Penney and Dougherty Honor Firemen for Quick Action
J C Penney Company and Dougherty presented checks to the Creston Volunteer Fire Department for 250 and 100 dollars respectively after a Monday evening blaze damaged the West Montgomery Street building. Firefighters faced near loss while saving the Eagle block, and the donors praised the department’s brave, efficient work.
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Creston Volunteer Fire Department
J. C. Penney Company
West Montgomery Street
E. N. Dougherty
J C. Penney Company
Dougherty
Spain Captures French Boats Carrying Arms
Madrid reports the gunboat Bonifazo captured two French shipping vessels carrying consignments of arms and munitions to Moroccan insurgents and sank another vessel similarly laden. The action was confirmed by reports received today.
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Madrid
Associated Press
Bonifazo
Woman Mayor Will Advocate Good Roads
Salt Lake City reports Miss Steen Seroup a Salina Utah high school English teacher who defeated her brother P J Seroup by fourteen votes to become mayor She pledges to push better roads and water system improvements She said she did not seek the office but accepted to fulfill duty and add variety to town life She was born in Salina and taught there fifteen years
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Steen Secroup
P. JO. Seroup
Salina
Seroup
Miss Scroup
Scroup
Salian
He Will Be Buried on Rim of the Canyon
Charles Brandt longtime Grand Canyon hotel manager died yesterday aged 75 in Arizona. He was regarded as an authority on the Grand Canyon by travelers. Burial will be on the canyon rim beside his wife whose body will be moved from a Los Angeles cemetery to rest beside him.
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Los Angeles
Charles Brandt
Grand Canyon
Ariz
Grand Canyon of the
Colorado
Mystery links jail escape to unidentified body in Wisconsin creek
Milwaukee dispatch reports a Palmyear Wisconsin discovery of an unidentified body in a creek that may be connected to the alleged escape of "Lucky" Tommy O Connor from a Chicago jail last Saturday.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Associated Press
Palmyear
Wisconsin
Tommy O'Connor
Chicago
Weather Outlook for Chicago Rain to Snow and Cold Front
Chicago weather indicates rain turning to snow this afternoon or tonight. Much colder Saturday with fair skies and colder conditions in the east and central portions. Strong northwest winds tonight and decreasing Saturday.
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Chicago
Fair
Weather Observations And Temperatures Reported
Local observations taken by Dr. H. M. Stanley over the past 24 hours show temperatures ranging from a high of 70 to a low of 21 with no rainfall. Daily readings include December dates with highs near 70 and lows in the 20s, a 1 pm temperature around 52, and notable rainfall none.
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H. M. Stanley
Thura
Britain to seek total abolition of submarines
Arthur J. Balfour, British delegate to the Washington conference, announced that Great Britain would submit a proposal for the total abolition of submarines. He also said he would raise the submarine question at an open conference session to present Britain’s case to the world.
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London
Associated Press
Arthur J. Balfour
Washington
Great Britain
Balfour
Britain
Secretary Mellon Promotes Thrift Bonds for Christmas
Secretary Mellon urged using the treasury's new thrift bonds for Christmas gifts. The treasury saving certificates go on sale today and can yield a $25 present for $20, priced below redemption value at the end of five years.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
Mellon
Justice of the Peace Ties Port Huron Woman to Bridgeman Man
This afternoon at 2 o'clock at the sheriff's office in the courthouse Justice of the Peace Adam Pickett performed the marriage ceremony uniting Miss Fannie Bauer of Port Huron Michigan and Mr. George Feazell of Bridgeman Iowa. Only the necessary witnesses attended.
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Court House
Legion Urges Five Year Immigration Suspension
Washington December 16. J T Taylor vice chairman of the American Legion legislative committee urged a five year suspension of immigration before the house immigration committee. He said the Legion has gone on record opposing admission of any aliens except husbands wives and minor children of naturalized citizens.
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Washington
House Immigration Committee
J. T. Taylor
American Legion Legislative Committee
Legion
United States
Lorenz Holding Public Clinic in Chicago
Dr. Alfonso Lorenz, a noted Austrian physician, is opening a public clinic under the city public health department. Officials plan to examine about sixty cases daily.
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Chicago
Alfonso Lorenz
Public Health Department
Allied reply to German note dispatched from Paris
Paris reports the Allied Reparations Committee will forward its reply to Berlin tonight by special courier. No detail was released on whether the reply accepts or rejects Germanys proposal regarding the next two reparations installments.
