Butler Warns Cost of Living Threatens Nation
New York December 20 Dr Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia warns census figures show the United States moving toward conditions seen in Russia India and China He says population growth and land limits force tighter resource use and less waste We must conserve resources and live on income not capital and fewer farms will be abandoned to other states to sustain the nation
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New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia
Germany
England
France
Russia
India
China
Island Vanishes After Quake Off San Salvador
A small island near San Salvador disappeared after a series of earthquakes last Thursday. About ninety people, seventeen families, are believed dead, with distress signals observed but relief delayed due to the Salvadoran shore’s unsettled conditions.
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New Orleans
Port Limon
Costa Rica
San Salvador
Roopango
Blizzard Death Toll Mounts Along Northeast Coast
Boston reports a severe blizzard gripping the Northeast with subzero temperatures, a gale from New England to England, and heavy shipping losses. Four schooners wrecked, another towed, one barge foundered, plus adrift vessels and missing crews raise fears of many deaths.
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Boston
Mass
New England
Atlantic
England
Canada
New York
Massachusetts
Tunnel Between Chicago And New York Planned
The Record-Herald reports a forthcoming completion of an engineering tunnel linking Chicago and New York with routes for telephone telegraph lines and pneumatic tubes for parcel transport. Terminals at both ends are ready and crews will soon begin excavation along the route.
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Chicago
the Record- Herald
New York
Carnegie Endowments Show Generous Global Philanthropy
The article catalogs Andrew Carnegie’s vast benefactions totaling about 179.5 million including libraries, educational foundations, peace initiatives, and university gifts. It notes his philanthropy widens the gap between him and John D. Rockefeller, whose gifts exceed 120 million mainly for education.
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United States
Educational Foundation
Pittsburg Institute
Washington Institute
Peace Foundation
Scotch Universities
Hero Funds
Carnegie Steel Company
Dumfernline
Polytechnic School
Pittsburg
Peace Temple
the Hague
Allied Engineers’ Societies
Bureau of American Republi
Europe
Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Coast I8 Helpless Declared by McLachlan
Representative McLachlan of California warned before Congress that a foreign country could land 200000 troops on the Pacific coast within thirty days and cut East communication by blowing mountain passes. He cited three states—California Oregon Washington—with 8000 regular troops and state militiamen and said dislodging any foothold would take years and cost about a billion dollars.
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Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountains
California
Oregon
Washington
United States
McLachlan
Congress
United States Army
Secret War Report Warns of Weak US Defenses
A War Department document presented to Congress warns of inadequate national protection against foreign invasion. It cites a woeful shortage of men, guns, and ammunition, urges army reorganization, a national defense council led by the secretary of war, and expansion of forces to about 100,000 with a two-year enlistment.
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Washington
War Department
House
Congress
Dickinson
Council of National Defense
General Wood
Army
Navy
Wood
House Military Committee
Japan
China
McLachlan
California
Genral Wood
Carnegie transfers ten million for universal peace
Andrew Carnegie allocated 10 million dollars in 5 percent first mortgage bonds to a board of twenty-seven trustees including former cabinet members and college presidents. The aim is to fund international peace efforts and later altruistic projects, with Great Britain and the United States urged to unite in promoting a court of arbitral justice and global harmony. The gift raises his philanthropy to about 180 million, behind only three other large endowments.
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Universal Peace
Washington
Andrew Carnegie
United States
Great Britain
American Society For the Judicial Settlement of
Knox
Commission
New York
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburg
Carnegie
Leach postpones Niagara Falls trip after boat wreck
Bobby Leach’s planned ascent in a self designed safety lifeboat is delayed by one or two months after a test run failed. The craft went over Niagara Falls north of the horseshoe and disappeared briefly before resurfacing with about four feet of the stern missing. Leach opposed the trial but says the journey will proceed once repairs are completed.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Bobby” Leach
Leach
Zeach
Penny lunches begin at Chicago school
At Jackson school on December 20, 200 hungry children paid a penny for a sandwich milk and candy. Demand overflowed the basement lunch room and 500 were turned away. Teachers will select five neediest pupils per class until more space is found, then penny lunches expand to other schools.
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Chicago
Jackson School
Seeds Planted in Cut Thumb Grow Tiny Lemon Tree
Washington story claims Wilfred Barron severed his thumb while peeling lemons and sprouts grew from the wound. Doctors removed the growth but more shoots appeared, prompting Barron to plant the first seed in a pot and name the plant Tom Thumb. He shows the wound and the lemon sprout as proof.
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Washington
Wilfred Barron
C. A. Snow
Barron
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Butler
Steel King
Senate
Bobby Leach
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