Methodist Report Details Vast Pensions Campaign Contributions
The Upper Iowa conference claims commission reports its sesqui centennial campaign results for 1915 showing Cedar Rapids giving 9798 for aged ministers widows and orphans Davenport district 9240 Decorah district 6961 Marshalltown 7924 and Waterloo district 5023. Total assets 168115 with 121475 raised 231 members and 1047 ministers in 1915. The fund supports a 10 million dollar national pension drive for preachers.
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Waterloo
Upper Iowa
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
J. W. Bissell
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Bennett
Tipton
Clarence
Decorah
Dubuque
Marshalltown
Cedar Falls
Methodist Churches In America
Woman accused of bigamy after five marriages
Ethel Wicks Noble Bump Purdy Hughes, 32, reportedly married five men. She wed George Dietrich October 13 at Hampton, then was found with Fred Noble of Ft. Dodge in Iowa Falls four days later. Authorities say she showed a Sept 6 1911 certificate to prove another marriage to Noble and arrested her. She allegedly confessed to multiple marriages.
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Mason City
Ethel Wicks-Noble-Bump- Purdy-Hughes
Hampton
George Dietrich
Iowa Falls
Fred Noble
Ft. Dodge
Noble
Bert Bump
Nevada
Bert Purdy
Eldora
George Hughes
Minneapolis
Elks Plan New Home in Waterloo Iowa
The Waterloo Elks Lodge has purchased a residence and plans about 10000 dollars in improvements. They will convert the main house into a club house add a 60 by 100 foot wing and build a 22 by 60 platform with the second floor entirely devoted to club rooms. The completed property will rank among Iowa Elks lodges in quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Elks
Elks Lodge
Iowa
Hoof and mouth disease hits Muscatine county farm
In Muscatine county at the Melvin Brown farm near West Liberty hoof and mouth disease is confirmed. All stock on the farm infected and a strict quarantine imposed. Deputy Veterinarian Tillie reports diagnosis and Muscatine county expected to be quarantined. schools in the affected district closed.
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Iowa
Muscatine
Muscatine County
Melvin Brown
West Liberty
Tillie
State Department
Oil Tanks Explode Across Parkersburg Near Waterloo
In Waterloo area oil tanks owned by Standard Oil caught fire and burned with explosions. The blaze razed all oil supply buildings, leaving a total loss. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
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Waterloo
Parkersburg
Standard Oil Company
Booze Ban Expands to Public Congregation
Mason City city officials pass an ordinance making it a criminal offense for persons to gather at or be found in any place where intoxicants are sold, tightening penalties for drinkers.
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Mason City
Insane Janitor Attacks Self at Cedar Rapids Church
In a sudden attack of violence, E. J. Sims janitor of St. Pauls M E Church slashed his throat with a butcher knife and died minutes later on the church floor. Neighbors noted rising signs of insanity but no threat had been made against himself or others.
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Cedar Rapids
E. J. Sims
St. Paul’s
M. E
Sims
Horses Maltreated in Transit Spark $12,090 Suit
Oviatt and Gibson horse buyers sue an express company for 12090 damages alleging rough handling before arrival. The horses were shipped to Buffalo New York for sale to European buyers. The suit cites delay poor car condition and mistreatment of the animals.
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Shenandoah
Oviatt & Gibson
Express Company
Express
Buffalo
N. Y
Stolen Great Western money orders fraud hits Iowa
Des Moines reports that blanks from Great Western Express were stolen in North Dakota and are being filled and passed in Iowa. Dealers in Ottumwa Martinsburg Chelsea Sigourney Montour LeGrand and Watkin s are affected. The Iowa Bankers association notes liability questions and cites carelessness in handling blanks.
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Des Moines
Great Western Express
North Dakota
Iowa
Ottumwa
Martinsburg
Chelsea
Sigourney
Montour
LeGrand and
Watkins
Iowa Bankers’ Association
Harry A. Blackburn
Association
Express
Dairy inspector shakeup to test territory coverage
Des Moines reports state dairy and food commissioner W B Barney will shift twenty inspectors on or about November 13 for six to eight weeks to new districts to uncover overlooked violations of the pure food laws. M K E Flynn and S O Van De Bogart receive new assignments as part of the strategic change.
