U S Budget Seeks 1918-1919 Spending Totals
Secretary McAdoo informs Congress that running the U S government for 1918 will require 13 018 725 504 04 dollars with total funding for 1918 and related 1919 estimates showing major military and naval appropriations including 6 615 956 553 92 for the Army and Navy and 1 138 240 814 77 for aviation. The report notes prior year appropriations of about 18 306 361 267 50 across 1917 and wartime sessions and outlines key military item requests such as armored cars tanks small arms engineer operations and medical services.
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Washington
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoose
Congress
Postal Service
McAdoo
Army
Navy
Quartermaster’s Corps
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Gillett to Lead House in Mann's Absence
Representative Gillett of Massachusetts will act as Republican leader of the house while Mann is hospitalized at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore for neuritis. Doctors say no other illness is present and Mann plans to return after Christmas.
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Representative Gillett
Massachusetts
Illinoison
Washington
Gillett
House
Mann
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Bolsheviki Move Against Old Regime Heads in Petrograd
Reuters dispatch from Petrograd says Bolshevik forces seize control of guard regiments and machine gun detachments opposing the general staff. The council orders the state bank to hand over up to 25 million rubles to Bolshevik nominees. Provisional government reappears, claims legality, urges people to ignore Bolsheviks and convene the last elected assembly, though incomplete. All newspapers printing the provisional government manifesto are suspended.
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London
General Staff Headquarters
Reuter
Petrograd
Council of Commissaries
Russia
Constituent Assembly
Coal price rise adds 35 cents a ton top to mine costs
President Wilson ordered a 35 cent per ton coal price increase for anthracite on Saturday to fund a proposed miners wage raise. The move, effective last Saturday, adds over 30 million dollars to annual coal bills and comes after operators and miners agreed to higher wages contingent on higher coal prices. Fuel Administrator Garfield weighed burdens on buyers and producers as output concerns loomed.
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Washington
Wilson
Garfield
Nine Die in Fire at Butler Farmhouse
Fire swept a Butler New Jersey farmhouse killing Moses Miller and his wife while trying to save seven children. Firemen found several bodies and believe all seven children perished in the blaze.
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Butler, N. J
Moses Miller
Great Battle on Cambrai Rages On in Gonnelieu Sector
With British forces in France reports say Germans mounted a heavy assault in the Gonnelieu sector near Cambrai. The British, reinforced, repelled entries at La Vacquerie and Masnieres while advancing near Villiers-Guislain. Berlin reports 6000 British prisoners taken and 100 guns captured. The fighting continues as Allied lines hold key positions.
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France
Gonnelieu
la Vacquerie
Vendhuile
Muasnieres
Bourlan Village
Cambrai
Masnieres
Byng
Villiers-Guislain
Ypres
Les Rues Vertes
Berlin
Ineby
Bourlan
Flanders Front
Pass
Wealthy Ad creator falls to death in city building
Edward Elsworth, noted for Sunny Jim advertising limericks and president of the D. Cereal company, plummeted from the eighth floor of the Charles building during a crowded afternoon promenade, ending a $2,500,009 business career.
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New York
Edward Elsworth
Sunny Jim
D. & C. Cereal Company
Charles Building
Muskrat houses hint at mild winter says trapper
Frazee Minnesota December 8 Muskrat houses are small and scarcely visible indicating a mild winter claims trapper Albert Sten who considers himself authority on the statement.
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Frazee, Minn
Albert Sten
Trapper
Trial postponed in Dallas murder case of Mrs Ahlers Travers
The trial of Mrs. Kate Ahlers alias Mrs Katherine Travers for the alleged murder of Phil E Tucker a Dallas broker was postponed to December 14 due to the absence of material witnesses.
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Dallas
Tex
Kate Ahlers
Katherine Travers
Phil FE. Tucker
Fuel administration targets electric railways to save coal
Washington reports the fuel administration proposes three actions to conserve coal on electric railways. Reducing schedules and car heating, plus pooling power stations, are urged through state fuel administrators to obtain cooperation of electric public concerns.
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Washington
Fuel Administration
Electric
Garfield
Armistice In Force On Russo German Front
Berlin reports actual armistice in parts of the Russo German front following a Bolshevik approach to Brest Litovsk for truce talks. London says Russian destroyer Bolstelnyi sunk by a mine, while Judson meets Trotzky at Smolny and discusses notes and armistice negotiations with Dukhonin.
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Berlin
Prince Leopold of Bavaria
Brest-Litovsk
Mosiya Koylenko
Judson
Major Werth
Dukhonin
Russia
Germany
Trotzky
Francis
Italians defend northern front secure as lines hold
Italian troops report heavy fighting along the northern line around Monte Pertica and Meletta range between the Brenta and Piave rivers. Despite clashes, both sides retain portions of the positions. Overall front conditions have improved. northern defenses are now as secure as those along the Piave.
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Italy
Monte Pertica
Brenta
Piave
Meletta Range
St Paul Street Cars Resume After Disruptions
Street car service in St Paul Minnesota resumed after a crowd damaged about a score of cars and union sympathizers were involved. Home Guard members rode in the first cars and no interference occurred and normal service was reported.
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St. Paul, Minn
Home Guard
All Must Make Sacrifices In Draft Reclassification
Washington reports that no registrant will gain exemption from the draft due to dependents. Provost Marshal General Crowder says reclassification schemes to defer induction for those with dependents will not extend the draft age and that about 9,000,000 registered men will be used before new classes are called, shaping the war's duration and timing for married men.
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Washington
Crowder
War Department
War Council Success Reports Unified Allied War Effort
Paris December reports the economic and military wartime conference as a complete success. Delegates from the United States England France Italy and other entente nations appeared satisfied with the alignment of aims and the united war effort. The council will sit permanently at Versailles with future sessions in London. Col EM House and other American envoys impressed all who met them.
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Paris
War Brand War Council
United States
England
France
Italy
War Council
Versailles
London
Col
EM. House
Bar Unpatriotic Singers Denver Colorado
Denver local of the Bill Posters union demands that national headquarters refuse lithographs and paper advertising for concert singers musicians and actors who render German songs or are suspected of pro German sympathies in response to an unpatriotic concert singers denunciation.
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Denver
Colo
Bill
Eadquarers
Government to Buy Entire Silver Output
Washington reports the treasury department will purchase all of the nation's silver production. Prices will be set to ensure a fair profit to producers, announced by Mint Director Ray Baker.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Ray Baker
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