Lawmaker Tackles Wall Street Leak Rumors and Lawson Telegram
Washington dispatch reports Representative Wood of Indiana pressing for a full investigation into leaks about President Wilson’s peace note after Thomas W. Lawson claimed big Wall Street gains from leaked information. Lawson urged post card messages from the Capitol to reveal further details while Wood denied an inability to contact Lawson.
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Washington
Wall Street
Wilson
Thomas W. Lawson
Representative Wood
Indiana
New York
Henry
Capitol
Senate
House
Wood
Lawson
Dry forces in Indiana plan unified prohibition drive
Indiana Dry Federation and Indiana Anti-Saloon League workers met at Claypool Hotel to hash a state wide ban strategy. The alliance will form a nine member legislative steering committee with three federation and three league reps naming the chair William E Carpenter of Brazil.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Dry Federation
Indiana Anti-Saloon League
Claypool Hotel
Dry Federation
General Dry Movement
City Federation
Anti-Saloon League
William E. Carpenter
Brazil
Diry Federation
Former Fayette County State's Attorney Dies at 60
Vandalia Illinois December 29 Former Fayette county states attorney E B Spurgeon sixty years old dropped dead as he was leaving his home to walk uptown at Vandalia Apoplexy was the cause
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Vandalia
Ill
Fayette County
E. B. Spurgeon
Ship Given Up as Lost in Nantucket
Nantucket Mass Dec 29 steamship Maryland regarded as probably lost after coast guard cutters Acushnet and Gresham abandon search for the vessel and its crew.
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Nantucket
Mass
Maryland
Coast-Guard
Acushnet
Gresham
Allies Lose Eight Aeroplanes in Western Front Fight
Berlin reports the entente allies lost eight airplanes in combat on Wednesday on the western front, according to the war office.
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Berlin
Western Front
War Office
Spelling Champion Crowned in State Contest at Springfield
In Springfield Illinois on December 29 1935 Ormond Smith thirteen of Kewanee failed on a tricky rhinoceros spelling to hand the state championship to Mary Orton twelve of Clayton Adams county. Smith spelled 32060 words correctly and finished second. Maurice Campbell thirteen of Benton City placed third among 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 authorities that he helped wreck the interurban car north of Edwardsville on Oct 26. E A Kanter of New York was killed and about twenty others were 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
E. A. Kanter
New York
Force
Craig
Teutons Claim Signal Victory in Odessa Drive
German forces press toward the Sereth line in Moldavia and advance on Braila and Galaiz from the southwest. Berlin claims 10,000 prisoners in Ramnicu-Sarat area. Soviet and Romanian fronts report heavy fighting south of the lower Danube with British tanks aiding Sakharoff. Mackensen aims to begin the Odessa drive as major combats loom along the Serb line.
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London
Odessa
Mackensen
Sereth
Moldavia
Romnicu-Sarat
Berlin
Braila
Galaiz
Matchin
Dobrudja
Rakel
Ramnicu-Sarat
Ramnicu River
Ramnica-Sarat
Falkenhayn
Petrograd
Lower Danube
Sakharoff
Teutons
Roumanian
Rail Strike Ultimatum Halts Conference at Grand Central
New York December 29 railway union chiefs threaten to strike if the Adamson eight hour law takes effect January 1. They reject managers demand and abruptly leave a Grand Central conference. Elisha Lee says unions will await the U S Supreme Court decision on the law. If upheld, railroads will resume pay from January 1. 250000 railroad workers would be affected by the action.
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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
UU. S. Supreme Court
Lee
Judge Enjoins a Boycott in Hammond Restaurants
Judge W C McMahon of Lake county circuit court halted a boycott at Hammond eateries. He restrained waiters union members from picketing and placing stickers before shops to deter patrons. The case involves Miss Florence Wilson, daughter of restaurant proprietors, who earlier attacked picketers with decayed eggs.
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Hammond
Ind
W. C. McMahon
Lake County
Florence Wilson
G. A. Wilson
Hammond Waiters’ Union
Children born in litters in Indiana triplets follow twins
Terre Haute Indiana December 29 Mrs Joseph Marcinski wife of a miner east of the city gave birth to triplets and all are doing well The mother is thirty six years old and the husband forty seven A year ago the mother gave birth to twins who are still living and she had twelve other children one of whom was born on an interurban car a few years ago The triplets make few living children
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Terre Haute
Ind
Joseph Marcinki
Constantine Orders Greek Troops Home to Fight Entente
A Saloniki telegram reports King Constantine ordered the Greek division captured by Bulgarians at Kavala to leave German internment at Goerlitz and head to the Macedonian front to oppose the Entente allies.
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Entente
London
Saloniki
Anglo-Hellenic League
Kavala
Constantine
Goerlit
Germany
Macedonian Front
Hiram Maxim Leaves $165000 Estate
London December 29 Sir Hiram Maxim the inventor who died recently left an estate valued at 165000 dollars.
