Roumanians in Flight and Bucharest Fall Shock Europe
Paris dispatch reports Greek blockade as reprisal and Bucharest evacuation with the Romanian rear guard fighting to cover the retreat. Berlin and Entente reactions split as Teutons celebrate Bucharest capture on Mackensen's birthday while British and French papers blame diplomatic errors and crises in England France and Russia.
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Paris
Bucharest
Berlin
Dec
Near East
Sihaie
Ferdinand
Russian War Office
Wallachia
Lokal Anteiior
Germany
Carpathians
Transylvanian
Scase Teutonic
Balkan
von Mackensen
Roumania
Hungary
Hindenburg
Rouja
Pbs
England
France
Russia
Petit Journal of Paris
Lord Grey
Gen Mackensen Captures Bucharest on 67th Birthday
General Mackensen advances to Bucharest marking his 67th birthday with a major military victory. German forces seize key positions as street fighting ends in the Romanian capital.
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Bucharest
Cosson Visits Keokuk Targets Liquor Law Violations
Keokuk Iowa records show forty seven indictments issued after Attorney General Cosson's visit to crack down on liquor law violators. Cosson labeled the city the worst place in Iowa during the drive to clean up the area.
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Keokuk
Cosson
Iowa
Boy Rescues Two Children In House Fire
In Columbus Indiana near Webber Miller and family woke to sparks on beds and fled in night clothes. Harold Miller twelve years old reentered burning home to save his younger brother four and sister two.
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Columbus
Ind
Webber Miller
Harold Miller
Germany Says Arabia Was Troop Transport Under British Flag
Washington reports Germany declares in a public note that the British steamer Arabia was in effect a troop transport serving Britain and should be treated as a warship under international law. Germany speaks of amends if its submarine commander erred, while the United States sees no justification for sinking without warning. No immediate action planned pending full facts.
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Washington
Cermany
State Department
Arabia
Marina
Germany
United States
Archbold Laid to Rest in Simple Funeral Service
John J. Archbold president of Standard Oil was buried at Sleepy Hollow cemetery after a home service in Tarrytown New York. Chancellor Day of Syracuse University conducted the rites and four guards will keep watch at the mausoleum. Distinguished mourners including John D. Rockefeller Sr and Jr. William Rockefeller Alfred Beal ford attended.
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New York
John J. Archbold
Standard Oil Company
Tarrytown
N. Y
Day
Syracuse University
Archbold
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
William Rockefeller
Alfred M. Beadford
Two Americans fatally harmed by Villa in Chihuahua news
El Paso reports Howard Gray American mining man killed by Villa bandits near Parral on November 5 as Villa forces burn and arrest others. Refugees allege Foster and German consuls Koch and Hoemuller were fatally harmed or executed. broader reports cite Carranza soldiers with ears cut off. US protests to Matamoros trial order ignored.
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el Paso
Tex
Howard Gray
Parral
Chihuahua
Alvarado Mining and Milling Company
Gray
Bowman
Villa
Washington
Foster
Torreon
Carranza
Edgar Koch
Santa Rosalia
Theodore Hoemuller
United States
Browneville
Ricardo Solis
Matamoros
Victoria
Mexico
Garment Workers Vote for General Strike Across City
Fifty thousand garment workers from New York vote at eleven mass meetings for a general strike. Leaders have not set the exact hour or day, but the walkout is expected to start Monday or Tuesday. The demand is a forty nine hour week and a one dollar weekly raise for war costs.
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New York
Market Report Hogs and Cattle Prices at Chicago
Hogs receipts 51,000 with light shipping at 9.60 to 9.85 and heavy packing 9.80 to 10.10. good to fancy pigs 8.00 to 8.90. Cattle receipts 8,000 with good to choice steers 10.75 to 11.75. butcher cows 6.75 to 7.40. prime dealers 12.75 to 13.00. Chicago Cash offers No. 2 hard wheat 1.80 to 1.83. corn No 2 white 0.964 to 0.974. oats No 3 white 0.54 to 0.56. East Buffalo market steady for cattle. hogs higher, heavy 10.85 to 10.45. Yorkers 10.10 to 10.30. pigs 9.00 to 9.25. lambs 13.00. yearlings 10.00 to 11.00. Veals 19.50.
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Chicago
East Buffalo
Dunning and Stevens
Livestock Commission
N. Y
Wilson Hosts Dinner for Vance McCormick and Campaign Committee
President Wilson gave a private White House dinner in honor of Vance McCormick and the National Democratic Campaign committee. About fifty guests attended, including Progressives and their wives, with Mrs. A. Hopkins of Morristown, N Y, as a featured attendee. Militant suffragists pressed for discussion but were not admitted to the guests. The meal occurred in the state dining room and the list remained private.
