Missouri fuel orders foresee coal delivery limits
Missouri state officials ordered sweeping fuel measures to curb coal deliveries and reconsignments. The plan targets retail deliveries to a 30 day supply and links distribution to emergency needs, while warning against railroads hoarding or seizure.
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Crossley
Wallace Crossley
The
Fuel Administration
Missouri
Cara
Crowley
Croedoy
Witter
Val
Onr
Terminas Companine 1
Tel Atministration
Suan urges patriotic speeches amid Missouri race
Thay W. F. Suan secretary of the Missouri defense center urged men who are candidates or prospective candidates for office to give patriotic speeches. Frederick A. Mayhall of Jefferson City protested in a letter to Saunders, noting Mayhall may run for Congress in the Eighth District. Saunders said he quit calling Mayhall for speeches because he expected to be a candidate and would seek government inquiry into alleged unpatriotic discrimination.
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Thay W. F. Suan Jets
The
Missouri Centes
Han QU
Frederick A. Mayball
Jefferson City
Saunders
Mayhall
Missouri
Congress
Mayhali
Compress
Stumm
William
Drwin
Jeffersonity
Bergus
Lye
Old Trail Road District Votes For Bridge Bond
The Callaway County road district in Mineola adopts a funding measure approving a $825,000 bond for the National Old Trails road project. The action funds a four mile link extending west to the electric state road project under construction, ensuring the road’s reconstruction.
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Willasbure Calwool
Perial
Callaway Onanty
Mineola
War Conference Planned for January Across State
January plans outline a state wide war conference to be held early in the month. It will involve county leaders, selected Four Minute Men, editors and other local figures. The aim is to map broad information dissemination and homefront support with a two day program beginning with a public meeting addressed by a Cabinet member and another veteran war zone speaker.
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Defenar
Waiman
Wreeting
Wether
Wilson
Committee On Public Information
Washington
Appointments After Holidays for St Louis Police Board
Gov Gardner said he will not rush the St Louis police board appointments for successors to Philip B Fouke and J J Sheanan whose terms expire December 31 He suggested appointments may occur during the month but will likely wait until after the new year The present members hold over until successors are appointed and qualified
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Gardner
St. Louis
Philip B. Fouke
J. J. Sheanan
State oil inspector exposes delinquent oil fee dodgers
Mark Gray, state oil inspector, reports many oil dealers and corporations in the state have dodged payment of state inspection fees. He notes a delinquent owed $1,080 in fees. In the year he has collected from delinquents who had escaped inspection payments over $20,000.
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Mark Gray
Penitentiary Faces Fuel Shortage Forces Plant Closures
The state prison system reports over 2,300 inmates at Alliss Our penitentiary facing severe fuel shortages. Industrial plants employing about 1,400 convicts are closed as authorities seek 80 tons of fuel daily to operate factories and heat the facility. Workers were moved to tear cells during the crisis.
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Alliss Our
State Prison Board
Industral
Con Ia
Gt Tie
New Year Ball Plan Denied by Governor Gardner
Gov Frederck A Gardner says no social gatherings at the Majejiou mansion during the war and urges patriotic meetings only. He states the crisis demands seriousness and public events should serve a unifying war purpose rather than frivolity.
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Frederck A. Gardner
Supreme Court reverses two Boonville state cases
The Supreme Court reversed and remanded two Boonville cases. Walter Mills, a Black man, faced a death sentence and "Midnight" Porter, also Black, received sixty years for the murder of Philip Carpenter, a white linotype operator, on March 8. Errors in the trial judge’s jury instructions prompted the reversals.
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Supreme Court
Boon- Ville
Walter Mills
Midnight
Porter
Philip Carpenter
March OS
Missouri to form state dental advisory board for drafts
Provost Marshal General Crowder adopted the suggestion by Dr. J. P. Harper of St Louis University to organize a Missouri state dental advisory board. The plan will be implemented once operational details are finalized.
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J. P. Harper
St. Louis University
Missouri
Crowder
University instructor resigns after disloyalty report
GE. M. Jauneey a physics instructor at the University of Mi resigns following a Justice Department report accusing him of disloyalty. He says the alleged pro German remarks were written in a letter to his brother in Australia before the war and denies being disloyal. He was summoned before President A. Hose Hill to explain.
