Denver Protest Over Seven Cent Fare Sparks Citywide Disruption
Citizens and workers oppose a seven cent car fare approved by the Public Utilities commission. A bonfire in the business district halted trade as wires were pulled and trolley ropes cut. Police arrested a man cutting a rope but rioters freed and rebuilt the blockade. Electric service collapsed across city lines hampering travel to Boulder and nearby towns.
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Cole
Jain
Denver
Heart
Larimer Street
Apitol
Gars
Hamilton Strong
Boulder
Goldent Hercities
Milk pooling dispute sparks regional fight
Fragmented OCR suggests a milk pooling controversy with references to hospitals, districts, and meetings. Mentions Dopi ng district attorney, city readings, and responses from Meance and Meadeville with phrases about a large confrontation and assembling members to greet, signaling escalating tensions across multiple cities.
Rescue at Sea Continues for Northern Pacific
Coast Guards battle heavy seas to rescue passengers and crew from the Northern Pacific. Army and Navy units evacuate 237 aboard in life boat and breeches buoy transfers as salvage efforts plan to float the ship at high tide tomorrow. Ships, tugs, and cruisers guard the scene while hospital ships take wounded to Hoboken and Mineola.
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Connelly
Associated Press
Northern Pacific
Navy
Gleaven
Combarkation
Hoboken
Gleaves
EH Doken
North Pacific
Sandy Hook
Rockaway
Eren
Solace
Edward Schallansberger
Altoona
France
Columbia
Broadway
Eighth Trench Mortar
Finely
Great South Bay
Bayshore
Naval Air Station
Mills
Mineola
San,s
Mnchor
Ca 'Mpton
Roy Arnott
State's Alienists Call Bonjon Sane Continued From Page One
State's alienists contest Bonjon's mental state linking uraemia in 1906 to insanity. They discuss whether extreme uraemia and alcoholism caused memory loss and incoherence, with cross-examinations on Bonjon's capacity, acts of agitation, and possible likelihood of killing Walker even if drunk. Mrs Bonjon testifies about whiskey kept at home and Bonjon's routine before the murder.
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Diefendorf
Cummings
Bonjon
Walker
Tr. Diefendorf
Benjon
Murde
Walkers Cafe
Benson
St. Vincent's Hospital
Edward Cronan
Police Department
Cronan
Grand Trunk plans lease survey at New London pier
Hartford Jan. 2 city officials discussed leasing the state pier at New London to the Grand Trunk railway for flour shipments to Europe but no action was taken as the pier remains leased to the Navy department. A shipyard survey and government expenditures for ships were also examined, noting Hog Island yard management changes and the expected future role of Hop Island yard as a major producer.
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Grand Trunk Road
State Pier
New London
Hartford
Jan
Grand Trunk Railway
Europe
Navy Department
Shipping Board
Emergency
Pieat Corporation
Congress
Fleet Corporation
Hog Island
Plex
American International Shipbuilding Corporation
Hagsland
Matt Brush
American International Corporation
Piez
Hop Island
Hop Island Yard
United States
Flor Island
Navy Budget Grows Despite 1916 Plans and Tech Boost
Amid questions in a congressional session Representative Butler asks how the 10,000,000 increase will affect the three year program, noting the 1916 plan at 500,000,000 total. Admiral Taylor signals potential construction cost cuts before starting the new program, with the 1916 ships mostly under contract and battleships due for rapid completion. Secretary Daniels touts electrically driven machinery as giving future capital ships a cost edge and efficiency, citing trials of the New Mexico and promising superiority over rival navies.
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Daniels
Butler
Pennsylvania
Admiral Taylor
Hosala
Inerth
New Mexico
Xtr
Berger Denies He Urged Violence in War Talk
The defense and government clashed over Berger’s 1916 telegram urging U S troops into Mexico to punish Villa and an editorial in the Milwaukee Leader arguing nationalism and class hatred fueled war. Berger admitted opposition to the war after U S entry, defended the I W W, and said he fought Gomperts for 90 years while denying provocation by Lusitania sinking.
