Christmas festivities reach American troops in Germany
Dec 22 reports large imports of pastries and pie materials for soldiers as Christmas packages from home roll in. Knights of Columbus provide desserts and gifts while divisions plan entertainments and modest meals. Army forecasts snow and Christmastide provisions include geese ducks and roast pig amid restrictions on meat purchases from Germans.
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Columbus
Ex Kaiser's Christmas at Amerongen Forest Ceremony
London reports ex Kaiser William Hohenzollern plans a German style Christmas at Amerongen castle Holland. Services will be in the castle drawing room with a German missionary officiating as Berlin bans the court chaplain. The ex ruler will deliver the sermon and cut trees himself with two estate workers, as friends and staff gather for the holiday.
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William Hohenzollern
Daily Express
Amsterdam
Amerongen Castle
Ernest von Dryander
Berlin
Holland
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Terr Hohenzollern
Medal of Honor for Commander Lost Battalion Hero
Boston reports Lieut. Whittlesey of Pittsfield commander of the lost battalion will be publicly decorated with a congressional Medal of Honor for five days cut off in France. The event marks a display of gallantry amid the war’s hard to believe endurance. Floods and dam breaks in Washington state disrupt life as northern areas report damages and washed-out railroad and roads.
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Charles W. Whittlesey
Pittsfield
France
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Wasifala
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Mill
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Cedar River
Butte and Anaconda News Recap With Local Highlights
The page notes Christman cheer by Joshers club and positive remarks about Sullivan. It mentions Mead as civil service liaison and talks of regular fall breaker actions. A Butte boy reports from Chinese city, Perdue’s honor, and Amid markets and school attendance concerns. Alice Baker is highlighted as pioneer. Also references county poor farm contract, Hendry recruiting on return, and a second fine for injunction violation.
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Boys Will Not Tolerate Any Bolshevik Doings
Spokane police court reported no war warrants issued after a crowd of about 60 soldiers and sailors dispersed a socialist hall gathering. The group heard George F Vanderveer defend the Chicago IWW case and warned attendees against Sunday meetings, with the crowd reportedly declaring Bolsheviki will have no more meetings.
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Soldeirs
American army asks wishes on return home in France
Paris December 23 American army authorities distribute circulars to learn how many soldiers in France want immediate return home how many wish to stay in France temporarily and who intends to remain indefinitely efforts to arrange preferential passage for those eager to go home. Occurring as severe winter weather grips Kansas City Missouri Oklahoma Texas and Arkansas with heavy snow and bitter winds disrupting rail traffic. In Chicago bandits struck the Dressal Commercial and Savings bank on West Twelfth Street taking between 6000 and 10000 dollars from the cashiers and customers.
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France
Kansas City
Aussouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Missouri
Windsorthern
Chicago
Dressal Commercial and Savings Bank
West Twelfth Street
Report on meat packers sent to Justice Dept for action
The federal trade commission report on the meat packing industry has been turned over to the Department of Justice for consideration and any action it deems proper. United States District Attorney Clyne announced the transfer here today.
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Socialist Editor Admits Echoes of Antiwar Line
Chicago December 23 Under cross examination J Louis Engdahl editor of the American Socialist on trial before Judge Land admitted he never printed lines aiding the war effort and did not deny editorials and interviews against the war were in the paper. Prosecutor Fleming read extracts from alleged antiwar pieces including one titled If This Be Treason Make the Most of It and The Killing Program of the Government.
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J. Louis Engdahl
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American Socialist
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Aga War
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Berger
Engdaht
Berger Broadsides
South Pacific Islands Swept by the Epidemic
San Francisco reports widespread depopulation from Spanish influenza across Tahiti, Tahitian islands, Solomon group, Gilberts, and other South Pacific regions. Passengers from Sydney and Wellington describe labor shortages on cocoanut plantations and seas routes hampered by disease. captains denied passage to San Francisco to avoid spreading illness.
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Tahitian
Solomon
Gilbert
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Union Line
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Wellington
Papeete
Tahiti
Ves
Barlow
Fourteen million on Red Cross roll
Washington reports about 14,000,000 members had been enrolled by 60 percent of the country’s Red Cross chapters when the annual Christmas toll call ended tonight. If the same ratio holds, total enrollment would exceed 20,000,000. Influenza and bad weather slowed the drive in many areas, prompting some chapters to continue through Christmas Eve.