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Des Moines
W. B. Barney
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
M. K E. Flynn
Iowa
Mississippi River
S. O. van de Bogart
Barney
Flynn
Food and Dairy Department
Young Farmer Missing Near Ogden
Martin Heltcamp a young farmer from north of Ogden disappeared after leaving home to visit his father in Burnside with a sizable sum of money. His wife reported him missing when he failed to return, and authorities fear foul play.
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Ogden
Martin Heltcamp
Here
Burnside
First injunction against sale of hard cider in county
Judge Cummings issued a temporary writ stopping Liscomb sellers of hard cider testing 6.2 percent alcohol. The affidavit supporting the test is from G H Chittick Des Moines chemist for the state pure food and dairy commission.
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Marshalltown
Cummings
Liscomb
G. H. Chittick
Des Moines
State Pure Food and Dairy Commission
General Dodge In Serious Health Crisis In Iowa
Major General Granville M. Dodge, aged Civil War veteran and chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad, is critically ill in Council Bluffs after consulting a New York specialist. Friends express alarm over his advanced age.
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Dodge
Council Bluffs
Granville M. Dodge
Union Pacific Railroad
New York
Blame Contractors for Fall of Building
Coroner jury finds Renfre and Lewis at fault for a fatal collapse that killed two men in Dennison. Building owners sue for $10,000, alleging negligence in construction.
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Dennison
Renfre and Lewis
Judge imposes fines on Des Moines druggists for temperance drinks
District Judge Hubert Utterback fines ten druggists for contempt after selling malt drinks or cider despite injunctions. Beverages labeled beverone deemed intoxicating by chemist C N Kinney, containing about 0.5 percent alcohol. Nine defendants pay 200 dollars. one pays 500 for a second contempt conviction as injunctions seek permanent limits on 95 pending cases.
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Des Moines
Hubert Utterback
Anti-saloon League
C. N. Kinney
Veteran Col. Henry H. Rood Dies at 73 in State Center
Col. Henry H. Rood of Mt. Vernon, prominent figure in Crocker’s Iowa brigade and Cornell College secretary, died after a short illness at a State Center hotel. He was 73 and served as first lieutenant in Company A, Thirteenth Iowa Infantry during the Civil War.
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State Center
Henry H. Rood
Mt. Vernon
Crocker
Iowa Brigade
Cornell College
Rood
Thirteenth
Iowa Infantry
Woman Wins 17500 Damages In Auto Crash Suit
Mrs. Ella M. Snyder received a 17500 damage verdict against Sioux City Service Co. from a federal jury in Sioux City for the death of her son Rae Snyder in an auto and streetcar collision on August 10. Rae Snyder was a civil engineer and Iowa University graduate.
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Sioux City
Ella M. Snyder
Sioux City Service Company
United States District Court
Rae Snyder
Young Sayner
Iowa University
Fire destroys Cedar Rapids First Baptist Church
A basement blaze destroyed the First Baptist church in Cedar Rapids causing about 70000 in damage with 21500 insured. The planned State Baptist convention meeting will not be moved as other churches offer space for the event.
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Cedar Rapids
First Baptist Church
State Baptist Convention
Blood Transfusion Saves Life of Former Postmaster
Mason City report notes a blood transfusion given to former Postmaster J. A. Farrell at a Rochester Minnesota hospital. Anemia prompted the operation. Art Prescott donated several ounces of blood, which were transfused into Farrell.
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Mason City
J. A. Farrell
Rochester
Minn
Farrell
Art Prescott
Farrel
Cleared of Murder Charge in Ankeny Youth Acquitted
Des Moines report states 19 year old Ira Miller of Ankeny was acquitted of manslaughter after Judge Dudley directed a verdict. Miller faced charges over the death of Mrs. Guy O Daggy when her vehicle was struck and thrown from a rig following a collision caused by his auto.
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Des Moines
Ira Miller
Ankeny
Dudley
Miller
Guy O. Daggy
Ida County Grand Jury Sees No Indictments In Years
The 1915 grand jury in Judge Albert's court was discharged without any indictments after reviewing three cases sent from justice of the peace courts. Ida County has not had indictments for crimes in three years and only two indictments in five years despite the mulch law.
