Peace Offer In Allied Capitals
Germany offers to discuss peace terms and is sent to the entente. The United States has not yet its attitude reflected in transit notes. President Wilson plans to urge careful consideration within days. Lloyd George’s upcoming speech is awaited as neutral powers seek US support.
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Washington
Germany
United States
Wilson
White House
U. S
Lloyd George
State Department
Lievad‘George
England
the Treasury
Great Britain
Lloyd-Georg
Paul Ritter
Senor Riano
Lansing
Delay Day Measure Vote on National Dry Bill
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas raises no objection as the anti dry bill is placed on the senate calendar instead of going to a Monday vote. Opponents fall silent signaling readiness for a test of strength while Senator Jones of Washington objects, delaying action.
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Washington
National
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Senate
Jones
Villa Says He Will Seek Peace With United States
Francisco Villa, through representatives in El Paso, promises to cease depredations on American property and stop killing Americans in Mexico. Government agent calls the overtures “Villa holding out the olive branch.”
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el Paso
Tex
Francisco Villa
United States
Mexico
Villa
House postal panel votes to end pneumatic tubes
The house postal committee voted 9 to 5 to discontinue the pneumatic mail service at St Louis Chicago Philadelphia and Boston and to authorize closing the New York tubes within six months.
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Washington
House Postal Committee
St. Louis
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
Post Office Department
New York
James M. Cox Recovers After Illness as Governor Elect
James M. Cox Ohio's governor elect recovers from illness, resuming campaign activities and preparing for the upcoming inauguration. Cox's health improved after a period of sickness, allowing continued leadership duties and public appearances in the run up to the election.
Township high schools to be addressed by Fiftieth General Assembly
May Pass High School in Springfield reports that the Fiftieth general assembly convening in January will consider enacting a new law to establish township high schools after the state supreme court ruled the 1911 township high school act unconstitutional. The court said existing township high schools remain de facto corporations and unaffected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
III
Yardstick of Research At University of Illinois
The Daily Illini accuses Illinois professors of favoring research over teaching with 6000 students affected. The editorial says the university is in a frenzy of research across many fields and claims some professors neglect classrooms to chase publications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champaign, Ill
Illinois
Daily
Illini
University of Ilinois
Alini
Separate maintenance suit filed by Mrs Bowlby in Herschel
Mrs Mary Post Bowlby seeks separate maintenance from her husband Dr James P Bowlby aged veterinarian of Herschel. He is a veteran. The couple eloped and married in Urbana last March. Her income of 1200 dollars a year is seen as insufficient to support a simple diet of wheat mush and rye coffee.
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Kankakee
Ill
Mary Post Bowlby
James P. Bowlby
Herschel
Urbana
G A R to Play Santa for Orphans in Bloomington
A G A R committee led by Department Commander W. F. Calhoun of Decatur visited the Orphans' home in Bloomington to arrange a Christmas tree and presents for 600 orphans.
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Bloomington
Ill
W. F. Calhoun
Decatur
Building Manual Training School Opens in East St Louis
East St Louis Illinois December 16 work on the pew manual training school at Mass Street has begun. The two story brick structure will cost about 22000 dollars excluding equipment. The contract calls for completion by February 28.
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East ST. Louis
Ill
Pew Manual Training School
Mass St. Louis
Ecic
Big Pay Boosts Mark Year 1916
Widespread bonuses and wage hikes sweep U S firms as cost of living climbs. United States Steel increases wages by 10 percent affecting about 225,000 workers, while Bell system firms allocate 6 million in bonuses. Passaic mills grant 1000000 in cash to 16000 workers along with the wage rise.
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Telephone and Telegraph Company
Passaic Millis
New York
United States
United States Steel Corporation
Telephone Company
Theodore N. Vail
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell Telephone System
Industrial Council of
Passaic
David Porter, Inc
Brooklyn
Citizens Central National Bank
American Woolen Company
Boston
Cotton Manufacturers’ Association of
New Bedford
American Clothing Manufactures’ Association
National India Rubber Company
Bristol
R. I
Sharon
Elizabeth
Claremont
Standard Oil Company
Bayonne
Chicago
John W. O'Leary
Chicago Association of Commerce
Hoosier Describes Sea Chase To Join Ambulance Corps
Mrs. John Linkenhaker of Sullivan Indiana says her son Robert wrote from London England detailing a voyage across the Atlantic to join the British ambulance corps. He traveled aboard the Milwaukee which was pursued by submarines off the English coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosier
Sullivan
Ind
John Linkenhaker
Robert
London
England
Atlantic
British Ambulance Corps
Milwaukee
Death of Mrs Mannah Hridge in Galesburg at eighty seven
Five children twenty one grandchildren and twenty seven great grandchildren mourn the death of Mrs Mannah Hridge at eighty seven in Galesburg Illinois on December 16.
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Galesburg, III
Mannah Hridge
Galesbure
Local Fair Refuses 25 for Notable Ear of Corn
Springfield Illinois exhibit item shows J W Workien refuses 25 dollars for a single ear of corn on display. The ear measures forty two pr a c y? The fragmentary report notes prior offer and ongoing dispute over price and display value.
