Returned soldiers testify on Northland food and bunks conditions
Ottawa dispatch notes veterans from the Northland recounts meals served in Halifax harbour quarantined ship. Toronto’s Ailette describes Christmas dinner with a fat pork chop and pudding by hand, crowded bunks, musty odor, and mattress removal. Ship under British government charter via White Star Dominion Line.
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Ottawa
Anid
Dipper Ailette
Toronto
Halifax Harbour
Ailiette
Ailette
Ti Waa
Northland
White Star Dominion Line
Germans debate Poland threat as Riga evacuation alarms grow
Berlin reports a pretext against Polish claims fails to avert crisis as officials debate steps to defend German cities. The Zeitung Am Mittag denounces government apathy and calls for action while German troops concentrate on the Posen border to defend the province.
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Zeitung Am Mittag
Riga
Germany
Basel
Posen
Prussia
Frankfort
Radek Defends Bolshevism in Berlin Speech
Jean Bertin reports a 2 A feature on M. Radek head of the Bolsheviki mission to Germany delivering a strong defence of Bolshevism in Berlin. He says Russians will not fear an entente invasion and welcomes French occupation of Germany to aid Bolshevik progress westward.
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Radek
Rhine
Voustache Zeitung
Berlin
Pesper
Gward
Ententé
Conse
Cor‘vempodident
Preliminary peace meetings set for January dates
The morning papers say a four Allied preliminary conference will open January 13 or 18 with French and Swiss officials directing talks. A second preliminary session will follow at the French foreign office before the main congress at Versailles. Debates remain private with daily reports promised.
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Paul Durasta
Switzerland
Philippe Berthelot
Foreign Office
Petite Jounal
Paris
Saya
French Foreign Office
Verpailies
Destruction Recommendation for German Capital Ships Made
Rear Admiral Rodman urged the House Naval Affairs Committee to destroy all capital ships of the German Navy surrendered to the Allies. He stated his wartime command of the Ames Siloan fleet in the North Sea.
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Washington
House Naval Affairs Committee
Rodman
North Sea
Moose Jew City Council Sets Palmists License Fee
The Moose Jew city council approves a fixed license fee for professional palmists. The amount is set at a nominal figure described as cent values, with enforcement and collection procedures to be announced.
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Moose Jew
Government loss on railroads in 1918 nears 160 million
Washington report says the loss from government operation of railroads in 1918 totals under 160 million dollars. Officials estimate the gap is the rental due to railroads for the use of government properties and the return it would receive. Six more months of higher freight receipts are needed to cover the deficit, unless Congress approves a five year extension of federal control.
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Washington
Railroad Administration
Congress
Russia
Siberia
Borfera
Polas
Finland
Runsiti
Gtd
Rus Coast
Young Lavada Murphy Becomes Yakima Deputy Sheriff
Yakima Washington January reports Miss Lavada Murphy aged 18, daughter of the sheriff, has been ratified as a regular deputy sheriff. County commissioners oppose paying her 100 monthly, noting jailers and long-serving deputies earn less. They also object to hiring Murphy friend Ralph Bailey at four dollars daily despite Bailey working 31 days in December.
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Yakima
Wash
Yakima County
Lavada Murphy
Miss Murphy
Murphy
Ralph Bailey
Bailey
Eleven New Flu Cases Tied to Social Gatherings
The Christmas and New Year gatherings are linked to eleven new flu cases in nine houses, with ten houses containing thirteen cases released from quarantine. The report notes several cases are likely community infections from such events and outlines current quarantine statuses.
Brace Aid Herbert Mill Company President Dies in Washington
Brace, president of the Brace Aid Herbert Mill Company and a renowned lumberman of the Pacific Northwest, died at Mountlake Terrace Myattle in Washington. A native of Winghem Ont.
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d. @. Brace
Brace Aid Herbert Mill Company
Pacific
Northwank
Myattle
Wash
Newand
Winghem
Ont
CPPY MARKET Prices at the market today
Prices at the CPPY Market today show butter at 45 cents a pound and eggs at 66 5/6 cents a dozen. Beef starts at 12 cents a pound, pork at 18 cents and up, jack rabbit bits 60 cents a head. Beets cabbage carrots onions parsnips and turnips priced at 25 cents per pound, potatoes 1.65 dollars per bushel.
