Wilson Lends Today At Brest Amid Wild Cheers
Washington reports testimony before the senate propaganda committees on German plans for war and covert operations. Captain Lester said German agents were dispatched to the United States and other regions in July and August before U.S. entry, with propaganda efforts and involvement of Edward Lyell Fox and Heinrich Pett.
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Fy Petted Press
Washington, D. C
Tee
Mit
United States
South America
Mexico
China
Bertin
Senate
Rathae
Lester
Army Intellience Department
Edward Lyell
Armerican
Germany
America
Sail Foe
Heinrich al Pett
Edward Lyell Fox
Death of Thomas Caplin in Maple Park
Reports confirm no further investigation into the death of Thomas Caplin who was found dead. authorities say he died after a fall while alone in his home. The burial occurred at the local Catholic cemetery following services at St Mary’s church.
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Thomas Caplin
Maple Park
Ti Ts
Conlin
St.ory's Church
Financiers in DeKalb on Short Visit
A trio of Chicago financiers Monsars Lenson and Baker bail holders of the C A ID line were in DeKalb this noon for a brief visit. They were with Harvey Goneul receiver and Elerry Jarber traffic chief and spent an hour surveying DeKalb and voiced pleasure at the road prospects.
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Chicago
Monsars, Lenson and Baker
DeKalb
Harvey Goneul
Elerry Jarber
TieKalb
Prof Nagler to Address Methodists Next Sunday
The pulpit committee of the Methodist church announces Prof Nagler of Garrett Biblical Institute will fill the pulpit next Sunday morning and evening. He is one of the strongest speakers from Garrett and has broad appeal. several parishioners have heard him and will attend again.
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Methodist Church
EL Braddea
Nagler
Garrett Biblical Institute
Garrett Bill Heat Institute
Captain White Visits Dr. John Cook in City
Captain White, an old Normal boy from Rijon ington, Ml, visited his friend Dr. John Williston Cook this afternoon. He recently returned from Chi pare where he worked on a government martial case.
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Willum &. White
Te Tavs
Retin
Ekateer
The
Wolverine
Cane Yexter
Juin Williston Cook
Mering
Chipare
Captain White
Rieonington, Ml
Former Normal Boy Named Rochelle School Superintendent
Lieutenant Orion Wing, a graduate of DeKalb Normal and longtime service member, has accepted the Rochelle public schools superintendency and will begin work immediately.
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Orion Wing
DeKalb Normal
Rochelle Public Schools
Hie
Lee County Board Demobilized After Nations Millet Service
After eighteen months of strenuous work inducting well over 1,400 Lee County men into national millet service, the Lee County Board has ceased operations. The demobilization marks the end of a lengthy local mobilization effort and honors those who served.
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Lee County
Millet Service
Lee Hunt Ab Howd
Phones Did Big Business In This Year
The Interstate Commerce Commission released figures showing six thousand two hundred sixty thousand dollar telephone companies earned more in June than the previous year. Operating expenses rose by about three million dollars for the month, and July stations increased by eighty five thousand. total income dropped slightly versus July of the prior year.
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United Pressi
Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Well Known Young Woman Dies of Flu
Mrs. Dorothy Dawson Scrogsin formerly of Aurora died in Milwaukee after a one day illness of pneumonia following influenza. She leaves a husband two children a mother and father and six siblings. Former pupil of Death Normal School.
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Thoms Scrogsin
Dorothy Dawson
Auroia
Milwauke
Ilnese
Preuimonia
Beathes
Dad
Weed
Lorethy Dane
Son
White Dawson
Sire. Osmond
Culd Dark
Scroquins
Dereath Normal School
Missing in Action Dominick Petronis Reported
Word has come to friends and relatives of Dominick Petronis that he is missing in action. Petronis left Can Grdni and had been in service in France for unspecified months. DeKalb residents await further word from the war department.
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Wort
Dominick Petronis
Petronis
DeKalb County
Can Grdni
Ferance
DeKalb
War Department
Cleveland Auto Crash Leaves One Dead in City
County officials investigated a fatal automobile accident in Cleveland last night. The crash occurred when a car collided with a streetcar, resulting in one death and injuries to two others. No further details were provided.
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Dutchel Press
Cleveland
Ohio
Tec
Ax Persone
Mt. Morris and DeKalb Teams to Meet
The township high school basketball team travels this afternoon to face Mt. Morris in the season opener. Mt. Morris is noted for its fast play, and the game should provide early-season competition. Mrs. Arthur Smith, previously ill for two weeks, is now improving but remains confined to bed.
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Mt. Morris
DeKalb
Arthur Smith
Bigamy Case Is Started In This City
August Hellenius, a member of the Finnish colony, is under arrest on a bigamy charge. He was held in the city jail on $1,000 bail set by Magistrate Glidden. The hearing alleges he abandoned an invalid wife in Pinnland and later married another in this country. His children, grown in America, learned of the situation prompting the litigation.
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August Hellenius
Moline
Glidden
Hel Jevius
Pinnland
America
De Kalb Boys Dress Wounds in Graveyard Vault
Soldiers from De Kalb describe a dressing station set in a vault within a graveyard near the firing line. Wounded were tended amidst cracking plaster from nearby artillery, and recalls of battle describe brilliant fires and lights from the German side, a sight never seen before by the locals.
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DE Kalb
DeKalb
Medienl
Trial testimony details Socialist leaders case
Private Arnold Sco itler testified before Federal Judge Landis in Chienguh that defendant William F. Cruise urged Young People’s Socialist League members to oppose the war. Schiller, an ex Socialist, said the party used codes for secret antiwar actions and provided the jury with the key to those codes.
