Russian Offensive Pressures Czernowitz On Bessarabia Front
London reports from Petrograd indicate Russia pounded Austrian positions at Czernowitz with 400 guns for fifty hours in preparation for an infantry push. Czernowitz is described as critical, with claims of Czartorysk captured. The balance of front news remains quiet other than continued Dardanelles artillery battles and Allied bombardment of Turkish positions.
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Associated Press
London
Petrograd
Czernowitz
Russia
Czartorysk
Baltic
Balkans
France
Bessarabian
Stripa
Dzirtorysk
Vienna
Montenegro
Dardanelles
JOSSEY'S PRICES BEFORE STOCKTAKING
Local shoplisting a wide range of produce and staples with prices per unit. Items include fresh vegetables fruit eggs cheese butter and canned goods, plus phone contact for Arnold & Abney at 1076. Prices show everyday grocery value in a small town market scene.
Pawnshop Breaker Nabbed Near Clayton and Thomas
Allan Abramsau a young man described as a Geechee negro was arrested Thursday night near the river in connection with the glass front breakage at a Clayton and Thomas street pawnshop. A big pistol and other items were found along the route, with officers asserting the weapon matched the pawnshop gun.
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Allan Abrams
Clayton
Thomas
Seagraves
Bradley
Abrams
Wood
Moran Wins From the Dublin Giant
Frank Moran of Pittsburgh knocked out Jim Coffey the Dublin giant in the ninth round of a ten round bout in New York. Coffey led on points through seven rounds before the knockout.
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Jim Coffey
Associated Press
New York
Frank Moran
Pittsburgh
Dublin
Coffey
The Mill on the Floss at the Vaudette Today
The film The Mill on the Floss features Mignon Anderson along with Henry Gordon and Eugene Moore. A beautiful story leads the Vaudette program today and promises strong performances from the cast.
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Vaudette
Adams Market Saturday Specials
Fancy snow white cauliflower fancy Cuban hard ripe tomatoes fancy head lettuce 5 10 16 cents each fancy curly parsley fancy soup bunches fancy spring bunch turnips fancy carrots fancy beets fancy spinach fancy radish fancy shellets fancy egg plants fancy turnip and mustard salad fancy oyster plants fancy bell peppers extra fine celery the Adams Market extra special for Saturday fresh fish arrivals Max Josephs Fish Dept phone 1321 red snapper drawn black fish trout and pike mullets and bass extra fine oysters
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Jersey
Adams
Max Joseph’s Fish Dept
Redfield Forecasts Prosperity but Warns of Postwar Commerce Inflation
Secretary of Commerce Redfield reports to President Wilson that the United States stands in its most prosperous era but warns of an inflation of commerce lasting until the end of the war. He urges American businessmen to prepare for normal conditions after the war and to preserve wartime advantages. He praises the new reserve bank system as sound for the nation and notes rising U.S. shipping. He says American sellers should be ready to resume trade with Teutonic nations and to resume selling about 30 million dollars annually to Mexico once the conflict ends.
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Associated Press
Washington
Commerce Redfield
Wilson
United States
Redfield
Reserve Bank
America
Mexico
Time to Buy Auto Tags for 1916
Clerk Tate Wright of the commissioners office distributes applications for 1916 auto tags. Applications must be mailed with a money order or certified check to the Secretary of State Philip Cook. Fees: $2.00 for cars up to 25 horsepower, $3.00 for 25 to 40 horsepower, $4.00 for over 40 horsepower, plus $2.00 for a chauffeur license. Transfers cost 50 cents and duplicates $1.00.
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Tate Wright
Commissioners’ Office
Philip Cook
Wright
Athens City Faces First 360 Docket This Morning
By 2 30 PM no cases had been docketed under Section 360 of Athens ordinances, the law against being drunk on streets. Officials note no prior annual record of such a start, while thirty five cases previously docketed include disorderly conduct idling and loitering state cases automobile violations and street tax failures.
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Police Department
Athens
Recorder’s Court
Groceries and Delicatessen at Max Joseph’s Grocery Dept
Local ad lists Vienna sausages kosher wieners bolognas knockwurst smoked brisquets tongue and rendered beef fat plus green vegetables and canned goods at advertised prices. Also includes notices for the Georgia National Bank annual shareholders meeting January 11 at 4 pm signed by cashier I W P Brooks. Devonshire Sausage sold in one pound 25c packages from Arnold & Abney, phone 1076.