Wilson Arrives in Rome for King Victor Emmanuel Welcome
President Wilson landed in Rome at 10.25 am greeted by King Victor Emmanuel Queen Helene and government officials. He will meet the pope and visit the Methodist college while continuing talks with Orlando Sonnino and the foreign minister as the trip precedes the peace conference.
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Rome
Wilson
Victory Emmanuel
Helend
Paris
Victor Emmanuel
Methodist College
Orlando
Baron Sonnino
Ford introduces wage rise and changes in leadership
Detroit announces Ford Motor Company raises new minimum wage to six dollars per day boosting pay for about 28 000 workers nationwide. Henry Ford resigns as president, Beviel Ford elected successor at 150000 a year while remaining on the board. Hdeel Bryan Ford heads Ford investments at 200 million.
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Detroit
Mich
Bec
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Henry Ford
Fora Motor Company
Bdeel Ford
Bryan Ford
Unclear Names List From Lake Region Notices
A fragmented OCR segment lists names and titles across several locales including Winnifred, Hilda, Ayers, and LeMaraji, with references to Americans and places such as Guys Lake and Corona. The text reads as a garbled social or notice catalog with multiple partial names and incomplete affiliations.
Alberta Men Return by Panama Canal Voyage
Montreal reports 1500 officers and men from the Canadian expeditionary forces sailing aboard the Emprovgy of Aste to Vancouver via the Panama Canal. They march to patriotic music as imperial army bands play. This voyage is described as the first and likely the only voyage this steamer will undertake to Canada.
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Montreal
Imperial Army
Canadian Expeditionary Forces
British Columbia
Alberta
Aste
Vancouvry
Panama Canal
Ganathia
Ottawa hears plan for two transcontinental air routes
Aerial interests press the Reconstruction committee to create a commission to coordinate Canada’s aerial development. The Sunset Airway would run from St John’s to Vancouver via Halifax, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg and more with subsidiary links. A second plan links Canada to allied air routes, with St John’s and Vancouver as terminals.
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Ottawa
Canada
St John's
Mld
Sydney
Halifax
St. John
Fredericton
Riviera du Loup
Quebec
Three Rivers
Montreal
Cornwall
Montréal
Winnipeg
Dominicha
St. John’s
Nild
Vancouver
Aerial Commission
Removal of 8480 troops from ship off Fire Island
Officials at the vice admiral's office expect the 8480 home bound American troops aboard the Northern Pacific to be transferred to army and air force vehicles before nightfall. Stanley Ward, 75 Pearl Street, had a narrow escape after a coast down a street when he narrowly avoided an auto’s wheels.
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New York
Northern Pacific
Fire Island
Stanley Ward
Pearl Street
Hon
Stam
Gaida captures Perm and destroys Bolshevik third army
Telegraph account reports General Gaida leading Czecho-Slovak and Siberian forces to seize Perm in the Urals, taking 81,000 prisoners and capturing an armored train used by Lenin. His dash also yields 5,000 railway cars, 120 field guns, 1,000 machine guns, 80 automobiles, and thousands of horses as Bolshevik leaders are captured.
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Perm
Ural Mountains
Gaida
Nikolai Lenine
Lenine
Gafda
Hig
Kama River
Semenoff
Chita
Verkhnfudinsk
Siberian
Lake Baikal
Omsk
Archangel
Onega River
Gogoll
Kalovang
Prilaki
Onega
Vologda
Dvina
London
Foreign Office
Rusale
British ultimatum rumor shakes Baltic front
London reports from Berlin and Copenhagen claim Britain demands a clear government policy on Tina and that Berlin faces a German supreme command order to halt Bolshevik advance and retake territories. No official confirmation supports the dispatches.
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London
Baltic
Berlin
Germany
Canada Pensions Total Big Sum
Ottawa reports a finance ministry estimate of Canada's war pension obligations. Pension commissioners expect maximum payouts in 18 months to two years, with a plan to hold the peak for five years then taper. Actuarial estimates place total expenditure at 440 million dollars at 3 percent, 890 million at 4 percent, or 845 million at 5 percent.
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Ottawa
Robert Borayden
Canada
Canada to be represented at peace conference finds men named
The Evening News reports that Louis Botha of South Africa, Sir Robert Borden of Canada, and Premier Hughes of Australia will represent the overseas dominions of Great Britain at the peace conference in London on January 3.
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London
The
Evensing News
Louis Botha
South Africa
Olimier Borden
Canada
Hughes
Australia
Great Britain
Mae
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