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Washington
American Red Cross
Fleets Return to Be Occasion of Big Display
New York, Dec 22 Navy ships return from victory over Germany to lead a grand parade in Gotham. Nine super-dreadnoughts head the home fleet escorted by Admiral Mayo as civilian head Mayflower watch. Delays by storms affect arrival timing, with plans for a Thursday morning parade past Liberty Island.
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Wife charges husband with wholesale murder
Dom Costerello, linked to the Milwaukee Black Hand violence, is arrested in Lancaster Virginia after a sensational claim he helped make and place a bomb that killed 10 detectives and officers in Milwaukee in November 1917. Local authorities will send a detective to bring him back. The bomb, found near an Italian church, exploded while examined at the central station. Weather note follows.
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Milwaukee
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Milwauskee Central
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PRESIDENTSHIP MAKES THE LOOP
New York December 24 The transport George Washington bringing Wilson and France troops and the Cedric arriving with officers and enlisted men returned to New York to celebrate Christmas. The Cedric from Liverpool carried 6 officers and 2 168 enlisted men while the Washington arrived with 331 officers and 3 461 men, many from Indiana West Virginia and Cuba. Returning troops were given discharge papers and Santa distributed them aboard the ships as they rested after voyage. Colonel Halsted Dorey of Washington noted his wound at Verdun and his Cuban Philippine ties as the ships sailed to port.
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United States
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Wilson
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India
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Sweet
Monk Rasputin's Slayer Aims To Rebuild Russia
Dr Stanislaus de Lazovert a noted Slayer of Rasputin and former Duma member sails from New York aboard the Toe raine to Odessa to aid a new government. He envisions an organized nucleus army with allied help to restore order and stamp out the Bolshevik threat.
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Rasputin
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Odessa
Holiday Goodies for the Soldiers
New York dispatch reports the Knights of Columbus will serve Christmas day meals from 44 kitchens staffed by secretaries and brothers. They also plan to ship 40 million cigarettes and 1 million packages of gum along with 30 000 pounds of hard candy 60 000 pounds of chocolates 50 000 pounds of lemon drops and 25 000 pounds of gum drops to soldiers and sailors.
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Dee
Roth
Knights of Columbus
Tragic end to old grudge in Livingston duel
In Livingston on December 23, an altercation between Swindlehurst and M. Harvey, at 220 S.20, left Harvey dead at 322 West Callender. Swindlehurst surrendered to Sheriff Robertson. no inquest statements given. Harvey, a prominent lawyer and former Republican leader, left a widow and 16 year old daughter Frances.
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J. E. Swindlehurst
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Northern Pacific Railway
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England's Best for Honor Guest
A fragmented news snippet mentions England's best for an honor guest sequence with references to London and the Daily Mail. It hints at a forthcoming visit by a notable figure, describing public interest and press attention amid unclear specifics.
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T Land
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Return to Paris on New Year’s Day
Varia dated December 23 reports new British itinerary changes for President Wilson’s visit to England. He will return to Paris on New Year’s Day after conferences with Lloyd George Tale four and Andrew Bonar Law in London. He spends Thursday in London, Friday in Carlisle, then Manchester, before heading back to Paris midweek.
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Wilson
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Paris
London
Lloyd George
Talefour
Andrew Bonar Law
Carlisle Sund
Manchester
Rel suite to house President and Mrs Wilson in London
London dispatch reports the Rel suite at Buckingham Palace will be occupied by President and Mrs Wilson during their visit. The historic room has hosted numerous crowned heads, including the former German emperor, dating to its queenly naming era under Queen Victoria.
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London
Wilson
Buckingham Palace
Quee Victor
King
Everything Lost Including Honor in Germany Says Volks Zeitung
German crew of U-9 hands over the submarine to British forces. The Cologne Volkszeitung laments the debt of 500 marks per man and mourns the loss of honor, while Beatty renounces the handing over of a U boat to the enemy, a noble gesture in defeat. A British torpedo boat destroyer Parker damaged but with no casualties.
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Germaml
Germany
Cologne
Beatty
Pross
Plymouth
England
Denver
Parker
Collision in Spain Kills Loyalist Supporter in Crowded Outskirts
A British officer and an American general piloting a plane from Germany reportedly collided near Balboa Spain killing two, including a crowd member shot during the incident. The wreck occurred near the outskirts of Louvres on December 28, with shouting against Spain noted by observers.
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Germany
Louvres
Spain
Associated Press
Balboa
German officials deny Berlin notes only to United States
Berlin denies claims that Germany sent messages solely to Washington after U S requests. The Vorwaerts newspaper calls the charge propagandistic and harsh while stressing it is inconceivable the United States would demand that Germany retreat.
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Vorwaerts Saga
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