England Must Pay Is Wilsons View In Diplomatic Standoff
The New York Times reports President Wilson and his aides aim to secure full protection for American ships and shipowners. The note to Britain asserts freedom of commerce for neutral nations, seeks damages for trade interference, and emphasizes a peaceful, nondefiant approach despite echoes of 1812.
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New York Times
Washington
Great Britain
Wilson
Congress
United States
Foreign Office
Walter Hines Page
London
United Tal
Clare
England
White House
Amy Costae
Insuring Against War With America
London reports Lloyds policy premiums for war risk. A 15 guinea percent premium ($75) per $500 covers total loss if Britain and America declare war within twelve months. A separate Norway Britain war risk policy costs 7 guineas per cent.
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Lloyds
NEW York Times
London
Great Britain
America
Norway
Thousands Face Eviction From Coal Strike Housings
Steubenville Ohio reports eviction notices to about 2 500 families of striking miners in Jefferson County demanding ten months rent by January 15 under penalty of eviction. Families live in Warren Mount Pleasant Smithfield and Springfield towns and the strike continues since last April. UMWA officers may seek court restraining eviction writs affecting 16 000 miners elsewhere in Belmont County.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Jefferson County
Warren
Mount Pleasant
Smithfield
Springfield
Bellaire
Belmont
United Mine Workers of America
Strange Death in Y M C A in New York
William McFarland Donaldson 27 was found dead in the hot room of the Y M C A at 318 West Fifty seventh Street. Dr. Ennis and Coroner Healy offered contrary views on suicide and poison as causes. the body will be examined further by the coroner's physician.
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William McFarland Donaldson
East Forty-fourth Street
West Fifty-seventh Street
F Eighth and
Ninth Avenues
James 8. Ennis
West Fitty Sixth Street
James Donaldson
East Fortyfourth Street
William Donaldson
Girvin
West Forty-seventh Street
Healee
Hiealy
Ennis
Air compression plan to battle Atlantic waves
Trenton December 29. Philip Brasher formerly Princeton football star and engineer proposes using shore based air compressing plants to blow air into the sea. He suggests pipes extend into the water with perforations to unleash air as storms threaten Seabright Long Branch and Atlantic City. The aim is to break up wave mass and prevent damage.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Philip Brasher
Princeton
Seabright
Long Branch
Atlantic City
Coquetry Led To Murder in Millville
George Hahn confessed to shooting Beatrice Bailey six years old at her grandmother’s home in Millville New Jersey He admitted he planned to kill her seventeen year old aunt Alice Pettit his fiancée He had hoped to marry her on her eighteenth birthday after a visit by Allen Hughes who came to see Miss Pettit The motive centered on romantic jealousy and elopement plans with Pettit who says she only teased Hahn by inviting Hughes
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New York Times
Millville
N. J
George Hahn
Beatrice Bailey
Alice Pettit
Hahn
Allen Hughes
Hughes
Miss Pettit
Not Forgotten by Col Birch Christmas Card From Lisbon
Christmas greetings from Col Thomas H. Birch the U S minister to Portugal reach his friends through elaborate Lisbon cards. Each envelope includes a portrait autographed photo of Birch and a card with a motto from the Legation at Cascais and Rio de Janeiro reflecting duty and distance. Advertisement notes an 1914 Keeler Galleries rug auction at 12 Vesey Street daily at 2 PM.
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Col
Thomas H. Birch
Portugal
Lisbon
Col Birch
United States Legation
Do Rio Janeiro
Cascues-by -the-Sea
Keeler Art Galleries
Vesey St
Regimental feud erupts over name and slur at meeting
Veterans of the Twenty Second Regiment of Engineers gathered at 545 West 145th Street to protest Gov. Glynn order disbanding the unit. Speakers criticized Gen. John F. O'Ryan for calling Twenty-second soldiers ping pong and urged a hearing before disbandment. A memorial asking Glynn to rescind the order was approved.
