Policy of Silence on Peace Talks Adopted by Wilson
President Wilson and Secretary Lansing announce a policy of absolute silence on peace negotiations. Official texts from Germany and Austria differ slightly from the original translation and reflect cordial tones. The note outlines confidential exchanges and sights for a possible early meeting on neutral ground to discuss terms and future guarantees.
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Washington
Wilson
Lansing
State Department
Germany
Berlin
United States of America
Austria
United States
Central Powers
Traffic and Earnings Smash All Records in 1916
Chicago reports 1916 totals set records for traffic and earnings though new mileage was among the smallest since the Civil War. US new mileage projected 727 miles, with 170000 freight cars and 2923 locomotives ordered, while Canada and receiverships show declines and gains in rolling stock and track.
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Chicago
Railway Age Gazette
Canada
United States
Ea Railways
National Guard Drafts to Fill Frontline Vacancies
Washington reports that every able bodied male citizen aged eighteen to forty five is liable for national guard service in wartime. A circular directs forming reserve training battalions from guard reserves to fill vacancies, with drafts by the president if needed, and outlines officer eligibility and reserve corps expansion plans.
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Washington
United States
National Guard
Congress
War Department
Guard
National Defense Act
Militia Bureau
Berlin Records Fresh Advances More Prisoners
Berlin reports fresh advances by the Teutons against Russians and Roumanians in Wallachia with 3020 prisoners and 22 machine guns captured bringing total to 10220. Russians repulsed east of Matchin while Petrograd cites British motor cars in action and Verdun fighting continues with bombardments. Austro Italian fronts see renewed artillery duels after weather clears. activity and air combat continue across the French front.
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Berlin
Wallachia
Rimnik Sarat
Folkshani
Matchin
Danube
Braila
Petrograd
Rakel
Verdun
le Morte Homme
Corso
Macedonia
Lake Doiran
Brody
Galicia
Death toll in Arkansas tornado rises to seventeen
Little Rock December 28 report confirms two more bodies found near Pine Bluff and the fatal injury of another, raising the total dead from Tuesday's south central Arkansas tornado to seventeen. Six victims are white and eleven are Negroes. injuries total fifty three.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Pine Bluff
German Reply to Swiss Note Handed to Swiss Minister
Berlin reports the German reply to the Swiss note was presented to the Swiss minister yesterday. The tone aligns with Germanys response to President Wilson.
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Berlin
Wilson
Railroads Accused of Violating Car Sharing Rules
Interstate Commerce Commission hears arguments over a plan to force railroads to return cars to owners after unloading. Commissioner McChord accuses roads of breaking verbal and written agreements and even stealing cars from each other, while railroad leaders dispute the claim.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
W. W. Atterbury
The
Pennsylvania
American Railway Association
Simmons
McChord
Railway Association
Atterbury
Association
Car Service Committee
Weather: West Virginia and Virginia expect fair, cold days
The forecast calls for West Virginia to have fair and cold weather on Friday with continued cold through Saturday. Virginia should see fair and colder conditions on Friday with Saturday remaining fair and colder.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Enforcement of New Wage Sparks Break in Talks
Railroads and four railroad brotherhoods ended wage talks as the adamson eight hour dispute lingered. The railroads will await the US supreme court decision and record wages from January 1 to protect workers if the law stands. Brotherhood chiefs insisted workers begin eight hour pay now, while leaders refused further comment.
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New York
Brotherhoods of Railroad
Unit States Supreme Court
Brotherhoods Chiefs
Brotherhood
Elisha Lee
Conference Committee of Railway Managers
United States Supreme
Department of Justice
Washington
National Conference Committee
A Switchmens Union
Modification of Protocol Asked by Gen. Guarainza
A Mexican request for changes to the Atlantic City protocol on US troop withdrawal from Mexico prompts a three American delegation review. General Carranza sent a lengthy reply to Secretary Lane. exact content remains withheld. A joint Mexican American commission session is planned early next week to determine the next steps.
