Bank President Kills Cashier in Bank Duels Over Presidency
Berne M. Mead cashier at State Trust and Savings Bank Peoria was shot and killed by Edward A. Strause bank president in a noon gun duel. Jealousy over who would be named president sparked the killing and the two men had clashed over bank stock for months. Strause is jailed on murder charges as the coroner surveys the fatal confrontation.
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Berne M. Mead
Edward A. Strause
State Trust and Savings Bank
Peoria
Dee
Mead
Strause
Joseph Weil
Creve Coeur Club
Thomas Lovelace
Corning
Bank
Jefferson Hotel
Frank Quinn
Clifford
Elliott
Monopolistic packers dominate U S stockyards and markets
Washington reports Francis J. Heney declares the packing interests form a mammoth food trust with control over meat poultry eggs lard leather grain and canned goods. He links Armour Swift Morris to the Chicago Stock Yards and cites interlocking directorates and rail interests as evidence while noting efforts to sidetrack investigators.
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Washington
Francis J. Heney
Federal Trade Commission
Heney
United States
Chicago
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Morris & Co
Wilson Company
Sulzberger
Cudahy
Henery
Chicago Stock Yards Company
Chicago Junction Railways and Stockyards Company
New Jersey Corporation
Maine Corporation
Harry Veeder
Arthur Meeker
Je Bs Spoor
Silas H. Strawn
Packers
R. Fitzgerald
Swifts
H. A. Perento
Central
BE. V. R. Trayer
F. H. Prince
Armour, Swift and Morris
Libby, Cudahy, Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
Anglo- American
Hammond, Lipton
International
Warrants Divided Into Seventeen Shares At Boston Office
Investigators visited Frederick K. Prince & Co. in Boston where share warrants were held. On the same day 34,480 shares were divided into 17 portions and transferred multiple times under a trusteeship for unnamed owners of the Chicago Stockyards company.
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Chicago Stockyards
Frederick K. Prince & Co
Boston
Teuton Losses Hit Italian Front as Piave Crossed
Rome dispatch reports Italian forces pressing the Piave front with gains as Teuton troops retreat across the river after heavy losses. In U.S. tax matters Edward N. Manning, a bookkeeper for Prince & Co. and dummy secretary at Chicago Stockyards, cannot explain profitable corporate returns to cover income and surtaxes. Commission Colver plans to inform Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper and grant access to records.
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Edward N. Manning
Prince & Co
Chicago Stockyards Company
Colver
Commission
Internal Revenue
Roper
Rome
Piave
Vecchio
Room for the Christ Child amid winter’s gloom
Poem expressing calls for compassion and space for the Christ Child during harsh winter, grief, war, and sorrow. It contrasts harshness of season with a plea for mercy, tenderness, and aid to the mourning and vulnerable.
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Christ Child
Bethlehem
Prince Max of Baden Warns Germany on War Aims
Prince Max of Baden in a Baden upper chamber address warned that Germany cannot prevail by force alone. He argued Wilson’s ideal must guide policy and that power without broader backing risks failure, noting Germany’s enemies must see economic restraint behind strength.
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Prince Max of
Baden
Germany
Prince Max
Wilson
Abe
Keet Baby Poisoned Abduction Case Implicates Twelve
A major kidnapping case centers on a plan to seize a banker. Twelve people are implicated in the plot and the investigation details the alleged abduction scheme and suspected involvement.
Christmas Gifts for U S Fighters Across the Seas
Washington reports 650 tons of Christmas gifts for expeditionary forces in France and 250 000 parcels carried by transports. Over 350 000 additional packages mailed to Americans in France. Turkey cranberries sweet potatoes and mince meat prepared for all troops. Springfield sees a baby kidnapping confession and broader abduction plot unfolding involving 72 others.
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Washington
Turkey
Committee On Public Information
France
Pershing
Germans threaten to give U S troops a lesson on front
Bulgarian officers claim Berlin boasted of seeking out American troops on the western front to “give them a lesson.” In a separate item, New York reports a violent earthquake lasting nearly an hour was recorded at Fordham University, with an estimated distance of 3,400 miles and a start around 1 80 p m.
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Berne
West Front
New York
Fordham University
Kaiser vows iron fist to force peace
Amsterdam dispatch reports Kaiser Wilhelm II stating to troops on the Western front that he will force peace upon enemies with an iron fist and with the sword. The quotation underscores aggressive wartime rhetoric amid World War I reporting.
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Iron Fist
Western Front
Westinghouse Stops Rifle Shipments for Russia
New York dated December 24 reports the British government ordered discontinuance of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company rifle production for Russia. The contract totaled 1,800,000 rifles with 1,000,000 completed about two weeks earlier.
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New York
Russia
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Austria Expels 45 Chinese Men on Way to Paris
Forty five Chinese men expelled by Austria due to China's declaration of war arrived in Berne en route to Paris, as reported in the December dispatch.
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Austria
Berne
China
Paris
Italians Make New Gains In Northern Front
Italian forces between the Piave river and Monte Asolone continue a counter drive and win new ground. Diaz troops are sent to reinforce recent gains and repulse a strong Austro German counter stroke. Berlin confirms heavy battery fire limited Italian advances.
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Monte Asolone
London
Dee
Piave Rivera
Monte Asolone Tession
Rome
Diaz
Berlin
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Ill
Detective Clifford
Wire
Arthur Paget
Britain
Mary Stevens
England
Late Telegraphic
Christ
Keet Baby
Piersol
U.S
Pershing Army
Springfield
Claude G. Pilersol
Lloyd Keet
Mackey
Riley
Maxie Adams
C. A. Clement
Piersel
J. Holland Keet
Ed. L. Sanford
Holland Banking Company
State Highway Commission
Fle
Taylor Adams
Marshfield
Keet
Kreet
Dick Carter
Plersol
Freet
Cletus Adams
Greene and
Christian County
U. S
Amsterdam
Helm II
Treasury
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