German Affair Crisis Deepens as Election Returns Probed
From Austin Texas a state board orders three county attorneys to investigate why they failed to submit election returns. Berlin reports rising tension as the government faces a crisis, with newspapers noting ministers losing authority amid a central council of soldiers and workers stepping in. Lloyd George is reelected in Carnarvon. Asquith defeated. Demobilization of 100,000 soldiers announced. Rail stock deliveries to Allies satisfactory. Vilna threatened by Bolshevist advance. Polish troops seek free railway passage. Henderson defeated. Wilson calls for a concert of power to safeguard world peace.
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Associated Pross
Austin
Tex
State Election Board
Berlin
Nbert-Haasen
Vossische Zeitung
Central Council of Soldiers and Workers
London
Vilga
Lithuania
Warsaw
Hoffman
Falkenhayn
Vilna
Notable Americans Born 1819 Centennial List
New York on December 28 1919 lists prominent figures born in 1819. Names include Julia Ward Howe Cyrus W Field Walt Whitman and Reuben E Fenton among poets statesmen inventors and military leaders linked to the century’s milestones.
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New York
Prince Albert
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Vistoria
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans
John Ruskin
Charles Kingsley
Franz Abt
James Russel Lowell
Cyrus W. Field
Julia Ward Howe
America
Charles A. Dana
The
New York Sun
Walt” Whitman
William A. Wheeler
United States
Hayes
Thomas A. Hendricks
Cleveland
Notable 19th Century Figures in Civil and Religious Life
Territory and civil war soldier figures include a Pennsylvania governor and William Henry Elder, archbishop of Cincinnati. Abner Doubleday led Federal forces at Gettysburg, Henry Diston shaped export law, Alexander Burgess helped Quincy’s Episcopal leadership, William Birney advanced abolitionism, John Bidwell pioneered in California and ran for president, and Fordyce Barker stood as a leading medical pioneer.
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Preston H. Leslie
Kentucky
Montana Territory
Lucius J. Knowles
James K. Kelly
United States
Oregon
John C. Keener
Methodist Episcopal Church
John W. P. Jenks
Brown University
Frederick D. Huntington
Central
New York
Henry J. Hunt
Territory
Pennsylvania
William Henry Elder
Cincinnati
Abner Doubleday
Gettysburg
Henry Disdton
England
Alexander Burgess
Quincy
William Birney
John Bidwell
California
Fordyce Barker
Mayor Cowgill asks governor to call out Seventh regiment
Kansas City dispatch reports Mayor Cowgill urged Governor Garner to mobilize the Seventh regiment to restore order in the city street car strike that has stretched over two weeks. The governor indicated that action would be taken.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Cowgill
Garner
Seventh Regiment
Birth Anniversary of Alexander Forsyth Inventor of Percussion Lock
London notes mark the 150th birthday of Alexander Forsyth the Scotch clergyman who invented the percussion lock enabling modern firearms. He studied bird shooting and created a pad to cover the lock after observing birds dive into water. Forsyth patented the percussion system in 1807 with Watt aiding in specifications. Napoleon offered 100000 pounds for the invention, which Britain later tested at Woolwich and eventually armed a regiment after decades.
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London
Alexander John Forsyth
James Watt
Napoleon Bonaparte
Forsyth
Woolwich
Notable Royal Treasures and Historic Wares Across Monarchies
The article surveys royal collections and relics cherished by women of empire. It highlights Czarina Russia’s vast warming-pan trove in Petrograd, Eugenie’s Napoleonic museum at Farnborough, Napoleonic relics at Marlborough House, and Queen Alexandra’s famed treasure room with an estimated ten million dollars in gold and silver pieces.
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Czarina
Russia
Imperial Palace
Petrograd
Eugenie
Farnborough
Napoeon the Great
Queen Alexandra
Marlborough House
Edward VII
Alexandra
Laredo National Bank Statement Summary
Statement shows assets including United States Bonds and other securities, stock in Federal Reserve Bank Redemption Fund with U.S. Treasurer, bank building, furniture and fixtures, cash and exchange, War Savings Certificates, and a totals line. The text is an OCR fragment with formatting artifacts and misspellings.
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United States
Federal Reserve Bank Redemption Fund
U.S
Cash and Exchange
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City Hall
CSS
AMD Ebert
Council of Soldiers and Workers
Lloyd George
David Lloyd George
Carnarvon
Wales
Herbert H. Asquith
Liberty Party
Mons
Asquith
Liberals
Washington
General March
France
Paris
Arthur Henderson
British Labor Party
War Cabinet
Eastham
Des
Great Britain
Wilson
Elas Howe
Massachusetts
Machine
W. T. G. Morton
Boston
William S. Rosecrans
Josiah G. Holland
Thomas Dunn English
Ben Bolt
E. D. E. N. Southworth
Thomas Ball
Reuben E. Fenton
William Wetmore Story
Eliza P. Greatorex
James T. Lewis
Wisconsin
John C. Howell
United States Navy
Henry J. Gardner
Alexander Gregg
Texas
George Gillespie
Western
Michigan
John W. Geary
Kansas
Laredo N.tional Bank
Laredo
Texkas
Qiece of Business
von Denbed
Capital
Federal Reserve Bank
J. K. Beretta Prasias
M. Alexander
Sam W. Brown
M. W. Krennan
A. L. Vidaurri
A. Deutz & Brother
Quey
Valcetios
L. Daiches
L. Daiches the Jeweler
Joseph Netzer
Royal Opera House
Bellabie Playhouse
Peggy Hyland
Royal Concert Orchasetra
Caillaux
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