Auto and Freight Car Burn In Sudden Depot Fire
A gasoline laden National six owned by Hugh and Clayton Boggs was destroyed when a negro employee at the Southern freight depot ignited a lantern inside a car during draining of gasoline for shipment to San Angelo Texas. The blaze spread rapidly engulfing the auto and car interior, with switch engine and Decatur fire department battling the flames. The Boggs brothers planned a trip to Denver and Texas, but the fire delays their schedule.
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Clayton Boges
Southern Freight Depot
San Angelo
Texas
Decatur
Fox
Denver
Col
Boggs Brothers
No New Light On Persia Case As Vienna Report Delayed
Washington reports no progress in the Persia sinking inquiry as Ambassador Penfield’s Vienna dispatch has not arrived. State department officials say Austria may need several days to determine if one of its submarines attacked the liner.
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International News Service
Washington
Persia
Bandits Escape After Blountsville Store Robbery
Blount Springs magistrate Green Fowlkes, famed for his eagle eye, allowed his attention to wander enabling two suspects linked to the Bain Bros store heist at Blountsville to flee. They boarded the Decatur Birmingham train at Van Hoose and retreated toward woods near Blount Springs after shots were fired. The burglars reportedly took several hundred dollars in cash, with experts behind the robbery.
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Blount Springs
Bain Bros
Blountsville
Birmingham
Bain
Blountville
Italians Repel Austrians in Carnia Front Duel
Rome reports violent fighting between Italians and Austrians in the Carnia Alps with Italian artillery driving Austrians back along the line. The Italian war office says Austrians were forced to retreat from Monte Groce toward Moos and defensive works were destroyed at other front points.
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International
Rome
Cannick Alps
Italian War Office
Carnia
Monte Groce
Moos
Rivera river boat Kanawha sinks near Harpers Ferry
Gallipolis Ohio Jan 6 eight lives lost when the river packet Kanawha sank below Harpersburg Weet Va The drowned include Stewart Lloyd Gee and Purser Burke Wolfe of Gallipolis a watchman and five passengers including four women and a child Investigators from government inspectors plan to probe the incident.
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International News Service
Gallipolis
Ohio
Kanawha
Harpersburg
Weet Va
Stewart Lloyd Gee
Burke Wolfe
Four Teens Missing After Pittsburgh-Charleston Packet Sinking
Parkersburg West Virginia residents woke to news that four teen passengers and crew members were missing at daybreak after the Pittsburg Charleston packet hit dam No 19. Harold Wright the dam watchman is credited with saving many lives by repeatedly reaching the sinking vessel.
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Pittsburg
Two British Ships Sunk by U Boat in Mediterranean
Marseilles reports the British steamers Middleton and Helia torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean with some fire on the Helia. Seventeen passengers and 13 crew were rescued, while all Middleton crew members were saved. Middleton, 2506 tons, built in 1895, Hull.
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International News Service
Marseilles
Middleton
Helia
Mediterranean
Hull
Labor Delegates Oppose Conscription Amendment
National Labor Congress delegates vote about four to one against a proposal to compel single men of military age to attest willingness to enlist. Across the United Kingdom 2,121,000 union workers rejected the amendment while two delegates representing 541,000 supported it.
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Labor
International News Service
London
National Labor Congress
United Kingdom
War secretary urges state funded national guard for readiness
Washington January 6 Secretary of War Garrison opens a push for American preparedness arguing the state should pay the National Guard for any service rendered. He testifies before the House Military Affairs Committee outlining a policy shift aimed at strengthening defense.
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Garrison
House T Military Affairs Committee
Ford peace pilgrims split as cabled rift shocks group
Rex Holmes chief of the stenographic force cables from Copenhagen that he has severed connection with the expedition. He says he will sue unless an abject apology is made for alleged slanderous remarks by Louis Lochner Mme Rosika Schwimmer and Gaston Plaintiff the party financial manager since Ford departed.
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International News Service
Washington
Rex Holmes
Ford Peace Pilgrims
Cop‘hagen
Louis Lochner
Mme. Rosika- Schwimmer
Gaston Plaintiff
Ford
Carolinians Boom Allen for U.S. Bench
Senators Simmons and Overman of North Carolina urged President Wilson to appoint William B. Allen to the U S Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Lamar's death. The president promised to consider the request.