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Ida Grove
Albert
Justice of the Peace
Ida County
Des Moines Man Fined for Lacking Vehicle Number
George Autin faced police court arraignment after operating an automobile without a number. Judge Meyer twice gave him another chance and, on the third arraignment, fined the maximum $50 plus costs. He could not pay and was jailed. A quantity of liquor was also found in his car on two occasions.
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Des Moines
George Autin
Meyer
Autin
Children Overcome In Theatre Correctionville
Thirty children in a local moving picture theater suddenly swooned and lay unconscious until revived by physicians. Adults felt strange pains and headaches before the collapse, causing brief panic before doctors and doors opened for evacuations. The last child recovered after two hours.
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Correctionville
Moving Picture Theater
Stuart youth found dead from accidental gun shot
Stuart 22 year old Stuart-Royal Harlan son of Leslie Harlan a farmer living three miles north of Stuart was found dead in his room by his parents with a bullet wound to the head. It is believed to be an accidental death as he was cleaning a 22 caliber rifle he had been using for hunting when the gun fired.
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Stuart—Royal Harlan
Leslie Harlan
Stuart
Saving Game Fish in Iowa Sloughs and Ponds
State game warden orders seining of sloughs and ponds along the Mississippi to save fish from freezing. Captured fish are moved to tanks and sent to the state fish hatchery. Senator Hilsinger asks for a carload of bass and crappies planted in the Maquoketa River.
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Bellevue
Iowa
Mississippi River
Hilsinger
Sabula
Man Victim of Glanders In Carroll County
Word reaches Dr. S Sumner secretary of the state board of health that John Schaffer of Grant township Carroll county is afflicted with glanders. State epidemilogist M I Boyd has been sent to diagnose and investigate the case. Fumigation will be conducted around the Schaffer farm buildings.
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Ul. S. Sumner
State Board of Health
John Schaffer
Grant Township
Carroll County
M. I. Boyd
Greer
Schaffer
Briand Forms New French Cabinet After Viviani Resigns
Paris reports Premier Viviani resigns causing cabinet collapse over Balkan crisis. Aristide Briand, Socialist, offered premiership and to lead a new government with Gen. Gallieni as war minister and Lacaze as minister of the navy. Combes to head instruction. Klotz or Thierry considered for commerce.
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Aristide Briand
General Gallieni
Paris
Rene Viviani
France
Poincare
Viviani
Balkan
Theophile Delcasse
M. Briand
Jules Cambon
Germany
M. Viviani
J. S. Gallieni
Lacaze
Etienne Clementel
Agriculture
Finance
L. L. Klotz
Interior
Joseph Thierry
Ministry of War
Emile Combes
Eastland to be converted into navy training ship
Chicago October 29 capt Edward Evers of the Illinois Naval Reserves said the government plans to buy and remodel the steamship Eastland. The vessel once sank in the river with over 800 dead and will receive a flush deck and gun mounts after hull and upper works are removed.
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Chicago
Eastland
Edward Evers
The
Illinois Naval Reserves
Ord
French Auto Dealers Strike Ford over U.S. Loan
Paris reports the chamber of French dealers in automobiles adopted reprisals against Henry Ford after his opposition to the Anglo French loan. Members were told to sever relations with the Ford concern and urge customers to refrain from buying Ford vehicles.
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Paris
Henry Ford
United States
Chamber of French
Ford Automobile
Ford
French Land 150000 Troops at Saloniki
Vienna dispatch via Amsterdam quotes the Frankfurter Zeitung reporting that France has landed 150000 troops and 100 guns at Saloniki. The report, dated London and attributed to Central News, appears in the October 30 edition.
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London
Vienna
Amsterdam
Frankfurter Zeitung
Saloniki
British Cruiser Argyl Strands in Scotland Amid Gale
The British cruiser Argyl of 10 850 tons went ashore on the east coast of Scotland during a gale. All crew members were saved, but the vessel is feared to be a total loss.
