Smuggling, Peace Talks and Polar Hope in Nordic News
Far north reports detail winter smuggling across the Tornea river with white-clad smugglers and guard patrols. Sweden’s embargo on wood pulp and a drive for neutral peace unfold as Hjalmar Branting and Dutch socialists back peace efforts. Ford tribunal starts in Stockholm.
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Sweden
Finnish
Russia
Arctic Circle
Tornea
Hjalmar Branting
Rigsdag
Meyer London
New York
Stockholm
Branting
London
Wilson
Danish farm tale and wartime notes from Copenhagen
Danish fisherman Morton Vestegaard survives a fatal mishap when a doorway collapses on a fox trying to move his geese. Lieutenant Hans Berg identified as a naval reservist aiding the Appam prize crew. Industrial chief Alex Foss notes Danish industry prospers but laments English shipping restrictions raising costs. Copenhagen reports a quiet New Year with restricted fireworks and a planned rail side tree planting. A Danish offer to begin Arctic exploration with Hudson Bay Company is noted alongside a German aircraft sighting near Copenhagen and a protest to Berlin.
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Hans Berg
Appam
Hampton ‘Roads
Aabenraa
Gamma
Ahrenkiel & Clausen
Berg
Norway Exports Rise as Fishermen Eye Higher Prices
Norwegian salted codfish exports recover after a Christmas lull with prices around seven cents a pound in German harbors. Finmarken shipments decline as crews watch southern grounds near Romsdal while preservation of historic Finnes Loft in Vossevangen continues under Bergen Society care.
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Germany
Austria
German
Finmarken
Romsdal
Bandit Violence Surges Across Vera Cruz Region
A Mexican dispatch reports rampant brigandage from Vera Cruz to the capital, with daily robberies and murders, train holds, and guard patrols. In Jalapa and Oaxaca, natives flee to towns while authorities execute suspects on the spot to curb the menace.
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Vera Cruz City
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Jalapa
Diaz
Oaxaca
Boy Dies from Gunshot Wound After 20 Years
Philadelphia reports the coroner says John Karns died from a gunshot wound suffered as a child. Karns, paralyzed since the accident, underwent spinal operation years earlier but never recovered use of his lower body. The shooting was ruled accidental.
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Philadelphia
John
Karns
Paris Seeks Rename of Avenue de Sofia
The Figaro questions why Avenida Sofia keeps its name though Paris has already renamed streets honoring enemy nations. Residents have written urging action to remove the reference to the capital of a hostile country, noting the two name plates remind the public.
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Paris
Beggar with Bank Account Found in New York
Bank books reveal deposits of 2000 dollars linked to John West. Police report states a 25 year old man was arrested for begging. The discovery of a bank account contrasts with the alleged begging activity.
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New York
John West
Widow Delia Maxwell Passed From Basements To City Hospital
After twenty years of independence Mrs. Delia Maxwell eighty eight was found ill in a basement on State and Eaton Streets and taken by ambulance to City hospital. Charities had supported her, and she refused institutional care to keep her three Angora cats with neighbors. She had once owned a horse and farm but debt and illness left her bedbound. Her pets remained her companions until illness dictated hospital care.
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Mrs. Maxwell
Loving Kindness
Sunshine Society
Wilder and Associated Charities
Board of Control
Maxwell
Boy Swallows Carpet Tack During Cough Fit
In Hickman Kentucky Earl Bettersworth, son of Mr and Mrs B Bettersworth, swallowed a carpet tack while making a kite in September. He has since suffered frequent coughing spells some with hemorrhage but doctors found no initial reason to suspect the tack was lodged in his throat.
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Hickman, Ky
Earl
B. Bettersworth
Stock Farm on Roof in Brooklyn Storey
Superintendent George A. Diack has set up a stock farm on the roof of Mechanics Bank in Brooklyn. The menagerie includes pigeons, chickens, ducks, turkeys, a pig, a goat and monkeys on the rooftop display.
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New York
George A. Diack
Mechanics Bank
Brooklyn
Boston culture permits bare toes on stage
City culture officials allowed ballet performances featuring bare toes on stage while drawing the line at ankles. The ruling was applied to a recent Russian ballet staged in the city.
