Indictments Return From Federal Grand Jury Here
Indianapolis reports 131 indictments against 170 persons after a month long session. Most charges are war measure violations. 4 women and 33 men indicted for selling liquor to soldiers. Fifteen charged with draft law violations. five for Mann White Slave Act. Dr William Von Knappe of Vincennes charged with mailing a defaming pamphlet about Abraham Lincoln.
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Dr. von
Indianapolis
Ind
William von Knappe
Vincennes
Abraham Lincoln
No Services At Treformed Presbyterian On Dec 15
The Democrat reports no church services at Treformed Presbyterian Church Sunday December 15 due to a burst pipe.
Death of Major G. V. Menzies Prominent Indiana Democrat
Major G V Menzies aged 73 of Mt Vernon dies at home after months of decline. A longtime southern Indiana Democratic leader he never held elective office but was a two time congressional candidate and a delegate to the national convention 1896 to 1912. He served on the Indiana Sailors Soldiers monument board and his son Lieut Winston Menzies is serving in France. Funeral plans unavailable.
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G. V. Menzies
Mt. Vernon
Indiana
Major Menzies
Gibson
Major
Menzies
Congress
Boonville
J. E. McCullough
Princeton
United States Senate
John W. Kern
State Board of Regents
Indiana Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Monument
Indianapolis
Winston Menzies
France
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Navy
War work must speed up as Britain hails Lloyd George
Washington officials warn America to intensify war effort and cut red tape while Lloyd George calls for unity and no half measures. Britain’s front lines and morale are highlighted as England praises the prime minister’s steadfast resolve amid Cambrai reverses.
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America
Washington, D. C
Germany
Paxton couple back from Hattiesburg visit
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Paxton return home after a week in Hattiesburg Mississippi visiting their son Liert Percy Paxton.
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Thomas Paxton
Hattiesburg
Miss
Liert
Percy Paxton
Lloyd George Speech Marks Turning Point In War
London reports note Lloyd George’s Grays Inn speech as a call to arms amid a west front crisis. Cambrai setback halted British gains, likely ending offensive for some time and shifting initiative to Hindenburg as German reinforcements from the Russian front loom ahead of American entry.
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London
Lloyd George
the Post
West Front
Grays Ing
Cambrai
Hasey
Hindenburg
Enlistment trips to St Louis for clerks in aviation corps
John Selby and LeRoy Badollet left yesterday noon for St Louis to seek enlistment as aviation corps clerks. Selby has worked the past year at the Second National Bank and Badollet at the Vincennes First National Bank and the Vincennes Commercial.
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John Selby
LeRoy Badollet
St. Louis
Aviation Corps
Mr. Selby
Second National Bank
Badoljet
First National Bank
Vincennes Commercial
Selby Reference Noted in Vincennes Community
Mr Selby is described as a son of Mr and Mrs Newton Selby of Vincennes and is well known locally.
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Mr. Selby
Mr. Newton Selby
Vincennes
Honor Roll Doubles Red Cross Membership Drive
Gibson County Red Cross campaign head Re Rollin Maxam urges doubling Christmas membership quotas to earn engrossed certificates marking "Honor Chapters" and appeals to every county resident to join. The piece notes Rockefeller Foundation tuberculosis work with France as rationale and calls on citizens to support our New National Army families.
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RE. Rollin Maxam
Red Cross
Gibson County
Gibson
American Red Cross
Rockefeller Foundation
France
National Army
Benefit Show for Red Cross at Empress Theatre
Tri Kappa Girls present a Red Cross benefit at the Empress next Tuesday with two performances. The program features The Little American starring Mary Pickford in matinee and evening shows.
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Tri Kappa Girls
Empress Theatre
The
Red Cross
Mary Pickford
Officers Report Today At Camp Zachary Taylor
Several hundred graduate officers report from Ft Benjamin Harrison to Camp Zachary Taylor Kentucky for possible second draft assignments. Infantry regiments 334th and 235th HQs visited as Indiana officers arrived by the Ohio River amid drifting snow and a halt to outdoor drills.
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Zachary Taylor
Camp Zachary Taylor
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
Louisville
Prac
Bible Class at Claude Smith Teacher
Church announcements note a Bible class led by Claude Smith at 9:15 A M on Sunday titled Law.
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Claude’, Smith
Bunday
Law
Purdue student named livestock show judge at Chicago
Harold R. Holcomb of Ft. Branch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Holcomb, a Purdue University student, was selected as one of the university's student judges at the International Livestock Show in Chicago last week, judging horned cattle goats and swine.
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Harold R. Holcomb
Mtr
Albert R. Holcomb
Ft. Branch
Purdue’ University
Chicago
Minnie Leaser Noted in Evansville Event Friday
A fragment mentions Miss Minnie Leaser in Evansville on Friday with unclear context and attribution.
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Minnie Leaser
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Mail
Times
Pemier
the News
By ED L. Keen
United Press
Sybil Ayers
Evansville
Him
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Gibson County Red Cross
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West Side Square
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