War Dispatches Describe Battles Across Europe and Caucasus
Dec 30 reports from Vienna Petrograd and Washington chronicle front lines in Galicia Poland and the Caucasus. Allied artillery advances and German setbacks in Galicia are noted with heavy losses and disease. Turkish trenches face Russian bayonet charges as Austrian forces retreat in Galicia and Bosnia.
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London
Galicia
Gires
Flanders
Princess Patricia's Regiment of
First Canadian Volunteers
Bera
Petrograd
Pillea
Oltinsk
Poland
Caucasus
Merdenek
Barykamyah
Khorassan
Dickens as First agitator of W. W. movement, says Dr Burton
Dr Richard Burton of the University of Wisconsin argues that Charles Dickens sparked the present industrial unrest by awakening sympathy for the under dog and leading fellow authors who champion the common people. He notes Dickens wrote Life as he saw it, not as a camera records it, to reveal truth and vitality.
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Denver
Dee
Charles Dickens
Richard Hurton
University of Wiscconsin
Durton
Russia denies peace negotiations with Germany stated
Washington dispatch reports a false claim that Russia sought independent peace talks with Germany without its allies. The Russian ambassador denied the rumor and was instructed to convey to Petrograd the foreign minister’s message denying any such arrangement. The name Sazonoff appears in the denial.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Germany
France
England
Amba
Bakhmelteff
Petrograd
Wffuure
Sazonoff
Disciples of Christ to Hold General Convention in L A
The Disciples of Christ plan their next general convention in Los Angeles the week of July 18 with about 20,000 delegates. For the first time women will take active roles in convention arrangements and delegates will attend the Panama-Pacific Exposition as a group for a rally.
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ST. Louis
Disciples of Christ
Los Angeles
Socialists to Aid Children if Miners Evicted in Ohio
Socialist leaders in Wheeling announce that if eastern Ohio coal miners are evicted from company houses, the party will care for all children under 12. About five thousand children would be housed with families in Wheeling Steubenville and Parkersburg, with further action through the national organization if needed.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio
Soc'alieta
Bovlalat
Steubenville
Parkersburg
National Socialist
Rev. Theodore George Dies at 52 in Philadelphia Hospital
The Rev. Theodore George, former professor of moral theology and church history at the Catholic seminary in Hichester Maryland, died in a Philadelphia hospital. He was 52 years old. The article notes his role as a doctor-consulter in religious matters.
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Philadelphia
Theodore George
Catholic Seminary
Hichester
Diuel Gibbous
Ten Billion Value of American Farm Products in 1914
Washington reports 1914 set records with farm products valued at nearly 10 billion dollars. Secretary Houston announced the combined worth of crops, animal products, and livestock sold reached 8.872 billion, about 88 million above 1913 and more than double 1869.
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Washington
Houston
Department of Agriculture
Hoo
First Woman Sewing On Machine Dies At 86
Elizabeth Kilbourn, 86, longtime pioneer in sewing machine use, died at H. L. Streeter’s home in Winsted Connecticut after a short illness. In the early 1850s she taught at a private New Hartford school when Elias Howe tested his invention and invited her to operate it.
Scientists Pin Best Times For Proposals Say January Fifteenth
Boston educator Frank E Lackey told the National Commercial Teachers Association that people reach peak efficiency on January 15 and June 15 at 10 30 a m or 10 40 p m. He cited 8000 investigated causes and advised proposing at 10 30 a m. If rejected, try again later.
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Chicago
Frank E. Lackey
English High School
Boston
National Commercial Teachers’ Association
Lackey
Angeles to be next provisional president of Mexico
Reports to the state department say General Angeles, a close ally of General Villa and General Zapata, will be the next provisional president. Officials expect recognition of a central government after his inauguration and a nationwide election proclamation soon.
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Abmnwton
General Angeles
Villa
Zapata
Mexico
State Department
Tts
Gutierres
Villa Bus
Mexico City
Department
Ansious
Forecast for Wyoming on Thursday and Friday
Weather note from Washington Bee outlines Wyoming forecast for Thursday and Friday with expected conditions. Includes general temperature hints and potential precipitation notes.
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Wearn
Washington, Bee
Wyoming
Union Pacific Payroll Totals in Cheyenne Reach 1.62 Million annually
Figures from Union Pacific life offices show 1,296 employees in Cheyenne with a monthly payroll of 107,600 dollars and an annual total of 1,620,200 dollars. The company lists division headquarters in Cheyenne and 80 regular plus ten substitute railway mail clerks paid 240,000 dollars yearly.
