Local and Personal From Monday's Daily
Local notices recount holiday travel and visits. Seney, Mrs. Seney, Geo M Kennedy, and Mrs. Crampton with daughter returned from Sioux City Logan and Westfield. Wharton left for Gedur Rapids to join Redpath Voycemu bureau. Varying attendees celebrate over Christmas across Mason City Hawarden Vermillion and Omaha. Frequent social ties and travel details appear with names and locales.
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Geo. M. Kennedy
Logan
W. C. Crampton
Westfield
Charles Wharton
Gedur Rapids
Redpath Voyceuim Bureau
Enroute
Mason
City
Santa Claus Visits Holland and Belgium Before America
Santa Claus visits Holland and Belgium each year about three weeks before traveling to the United States for the children. St Nicholas Day is celebrated with gifts, stockings hung on December 5 and opened on December 6, featuring Dutch goods and German wares influenced by wartime shortages.
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Hague
Netherlands
Santa ‘Claus
Holland
Belgium
United States
Araek
Nicholas
Amsterdam
Santa Glarg
Russia
America
Dawi
Qbf
Chased by Sea Plunger on Mediterranean Voyage
Senterville residents reveal a perilous voyage on the Duca di Geneva as a submarine hunted their ship in the Mediterranean near Genoa. The letter describes zigzagging at speed to avoid attack while reservists crowded lifeboats, and praises the captain and crew for saving 3,000 aboard. The account also touches on Poland’s road reconstruction and German governance, noting labor, gender roles in rebuilding, and citizen reactions under occupation.
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Senterville
S. D
Mediterranean
Edmund Stover
Turner County
A. T. Webb
South Dakota
Italy
Naples
Verona
Marconi
Hells
Ancona
Fight disease all over Poland
Correspondence from Warsaw reports German medical forces tackling typhoid smallpox rabies and other diseases in Poland. They faced medicament shortages but educated the public on vaccination while dividing Poland into 49 sections and deploying doctors. Sanitation water wells and prisons required reforms with penalties for noncompliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Poland
Associated Press
Lodz
Germany
Germans Build Roads in Poland Amid Occupation
Warsaw reports German efforts to repair and rebuild roads across Poland since occupation. More than a million and a half dollars have been spent on restoring routes damaged by artillery and heavy wartime logistics. Prior to the fall of Warsaw, about 1046 kilometers of roads required repair as German forces extended their control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brest Levitsk
Poland
Warsaw
Frick Pays Off Pittsburgh Bank for Savings Deposits
Pittsburgh children cheered as H C Frick, millionaire coal magnate, announced he will fully pay the 167,136.68 in deposits of 44,000 accounts at the Pittsburgh Bank for Savings, closed by the state. Payments to be made in cash around January 3 after arrangements. Frick coordinated with H C McEldowney to safeguard the funds and ensure no loss to the savers.
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Pittsburgh
H. GC. Frick
Pittsburgh Bank For Savings
State Department of Banking
City Board of Education
Frick
New York
Museum Receives Fine Gems Gift From Sir Arthur Church
London England The British museum has received a private collection of over two hundred stones gathered by the late Sir Arthur Herbert Church former president of the Mineralogical Society and noted gem expert. The gems include zircons tourmalines topazes emeralds opals and spinels highlighted by a six karat aurora red spessartite garnet. Trustees will store the collection away from war risks and will not display it until after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
British Museum
Great Britain
Arthur Herbert Church
Mineralogical Society
Arthur
Ceylon
Near 30,000 Auto Licenses in State Reported
Pierre South Dakota report notes that by week’s end the anticipated 30,000 auto licenses had not yet been reached. The article highlights the strong enrollment trend and outlines factors affecting license sales without detailing specific dates or numbers beyond the threshold.
State auto department reports 1915 car totals by state
The total reaches 28 087 for 1915 as state auto departments record 2 190 597 automobiles in use nationwide, with three smaller states not reporting. South Dakota ranks twenty fifth in number of autos, while twenty three states report more than it.
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State Auto Department
United States
South Dakota
Sioux Indian Held on Affinity Charge in South Dakota
Deputy U S marshal arrives with Louis Onihau a Crow Creek Sioux warrior arrested on affinity for having an Indian woman other than his wife. Complaint by his wife to U S authorities for South Dakota. He is turned over to Sheriff Garrick and jailed pending federal court trial in South Dakota.
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Crow Creek Brave
Webster
S. C
Louis Onihau
Crow Creek Reservation
United States
South Dakota
Garrick
Record Wagon Load Brings Fourteen Hundred Dollars in S Dakota
In Pierre and Kennebec, a single wagon of white clover seed fetched 1400 dollars, a state record this fall. Frank Holmes delivered the load to Kennebec, threshing on Carter farm along the Missouri River in Lyman County. Weather reduced saved seed. the crop weighed about 4210 pounds and valued around twenty dollars per bushel.
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Carter
Missouri River
Lyman County
Haiselden Cleared In Bo linger Case By State Official
Chicago authorities will not prosecute Dr. Harry J. Haiselden after a dispute over his role in the Bollinger infant case. State’s Attorney Hoyne said no criminal offense occurred as parents, guided by the physician’s advice, declined an operation. Hoyne offered to present the attorney general’s request and coroner testimony to the grand jury if needed. He maintained Haiselden acted within his professional duties and that nourishment was not withheld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ill
Harry J. Haiselden
Bolinger Casey
Hoyne
Lucey
Haiselden
Dr. Haiselden
Burglar Gets 20 Year Term in Iowa Case
Sioux City Morning Side burglar L Roy Chase pleaded guilty in district court to burglarizing the home of A Morse, Morning Side director of music. He will be sent to the state reformatory at Anamosa for twenty years with arraignment waived, the case handled by Judge George Jepson.
