War News From Many Fronts and Domestic Finance
A sprawling World War I news roundup reports Russian lines pierced in Eastern Wallachia, Romanians and Russians retreating north of Buzeu Rimnik, and Turkish holds taken in Dobrudja. It notes Maghdaba victory, Canadian recruiting calls, record railroad profits, and U.S. bank resources surpassing major world banks. It also covers war dispatches on politics, shipping, and domestic events including weather, weather-related fatalities, and a Salt Lake City bomb scare.
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Wallachia
Rimnik-Sarat
War Office
Buzeu-Rimnik Road
Tultcha
Isakteha
Dobrudja
Carranza backs protocol tweaks on Mexican troop withdrawal
Washington dispatch reports General Carranza sent a message to Secretary Lane urging modifications to the withdrawal protocol with American troops from Mexico. The Mexican leader rejected unconditional withdrawal while signaling a softened stance due to Northern Mexico's military situation. The three American representatives will meet next week to respond.
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Washington
Mexico
Carranza
Lane
Luis Cabrera
Joint Commission
Atlantic City
John R. Mott
George Gray
Cabrera
New York
Oil price jumps to $1.40 a barrel in Oklahoma fields
Prairie Oil and Gas Company posts a ten cent rise to $1.40 in Independence Kansas and Bartlesville Oklahoma. This marks the fifth increase since October as Oklahoma production totals 258000 barrels daily and analysts forecast a possible $2 by early spring due to dwindling output and rising gasoline demand.
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Independence, Kas
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Bartlesville
Prairie Oil Company
Oklahoma
May drop the Adamson Act proposal in conference
Four railway brotherhood chiefs indicated they might press a federal commission to settle disputes between railroads and employees. They discussed the Adamson Act and its effects as representatives from both sides met in New York to confer with railroad managers.
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New York
United States Supreme Court
Donation Boosts Chicago U Medical School by 200000
Chicago December 29 Harry Pratt Judson announced a further gift of 200000 to the University of Chicago medical school. The donor remains unnamed.
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Chicago U
Chicago
Medical School
University of Chicago
Harry Pratt Judson
Lafayette 8 Fuetterer Shot During Saloon Hold Up
In St Louis on December 29 Lafayette Fuetterer a lawyer was fatally shot by one of two bandits who held up a saloon operated by his father. The elder was present during the raid.
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St.Louis
Lafayette
Fuetterer
Plan A Rock Road System for Missouri in Five Years
Federated Roads Association of St. Louis unveils a plan for a 3500 mile year round road system to be built over five years. Missouri would seek federal road aid worth about 2.546 million dollars plus state and county funds to create 3500 miles of permanent roads by 1921.
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Missouri
Federated Roads Association
St. Louis
Business Men’s League
Automobile Club
City Club
Real Estate Board
Rotary Club
Missouri State Motor Association
Sedalia
Frank Rozzelle
Kansas City Automobile Club
Kansas City
Department of Agriculture
Gardner
Missouri superintendents call to end politics in state institutions
A St. Louis conference of current and former Missouri state institution superintendents and board members urged removing politics from appointments and centralizing control. Proposals included expert commissions for penal, hospital, and charitable institutions, centralized purchasing, and higher county contributions for state hospital care. Dr. Amos Fisher cited past political obstacles to scientific work in insanity treatment.
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Missouri
St. Louis
C. A. Elwood
The
State University
M. O. Biggs
Fulton
Amos T. Fisher
Kansas City
State Hospital
St. Joseph
Farmers form coal and provisions cooperative in Boone and Adair counties
About twenty clubs have organized in Boone and Adair counties to buy coal and provisions in bulk and to ship livestock. The Centralia farmers unite to reduce living costs through collective purchasing and distribution.
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Centralia
Boone
Audrain
Alexander Graves Dies Former Confederate Soldier and Attorney
Alexander Graves aged 70 died at his Lexington home. born in Mississippi he joined the army at 15 and later graduated from the University of Virginia in 1869. He practiced law in Lexington after the war and served under General Forest during the Civil War.
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Alexander Graves
Lexington
Mississippi
University of Virginia
General Forest
Springfield man dies after signing $9,000 check
Joseph A. O'Day a 53 year old retired Springfield businessman collapsed at a courthouse desk after signing a $9 000 real estate transaction check. He was the father of Paul O'Day the prosecuting attorney elect of Greene County.
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Joseph A. O'Day
Springfield
Court House
Paul O'Day
Greene County
Pettis County Pioneer John B. Elliott Dies at 75
John B. Elliott, 75, a Pettis County pioneer, died. For years he purchased and shipped walnut logs to customers across the country.
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Pettis County
John B. Elliott
Missouri Paper Stops Demokrat After 1867 Run
The St. Charles German daily Demokrat suspends publication after January 1 due to high print paper costs. Col J H Bode had published the Demokrat since 1867, making it one of the state's oldest papers.