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Union Pac Life
Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Cfty
Raiway Mall
Union Pacific Railroad
Comany
Honduras Consul Pleads Immunity in San Francisco
Fernando Somaxa Vivas consul general of Honduras in San Francisco appeared in police court to answer an arson charge. His counsel cited treaty immunity and the case was continued for one week.
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San Francisco
Cal
Fernando Somaxa Vivas
Honduras
Vivas
United States
German policy views warn against weakness in war
Washington dispatch reports Rep. Vollmer of Iowa and Rep. Bartholdt urging a joint resolution to bar exports of war supplies to hasten the European war. Vollmer says Germany cannot be beaten and warns of global bankruptcy, while Bartholdt cautions that dollar neutrality risks alienating Germany and Austria and links British-Japanese alliance to Pacific strategy.
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Washington
United
Japan
Pacific
Representative Vollmer
Iowa
House Foreign Committee
Bartholdt
Kino-Chow
Vollmer
Germany
Plood
Voller
Bartholdy
United State
Austria
Hritan
Hritinh
Mrs Victoria Murdock Widow of Wichita Bogie Founder Dies
Mrs Victoria Murdock aged 79, mother of Congressman Victor Murdock, died in Wichita after paralysis. The widow of a local founder, she passed away today, marking the end of a long civic life in the community.
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Wichita
Kay
Victoria Murdock
Congreseump Vintor
Navy aviation funds top naval bill debate amid contention
Washington December 20 The house naval subcommittees meet to finalize the preliminary naval appropriation bill. The measure lists 21 million dollars for aviation and follows navy department estimates including 2.78 million for ship ammunition 1 million for torpedoes and 1.15 million for smoke leaf powder. Leaders push for building two dreadnoughts eight more submarines a battle cruiser and additional submarines mines and mine sweepers.
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Washington
House
Itebi
Naval Building
Prock
Norfolk
Navy Department
Padgett
Stephens
California
Roberts
Massachusetts
First Men Sent Home in Colorado Troop Withdrawals
Troop L of the Twelfth United States Cavalry was ordered to return to Meade Colorado as federal troops begin a staged withdrawal from mining disorder scenes. Withdrawals follow a plan discussed by President Wilson Governor Ammons and Governor-elect Carlton with shifts toward state forces. Units remain at Trinidad Canon City Leavenworth and Louisville with a frontier sector line to be set by Colonel Lockett and Ammons.
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Washington
Twelfth
United States Cavalry
Oak Creek
Routt County
Colorado
Laginas
Meade
Wilson
Garrison
Armmans
Carlwon
Ammons
Trinidad Distrit
Lockett
Whewenth
Fort Oglethorpe
Pitth
Leavenwearth
Kan
Twelfth Cavalry
Canon City
Loulaville
Whate
MISSING LINK AT LAST FOUND EARTH IS OLD
Philadelphia reports that Geo F Backer of the US Geological Survey posits the earth about 140000000 years old. The Geological Society of America heard papers linking human origins to Pithecanthropus eremus in Java. Discussions covered migration of European early humans, species appearances, and algae limestone beds as ecological clues.
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Philadelphia
Geo F. Backer
United States Geological Survey
Geological Society of America
American Association For the Advancement of Selenow
Java
James M. McChesor
Soclogy
Cohimba University
Kenry F. Osborne
Columbia
Europe
Charles D. Walcot
Smithsonian Institute
Washfieton
Take the Paper Urges Librarian Subscriptions
Chicago December 30. Librarians of the nation were urged to write patrons to subscribe for newspapers rather than rely on library copies. In an address by Dr Frank P Own of Brooklyn before the American Library Association convention, which opened here today, thirteen hundred of the elite librarians of the country are attending the meeting.
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Chicago
Frank P.own
Brooklyn
American Library Associaton
Music Teachers National Conference Opens with Talks
In Pittsburg, Pa representatives discuss annual business at the Music Teachers National Association meeting. President Charles H. Farnsworth of New York presided as delegates hear talks on "Muse to the Pack Northwest" by Professor Elias Bhim of Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash.
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Pittsburg
Bee
Wlate Necoclatons
Nathonal Gesecration Today
Charles H. Farneworth
New York
Northwest
Profemor Eilas Bhim
Whitman Collage
Walla Watta
Wash
England divided on protest over maritime right of search
London reports a cabinet split amid protests by the United States over right of search and seizure by warships. Officials say shipments of contraband and conditional goods complicate the issue, with divisions over how far to press claims against neutral cargoes and destinations.
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London
United States
England
Akdrah
Germany
Austria
Crna Io
Italy
Waglend
Washington
United
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