How the U S Financed War
Secretary McAdoo outlines wartime financing as taxes and bond sales funded by billions, detailing four Liberty loans, government expenditures, and the year end debt. He projects future receipts and disbursements, noting peace complicates forecasting.
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Washington
America
McAdoo
Treasury
Army
Navy
Shipping Board
Mc‘Adoo
War Department
Liberty
United States
Powder plant explosions kill twelve in Pompton Lakes
Twelve men died and 85 injured in four blasts at the Du Pont Powder works in Pompton Lakes New Jersey. The explosions rocked the up room and caused extensive damage to the facility and surrounding area.
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Pompton . Lakes, N. J
Dec. T
du Pont
Bank Robbed of $100000 in Leavenworth Indiana
A bank robbery in Leavenworth Indiana resulted in the loss of bonds and savings certificates estimated at 100000. The robbers attacked the Leavenworth State Bank on December 7, securing Liberty bonds and War Savings certificates.
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Leavenworth
Ind
Leavenworth State Bank
Admiralty Praises Troops Aboard Persie After Torpedoing
British admiralty commends American troops aboard the steam ship Persie for conduct after the September 7 torpedo attack, in a letter to Admiral Sims from Washington.
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Washington
Sims
French Reserve Disbandment Plan Outlined
Dec 6 report states the government will demobilize all territorial reserve classes by February end, with measures outlined in LOeuvre.
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Foris
Baker reduces war contracts with powder surplus noted
Secretary of War Baker says veteran divisions in France likely to stay until peace. He cites cancellations saving about seven billion dollars of the army budget and notes excess powder requiring storage. States share of cancellations listed, including Massachusetts and Michigan.
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Washington
Baker
France
Europe
Senate Finance Committee
War Department
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury
Sherley
War Secretary
House
United States
Massachusetts
Michigan
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Missouri
Ilinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Three French Minesweepers Lost in Lake Superior Gale
The Ceriseles and Inker man minesweepers built at Fort William for the French navy were lost in a Lake Superior gale on the night of November 24. Sixty five officers and men perished with the ships while the Sebastopol flagship, under Capt M Leclerc, arrived safely at a Canadian port.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Ceriseles
Inkerman
Fort William
Lake Superior
Sebastopol
M. Leclerc
Americans Seen To Help Keep Order In Austrian Front
Vienna reports that all sides favor sending American troops to restore order in the former Austrian empire. They believe such a move would quell unrest from political boundary disputes among many races and curb any bolshevik trend.
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Vienna
Austrian Empire
Gould Rallies From Operation
George Jay Gould, capitalist and railroad president and director, underwent an operation at Roosevelt hospital for stones of the left kidney. It was announced that he was getting along very nicely.
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Gould
New York
George Jay Gould
Stoosevelt Hospital
Evidence of Kaiser's Guilt Found in Archives
Berlin officials report documentary evidence of ex Kaiser Wilhelm II guilt in urging and planning the war discovered during a search of imperial archives in the Berlin castle. The Berlin government cites documents from the archives as proof of responsibility for the outbreak of hostilities.
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Kaiser
Amsterdam
Dec
Berlin
Berger's Election Contested in Milwaukee Race
Congressman elect Victor L. Berger of the Socialist party faced a protest to block his seating. Joseph P. Carney, Democrat and runner up, filed the notice alleging Berger's ineligibility in Milwaukee on December 6.
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Berger
Milwaukee
Victor L. Berger
Joseph P. Carney
Carney
German General Hindenburg to be Arrested Stated by Leipsic Council
Copenhagen reports December 6 that the soldiers and workers' council of Leipsic decided to dissolve German headquarters and arrest Field Marshal Hindenburg, as per the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin.
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Hindenburg
Copenhagen
Soldiers and Workers’ Council of
Leipsic
Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin
Carter Glass Named to Treasury Post and Banking Chair
President Wilson nominated Representative Carter Glass of Virginia to be secretary of the treasury. Glass, veteran Democrat and longtime chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, has shaped the Federal Reserve Act and owns the Lynchburg Daily News and Daily Advance. He also served on the University of Virginia board of visitors and headed the Democratic national committee.
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Washington
Carter Glass
Virginia
Willson
Treasury
Wilson
Capitol
House
Glass
Congress
Virginia State Senate
House Committee On
Banking and Currency
Federal Reserve Act
Lynchburg
Daily News
Daily Advance
University of Virginia
Democratic National Committee
Europe
Fuel Administrator Harry Garfield resigns in Washington
A White House statement says United States Fuel Administrator Harry Garfield has tendered his resignation to take effect at the president's pleasure and the president has accepted. Garfield plans to stay through the month, then resume his duties as president of Williams College after the holidays.
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Washington
White House
United States
Harry Garfield
Trig
Removal of Walnut Logs from Patriotic Duty Sale
The ordnance department and the bureau of aircraft production withdraw their earlier request that walnut stumpage be disposed of as a patriotic duty. Effective immediately, walnut logs may be sold commercially and converted into veneers or lumber rather than exclusively into airplane propeller lumber or gun stock blanks.