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Washington
Dec
Wilson
White House
Vance McCormick
National Democratic Campaign Committee
New Jersey
Three Shot at Eviction in Connersville Indiana
Patrolman Harry Daniels is seriously wounded in the thigh. Robert Agee is fatally shot in the back, with his 16 year old son Carl Agee also seriously wounded. The shooting followed Agee firing on officers who went to order eviction at the Agee residence on Eastern avenue. Mrs Agee held a revolver but did not fire.
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Connersville
Ind
Harry Daniels
Robert Agee
Agee
Carl Agee
Adams
Agees
Daniels
Eastern Avenue
Remedy Car Problem Urged
Washington reports radical departures from long established railroad regulation methods are urged to Congress in the Interstate Commerce Commission annual report. It calls for new legislation giving the commission regulatory powers over freight car movement to meet rising demand and prevent famines, and for expanded terminal facilities at major cities and ports.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Bie
Francis J. Heney Reported Slated as Interior Secretary
News item notes Francis J. Heney slated for the role of Secretary of the Interior. Possible confirmation discussions and political context mentioned.
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Interior
Heney Seen as Interior Secretary Pick If Lane Retires
Californians expect Francis J. Heney to be chosen for the cabinet to replace Franklin K. Lane should Lane retire from the interior department. Heney dined at the White House December 7 as the president hosted Vance McCormick and his Democratic National Committee associates.
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Francis J. Heney
Franklin K. Lane
Interior
Mr. Heney
President Gates
Vance McCormick
Democratic National Committee
Waterway ruling awaited by January in Dunne case
Springfield Dec 8 A decision is expected in the Dunne waterway case at the close of the December term of the supreme court. W A Hubbard of Carrollton a Democratic member petitions testing the waterway act and bond issue use. The Sangamon circuit court held the act unconstitutional for its barge canal and bond use toward a deep waterway. A Fergus suit on committee expenses also awaits ruling with lower court siding with the state.
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Springfield
Dunne Waterway
Supreme Court
W. A. Hubbard
Carrollton
General Assembly
Sangamon Circuit
Fergus
Sentenced to Play Ball by Decatur Judge
Two sixteen year old boys arrested for stealing brass from the Wabash railroad at Decatur were sentenced by Judge J. H. McCoy to play baseball. He lectured on honesty and fairness and urged them to learn from the umpire and to abide by baseball rules.
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Decatur
J. H. McCoy
Mystery Woman Dies in Kentucky Fire After Evansville Mystery
The body of Katherine D. Denton of Evansville lies in Hopkinsville Kentucky. She died from burns when a deserted negro school house burned near the Kentucky town. Her presence in Hopkinsville is unexplained and her identity remains a mystery after she staggered to the home of C H Tinsley near Hopkinsville walking five miles barefoot. She claimed to have been seeking work, but no application is found.
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Evansville
Ind
Katherine D. Denton
Hopkinsville
Kentucky
C. H. Tinsley
Funston Sends 5 767 Home From Border Service
General Munston announced the release of 5,767 national guard troops from border duty. The units come from New York and Pennsylvania and depart under War Department orders to rotate 5,000 to 6,000 troops back home.
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San Antonio
Tex
National Guard
Munston
War Department
New York
Pennslyvania
Lloyd George Forms New Cabinet Plan With 12 Seats
Britain’s new premier Lloyd George accepts the premiership and plans a 12 member ministry with five unionists five Liberals and two Labourites. Laborites expected in cabinet include Barnes and Henderson with three under secretaries to Labour.
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London
David Lloyd
Lord Northcliffe
the Times
George Nicoll Barnes
Labor
Black Friars
Clascow
Arthur Henderson
Board of Education
Asquith
Labor Party
War Council
Tabor
War Office
Lloyd-George
Lloyd- George
Henry Clay Arbuttle Back in Milwaukee after NY arrest
Henry Clay Arbuttle, a youthful dye expert, returned to Milwaukee from New York where he faced a charge of stealing $10,000 in platinum from the International Dye Company. He abused reporters at the depot, said he would retain counsel, and claimed he would fight to clear himself. All stolen items were recovered and he had $400 on him. He said he went to New York to raise funds for a trip to Granada to organize his own dye company.
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Milwaukee, Dee
Henry Clay Arbuttle
Milwaukee
New York
International Dye Company
Arbuttle
John Sullivan
Granada
West Indie
Pery
Ips Cwm
Mrs Frances Knapp Dies in Waterloo at 64
Mrs Frances Knapp age sixty four died at the Waterloo home of her daughter Mrs Guthrie McConnell following a long illness. She was wife of Charles Knapp a widely known St Louis paperman and former Associated Press employee.
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Frances Knapp
Waterloo
Pranc Knapp
Charles Knapp
St. Lome Ney
Associated
Pre 84
Guthrie McConpell
Paso Real Bandit Raid Suspect Found Guilty
Guilty verdict returned by district court in Paso Robles on the Paso Real bandit raid of 1915. Rawen Pidena sentenced to an Meer years imprisonment after trial in the Texan court.
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Prownsville
Tex
Rawen Pidena
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Penn State
George
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