21 Dec 1916
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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
1
President Wilson issues a personal note urging belligerents and neutrals to seek peace terms without linking to German proposals. The note, written after cabinet consultation, stresses independent consideration of terms and U.S. neutral role to safeguard weaker nations and avert future conflicts.
A world leader calls for immediate talks to end hostilities as nations remain locked in conflict. Diplomatic channels indicate possible summit plans to address ceasefire terms and long term security guarantees.
Remnants of the Wallachian army reportedly crossed the Sereth with aid from Russian Cossacks while Mackensen’s Danube advance slows south of Cernavoda. Entente officers consider future Roumanian operations joint with Russian forces to defend Moldavia and Bessarabia.
The president argues no nation is safe from war and that though terms seem similar the belligerents may agree on a conference. He clarifies he is not offering peace but urging careful soundings to spark a possible immediate concord among nations.
Wall Street reacts to a reported Wilson peace proclamation with broad declines. United States Steel slides to 197.87 amid a stampede. Bethlehem Steel, Atlantic Gulf and West Indies, Mercantile Marine, Crucible, Industrial Alcohol and American Beet Sugar all fall from Tuesday’s levels.
The Kokomo Ministerial association sent an open letter to Mayor George W. Stidger urging strict enforcement of laws against bootleggers and blind tigers. They condemn punchboards and dice shaking and call for justice for boys and men, appealing to the mayor’s sense of duty despite personal risk.
A London dispatch says Mme Anne Brockway of Shullsburg Wisconsin a famed psychic medium has enlisted aid of Consul General Skinner to obtain release from prison in a U S case reported by the New York World.
Captain Carlos Gilman Calkins, navigator on Admiral Dewey’s flagship Olympia during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1 1898, died at his Berkeley home. He served as navigating officer and later retired from active duty.
Twenty federal investigators arrive in Chicago to probe a coal shortage blamed on railroads prioritizing coal, threatening a Christmas famine. Department of Justice and Interstate Commerce Commission agents work as rail freight halts, hotels report limited coal, La SalleHotel lacks supply for hours, and many apartments face no coal or hot water.
Chicago Mayor Thompson urged the city council to raise the saloon license fee from 1000 to 1500 dollars. He sent the message after a Chicago liquor study commission report urged drastic saloon reforms. He cited severe city financial stringency due to higher requirements.
The Wisconsin tax commission announced an inheritance tax of $364,250 on the estate of Chicago financier James Robert Moore. The Moore estate is valued at $3,160,800 making this the largest ever levied in the state.
Ottawa Ontario date December 21 reports H T Hampstead of Tacoma Washington dead in the overseas casualty list while M H Brown of Harrisburg Pennsylvania is missing.
Bedford Indiana December 21 Prosecutor Woolery filed affidavits with the state board of pharmacy against Earl M Henderson Carl A Lambert George Corwin Henry Campbell Charlies Ho banks and James W Douthitt charging each with violating state liquor laws.
Kendallville Indiana December 21 Samuel Eddy aged seventy one died here. As a youth of sixteen he ran away from his father to enlist in the Civil War joining McAllister Battery of Chicago after opposing his enlistment.
Arthur Capper, governor of Kansas, calls for the United States to end the war. He advocates swift diplomacy and policies aimed at peace and reconstruction. Capper outlines the need for national unity and postwar planning.
Evansville Indiana mayor Benjamin F. Bosse announced the opening of city markets aimed at boosting local commerce and providing residents with accessible goods. The initiative outlines new vendor spaces and extended hours for participating stalls.
Des Moines police, led by Mayor MacVein, seized a carload of coal at the Chicago and North Western yards by order of the mayor to deliver to the poor. Sergeant Skinner and officers guarded the car as the Bloomfield Coal Co. was notified. Cold snap looms with a forecast of 15 degrees below zero.
Luther Burbank, renowned plant wizard and secretary to his private assistant Elizabeth Waters, married in San Francisco. Burbank is sixty-five and has been married once before. Waters is from Hastings, Michigan.
Rockford Dec 1 There is no prospect of returning any additional Illinois national guard regiment until the border force is withdrawn Major W W Bennett reports a telegram from Major General Frederick Funston replying to the mayor's request for the early return of the Third Illinois regiment
Gold totaling eight million two hundred thousand dollars from Canada was deposited in the assay office in New York for the account of J. P. Morgan & Co. The shipment dates are December 21 and December 22.
The Chicago live stock market shows hog receipts at 60 000 with light shipping at 9 85 to 10 10 and heavy packing 8 65 to 9 25. Cattle receipts 16 000 with prices 9 50 to 19 50 for good to choice steers and 6 85 to 7 35 for butcher cows. Grain and eggs prices listed include wheat 1 61 corn 91 4 to 91 2 oats 50 1 to 51 6 and egg quotes for firsts and ordinary eggs.
Reports from Berlin Amsterdam Washington discuss German peace sincerity and allied responses. Norway Sweden Denmark Switzerland consider mediation with Holland urged. Vienna press notes step forward in peace moves while Berlin waits for entente reply and signals readiness for an equitable settlement.
John W. Gudgle and his wife of Princeton Indiana were fined 110 dollars each in Gibson county circuit court for mistreating an adopted six year old from the county orphanage. The child was allegedly beaten at different times and poorly clothed in cold weather. the court ordered the child returned to the orphanage.
The local weather bureau reported the lowest December reading in history as the shelter thermometer showed forty-two degrees below zero.
East St. Louis residents will vote in April after petitions for a local option election are circulated next month announced by Rev. George W. Allison pastor of the First Baptist church.
Frederick W. Story, a Chicago lawyer, was disbarred some time ago and has now been reinstated by the Illinois Supreme Court on the petition of several members of the Chicago bar.
Springfield Illinois December 21 Agricultural organizations of Illinois form a legislative committee and postpone their meeting to January 15.
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