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Paris
Associated Press
Berlin
Counier
Cerman
Man Held in Connection With Death of Fight
Everett Keller, a Standard Oil employee, is held after a grand jury probes an explosion and fire that killed Victor Weykin and seven children in Pontiac Michigan. Prosecutor Blaklevice says a warrant for involuntary manslaughter will be issued. Keller admits pouring gasoline into kerosene tanks to balance measurements.
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Pontiac, Mich
Everett Keller
Standard Oil Company
Blaklevice
Victor Weykin
Keller
Weykin
Kelfer
Hobo Camp Raided Near Stockyards by City Police
Special Agent A. Bourk of the Burlington Railroad and two road agents with Chief of Police A. C. Loudon raided a hobo camp near the stockyards this forenoon. About twenty to twenty five hoboes were found in railroad bank cars. three men were arrested for investigation and later released while the rest were ordered to leave the city.
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Bourk
Burlington Railroad
Council Bluffs
A. C Loudon
American Bark Wrecked Crew Rescued After Stranding
The 15 crew members of the American bark Harvard were rescued by the British steamship Baron Inchcape after drifting forty eight hours in life-boats. They were taken to Bilbao and are now traveling to San Francisco aboard the Hawkeye State.
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Panama
Harvard
Honolulu
Tahiti
Baron Inchcape
Bilboa
Inchcape
San Francisco
Sub committee on naval limits adjourns after brief session
Washington Dec 16 The sub committee on naval limitations adjourned today after three hours of deliberation without issuing any announcement.
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Washington, D. C
Associated Press
Sub-Committee On Naval Limitations
Farm Credit Advances Total Nearly Seven Million Dollars
The War Finance Corporation announced 182 advances for agricultural and livestock purposes amounting to nearly 7 million dollars. State allocations included Iowa 1,567,000 Nebraska 308,000 Idaho 75,000 California 139,000 Colorado 19,000 Montana 416,000 New Mexico 307,000 Oregon 360,000 South Dakota 412,000 Texas 611,000 Utah 229,000.
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Washington, D. C
War Finance Corporation
California
Colorado
Idaho
Towa
Montana
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oregon
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Bandits Express Regret in Letter to Wounded Banker
John Williams, wounded by bandits who robbed the State Bank of Panama on December 12 and took $31,000, received a postmarked letter from the attackers in St Louis. The note said they were sorry for shooting him and wished a quick recovery.
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Panama
John Williams
State Bank of
St. Louis
Jack
Greenwich Village artist debuts batik portraits in New York
Ethel Wallace, a Greenwich Village artist, promotes batik portraits as the future art form. She argues batik uses silk and dye instead of oils and canvas, offering lighter, movable works suited to modern apartments and avoiding heavy, oppressive oil paintings.
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New York
Ethel Wallace
Greenwich Vilage
Spe
Mise Wallace
Opin
Four Power Pacific Treaty Criticized By Senator Reed
Senator Reed of Missouri charged that the four power Pacific treaty was pushed by England and effectively agreed in advance to nullify China’s war warrant. He spoke in Washington on December 16, asserting the agreement would seal it.
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Washington, D. C
China
Reed
Missouri
England
Chile denies clash with Peru troops reports denied
Santiago Chile December 16 officials denied a Bolivian report that Chilean and Peruvian troops clashed on the frontier. The denial also covered claims Chile refused to arbitrate the Mauri river controversy with Bolivia.
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Chile
Peru
Santiago
Hill
la Paza
Bolivia
Mauri
Italy to Decorate Medal of Honor Men
American soldiers who earned the congressional Medal of Honor will receive the Italian war cross. General Vaccari, chief of staff of the Italian army, will present the award on December 20 at the Italian embassy in Washington D C.
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Washington, D. C
Vaccari
Train accident claims two in Grand Island
Grand Island Nebraska December 16 Robinson Ayer en route to Scottsbluff Nebraska was killed and Andrew Sheihowis of Ottosen Iowa was perhaps fatally injured when struck by a train here today.
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Grand Island
Nebr
L Robinson Ayer
Scottsbluff
Nebraska
Andrew Sheihowis
Ottosen
Iowa
Anglo Irish treaty ratified by British Houses in decisive votes
Dublin dispatch reports that both British Parliament houses approved the Anglo Irish treaty by large majorities. The Dublin parliament was in private session with no public meeting date announced as of press time.
