Bluefield Enacts Stricter Influenza Closing Order
City health board tightens restrictions amid 94 new influenza cases 3 deaths and calls for ten nurses. Red Cross aid activated through mayor's committee. emergency hospital ready to reopen for ill residents. closures cover theaters schools churches and public gathering spots with bans on crowds and funerals.
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Peace Conference Plans Move Toward January Start
The inter allied conference will reconvene December 16 or 17 at the Quai D’Orsay to frame peace preliminaries with enemy powers. British leaders Lloyd George and Balfour may attend briefly. opening talks aim for the first week in January with a four month expected duration.
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Probe Involves Washington Post and Other Papers
Senate committee examines confidential records about correspondent William Bayard Hale sent to Germany for Hearst newspapers. Documents hint at plans to provoke tensions between the United States and Japan. Names of involved publications and individuals appear in the seized materials.
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Heimerich K. Albert
New York
Berlin
H. K. Feuhr
Orient
Prom
John R. McLean
Cincinnati Enquirer
Bakhameteff
Mr. McLean, Jr
Bill Spurgeon
Robert Porter
Northcliffe
Samuel Untermeyer
Albert
Mr. Pielaski
Debate on League of Nations Lifts Few Senators
Washington reports a sparse Senate debate on the League of Nations with preference on both sides and few members present. Senator Cummins resolution for a Paris-bound committee was not brought up due to absence of its author as war revenue measures loom.
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Illinois
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Williams
Mississippi
Borah
Idaho
Reed
Missouri
Cummins
Iowa
Gorah
League
Idaho Sena
Vast Army Casualty Totals Delayed in Reports
Washington officials disclosed 16 000 major casualties not yet reported to next of kin, including killed in action and missing. Major arrears in minor casualties are larger and include duplications, with many names awaiting hospital record verification delayed by influenza and widespread fronts.
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Pershing
Cable
France
Farmers Help Win War Through Farm Strength and Growth
Secretary Houston lauds farmers in 1918 annual report for wartime food production. Record acreage reached 280 million with higher values across crops and livestock, totaling an estimated 24.7 billion in farm value for 1918.
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County Board Reinstates Broad Health Closure Order
The county board of health at Princeton votes to again close churches schools motion pictures and public venues and bans gatherings county wide except Bluefield where local action already begun. Soda fountains may operate with disposable cups and guardians are told to keep children home as the flu outbreak worsens in Princeton Athens Bramwell Oakvale and coal regions.
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H. Mh. Lee
J. R. Vermillion
Bluefield
Board of Health
Lee
Alread Ee
County Board
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Circuit Court
Athens
Bramwell
Oakvale
Vermillion
Health Board
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