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Hiram Maxim
London
High Police Figure In Stolen Auto Cases
Chicago officials reveal a police lieutenant and five detective sergeants are implicated in a grand jury probe into the automobile thieves' trust. Assistant prosecutors say confessions in their possession name the six officers, though identities are withheld to avoid injustice. the lieutenant’s record is described as spotless.
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Chicago
sState
Grand Jury
Michael L. Sullivan
James Quinn
Raymer
Brundage Names Woman to Illinois Assistant AG
Attorney General-elect Edward J. Brundage announced Miss Jeannette Bates of Ardmore will be appointed as assistant attorney general. She becomes Illinois’s first woman in that role, the second nationwide after Colorado. The first Illinois woman to hold the title is Ardmore village attorney since Ardmore’s incorporation.
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Chicago
Edward J. Brundage
Jeannette Bates
Ardmore
Inllinois
United States
Colorado
Illinois
Harding Thwarts Dry Resolution In Capitol Request
Columbus December 29 United States Senator Warren G Harding shifted Republican strategy away from national prohibition by blocking a dry state and dry nation resolution. He secured a contrary agreement as the measure failed for lack of a second and the party moved toward neutrality on liquor policy.
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Columbus
United States
Warren G. Harding
State Central Committee
Republican Party
Washington
Harding
Mrs Ben B Lindsey to Star In His Movies
The headline announces Mrs Ben B Lindsey will star in films produced by a major studio, signaling a unexpected acting venture for the notable legal figure and advocate.
Lieut Gov O Hara Summoned by Landis
Chicago December 29 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis ordered a subpoena duces tecum for Barratt O Hara lieutenant governor of Illinois in the federal court over the straw bondsmen probe. He is wanted to testify about the whereabouts of his former 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 Courtney C Scovell clerk in Judge Crowe s court taken into custody for refusal to answer.
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Chicago
Barratt O'Hara
Illinois
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Robert R. Clark
Courtney C. Scovell
Robert Crowe
Get Alleged Auto Thieves
Minneapolis authorities turn three alleged automobile theft syndicate members over to Chicago for grand jury testimony. John Rohn Martin Peterson and Edward Stevens were handed to Cook County officials for proceedings.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Chicago
John Rees
Cook County Grand Jury
John Rohn
Martin Peterson
Edward Stevens
Chicago Markets Report Live Stock and Grain Prices
Market notes show hog receipts around 40,000 with values from 10.15 to 10.40 for light shipping and 8.66 to 9.30 for good to fancy pigs. Cattle receipts near 20,000 with steers 10.25 to 11.00, butcher cows 6.85 to 7.25, and bulls up to 11.75. Wheat No 2 hard winter at 1.78, corn No 2 white 91 3/4 to 93 1/4 cents, oats No 3 white 62 cents. Butter and eggs quoted in ranges. potatoes 1.50 to 1.76. East Buffalo notes list slower cattle, stronger hogs with heavy 10.90 to 11.00, lambs 13.50 to 19.75, yearlings 12.00 to 12.50, and other dairy figures.
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Chicago
Prise Veadiere
East Buffalo
Dunning and Stevens
Livestock Commission
Kaiser Terms Available In German Peace Efforts
Washington dispatch reports Ambassador Bernstorff stating Germany seeks peace and may reveal definite terms to the United States under seal. Berlin’s replies to the President’s note arrive at the state department with similar content, while entente powers insist on public peace terms before negotiations. Neutral diplomats predict continued support for the President’s plan with possible endorsements from Scandinavian nations and prompt action by South American states led by Senor Calderon.
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Washington
Germany
Count von Bernstorff
United States
Lansing
State Department
White House
Holland
South America
Senor Calderon
Methodists Seek To Unite In Historic Baltimore Conference
Fifty commissioners assemble in Baltimore in the First Methodist Episcopal chapel to form a unified Methodist Episcopal Church and Methodist Episcopal Church South, a step toward the pivotal conference in Episcopal Methodism since the 1844 split. Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice president, is among the commissioners.
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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 election
Kansas City December 29 content in the election of Colonel Frederick D Gardner Democratic governor elect of Missouri by Henry A Lamm defeated Republican candidate will be filed with the state legislature January 8. Charges of wholesale election frauds will be made in the petition and affidavits naming some of their own political leaders as the men higher up have been made public.
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Kansas City
Frederick D. Gardner
Missouri
Henry A. Lamm
Candiate
Confederate Veterans Save Home in Lexington Bucket Brigade
Confederate veterans at the State Confederate Home in Lexington Kentucky formed a bucket brigade to battle a blaze on December 29 and saved the home from burning to the ground.
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Burns
Lexington
State Confedere’e
Crovnd
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