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Springfilld
Ill
Doe
J. W. Workien
Wheat Tumbles on Chicago Board as Prices Slump
Chicago prices for May wheat dipped sharply at opening trading amid rumors of peace in Europe and later recovered before closing lower. May wheat fell from Thursday’s levels to about 1.55 1 4 dollars, with corn and oats also down and flour prices easing on wheat weakness.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Indiana Weights Short in Rural Measure Inspections
A report on weights and measures in smaller towns under Dr. H. E. Barnard shows about 80 percent of shopkeepers measures were correct. Losses commonly fell on customers as a result.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
H. E. Barnard
State Food and Drug Commissioner
U S Wheat Final Crop Estimates for 1910s
Final estimates from the Department of Agriculture show corn at 2,583,241,000 bushels and wheat at 639,586,000 bushels. The corn figure is below the 1910-14 average by about 60 million, while wheat exceeds its five year average by 2,000,000 bushels, with substantial gains in value across several crops.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Austrian Envoy Granted Safe Conduct to United States
An Austrian envoy reports that Allied governments have granted him safe conduct to travel to the United States. The measure enables the diplomat to proceed with official duties amid evolving postwar negotiations.
Safe conduct granted for Austro-Hungarian envoy Tarnowski
London and Washington report the Entente powers have agreed to grant safe conduct to Count Tarnowski von Tarnow, newly appointed Austro-Hungarian ambassador to the United States. The American government requested passage and notified ambassador Page. France and Britain had not replied to three notes.
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London
Count Tarnowski von Tarnow
United States
Foreign Office
Entente
Walter H. Page
Washington
State Department
England
France
Count von Tarnow
Romanian Premier Bratiano Quits Cabinet
Budapest paper Avillig quotes Copenhagen dispatch reporting Roumanian Premier Bratiano resigns. A Jassy dispatch said the entire cabinet had resigned except the premier.
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Roumanian
London
Bratiano
Roumania
Budapest
Avillig
Copenhagen
Jassy
Author of "Hot Time" Dead Succumbs in California
Santa Rosa California December 16 Joseph T Miles author of the song famous as a Spanish war chant There ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Time Tonight is dead here Miles a veteran actor was known as Joe Hayden across the country He was nearly seventy years old
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Santa Rosa
Cal
Joseph T. Miles
Miles
Joe Hayden
Iowa Private Killed Near Brownsville in Bridge Accident
Des Moines dispatch reports Private William Brady of Battery C Iowa First artillery was killed instantly near Brownsville Texas while returning from the border with his company. His head was out the coach window when a bridge girder decapitated him.
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Iowa
Des Moines
William Brady
Battery C
Iowa First Artillery
Brownsville
Tex
Brady
Interstate commerce suspends new rates on Oklahoma Texas agriculture
The Interstate Commerce Commission again suspended until June 18, 1917 the new schedule for increased rates on butter eggs and dressed poultry from Oklahoma and Texas to their destinations.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oklahoma
Texas
Villa Murders Confirmed By Arriving American
An American traveler arriving in El Paso from Santa Rosalia Mexico confirms the killing of Dr. C H Fisher at Santa Rosalia and also notes an unknown foreigner at Jiminez and Howard Gray at Parral.
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Villa
el Paso
Tex
Santa Rosalia
Mexico
C. H. Fisher
Jiminez
Howard Gray
Parral
Greece Yields to All Demands as Entente Presses
Athens accepts ultimatum from Entente powers and orders all Greek troops withdrawn from Thessaly with concentration in Peloponnesus. Reparation talks to be set later. Buzen captured by Teutons as Russians retreat through Roumania. French gain at Verdun with ground toward Louvemont and Hardaumont.
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Athens
Thessaly
Bear
Teutons
Bureu
London
Greet
Athena
Greece
Entente
Peloponnesius
Buzen
Berlin
Roumania
Danube
Furesti
Tchernavoda
Verdun
Meuse
Louvemont
Hardaumont
War Office
British Press Tone Subdues Over German Peace Proposals
London reports subdued press reaction to Germany’s peace offer. Across entente and enemy capitals, expectancy grows as serious thinkers call for cautious, sober handling. In France editors and public figures warn against being swayed from steadfast republican aims despite pacifist proposals.
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London
Germany
Entente
France
von Nethmann
Hollweg
Italy Receives Peace Plea From Central Powers
Paris December 15 The peace process of the central powers has been delivered to the Italian government with definite indications of conditions under which negotiations might be attempted.
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Italy
Paris
Beakes Fails to Get Certificate of Election in Lansing
In Lansing Michigan in December representative Samuel Beakes Democrat sought a certificate of election over his Republican rival Mark R Bacon but failed. In Indiana Huntington December a habeas writ was filed in circuit court against Ovid Linston for contempt of court over delays in forcing a warrant for twelve thousand dollars to Henry Beavers under a court order.
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Lansing
Mich
Samuel Beakes
Democra
Mark R. Bacon
Virit
Hupetingeton
Ind
Allcrnt
Ovid Linston
County
Cudites
Valsle
Ae Dudge
Charles A. Cole
Penu
Henry Beaver
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Columbia
Bandit
Coe
James M. Cox
Ohio
IlInece
American Press Association
Cox
Supreme Court
Romantic
Eloper
Steel Trust
Indiana
Vance M'Cormick
Almerican Press Association
Austria
War Baker
Department of Justice
McCormick
War Department
James Miles
California
Constantine
Beakes
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