Global War News Reports Versatile Moves From Washington to Petrograd
Plans by the war department in Washington foresee a National army draft around February 1 under a new questionnaire. Pershing reports missing U S Army engineers from the Cambrai battle and a German capture of two sailors from the destroyer Jacob Jones. General orders in France declare Christmas and New Year holidays with no work. Col E M House arrives in New York praising Allied conference成果. Kerensky gears up against Bolsheviks while Petrograd imposes a siege to quell looting. Conscription confirmed as Canada’s unionists win 128 seats to 87 with four deferred.
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War Department
Washington
National Army
Wilson
John J. Pershing
France
United States Army Engineer Corps
Pershing
Cambrai
Robert Borden
Wilfrid Laurier
World famed wrestler Frank Gotch dies in Des Moines
Personal Frank Gotch of Humboldt Iowa retired heavyweight champion wrestler dies in Des Moines Uramic poisoning cited as cause. Gotch was known worldwide as the greatest catch-as-catch-can wrestler in the sport's history.
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Frank Gotch
Humboldt
Des Moines
Gotch
War era shortages blamed on War Department delays
Washington rifle makers face Senate hearing attributing rifle and machine gun delays to War Department missteps. Secretary Daniels outlines navy progress as 424 ships are in build. Surgeon General Gorgas cites disease care improvements at Camp Bowie Funston Doniphan and Sevier. Major General Goethals recalled as acting quartermaster general to lead war council.
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Department
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Washington
Camp Bowie
Texas
Camp Funston
Kansans
Camp Doniphan
Oklahoma
Camp Sevier
South Carolina
Gorgas
Baker
George W. Goethals
Sharpe
New War Council
European War News Recaps Atlantic and Balkan Fronts
A London admiralty release notes fourteen British merchantmen over 1,600 tons and three smaller ones sunk by mines and submarines in the past week. London suffers an air raid with ten killed and 70 injured, while five others are hurt outside the capital. Two German planes in the raid were brought down. In Saloniki, General Sarrall is recalled and General Guillement slated to lead Macedonian forces. Odessa sees Ukrainian troops and Bolshevik guards in street fighting. A British and five neutral merchantmen, plus a destroyer and four minesweepers, are lost in the North Sea amid a convoy attack from Scotland to Norway, totalling about 8,000 tons. Planka and Messonissa islands near Asia Minor reportedly occupied by Turkish forces. An armistice signed at Brest-Litovsk will run to January 14 with immediate peace talks to follow. Winter wheat planting in the U S sets a record of 42,170,000 acres. The United Mine Workers pledge to operate mines over Christmas and New Year to meet coal demands. Liberty truck No 7 is killed in an Erie train collision. two other drivers injured. German naturalization enforcement ordered in Kansas. Pennsylvania officials protest coal seizures in Philadelphia. South Chicago steel plants curtail operations, about 3,000 idle. The American submarine F-1 fails in fog and sinks after collision with F-3, five F-3 survivors. F-1 commander A. E. Montgomery among those saved. Gaston Means is acquitted of murdering Maude A. King. Union Pacific assigns women ticket agents to major offices. Sugar refiners praise Hoover and Rolph, attack Claus Spreckles.
Horrors in Belgium Diaries Reveal German Atrocities
A published pamphlet cites diaries and proclamations to document German crimes in Belgium during World War I. Entries describe villages burned, civilians killed, and mass executions as soldiers looted, with lurid depictions from multiple diary sources and remarks on the Hague principles Germany pledged to uphold but violated.
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Belgium
Committee On Public Information
the Hague
Germany
von Hartmann
Bismarck
Moritz Busch
Bismark
Vise
Reinhold Koehn
Harris to be Relieved as Head of Emergency Fleet Corp
Rear Admiral Frederick R. Harris requested to be relieved as general manager of the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in Washington. Charles A. Pier of Chicago will be sworn to succeed him. The Senate ordered an investigation into delays in building the American merchant fleet, issuing a resolution after sharp criticism over the failure to produce ships.