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Chienguh
Arnold Sco Itler
Jeaders
Landis
William F. Cruise
Young People’s Socialist League
Schiller
Lina Cavaneri Sings The Woman of Impulse at The Princess
Opera star Lina Cavaneri headlines tonight in The Woman of Impulse at the Princess. Admission includes war tax with prices listed for adults and children, plus Ferguson offering hardwood for stove or furnace fuel at fifty cents per hundred.
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Lina Cavaneri
Ferguson
Yanks in Camp Along Rhine in Prussia
American doughboys camp along a 60 mile Rhine occupation front awaiting orders to cross the river. Patrols guard the left bank while troops protect Stolzenfels castle the former Kaiser residence. Coblenz disbands civil guard orders soldiers to discard uniforms and closes public places at 9 p.m.
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United Press
Prussia
Rhine
Stolzenfels Castle
Douchboys
Coblenz
Choir to Present The Star of Bethlehem Cantata Next Sunday
The Congregational choir will perform The Star of Bethlehem, a Christmas cantata, next Sunday evening at 7 25. After weeks of preparation the choir offers a pleasing program and invites the public to attend.
Women Vote in England Elects First Time for Parliament
United Press reports about wartime casualty confusion as Mr and Mrs Hubbard learned their son Albert in Co A was wounded on October fifth. Relatives received letters refuting the claim and suggesting shell shock. The piece notes 6,000,000 women voting in the UK general election tomorrow, electing 707 members of the new House of Commons and marking a major enfranchisement for nearly one third of the electorate.
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United Press
Montreal
Canada
Water Department
Trades and Labor Assembly
Board of Arbitrators
War Department
A. E. Hubbard
Albert
Co, A
United Pres
London
England
United Kingdom
House of Commions
Great Britain
Fleet leadership changes and wood ship plan declared
Washington announces Charles Piez elected director general of the Emergency Fleet Corporation to succeed Charles Schwab. Tez is named VP GM. Also a decision halts wood ship construction beyond plans, focusing on finishing started hulls to cut indemnification losses. 781 wooden ships were originally ordered.
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United Press
Washington, D. C
Charles Piez
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Charles Schwab
Tez
Mr. Schwab
United States Shippine Boat
Moon Leads House To Permanently Control Telegraph Lines
In Washington on December 13 Representative Moon chairing the house post office committee instructed a resolution to make permanent government control of telephone and telegraph lines and to provide for government ownership.
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Washington, D. C
House
Representative Moon
House Post Office Committee
Students Flock Home to Spend Holidays
Normal school closure through year end disrupted travel plans. Expressmen and draymen faced busy day as students scrambled to leave sooner than expected. Want ads note silent salesmen reflecting a slow market.
Big Estimate for Naval Construction Work
Rear Admiral Taylor in his annual report cites a four hundred percent rise in navy expenditures for the past year versus 1916. He lists about $157,500 spent and projects $758,985,000 for the 1920 navy program, covering continued work on authorized vessels, destroyers, naval aircraft, and other craft.
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United Press
Washington, D. C
Taylor
John Koach Expands Grocery and Meat Store
Announcement notes John Koach a longtime grocer and meat dealer in the northeast city has enlarged his quarters. He has added new up to date equipment and plans to stay busy during the building and expansion process.
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John Koach
Koach
Vaughn Returns to Duty at Fort McHenry
Lieut. S. J. Vaughn resumes duty at Fort Mc Henry Maryland after a furlough at Baltimore He expects six months or more of hard work ahead and has enjoyed his home visit with friends who were glad to see him back in uniform
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S. J. Vaughn
Fort McHenry
Lient
Vaughn
Navy to review fleet in New York around December 23
Secretary Daniels announced a grand review of nine or ten dreadnoughts, destroyers and other craft due in New York from overseas about December 23. Admiral Mayo will command the returning fleet.
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Unmen Fresks
New York
N. Y
Daniels
Mayo
Chili Will Help to Preserve the Peace
Washington dispatch notes that the United States will do all it can to prevent hostilities in the Chilean Peruvian dispute. A photoplay adaptation from "Private Peat" is featured at the Hoodoo Ball in the Armory on Friday the 13th.
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United Press
Washington, D. C
United States
Prin- Paar
Armory
Terrific reception as U S president departs ship for Paris
The president receives a thunderous farewell aboard the warship with presidential salutes while crowds fill the pier to see him off en route to Paris.
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United States
Paris
Wilson in Brest)}> Historic arrival greeted by crowds in Brest
President Wilson stepped ashore in Brest at 3 22 p m with Mrs Wilson carrying a flag. The George Washington anchored at 1 05 p m and steamed to Paris after a salute and formal welcome by shore batteries. The welcoming party included Colonel House General Bliss General Pershing Admiral Benson and Margaret Wilson.
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United Press
Paris
France
Wilson
Washington, D. C
Hich
Brest
George Washington
Colonel House
General Bliss
General Pershing
Benson
Admiral Wilson
Margaret Wilson
President Wilson
Mrs. Wilson
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Rance
Yanks
Berlin
Philip Scheidemann
Surial
Charlotte Kirchner
Gus Kirchner
Dr Riley
North Second Street
Amsterdam
Holland
Phillip Scheidemann
Scheidemann
Spartacausans
War and State Department
Workmen's and Soldiers’ Council of
Hesse
People’s Council For the Republic
Berliner Tageblatt
Prof. Nagler
John Cook
Lee County Board
Talbot's Insurance Agency
Lincoln
Albert Hubbard
Bulletin
Baltimore
Washington
Witson
Europe
Gation
Pershing
President
Mie
First National Bank
the First Trust & Savings Bank
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