Peace Negotiations Approaching Warns Wilson on Strikes
Washington dispatches describe President Wilson urging Congress to pass remaining anti strike measures and to fund vocational training as Germany eyes peace talks. Reports out of Berlin note signs of imminent negotiations while U S steamship John Lambert is sunk off Isle of Wight.
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Germany
Vossische Zienutungs
Gerard
America
New York
John Lambert
Isle of Wight
Havre
Lambert
Board of Equalization Hears Tax Adjustments at City Hall
The Board of Equalization met at City Hall to adjust the assessor's roll. J Adams of Northern Drug Co urged a $1,000 assessment increase. P Michelson sought correction for a levy on unowned personal holdings. Link Waln challenged a $19,000 Windsor hotel valuation. Clerks were ordered to summon Northwestern Hardware, Finkelstein and Sapiro, and Stanton and Johnson to justify their assessments. Anchorage seeks new division from eastern out to the Aleutians. A Bon Ton dance is slated for Wednesday night.
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Northern Drug Company
P. Michelson
Link Waln
Windsor Hotel
Northwestern Hardware Company
Finkelstein & Sapiro
Stanton & Johnson
Cordova Daily Notes Busy Local Travel and Commerce
The Cordova column lists residents and visitors: Dr C L Hale expands his dental offices with A J Dimond of Valdez. many Cordovans and outsiders travel to Sitka hot springs, Texas, Boston, Seattle, and Latouche. The Northwestern steamer delivers travelers and mules for Kennecott and Fairbanks freight. Local firms advertise holiday gifts and hardware while townsfolk plan winter stays.
European heavyweight title clash near in New York
George Carpenter the European heavyweight champion and Jess Willard world champion are virtually matched for a ten round no decision bout in New York within the next two months.
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Carpenter
Pugilist
Europe
Jess Willard
Villa Murders Citizens and Chinese in Holguines
Dec. 6 report from Chihua city says Villa and his bandits killed eight prominent citizens and forty Chinese in Holguines yesterday. No other foreigners were harmed.
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Villa
Page
Holguines
Cordova to House Alaska Central Radio Plant
Cordova will host the central radio station with Mile 14 on the Copper River line linking to Mile 7. Chief Electrician J. Gillis will run the remote controlled system as a new $140000 plant rises at Mile 7 with relays from Mile 14. The Whit shed station will be abandoned after three shipyard trips bring machinery.
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Alaska
Plains of the Navy Department
Mile 14
Copper River & Northwestern
Mile 7
J. Gillis
Whitshed
Bik
Saturn
Gillis
Webb Couple Celebrates 20th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs William H Webb celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary with a home party and elaborate supper. Guests offered well wishes and gifts as they enjoyed cards and games. Wrangell natives formed the Sisters and Brothers Society to aid the sick and bury the dead.
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Mrs. Webb
Wrangell
Sisters and Brothers’ Society
Finances of Country Good says Secretary Treasury
Secretary McAdoo’s annual report to Congress projects a general fund balance of 115,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1917, but a deficit of 385,000,000 for 1918. It estimates 1918 expenditures at 1,278,021,000 with ordinary receipts of 995,550,000, notes the impact of defense costs, and lauds the Federal Reserve System’s role in financing trade.
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Federal Reserve System
Bureau
Supreme Court
Bond of Matrimony Entered at Chitina
Friends announce the wedding of Mr Prank Shipp and Mrs Sarah B E Dixon in Chitina on Saturday evening December 2. Rev E P Ziegler officiated with Salyer Reed and Brysons as guests. The groom works as a foreman for the Alaska road commission at Chitina and the couple now reside in a new Chitina home.
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Sarah BE. Dixon
Chitina
E. P. Ziegler
Salyer Reed
Bryson
Shipp
Alaska Road Commission
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