France War Policy and Plot to Blow Up Ship Reported
Paris reports outline of France's war aims as pursuing victory without mercy until Europe is liberated. In New Orleans police foil a plot to blow up the Rochambeau with 75 pounds of dynamite. Heavy fighting continues on multiple fronts as Allied gains are limited and German defenses shift.
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Associated Press
Paris
Viviani
France
Europe
New Orleans
Germany
Rochambeau
New York
Expoloe
Express
London
Belgium
Olse
Meuse
Vistula
Bzura
Gilicia
Banka
Warsaw
Galicia
East Prussian
Lee
Croeps
City Caucus Set for Dec 26 to Choose Officers
The mayor and four old councilmen along with four newly elected members will hold a caucus Saturday night December 26 to preliminarily select city officers for the coming year and heads of departments. Applications for positions must be filed by tomorrow evening December 24 on prescribed blanks. About 100 applications are on file for police fire and other city posts.
Bankers to Close Thursday for Christmas Holiday
City banks will shut Thursday at 2 PM and reopen Monday morning after a three day rest. Christmas is declared a holiday by the mayor, with Saturday and Sunday also observed. Payrolls and banking business should plan accordingly.
Athens Wholesale Merchants Close Saturday in Observance
Wholesale houses in Athens announce a full day closing on Saturday December 26 in response to banks and railroads also closing. Signatories include Talmadge Bros Co Callaway Grocery Co Ge o H Hulme Co and The Webb Crawford Co. One thousand victims of a rail collision near Kaliss in Russian Poland are reported by the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Petrograd. Four thousand rebels are imprisoned four thousand two hundred paroled with scattered bands remaining. The article notes Russian victory in the Van district and Allied bombardment of Kil Bahr with a French destroyer shelling Turkish troops opposite Tsesedes. The South African rebellion is summarized by the minister of justice with the scale of four thousand rebels in prison and ongoing surrenders to union forces.
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Athens
Talmadge Bros. CO
Callaway Grocery CO
GEO. H.hulme CO
Webb-Crawford CO
Van
Kild Bahr
Dardanells
Tesédes
Fonr
London
Kaliss
Russian
Poland
Daily Telegraph
Petrograd
Wild locomotive hurled at Carranza during Vera Cruz flight
Private advices report General Carranza and his party narrowly escaped death when a wild locomotive was sent crashing into their train as hostile troops pursued from Vera Cruz toward the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Carranza’s movement was checked by six troops and Sol Carranza was captured, with the convoy possibly heading to Min southern Mexico.
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Carranza
Vera Cruz
Associated Press
Washington
Tehuantepec
Sol _ Carranza
Mexico
General Education Board Reports On 115 Work Grants
New York December 23 The General Education Board explains its policy of funding only part of each institution's needs in a forthcoming general report. By June 1, 1914 it had aided 103 colleges with 19 second appropriations totaling over 10.5 million dollars pledges and more than 40 million in additional funds raised by the institutions. Overall impact includes substantial endowment increases and new buildings, with conditional gifts enabling expansion and broader donor participation.
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New York
General Education Board
Paige
Education Board
University of Chicago
Rockefeller
Penny a day then double wage for a month
Capt. J F Hart of the Peoples Bank asks a female deposits attendant if she would work another year for a salary of one penny on the first day and doubling daily for 31 days. His adding machine allegedly shows the total as 21 474 836 73 dollars.
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J. F. Hart
New Peoples Bank
Capt. Hart
Hart
Barrow Gauge
French Officers Thank Americans After Hospital Aid
French officers and soldiers at Neuilly thank Americans for care at the war hospital. They express deep gratitude for United States aid and ask ex-Ambassador Herrick to convey thanks to the American people. They praise the American example of brotherhood during the war and stress the Magnificent action of American friends.
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Paris
Associated Press
Herrick
Neuilly
United States
Myrah T. Herrick
United States Steel to No General Wage Cut
Elbert H. Gary announces at a finance committee meeting that there will be no general wage reductions at U S Steel. Some readjustments to skilled labor piece work will occur on a lower basis amid signs of improvement.
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Associated Press
United States Corporation
Elbert H. Gary
Corporation
House Defeats Hobson Prohibition Amendment in Congress
Washington December 22 The House rejected Hobsons bid for a constitutional national prohibition amendment with 197 voting yes and 189 no well short of the required two thirds After long debate Hobson and party leaders weighed amendments including one by Adamson giving states full leg islation control and another by Mann sending the measure to state conventions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hobson
House
Congress
Adamson
Georgia
Jap Coniceres Nverse Hiesaver
Clark
Masiber
Dee
Mann
Hartwell Tragedy Shocks Hart County Family
Pierson Bailey and cousin Merrit McLand are jailed after Bailey, 18, shot and killed Miss Ethel Hembree in the Hembree parlor. The victims and suspects hail from prominent local families as sheriffs investigate the incident. Burglary charges follow for John Winter tied to thefts from J. A. Wood T. G. Craft and Adams Teasley stores.
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Hartwell
Pec
Pierson Bailey
Jnc. B. Bailey
Ethel‘Hembree
Samuel T. Hembree
Mr. Hembree
Bailey
Miss Hembree
Hart County
Merrit McLand
Johnson
John Winter
Hart County Road Gang
John Wilson
John
J. A. Wood
T. G. Craft
Adams & Teasley
Winter
D. €. Alford
John D. Walker
Sparta
A. G. McCurry
County Board of Commissioners Sets Special Meeting
The county board of roads and revenues chaired by J. M. Hodgson with commissioners McLeroy and Bramblett plus clerk Tate Wright will meet on Tuesday the 29th, a fifth Tuesday. Regular sessions occur on the first and third Tuesdays. The special meeting reviews the year and plans for the next.
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County Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues
J. M. Hodgson
Messrs. McLeroy and
Bramblett
Tate Wright
Fortune Tellers Prohibited Across German Empire
Lubeck reports fortune tellers are banned in the German Empire. After WWI began they earned large business from soldiers’ families seeking news from the front, sending visitors into high nervous tension and distress due to uncertainty.
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Lubeck
Germany
Associated Press
German Empire
Panteus Spens
Paris Art Life Suffers as War Drains Faculty and Talent
Paris art life undergoes a drastic shift as 1,800 of 2,000 Beaux Arts students join allied armies and many professors go to the front. Louvre and major museums close, exhibitions halt, and classes suspend across academies. Several artists and guardians linked to the Beaux Arts are reported dead or wounded, including Jean Hillmacher and Gustave Boisson.
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Paris
National School of the Beaux Arts
Brandon
Masson
Mareek
Leroux
Louvre
Luxembourge
Bewns Arts
Beaux
Red Cross
Witterberg
Germany
Baltimore
Yorktown
Pierre Laurens
New York City
Monsieur Hauffbuer
America
A. R. Alan
Cree Ae
Cuneo A Noty
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Army Committee
Chamber of Deputies
di Flay
Vera
Puebla
U. 8
Luxembourg
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