Spreckles Seen as Likely Pick for New Federal Board
Rudolph Spreckles' name is mentioned as a possible appointment to the federal reserve board as President Wilson considers candidates. The plan favors the best men regardless of region with Pacific coast and southern seats likely. Treasury Secretary McAdoo signals banks rush to join reserve institutions and officials will tour major cities in February to assess regional bank claims.
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Pacific Coast
South
Prbs Christian
Miss
Rudolph Spreckles
Federal Reserve Board
Wilson
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Houston
Treasury and Agricultural Departments
New York
Wooston
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
St. Louisa
Denver
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle
Portland
Atlanta
New Orleana
New York Robbers Loot Tug and Ten Freight Cars
Four alleged gang members are in custody as police pursue the gang leader over a daring theft. A river tug named James Bradley and a barge carrying ten loaded freight cars were looted from the East River, with valuable merchandise gone. The barge and cars were later found adrift. a watchman reported five men boarding the tug at Hoboken on Christmas Eve.
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New York
East River
James Bradley
Hoboken
Woman Arrested At Rescue Home For Luring Girls
Edith Vickery aged 46 was arrested in Los Angeles after feigning repentance to gain access to Hillcrest Rescue Home for Girls. Police say three residents reported she used appeals to lure them back to lives of crime. She remained in county jail as formal charges were prepared.
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Los Angeles
Hillcrest Rescue Home
Edith Vickery
Nazarene Church
Girl’ Rescue Home
Woman Says She Will Stay In City Until Prison Papers Arrive
Walla Walla, Dec 27 The woman Linda Harfield Hogzard, a fast care advocate, arrived at the penitentiary to serve a manslaughter sentence but the warden refused entry as commitment papers were not yet received. She announced she would remain in the city until the papers arrive.
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Walla Walla
Linda Harfield Hogzard
Penitentiary
Drum
El Monte bandit Bostick sentenced to death
John Bostick pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to the murder of Southern Pacific traveling passenger agent Horace Montague. He was sentenced to be hanged after arraignment, trial, and conviction in a rapid 15 minute process following the December 1 train robbery.
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Los Angeles
John Bostick
el Monte
Horace Montague
Bostick
Justice Young
Montague
Southern Pacific
Woman Outs Bandit With Broom At Bank
Assistant Cashier Mise Ada Carr confronted an armed bandit at Eagle Rock Bank and used a broom to knock the weapon free. She lashed him with the broom until he fled through a window. Citizens pursued the robber until a sheriff's posse arrived. Raphael Castello was arrested.
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Los Angeles
Eagle Rock
Mise Ada Carr
Dita Hands
Miss Carr
Raphael Castello
Investigation of Death of Cardinal Rampolla Demanded
Rome officials faced pressure to probe the Cardinal Rampolla death after a failed will search and growing belief the death may not have been natural. Newspapers urged body examination and stomach analysis, while civil authorities hesitated to act against Vatican sensitivities.
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Rome
Cardinal Rampolla
Vatican
Girl Will Get Letters Address Found in Box of Stationery
Albany Oregon notes Miss Ella Lemke of Holyoke Massachusetts will receive many letters after placing her address in a box of stationery she packed. Clarence Tebault Jr, Albany Democrat city editor, bought the stationery and arranged for 12 to 14 men in the St Francis Hotel lobby to write to her, hoping her act yields romance or friendship.
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Albany
Ore
Dee
Ella Lemké
Newton Place
Holyoke
Maora
Clarence W. Tebault, Jr
Albany Democrat
St. Francis Hotel
Young Man of 4 Celebrates in Centralia
In Centralia Washington on December 7 a local note highlights a remarkable 14th birthday rumor involving Judge Jones Kelso’s first mayoral era. The pioneer resident, who arrived after Andrew Jackson’s term, remains active, jumping and striking heels. He settled in Cowlitz county in 1881 with a homestead on the Coweeman river. He has four children twelve grandchildren and thirty great grandchildren.
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Centralia
Wash
Porn
Hilledale
Judge Jones
Kelso
Andrew Jackson
Cowlitz County
Coweeman
Strangers Church Planned in St Louis to Open
St Louis ministers from all denominations move to establish a Strangers Church here after plans paralleling Chicago’s Sunday Evening Club progress. If realized, the church will offer a welcoming venue for strangers to worship and associate in the city.
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ST. Louis
Sunday Evening Club
Chicago
Pontoon Bridge Over Mississippi Near Prairie Du Chien
In Prairie du Chien Wisconsin on December 27 the largest pontoon bridge in the country nears launch to span the east channel of the Mississippi river. The pontoon boat weighs 3058 tons and is 210 feet long and will support heavy train traffic when in place. Construction used over 276000 feet of timber with expenditure of seventy thousand dollars.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Mississippi River
Treasury Secretary McAdoo stays home fearing nervous breakdown
Secretary McAdoo did not report to the Treasury today remaining at home under doctor orders amid worry over the stress of reorganizing the nation’s banking system.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Turbulent National News Across States and Rumors
Reports claim President Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners was beaten and deportal from Michigan copper fields while robbers in New York seized a river tug and barge carrying 10 freight cars. Rumors link Rudolph Spreckles to the federal reserve board amid unsettled speculation.