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O.K
Boston
Going Home After Prison in New Era Vision
A New Era writer at Federal Penitentiary Leavenworth imagines inmates going home after release. The piece envisions freedom to work again, spend, drink water, sleep with lights out, and break bondage with new habits free from alcohol and crime.
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Federal Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Nother
Made Bachelor Pay for Wife in Wilkes-Barre Case
An alderman in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania awarded $100 to a woman who found a wife for a bachelor. The court ruled the search for a wife was worth the promised sum and ordered payment in full.
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Wilkes- Barre
State Control in England Monopolizes Local Trade
A new center in northern England launches a state run system for 20 000 wartime workers. Government acquires all local shops and will license or directly operate them to regulate prices. The liquor board owns about thirty pubs, creating a regional monopoly with restricted or suspended sales and some pubs converted to lodging houses.
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England
Liquor Control Board
Saved by a Coin Toss in Battle of Loos
Survivor recounts how a coin toss decided who stayed with a heavy trench mortar unit during Loos. He and a comrade were detached for the mortar duty. the other man stayed, and hours later was killed by a shell. The survivor endured over forty wounds and has now been discharged from hospital.
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Loos
Increased Use of Quinine in Indian Market
A statement to the legislative council of India shows quinine sales rising from 45.25 million grains in 1913 to about 72.5 million grains in 1914 and over 73.75 million grains in the first eleven months of the following year.
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Legislative Council of India
Educational Survey Aids San Francisco Public Schools
Henry Turner Bailey of Newton Mass an author lecturer and editor has been selected by the United States Bureau of Education to assist Commissioner Philander Claxton in a survey of the San Francisco public school system. This promises to be a significant first in such efforts.
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Henry Turner_ "Bailey
Newton
Mass
Something-to-Do
United States Bureau of ‘Education
Philander P. Claxton
San Francisco
Ryndam Aboard Aiding Passenger in Mid Ocean
The liner Ryndam halted at sea to operate on a passenger with a dangerous appendix. The captain and ship surgeon led the response, while an American dentist assisted by administering the anesthetic during the emergency on the trans Atlantic voyage.
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Ryndam
Cuticura Cure Promoted For Dandruff Scalp Care
Advertises Cuticura Soap and Ointment as the best treatment for dandruff itching and hair loss. Prompts applying Ointment to spots then shampooing with Soap, offers a free sample by mail via a Boston department. Also notes a domestic joke about a servant shielding children’s misdeeds.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Life Insurance Growth in Japan Since 1881
The first Japanese life insurance company began in 1881 and the industry has doubled in size every decade since, reflecting rapid expansion across decades.
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Japan
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Northland
Norway
Denmark
America
Ford Permanent Peace Tribunal
William J. Bryan
Ford Permanent Peace Commission
United States
Swedish Football Association
American Football Association
Ira Nelson Morris
Harjedalen
Svegsman
Halfvar Mickelson
Orrmo
Lillharjedal
Swedish Committee For the Relief of
Poland
Central Relief Committee
Switzerland
Karl H. Pettersson
Torpa
Northarene
Lidkoping
Good Templar
Jamtland
Flaton
Gothenburg
C. E. J. Carlson
Department of Agriculture
Immingham
Aare
Big Lake
Storston
Morton Vestegaard
Varhede
Aalum
Morton Westergaard
Fox
Alex Foss
Industrial Council
United Steamship Company of
Copenhagen
Skanderborg
Silkeborg
Knud Rasmussen
Hudson Bay Company
British America
Exchange Telegraph Company
Berlin
Finnes Loft
Scandinavia
Finne
Vossevangen
Voss
Magnus Lagaboter
Bergen Society For the Preservation of Ancient
Bergen
Salvation Army
Christiania
Albert Lunde
Ch'ctionta
Canada
Parliament
Dominion of Canada
Ottawa
Ont
South
Reginald Nicholson
Nicholson
Lucille Taft
Beeche
Taft
Washington
Hawaii
Burnett
Immigration Committee
WANT
Avenue da Sofia
Kentucky
Tam
W. Grovh
Dr. Pierce
KEEP
Bright
Dean
Nebraska
M. M. Brown
Albion, Neb
Doan
Bex Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
Carter
Jornsiat
Cutter Laboratory
Berkeley
Cal
Chicago
Watson E. Coleman
de D.C. Bonn
Omaha
Neb
Biane
Hastings
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