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GE. M. Jauneey
University of Mi
Department of Justice
Jauneey
A. Hose Hill
Australia
United States
Jaunecey
Germans Prepare Huge Offensive Across Western Front
Fragmented war report describes massive German preparations along the western front from the Channel to the Adriatic. Air power and artillery dominate the battle scene as German forces mass near key fronts including Arras and Alsace while Allied troop movements and reinforcements escalate. Casualties rise amid heavy bombardments and aerial duels, with hundreds of sailors and soldiers reported killed in a recent incident.
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Adriatic Sea
Lyoor
Arras
Hrilieh
Bares
Quentu
Alsace
Alsace, Jn
Welch
Eultiek
Austria belittles America in wartime commentary
The Budapest Lloyd, Vienna's Free Press, and North German Gazette publish Austro-Hungarian views belittling U S power and the potential for American troops in Europe. They claim economic relations survive postwar, while doubting a million Americans able to fight on European battlefields.
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Americas
United States
America
Austria
Budapest
Bogus Money Plant Seized In New York
William J. Plynn, chief of the United States Secret Service, announces a major counterfeit operation bust in New York. Eugene Varodi, a lawyer, is arrested on conspiracy to obstruct justice by advising his client Ley De Shelly alias Marcos to default bail and flee after an indictment for attempting to pass counterfeit notes at a Wall Street bank.
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New York
William J. Plynn
Chilef
United States
Secret Service
Becyon
Fu Fok
Chen
Eugene Varodi
Cner Ous
Ley de Shelly
Marcos
Wall Street
Sentences of military court martial in Texas excerpt
A fragment from a 19th century Texas court martial report lists 63 soldiers tried by court martial. Sentences included life imprisonment and dishonorable discharge with forfeiture of pay. Several soldiers were executed, with names identified, followed by unrelated notes on government proclamations and liquor regulations.
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Wally
Com Peerlt
Arriea
Boeril
Bexar
Cour
William Nesbitt
Thomas Hawkiin
Iath Davie
Carlos Soudgrass
Jarmea Tivine
Frank Johnewn
Tiley W. Young
Pat May
Meathers
de Partment
Terms of the Conqueror in the East Peace Talks Reported
London dispatch cites a Times correspondent quoting informal talks between HGasian and German reps at Preset Litowank about an eastern armistice. The Germans allegedly floated terms including 15 years of Russian wheat market control and duty free access for German goods in occupied territories. Bolshevik reaction shown as disappointed by negotiators’ restrained stance and lack of ideological sympathy.
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London
Petrograd
The
Times
Germany
Russia
Wilson Lenient With Austrians Movement Unrestricted
The article reports government plans easing restrictions on Austrians and Germans, detailing internment rules and travel limits. It notes that thousands of individuals demonstrate their loyalty by enlisting, while officials debate whom to target and where to draw lines between enemy aliens and citizens.
Denies Recall of Pershing Says War Secretary Remarks
Disjointed text outlines a claim that Secretary of War made statements about Pershing. It references Washington and a trade chief, with mentions of generals and retirement. The passage lacks clear structure but implies denial of Pershing recall or realignment.
Kaiser invited peace talks amid British note to Germany
London reports Foreign Secretary Halfour relayed that Germany would welcome peace from a September sighting by a neutral channel. Britain prepared to receive any proposals from the German government and inform allies. The exchange followed Balfour's death.
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London
Halfour
Great Britain
Germany
First Shot Fired at Austria by American Congressman
The first American shot against Austria was fired by Representative Tinkham of Boston on the lower Piave. He pulled a string to fire a large 1459 millimeter artillery shell, bending a shell toward Austrian positions as Mallan batterymen gathered and cheered.
Five Illinois professors declared loyal by inquiry panel
A Chicago report says a University of Illinois inquiry found no disloyalty among five faculty members. The panel deemed the charges unfounded but labeled the conduct of A C Cole Camille Weiss Richard Tolman Carl Hassler and Queen Lois Shepherd as discourteous in the department of philosophy and other areas.
