Germans Bomb Dunkirk as Allied Offensive Pressures Grow
The report notes German raids on Dunkirk with vast bomb drops and a Christmas aviation visit. It describes renewed German counterattacks near Perthes, St Hubert, and Fontaine Madame, with French gains at Beausejour. Heavy floods hinder operations along the Franco Belgian line as Russian forces mass north of Warsaw in a major new thrust.
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Dunkirk
Paris
Perthes
Champagne
Argonne
St. Hubert
Fontaine Madame
Beausejour
Soissons
Alsace
Flanders
Berlin
Lys
Warsaw
Petrograd
France
Belgium
East Prussia
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Vistula
Novogeorgiewsk
Bzura
Rawka
Bread Riot in Belgium Shatters Marcinelle Town Hall
A Brussels Telegraaf despatch reports a bread riot at Marcinelle in Hainaut province. A crowd gathered at the town hall and smashed windows before police restored order. Bread was later supplied to the populace as the German army battles typhus and pneumonia.
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Amsterdam
London
Telegraaf
Brussels
Marcinelle
Hainaut
Belgium
Burglar Surprised by Trio of 200 Pounders
A 150 pound burglar named Joe Murphy entered a Chicago home through a bedroom window just before daylight. He was swiftly tackled by Babe Meigs Jim Meigs and Charles Starbuck, a powerhouse trio. Murphy told police he needed Krupps for interference but the three men stopped him before he began.
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Joe Murphy
Chicago
Murphy
Babe Meigs
University of Chicago
Jim Meigs
Charles Starbuck
Cornell
Meigs Brothers
Why Williams Pink Pills Are Handy All Winter
An advertisement urges building up the blood to prevent winter sickness. It claims thin blood causes susceptibility to colds and rheumatic ailments, and says Williams Pink Pills enrich the blood to improve oxygen transport, ease rheumatic inflammation, quiet nerves, and expel lingering germs after grip or influenza. The copy advocates keeping the pills in every house and obtaining them at local outlets.
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Willams
Capty
Turkish shipping burned in Black Sea actions
A semi official dispatch from Petrograd recounts Christmas to Jan 6 naval actions in the Black Sea. Turkish ships attacked, cargo craft were hit, and Russian torpedo boats damaged enemy vessels. The mine layer Peik i Shefket ran aground and may be out of service. Breslau and Hamidieh involved. Turkish cruisers reportedly not damaged.
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Petrograd
Black Sea
Breslau
Hamidieh
Bay of Synopse
Trebizond
Platana
Surmeneh
Rizeh
Khopa
Stenia
Bosphorus
Constantinople
Turkey
French statement on German counter attacks north of Perthes and Beausejour
Paris reports two German counter attacks north of Perthes and Beausejour repulsed. Artillery duels from the sea to the Oise and at Soissons. French forces say Perthes has been organized and gains made near Beausejour with field fort taken. Hill 263 remains under fire as attacks continue.
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Paris
War Office
Oise
Aisne
Soissons
Rheims
Argonne
Perthes
la Ferte de Beasejour
Four-de-Paris
Bourneuilles
Meuse
Apremont
Vosges
Wachiler
Thann
Russians Claim Gains North of Vistula In Trenches
Petrograd reports the Russian general staff stating German attacks on January 8 9 were repelled by sapping and hand grenades. Russian forces advanced near Moghely Farm taking portions of German trenches and entrenched positions. On the Austrian front attacks succeeded with Austrians retreating and prisoners taken.
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Petrograd
Vistula
Moghely
Wealthy volunteers travel in steerage to Vancouver
A Fiji arrived contingent of 60 volunteers for the Pyitish army reached Honolulu on the Makura en route to Vancouver. The group traveled largely in steerage, many reserving rest before continuing their journey.
