President Wilson Demands Reprimands over Carabao Dinner
President Wilson released a letter to Secretaries Garrison and Daniels calling for a very serious reprimand for army and navy officers who participated in the Military Order of the Carabao dinner. He denounced the event as a violation of sacred service traditions, saying officers treated ridicule of superiors and government policies as mere fun and urged adherence to duty and loyalty.
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Washington
WiLson
Garrison
Daniels
Army
Navy
United States
Canned Goods Condemned by Government
Two thousand cases of assorted canned vegetables condemned as filthy and decomposed by a federal food inspector in Hamilton. The department of agriculture announced in Chicago that an attempt was planned to offer some of the more presentable for food. The vegetables reportedly had been under water in the Ohio field.
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Associated Press
Washington
Food Inspector of
Hamilton
Chicago
Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Lutheran Church Choir Delights with Christmas Song Service
A large congregation attended a Sunday song service at the Lutheran Church highlighted by a vested choir under Miss Bertha Mills. The program opened with organ prelude by Miss M Watkins and included Christmas Bells, Mother Dear Jerusalem, The Heavenly Reply, Holy Night, Glory to Heaven's Eternal King, The Angel's Song, O Little Town of Bethlehem, The Holy Child, and I Hear Thy Voice Dear Lord. The service ended with benediction after congregational chorology. Morgantown notes the death of Mrs Mary R. EH Kiger at 95.
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Lutheran Chuck
Jerusalem
Lorenzo
Miss B. Mills
Beatrice
Cody Grow
Bethleham
Patterson Woman Tied to Tragedy in DeVillers Case
The former life of Mrs. R L Glover connected to Daniel DeVillers who was shot in Los Angeles. She is the discarded wife of Vivian M Lewis, Republican candidate for New Jersey governor in 1910. DeVillers came to Patterson in 1906, opened a riding school, and he and Mrs. Lewis left together, last heard from in South America.
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Associated Press
Patterson
N. J
R. L. Glover
Daniel DeVillers
Los Angeles
Vivian M. Lewis
New Jersey
Woodrow Wilson
DeVillers
Lewis
South America
Baby found dead on White avenue in Morgantown
Three boys discovered a newly born infant’s body wrapped in newspaper along White avenue. The head and parts of the body were present. race could not be determined. The baby appeared to have reached maturity at birth as Justice Barker investigates.
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Morgantown
White Avenue
Justice Barker
Menelik Dead in Abyssinia Official Announcement
Official news from Addis Ababa confirms Emperor Menelik II is dead after rumors circulated for days in European capitals. He was son of Haile Selassie I and claimed lineage to Queen of Sheba and King Solomon. A school music course view urges broad study of musical literature in high schools.
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Earhart
Addis Abeba
Abyssinia
Menelik
Meniik
Haell Melfcob
Sabon
Sheba
Solomon
Will Earhart
Pittsburg
United States Bureau of Education
Mom
Two Drownings Reported In Appomattox River
Petersburg Virginia December 23 two men from Albany New York and Lynchburg Virginia were drowned in the Appomattox river last night while standing on a wharf. McLaughlin stumbled and fell in and Kennedy and Beldin were thrown into the water during the attempt to rescue him. The two victims were identified as Josh Kennedy of Albany and C A McLaughlin of Lynchburg. Beldin of White Plains had a narrow escape.
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Petersburg
Josh Kennedy
Albany
N. Y
C. A. McLaughlin
Lynchburg
Appomatox
H. W. Beldin
White Plains
McLaughlin
Kennedy
Boldin
Spring floods blamed for high egg prices in Congress hearing
Washington December 23 flood losses in the Ohio valley are cited as the main cause of egg price increases. The argument before Congress contends that thousands of fowls were drowned across the Ohio valley and Midwest, and that cold storage firms did not cause the shortage.
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Washington
Ohio Valley
Committee of Congress
McKellar
Middle West
Two Die in Auto Wreck Near Louisville
The bodies of Robert Gallatin of York Pennsylvania and Louis Wakefield of Shelbyville Kentucky were found embedded in mud at the edge of a small creek in Louisville suburbs. The automobile accident occurred about 10 o clock last night.
