01 Dec 1914
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1914
Page
1
German forces along the Belgian coast resume activity with units moved to the Ypres front. Reports indicate Belgian garrisons depleted as German troops are drained to reinforce the main fighting line.
Paris reports indicate heavy German cannonading north of Arras with no infantry attacks. Belgium is described as unmanned by garrisons along the frontline, as towns behind the lines are emptied to maintain order. Over 10,000 Germans are said to be massed for a major assault between Ypres and the Lys.
Dr J Ek Wigbee reports ill health at 707 Cass Street with fever reaching 104.5 for four days. A physicians' consultation offered no diagnosis while Judge Higbee spends time at his son's home and attended court. Initial suspicion of ptomaine poisoning, later typhoid was considered but a blood test was negative.
Rev Agust Luth formerly of Zion Church Markesan filed suit in the circuit court at Green Bay seeking $9,000 claiming his recent suspension on a charge of embezzling $21 was fraudulent.
Weather notes show cooler trends across Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa with unsettled to fair skies. Temperatures near 46 yesterday in Michigan and scattered light showers from the Mississippi valley to the Atlantic states accompany slow moving fronts and a central Manitoba low.
Roosevelt company will donate five cents per invoice shipped from today through December 10. Inter state Oil Co collects a one half cent per gallon tax on wagons, yielding over 39 dollars to fund relief for Belgium. Fifteen small towns join the drive, bringing total contributors to twenty four. Five church groups are among recent donors, with small town gifts growing weekly.
The article narrates a crown prince of Germany seeking to visit the United States amid war, with talks at dinner and interest in American cities and sports. It also reports Villa entering Mexico City with thousands of troops, intent on order and protection for foreigners, plus Carranza’s decrees and a State Department warning Americans away from Vera Cruz.
Dan MacMillan calls meeting of Hans Motor Equipment tomorrow morning to decide assets and liabilities. Question is whether certificate holders shall pay to continue operations and pay debts.
Dr. G. MacMillan, trustee, calls a 10 o’clock meeting of preferred stockholders at the plant to present the situation. The firm needs about 25 000 to survive due to lack of liquid assets, though the company is solvent. Small preferred holders hold much of the stock, and their interests are a priority in the restructuring effort.
J Bor den Harriman retired New York banker and broker died in Washington after a long illness. He was noted for his role in finance and his long career in banking and brokerage.
British authorities discovered that Admiral Troubridge followed a coded British admiralty message ordering the Goeben and Breslau to break from Messina. Investigators later found the order originated from German control, exposing a German spy system and a recently changed wireless code used to mask the command.
British and Japanese warships are reported closing in on Admiral Von Spee's squadron off the mouth of the Llata River in the South Atlantic. Traffic is largely abandoned as a major naval engagement is anticipated, with Voltaire reporting German calls for a supply ship.
At Malin's hall Consumers Wholesale Supply company elected five directors J J Poehling Frank Keppel John Filler H G Willey and Fred Pralle The $10 000 concern will be financed by local business people and farmers Stockholders hold final say on major transactions and board selection One share costs 50 with cap of five shares one man one vote Local company will operate under Wisconsin cooperative law and serve educational purposes for consumers and producers The presence of C C Alling president of a Keokuk cooperative highlighted stockholder power
Postmaster General Burleson announced the resumption of parcel post service between the United States and Germany and Austria Hungary. The lifting of the wartime prohibition allows sending thousands of Christmas remembrances to Europe that would have been impossible.
German lines hold across Poland while a large battle rages with heavy attrition. Russian optimism appears misplaced as reports suggest mounting casualties and strategic aims shift amid the conflict. The implication of reinforcements under Von Hindenberg is noted as influencing the war’s trajectory.
Czar Nicholas left for the front at 10 o'clock and will visit army headquarters in Pol and Berlin via wireless to London. A war office statement claims 9,500 Russians captured in North Poland with nineteen cannon and thirty six machine guns. Quiet prevails in East Prussia and Southern Poland.
London reports indicate German lines in Poland are intact with a front about 100 miles long. Von Hindenburg reinforced as Russian and German forces merge, while Russians aim to push the German offensive back toward Warsaw. In Petrograd German troops resist near Lodz as reinforcements arrive and supply losses mount amid fierce combat.
Rev Daniel Woodward, warden of the state penitentiary, praised the three hundred Wisconsin convicts at a Greater Milwaukee association luncheon for their honesty in road work under the honor system, noting none have attempted to escape in two and a half years.
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