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London
Argyl
Scotland
Hill Gifts Harvard 125000 for Transportation Chair
Cambridge Mass Oct 29 Hill donations to Harvard University total 142000 including a 125000 gift from James 3 List. The funds will be added to the principal of the Hill professorship of transportation.
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Hill
Harvard
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
James 3
Marshal von Mindenburg Takes 2000 Yards of Russian Trench
Berlin dispatch says Marshal von Mindenburg has taken 2,000 yards of Russian trenches in the Dvinsk region. An official report notes a number of Russian troops were captured and prisoners taken.
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Berlin
Marshal von Mindenburg
Dvinsk
Bomb Plot Foiled. German Agent Confesses in U S Ship Sabotage Case
Robert Fay, a Saxony lieutenant, confessed to plotting to plant clockwork bombs on ship rudders to disrupt war supplies to the Entente. The scheme involved German secret service ties and talks with naval attaché and military officials. Police found acids and 120 pound boxes of chlorate in a Weehawken room. Two more men were arrested, with a fifth unnamed.
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New York
Atlantic
United States
Robert Fay
Sixteenth
Saxony Infantry
Secret Service
William J. Flynn
Houghton
Fay
America
von Papen
K. Boy-Ed
Walter L. Scholz
Weehawken
N. J
Hudson
Scholz
Paul Daeche
Jersey City
Herbert Kienzle
Fire kills thirteen at Union Paper Box factory
A Sandusky street blaze in Pittsburgh on Monday left thirteen dead including twelve girls and ten missing. Peter Vallon died trying to save the victims as firemen pulled bodies from the wreckage and Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong mourned. Ten girls were hospitalized at Allegheny General in serious condition after leaping from upper floors.
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Pittsburgh
Union Paper Box
Sandusky Street
Peter Vallon
Joseph G. Armstrong
Allegheny General Hospital
27 Die In School Fire at St. John's Parochial School
A three story brick school building in Peabody Massachusetts housing 600 pupils from ages seven to thirteen caught fire. Twenty bodies recovered with many more feared dead. 16 sisters and firemen aided evacuation as panic erupted. The origin of the blaze remained under investigation.
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St. John’s Parochial School
Peabody
Mass
St. John's
Michael Dunn
Scottish Rite officers elected in Washington gathering
M W Baylis of Washington DC was elected sovereign grand commander of the supreme council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Other officers named include Josiah H Long Boston lieutenant grand commander Charles S Webster Worcester minister of state Holden Hill Providence treasurer general M W Morton Providence secretary general and Walter Seymour Newark keeper of archives.
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New York
M. W. Baylis
Washington
D. C
Supreme Council
Josiah H. Long
Boston
Charles S. Webster
Worcester
Mass
Holden ©. Hill
Providence
R. I
M. W. Morton
Walter Seymour
Newark
N. J
London
War Office
Marquette
Aegean Sea
Madrid
Imparcial
Prince Camporeale
Prince von Buelow
Italy
Spain
Wilson
Germany
Great Britain
Alexander W. Kirk
Berlin
Ambassador Page
Russians Bombard Varna as Fleet Shells Bulgarian Coast
Bucharest dispatch reports a Russian fleet reached the Bulgarian coast at four in the morning and began bombardment of Varna. Shelling continued through eleven o'clock, causing considerable damage to the town and disrupting Black Sea coast operations.
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Rome
Bucharest
Stefani
Black Sea
Bulgaria
Bugarian
Varna
Rush to join British Army in nationwide recruitment surge
London reports a sharp rise in enlistment across Britain with recruiting now at its highest pace since the war’s early months. The Manchester Guardian notes intensified efforts in cities including Manchester as men respond to the call to serve.
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London
The
Manchester Guardian
Allegheny Steel to Start Neutral Shell Production
Special machinery is being installed at the Breckenridge plant of Allegheny Steel company in Pittsburg and next week work will begin turning out shells for neutral European countries.
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Pittsburg
Breckenridge
Allegheny Steel Company
Europe
Pressed Steel Car Co Wins Russian Freight Car Order
Pittsburgh Oct 28 The Pressed Steel Car company after delivering 7 600 steel freight cars to the Russian government has closed a new contract for 8 500 additional cars. The deal extends the companys shipment schedule and marks a further expansion of wartime railway equipment production.
