Peace program announced by president in war plan
President Wilson, before Congress, restated war aims aligning with British leader Lloyd George. He defended open covenants, freedom of the seas, removal of trade barriers, disarmament, and a new global order including Belgian evacuation, French territory restoration, Polish independence, and autonomous development for Austria Hungary and the Balkans, seeking a just and lasting peace.
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France
Alsace
Poland
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Washington
Wilson
Congress
David Lloyd George
Brest-Litovsk
Russia
Germany
Austria
Turkey
Balkan
Lloyd George
Great Britain
Russ
United States
Prussia
Alsace-Lorraine
Italy
Balkans
Roumania
Serbia
Montenegro
Ottoman Empire
Dardanelles
Fire at Indianapolis started by incendiary
A Sunday night blaze destroyed the four story Industrial building in Indianapolis and six dwellings along with a church grocery and a saloon. Fire chief says incendiary origin suspected and federal agents joined police in the investigation. Weather hindered operations as crews battled freezing conditions and cut ice for water supply.
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Indianapolis
Tenth
Eleventh
Fayette Street
Canal
Tenth Street
Fall Creek
Tllinois Street
Loucks
Grand Rapids
Mich
Hawkins
Senator J H Brady Dies Public Life Governor to Senator
Senator James H Brady of Idaho died at his Washington home from heart disease after a prior attack on the way from Idaho. Born June 12 1862 in Pennsylvania, he studied in Kansas and taught school before editing a paper. Elected Idaho governor in 1908 and a Republican U S Senator in 1918, he was re elected in 1914 and his term would end March 23 1921.
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Washington
James H. Brady
Idaho
Senator Brady
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Normal College
Leavenworth
Kan
United States Senate
100 Die on British Warship Racoon Off Ireland
London January 15 An admiralty statement reports H M S Racoon a destroyer foundered off the north coast of Ireland during a snowstorm at two in the morning. Lieut George Napier commanded the vessel and all hands are lost. Nine crewmen were left behind at the last port and are the sole survivors, with seventeen bodies recovered.
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London
Racoon
Ireland
H. M. S. Racoon
George Napier
Trehini
Thirteen Indian Boys Perish in School Fire
Thirteen Indian boys aged nine to seventeen were killed when a fire destroyed the Dwight Indian Mission school dormitory near Marble City Ghia on Saturday.
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Marble City
Ghia. Dan
Dwight Indian Mission School
Here
U. S. to Build Powder Plant Near Nashville
Washington reports a government powder plant costing 360 million dollars will be built by the Army on the Cumberland River about 12 miles from Nashville Tennessee. It will employ about 150000 men and serve national defense needs.
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U. S
Washington
Aar Department
Cumberland River
Nashville
Tenn
Illinois News Highlights From Wartime Year Selections
A wide scan of Illinois events reports Ollie Farwell’s death from a shotgun accident while tree felling near Galesburg. Meetings in Bloomington address school laws and vocational education. Fire at a Chicago Avenue theater injures four firemen. Belgian relief shipments reach 35 million dollars in value. Army aviation exams open to select Eighty sixth division men. Illinois Independent Telephone Association funds a free farm labor bureau across 800 exchanges. German alien registration planned in Springfield. Chicago burglars and bootlegging cases noted. Lincoln women form a home guard. Cairo’s Slurry Halliday resigns post. Various civic upgrades, clerks, and wartime labor shifts cited. elderly Mrs Moss of Grand Ridge dies.
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Ollie Farwell
Galesburg
Illinois
Bloomington
Francis Blair
Chicago Avenue
Chicago City
Charles G. Anderson
Vipeman
James Kerr
Frederick Stoll
Peter J. Horan
Grover Wright
Streator
Hazel Ammons
Wright
Miss Ammons
Belgium
France
Cyrille Vermeren
Chicago
Signal Corps
Eighty-sixth National Army
Irving Madison
Three Hundred and Eleventh Signal Battalion
Ilinois Independent Telephone Association
Springfield
United States
Charles T. Baumann
T. W. Gregory
Washington Department of Justice
B. Hess
J. Clair
Danville
Hume
Dan Touhey
Olney
Lincoln
Grace West
Lincoln Social Service Bureau
Berlin
Slurry Halliday
Cairo
Henry Clay Gott
Norris City
White County
Charles W. Vail
Supreme Court of Illinois
Verne DeLong
Washington
Elizabeth Moss
la Salle County
Grand Ridge
Uniontown
Two dollar wheat and Western Canada farmland prospects
An adviser argues that as world food stock recovers after the war, agriculture will grow, with wheat priced by governments around $2.00 per bushel benefiting farmers. The piece highlights Western Canada and U S lands offered at low prices, potential profits of 20 to 30 percent, and free homestead opportunities, urging buyers to act now and contact a Canadian Government Agent for literature.
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United States
Canada
Adv
Optimism lecture draws crowded village hall audience
In Pledmore village hall fifty seven adults and three youths hear a lecturer preach cheerful thinking. A gloomy man counters with caution about funeral grim realities while a sharp aside about forgiveness follows. The London Tit-Bits quote ends with a wary note on a woman's forgiveness.
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Pledmore
London
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Society of Free Nations
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Huma Mherty
Senator J. H. Brady
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