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Newspaper
Petersburg Press
Location
Petersburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1917
Page
1
A garbled Petersburg Press page mixes satire on war taxes hunger and Americanism with clumsy phrases about diplomacy sugar bread and duty. It mocks ex-diplomats profiteers and urges practical wartime thrift while lampooning various professions and public habits.
New York dispatch says Tatiana Romanoff, daughter of Nicholas II, escaped Tobolsk by a marriage ruse and is traveling via Harbin and Japan toward the Pacific coast. Russian relief officials expect her to arrive in New York in December to aid Guardian Selected.
At a grade crossing in Viacomics Indiana a fast Baltimore Ohio passenger train struck an automobile on First Street. The car's occupants included Mrs. James Wade Emison and Mrs. John W. Emison. both died. James Wade Emison suffered severe injuries and is expected to die. John W. Emison was lightly hurt. Driver John W. Jimison was on the track when the collision occurred.
Baron Rothermere, chief proprietor of the Daily Record and Mail of Glasgow and the Leeds Mercury, has accepted the post of air minister in the British cabinet, according to the Pall Mall Gazette.
Boston residents plan a campaign to raise 200000 for Venetian refugees driven from their homes by the Austrian advance. A Washington mission has been to inspect a district workhouse at Quitoay where militants of the Pomunhs Party are confined by Dr. etfowald, A Kelly and Ilfan Welsh of Baltimore. The brother of Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia is among the prisoners.
Edward W. Pickard surveys a dramatic week of World War I action. Byng drives a major British advance near Cambrai aided by tanks, while Italians halt Austro German pressure on the Piave. Allenby circles Jerusalem, and French actions along the Aisne sector shape the front. Wilson tightens enemy alien restrictions as Russia teeters toward armistice.
Washington observers expect the war session to open with pressure for declaring war on Austria Hungary Germany and its allies. Congress faces war finance tax and vetoed proposals while party leaders confer with President Wilson on the program. The Senate and House will tackle appropriation bills and possible new bond issues as domestic issues like prohibition and woman suffrage loom. The La Follette loyalty probe resumes with a key witness list including former Secretary Bryan.
New York detectives arrested Capt. Frank I. Kleinschmidt on a technical charge for possessing a revolver. A trunk seized from him contained a dirk papers and a scrapbook with a photo of him with Austrian officers about to ascend in a dirigible over the war front. He was arraigned and released on $500 bail. he lives at the Hotel Astor.
Pittsburg police raided a cheap lodging house and arrested Charles Levine and Isadore Sabeloff on November 20. A police magistrate turned them over to federal authorities who believe they hold knowledge about a fire that recently destroyed several Baltimore and Ohio railroad piers in Baltimore.
Leavenworth Kas Nov 26 work starts immediately on a prison cantonment to house 3000 people including slackers spies alien enemies and other war offenders The project will cost 226000 dollars
Red Oak Iowa November 26 The Rev Lyn G J Kelly was acquitted of the charge of committing the Villiscaux murders of 1912 by the jury in his second district court trial after four hours and twenty five minutes deliberation.
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