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Russ
Pittsburgh
Pressed Steel Car Company
Lady Paget Taken Prisoner by Bulgarians at Uskub
Word from Lady Paget's mother reports that Lady Ralph Paget a senior figure in the British Red Cross in Serbia has been made prisoner by Bulgarian forces at Uskub indicating ongoing Balkan tensions and humanitarian involvement under threat.
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Paget
London
Ralph Paget
British Red Cross
Serbia
Uskub
Austrian Merchant Ship Sunk Near Gallipoli
Athens report says an Austrian merchant ship flying the Turkish flag was torpedoed by an allied submarine while en route to the Gallipoli peninsula with provisions and ammunition for Turkish forces.
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Athens
Gallipoli Peninsula
Submarine F-4 to be Scrapped after Honolulu sinking
The navy department announced that the submarine F-4, which sank in Honolulu harbor last March causing 21 deaths, will be sent to the scrap heap.
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Washington
Honolulu
Navy Department
Cotton Bales Burn On Steamer Colorado
Five thousand nine hundred bales of cotton burn aboard the steamer Colorado near Charleston D C A blaze not yet controlled leaves the vessel badly damaged and threatening other cargo authorities battle the flames.
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Charleston
D. C
Colorado
German Aviators Taken by British
London report says two German aircraft were brought down by British aviators. One fell inside British lines.
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London
John
First Connecting Link Formed in the Northeast by Invaders
Berlin reports a direct Austro German Bulgarian union on the Danube east of Brza Palanka. Serbian defense resists fiercely with heavy casualties. Bulgarian forces reportedly outnumber Serbs ten to one, but only 500 prisoners taken. Allied landings at Saloniki total 53 000 through Constantinople routes.
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Balkan
Berlin
Germany
London
Serbia
Boyadjieff
Danube
Braza Palanka
Uskup
Constantinople
Saloniki
Majdag
Forgan Testifies On Lorimer Munday Bank Wrecking Case
James B. Forgan president of the First National Bank of Chicago testifies in the Charles B. Munday trial. He says he did all he could to avert financial ruin and warned Lorimer and Munday as LaSalle Street National Bank declined. He claims he helped prolong their affiliation with the Chicago Clearing House to protect depositors.
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Chicago
la Salle Street Bank
Chicago Clearing House Association
Forgan
Lorimer-Munday Institution
Lorimer-Munday Bank
Girl Found Slain on Track in Pittsburgh
The headless body of Miss Sophia McCallin, daughter of former Pittsburgh mayor William McCallin, was found on the Pennsylvania tracks at Roup station inside city limits. Identification was impossible until her absence from E. S. Morrow’s office, where she worked as secretary, prompted an inquiry.
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Pittsburgh
Sophia McCallin
William ©. McCallin
Roup
E. S. Morrow
Norwegian steamer Selma sunk. 19 feared drowned
London October 29 Lloyds announces the Norwegian steamer Selma of 897 tons has been sunk. Nineteen crew are believed drowned, two escaped and reached land.
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London
Lloyd’s
Selma
Italian Dead Count in Doberdo Plain Battle
Vienna officials report three thousand Italians lying dead in the open before an Austrian regiment on the Doberdo plateau. The bulletin was issued on Wednesday afternoon.
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Vienna
Doberdo
Cleveland Fireman Killed In Interurban Collision
The Cleveland flying squadron collided with an interurban car en route to a fire. A lieutenant was killed and several firemen injured in the wreck, reported from Cleveland, Ohio, on October 28.
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Cleveland
Cleveland, O
Cleveland Fire Department
Russia Enables Action on Food Crisis
London October 28 a special meeting of the Russian council of ministers empowered interior minister Alexei Khvostov to take urgent measures to deal with the food problem.
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Russia
London
Russian Council of Ministers
Alexi Khvostoff
Interior
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Methodist Report
Vivianis
Chamber of Automobile Dealers
Dogoogoegoewei
GeCesead
Czar
Bulgar
Munday
Miss McCallin
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