St Paul Home Guards Called Amid Twin Cities Labor Tension
Eleven Minnesota home guard companies from outside St Paul were ordered to report for duty as a precaution ahead of a Twin Cities labor union convention seen as a potential general strike. About 1500 troops in uniform will patrol the city while business leaders fear unrest over union buttons. The move follows a War Department hint to pause button rules and seek mediation.
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St. Paul
Minnesota
Twin Cities
Rhinow
Home Guard
Baker
Washington
Public Safety Commission
Saloons to Close Early During Union Convention
Minneapolis Retail Liquor Dealers vote to shut all saloons at 9 PM and stay closed all day today during the union men convention in St Paul. Guards patrolled city streets last night to prevent disruptions to street car service.
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Minneapolis
Dee
Minneapolis Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association
St. Paul
Bolshevik State Says Armistice With Austria-Hungary
Leon Trotzky reports that Austria-Hungary accepted a Bolshevik armistice offer and Russian delegates will attend a Sunday conference at German headquarters. He vows no compromise on principles and says all words will be recorded and sent to nations via wireless. He declares the czars and rival leaders are gone and all Russians are under revolutionary authority.
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London
Dee
Daily Mail
Petrograd
Leon Trotzky
Trotzky
Kerenskys
Milukoffs
Bolsheviks Lead Petrograd Vote In Constituent Assembly
In Petrograd incomplete returns show Bolsheviks with 272000 votes, constitutional democrats 211000, and social revolutionaries 116000. London reports reassure Russia will continue to fight under General Dukhonin and reject separate peace.
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Petrograd
Constituent Assembly
Constitutional Democrats
Social Revolutionaries
Cars Smashed in St Paul by Union-Sympathizer Crowd
A downtown St Paul disruption halted streetcar service as a large crowd, said to be union sympathizers, stopped cars, smashed windows and damaged units. A trainman was injured, about 50 cars were stalled, and others were sent to the burns.
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St. Paul
St.aul
Union
Mrs de Saulles Acquitted After Quick Verdict
Mrs de Saulles is found not guilty of murder in the trial over the death of her divorced husband, John L de Saulles, former Yale football star and clubman. The jury reached its verdict in one hour and forty three minutes in Mineola New York. The defendant kept an air of self possession and smiled at the verdict.
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de Saulles
Mineola
N. Y
Supreme Court
Anes de Saulles
John L. de Saulles
Yale
Westbury
Long Island
World News In Condensed Form From War Reports
Brief summaries cover ship Apapa sunk with 80 passengers lost and claims of attacks on lifeboats, drought relief politics in North Dakota, electrocution at Anheuser Busch plant, investigations into possible enemy plots in Brooklyn, quarantine of 182nd brigade at Camp Lewis, Sweden denying mediation by Petrograd, German invasion barbarism mirrored in Italy, American aviators nearing front, Romanian mission to US, Illinois Central derailment injuring 23, women’s rights lawsuits in DC, Seattle telephone strike resolution, New York soldiers and sailors hotel plan, Krupp expansion in Switzerland, US Army balloon incident near Fort Omaha breaking loose and disrupting communications.
National Guards Arrive in France in Safe Arrival
National guardsmen from every state have arrived in France and are in training near the battlefront. They are billeted in French towns and wooden barracks, welcomed by locals, and are undergoing the same instruction as regulars to prepare for front service.
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France
United States
Arrival of National Guard units to front in France announced
Washington reports the first national guard units have arrived in France as part of a broader movement. Secretary Baker says additional forces will follow as ships and men are ready, with re grouping of national army divisions shaping the order of deployment.
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Washington
France
Baker
Pershing
National Army
National Guard
Middle States
Far West
Camp Lewis
American Lake
Union
Verdict in courtmartial of 63 Twenty-fourth Infantry
A verdict has been reached in the courtmartial of 63 members of the Twenty-fourth Infantry charged with murder mutiny and riot during the Houston uprising on August 23. The ruling will be reviewed before public release.
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San Antonio
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Houston
Texas
Secret wartime treaty revealed by Bolshevik dispatch
A Petrograd Vspatch dated Wednesday claims a secret treaty among Great Britain France Russia and Italy to enter the war and assigns Italy tems of annexation including Trentino the southern Tyrol Istria Dalmatia islands in the Grecian Archipelago and territory in Asia Minor and Africa.
