France Faces Soaring Living Costs and Raw Material Strains
Paris dispatch reports France suffers at least a 75 percent rise in living costs since three years earlier. Experts blame war, transport bottlenecks, and lagging interior canal projects urged by de Freycinet and others, noting France’s port competition and potential Rhine Rhone canal links.
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Associated Press
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Whistling Buoy's Wandering Voyage Logged by U S Navy
The Nantucket Shoals whistling buoy began its voyage January 20, 1913 and roamed 3,800 miles by air line, likely more in reality. Recovered August 16, 1916, 275 miles northwest of Bermuda by the French cruiser Marseillaise, it is being restored for service by the Lighthouse Service.
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Nantucket Shoals
Massachusetts
Bermuda
United States
Marseillaise
Lighthouse Service
North Atlantic
New York
Wage Increase At American Window Glass Plants
Eight thousand workers across Pennsylvania Indiana and other states receive a ten percent wage raise at the American Window Glass company to offset soaring living costs amid a peacetime prosperity surge since the war began. North Carolina now leads tobacco production with smoking and chewing products.
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American Window Glass Company
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Indiana
North Carolina
Italy Moves to Expand Merchant Marine After War
Rome reports Italy will drop subsidy policy and offer five year tax and requisition exemptions to attract shipbuilders and foreign firms to flag Italian ships. Twelve new vessels are under construction as Italy widens its mercantile fleet to offset wartime losses and high freight costs.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Wessel
Germany Fights Commercial Slavery Across Economy
German commercial organizations protest a form of “commercial slavery” linked to war time wage practices. Firms in the Rhineland require relatives’ salaries and a three year postwar commitment, with penalties if relieves quit. Chambers of commerce argue burdens are heavy but urge action against the practice as unpatriotic. Pitcher Tom Hughes of the Braves enlivened 1916 with two brilliant stunts including a no-hit no-run game and a world record innings pitched.
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Serin
Dec. JS
Chambers of Commerce
Rhineland
Tom Hughes
Braves
East And West To Meet In 1917 Football Schedule
New York Dec 18 Inter sectional games are set to feature heavily in the 1917 eastern college football season. Eastern teams posted a strong record last fall in 18 intersectional games against the south and middle west with 15 wins and two ties. The article lists scores and the growing interest in matchups across regions.
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Far West
Eastern College
Michigan
Syracuse
Wolverines
Penn
Cornell
West Virginia
Dartmouth
Rutgers
Washington and Lee
South
University of Pittsburgh
Georgetown University
Georgetown
Double Track System Practically Complete on Southern Line
The last stretch of the Southern railway double track between Spencer and Monroe Virginia has been finished and linked into service Friday at 1 PM. The 11 mile section between Dey Fork and Whittles, Va. is now in operation. Contractors and railway officials expect rapid progress toward a fully double tracked main line, with about 25 miles still single track between Charlotte and Washington.
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Southern Railway
Spencer
Monroe
Dey Fork
Whittles
Southern
Charlotte
Washington
Salisbury
Concord
Charlottesville
League Basketball Starts in Eastern Intercollegiate
New York reports the Eastern Intercollegiate basketball league opens at Ithaca with Princeton versus Cornell. The six members Dartmouth Yale Pennsylvania Columbia and the two leading rivals begin a 30 game home and home season.
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Cornell
Dartmouth
Yale
Pennsylvania
Columbia
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