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Louisville
Robert Gallatin
York, Pa
Louis Wakefield
Sheljverville
Death of Rev. Dr. D. D. Whitlock at Toledo
Rev. Dr. D. D. Whitlock aged 70 retired Methodist clergyman and Toledo father of Mayor Whitlock died at St. Luke's hospital after being overcome while Christmas shopping with his son William Whitlock.
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Associated Press
Cleveland, D
D. D. Whitlock
Toledo
Whitlock
St. Luke's Hospital
William Whitlock
Shaw to Fight New Tax Refusal by Suffrage Leader
New York December 28 Dr Anna Howard Shaw president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association refused to pay her income tax and yesterday announced her intention to fight the law.
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New York
Anna Howard Shaw
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
Woman Found Dead in Alley Dies in Exposure
The unidentified woman later identified as Hannah Laughlin of Battle Creek Michigan died from exposure after being found in a South Side alley in Chicago clad only in an apron and one shoe. She gave no explanation for how she ended up there.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Hannah Laughlin
Coldwater Street
Battle Creek
Mich
Panama canal postures ship through canal Christmas gift
Panama advices report the US 8 Buffalo or another vessel may pass the Panama Canal as Col Goethals Christmas present to the American people. In Chicago, friends of Mrs Billa Flagg Young plan to lobby for her reinstatement as public school superintendent at a board meeting tonight.
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Col. Goethals
Associated Press
New York
Panama
U. S
Buffalo
Panama Canal
Chicago
Billa Flagg Young
Board of Education
Alaska's vast resources demand new federal stewardship
A former official argues Alaska should be run under a national board to develop lands, fisheries, forests, and railways, with broad policies set by Congress. He favors government-built rail links, leasing coal and oil lands to operators, and reserving some coal for the Navy, aiming for rapid, united territorial growth.
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Russia
New England
Alaska
Les Ansvost
United States
Lane
Washington
Stockholm
St Petersburg
Raisvoad
Congress
Philippines
Alask
jIn
Minnesota
Montana
Colorado
Vane
England
Forty Fishermen Escape as Schooner Sinks in River
Forty fishermen fled a sinking schooner in the North River after it was rammed by the tug Daniel Willard owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The ship took on water and sank in about twenty feet, while the fishermen evacuated to the tug and nearby vessels.
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Associated Press
New York
North River
Daniel Willard
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Mrs Klein dies after cancer battle at 76 in Baltimore
J C Klein, Latrobe street clothier, reports the death of his mother Mrs Anna Klein at her daughter Mrs Jacob Schwartz home in Baltimore after a long cancer illness. She was 76 and survived by sons Abe Klein Clarksburg Louis Marlinton and others including Mrs Alex Lazarus Belington and the late El Klein of Grafton. Funeral attendance to follow.
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J. C. Klein
Latrobe Street
Anna Klein
Jacob Schwartzz
Baltimore
Klein
Mr. Klein
Abe Klein
Clarksburg
Louis
Marlinto
Alex Lazarus
Belington
el Kien
Grafton
Miss Celie Emerson Cleared In Assault Case
London police magistrate dismisses charges of assaulting a police officer against American suffragette Miss Celie Emerson after she testifies the officer's claim of a deliberate strike and helmet crash was untrue. The court action ends with Emerson and her friend leaving the court with honors.
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Asociated
London
Celie Emerson
Miss Emerson
Mystery of Couch's Dual Life Woman Prisoner Revealed
In Monticello New York Adelaide Brance, a woman described as a voluntary prisoner in Melvin Couch's office for three years, seeks to leave town after his death. Prosecutors reveal details of a secret life, as Couch’s double existence and Brance's identity spark lasting intrigue.
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Melvin Couch
Associated Press
Monticello, N
Melvin M. Couch
Sullivan County
Monticello
Adelaide Branc
Mise
Adelaide Brance
Mra. Couch
Sherrim Kime
George Cook
Miss Brance
J. F. Curlett
Walker Named by Wilson Today to be United States District Attorney
President Wilson nominated Stuart W. Walker as United States district attorney for the northern district of West Virginia. Items discuss land reclamation, timber land fraud, and home steaders, with Secretary Lane urging longer payments and broader use of arid lands and western resources for future national growth.
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Wilson
United States
Associated Press
Washington
Stuart W. Walker
West Virginia
Lane
Indiana
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