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Washington
United States
Mexico
Carranza
Lane
Louis Cabrera
Joint Commission
Atlantic City
J. R. Mott
George Gray
Cabrera
New York
Methodist Episcopal Unions Merge For Joint Organization
The commissions on cooperation of the northern and southern Methodist Episcopal churches met in Baltimore and adopted resolutions by Rev. Dr John K. Goucher to separate sessions this afternoon and tonight and reconvene for joint organization tomorrow. Bishops Earl Cranston and Edward Maron led the push for union as the conference, kept executive and secret, is expected to run into next week.
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Baltimore
Commissions On Cooperation Union
Methodist Episcopal Church
John K. Goucher
Goucher College
Earl Cranston
Northern Church
Edward Maron
Southern Church
No Peace Move by Spain Report Denied
Madrid dispatch says Premier Hlomanones denies Spain has joined the American and Swiss notes. He states the government has not decided on any peace move and will inform the country immediately when policy is fixed.
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Spain
Paris
Havas
Madrid
Hlomanones
Baldwin Locomotive Works lands $4 million Paris Lyons order
In Philadelphia on December 28 a contract for heavy freight locomotives for the Paris Lyons and Mediterranean Railway Company of France was finalized by Baldwin Locomotive Works. The total value is about $4,000,000 and supplements the prior contract for forty locomotives by the same road.
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Bie
Philadelphia
Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean
France
Baldwin Locomotive Works
California Citrus Growers See No Loss From Cold
G Harold Powell, general manager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, said the orange crop as a whole had not suffered from last night’s low temperatures in the southern California citrus belt and that shipments would not be reduced.
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Los Angeles
Cal
California
G Harold Powell
California Fruit Growers’ Exchange
Murguia Retakes Torreon, Says General Recovered City
Mexican Consul Beltran reports first chief Carranza sent a message stating General Murguia has retaken Torreon. The note provided no further details.
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Murguia
Torreon
San Antonio
Texas
Beltran
Carranza
To Veto Public Buildings Bill
President Wilson said he would veto the 28 million dollar public buildings bill if it reached him in its current form as it moves through the house.
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Washington
Wilson
Reserve Bank Declines Dividend Announcement
Richmond November 28 The Richmond Regional Reserve Bank directors today declare a six percent dividend for the period January 1 to November 1 1915 to be paid to shareholders.
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Reserve Bank
Richmond
Richmond Regional Reserve Bank
Greek forces may join front against Entente in Macedonia
A Saloniki telegram reports King Constantine ordered the Greek division interned at Gorlice to leave Germany for the Macedonian front to fight the Entente. If true, it would be a war act against the Allies, though Athens dispatches later claimed Greece and the Entente had settled differences. The force included 400 officers and 6,000 men once held at Gorlice.
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London
Saloniki
Anglo-Hellenic League
Kavala
Constantine
Gorlitz
Germany
Macedonian Front
Athens
Greece
Macedonia
Berlin
Stockholm to Issue Bread Tickets in Sweden
Stockholm dispatch says Sweden will issue bread and flour tickets starting January 14. The Ekstrabalet report notes the policy step as part of an ongoing rationing program in the country.
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Copenhagen
Stockholm
Ekstrabalet
Sweden
West Virginia Bar Association Elects Leaders In Bluefield Session
Judge Joseph M. Sanders of Bluefield was chosen president of the West Virginia Bar Association for the coming year. Officers include Ira K. Robinson and Frank Nox as vice presidents, J. R. Morris Jr. as secretary, C. A. Kreps as treasurer, and a regional executive committee. White Sulphur Springs was set as the next meeting site.
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West Virginia Bar Association
Joseph M. Sanders
Tracity
Ira K. Robinson
Grafton
Frank Nox
Morgantown
Haymond McDowell
Clarksburg
W. K. Cowden
Huntington
Wyndham Stokes
Welch
New Martinsville
W. L. Lew
Fayetteville
Henry M. Russell
Wheeling
W. Seoul Meredith
Fairmont
American Bar Association
White Sulphur Springs
James A. Meredith
Sanders
George Wesley Atkinson
Bluefield
West Virginia
A. J. Horan
Bar Association
Bluefieel
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Army
Verdun Sector
Mr. McChord
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Guarainza
Methodist Church Union
Orange Crow
Constantine Pantamount
Bread Line
Scandinavia
Bluefielder
State Bar Association
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