Lawson taunts with postal challenge over peace note leaks
Washington dispatch reports Thomas W. Lawson claims big Wall Street profits from Wilson peace note leaks. Representative Wood denies he cannot reach Lawson and calls for full congressional investigation into the leaks and related financial gains.
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Washington
Wall Street
Wilson
Thomas W. Lawson
Representative Wood
Indiana
New York
Henry
Capitol
Washington Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Senate
House
Wood
Lawson
Dry forces plan unified fight for statewide prohibition
Indiana Dry Federation and Indiana Anti-Saloon League finalize a joint program for state-wide prohibition. The parties form a nine member legislative steering committee with three members from each group and William E. Carpenter of Brazil named chair. The Dry Federation is expected to hold a majority on the panel.
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Indianapolis
Dplans
Indiana Dry Federation
Indiana Anti-Saloon League
Claypool Hotel
Dry Federation
General Dry Movement
City Federation
Anti-Saloon League
William E. Carpenter
Brazil
Former Fayette County Attorney Dies at 60 in Vandalia
E B Spurgeon former Fayette county states attorney aged sixty died of apoplexy as he left his Vandalia home to walk uptown.
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Vandalia
Ill
Fayette County
E. B. Spurgeon
Ship Given Up as Lost in Nantucket Search
The steamship Maryland is probably lost after coast guard cutters Acushnet and Gresham abandoned the search for the vessel and its crew at Nantucket Massachusetts.
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Nantucket
Mass
Maryland
Coast-Guard
Acushnet
Gresham
Allies Lose Eight Aeroplanes
Berlin reports the entente allies lost eight fight aircraft in Wednesday’s Western Front action as announced by the war office.
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Berlin
Western Front
War Office
Captain R. A. Bartlett Heads New Assignment
Captain R. A. Bartlett is named to lead a new assignment. Details in the dispatch indicate a fresh command and organizational role chosen by authorities. Further official wording is forthcoming from the department.
Spelling Champion Crowned in State Meet
In Springfield Illinois on December 29 Ormond Smith age thirteen from Kewanee missed spelling rhinoceros after 206 correct words to give Mary Orton twelve from Clayton Adams county the state title Smith finished second and Maurice Campbell thirteen from Benton City was third in a field of thirty seven competitors
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Springfield
Ill
Ormond Smith
Kewanee
Mary Orton
Clayton
Adams County
Smith
Maurice Campbell
Benton City
Section hand admits causing fatal interurban crash
Curtis Force a section hand near Edwardsville confessed to Edwardsville authorities that he helped wreck the interurban car north of Edwardsville on October 26. EB A Kanter of New York was killed and about twenty others injured. Force said forty spikes were pulled from the ties for fun and implicated a man named Craig whose first name he did not know.
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Springfield
Ill
Curtis Force
Edwardsville
EB. A. Kanter
New York
Force
Craig
Judge bars Hammond restaurant boycott over egg incident
Judge W C McMahon of Lake county circuit court restrained Hammond Waiters' union from parading or placing stickers in front of restaurants to drive away patrons. The action followed Miss Florence Wilson, daughter of cafe proprietors, who used decayed eggs on picketers in a related incident.
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Hammond
Ind
W. C. McMahon
Lake County
Florence Wilson
A. Wilson
Hammond Waiters’ Union
Children Born in Litters Across Terre Haute Families
Mrs Joseph Marcinki, wife of a miner east of Terre Haute, gave birth to triplets while she is thirty six and her husband forty seven. She previously bore twins last year and twelve other children, including one born on an interurban car. The triplets bring the family to ten living children.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Dee
Joseph Marcinki
Ben TB. Lindsey
Denver Children’s Court
Moving Pictures
Teutons claim signal victory in Odessa drive
German forces push toward the Sereth line in Moldavia and Braila as they punch into Dobrudja opposed by Russian lines. Berlin reports 10,000 plus prisoners from Ramnicu Sarat with Falkenhayn advancing. Petrograd notes stubborn resistance and tank assaults by British armored cars aiding Sakharoff. Mackensen readies a major Odessa advance amid heavy fighting along the Serb line.
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London
Odessa
Mackensen
Sereth
Moldavia
Romnicu-Sarat
Berlin
Braila
Calatz
Matchin
Dobrudja
Rakel
Ramnicu-Sarat
Ramnicu River
Ramnica-Sarat
Falke
Lower Danube
Sakharoff
Teutons
Petrograd
Roumanian
Rail Strike Leaders Threaten Jan 1 Adamson Law
New York Dec 29 the Brotherhood chiefs warned that if the Adamson eight hour law takes effect Jan 1 rail workers will not be responsible for consequences. The conference at Grand Central ended with a flat rejection and the union leaders left the room. Elisha Lee said the union would await the U S supreme court ruling on the law test case and would seek back pay if upheld, a move that would affect about 250 000 railroad employees.
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New York
Brotherhood
Grand Central Station
W. G. Lee
Warren Stone
W. S. Carter
L. F. Shepperd
Elisha Lee
National Conference Committee of the Railways
U. S. Supreme Court
Lee
Constantine Orders Greek Troops Home to Face Entente
A Saloniki telegram says King Constantine ordered the Greek division surrendered to the Bulgarians at Kavala to leave Goerlitz Germany, where interned, and return to the Macedonian front to fight the Entente allies.
