German Embassy Holds Key Conspiracy Trial Documents
Dr. Karl Buenz testifies that the Hamburg American line turned over to the German embassy in Washington the abstract of an agreement to supply German cruisers with coal and supplies on neutral ships from American ports. He describes vast German funding and notes cables were moved to the embassy for safety as the trial nears its close in New York City.
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New York City
Hamburg-American Line
Washington
Karl Buenz
Line
Federal District Court
Buenz
Maeland
France
America
Germany
Roger 2B. Wood
Howe
Bueng
William Rand, Jr
Buen
Woy-Ed
Captain Boy- Be
Jin
Karl Bnuenz
Hamburg
New York
Buentz
Hamopurg-American Line
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic
Home Office of the Line
Dr. Buenz
Europe
Dr. Buenze
South
Atlatic
K. Boy-Ed
Kulenkanepff
Boy-Ed
Tragedy at DuPont Plant Now Seventeen Dead in Hagley Blast
In Wilmington Delaware 31 workers died yesterday in a Hagley yard blast at Dupont black powder plant. A prior explosion at Carneys Point New Jersey caused anxiety as 40 injured were treated and 31 total fatalities are reported.
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Wilmington
Dela
DuPont
Carney’s Point
New Jersey
Delaware River
Hagley
Louis Booker
Del
Kiper Hagley
Dupont Powder Company
Brandywine Creek
Hagley Plant
Dupont Company
Allan A. Thaxter
Portland
Maine
Mace
Hanrahan
Pleaston
Oliver
Wilson Dines Old Classmates at White House Dinner
President Wilson hosted fifty nine Princeton class of 1879 alumni in the Blue Room and State Dining Room. The gathering featured informal addresses and stories of college days as the president, called Tommy by classmates, celebrated his upcoming marriage while Cyrus McCormick, Cleveland H. Dodge and Robert Bridges attended.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Princeton
Tommy
Cyrus McCormick
Cleveland H. Dodge
Robert Bridges
Quiline of typewriter paper and RoOpplies full and complete
Mitchel Tubuehing Company appears in a note about paper supplies. The fragment mentions typewriter paper and RoOpplies as part of a full stock statement. No clear event or outcome is visible. the item reads as a sourcing note or advertisement fragment.
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Quiline
Mitchel Tubuehing Company
Insanity Plea Planned in Platte Murder Case
John Henzel a 75 year old Platte man charged with fatally choking his 70 year old wife with rope and injuring her skull with a nail seeks an insanity defense. Attorneys are preparing for a term of the district circuit court as residents debate his mental state.
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Platte, S. D
John Henzel
Platte
Dural Circuit Court
Henzel
French Youths Called to Arms in 1917 Draft
Paris debates a bill to conscript the class of 1917 about 400 000 youths aged 18 to 19, to begin service December 15 and be sent to garrisons. Premier Briand urges defeat of the Turmel motion while pledging government duty and full mobilization. Changes in the Austrian cabinet also loom as war tensions rise.
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Paris
France
Army Committee
Chamber of Deputies
Briand
Turmel
M. Yturmel
Aurich
Switzerland
Vienna
Zurich
Rumanians Worry Over Attitude in War News
The Balkan conflict dominates the military and diplomatic scene as Romania’s stance unsettles the Central Powers while Greece resists Entente pressure to grant unrestricted use of Saloniki. Berlin notes Balkan tensions and forecasts difficulties ahead amid reports of Bulgarian advances and Serbian fates.
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London
England
Europe
Rumania
Greece
Berlin
Balkans
Wield
Marshall von Mackensen
Austria
Balkan States
Vienna
Saloniki
Macedonia
Priszend
Monastir
Trail of Starvation Before Bulgar Armies
Vulture-like starving refugees strip flesh from horse bones as they flee Bulgarian advance toward Saloniki. Albanians Serbians and 50,000 Austrian prisoners trek the Prizerend Monastir highway. Glandsborough Findlay Lady Sibyl Findlay and sixteen English nurses and eight doctors arrive after seven days on Albanian mountain trail with little food and fifteen pack mules dead. Families of French British and Russian ministers to Serbia rumored on the trail seeking Monastir. efforts to reach them ongoing.
