Germany seeks status quo peace with Poland and Lithunia
Berlin signals peace terms restoring prewar status except for an independent Poland and Lithuania. London, Paris, and Petrograd report cautious or skeptical official reactions as Allied leaders await details. Meanwhile French troops seize Bulgarian posts and Berlin reports Turkish rail segments captured. Relief aid totals show vast shipments to Belgium and northern France. Athens imposes deposits for Greek minors emigrating to the United States to enforce military service rules.
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Berlin
Germany
Poland
Lithunia
Secretary Lane reports surge in homestead land claims
Washington dispatch notes 20 million acres claimed by private owners in the year ending June 30, up from 17 million in each of the prior two years. The interior report highlights arid public lands, irrigation projects adding 5,000 farms, and water reaching nearly 20,000 farms. It commends Indian health campaigns reducing deaths to seven per thousand and notes mining advances. Alaska agricultural prospects and Seward to Fairbanks railroad progress are also discussed.
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Washington
United States
Reclamation Service
Indian Bureau
Bureau
Bureau of Mines
Alaska
Seward
Fairbanks
Sulzer Gains Narrow Plurality In Fourth Division
A late wire from the Fairbanks Citizen confirms Sulzer 1688 and Wickersham 167 in the Fourth division for delegate to Congress, with Russian Mission unreported at three votes. The corrected totals show Sulzer leading by one vote territory wide, with more precincts still pending.
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Fairbanks
Congress
Valdez
Sulzer
Daily Times
Wickersham
Airbanks Case Reversed By HGH Court
Fairbanks December report that the circuit court of appeals reversed the local court ruling in the case of W. H. Woolridge who had been sentenced to seven years at McNeil's Island for attempted rape. Woolridge was exonerated as the case was not remanded for a new trial. He had been among those accused by federal officials amid Town dispute.
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Fairbanks
Circuit Court of Appeals
W. H. Woolridge
McNeil's Island
Woolridge
Why Will Not Congress Heed
In the governor of Alaska’s annual report received today, the territory’s neglect by Congress is urged. Alaska's vast resources include minerals, fisheries, timber, water power, and agricultural potential, yet development is hampered by reservations and limited emphasis from the interior department. The report argues Alaska needs proactive settlement, investment, and capable workers to transform its wealth into a prosperous commonwealth.
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Alaska
Secretary of the Interior
St Luis Wold
Buberi
Divorcement of transport from production urged in Gregory report
Attorney General Gregory calls for wide railroad reforms in his annual report to Congress. He urges amending the commodities clause to bar railroads from transporting manufactured articles produced by controlled companies and seeks authority to sue corporations transacting business, plus neutrality and search-warrant extensions. He also targets false labeling of arms shipments to curb arms embargo evasions.
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Gregory
Congress
Supreme Court
Lackawanna Coal Company
Congree
Chloroform Route Taken By Woman
Fairbanks dispatch reports a woman chose chloroform to save her child after a cabin fire left two children dead. J P Sherman plans to graft skin on the survivor’s neck and arms. Al Lund receives word his brother in law died in battle and another sister is seriously ill in San Francisco. he plans to travel soon.
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Fairbanks
J. P. Sherman
al Lund
Australia
San Francisco
Brazil Advised to Remain Neutral in World War I
Brazil's foreign minister Dr Lauro Muller arrived back in Rio de Janeiro urging strict neutrality amid European conflict. He argued Brazil's salvation lies in energy and initiative to recover from war damages, noting South America's economic blows and Brazil's loss of key customers and supplies. The report also mentions Hot Springs output near $900,000 and miners planning winter prospecting in Moose Creek and Tolovana districts.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Lauro Muller
Brazil
United States
Ruy Barbosa
Muller
Rio
South America
Japan presses for annexing East Indies in new push
The Hague dispatch reports Yasaburo Takekoshi, a former Japanese minister, urging Japan to seize Java and Sumatra from the Netherlands East Indies to secure raw materials and national safety. He argues a bold move now would prevent loss of influence as world powers redraw colonial holdings. The Dutch press rebuts neutrality questions but warns the campaign merits attention. Also noted are local Juneau measures and Gold Belt Co. shutdowns for winter.
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Japan
Java
Sumatra
Holland
United States
America
Yasaburo Takekoshi
Netherlands East Indies
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Alsace-Lorraine
France
Annam
Tonking
Great Britain
East Indies
Spokane Shippers Seek Freight Rate Reductions
Spokane merchants and robbers’ organizations prepare to argue before Attorney-Examiner Thurtell of the Interstate Commerce Commission against proposed transcontinental freight rate increases set to take effect December 10. The protests and suspensions over the last dozen years center on higher Pacific coast rates and raised charges to intermediate points, ongoing since hearings began in this long-running dispute.
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Spokane
Thurtell
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Pacific Coast
Crop estimates by department refined in U S agric bureau
Washington reports the U S Department of Agriculture has highly systematized farm crop estimation. Nearly two million schedules are processed yearly, with about 160000 interviewers and 105 Washington clerks handling vast reports from domestic and foreign sources. The 191F estimate differed by only three tenths of one percent from customs data. George R E Francis of Juneau, Norway born, died at Morningside Sanitarium. Fairbanks juvenile brass band held a ball to raise funds for instruments.
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Bureau of Crop Estimates
United States Department of Agriculture
Customs Bureau
Bureau of Estimates
Governor Strong
George RE. Francis
Juneau
Sitka
Morningside
Norway
Fairbanks
Stewart plans winter mining on Seward Peninsula
A C Stewart, who struck it big on Boulder Creek, Boulder Creek Seward Peninsula, is arranging extensive mining operations for the winter, according to a Be Daily Times reader.
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A.C. Stewart
Boulder Creek
Seward Peninsula
Daily Times Reader
Norge Courts Busy Unying Couples
NORGE COURTS. BUSY UNTYING COUPLES ST. LOUIS, Dec. 12. The divorce courts, as busy as they are, reveal that a small proportion of marital infelicity in this country, says the Commission on Family Life. The report notes that one marriage in ten is broken by divorce, in some states as high as one in four. It adds that dissolution often follows long marriages, average over six and a half years, with frequent divorces among those married twenty years or more. ALAMEDA HAS FOURTEEN PASSENGERS FOR CORDOVA. The steamer Alameda arrived with fourteen passengers and 40 tons of freight for Cordova. It will sail again at 8 tonight.
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ST. Louis
Commission On Family Life
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Graft Skin on Burned Child to Save Life
Georgia Phillips committed suicide to avoid life in Fairbanks last night after saturating a towel with chloroform and covering her face with a pillow. The Daily Times reports in Associated Press style the apparent tragedy and its surrounding details.
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Fairbanks
Georgia Phillips
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