Macedonian Front Shifts As Allied Withdrawals Mount
Berlin reports French and Italian forces expelled from Macedonian territory with General Todoroff's troops in Doi a and Gievgeli. British divisions reportedly wiped out in the advance. Athens notes Greece seeks neutrality as entente retreats near Sake and warns against entente forces on Greek soil. Bulgarian attacks cost British lives. Russians defeat Persian rebels at Aveh and push toward Hamadan.
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Todoroff
Doia
Gievgeli
London
Greece
Germana
Athens
Saniki
Reece
Moniki
Exmple
Kavala
Durazzo
Albania
Sa“oniki
Aveh
Hamadan
Sea of Marmara
Conscription Not Likely: Derby Reports On Recruitment Efforts
London officials report that about 3,900,000 men answered Lord Derby's voluntary call, a figure to be finalized in his forthcoming report to Premier Asquith. The campaign is described as a success and conscription appears unlikely in the near future.
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London
Lord Derby
Cross of England
Asquith
Parliament Committee On Labor
Debrett’s Peerage lists eight hundred Britons killed in war
The December issue of Debrett’s Peerage reveals about 800 names killed in battle or dying of wounds, including one royal family member, six peers, sixteen baronets, six knights, seven MPs, 164 companions, and numerous heirs. Also reported: the Pinegrove sunk by a submarine with 21 survivors. total Allied sinkings reach 508 ships and 917,319 tons.
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London
Debrett
House of Commons
Military leadership changes from World War I era
General Willcocks has been senior to Sir Douglas Haig since 1918 and was leu tenant general until Haig was made full general Inez November. His resignation is attributed to personal reasons. For similar reasons, General Smith-Dorrien left the front several months ago.
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Willcox
Douglas Hats
Inez
Minnesota Youthful Bandits Rob Bank in St Paul
Three young men robbed the Western State bank in St Paul, taking $3 027 27. They fled in a waiting car with two others. Within hours Minneapolis police arrested three suspects Frank Lohr twenty two James Lowe twenty one and Patrick Maloney and a fourth Albert Skinner was detained next morning in La Crosse Wisconsin. A landlady tipped police after finding $500 in cash and two revolvers hidden in the suspects rooming arrangements.
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Western State Bank
Patrick Maloney
Allen
Minneapolis
Lohr
Lowe
Boston
Requests Control Over Rail Capital
The Interstate Commerce Commission urges quicker expansion of its membership with power to act through subdivisions and seeks legislation to regulate railroad capital. It backs access to carrier letters, mandating steel passenger cars and banning wooden cars in front of steel cars, plus a $100 minimum penalty for hours of service violations and a three year limit on transportation charge actions.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Commission
Predict His Assassination Portland Chinese Say Yuan Shi Kai Never Will Be Emperor
The Portland Chinese chamber of commerce cabled a protest to the Chinese assembly against changing from a republic to a monarchy. Leaders urged continued republican government and Lee Hong, its president, stated that Yuan Shi Kai would never be allowed to prevail and that assassination is expected.
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Portland
Yuan Shi Kai
Ore
Chinese Chamber of Commerce of
China
Lee Hong
Cleveland Woman Slays Son Then Kills Self in Madness
Mia Marek 32, wife of a telephone line man, stabbed her six year old son Vernon to death and then cut her own throat with a butcher knife in a Cleveland home. The husband awoke to the cries and stopped her from harming another before she killed herself. Mrs Marsh had been released from St Peter state hospital as cured.
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Mia
David Marek
Cleveland
Vernon
Captain Boy Ed France of American Girl
Washington gossip swirls over the recall of German naval attaché Captain Boy Ed France and Franz von Papen. Rumor links Boy Ed to Virginia MacKay Smith daughter of the late Bishop Alexander MacKay Smith of St Johns Episcopal Church in Washington society.
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Washington
Franz von Papen
Captain Boy-Ed
Virginia MacKay Smith
Alexander MacKay Smith
St. John’s Episcopal Church
National Constitutional Prohibition Amendment Urged
Congress will be urged in this session to submit a national constitutional prohibition amendment to the states for ratification. A mass meeting, under the National Women’s Temperance Union, adopted resolutions supporting the move.
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Washington
Congress
National Women’s Temperance Union
Mohammedan Dignitary Slain in Persia
Delhi reports Aga Farukh Shah cousin of Prince Aga Khan spiritual head of the Mohammedans in India East Africa and Central Asia murdered by a Persian assassin at Kerman Persia a Reuters telegram states the report reaching Delhi from Kerman with the fatal shooting.
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London
Delhi
Reuter's Telegram Company
Aga Farukh Shah
Aga Kahn
Mohammedana
India
East Africa
Central Asia
Kerman
Persia
One Saloon in Dry Zone 550 Miles Long
When the saloons at Vern dale Wadena county are shut, the lone saloon at Randall west of Little Falls will be the only wet spot between Little Falls and Glendive Montana. The 550 mile dry zone may become the longest in the United States.
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Verndale
Wadena
Randall
Little Falls
Glendive
Mont
United States
Iverson Circulates First Campaign Letter for Minnesota Governor
Samuel G. Iverson former state auditor and Republican gubernatorial candidate issues his first campaign letter to Minnesota voters. He filed papers Saturday and outlines five planks: economy law enforcement public health conservation of land and water resources and sale of iron ore beneath lake beds with proceeds for road building and maintenance.
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Samuel G. Iverson
Minnesota
Iverson
Professor Robinson Dead at Columbia Then Minnesota Loss
Professor E V Robinson former University of Minnesota faculty and St Paul resident, recently named economics professor at Columbia University, died in New York City from heart disease. He was rising among leading economists and shock followed Minnesota colleagues.
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University of Minnesota
Stricker
E. V. Robinson
St. Paul
Columbia University
New York City
New York
Robinson
Bryan opposes Lynch as Democratic chairman in leaked notices
Two stories from political circles reveal William J. Bryan as telling the Democratic national committee he will not back Fred B. Lynch of Minnesota for chairman. He also reportedly hinted to Speaker Clark, via third parties, that Clark should run for president with Bryan's support.
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William J. Bryan
Democratic National Committee
Fred B. Lynch
Minnesota
Bryan
Clark
Minnesota Farmers Readiness for Big Farm Week in 1916
Hundreds of Minnesota farmers and homemakers are expected at Farmers' and Homemakers' week at University Farm St Paul January 8 1916. Committee predicts 1200 to 1500 attendees with growth expected yearly.
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Minnesota
University Farm
St. Paul
College of Agriculture
Fred D. Sherman
Commissioner of Immigration
Canby
John Bowe
Miggor
Bowe
Thompson Grant
Winona County
Witoka
Grant
Stillwater
Walter J. Smith
Martha A. Miller
Rochester
Margaret Lewis
Blue Earth County
Mankato
America
Wales
Court of Claims
Washington
Mille Lace Band of
United States
South St. Paul
A. H. Rose
Minneapolis
Rose
Mill City
Diapepsin Claims Quick Relief for Indigestion
A patent medicine pitch promises five minute relief from sour stomach, belching, and nausea. It touts a fifty cent case of Paper's Diapepsin available at any drug store, claiming instant, permanent ease from indigestion and dyspepsia with dramatic assertions.
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