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London
Great Britain
France
Russia
Italy
Petrograd
Trentino
Tyrol
Istria
Dalmatia
Grecian
Asia Minor
Africa
Americans Help Break Hindenburg Line on British Front
British Headquarters reports American engineers, the first U S troops on the British front, played a major role last week in breaking the Hindenburg Line. They laid vital rail and road links behind advancing troops in the Somme area, with two wounded and praised for tireless 24 hour shifts.
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France
Hindenburg
United States
Somme
Washington
Peace Letter Denounced by English Newspapers
London disapproves of Marquis of Lansdowne’s peace suggestions as war winds intensify. Editors condemn the letter with Daily Mail calling it surrender and note Germany’s front-page publishing as “beginning of England getting reasonable.”
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London
Marquis of Lansdowne
Daily News
Daily Telegraph
Germany
Paris
Daily Mail
Lansdowne
Lord Lansdowne
Amsterdam
Exchange Telegraph Company
England
Bonar Law Calls Lansdowne Letter a Disaster
The Evening News reports a unionist meeting where Chancellor Bonar Law vigorously repudiated Lord Lansdowne's letter calling it a disaster. He labeled the communication a harmful misstep as tensions rise within the party in London.
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Bonar Law
London
The
Evening News
Lord Lansdowne
Minneapolis and Chicago Grain and St. Paul Livestock Market Report
Minneapolis grain report shows flour prices up to 10.30 in carload lots with shipments at 54,465 barrels. barley, bran, wheat, corn, oats, and flax quoted with receipts and price ranges. Chicago grain figures include corn and oats with open, high, low, and close prices for December and May futures. St Paul livestock notes hogs up 10 to 15 cents to 16.50 17, cattle steady with steer prices 15.50, veal calves steady, and sheep at 8 16 with wethers and ewes listed.
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Minneapolis
Omaha Livestock Prices and Receipts Report
Omaha livestock report for December 5 shows hogs receipts at 10,000 with prices from 12.50 to 19.00 for various weights, cattle receipts 13,000 with native steers at 9.15 and cows 5.25 to 10.25, and sheep receipts 17,700 with yearlings 11.50 to 13.25 and lambs 16.00 to 16.78. market trends mixed across species.
Chicago Livestock Market Summary
Chicago market unsettled for hogs with receipts 29 000 and prices from 12.75 to 17.40 for various hog categories. Cattle receipts 9 000 with a strong tone. native steers 15.50 to 15.50? western steers 13.40, stockers and feeders 6 to 10.80, cows and heifers 5 to 11.30, calves 7.25 to 18.75. Sheep receipts 10 000 and markets firm. wethers 8.80 to 12.90, ewes 7.75 to 11.50, lambs 12.50 to 16.90.
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St. Paul
Omaha
Texas
Chicago
Probe Labor Conditions in Northwest Forests
Secretary of Labor W. B. Wilson chairs a federal mediation commission to investigate timber and labor conditions in the Pacific Northwest. Wilson has improved health after arriving in Seattle and was confined to his private car in Portland last week due to illness.
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Seattle
Pacific Northwestern Timber and Labor
W. B. Wilson
Federal Mediation Commission
Wilson
Portland
Ore
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Apapa
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Anheiser Busch Brewing Association
Federal
New York City
I. W. Morse Drydock and Repair Company
Brooklyn
Camp Lews
Medsles
Stockholm
Associaed
Rome
Belgium
Illinois Central
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Rockford
Bwur Women’s Party
White House
Commissioners of
District of Columbia
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
New York
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City
Krupps
Lucerne
Switzerland
United States Army
Fort Otuhs
Neb
Kansas
Union Are
Conoco
Continental Oil Company
Colorado Corporation
Denver
Cheyenne
Boise
Salt Lake City
Albuquerque
Batte
the Dillon Bakery
F. C. McFadden
Furnitor
Dillon Furniture Co
General Furniture Distributors
FE. H. Brundage, Undertaker
Dillon, Montana
Burke Auto Transfer Co
Ned Burke
E. H. Brundage
Black Res
Black
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