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The
Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Washington
Charles A. Pier
Chicago
Shipping Board and
Senate
Too Many Servants in Britain Sparks Inquiry
The London Times reports Duncan Miller asking Britain’s minister of national service if households of one to three people should limit indoor servants. The minister replies that only essential numbers are needed for national interest and urges immediate action to remedy excess staffing, hinting at a forthcoming plan in the general statements on manpower.
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Britain
Duncan Miller
National Service
London Times
German Plot Telegrams Expose South American Ties
Washington reports reveal Count von Luxburg urged Argentina to ally with Chile and Bolivia against the United States in a secret pact, with Peru eyed. Dispatches show Argentine President Irigoyen pliability and easy access to the foreign minister, amid warnings to flatter Buenos Aires.
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Washington
South America
United States
Berlin
Count von Luxburg
Argentina
State Department
Luxburg
Irigoyen
Chile
Bolivia
North America
Peru
Luxbury
Argentine Ministry For Foreign Affairs
Department of State
Uruguay
Luis Cabrera
Carranza
Mexico
Toro
Puerreydon
Lloyd-George Outlines War Aims in Commons
Premier Lloyd-George set forth Britain's demands for complete restoration of enemy territories plus compensation. He said submarine sinkings decline while shipbuilding rises and food improves. He warned against a league of nations with triumphant totalitarian Germany and stressed honor and keeping faith as Britain’s motive.
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London
Lloyd-George
House of Commons
America
League of Nations
Germany
Great Britain
Britain
U S Officer Wounded With British Forces
General Pershing cabled the war department that Lieut. Samuel Miller of the Medical Officers Reserve Corps was slightly wounded while with British forces. His mother lives at Lakeville Pennsylvania.
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U. S
Washington
General Pershing
War Department
Samuel Miller
Lakeville
One Holiday for Miners
Philadelphia reports miners urged to keep all collieries in Pennsylvania at work every weekday during the holidays except Christmas by the anthracite conciliation board.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anthracite Conciliation Board
Greater Efficiency Reduced Cost in Western Canada Farming
The nation seeks more efficiency and lower costs as Western Canada offers low priced land from 15 to 25 per acre, wheat yields of forty bushels per acre, and high returns with minimal investment. Investors report 50 to 100 percent profits on $4,000 in a year, aided by tax exemptions and favorable railway rates to new settlers.
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Canada
Western Canada
His Pride Governor Whitman Rails At Syracuse
Governor Whitman spoke in Syracuse comparing Kaiser boasting to a German prison official claiming credit for rising prisoner numbers. He cited a 30 year tenure and joked about awards like the Blue Sausage while noting prisoner counts climbed from 480 to 985 under his watch.
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Whitman
Syracuse
Germany
Boy sells stray dog named Tuesday to policeman
A ten year old colored boy named Blossom in Indianapolis tried to sell a scrawny yellow dog to a policeman at Indiana avenue and North street. The boy said the dog followed him home from school and that his father told him to call the dog Tuesday because he is so meatless.
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Blossom
Indiana Avenue
North Street
Indianapolis News
Extravagant Roast Beef Thanksgiving Dinner Comment
A remark on lavishness notes a Thanksgiving roast as an example of excess and social judgment. The dialogue touches on appearances and propriety, illustrating how restraint is framed as folly. The piece hints at gendered perceptions of manners and behavior.
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Messonissa
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Frank Pappelo
Canton
John Litzenburg
C. T. Wood
Kansas
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Kan
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Department of Health and Charities
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A. E. Montgomery
Gaston B. Means
Concord
N. Y
Maude A. King
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha
George H. Earle, Jr
Hoover
George Rolph
Claus Spreckles
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Twelfth Landwehr
Uhlans
Karl Scheufele
Bavarian
Landwehr
Dinan
Hamann
Philipp
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Irvin
Cobb
Paul Spielman
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Liege
John van der Schoot
Thirty Ninth Reserve Infantry Regiment
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