City Plunged Into Darkness By Logansport Utilities Plant
Logansport residents faced four hours without lights as the municipal electric plant, undergoing repairs, failed to meet demand. Manager L Binns blamed a lost vacuum and a faulty turbine, promising restoration by morning. downtown power was prioritized, and churches were expected to have service today.
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Logansport Utilities Company
Municipal Electric Light Plant
East End
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HW. Binns
Christmas Peace Shifts as Wilson Plans Quiet Holiday
In a pre war spirit Christmas begins nationwide with heavy gift buying and record postal activity. President Wilson, ill, will spend Christmas Eve at the White House with no tree this year while his interior decor remains festive. Cabinet members and officials prepare family gatherings as government offices close for the holiday and soldiers abroad and at home await Christmas in quiet observance.
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Eee Preéz
Washington
Europe
Atlantic
Post Office Department
White House
Wilson
Tegard
Presidnt
Marshall
Indianapolis
Lansing
Watertown
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Glass
Lynchburg
Postponement Speech Returns Railroads to Private Control
The Associated Press reports President Wilson’s late December message signaling postponement and returning railroads to private control. The discussion cites previous May statements and congressional expectations about a broader conference and agreement, amid differing positions across quarters.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
President Signs the Sweet Bill
President signs the bill increasing compensation for disabled veterans and extending beneficiaries under the war risk insurance act. Workers in the compensation and claims division reportedly worked overtime, with Bureau staff noting the lengthy process and urgency of the act’s passage.
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Washington
Dec
War “Fisk Insurance “Buréau
Bureau
Ait Cks
Power Failure Delays Tribune Late Edition
The Tribune arrives late due to power and rights issues delaying printing until 10 oclock. To avoid reducing page size, editors published the regular edition despite the late press run.
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Tribune
the Tribune
Former Local Man Sustains Skull Fracture
Elmer Brown a 48 year old Pennsylvania passenger engineer and former city resident lies in a Cincinnati hospital in serious condition after an accident last Saturday near the city. His skull is fractured and he has been unconscious since the event except for a brief period Monday. Details are scarce but it is believed he was struck on the head while leaning from the engine car window. Mrs. Martin Ganter, connected to the man, learns of the incident and remains unable to visit due to illness. Brown previously lived in Logansport and Richmond before moving to Cincinnati.
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Elmer Brown
Pennsylvania
Cincinnati
Ohio City
Strick
Grown
Martin Ganter
Broadway
Logansport
Mr. Brown
Richmond
Family of eight feared dead on Isle Royale island
The Associated Press report from Duluth says Captain E A Obert his two sisters and five children are believed lost near Donia Harbor on Isle Royale after an attempted rescue by Edward Gates keeper of the light at Passage Island. Gates says Obert was last seen in November with no food.
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Associated Press
Duluth
Ming
E A. Obert
Edward
Gates
Passytes
Donia Harbor
Isle Royale
Isle Royals
Passage Island
Bec
County WWII Farewell Shas City Today
Local page notes a World War II farewell event in the county with a ceremony planned in the city today. Officials invite veterans and residents to attend a community gathering honoring service members and remembering wartime efforts.
Christmas at Orphans' Home Promises Special Day
The Orphans Home plans a bigger Christmas for eight residents with noon dinner, a party, and a Christmas tree. Santa Claus visits and gifts, stockings, and candy are provided from the canteen fund, plus two donated turkeys for the meal.
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Santa Claus
G. Carney
Christmas Day Observed Brightly in Logansport
Logansport observes Christmas Day with widespread cheer as charitable societies aid households lacking funds for celebrations. Santa distributed toys to children and adults, though poor electric service hampered tree lighting in many homes. Merchants report higher holiday gift volume this year with little change in yesterday’s trade.
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Logansport
Santa Claus
Auore Christngss
Will
Abe
Secretary Lansing Greeting to Nation on Christmas Day
Secretary of State Lansing issues a Christmas message to the American people. He vows that Christian principles and Jesus teachings guide a peaceful era and improved international life, urging renewed hope that these values will shape nations and world affairs.
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Washington
Lansing
Christensism
Jesus
Bineteen
Cnthe
Rockefeller Gives 100 Million to Education and Health
New York Christmas day Rockefeller announced gifts totaling 100 million dollars split equally between the general education board to raise college professors salaries and the Rockefeller foundation to improve medical education public health administration and scientific research. Total gifts now estimated around 450 million dollars. He urged the education board to select the recipient college and to use principal and income for teaching staff benefits.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
General - Education Board
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller
Hay wagon crash leaves Campbell gravely injured at deer creek
Oscar G. Campbell 56 of Deer Creek suffers a base skull fracture and shoulder bruises when a hay wagon toppled 414 miles southwest of the city. He remained conscious and was taken to St Joseph hospital where condition was listed as very grave by the physician.
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Oscar G. Campbell
Deer Creek
Campbell
St. Joseph Hospital
Abe Yost
Yost
Lena Yost
R Trautman
Killian EN McCloskey
Mystery surrounds murder of rich Detroit man
Mount Clemens Mich December 24 with four bullet wounds in the back and head the body of J Stanley Brown son of the late John H Brown Detroit cigarette manufacturer was found today in his automobile on a country road leading to the city A ring set with a diamond and twenty nine thousand dollars worth of securities and cash were undisturbed investigators believed ambush occurred during the night and motive remains unknown
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Associated ‘Bress
Mount Clemens
Mich
John’h. Brown
Detroit -Eigare
Sammie
Sheriff Robbed of Whiskey From Jail Storage
Evansville Indiana December 24 burglars visited the county jail and took about forty gallons of whiskey. The liquor had been placed in the jail for safekeeping by Sheriff Mead Chapman. Entrances were gained by sawing bars and cutting the door lock. a few half pint bottles in a case were left behind. No clue to the theft has been found.
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Associated Press
Evansville
Founty
Mead Chapman
Logansport Home Building Company Plans Three Houses for Sale
An officer of the Logansport Home Building Company says three cottages are under construction on a plot at Sixteenth and Smead Streets. The Cass County Chamber of Commerce aided formation and stock subscribers paid the first installment. Summers involved site surveys for building purposes and the plan to offer homes for sale proceeds with several cottages nearing completion.
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Logansport ~Home Building Company
Home Building Company
Cass County Chamber of Commerce
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