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Walnut
Washington
Ordnance Department
Bureau of Aircraft Production
Duke of Grafton Dies at 97 in London
The Duke of Grafton head of the Fitzroy family and a retired British Army general has died in London at age ninety seven. He served in public life for many years and was a prominent aristocrat of his era.
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Duke of Grafton
London
Pitzoy
Allies Seize Turkish Fleet in Constantinople
London reports the entire Turkish fleet has been captured by the allies. The ships were interned in the Golden Horn at Constantinople, including the former light cruiser Goeben.
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London
Admiralty
Golden Horn
Constantinople
Goeben
Senate Panel Rejects Cummins France Mission Plan
Washington December 7 The senate foreign relations committee voted unanimously to disapprove Senator Cummins Iowa to send a committee to France to report developments.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Cummins
Iowa
France
Chilean Reserves Called Writer
Chilean military authorities have called reserves of the class of 1917 to the colors. In Santiago the Navy reports the steamer Pelenni captain denies ordering the Peruvian consul to return aboard his ship.
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Santiago
Chile
Pelenni
Netherlands halts exports to Germany in reprisal
The Dutch government has decided to stop all exports to Germany in reprisal for Germany's halt of Dutch coal exports. The decision was reported by an exchange telegram from Amsterdam.
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Germany
London
Amsterdam
Holland
Wilson Off to Frange for Peace Conference in France
President Wilson sails from New York aboard the George Washington to join five US representatives at the Paris peace conference. Secretary of State Lansing, Henry White, Col. I M House, and Gen. Tasker Bliss join him. 2,000 troops aboard Lapland cheer as the convoy of sixteen warships escorts the voyage.
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New York
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Europe
France
George Washington
Robert Lansing
Henry White
Italy
Col. I. M. House
Gen
Tasker H. Bliss
North River
Wilson
Lapland
Atlantic
All Nations Must Make Sacrifices at Peace Table
Report from aboard the steamer George Washington dated December 7 states President Wilson will demand that all nations at the peace table be prepared to make sacrifices and that armed domination by any one nation must cease.
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Wilson
George Washington
France
Prison Camp Abuse Report Alleges Allied Prisoners Harsh Incidents
Echo de Paris reports serious incidents in a Saxony prison camp housing allied prisoners. The article says hostile governments plan to take energetic action in response to the described abuses.
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Saxony
Paris
Echo de Paris
Russia Bars Soldiers at Frontier Refusing Repatriation
A Berlin dispatch to the Express reports the Russian government refuses to admit 1,400,000 soldiers held as prisoners in Germany and turns them back at the frontier.
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London
Germany
Berlin
the Express
King Albert to Honor Foch With New Order
Paris dispatch reports King Albert of Telffium plans to create the Order of Yser. The first recipient would be Marshal Foch, signaling a high honor for his wartime leadership.
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Albert
Foch
Paris
Albert of
Telfium
Yser
Will de Paris
Marshal Foch
War Dept rescinds sweater accounting order for discharged soldiers
The War Department cancels its prior rule that discharged soldiers must account for all wearing apparel issued by the Red Cross and other charitable organizations. This change removes the obligation to return or account for sweaters and similar items.
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Washington
War Department
American Red Cross
Finland to Take Over Russ Ships
Velsingfors December 5 government announces it will formally take over a number of Russian steamers interned here to obtain cereals from Argentina and Canada.
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Finland
Velsingfors
Argentina
Canada
German Propaganda in America Revealed in Bernstorff Hearings
A.B. Bielaski testifies before a Senate committee on 1916 cablegrams between Count von Bernstorff and Berlin detailing German efforts to sway U.S. press figures. He cites Hearst journalist Wil Bayard Hale as a German agent and lists numerous academics and public figures accused of pro German activity. The document includes a proposed openness toward sending a top Hearst journalist to Berlin and notes shifts in press alignment during World War I.
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Washington
America
A. Bruce Bietnski
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Senate
Count von Bernestorff
Berlin
Bernsteint
Wil Bayard Male
Hearst
Bielaski
Aulgo
Bernard Dernburg
Dernstokie
Albert
Dernburg
Fuchr
John St. McLean
Mearst
Tlale
Parpers
Senate Committee
United States
Treled
A. Bruce Bielaski
Aar
William 2. Shepard
Columbia University
Figo Muensterburg
Warvard University
William M. Sloane
Edmund von Mach
Cambridge
Mass
Anth von Briessen
New York
John W. Burgess
Newport
Comerce and
Hibor
St. Louis
Oswald Garrison Villard
New York Evening Post
Willam Ranedolph Thenrst
New York American
Bernard Ridder
New York Stats Zeitung
Edward A. Rumely
New York Evening Mail
Frederick A. Sclrader
Broadway
Rank Harris
Washington Square
New York City
Trob. Iford
Freeman’s Journal
Yale Alumni Weekly Records War Losses Among Graduates
New Iuven Com vec reports Yale university casualties from war losses including graduates and undergraduates. Dead 1403 wounded 117 missing or prisoners 117.
