City advisory council debates plague ban and measures
A public meeting heard 1000 citizens urge reimposing a flu ban as city and state health leaders weigh methods to curb the epidemic. Major King cited Chicago talks and urged uniform closure of all gathering places if such orders are used, while others questioned the approach.
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W. Ratcliffe
H. E. Steuhm
John W. Barnes
Major King
State Health Board
Indiana
Barnes
King
Logansport
Chicago
American Public Health Association
Steinmetz sentenced to 30 days jail for illegal liquor
August Steinmetz a former saloonist now running a soft drink parlor at 815 Fifteenth street was fined 200 dollars plus 30 dollars costs and ordered to serve 30 days in Cass county jail after pleading guilty to illegal possession of liquor. The case goes to the circuit court on appeal. Two Deer Creek township farmers Willard F Pierson and Frank Williams pleaded guilty to bootlegging and were fined 100 dollars plus 130 dollars in costs and to 130 days at the penal farm. Lemuel Sailors was arrested on liquor possession charges and jailed.
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August Steinmetz
Fifteenth Street
Cass County
James A. West
Logansport
Steinmetz
West
Walters
Penal Farm
Circuit Court
Willard F. Pierson
Frank Williams
Deer Creek Township
Lemuel
Youth blown to atoms by blast near Greensburg
Greensburg Indiana December 18 Herbert Storms 23 of Bradner Ohio a rep for American Glycerine company was blown to pieces when 600 quarts of nitroglycerine and 50 pounds of dynamite exploded on Noah Deshields farm two and a half miles north of Greensburg about six this evening the blast heard for miles and shattered windows within a mile radius.
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Greensburg
Ind
Herbert Storms
Bradner
Ohio
American Glycerine Company
Noah Deshields
Here
Civilian employees may get pay home
The House adopted a conference report on a bill to reimburse government civilians for transportation home in Washington during the war. The measure, approved after Senate concurrence, aims to cover travel costs for civilian federal employees.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
New Era in American Finances Predicted by Reserve Board
The December bulletin of the Federal Reserve Board foresees a new era in American finance with serious postwar economic challenges. It calls for rationing financial resources during the transition, aid to foreign governments via banks, containment of inflation, and prioritizing essential industries to absorb war loans.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
United States
Army Transport Logan Catches Fire at Sea
The Army transport Logan left Honolulu on December 14 after sailing from San Francisco on December 4 bound for Siberia. At midnight last Monday she caught fire but flames were subdued and the vessel continued on her voyage, per the marine department of the Chamber of Commerce.
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San Francisco
Calif
Logan
Siberia
Marine Department of the
Chamber of Commerce
Honolulu
Governors of United States May Hold Session in Alaska Next Year
Governors meeting in Annapolis report Alaska as the proposed site for next year’s annual conference. Governor Riggs secures Secretary Daniels promise of transport, with a committee to pick Alaska or Utah as the meeting location.
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United States
Alaska
Annapolis
Mississippi
Chesapeake Bay
Daniels
Lane
Wilson
Europe
Milliken
Maine
Paris
Woodrow Wilson
Napoleon
Pasteur
Thomas Riggs, Jr
Utah
Senate votes 60 to 12 on child labor profits tax
The Senate approved a committee amendment imposing a ten percent tax on profits from child labor products entering interstate commerce. The vote was 60 to 12 with Democrats in opposition. The measure targets mines quarries employing under 16 and mills or factories employing under 14 or under 16 for long hours.
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Washington
Senate
Pomeranhe
Ohio
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Kenyon
Iowa
Supreme Court
Hardwick
Georgia
Overman
North Carolina
Bankhead
Alabama
Beckham
Kentucky
Martin
Pollock
South Carolina
Simmons
Smith
Thomas
Colorado
Underwood
Williams
Mississippi
Wilson
Congress
Accused Man Believed To Have Multiple Marriages
Milo H. Piper held in Muskegon on a charge of killing Frieda Weichman of Chicago. Officers say Piper admitted marriage to Marian Grey of Benton Harbor in 1908 and claim he had several prior marriages. Sheriff Stauffer expects more findings as investigators probe Piper’s marital history.
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Muskegon
Mich
Milo H. Piper
Frieda Weichman
Chicago
Weichman
Marian Grey
Benton Harbor
Piper
Carl A. Stauffer
President Wilson to Attend Paris Reception for Joffre
President Wilson will attend a reception for Marshal Joffre at the French institute in Paris. Hanotaux describes Wilson as affable and popular in Paris, noting he is a foreign honorary member and will visit the Franco American committee tomorrow at 5 PM with Mrs Wilson.
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Wilson
Lane
Europe
Champs Elyse
Paris
Gabriel Hanotaux
French Institute
Marshal Joffre
Institute
M. Hanotaux
Cedar Rapids votes to raise street railway fare
In a refer endum election the people of Cedar Rapids Iowa have increased the street railway fare from five to six cents.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
State food staff to be discharged January 1
Washington announces all paid employees of state county and total food administrations will be discharged January 1 and all paid staff activities including sugar equalization board work will end. Voluntary workers will stay until the national food administration is dissolved by the President.
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Washington
Sugar Equalization Board
The
Food Administration
National Food Administration
Wilson
Navy seeks boost to 217000 enlisted strength
Washington December 18 captain H Laning acting chief of the bureau of navigation asks the house naval affairs committee to raise permanent enlisted strength from 131000 to 217000 including 175000 sailors 24000 apprentices 12000 in training schools and 6000 in the flying corps the plan aims to match the world’s strongest navies and requires more officers while facing objections about naval academy incentives and timing through a heated discussion with Representative Kelly and Admiral Badger’s recommendations.
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Washington
House
Naval Affairs Committee
H. Laning
Bureau of Navigation
Laning
Naval Bureau of Operations
Badger
United States
Regular Navy
Navy
Naval Reserve Force
Naval Reserve
Padgett
Naval Academy
Academy
Annapolis
Representative Kelly
Michigan
American delegates back sinking surrendered ships for peace
Paris December 18 American peace congress delegates advocate sinking captured enemy warships and oppose distributing prizes by naval losses. They seek to support Wilson's peace aims and avoid aggression claims while pledging continued Allied support for the league concept and unity with Britain Italy and others.
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Paris
Peace Congress
Wilson
England
Eric Geddes
Admiralty
United States
France
League of Nations
Lloyd George
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Count di Cellere
Ail
President Wilson to Visit London for Preliminary Talks
London report says President Wilson will visit London earlier than planned within a fortnight. The premier's Paris departure is postponed and Wilson will meet the premier in London to hold preliminary discussions that were to occur in Paris.
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Associated Press
London
the Press Association
Wilson
Paris
Paris civilian deaths from bombs and cannon in war
Associated Press report details Paris civilian toll from German air raids and long range cannon. It lists 1914 to 1916 bombings, 1917 casualties from 396 bombs in ten months, 228 bombs in a single day, and 168 long range cannon shells with hundreds injured or killed.
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Paris
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