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Chicago
University of Mlinois
Board of Trustees
Charlies
Dir A. C. Cole
Exsistant
Camille Weiss
Richard Chase Tolman
Carl Hassler
Queen Lois Shepherd
Department of
Philosophy
Labor troubles up north in Minneapolis strike looming
Minneapolis leaders and federal authorities conferred in Washington as 29,000 union men across Twin Cities prepare to walk out on news from the conference. The strike would show sympathy with 1,000 locked out street car workers amid labor tensions.
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Twin Cities
Minneapolis
Minn
Minnesota Public Safety Commission
Gompersof
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Postal Workers Form Demanding Union In Cleveland
About 1,500 postal employees organized at a mass meeting in Cleveland demanding a 26 percent immediate salary increase, time and a half for overtime, and recognizing seven hours night work as eight hours day work. A separate item reports Mrs. J. Woberte’s death and her husband’s critical illness in Warrensburg after consuming poison candy, allegedly made by niece Anna Huggins near Kingsville.
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Cleveland
Ili
Warrensburg
J. Woberte
Kingsville
Anna Huggins
Wet and Dry Election in Columbus Ohio Riles Voters
Columbus Ohio plans a single election next fall as wets pursue an amendment to legalize sale of light beer and wines while drys push a bone dry amendment in parallel. The contest centers on alcohol policy and voter decision on easing beverage sales statewide.
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Columbus
Ohio
Rome Street Named for Wilson for Aid to Italy
President Wilson’s name may be given to a principal Rome street in grateful commemoration of America’s aid to Italy during the great war.
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Rome
Wilson
America
Italy
Wilson approves Innes as Kaneas food administrator
President Wilson approves Walter P. Innes of Wichita as federal food administrator for Kaneas to succeed the resigned Dr. Henry J. Waters. Innes takes over duties overseeing wartime food programs and supply management in the district.
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Kaneas
Washington
Wilson
Walter P. Innes
Wichita
Henry J. Waters
Rumor of Brazilian Ports Attack Triggers Tense Diplomacy
Persistent chatter in Buenos Aires media suggests President Irigoyen informed Germany that a submarine strike against Brazilian ports could drive Argentina to sever relations with Germany, signaling fragile diplomatic strains amid war.
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Buenos Airea
Irigoyen
Germany
Brasilian
Argentina
Washington Troops Must Live Within Trolley Distance
The War Department ruled that men of the national army will not be granted Chelatmias furlough unless they reside within trolley distance of their cantonments.
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Washington
National Army
War Department
Missouri penitentiary coal shortage halts plants idle convicts
In Jefferson City Missouri more than a dozen manufacturing plants are idled and about 1500 convicts remain idle due to a coal shortage at the Missouri penitentiary.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Penitentiary
American Held in Italy as Spying Suspect
A Rome report to Havas says John Frederick Stuck, an American claiming citizenship, was arrested in Milan on espionage charges. The dispatch notes Italian authorities report the arrest as a spy case and cites his alleged nationality.
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Italy
Gpv
Paris
Havas
Rome
Milan
John Frederick Stuck
Pope to Deliver Important Peace Pronouncement
A Geneva dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung reports that upon receiving the cardinals on December 23 the pope will issue a significant pronouncement on the question of peace delivered by his Holiness at a future date through a formal statement.
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Copenhagen
Geneva
Voesische Zeitung
Fire destroys four buildings in Atteboro center
A fire swept through Atteboro Massachusetts business district causing four buildings to burn and police estimate the damage at about 500000 dollars.
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Atteboro
Mass
Plans to rename German National Bank to American National in Little Rock
On request of J B Goldman of &J Louis the bank’s president and chief stockholder a proposal to change the name to American National Bank will be submitted to stockholders on January.
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Little Rock, Ark
Ohio River Frozen Over In Evansville Ind
The Ohio river is frozen from bank to bank for the first time since February 1915. Several large packets and many small pleasure boats have been trapped.
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Ohio River
Evansville
Ind
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Dezenus
United States Secret Service
Halifax
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Atlantic
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cfuKe
Will Wader
Wilken
Gertane
Deitel
Porlotfier
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Co Jembea
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Limmenelty
Tack
Pershing
Kemer
Saher
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