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Twenty Second Regiment of Engineers
James R. Silliman
Lloyd Aspinwall
G A. R
John Whalen
Lloyd Aspinwall Post
Twenty-second
Col. Potter
O' Ryan
National Guard
War Department
O'Ryan
Corps of Engineers
Twenty-second Regiment
Henry Clews
O’ryan
Vnv
Albany
George JF. McVay
Gen. O'Ryan
Army War College
O’ Ryan
William F. Campbell
Gen. O’ryan
T. J.urphy
Allaisi
Train Hits Auto. Two Die in Teaneck Collision
A Ontario and Western Railroad crash in Teaneck New Jersey at 0 16 last night killed driver Otto Garlisch and helper J Cavanaugh and injured the chauffeur. The auto truck belonged to James Everard's brewery at 12 East 123d Street. Passengers and beer barrels were thrown as the locomotive rammed the auto. Engineer Henry Morey of North Bergen broke an arm. The driver died en route to Weehawken and the helper died on the train.
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Ontario & Western Railroad
James Everard
East 123d Street
Teaneck
N. J
Henry Morey
North Bergen
Otto Garlisch
Flushing Avenue
Jamaica
J. Cavanaugh
East Wd Street
Garliseh
Cavanaugh
Weehawken
The Times Preview on The Great War's Aftermath
A fragment discusses postwar topics and a French remark on a best selling foreign book about the United States. It promotes next Sunday's Times and notes the issue sells out quickly.
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Othor
Unite I
TIMES
the Times
Fiske Show Ends Leaves Lopokova Cast Stranded
Miss Lopokova’s company waited in rain at the Playhouse on Forty eighth Street as doors closed and signage swapped to The Sinners. Producer Harrison Grey Fiske and William A Brady reportedly ended Just Herself by mutual consent, leaving actors without admission and refunds issued at the box office.
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Playhouse
Forty Eighth Street
Seventh Avenue
Lydia Lopokova
Just
Broadway
Sing Sing
Miss Lopokova
Harrison Grey Fiske
Syracuse
Buffalo
Hollis Street
Boston
Atlantic City
J. Mandelkorn
Fiske
Fisy
Brown
William A. Brady
Mr. Fiske
Mandelkorn
Styles Lead to Idleness Says National Conference
Speakers at the National Conference on the Unemployed urged steady year round jobs. Miss Juliet Stuart Poynsel of Boston blamed volatile fashion for factory uncertainty. Trene Oswood Andrews of New York pressed living wages and year round work. John B. Andrews proposed a federal labor market bureau with city exchanges.
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Philadelphia
National Conference On the
Juliet Tuart Poynsel
Joston
Trene Osood Andrews
New York
John B. Andrews
Federal Department of Labor
Washington
Glynn names three new justices to high court
Gov. Glynn appoints Clarence J. Shearn and Francis B. Delehanty to Supreme Court seats in New York County, filling vacancies due to Justice Amend's death and Justice Seabury's elevation. Lorenz Zeller to City Court vacancy created by Delehanty’s promotion.
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New York Times
Albany
Court of Special Sessions
Delehanty
Justice Zeller
Capitol
Gov. Glynn
New York
Empire State Express
Robert F. Wagner
Wilson
Murphy
Tammany
Hearst
Glynn
Justice Amend
William J. Amend
Supreme Court
John J. McAvoy
Thomas F. McAvoy
Tammany Hall
Francis P
Republican Independence League
Justice of the
United States
Edward Murphy, Jr
Troy
Orror
Judge Gov
Holden Trust Establishes Arboritum at Lakeview Cemetery
Albert F Holden's estate funds a mortuary arboretum at Lakeview Cemetery near John D Rockefeller's estate in Cleveland. Fifty acres are set aside for burial of illustrious dead and monuments to those who have served state or city. Income supports cemetery enhancement with a goal of landscape gardening and arboreal development, honoring Holden's daughter Elizabeth Davis Holden who died at 14.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Albert F. Holden
Lakeview Cemetery
Forest Hill
John D. Rockefeller
Weatminster Abbey
Mr. Holden
Albert J. Trotden
Elzabeth Davis Holden
Holden
Dr Crile to war hospital aboard Lusitania
Dr George W Crile of Cleveland sails for Europe to join American surgeons aiding wounded soldiers. He takes eleven nurses and assistants to work with him in the American Ambulance In Partes. Crile is a professor and pioneer in brain shock prevention and anesthesia methods. Lemuel Mather backs the Crile party.