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Entente
London
Saloniki
Anglo-Hellenic League
Kavala
Constantine
Goerlit
Germany
Macedonian Front
Hiram Maxim Leaves $165,000 Estate
London December 29 Sir Hiram Maxim the inventor died recently and left an estate worth 165000 dollars.
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Hiram Maxim
London
High Police Figure In Stolen Auto Cases
Chicago officials probe auto theft ring with six police officials implicated in confessions. Assistant prosecutors disclose six detectives and a titled lieutenant in the theft probe, while keeping names confidential to avoid unjust accusations.
Brundage NAMES WOMAN TO ILLINOIS OFFICE
Attorney General elect Edward J Brundage named Miss Jeannette Bates of Ardmore as assistant attorney general. She becomes the first woman in Illinois to hold that post and the second in the United States, with Colorado already having a woman on its chief law officer’s staff. The state’s first woman assistant attorney general has been Ardmore’s village attorney since incorporation.
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Chicago
Edward J. Brundage
Jeannette Bates
Ardmore
Ilinois
United States
Colorado
Illinois
Harding Thwarts Days Committee On Prohibition Shift
In Columbus on December 29 United States Senator Warren G Harding shifted the Republican state committee away from a dry solidification. A resolution pledging a dry state nation and a saloonless Washington failed for lack of a second. Harding arrived and secured a contrary agreement ending the push.
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Columbus
United States
Warren G. Harding
State Central Committee
Republican Party
Washington
Harding
Lieut Gov O Hara Summoned By Landis
Chicago December 29 A subpoena duces tecum for Barratt O Hara lieutenant governor of Illinois was ordered issued by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in federal court over the straw bondsmen probe. He is to testify about the whereabouts of ex secretary Robert R Clark accused of forging a woman's name on a deed. The judge also disclosed threats by telephone against his life tied to the investigation and had ordered Courtney C Scovell taken into custody for refusing to answer questions.
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Chicago
Duces Tecum
Barratt O'Hara
Ilinois
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Robert Rt. Clark
Witners
Courtney C. Scovell
Robert Crowe
Alleged Auto Thieves Turned Over for Grand Jury Testimony
Minneapolis case reports three alleged theft syndicate members John Rohn Martin Peterson and Edward Stevens delivered to Chicago authorities by County Attorney John Rees for Cook county grand jury testimony.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Chicago
John Rees
Cook County Grand Jury
John Rohn
Martin Peterson
Edward Stevens
Chicago Live Stock Markets Report
The Chicago market shows hog receipts around 40 000 with light shipping bids near 10.15 to 10.40 and heavy packing pigs at 10.20 to 10.50, cattle receipts about 20 000 with steer quotations 10.25 to 11.00 and cows 6.85 to 7.25. Potatoes priced 1.50 to 1.75 a barrel, oats and corn mixed quotes included. East Buffalo agents report similar hogs 10.90 to 11.00 and top lambs at 19.50 to 18.75 with yearlings around 12.00 to 11.50.
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Chicago
Dunning and Stevens
Livestock Commission
East Buffalo
German Peace Terms Seen as Possible Path to End War
Washington reports count von Bernstorff states Germany seeks peace and may share definite terms. Germany’s offer is treated as confidential by the United States while entente powers prepare a reply. Neutral diplomats foresee continued endorsement of the President’s peace proposals and possible Latin American backing.
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Bernstorff
Germany
Washington
Count von Bernstorff
United States
Lansing
Oper
State Department
White House
Hofland
South America
Senor Calderon
Methodists Seek to Unite In Historic Baltimore Assembly
Fifty commissioners on unification of the Methodist Episcopal church and the Methodist Episcopal church south meet in Baltimore at the First Methodist Episcopal church to organize for the era’s most important conference since 1844. Among them is Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice president.
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Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church South
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Southern Church
Charles Warren Fairbanks
United States
Lamm Charges Big Frauds In Missouri Governor Race
Kansas City dispatch reports Henry A. Lamm will file with the state legislature on January 8 a petition alleging wholesale election frauds in the race for Missouri governor elect Colonel Frederick D. Gardner. The filing includes affidavits naming political leaders as the men higher up and asserts frauds widespread.
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Kansas City
Frederick D. Gardner
Missouri
Henry A. Lamm
Candiate
Allidavits
Confederate Veterans Save Home From Fire in Kentucky
In Lexington Kentucky on December 29 two thousand Confederate veterans formed a bucket brigade to save the State Confederate Home from burning to the ground.
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Lexington
Dee
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R. A. Bartlett
American Press Association
Robert A. Bartlett
Peacse
North Pole
Roald Amundsen
South Pole
Curtis
Ane
Grand Jury
Michael L. Sullivan
James Quinn
Brundage
Ohio
Committee To Neutrality
Ben B. Lindsey
Denver
Photo Dy
American L'rése Association
William R. Wood
Gov. O'Hara
Landis
Eous
Kaiser
U.S
Charles W. Fairbanks
LAMM
Gardner
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