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Honolulu
Fiji Lands
Vancouver
Priests Expelled by Turks Cause Starvation Alarm
Washington January 10 reports from the Franciscan Order say hundreds of missionaries and other religious workers in the Holy Land face starvation. Godfrey Schilling, commissary-general for the Holy Land in the United States, relayed the warning today.
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Washington
Holy Land
Godfrey Schilling
Franciscan Order
United States
Turmoil runs through Holy Land convents as Turks expel orders
Father Schilling reports Turks have expelled Franciscans from nearly all their Armenian Upper Syrian and Galilee convents leaving only St. Saviour in Jerusalem and Nazareth. Other orders including the Assumptionists Dominicans Fathers of Zion White Fathers Benedictine Carmelite Poor Clares have been driven to the streets. State Department efforts to aid the sufferers have so far failed.
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Father Schilling
Armenia
Upper
Syria
Galilee
St. Saviour
Jerusalem
Nazareth
Assumptionists
Fathers of Zion
White Fathers
Poor Clares
State Department
German War Office Report on Western Front Battles and Prisoners
The war office states bad weather flooded areas and French attacks near Nieuwport and Soissons were repulsed with heavy losses. It notes gains in the Argonne and near Apremont and Burnhaupt where French prisoners and machine guns were captured. Eastern front weather unchanged and Russian advances south of Miawa repulsed.
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Nieuwport
Soissons
Apremont
Toul
Burnhaupt
Upper
Alsace
Lower Aspach
Miawa
Austrian Statement on Eastern Front Bombardments and Rejected Crossings
Vienna reports Russians bombarded positions south of the Vistula with little effect. An enemy attempt to cross the Nida failed while north of the Vistula heavy artillery battles continue. The Carpathians remain quiet as two reconnoitering detachments in Bukowina were destroyed by machine gun fire. An artillery duel occurred in the southern theatre from Trebinje toward the frontier.
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Vienna
Amsterdam
London
Vistula
Zakliczyn
Galicia
Nida
Carpathians
Bukowina
Trebinje
Herzegovina
War bread ordered for Dresden court in Saxony
The Berliner Tagblatt reports the King of Saxony has ordered that war bread be used exclusively in the Dresden court. The directive emphasizes centralized food supply during wartime, affecting court rituals and official meals.
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Saxony
Amsterdam
London
Berliner Tagleblatt
Dresden
Labor Meeting News Garment Workers End Suit
More than 5000 disaffected garment workers who left the United Garment Workers of America at Nashville convention have abandoned the court battle to keep the old name and will form the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. They have allied with Journeymen Tailors International Union in Chicago and other cities.
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United Garment Workers of America
Nashville
Tenn
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Chicago
Journeymen Tailors’ International Union
Independant garment unions sever ties with AFL banner
Local men’s garment workers declare independence and forfeit AFL membership. United Garment Workers demand loss of delegates to Boston Central Labor Union as a decision is awaited. AFL will not recognize seceding bodies. Amalgamated Clothing Workers drop court suits against the international. Boston unions waive funds and name rights. International waives per capita taxes. No further suits or counter suits anticipated.
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Men’s Garment Workers
American Federation of Labor
United Garment Workers of America
Boston Central Labor Union
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
International
Boston
The
United Garment Workers
Railway Clerks Open Convention In Quincy House
About 110 delegates from the Eastern Federation of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks begin their annual convention at the Quincy House this morning. The gathering is expected to run through Tuesday night.
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Eastern Federation of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Quincy House
Labor Unions Report Limited Gains in Boston Area
A union committee meeting in Hibernian Hall Charlestown failed to win back work for needy members from railroad officials. The Boston & Maine Freight Handlers and Knights of Labor plan greater cooperation, while wage scale talks were launched by the Coal Teamsters Union. Officers were installed in several locals including the Team Drivers and Brewery Workers unions.