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Missouri
Demokrat
St. Charles
Col. J. H. Bode
Concordia Pioneer Otto Walckenhorst Dies at 72
Otto Walckenhorst a Concordia pioneer and longtime justice of the peace died recently of apoplexy at age 72 He served as JP for twenty three years and was widely known in the community.
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Concordia
Otto Walckenhorst
Anti-Saloon League claims steady dry gains in Missouri
G Edwin Berth of Kansas City reports two years and nine months of progress with no city turning wet. In eleven elections in 1916 the league won all, listing Cooper county Fulton Maryville Knox Adair Benton Platte Chillicothe Lexington among dry outcomes and noting only sixteen wet counties remain statewide.
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G. Edwin Berth
Kansas City
Missouri Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Saloon League
Cooper County
Fulton
Maryville
Knox County
Adair County
Benton County
Platte County
Chillicothe
Lexington
Berthh
Strike clashes escalate as shots hit Springfield cars
In Springfield, workers at the Traction Company strike grows darker with several nights of gunfire into passing street cars. A recent clash between strikers and strike breakers at the car barns left one man injured.
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Springfield
Springfield ‘Traction’ Company
Hannibal Secures Rail Coal to Ward City Shortage
Hannibal faces coal famine as the municipal electric light and water plants near closure. Railroads will supply three cars of coal to tide the city over until fuel from nearby Springfield mines arrives under existing contracts.
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Hannibal
Springfield
Lll
Two men die and another ill from drug overdose
Hazel Calcutt of Warrensburg is found dead and Theodore Lagstrom of Sedalia is seriously ill after overdosing on a drug. The trio were discovered in a pool hall washroom.
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Hazel Calcutt
Warrensburg
Theodore Lagstrom
Sedalia
Wife of Bishop McElwain Dies in Texas
Mrs. Helen Demuth McElwain wife of Bishop F A McElwain of the Episcopal church at Faribault Minnesota died in a San Antonio Texas hospital recently at age 33 She was daughter of Colonel H C Demuth of Sedalia Missouri
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WicElwain
Helen Demuth McElwain
F. A. McElwain
Episcopal Church
Faribault
Minn
H. C. Demuth
Sedalia
San Antonio
Tex
Farmer John Davis Dragged to Death After Pardon
Three months after a gubernatorial pardon for a three year sentence to care for his nine destitute children, John Davis was dragged to death by a runaway team on his farm near Galena Stone County.
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Farmer
Major
John Davis
Galena
Stone County
Missouri Dry Bill Aims for Statewide Prohibition Except St Louis
State Senator Charles F. Carter from Clark county says he has received several requests to introduce a bill to enact statutory prohibition for Missouri with the city of St Louis exempted. He indicates he may take action on the measure.
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Missouri
Charles F. Carter
Clark County
St. Louis
Missouri Kansas Texas Railway Case Yields 15000 Verdict
Mrs Mamie A Autenrieth received a $15000 damage award in Pettis County circuit court under the Federal Liability Act after the death of her husband. The Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway Company was the defendant in the suit.
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Mamie A. Autenrieth
Pettis County
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company
Prizes At Missouri State Corn Show Col umbia
Thirty thousand dollars in cash and premiums will be awarded at the Missouri State Corn Show in Columbia from January 1 to 5. The event is conducted in connection with the Farmers' Institute and the College of Agriculture.
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Columbia
Farmers’ Institute
College of Agriculture
Woman Drowns Self in Springfield Home
Miss Cora Sease, 34, scion of a wealthy Springfield family, drowned herself in a bath tub at her home during temporary derangement, authorities reported recently.
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Cora Sease
Springfield
Scotland's Big Ship Canal The Glasgow plan to link Forth and Clyde
The London Chronicle notes a revived enthusiasm for a mid Scotland ship canal from Glasgow linking the Forth and Clyde. It recalls Defoe’s 18th century vision and a Glasgow fund boost, and cites time savings to Hull Dundee London Hamburg along with geological hints of past seas.
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Glasgow
Channel Tunnel
London Chronicle
Forth
Clyde
Defoe
Glasgow Corporation
Kelvin Valley
North Sea
Atlantic
Pentland Firth
Hull
Dundee
London
Hamburg
Liverpool
Scotland
Parliament Prison In Clock Tower Houses Its MPs
A London Tit-Bits note reveals Parliament has a clock tower jail for MPs with four bedrooms and two sitting rooms. Meals come from the Commons kitchen and the inmate pays the bill. Historically Bradlaugh and other outsiders faced clock tower confinement.
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Houses of Parliament
London
Tit-Bits
St. Stephen’s Prison
House of Commons
Bradlaugh
Clock Tower
The Psychology of It and a Hunter Horse Quip
A humorous exchange notes preference for a sensitive horse over others for hunting. It argues a sensitive horse would be quicker to take offense, illustrating a playful take on temperament and reaction.
Gen. W. A. Hardy Reaches 102 in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City resident Gen W A Hardy has celebrated his 102nd birthday marking a long life in the community. He is known for his military service and years of local involvement.
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W. A. Hardy
Oklahoma City
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