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George W. Crile
Cleveland
Lusitania
Europe
Parte
Adriatic
Crile
Hotel Belmont
Western Reserve University
Vienna
London
Paris
Royal Society of Surgeons of Great Britain
American Medical Association
Lister
Iris
Lemuel Mather
Carnecte Peace Foundation
Mather
New York
Nurse Sues for Life Annuity in Bremner Estate Case
Miss Theodora Nast a trained nurse sues in Jersey City for 150 dollars a month for three years and 150 dollars a month for life from the estate of late Congressman Robert G Bremner who died in Baltimore where radium was used in a cancer treatment An application seeks to restrain estate sales The Passaic Herald publisher Leitch Bremner denies grounds for the suit and attacks the claimant
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Brenn
Passaic Herald
Leitch Brenner
Nashner
England orders aliens from coast towns
London notices to quit have been served on aliens of enemy countries and their descendants in Tyneside and adjoining coast towns. Naturalized aliens and British born descendants face eight day departures to a coastal area 30 miles inland approved by military authorities, with age exemptions.
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London
Tyneside
Trict
Sunderland
Prince Henry Likely To Rule German Fleet
Berlin dispatch says the German Emperor summoned Prince Henry of Prussia to meet with Admiral von Tirpitz on the British raid on Cuxhaven. The conference lasted hours and the prince returned to Kiel. it is believed he will receive supreme command of the battle ship fleet.
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London
Berlin
Exchange Telegraph Company
Hague
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Admiral von Tirpitz
Cuxhaven
Kiel
Germany
Prince Ireary
Prince von Biilow
Rome
Deo
Austria
German Corps Sent to the Southern Trentino
Rome dispatch reports a German army corps readying to move to the Southern Trentino near the Italian frontier. A proclamation urged inhabitants to clean streets and welcome the Germans while authorities warned Germans in Rome against exporting supplies.
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NEW York Times
Rome
London
Trentino
Arrests in Terre Haute indictments rise to 102
Terre Haute Ind Dec 29 six more men were taken into custody under federal indictments charging a conspiracy to corrupt the November election. Mayor Dean M Roberts and City Controller Elmer Talbott were among those arrested, as 102 have been taken into custody with 48 turning state's evidence. Arraignments set for Jan 12 in Indianapolis.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Indianapolis
Dean M. Roberts
Elmer Talbott
Roberts
George Whrenhardt
Board of Public Works
Hilton Edman
Circui
Eli H. Redman
Redman Im
Theon
Rank tIainer
Louwis Manley
Frank Lockwood
Robert
United States
Dailey
Nedianapolis
A. B. Anderson
Kaiser Attends Christmas Fete With Northern Front Troops
The Kaiser joined about 1,000 officers and men at General Headquarters in a Northern France town for a plain but impressive Christmas dinner. An altar and manger framed the decor, with holly, portraits, trees, cakes, and nuts on the tables. He spoke of shared sacrifice and victory, then exchanged gifts as soldiers sang.
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New York Times
Copenhagen
Dee
London Daily News
Great General Headquarters
Hotel de Ville
France
Germany
Russians Gain Pleasing Front Progress In Poland And Galicia
Allied observers report a Russian push easing near Warsaw with captured trenches, prisoners, and guns as Austrians suffer heavy losses in Galicia and southern Poland. About 30 000 Austrian prisoners reported. mudbound roads hamper pursuit. Germans repelled fronts checked.
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London
Poland
Vistula
Pilica
Warsaw
Galicia
Francis Joseph
Servia
Austria
German Losses in Poland Reach Historic Scale
Dispatch reports German and Austrian forces suffer unprecedented losses across the Polish front as they fail to break Russian defense. Continuous, brutal fighting persists from the Baltic to Ruthenia with Warsaw still distant and remaining German momentum halted by fortified Russian positions. The Stalled offensive sees German and Austrian troops repelled along the Vistula and rivers near Skierniewice and Pilica, while Russian counteractions push back along the Nida and Rawka regions.
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New York Times
Petrograd
London Morning Post
Nicholas
Russia
Poland
Baltic
Carpathians
Ruthenia
Warsaw
Vistula
Skierniewice
Rawka
Pilica
Vietole
Nida
Saitniki
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Him Flippant
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Lopokova
Ducer
Delehanty and
Shearn
Sions
Rocke
Feller
DR. Crile
WAR Hospital
American Ambulance
Bremner
Andrew Usher
Edinburgh
Prince Henry
The
Seaboard Florida Limited
Seaboard
Kaiser
Alltogether
Schulte
Advi
New
Opatow
Biala
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