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Boston & Maine Freight Handlers’ Union
Hibernian Hall
Charlestown
Knights of Labor
Coal Teamsters’ Union
John M. Gillespie
Frank Finnigan
James J. Shea
J. J. Hunt
Michael O'Donnell
John Kennedy, Jr
Nat. Lannin
Charles Prescott
Edward Bridges
Charles Beattie
Team Drivers Union
John M. Murray
Joseph Hennessey
Howard J. White
Thomas Murphy
Boston Bartenders’ Union
New England
New Bedford
Thomas Gerraughty
Charles Snee
P. A. Connelly
Edna Fitzgibbons
Licensing Board
Boston & Albany
Union 70
East Cambridge
Paine Memorial Hall
Brewery Workers’ Union
John Casey
Thomas
Local Committee Names Unlisted Edmond Ward Brings Roles
The text lists officials and committee members including J. Finnigan as secretary Edmond F Ward treasurer and an auditing group with Daniel Birmingham E F Ward John Harney John Dempsey M T Attridge J J Ward P E Nolan and John Casey.
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J. Finnigan
Edmond F. Ward
Daniel Birmingham
E. F. Ward
John Harney
John Dempsey
M. T. Attridge
J. J. Ward
P. E. Nolan
John Casey
Boston Sanitary Workers Demand Respectful Orders
Boston sanitation employees protest profanity in the workplace. A union committee will seek orders from Mayor Curley to have foremen speak without abuse and to address missing extra workers at the Atlantic Avenue dumping grounds. President William P. Greaney was re elected for a 12th term along with new officers.
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Sanitary and
Boston
Curley
Atlantic Aveuue
William P. Greaney
T. J. Hannin
J. J. Burns
J. T. Kane
A. A. Brown
City Workers Live Outside City Limits
Bath Department Union members voted yes to a measure requiring all city or town employees to reside where they work. They noted about 8,000 of Boston’s 17,000 city workers live outside the city, and civil service rules require six months residency before appointment but not after employment.
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Boston
Bath Department Union
Had Old Home Week in Jail
Gloucester January tenth. A Jusilla family gathering at the police station led to multiple arrests for intoxication. Mannia Jusilla, then Hilge Jusilla, were jailed, with Leo Hendricksen also taken into custody as a family friend.
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Gloucester
Jussilla
Mannia Jussilla
Hilge Jussilla
Papa Hilge
Papa Hilge Jussilla
Leo Hendricksen
State Highway Opens From Sau Gus River Bridge to Revere Street
The new State highway between Sau Gus river bridge and Revere Street was opened for public travel yesterday. The road will greatly ease team traffic from Lynn and beyond into this city.
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Saugus River Bridge
Revere Street
Revere
Lynn
Renova Promoted as Secret Aid for Drinkers in 1900s Ad
A New York promotional notice urges readers to use Renova to curb a drinker in the family. It claims Renova is tasteless and harmless, to be added to tea or coffee, and promises the drinker will remain unaware. The item targets households financially strained by alcohol spending.
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Rensselaer
Renova
Riker-Jaynes
New York
Felch’s Shot Hums From Milwaukee to White Sox Fame
Hap Felch, a Milwaukee area player turned major league recruit for $11,000, rose from a sandlot and State league start to a Chicago White Sox roster. A tale of a winter league yarn claims his long hits near Fond du Lac fences killed wild ducks out of season, a rumor that followed him to the big leagues.
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Hap Felch
Chicago White Sox
Milwaukee
Hap
Felch
Fond du Lac
Clark
Brewers
Chicago
Var-ne-sis touted as cure for long rheumatism
Local man Benjamin Daniels of Lynnfield Centre recounts 35 years of severe rheumatic pain along the sciatic nerve and credits Var-ne-sis with eradicating his symptoms after months of use. The ad promotes Var-ne-sis as a vegetable remedy and directs readers to the Boston office and local druggists.
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Benjamin Daniels
Main Street
Lynnfield Centre
Mass
Boston
Boylston Street
W.A. Varney
Lynn
Riker-Jaynes
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