Song at a Dinner Angers Wilson Court Martial Likely
President Wilson withdrew honorary Carabao membership after a Washington banquet satirizing U S policy toward the Philippines sparked calls for investigation and possible court martial. Secretaries Daniels and Garrison asked top Carabao officers for explanations as officers sang profane lines about insurrection and colonized peoples.
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Washington
Wilson
McKenna and
Vandeventer
United States Supreme Court
Congress
Army
Navy
White House
United States
Bryan
Philippine
Daniels
Garrison
Thomas T. Howard
James Aleshire
Train Crushed by Quake In German Tunnel
Four killed and thirty four injured when a passenger train bound Rosswein to Chemnitz was buried beneath rocks after a tunnel collapse caused by an earthquake near Herras cliffs. Rescue teams from Chemnitz arrived swiftly, but snow and a hurricane hampered efforts. The quake was felt in Chemnitz.
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Chemnitz
Germany
Rosswein
Herras Cliffs
Man saves baby from Kansas City apartment fire
G N Rice, a restaurant owner, crawled through smoke to rescue 6 month old Delbert Hartwig from a bedroom fire at 902 East Nineteenth street. The infant and a sibling had been playing with matches when flames erupted. the child suffered slight burns to the face and hands while Rice escaped unharmed. Houston Gives Diplomas. Secretary of Agriculture Houston awarded merit diplomas to eighty two prize winning youths from across the United States.
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Kansas City
G. N. Rice
Delbert Hartwig
East Nineteenth Street
Otto Hartwig
Rice
Hartwig Apartments
Hire
Houston
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Mona Lisa Recovered from Italian Holder in Florence
Florence Italy Dec 13 Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa the famed painting stolen from the Louvre in Paris over two years ago has surfaced in Italy. An Italian dealer and an unnamed courier known as Leonard triggered the recovery with a Florence inquiry leading to Milan hotel contact. Authorities say Vincenzo Perugia a decorator and former Louvre worker confessed to the theft and is in custody awaiting transfer to France.
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Florence
Italy
Leonardo da Vinci
Louvre
Paris
France
Lisa del Giocondo
Signor Geri
Leonard
Poggi
Florentine Museum
Geri
Milan
Gert
Tripoli
Washington welcomes champion boy and girl farmers
About eighty state champions, thirty states, arrived in Washington to spend a week as guests of the Department of Agriculture. The group, selected for achievement in corn or potato growing and profitable gardens, marks the first inclusion of girls in the Washington visit program alongside the boys.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Cohoes Fire Destroys Mill District In One Day
A large blaze in Cohoes New York today swept through a bustling mill district causing about half a million dollars in damage. The fire disrupted power and light, leaving roughly a thousand mill workers idled as officials fought to bring the flames under control.
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Cohoes
N. Y
Saaeree
Managing Cows Boosts Milk Yield Says Missouri Report
The Missouri Agricultural College outlines that well-managed herds produce two to three times more milk yearly, with winter production matching summer when properly fed. It contrasts poor feeding of timothy hay and corn fodder against improved rations using corn silage, clover, alfalfa, or cowpea hay plus cottonseed meal, and provides recommended daily rations to reach 20 to 25 pounds of milk. Alfalfa is highlighted as a key, adaptable forage crop for Missouri farmers.
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Battle
College
Agriculture of
University of Missouri
Missouri
Why Wood Decays Destruction by internal plant life explained
The text explains that wood decays not from the same process as iron rusts or rock weathering, but from destruction of wood tissues by low forms of plant life that live inside the wood. These organisms break down the wood and produce decay.
Four Men Arrested After Threatened Bank Robbery Call
A mysterious phone warning led St Paul police to Kirst National Bank where four men with prior records were arrested. Roy Noble, Robert Duffy, David Blum, and George Woods were taken into custody after two lounged in the lobby and a fourth fled the doorway during a chase. Noble and Duffy already served time at Stillwater and San Quentin and are sought in Little Rock and other cities on robbery charges. A fifth man may have phoned police after a quarrel.
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St. Paul, Minn
Kirst National Bank
Roy Noble
Robert Duffy
David Blum
George Woods
Noble
Duffy
Stillwater
San Quentin
Little Rock
Ark
Emergency Ration Changes and Peoria Fire
Washington reports chocolate rations long used as emergency diet are forbidden for troops after Dr. Longworthy of the Agricultural Department declares them deficient in digestibility and harmful. Secretary Garrison orders no more chocolate ration issuance while research proceeds. In Peoria a warehouse of the Illinois Warehouse Company burned, causing about 300000 dollars in losses.
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Washington
Garrison
F. Longworthy
Agricultural Department
Longworthy
Peoria
Iti
Illinois Warehouse Company
Roosevelt Ready for Hunt After Arrival in Brazil
Rito Janeiro Dec 16 Col Theodore Roosevelt arrives at Porto Martinho near the Paraguayan boundary aboard a gunboat. He is met by a Brazilian official and a welcoming party, then proceeds to Corumba where the Roosevelt party plans an early hunting expedition.
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Rito Janeiro
Theodore Roosevelt
Porto Martinho
Corumba
Roosevelt
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Jim Larkin
Dublin
The
Vincenzo Perugia
Uncle Sam
N.Y
C. H. Eckles
College of Agricultu University of Missouri
G. A. Harley
Arnold Love
Garnet T. A. Finch
Mark Swingley
Entertainments Management
Butler Commercial Club
Police of
St. Paul
Secretary of War
Grazi
SPU
Society For the ‘“‘Prevention
S. W
Sherwin- Williams
Sherwin-Williams
Sherwin-Williams Paint Store
H. C. Wyatt & Son
Wall Ross
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