Red Cross Dressings Class Teaches Butte Women
Mrs. W. A. Bower of Anaconda leads a Red Cross dressings class at the Women’s Patriotic Association work rooms in Butte assisted by Miss Frances Turner. Nine local women completed the course and were named supervisors of the dressings program. the class will resume next Saturday with public enrollment at the Red Cross rooms in the Hennessy building.
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W. A. Bower
Anaconda
Butte
Women's Patriotic Association
Mire. Bower
National Red Cross
Frances Turner
C. R. Leonard
Er. Sullivan
J. Niven
J.C. Pyle
John Scovil
G. A Laurier
Philp Ormund
Red Cross
Hennessy
C. HR. Nighman
C.F. Berrien
Harry Gallwey
James B. Halford
Harry Turner
Thomas Degnan
J.T Wey
Helen Parker
Bil Ward
War Summary by the Associated Press
The bulletin reports gains for Italy in Monte Asolone and notes Austrian and German attempts repelled as talks on peace in Russia drag. It details Bolshevik worries, separatist shifts in Ukraine, and mixed Russian terms, with naval and German munition plant incidents also mentioned.
Plunkett Sees Hopeful Path From Irish Convention
Dublin Friday December 20 Sir Horace Plunkett chairman of the Irish Convention spoke tonight on probable outcomes. He expressed hope for the future noting that while a unanimous report could not yet be promised the convention had agreed on many points likely to improve the Irish question.
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Ireland
Dublin
Horace Plunkett
War Savings Stamps Drive Active in Butte
War savings stamps are being promoted in Butte with postmaster Phil C. Goodwin leading thrift campaign efforts. Digest two days boosted sales, while a national circular explains how to buy stamps and their benefits. Postmasters received orders and return cards to facilitate mail delivery and follow up sales.
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Hutte
War Savings
Phil C. Goodwin
War Savings Thrift
Butte
W. G. Meadd
Treauty
Avalanche of bundles buries Postoffice workers
A flood of Christmas mail clogged the Butte Postoffice as residents waited until the last minute to mail gifts. Clerical staff must work through today to clear the backlog after trains ran 12 to 24 hours late last week, leaving many packages awaiting shipment on the Tate trains.
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Butte
Tate
Conspirators Sentenced to Prison Terms in Michigan Case
Albert C. Kaltschmidt and four or five co-defendants were convicted in federal court on conspiracy charges. Kaltschmidt received four years in federal prison at Leavenworth and a $20,000 fine. Sister Ida Neef got three years in the local house of correction and a $15,000 fine. Fritz A. Neef, Carl Schmidt, and Maria Schmidt were each sentenced to two years at Leavenworth and $10,000 fines. Franz Respa, 70, was acquitted on three counts but to face two other indictments. The case involved plans to start a military enterprise against Canada, dynamite Detroit screw works, and destroy the St Clair River tunnel at Port Townsend.
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Detroit
Mich
Albert_C. Kaltschmidt
Leavenworth
Kaw
Ida Neef
House of Correction
Fritz A. Neef
Carl Schmidt
Maria
Franz Respa
Kaltschmidt
United States
Canada
St. Clair River
Port Turon
More Money Sought for War Preparations in New Deficiency Estimates
Washington reports deficiency estimates submitted to Congress total nearly 450 million dollars for war preparations in the current fiscal year. The Navy requests exceed 45 million dollars with a largest item of 15,458,500 dollars for naval ordnance and ordnance stores.
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Washington
Congress
Navy
Naval
Liquor import ban to take effect across Canada
Ottawa reports Premier Borden announced a prohibition on importing intoxicating liquors into Canada starting Monday and a future prohibition of manufacture, with details to follow. The ban will apply during the war and for one year after peace ends, with an investigation into liquor industry conditions before the manufacture date is set.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Canada
Borden
Second Will of Queen Declared Forged in Hawaii Court
Honolulu December 21. A 1917 will of Queen Liliuokalani, bequeathing most of the estate to Theresa Belliveau, was ruled a forgery by Judge C. W. Ashford. Witness Sam Kamakala testified he signed at his home, not at the queen’s bedside, and that Theresa offered a church bribe to sign. A 1909 will also contested as Queen mentally incompetent. Meanwhile in Washington, treasury cashier C. S. Pearce urged reinvestment of first Liberty bond interest in war savings stamps. In West Salem Ohio, robbers blew the outer safe door of the Farmer State Bank and stole bonds, negotiable paper, and cash.
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Honolulu
Tilivokalani
Theresa Belliveau
C. W. Ashford
Sam Kamakala
H. Keakoha
Kamaka
Theresa
Liliuokalan
Jonah
Cupid” Kalanianaole
Hawaii
Washington
Pearce
United States Treasury
West Salem
Ohio
Farmer State Bank
Printing Ink Industry Warns of Embargo Crisis
New York discharge reports the printing ink industry in peril due to a carbon black embargo ordered by the federal priority board. Philip Ruxton of the Nash Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers urged President Wilson to secure relief by rail, warning daily papers and all print users may soon face ink shortages.
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New York
United States
Federal Priority Board
Philip Ruxton
Nash Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers
Wilson
Ruxton
Ruston
Meatless mincemeat praised as wartime dish
Washington reports meatless mincemeat approved by the national emergency garden committee as a meatless Christmas companion to pumpkin pie and gingerbread. A 500 troop test on a transport praised its camouflage mincemeat mix of seeded raisins prunes lemon juice peel elder sugar. The piece notes turkey may still fit the meatless day amid a Michigan coal shortage.
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Washington
National Emergency Garden Committee
Food’ Administration
Turkey
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