Italy Occupies Tripoli Coast Cities After War Declaration
Italian forces land at Tripoli, Homs, Benghazi, and Tobruk after declaring war. Naval bombardment reduces forts as Arabs largely submit. Initial phase emphasizes peaceful occupation and reconstruction, with grain and seed distributions and currency changes for locals. Continuation noted on page BEght.
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Tripoli
Cyrenaica
Italy
Homs
Hengasi
Tobruk
Bongasi
Ttaly
Territoris
Officinale
Wipe Out Persians as 20000 More Troops Deployed
In St Petersburg twenty thousand additional troops are dispatched to Persia to punish Persians linked to attacks on Russian forces after the Shuster controversy. The government signals a prolonged war measure as Hussin contemplates an extended campaign and Persian protectionist aims are challenged.
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St. Petersburg
Peraiany
War Department
Hussin
Persia
La Follette Attacks Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill
Senator La Follette spoke in Ohio criticizing the Payne Aldrich tariff law and Tafts licensing plan, saying progressives seek reforms while Republicans defend high tariff walls. He warned of private interests harming the people as monopolies grow. Taft planned appearances in Meyeland Columbus and Akron around late January.
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Ohio
la Follette
Taft
Albricht Payne
Norwalk
Washington
D.C
Meyeland
Columbus
Akron
Warren Harding
Harding
Pendleton Man Jailed Ten Days For Harassment Of Two Girls
C. J. Stockdale of Pendleton will serve ten days in the city jail after a police court trial. He accosted two Hugh school girls yesterday afternoon, followed them for blocks, and called them prostitutes while asking their destination. Officers arrested him after the girls were seen watching from behind a tree and a bystander notified authorities. Stockdale claimed he was seeking a former friend and a Peters house but offered no clear reason for pursuing the girls.
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C. J. Stockdale
Pendleton
FitzGerald
Stockdale
Main Street
Bluff
Isaac Jay
Myers
Lewiston
Cow's Pitchfork Injury Fatal to Farmer Near Echo
Chris Roberts a 40 year old farmer of Umatilla county died at 7 Welock after a cow kicked a pitchfork handle, driving tines into his abdomen while he cleaned a barn stall. He succumbed at home near Echo three and a half miles from the Umatilla river. Survived by a widow and three children.
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Umatitn
Welock
Echo
Roberts
Umatilla River
Bomb Suspect Defiant After Admission in Mills Plot
George Pridgen, under arrest for a dynamite tied to a mill destruction plan, admits confederates supplied the suitcase but refuses to confess further. He doubts police case and vows to stay silent. Berlin, Dec 28 shows 37 men died from tainted smoked herring at a municipal lodging house. over 40 others sick with unknown cause. authorities suspect spoiled fish.
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Monesen
Penn
George Pridgen
Berlin
Mercantile man slays seven of his family then hangs himself
In Renton Arkansas on December 28 James Grant, driven by deep despair, killed his wife, five children aged five to 16, and a stepson with a heavy club, then hanged himself. The bodies were found last night, Hugh Grant, 16, discovering them after returning from a holiday visit. A note from Grant cited despair and belief his family would be better off in heaven. He ran a mercantile business and was prosperous locally.
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Ark
James Grant
Mia
Grint
Grant
Hugh Grant
Miss Ermal Mann Weds George C Baer in Secret Ceremony
Miss Ermal Mann daughter of Mr and Mrs Horace Mann and George C Baer of Portland quietly wed yesterday after attending the Lambda Sigma dance together Friends learned of the marriage when the couple traveled to Portland on delayed train No 5 bearing rice from the parting shower Baer who attended Pendleton high school is now employed at the S P and S office in Portland
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Ermal Mann
Horace Mann
Pendleton
George C. Baer
Portland
Baer Ia
Boy Shoots Mother Over Unreceived Rifle Near Jefferson Barracks
A 10 year old, Harry Lowall, killed his mother, Caes arna Lowall, in their home near Jefferson Barracks after firing a loaded rifle he believed to be unloaded. The tragedy occurred on December 27 as no rifle was received as a Christmas gift.
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Roy
St. Louis
Harry Lowall
Caesarna Lowall
Jefferson Barracks
Harry
Champion Gotch Declares Has Quit Wrestling
Kansas City Dec 28 Frank Gotch, after defeating English champion Alexander Munroe in seventeen minutes, announced his retirement at his peak. He said he does not want to grow stale and risk being beaten by a foreign wrestler. He named Mahmout the Terrible Turk and Pederson as top foreign rivals.
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Kansas City
Frank Gotch
Alexander Munroe
Gotch
Mahmout
Pederson
Dune
Big Los Angeles Bank Merger Forms Security Trust and Savings
Los Angeles on December 28 reports the planned merger of Security Savings Equity Savings and Southern Trust into one entity to be named Security Trust and Savings Bank. The combined resources total about 44 million dollars with 43 million in deposits and roughly 60,000 depositors.
