Germany Facing Ruin Says Berlin Banker
In Basel, a Berlin banker describes Germany’s war fatigue and hardship. He notes no starvations but pervasive privations, curfews, cold homes, and restricted shopping. Beer and social life have faded, public lights and heating are limited, and women take on more work amid a bleak winter outlook.
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Germany
Berlin
Herbert Corey
The
Whig
Ilinois
Basel
Switzerland
Switzland
Germain Hausfrau
Gemutlich
Demand for Big Wage Increase From Trainmen and Conductors
Cleveland dispatch reports demands for a roughly 40 percent wage hike from two labor groups to nearly every U S railroad. The proposal, signed by presidents W G Lee and A B Garterson, seeks new schedules with per mile and daily rates, overtime rules, and yard service wages, with responses due by December 31. Managers plan a joint session in about two weeks to negotiate.
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Cleveland, O
Chicago
W.G. Lee
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
A. B. Garretson
Order of Railway Conductors
Desau ll es Woman Acquitted in Long Island Murder Trial
Blanca DeSaulles, wife of former football star John L. DeSaulles, is found not guilty of murder after a 1 hour 43 minute jury deliberation in Mineola. The case centers on a shooting at the couple’s Westbury home on Aug 3 and hinges on temporary loss of accountability. The verdict makes DeSaulles the legal custodian of her son John L. DeSaulles Jr, with plans to return him to Chile. The judge defined the key issue as moral capacity at the time of the act.
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Berlin
Ainder
Bavaria
German Empire
Beer Hall
Hhe Beer Hall
Mineolo
N. Y
Supreme Court
Blanca DeSaulles
John L. DeSaulles
Westbury
L. I
J. Sherman Wight
Henry A. Uterhart
Justice Manning
Chile
Vina del Mar
Santiago
Blanca Errazuriz
DeSaulles
Wight
Amalia Erraxuriz
Valilian Errazuriz
Daniel B. Healey
Collision by airmen leaves two injured at Chanute Field
At Chanute Field Illinois on a December Saturday afternoon cadets Freiberg and Moses collided in mid air. Freiberg sustained more serious injuries while Moses was only slightly bruised. It was the second such accident in the United States and the first where neither aviator was killed. Moses’s wife witnessed the crash.
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Chanute Field
Freiberg
Moses
United States
Hisory
War Board of Allies in Session at Versailles
The supreme war council met at Versailles with Clemenceau Lloyd George Orlando and Col House guiding a private session on procedure. Military advisers from France Britain Italy and the United States will continue talks next week to shape a general plan for western front cooperation ahead of a plenary meeting likely after Christmas.
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Paris
Supreme War Council
Versailles
Clemenceau
Lloyd George
Great Britain
Orlando
Italy
Col
E M. House
France
United States
Means Posed as German Agent in Murder Trial
Gaston B. Means, on trial in Cabarrus county for killing Maude ay king John R. Todd, allegedly represented himself as a commercial agent of the German government. Testimony showed he opened a cotton margin account claiming advance knowledge of a chancellor Reichstag speech and cited a Hamburg‑American reference. He reportedly lost 35000 as cotton prices fell. Police raids later suggested German Government ties. impact on DOJ agent presence unclear.
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Concord
N.C
Gaston B. Means
Means
Cabarrus County
Maudeay
King John R. Todd
Chicago
Karl Roy-Ed
Washington
New York
Department of Justice
Priority orders cause confusion over shipments
Washington officials and railroad war board heads spent a day in conference over priority for food fuel and munitions. A Lovett drawn order to move these items ahead of general freight was delayed and the issue to be decided by an inter departmental war council next Monday.
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Washington
Railroad War Board
Robert S. Lovett
Inter-Departmental War Council
War council convenes as Allied premiers meet in Versailles
Premiers of Britain France Italy and Col. E M House representing the United States held a three hour session as the supreme war council. Generals Wilson Bilas Foch and Caderna joined. American members reported the discussions highly harmonious and unexpectedly productive.
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Versailles
Great Britain
France
Italy
Col. E. M. House
United States
Supreme War Council
Wilson
Bilas
Foch
Caderna
Record Price Set for Bull Anoka Champion Bought for 17008
A world record auction price was set in Waunakee when Burton Hale of Chicago purchased Anoka Champion, an 18 month old bull, for 17008 dollars. The purchase occurred Saturday, marking a landmark in cattle trading.
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Waukesha
Wis
Dee
Aurick
Burton F. Halea
Chicago
German air loss and British frontline action reported
Allied aerial report records 15 German planes down and seven Allied planes missing. British HQ details heavy fighting near Mouevres Bourlon wood and Gouzencourt with counterattacks retaking Gauche wood and Gouzencourt as German advances were halted along Villers Guislain and Gonnelieu sectors.
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London
Italian Front at Asiago Holds Against Enemy Drive
A colonial commander tours the Asiago front reporting heavy artillery fire on Asiago and surrounding peaks. Italian lines, rations, and troops hold firm as enemy pressure from the north shows no infantry gains. Prisoners indicate Austrians and Germans but no Bulgarians or Turks. Mastodon fossils found as trenches dig in.
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Associated Press
Meadouarters
Italy
Asiago Front
Asiago
Monte Meletta
Brenta
Ifa
Russia
Piave
Peoria Suffragists Denounce Picketing in War Time
The Peoria Equal Suffrage association, meeting in Peoria UK, denounced sister picketing of the White House in Washington. They disapproved of harassing the President as war times rage, calling militancy tactless and unpatriotic during wartime.
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Peoria
Peoria Equal Suffrage Association
White House
Washington
Peoria Association
Chicago Stockyard Workers to Demonstrate for Strike Vote
About fifteen thousand stockyard workers plan a demonstration today to boost interest in the strike vote set to begin on December 4 and December 8. Secretary Foster of the stockyard labor council foresees an almost unanimous union backing for a strike in packing plants.
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Chicago
Dee
Tee
Foster
Stockyard Labor Council
Sixteen Minas Explosion Death Toll Grows Near UK
Sixteen bodies of miners were recovered from the Old Béu Coal mine four miles north of Christopher UK after a Thursday night explosion. Two more may be dead or missing. Four bodies were brought to the surface. many were too charred for identification. J W Reamer and son Warren, electricians, were buried in DuQuoin.
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Christopher
Béu Coal Corporation
Muns
Here
Easare
J. W. Reamer
Warren
DuQuiin
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Herlin
Hausfrau
Mteo
Rmal
WAR Board OF Allies
Interdepartmental War Council
Colonel House
General Bliss
America
Cambrai
Byng
Ilindenburg
Berg
Gonnelieur
Mouevres
Rbourlon Wood
Betwen Villiers
Graincourt
Gauche Wood
Gonezecourt
Gonnelieu
la Vacquiert
Gouzencourt
Gouezencourt
Belon
Lavacaueri
Villers-Guislain
Gonnelien
Villers- Guislain
Christopher, Ill
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