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Max Joseph’s
Vienna
The
Georgia National Bank
W. P. Brooks
Arnold & Abney
Germany to pay indemnity for Lusitania losses
Washington reports Ambassador von Bernstorff delivered Germany’s offer to compensate American lives lost on the Lusitania. Berlin also pledged submarines in the Mediterranean would not sink noncombatant ships without safety provisions. Germany said small boats may not always be safe havens. Officials see the dispute with the United States as largely resolved and expect no Persia sinking crisis.
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Associated Press
Washington
von Bernstorff
Germany
Mediterranean
Rioting at Youngstown Steel Works Leaves Deaths and Destruction
In East Youngstown a strike riot at Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company left three dead and nineteen wounded as a mob of over 6,000 attacked guards and plant facilities. Firemen were driven off, buildings burned, and private police assaulted. state troops were summoned as 1500 National Guard units marched toward the scene. The conflict followed a wage dispute with workers seeking 25 cents per hour, and several hundred rioters were arrested during the night.
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Associated Press
Youngstown
Ohio
Youngstown Sheets and Tube Company
Ries
Wie
Columbus
Ohio National Guard
East Youngstown
Georgia Woman Seeks Annulling A Trial Marriage
A 40 year old widow from this city and a 75 year old neighbor were married in the county courthouse by a justice of the peace. After a honeymoon of under a week she sought to annul the union claiming Georgia has a probation or trial marriage. Officials said the ordinary cannot cancel a license and the justice had no authority to un-marry. An attorney advised filing for divorce on tenable grounds.
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Georgia
Justice of the Peace
Brilliant Reception at White House for Pan-American delegates
President and Mrs. Wilson hosted a brilliant White House reception crowning social attention for Pan-American Scientific Congress delegates. Marine Band music and vivid costumes highlighted the event as Latin American scientists, diplomats, officials, and Congress members greeted the couple for over three hours. Mrs. Wilson made her first formal White House appearance.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
White House
Pan-American Scientific Congress
Marine Band
Iana
Congress
Brown of Elberton enters Congress bid
Baton Rouge La Jan 7 Robert L Knox surveyor of customs for the port of New Orleans who on December 22 shot and killed two men at a railroad station appears insane to the lunacy commission.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Robert L. Knox
New Orleans
Cotton freight rate and British shortage spark market rise
Reports from Galveston claim Britain fixed cotton freight at two dollars per hundred pounds on British ships and faces a cotton shortage, prompting a several point advance at the local exchange. Dallas dispatches deny rate cuts though brokers expect Britain to step up cotton imports.
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Associated Press
New York
Galveston
Great Britain
Dallas Dispatches
Lionel Barrymore at the Elite Today
Lionel Barrymore stars in A Yellow Streak a five act photoplay with romance thrills and a Western crusading minister role. Also shown is Helen Holmes in A Mile a Minute a railroad drama episode highlighting her nerve and daring at the Elite today.
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Ty. Dale
Wall Street
Helen Holmes
Central of Georgia Train No 14 Schedule Change
Effective January the Central of Georgia discloses a schedule change for Train No 14. The train will depart Athens at 6 40 a m central time instead of 6 45 a m.
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Central of Georgia
Athens
Mules and Mares For Sale at Frank Allgood’s Stables
A car load of extra nice young Tennessee mules and mares and a large 6 year old draft horse offered by Ralph Walker at Frank Allgood's Sales Stables on Clayton Street. Prices range from $40 to $350. Three-time weekly listings.
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Ralph Walker
Frank Allgood
Clayton St
Charlie Chaplin at Marion Today
Charlie Chaplin appears at Marion in The Bank a comedy of romance duty and a bank robbery caper. The program also features a Selig jungle drama In Tiger Land with wild animals plus other licensed films. Oyster weather today and fresh Sealshipt oysters available. Arnold & Geo Bolton groceries phone 718J.
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Charlie
Marion
Arnold & Abney
Elberton Candidate Brown Declares for Eighth District Seat
Honoring a first entry in Georgia congressional races this year, Elberton lawyer Thomas J. Brown announces his candidacy to represent Georgia's Eighth District. He outlines positions on tariffs immigration civil service merit white-only government posts and farm credit plus defense and navy policies.
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Thomas J. Brown
Elberton
Northern Judicial Circuit
Georgia
Eighth
United States
Brown
Samuel J. Tribble
Athens
Eighth Congressional District
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