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Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Michigan
New York
Wonan
Los Angeles
Brown
Rudolph Spreckles
Thes
Federal Reserve Board
Wnlay
John Rostick
Sacramento
Linda Hazzard
Walla Walla
Cardinal Rampolla
Tome
Searvh
Geeneral Villa
Feverals
Drunken laborer wounds thirteen in Stuttgart then commits suicide
In Germany on December 27 laborer Kummerlin inflicted knife and pistol wounds on thirteen people in Oberstenfeldt near his wife’s residence. He was cornered by police and killed himself. Eight of the wounded are in serious condition. The suspect’s wife had deserted him earlier after heavy drinking.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Kummertlin
Kummerlin
Oberstenfeldt
Heart Sewed, Man Lives After Stabbing in Brooklyn
Vincenzo Lauro, wounded in a Brooklyn stabbing, is expected to survive after surgeons operated without general anesthesia. Doctors opened the chest near the heart at Holy Family hospital, threading six stitches into heart tissue while using local cocaine.
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New York
Alx Attithes
Vincenzo Lauro
Holy Family Hospital
Brooklyn
Romanian Queen Hosts Doll Exhibition for Poor Children
Carmen Sylvia, queen of Roumania, invites hundreds of poor children to view her vast doll collection in Bucharest. The display features 1,800 dolls representing nationalities from around the world, created after the death of her only child, a young princess.
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Bucharest
Sallies
Maries
Maggies
Salies
Carmen Sylvia
Roumania
Princessa
Villa abandons plans for attack at Torreon
El Paso reports that Villa has postponed a contemplated move to Ojinaga and instead aims for Noe near Torreon to muster forces for a general assault on the government troops, amid preparations for a decisive battle with federals.
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Villa
EL Paso
Torreon
Mexico
Ojinaga
Chihuahua City
Noe
First Prescription by Doctor Found in Ancient Egypt
London reports Professor Eliot Smith, famed Egyptologist, announcing discovery of what is believed to be the first doctor’s prescription dating from around 2000 B C. The papyrus text lists 14 ingredients for an ointment intended to calm a man deemed too strong for his physicians, annotated 14 times daily before standard treatment.
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London
Elliot Smith
Man Given Month in Prison for Coat Theft in London
London December 27 A man naming himself Richard Bird was sentenced at East Ham police court to one month of hard labor for stealing a coat from outside a tailor shop. Police witness Hank testified, and then revealed the prisoner is his own brother, clarifying his real surname.
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London
Richard Bird
East Ham
Hank
Miners in Copper Country Alarmed by Moyer Expulsion
Calumet and Milwaukee dispatches describe violent tensions after President Charles H. Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners says he was expelled, shot, and beaten by members of the citizens alliance in Hancock. He vows the strike is just and will endure despite the attack.
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Carlos H. Moyer
Citizens’ Alliance
Copper Fields
Calumet, Mich
Moyer
Citizens' Alliance
Milwaukee
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Michigan Copper Fields
Tanner
Scott Hotel
Hancock
Cruse
Alliance
Channing
Chicago
Reilly
Frm
Iron Mountain
Mich
Charles H. Tanner
Waddell and Mahon
Federation
Calumet
Explorer Stefansson's Ship Karluk Bound in Ice
Ex explorer Vilhjalmur Stefanski Stefansson reports from Point Barrow Alaska that he lost sight of the Karluk during a hunting trip. Twenty five men remained aboard under Captain Bartlett as ice drifted. Photographs of the vessel wedged in ice circulated by mail to the United States and the ship was thought icebound for winter. The ice melted later and Karluk drifted off shore before refreezing.
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Stefansson
Karluk
Vilhjalmar Stefanssoon
Point Barrow
Alaska
Captain Bartlett
United States
Relief bureau to aid 2500 destitute in Sacramento
Sacramento officials plan immediate aid through a municipal relief bureau for about 2500 destitute people. At a December 27 meeting, 50 civic, charitable, and religious representatives approved providing work, shelter, and food to hungry men, women, and children.
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Sacramento
Municipal Relief Bureau
Pope Honors Woman in Rome Confers High Decorations
Pope Pius called Signora de Oliveria Coaste de Costa to Rome from The Hague and conferred rare honors. She leads the South American Association for Universal Peace and unveiled a statue to peace for Carnegie's peace palace, while the Pope promotes the church’s peace mission from his Vatican position.
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Rome
Pope Pius
Signora de Oliveria Coaste de Costa
Signora de Oliveria
Association For Universal Peace
Hague
Andrew Carnegie
Peace Palace
Movement For Universal Peace
Vatican
Old Solpiers Will Be Furnished New Limbs
Washington announces that in 1915 Uncle Sam will equip hundreds of crippled soldiers and sailors with wood and glass eyes artificial arms false teeth and related gear pending a $275000 congressional appropriation to renew this equipment for the year 1915.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
United States Army
Navy
Congress
Appendix Misunderstood Organ Sparks Academy Talk
Paris reports a paper read before the Academy of Sciences by Ramund Perrier on the appendix, described as a misunderstood organ of utmost importance. Dr R Robinson of the Museum of Natural History notes the appendix cannot be removed without risking injury to the intestines, and cautions that removal of a healthy appendix is a grave mistake.
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Paris
Muon
Academy of Sciences
Academy
Ramund Perrier
Theels
Mette
R. Robinson
Museum of Natural History
Robinson
Robingen
Six Coaches Derail in Wabuth Train Wreck Near Montgomery City
A Wabuth train derailed near Montgomery City Missouri injuring four of about 400 passengers. The wreck involved eight coaches with partial telescoping and fire but no serious injuries.
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Montgomery City
Dec
Althoveheis
Wabuth
Here
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Gity
Reid Smoot
William Barnes, Jr
Newell Sandera
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Wyoming
H. L. Remmel
Arkansas
Senator Borah
Idaho
F. W. Estabrook
New Hampshire
R. R. Howell
Nebraska
C. B. Warren
Republican National Committee
Seasion
Borah
Patters
Reed Smoot
Utah
Aldrich
Rhode Island
New York State
Theodore Roosevelt
Senator Warren
Sentenge
Strangers Church
Mississippi
Tocal
Densmore
Pope
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