Butte Hotels See Early Holiday Trade Rebound
Travel into Butte boosts hotel registers as Idaho and Montana guests return postflu. Clerks note longer lists, more business travelers and preholiday shoppers. Mining towns and camps resuming activity fuel arrivals, with Butte poised as a regional hub for Idaho and western Montana travel.
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Butte
Idaho
Tutte
Alex Lesent
Lexgat
Fale
Halt “Lake
Ogden
Wawa
Utah
Old Butte
Armastead
Bulmone
Polaris
Tdahond
Montana
Surplus for Belgium Relief Plans Under War Aid
Washington December 14 surplus supplies in American Army in France may be used to aid Belgium. The relief commission said negotiations with the War Department are under way and about 1 000 000 yards of cloth sheeting already purchased. Clothing shipments are moving rapidly with cases sent to Rotterdam for distribution. Camp Lewis Washington will be mostly deserted December 24 to January 2 as a memorandum from Major General Joseph Leitch suspends most duties aside from guard and essential work. Influenza, pneumonia and other illnesses were reported but deaths remained limited. Washington December 14 co operation between War Department and French government to allow American expeditionary force members in France to use French educational facilities was indicated by Secretary Baker in a letter to Edouard De Billy.
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Washington
France
Belgium
Commission For Relief
Hight
War Department
Rotterdam
Camp
Lewis
Wash
Dee
Wis
Jos. D. Leiteh
Ineli
Baker
Edouard de Billy
Delecate
French High Commission
German War Demands Trigger Citywide Labor Walkout
Berlin reports a strike in the Zeiting Am Mittaz and other papers over wartime wage demands by composing room workers. Skilled staff receive higher pay, and women at Wertheim department store led a walkout demanding a war allowance of 100 to 1000 marks per worker, with a total impact of about 1.4 million marks. Wertheim states salaries in two years exceeded 3 million marks as labor tensions rise.
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Associated Press Berlin
Zeitung Am Mittaz
Tageblatt and
Vossirehe Zeitung
Wertheima
Wertheim
Taken by HMS Lieutenant Gude reported missing
Ninety third Air Squadron officer C J Gude Jr is missing with 18 believed captive. His father in New York says he is a prisoner in Germany. A Washington telegram dated November 21 reports Karlsruhe Germany as the capture site. Three days later US Air Service lieutenant Le Juvuel informs that Gude went up in fog five days prior and landed in German territory, likely prisoner.
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C. J. Gude
New York
Germany
al Gunge
Washington
Karlsrue
le Juuuel
United States Air Service
France
Gude
German Industry Faces Strike Tensions At Wert Plants
Siemens & Halske and Siemens-Schuckert at Spandau confront workers demanding higher pay. General Electric workers present a wage schedule proposing an annual increase, while Berlin manufacturers warn that pressure may cripple German industry and invite government mediation.
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Wert
Siemens & Halske Electric
Alliec
Siemens-Schuckert
Spandau
Ies
Bec
General Eletric Company
Berlin
Emil, Barth
Plea for Plebiscite on Conference Agreements
In Paris tonight a cablegram from the second annual congress of the League of Small and Subject Nations urges that any conference agreement be submitted to a plebiscite for approval. The message also states the preliminary steps toward a league of nations include full recognition of self determination and membership rights for subject peoples.
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New York
Wilber
Paris
League of Small and Subject Nationalities
Menage
League of Nations
League
Gets It Peel Off Corn Remedy Ad
Chicago and Anacorda advertise a corn remover called Gets It claiming to peel away corns in seconds with no fuss. The Fuller Drug Company and Parchen Drug Company in Helena endorse the product as the world’s best corn remedy.
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Chicago
Fuller Drug Company
Helena
Parchen Drug Company
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Mons
Hird
Toyland
Atisfa
HMS
Lieut
Oscar
S.gude, JR
Columbia Batteries
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