Five Thousand Die In Halifax Explosion And Fire
Reports from the navy department say about five thousand people were killed in the Halifax harbor explosion and the northern city fire. The Belgian relief ship collided with the Mont Blanc, detonating four thousand tons of trinitrotoluene. vast destruction followed as fires spread through Halifax and Dartmouth.
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Washington
Navy Department
Halifax
Dartmouth
United States
Imo
Mont Blanc
Nevada rail commission members head to Washington hearings
HF Bartine and J B Shaughnessy of the Nevada rail fact commission pass Elliot en route to Washington to testify before ICC hearings and the Joint Senate and House committee chaired by Senator Newlands. They aim to argue against the proposed fifteen percent freight rate increase and the back haul charge for the Intermountain region, bringing briefs and data for the case.
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HF Bartine
J. B. Shaughnessy
Nevada Rail Fact Commission
Elliot
Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Joint Senate and Base Committee
Senator Newlands
Inntermountain
Railronda
American airmen incur first casualties on French front
Washington December 7 American airmen on the French front have suffered their first casualties a corporal and a private wounded by German planes in the fighting.
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Washington
Districts Pay Premiums for Nevada Teachers
An attorney general opinion says all Nevada teachers are employees and districts must pay salary premiums to the industrial commission through the districts employing them.
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Industrial Commission
Nevada
Prem Tme
Distriets
State Council of Defense to Meet in Reno Saturday
Hal Lemmon secretary of the State Council of Defense gives notice of a meeting at eleven o clock Saturday forenoon in Reno. The State Department of Highway requests it and matters of military and highway information desired by the government will be considered. Attorney Milton Badt departed for San Francisco yesterday and will return about the seventeenth of the month.
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Hal Lemmon
State Council of Defense
Reno
State Department of Highwayre
Milton
Badt
San Francisco
Italy Loses Thousands of Hallans in German Drive
December 7 report says four thousand more Hallans captured, raising total to 15,000 in the northern Italy front. Washington notes Senate and House pass war resolutions against Austria-Hungary with broad bipartisan support. President’s signature required to declare war. debate cited Italy France and Belgium as a single front.
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Austria
Berlin
Italy
Washington
Senate
Austria-Hungary
Vardaman
la Follette
House
Stone
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Germany
United States
France
Belgium
Flood
Repair Machinery In Winter Months Plan
Farmers should repair all equipment for next season and order parts now to aid distribution and avoid delays. Emphasizes using large, efficient machines where suitable, selling or selling to smaller farms, and protecting gear from weather with lubrication and proper housing to prevent damage.
State Treasurer Malley Loses Mother in Tonopah
The mother of State Treasurer Malley of Carron died yesterday morning after a brief illness. She was about 78 years old and had lived in Tonopah for several years. The death occurred at 12 40 p m as Ed and his brother Patrick prepared to depart for the south. The community expressed sympathy for the family.
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Malley
Carron
Tonopah
Patrick
South Land
Porrow
Nevada
Montana official urges slaughter of range horses to ease meat shortage
Montana state veterinarian W Butler calls for slaughter of range horses in the northwest to provide meat for those unable to afford beef. He estimates 8,00?0 heat weight range animals in Montana and about 6,000,000 nationwide, arguing horse flesh offers lean beef value and could relieve hay shortages while freeing range for cattle and sheep. Rancher G A Laing says markets could contract to supply 4,000 horses monthly for a year.
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Helena
Mont
W. Butler
Montana
Northwest
United States
Rumania Enters Peace With Germans In Armistice
Jassy Dec 7 Hostilities suspended on the Romanian front. Rumanians have associated with the Russians in the proposed armistice with Germany.
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Rumania
Jassy
Germany
Party in Honor of Lieutenant Griswold
A theater party at the Bradley Opera House tonight followed by a banquet at the Mayer hotel celebrates Lieutenant Morley Griswold of Elko County. He plans to depart for San Antonio Texas next Sunday to enter active army service after recently being commissioned as a first lieutenant. Griswold, a charter member of the Elko County Bar association, is the second member to join the army since the war declaration and the only civilian from Elko county to have received a commission.
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Bradley Opera House
Mayer Hotel
Elko County Bar Association
Morley Griswold
San Antonio
Texas
Army
Griswold
Officers’ Reserve Corps
San Francisco
Germany
Elko County
National Prohibition Bill Introduced in Senate
Washington Dec 7 Senator Shafroth of Colorado introduced a bill calling for national prohibition during the war. The measure was referred to the agriculture committee and would allow the commandeering of all distilled liquors for government purposes.
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Washington
Shafroth
Colorado
Committee On Agriculture
Elko Home Guards Meet At Court Room
A meeting of the Elko Home Guards is ordered for Tuesday evening at 7 30 p.m. in the court room by order of Captain G C Jensen.
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Elko Home Guards
G. C. Jensen
The Draft at Tiradley Opera House Tonight
The Draft a special feature picture screens tonight at the Tiradley Opera House. Mrs. Bradley donates all proceeds to the Red Cross, supporting relief efforts.
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Tiradley Opera House
Bradley
The
Red Cross
Dollar Christmas Fund aids Belgian children in distress
Editor appeals to Elko Independent readers to fund a Christmas relief effort for Belgian children. The note describes widespread famine, coal disruptions, and insufficient shipping capacity, urging Americans to follow Britain's lead with generous donations via the Dollar Christmas Fund for Destitute Belgian Children, care of Henry Clews & Co. Bankers in New York.
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Elko Independent
Belgium
Whieh Tain
Commission For Relief
United States
Germany
Brussels
Britain
Henry Clews and Co
Broadstreet
New York
Xmax
Henry Clews
Dollar
Broad Street
Recorder's duty to accept and place on record documents
An official opinion states that the recorder must accept and record any document presented if fees are paid. The attorney general notes the recorder has no judicial powers and that recording instruments, whether properly formed or completed, is not the recorder’s concern.
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Attorney General's
Kenny
Churchill County
Prison Guards Seek Pay Increase At State Prison
A petition signed by nearly all nineteen guards requests a substantial raise from seventy five dollars monthly. The document, to be presented at the next prison board meeting, seeks twenty five more dollars per month. J B McKee arrives from his ranch on the South Fork.
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Metro Presents
Mabel Taliaferro
Taly
Jenate
G. A. Laing
North Park
Lieutenant Griswold
Red Cross Army
J. B. McKee
South Fork
van Camp
Rochester
Sunset Grocery
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