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Sioux Guy
L. Roy Chase
George Jepson
A. Morse
RGR Ioey
Chase
Towa
Anamosa
C. T. Naglestad
Police to Return Loot to Claimants From Chase Home
Police may begin handing over thousands of dollars worth of stolen floods seized from the Chase residence at 4417 Davis Avenue to rightful claimants. Investigators found that several Morning Side burglars had insured loot and already collected payouts, so insurance firms hold legal claims to many items. Original owners must restitution for policy payments before repossession.
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Chase
Davis Avenue
Vietiis
Vermillion Police Chief Mount Declared Fugitive
Vermillion South Dakota police chief Bud Mount who disappeared after a young woman from the town telephone office accused him of a statutory offense remains missing. A Sioux City attorney arrived with arrest papers and Mount fled by train, with Clay County authorities seeking his capture for trial.
Married Christmas Night in Tobin Township
On Christmas night at S. G. Strand home in Tobin township three milers from Wthan the marriage of Glenn Frantz and Ella Mildred Strand was solemnized. Rev. Robert Lincoln Kelley officiated with immediate relatives present and guests from Letcher and Fremont. The couple plan a southern honeymoon then settle on the Frantz farm near Mrs. Strand’s parents.
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S. G. Strand
Tobin Township
Wthan
Glenn Frantz
Wesley Frantz
Fremont
Neb
Ella Mildred Strand
Robert Lincoln Kelley
First Baptist Church of
Mitchell
Smooth Forger Ed Humphrey Missing After Check Forgery
Midland Oklahoma dispatch reports a smooth forger known locally as Ed Humphrey vanished after passing forged checks for 107 dollars. He is believed to be Jack Riles or Jack Michels in the east, with multiple wholesale forgery charges, and was last seen in Midland after posing as an employee at Theodore Peterson’s ranch and passing checks to merchants.
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Midland
D. C
Ed. Humphrey
Jack Riles
Jack Michels
Theodore Peterson
Peterson
Midland forgery case hints at wider scam network
Checks ranging from 7.60 to 27.50 formed the chumber tally. Peterson says the missing man was not a strong ranch hand but skilled with pen and ink, spending most time on penmanship. No clue on his whereabouts, but authorities expect him to resume forgery elsewhere soon, possibly hundreds of miles from Midland.
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Chumber
Peterson
Midland
Chief Returns to Face Charge in Vermillion Case
Vermillion M D Budy Mount night police captain who vanished after a warrant for arrest on a charge filed by a former telephone operator has returned and been arrested. He posted a $500 bond and his hearing was continued. The young woman involved is reported in a Sioux City hospital. An attorney from Sioux City delivered arrest papers, Mount disappeared for about a week afterward.
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Vermillion, S. D
Bud” Mount
Vermillion
Sioux City
Mount
Joseph Sutherland
Clay County
South Dakota
Budy Mount
Foreign policy joke noted by Times correspondent Washburn
Stanley Washburn, Minneapolis born war correspondent for the London Times, arrived back in the United States from the eastern European front where he witnessed the sieges of Lemberg and Warsaw. He criticized the Wilson administration as a joke in foreign policy and predicted an Allied spring offensive to end the war within about a year. He argued the United States has remained neutral to exploit ammunition sales, and that Allied governments have ridiculed U.S. diplomatic notes since Lusitania.
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Washington, D. C
Europe
Wilson
America
Great Britain
Stanley Washburn
Minneapolis
London Times
Washburn
Lemburg
Warsaw
United States
Russia
Lusitania
Wilson era trust in neutrality questioned by European press
The writer asserts U S prestige waned as Washington lax in enforcing neutral rights amid belligerents. Lusitania aftermath is blamed on British naval dominance rather than German aggression. The piece claims London mocks President Wilson and his claim to halted German U boat warfare.
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Europe
United States
Washington
Wilson
Lusitania
Atlantic
North Sea
London
Chicken Theft Remarks Lead to Damages Suit Verdict
Merle Forbes sued Paul Miller for 5000 in a state circuit court, alleging Miller stated in private about a chicken stealing case that Forbes was dishonest. The jury returned a verdict for Miller after a hard-fought trial that drew a crowded courtroom.
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Clark
S. D
Merle Forbes
Paul
Miller
Forbes
Sloan's Liniment Promises Quick Pain Relief
An old promotional note claims Sloan's Liniment cures pain with a simple application, noting a Berkeley user’s neck stiffness relief after two uses and a Panama Exposition visit. The clip also mentions druggists selling at 26 cents and a World newspaper quote about Roosevelt’s political drive against Wilson.
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Sloan
Mervin H. Leister
Berkeley
Cal
Panama Exposition
Norwegian Parliament Rejects Nobel Peace Prize Award
Detroit Free Press notes the Norwegian Parliament has decided not to award the Nobel Peace prize this year, joking that perhaps W. J. Bryan does not need the money.
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N the Fox
Detroit Free Press
W. J. Bryan
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Medley
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Goople
Mediterranean Sea
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Smooth Forger
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New York World
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Taft
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