names include Thomas Annear Charles Actix Joe Antonich Joe Brozovich and others.
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Son Dies On Day Of Father Burial In Influenza Outbreak
Arthur Edwards of 25 Bennett Street Center Ville died of influenza early Friday. On Saturday his wife and two children were taken to a Red Cross hospital suffering the same disease that caused the deaths. His father, a musician in the A C M band, was buried Thursday. Pallbearers included Monitor lodge Masons and Knights of Pythias. Mrs Bud L Larson and sister Lena King returned from Chicago with the body of Bud J Larson who died of influenza pneumonia in Chicago. Surviving Larson include wife parents and a sister Beatrice Laughery. Funeral services set for Wednesday afternoon.
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Americans urged to file losses against Germanys U boats
Secretary Lansing announced that American citizens must file within 30 days from December 1 at the state department detailing losses from German submarine warfare. Submissions should include cargo, personal papers, and insurance status, whether on American or foreign vessels.
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