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Mexico
Freming
Berger
Effiter
New York
United States
Villa
Milwaukee
Chicago
I. W. WW
American Fedration of Labor
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
St. Louis
Socialist Party
Attorney Fleming
Lusitania
Connecticut Gave 77 000 Sens to Country s Service
Connecticut inductees under the 1917 questionnaire system total about 39 033 with 13 043 men volunteering, amounting to roughly 52 076 who would have been sent under the draft. Governor Halcomb estimates about 77 000 Connecticut men served in the war, implying around 25 000 volunteered before.
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Connecticut
John Buckley
U. A
Buckley
United States
Marcus HM. Halcomb
Bridgeport Second in Pershing Fund Donations
Bridgeport ranks second in the state for Pershing Fund gifts to aid Connecticut servicemen overseas. Total raised statewide was 80,603.58 dollars with Hartford and Bridgeport each contributing over 10,000. Expenses totaled 484.56 for printing, stationery, and postage. In June, 42,000 was cabled to France and 3,118.97 remained deposited in the Hart Sacret National Bank.
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Bridgeport
Pershing Fund
France
Connecticut
New Haven
Hartford
Henry H.’Holt
Hart- Sacret National Bank
Wees
Five marriage licenses issued on New Year’s Day
The Bureau of Vital Statistics issued five marriage licenses yesterday as the office opened for the new year. The action marks the first day of operations for the bureau this year.
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Bureau of Vital Statistics
Dr Hartstein Dead After Short Illness
Dr Adolph Hartstein aged 30 of 1220 State Street died after a brief Spanish influenza illness contracted in Atlantic City during holidays with his family. He conducted two dental offices on State and Main streets and is survived by his wife and two children. Funeral from Pennsylvania Railroad station to Brooklyn for interment with Abraham Lodge delegates attending.
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Atlantic City
Adolph Hartstein
State Street
Hartstein
M. J. Greenstein
Bridgeport
Dr. Greenstein
Hattstein
Fast Main Street
Bie
Abraham Lodge
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Brooklyn
Henry Greenstein
Samuel Plotkin
Harry Fox
Max ‘Cohen
Willian Tishler
Beeler Killed in December Accident Overseas
Lieut Charles H Beeler of the air service was killed in an accident in France on December 14, per a War department telegram to his father Frederick H Beeler of Stamford. Beeler trained at Princeton University and Belly Field Texas before going overseas two months ago. Brazil's peace delegation left Rio de Janeiro for Havre today.
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Lierut
Lost in Argonne Wounded in Heel Vitale Returns Home
Private Eugene Vitale, wounded by gunshot and shrapnel in the Battle of St Mihiel, has returned to Camp Mills near Bridgeport New York. He expects three to four weeks of furlough before muster out. He once lived at 48 Fulton Street and bartended two years at Congress cafe before enlisting. He saw three battles and was wounded November 2, with a right heel gunshot and a head shrapnel wound. He was detached from his company for four days during one fight and was lost in the lines.
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Eugene Vitale
St. Mihiel
Camp Mills
Bridgeport
Vitale
Fulton Street
Congress Cafe
Colors
Yoors
Paderewski Arrival Marred by Warsaw Balcony Collapse
Ignace Paderewski arrived in Warsaw at eleven tonight amid a massive Polish crowd. A balcony of a house collapsed during the celebration, killing twenty five people as troops shielded the pianist from Bolshevik threats while he moved to the Watel Bristol hospital headquarters.
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Warsaw
Associated Press
Ignace Paderewski
Paderewski
Warsiaw
Posen
Bristol
M. Paderewski
Baker to ask Congress to buy army camp sites
Secretary Baker said he would seek Congress views on purchasing land for army cantonments. The War Department believes some camps should be permanent at an estimated cost of about 12 million dollars. He will present the plan to the House military committee and push hearings on the army reorganizaton bill.
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Washington
Baker
Congress
War Department
House Military Committee
Army War Collera
Army
Military
War College
General Staff
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