Wilsons Entertain Berstorff Tonight in Diplomatic Dinner
President and Mrs. Wilson host Count Johann von Berstorff ambassador from Germany and envoys from central powers and neutral nations at the second diplomatic dinner of the war period. Turkish and Austrian representatives fill in for absentees with Bulgarian envoy Panaretoff also attending.
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Washington
Wilson
Ambassador von Kernstorff
White House
President Wilson
Countess von Bernstorff
A. Rustam Bey
Turkey
Abdul Hak Hussein Bey
Husseiney
Baron Erich Zwiedinek
Austria- Hungary
Dumba
Zwiedinek
Stephen Panaretoff
Panaretoff
Rural credits talk at open meeting in Albany
Congressmen and church leaders headline a day of events across states. Indiana Representative Ralph B. Moss speaks at an agriculture board open meeting in Albany as the Prominent Synod of the Episcopal church convenes with clergy from New York New Jersey and Puerto Rico. An Ohio Editorial Association annual meeting also takes place in Columbus.
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Harrisburg
Ralph B. Moss
Indiana
State Board of Agriculture
Albany
Promineal Synod of the Episcopal Church
New York
New Jersey
Port Rico
David H. Greer
Chauncey P. Brewster
Connecticut
Edwin 8. Lyons
Frederick Burgess
Long Island
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Editorial Association
No Excuse for Lack of It Read to Improve the Mind
A winter urge to read funded by libraries and evening schools urges women to study. Emphasizes Emerson and Dickens as models while urging daily fifteen minute reading, dictionary use, and improving English for career advancement.
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Times
A Day in Bed Warns Against Overlooking Illness
A health bulletin urges rest when warning signs appear for cold grippe or exhaustion. A day in bed in a well ventilated room with a light diet can prevent severe illness, with rest and a 24 hour fast giving digestive organs a needed rest.
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Theennesylvania Commissioner of Health
War increases city expenses in Clarksburg
An official said the European war boosts Clarksburg West Virginia water works costs by about 15000 dollars annually. Filtering and purification rise seven thousand dollars this year due to higher calcium hypochloride and alum sulfate prices. Pipe and pumping supplies add eight thousand dollars extra despite lower quantities.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Water Works
Ready-to-Wear Garments Offered at Low Prices
An advertisement promotes women's ready-to-wear items offered at minimal prices before new inventory arrives, inviting shoppers to act quickly for bargains.
Victoria Crosses Among Awards Listing
London January 26 Official Gazette lists four Victoria Crosses seven Distinguished Service Orders 34 Military Crosses and 180 Distinguished Conduct Medals. Canadian honorees include Capt Ernest Jackson Fifth Infantry DSO Lieut Kenneth Taylor Campbell Fifth Infantry LCpl Babcock and Sgt Ashby Seventh Infantry MCs DSOs and DCMs awarded to multiple ranks including Sergt Maj Benton Matheson and Donaghue Fourth Infantry and Privates Eastman and Odlum among Seventh and Fifth Infantry units.
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Ernest Jackson
Fifth Infantry
Kenneth Taylor Campbell
Babcock
Ashby
Benton and
Matheson
Donaghue
Fourth Infantry
McGlashan
Lindsay
Cole
Meyerstein and Robertson
Lance
Weir
Curry
Odlum
Barry
Eastman
New Navy Bureau Chief Harris Succeeds Stanford
Rear Admiral Frederick Robert Harris is named chief of the bureau of yards and docks in the navy department, taking over from Rear Admiral Homer R. Stanford whose four year term ends. Stanford becomes commander of League Island navy yard in Philadelphia where Harris previously served as civil engineer. Harris is a New York native appointed to the navy January 3.
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Frederick Robert Harris
Bureau of
Navy
Deartment
Homer R. Stanford
Bureau
Stanford
League Island Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Harris
New York
King Ross of the Cocos Islands Dies in South Seas
London reports the death of King Ross, ruler and founder of the Cocos Islands realm. The small South Seas kingdom, founded by Scottish adventurer Andy Hoss and later ruled by Ross since 1827, is famed for its romantic, comic opera-like history and shipwreck stories.
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United Press
London
Ross
Cocos Islands
Land of Cocos
South Seas
Andy Hoss
Little Story Book Kingdom
Sinbad the Sailor
Alice In Wonderland
Gulliver
O. Henry Land
Gilbert & Sullivan
Robert Louis Stevenson
Indian Ocean Isles
Emden
Sydney
Cocos
King Ross
Alexander Hare
Hare
Commission On
Lagoons Used for Sudden Maneuver in Calm After Rush
Observers note a group rushing into lagoons and standing in water up to their necks until the blast subsides, a maneuver described as a stabilizing measure amid unsettled conditions.
Grave Diggers Strike at Calvary Cemetery in Queens
Three hundred grave diggers at Calvary Cemetery in Queens borough walked off the job for six hours demanding higher pay. Fifty bodies arrive daily, and the strike eased when wages were raised from 1.90 to 2.25 dollars per day.
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New York
Calvary Cemetery
Queensborough
Young Morgan Lawson Returns to Jail on Milk Theft Charge
Huntington West Virginia January 26 Morgan Lawson a 16 year old previously jailed and released through Billy Sunday campaign is again in jail this time on a milk theft charge. He says he had stayed straight after Sunday sermons but could not resist stealing.
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Huntington
W. Va
Morgan Lawson
Billy” Sunday
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