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Saloniki
Greece
Wishbone Gift Sparks Wide County Earnest Benevolence
Five year old Trene Driscoll of 1055 West Adams Street in Chicago teaches faith in a wishbone. Miners in Butte sent $15 and a miner known as Big Jerry Driscoll added half a shift’s pay to ensure every family has turkey at Christmas. In Pierre, S D, government land office notes two and a half million acres in Stanley Haakon and Jackson counties opened to 320 acre homestead entries after December tenth, though actual vacant land is far less and spread in scattered tracts.
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Chicago
Trene Driscoll
West Adams Street
Irene
Wilson
White House
Butte
Mont
Jerry’ Driscoll
Driscoll
Stanley County
Haakon and
Jackson
Shakeup in Austrian cabinet sparks clash over nun abuses
The Very Rev Francis J Kelley accuses Secretary Tumulty of denying outrages against religion and cites sworn affidavits about Mexican revolutionists. Kelley says nuns were seized from trains and moved to revolutionary forces, with many seeking safety in Cuba or the U S. He attacks Canon Antonio J Paredes as a biased authority in Mexico City.
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Chicago
Ill
State Department
Francis J. Kelley
Washington
Tumulty
Mgr. Kelley
Kelley
Wilson
Garranza
Mer. Kelley
Department of State
Army
Navy
Cuba
United States
Antonio J. Paredes
Mexico City
Bryan
Canon Paredes
Paredes
Carranza
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Farranza
Cashier’s Son Puts Some Loss Back to Bristol Bank
Webster South Dakota reports that Ted Strandness son of Torgus Strandness, former cashier of the First National Bank of Bristol, has deeded several quarter sections of land and city property to the Bristol institution. Papers show total equity near 30 000 dollars, aiding depositor recovery while investigators seek more Strandness assets. Estimated shortage remains between 65 000 and 100 000 dollars with further discoveries anticipated.
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Webster
S. D
Ted N. Strandness
Torgus Strandness
First National Bank of Bristol
Bristol Institution
Sterns
Art Fountain
State Bank
Federal Bank
T. H. Campbell
Huron
Bristol Bank
Strandness
Austrian cabinet resignations accompany Vienna visit
Emperor Francis Joseph confirms the resignations of interior minister Karl Heinhold commerce minister Rudolph Schuster von Bennett and finance minister Engel von Mainfelden all told their services may be retained if needed New appointments follow with Hohenlohe Schillingfuerst to interior and Spitzmiller to commerce while Berlin pushes for separate peace terms with the Quadruple Entente amid Vienna's wish for lasting peace
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Francis Joseph
Wiener Zeitung
Vienna
Karl Heinhold
Interior
Rudolph Schuster von Bennett
Baron Engel von Mainfelden
Finance
Heinold
Baron Engel
Freiheer
Schuster
Prince Hohenlohe Schillingfuerst
Supreme Court of Accounts
Ritter von Leth
Postal Savings Bank
Herr von Spitzmiller
Kreditanstalt
Kaiser
William
Austria
Minsters
Williams
Francis
Joseph
England
Rome
Italy
Madrid
Vatican
Tribune
Berlin
Pancho Villa Out of Sight After Defeat at Hermosillo
Reports from Nogales say Pancho Villa and his forces were routed by General Manuel Dieguez near Hermosillo. About 300 Villa soldiers were wounded, 600 surrendered south of Magdalena, and 200 surrendered today at Llano as the demoralized remnants scattered with trains abandoned at Magdalena.
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Nogales
Ariz
Carranza
Manuel Dieguez
Hermosillo
Francisco Villa
Alvaro Obregon
Dieguez
Villa
Magdalena
Llano
Jose Rodriguez
Plan to repay depositors through stockholder levies
The discussion notes that experts believe depositors will not lose since enough property can be recovered. By levying on the defunct institution’s stockholders, all shortages to depositors can be covered at 100 percent, aided by available assets.
Fireman Kort Dies in Fog Shrouded Train Collision
In Wakpala near Mobridge a head on collision between two Milwaukee Road freight trains in dense fog killed Fireman Kort of Mobridge while he shoveled coal on a siding. Both engineers were reported seriously injured.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Wakpala
Mobridge
Milwaukee Road
Kiort
Kort
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Ted Strandness
Pancho Villa
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