Carranza Hopeful as U S Position Clarified on Talks
Philadelphia dispatch notes Secretary Lane and the Mexican American joint commission left Gen. Carranza with the decision on whether the United States should press for a satisfactory, amicable adjustment of bilateral questions. The note stressed U S conditions for troop withdrawal and sought no offense to Mexico, with both sides expressing cautious optimism for talks after the holidays.
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Philadelphia
Lane
U. S
United States
Mexico
Atlantic City
Queretaro
Carranza
Philadelphia Mint Faces Funds Crisis and Suspension
Secretary McAdoo notified Congress that the Philadelphia mint may have to suspend operations due to funding shortfalls. He warned that halting Philadelphia would disrupt coinage dies for San Francisco and Denver, risking broader suspensions. He reported deficits on December 15 totaling 39,000 dollars in quarters, 75,000 in dimes, 39,000 in five cent pieces, and 15,000 in pennies.
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Washington
McAdoo
Congress
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Denver
Clark
United States Treasury
Tear Up Railways in Canada for War Needs
Ottawa Dec 20 Canada has begun to tear up 1000 miles of railway to supply France and Belgium for the war. Rails will be shipped to France to relay for troops guns munitions and supplies. Laborers are tearing up 300 miles of government sidings and 220 miles between Edmonton and the Pacific coast will be removed. One steamer can load twenty miles of rails.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
France
Belgium
Edmonton
Pacific Coast
Canadian Northern
Grand Trunk Pacific
Seaboard
Thorn Resigns to Take Federal Job
Des Moines Iowa December 20 Clif ford Thorn chairman of the Iowa railway commission has accepted an offer to serve as special counsel to assist the regular attorney for the National Live Stock Shippers Protective league in an investigation before the interstate commerce commission into livestock traffic rates rules and practices He will resign from the Iowa commission today and begin his new work January 1
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Des Moines
Iowa
Clifford Thorn
Iowa Railway Commission
National Live Stock Shippers’ Protective League
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Iowa Commission
Grateful Mothers Testify About Foley's Honey and Tar
Letters from Mrs T Nevreuer of Eau Claire Wisconsin and Mrs D Gilkeson of Youngstown Ohio praise Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for curing severe croup and lingering coughs in children after other remedies failed. They report relief after the first dose and endorse the remedy for adults and children alike. Miller and Arthur Drug Co. promotes the product as effective for coughs and throat inflammation.
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T. Nevreuer
Eau Claire
Wis
Foley
D. Gilkeson
Youngstown
Moe
Church Federation Holds Quarterly Meeting In Quincy
At the Quincy Federation of Churches quarterly meeting in the Y M C A reports on the Bob Jones campaign were shared. Rev I W Bingaman presented year committees while finances showed total campaign income 6307 06 with 136 43 cash on hand. An orderly slate of committees was named and an Intermediate Christian Endeavor society organized with officers led by Margaret Brockschmidt and Richard Slocum.
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Quincy Federation of Churches
Bob Jones
I. W. Bingaman
Jones
Tabernacle
Nyo
R. H. Hartley
The
Presbyterian Church
St. Louis
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ
J. A. Hanna
Federation
Evangelistic
Mr. Bingaman
G. L. Oliver
E. Goetz
W. N. Brown
R. Q O. Gibbons
G. H. Lyford
Temperance
H. W. Trueblood
T. L. Smith
E. S. Potter
R. O. Taylor
G. H. Wilson
Law and
J. M. Dunnap
H. E. Becker
W. L. Drescher
J. L. Howe
R. E. Weeks
G. L. Losh
W. K. Githens
E. AL. Loeffler
H. P. Naumann
R. T. Barr
I. Germann
C. B. Slocum
S. J. Dapper
Sam Bark
Charles Blackwood
G. L. Carley
T. Chester Poling
Frank Smith
J. W. Stewart
United Brethren Church
Margaret Brockschmidt
Richard Slocum
Robert Slocum
Anton Stiller
Local personals and hospital updates from Quincy
Frank Fuller of Chicago, visiting Quincy with Harvey Lubber and friends, has returned home Tuesday evening. Gladys Platt and Gertrude Kroner hosted at Platt’s North Third Street home Monday. Julius L. Klemme, after an operation at Blessing hospital, is homeward bound. Samuel Adair, manual training teacher, rests well at Blessing hospital and may return home today after motorcycle and auto crash injuries. Samuel McKay remains in Blessing hospital after a fall in the Moorman Mfg elevator shaft.