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International News Service
Washington
Simmons and Overman
North Carolina Today
Wilson
William B. Allen
North Carolina Supreme Court
U. S. Supreme Bench
Lamar
Federal Reserve Board Reports Nation Wide Prosperity Move
The Federal Reserve Board announces in its monthly bulletin that prosperity sweeps the nation. Conditions are particularly good in the central west with reserve banks in that region noted as especially prosperous.
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Federal Reserve Board
Central West
The
Bulletin
Threats Made To Blow Up Boston Customs House
A letter threatening to blow up the Boston customs house was received today by two newspapers. The missive used the same handwriting as seen during the statehouse bomb scare and carried the same nitlala signature. Police notified Superintendent Browley and Collector Billings, a large guard detail was posted around the building, and a search for the writer began.
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International News Service
Boston
Jan
Customs House
Browley
Port Billings
Death of Mrs J G Hildreth former Decatur editor’s wife
Mrs J G Hildreth wife of the New Decatur Advertiser editor died at 4 39 am on Jackson street after a long illness She was 71 and survived by her husband and son Harold E Hildreth Funeral Saturday at St Johns church New Decatur Interment City cemetery She authored a clay modeling textbook and was active in social and charitable circles carrying wide influence in North Alabama
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St. John’s Church of
New Decatur
North Carolina Senators Urged Quick, Drastic Action Over Persia Sinking
Washington reports promise of swift U S response after the Persia liner disaster. President promises decisive steps once all facts are known and submarine involvement is confirmed. Ambassador Penfield seeks Austrian clarification while Consul Garrels collects survivor affidavits noting no submarine sighted.
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Washington
Penfield
State Department
Foreign Office
Persia
Distria
Garrels
Alexandria
Huerta Improves After Three Operations
El Paso reports General Victoriano Huerta former provisional president of Mexico shows improvement early today and can sit up briefly following three operations. He underwent three procedures and is described as responding to treatment with better alertness and strength.
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Huerta
el Paso
Victoriano Huerta
Mexico
House Arrives in London on Mission for Wilson
London dated January 6 Privacy envoy E. M. House arrived in London and met with U. S. Ambassador Page for breakfast as part of his confidential mission for President Wilson.
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London
International News Service
E. M. House
Wilson
U. S
Page
Cotton Market Prices Reported by Jones Cotton Co
Corrected by Jones Cotton Co Middling 11 3 8 cents Strict Middling 11 5 8 cents Good Middling 11 7 8 cents. The report lists market quotes and standard grades for middling cotton.
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Jones Cotton Co
Teutons Advance in Greece to Hit Salonika
International dispatch says Gen Machensens orders a move toward Salonika as observers expect a major eastern front clash soon on Greek soil. The anticipated campaign would begin with a Tautonic push on Salonika amid broader eastern theater developments.
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London
Salonika
Amsterdam
Machensens
Negro editor once nominated for president pleads guilty
Danville Illinois January 6 Charles Scott a Negro editor who was nominated for president of the United States at the 1912 convention of the American Protective League in Iowa pleaded guilty in U S district court here to bootlegging and was fined 100 dollars and costs
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Danville
Til
Chas, Scott
American Protective League
Iowa
American Missionary Believed Lost on Persia Sinking
London dispatch confirms an American missionary, Rev. Homer R. Salisbury, aboard the Persia when it sank by a submarine. He was en route from Marseilles to join his wife in India. Salisbury's mother is in Battle Creek Michigan and a brother in Glendale California.
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Persia
International News Service
Washington
London Today
Homer
Marseilles
France
Steamship Company
Salisbury
India
Battle Creek
Mich
W. R. Salisbury
Glendale
Cal
Stabbing near rail yards leaves Montgomery man hospitalized
James Roberts of Montgomery says three hoboes stabbed him three times in the back as he tried to board a northbound freight near the Louisville & Nashville shops. He names the attackers as suspects while three men were arrested in Sheffield but police doubt the links. Roberts, from a prominent Montgomery family, faces further questioning after recovery.
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James Roberts
Montgomery
Decaturs
Lallisville & Nashville
Senevolent Hospital
Roberts
Sheffield
Tom Moore
Henry Jones
Cobb
New Decatur
Davidson
Bell
Montmore
Louisville
Ashville
Oklahoma
Alabama
Montwares
Decatur Egg Center Revived by Schulman Shipments
The Decaturs egg and poultry center revived last night as M Schulman a prominent wholesale produce dealer shipped one car of eggs to New York and eastern markets.
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Decaturs
M. Schulman
New York
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