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Los Angeles
Security Savings
Equity Savings
Southern Trust Companies
Security Trust and Savings Bank
Portland Gives Work to Unemployed Men
Portland mayor Bushlight announced plans to use the council’s $10,000 appropriation to hire idle men and put them to work on Mt. Tabor road, aiming to employ as many as possible tomorrow. County programs already cover fifty jobs, and about 10,000 locals are unemployed.
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Portland
Bushlight
Mt. Tabor
Germans Fear Plague Strikes Berlin Shelters
Berlin reports fifty dead and one hundred more cases in municipal night shelter and other asylums. Doctors initially blamed tainted herring but now fear a deadly disease is at work. Victims die quickly in convulsions as the city grows terrified.
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Berlin
Distress Signal From Torpedo Boat Warrington Near Hatteras
Wireless dispatches report the torpedo boat Warrington in distress about fifteen miles northwest of Cape Hatteras. The revenue cutter Onondaga and the scout cruiser Salem are rushing to aid. It is believed the vessel will weather the storm.
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Washington
Warrington
Cape Hatteras
Onondaga
Salem
Treasure Find on Fort George Island Reported by Two Boys
Two Jacksonville youths claim to have unearthed a treasure valued at $159,000 on Fort George Island. Guided by an old chart from a Spanish ruin, they found a strong box containing gold silver and copper coins more than a century old and say the haul dates back to early colonial era.
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Jacksonville
Fort George Island
Lake region in throes of death dealing blizzard
Chicago records two deaths as a deadly blizzard grips the lake region with temperatures around five degrees above zero. Thousands suffer as readings drop across Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and La Crosse. Memorialized weather worsens hardship in the storm center.
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Peace Banquet to Be War Dinner in New York
New York December 25 The Peace Banquet scheduled for Saturday faced disruption as Colonel Roosevelt refused to attend. The arrangements committee warned the event risks losing its peaceful aim and Chairman Crews challenged Roosevelt’s view that the banquet’s purpose had shifted. Roosevelt plans to publish a letter criticizing the committee’s motives.
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Satrday
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Committee of Arrangements
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Scandal in New York Quarantine Department
Governor Dix demanded the immediate resignation of Dr Alvan Doty chief of quarantine since 1907 accusing him of failing to maintain an effective quarantine and allowing lewd practices between orderlies and immigrant women and girls while held in quarantine The governor said there has been the grossest failure to establish or maintain a quarantine law at the port of New York.
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Providence
Dix
Alvan Doty
Doty
Labor Leaders' Typist Before Grand Jury
In Los Angeles on December 28 the federal grand jury resumed the dynamiting conspiracy inquiry. Miss A Murphy, a stenographer in Tinet Moe's office, testified first and H W Pohlman, a Seattle labor leader, testified second with purported important information. The panel adjourned until tomorrow.
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Los Angeles
Federal
A. Murphy
Tinet- Moe
H. W. Pohlman
Seattle
Spaniards Win Battle at Melilla in Six Hour Fight
Morocco Dec 28 The six hour machine gun battle near Melilla ends with over four hundred natives killed, more than thirty Spaniards dead and ten wounded. Tribesmen remove their wounded but abandon the dead.
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Melilia
Morocco
Packers Watered Stock in Wall Street Scheme
Arthur Veeder, former counsel for the beef trust, testifies in the Packers trial about schemes to inflate the National Packing Company via watered stock. He details a $450,000,000 addition to capitalization and plans considered by Swift and others to restructure ownership, including a two-for-one transfer of properties. Louis Swift discusses forming a combine with Gordon of London for economic reasons.
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Chicago
Arthur Veeder
Beef Trust
Ita
Wall Street
Veeder
National Packing Company
Louis Swift
Lord Gordon
London
Gordon
Swift
Imperial edict calls for National Convention in China
Shanghei, Dec 28. An imperial edict from Pekin signals Manchu princes’ assent to abdication and the formation of a Chinese republic. It orders a national convention to choose between limited monarchy and republic, and directs election laws for delegates while warning of possible foreign intervention. Wu Ting Fang and Tang Shao Yi plan talks on hostilities as Wu signals reluctance.
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Tang Shao Yi
Wu Ting Fang
Premier Yuan
Shanghai
Odset
Peking Dispatches Warn of Panic as Court Flees
London reports anxious to settle as the empres dowager and Manchu princes promise to abide by any convention decision. Tientsin confirms the Manchu royal family prepares to flee Peking in a panic.
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London
Peking
Empres
Yuan
Tien Tsin
Water Duty and Rights Address by George Cochran
George T Cochran water division No 2 superintendent spoke at a Walla Walla Valley Engineers meeting on irrigation duty and rights. He argued for case by case scientific determinations, measured water needs, and beneficial use as the basis for rights with central state supervision under Oregon law.
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Willa Walla Valley Society of Engineers
Walla Walla
Cochran
Oregon
Supreme Court
Cookingham
Va. Lewis
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