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London
Associated Press
Trish Free State
Dublin
Errin
Daugherty weighs Christmas clemency for war offenders
Attorney General Daugherty began reviewing recommendations for clemency to 197 war law offenders so as many as possible can be freed for the Christmas holidays. He did not commit to Debs’s case but indicated a possibility of inclusion.
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Washington
Daugherty
Harding
Eugene V Debs
Davenport Bank Bandit Wounded. Partner Killed
Harry Frampton, alias Hamilton, once a Davenport policeman and Rock Island News editor, was lingering between life and death in Davenport after the Stockmen's Savings Bank robbery at Long Grove. His companion Roy Purple was killed in the hold up.
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Davenport
Harry Fram‘iton
Roy Purple
Long Grove
Hamilton
Rock Island News
Old Time Creston Resident J B Fitzsimmons Dies in California
Obituary note from Creston reports the death of J B Fitzsimmons known as Barney in San Diego California. He moved to California for health reasons after a long life in Creston as a public spirited citizen. He leaves a wife, sons, and a half brother John A Golden of Creston. Burial expected in San Diego.
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J. B. Fitzsimmons
Barney” Fitzsimmons
San Diego
California
Mr. Fitzsimmons
Creston
John A. Golden
Berea College Seeks One Million Dollar Fund Drive
Berea Kentucky aims to raise 1,000,000 through the Berea College Necessity Fund to meet immediate needs and raise faculty pay. The effort, endorsed by President Harding, lists notable advisers including Henry J. Allen James Beck Albert Beveridge Bryan Davis Eliot Manning Taft and others to support mountain education and tuition relief for students across several southern states.
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Berea
Berea College
United States
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Georgia
Alabama
North
South Carolina
Studnts
College
Marshall E. Vaughn
William Noodell Frost
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
James M. Beck
New York
Albert J Beveridge
Indiana
Belle H Bennett
Richmond
Nehemiah Boynton
Brooklyn
William Jennings Bryan
Lincoln
Nebr
John W Davis
Clerksbur
W. Va
Charles W. Eliot
Cambridge
Miss
George A. Gordon
Boston
Mass
Caroline Hazard
Peacedale
R I
Lake Lea
Nashville
Interstate Commerce Commission approves grain rate cuts
Washington D C December 16 The Interstate Commerce Commission sustained rate reductions on grains in the Mississippi district and ordered further action. An additional ten percent cut on corn and other coarse grains was set to take effect in December, pending the commission's further decision on breadstuff grains.
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Washington, D.C
Trang
Mississippi
Kendall Denounces Rail Commission at Iowa Convention
Governor N B Kendall urged lower railroad rates or a new interstate commerce commission in Des Moines at the agricultural convention. He attacked the railroad rate board for denying a hearing on freight cost reductions and told delegates not to doubt that the railroads could be compelled to respond.
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Des Moines
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
N. RB. Kendall
State House
Iowa
Peeper Caught at University Coed Dormitory
A report from Chicago says a man was seen peeping into Kenwood Hall at the University of Chicago coed dormitory. Police allegedly caught the intruder, who was released after it emerged he was a university professor. a student supposedly identified him as a faculty member.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Paung Guilty on Six Counts in Obscene Letters Case
In Des Moines Iowa on December 16 Fred W Stover of Newton Iowa was convicted on five of six counts of sending obscene and threatening letters through the mail by a federal jury.
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Des Moines
Fred W. Stover
Newton
Iowa
Advocate of Birth Control Plans to Lecture in Japan
Boston reports that Margaret Sanger, organizer of the American Birth Control League, announced plans to spend next March in Japan after an invitation from a Japanese publication to lecture.
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Japan
Boston
Margaret Sanger
American Birth Control League
Bill Would Reclassify Many Federal Workers
Washington D C Dec 16 A house passed bill would reclassify the federal government's civilian employees to standardize salaries excluding postal workers and send the measure to the senate.
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Washington, D. C
Postal Service
House
Senate
Hearings Planned in St Paul on Short Rural Credit
Washington D C December 16 Hearings will be held in St Paul Minnesota on December 28 and 29 by the joint congressional committee investigating short time rural credits.
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St. Paul
Washington, D. C
St. Paul, Minn
Joint Congressional Committee
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