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Frank Fuller
Chicago
Quincy
Harvey Lubber
Gladys Platt
Gertrude Kroner
North Pirth Street
Fuller
Julius L. Klemme
Blessinggospital
Samuel Adair
Blessing Hospital
Adair
Samuel McKay
Merning
McKay
Moorman Mfg
Day in Congress Senate Adopts DC Prohibition Measure
Senate met at noon as committees and rooms shifted. Debate on a District of Columbia prohibition bill failed 38 to 38 with the Underwood referendum amendment, adjourned to noon Wednesday. later, a $39,000,000 legislative appropriation bill for wages and government clerks passed before adjourning to January 2.
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Commerce Committee
Gen. Scott
District of Columbia
Underwood
Baker
Gen. Crozier
Sims
Adamson
Newlands Railroad
Wilkerson Files Answer to Roads in Illinois Rate Suit
James H Wilkerson, newly appointed special attorney general for Illinois, filed an answer in the railroads rate suits. The rails say the 2 cent fare law conflicts with an interstate commission rate. Wilkerson responds that the commission lacks jurisdiction over the state rate.
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Chicago
James H. Wilkerson
Illinois
Interstate Commerce Commission
Georgia Troops Quarantined After Meningitis Discovery
EL PASO Texas December 20 four companies from the Georgia infantry brigade have been quarantined following the discovery of meningitis among these troops announced at military headquarters here.
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Georgia
EL Paso
Texas
Georgia Infantry Brigade
Refuse Shipments To Eastern Points
Freight traffic departments in Aurora Illinois were ordered to take no shipments for points beyond the eastern Illinois line except some small Michigan and Indiana destinations. Later telegraph instructions barred accepting shipments needing transfer by Chicago inner and outer.
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Aurora
Eastern Illinois Line
Michigan
Indiana
Chicago
Eastern shipment refusals cited congestion at eastern rail hubs
The report notes refusals to take eastern shipments due to congestion on eastern railroads and in eastern terminals, signaling operational strain across the network.
American schooner William Mason lost with all hands
Halifax Dec 20 The American schooner William Mason bound from Porthambeck for Yarmouth Nova Scotia has been lost with all hands a report received here Tuesday night states the incident occurred in unclear waters and no survivors are reported from the vessel.
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Halifax
N. S
Wiliam Mason
Porthambey
Yarmouth
Diaz Soldiers Take Two Mexican Towns
El Paso Dec 20 reports say Puebla and Orizaba have fallen to Felix Diaz forces and Jalapa is held by other revolutionaries. Skirmishing between de facto and Villa forces was noted south of Chihuahua City and near Santa Ros.
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EL Paso
Tex
Puebla
Orizaba
Felix Diaz
Jalapa
United States
Villa
Chihuahua City
Santa ‘Ros
Danish West Indies sale bill faces Split St Thomas plan
Copenhagen dispatch reports in the rigsdag a bill for selling the Danish West Indies. Conservatives and others oppose the bill and may propose transferring St Thomas to the United States while retaining St Croix and St John. The world remarks on a man who is dead broke.
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Lond Eng
Setae
Copenhagen
Local option election petitions reported in East St. Louis
Reverend George W. Allison of Fi Baptist church announced that petitions for a local option election in April require six thousand signatures and that women may sign. The notice identifies Allison as a leader in the La Enforcement league.
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East ST. Louis
George W. Allison
Fi Baptist Church
la Enforcement League
Renatelles
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