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New Iuven
Yale University
Yale
Navy to reach 1201 ships by July 1920
The United States Navy will total 1201 vessels by July 1, 1920, including 40 battleships and 32 destroyers, according to a statement prepared by Rear Admiral Griffin for the House Naval Committee.
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U. S. Navy
Washington
Griffin
House Naval Committee
Harvard Men Die in War Toll Reported
Cambridge Mass December 9 Harvard war records office reports 222 Harvard men killed in the war with 201 serving in the army and navy casualty tallies ongoing as records are updated.
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Harvard
Cambridge
Mass
Darvard
Harvard War Records
Army
Navy
Bank Robbed of 19000 At Bridgeville
Two masked bandits robbed the First National Bank at Bridgeville near Pittsburgh, taking 19000 dollars. County detectives in automobiles pursue the suspects.
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Pittsburgh
Dee
First National Bank
Bridgeville
Iowa War Casualties and Home Front News Summary
List of Iowa residents reported killed or dying of wounds during World War I with towns listed. Also notes influenza cases, clothing drives for Camp Dodge, T W W arrests, Camp Dodge and Camp Pike troop movements, Medal of Honor context, Red Cross workers, a wrestler’s war story, a commutation in Page county, a wrongful building collapse ruling in Sioux City, and Iowa Day in public schools with a wartime appreciation emphasis.
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Alfred A. English
Carroll
Tasso H. Schoop
Bellevue
Pred Steffens
Fayette
Joseph N. Blackwall
North English
Jesse Miompson
New Albia
Mancel S. Chistodowson
Davenport
Johannes Snatter
Geneva
Walter L. Byrne
Doone
W. J. Pivenka
Cedar Rapids
Willet L. Masbrouck
Mapleton
Francis L. Laren
Iown City
Charlie Sorenson
Akron
Davie D. Pullen
Blockton
Marshall
Sapp
Drakesville
Fred HH. Schultze
Nom Springs
Henry Wolken
Anamosa
J. Howard Foo
Bock
Paul A. Radford
Glenwood
Dick Dunsberger
Newton
Joseph
Dvorak
Mt. Vernon
Walter Durland
Calmar
Andrew V. Grodricht
Libertyvilleo
Mary L. Delaney
Decorah
George Kruger
Ashton
Donald Mickelson
Sioux City
Arthur G. Witt
Hawarden
Ded Avery
Shell Rock
John Vanvoon
Palla
Louie J. Kennedy
Rockwell City
Floyd WW. Willams
Webster City
Brown
Lanox
Albert H.polk
Webster
Albert H. Schnirring
Sac City
Willie Snavaly
Waterloo
Albert A. Town
Viola
Barnum
Ldward G. Fogarty
Mima
Russel W. Strippey
Ira
Albert Smith
Vinton
Charley Polton
Nevada
Vincent J. Carney
Parnell
George Hdward Lewis
Council Bluffa
Angelo Aggazone
Centerville
Joe Hesser
Somers
Fred M. Slayden
Charleyity
Alvah 2. Showers
Cromwell
Tra Schants
Crawfordsville
Carl L. Malcalmson
Charlies
G. Jixby
Charlies City
Frederick L. Berg
Dubuque
Fred Pabst
Grand Center
George S. Weber
Graf
William Dent
Camp Dodge
Camp Pike
Camp Cody
Eighty Eighth
France
Sergt
G. Fairall
George W. Fairall
Iowa City
Argonne Forest
One Hundred Twelfth
Machine Gun Corps
Fairall
Florence Olson
Sioux ‘City
Hinton
Red Cross
Iowa
United States
Olson
Florence
Earl Caddock
Jtfenry C. Carlson
Lucas
Red Cross plans expansion of membership and peace work
Washington news details Henry B P Davison announcing a national Christmas enrollment drive to widen Red Cross membership and merge wartime activities into a broad peacetime program. The plan emphasizes loyalty, one dollar annual dues, and continued support for soldiers, families, and overseas relief efforts.
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Washington
Henry BP. Davison
Council of the American Red Cross
Red Cross
National
Humanitaryan Society
Mand
Europe
Tself
American Red Cross
Red Grogs
Ted Cross
Vietory
Mother of Thousands and the Termite Queen
A termite nest six feet tall was found in the tropics with a solid earthy content mound a foot below ground. Inside lived the queen mother who laid 9 120 eggs in an hour. Her great size kept her confined to her cell, her sole function being egg production.
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Tropics
Little-Used Term Saracen in Medieval Context
The term Saracen described Tarks Arabs Moors and other Mohammedans in medieval Western Asia and Northern Africa. The phrase notes the word’s decline in modern usage, surviving mainly in romance poetry and historical writing.
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Asia
Africa
Fumigation Advance Speeds Seed Cleaning Process
The United States Department of Agriculture has developed a hydrocyanic acid and gas fumigation method to clean imported seed more rapidly using partial vacuum. The discovery promises faster processing and improved sanitation for seed imports.
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United States Department of Agriculture
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