Concerted reply by allies Berlin happy over note
Washington reports debates over responses to President Wilson’s note continue with allied powers expected to craft a concerted reply. Entente diplomats fear shifts in mood yet officials emphasize unity and careful messaging while awaiting Berlin’s reaction and word on the British liner Arabia and Cesnan submarine incident.
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Bacon Declared Elected Michigan Congressman
Mark R. Bacon of Wyandotte, Republican, was Friday declared elected congressman from Michigan’s Second district. The state supreme court refused a mandamus to force a recount by the Jackson county canvassers in the First precinct of the Second ward in Jackson. Democrat Samuel W. Beakes may ask Congress to order a recount.
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Ann Arbor
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Gas plant explosion kills 25 year old on farm near Yarmouth
Burlington Iowa December 23 Louis Brosker a 25 year old unmarried man was instantly killed Friday night when the gas plant on his father's farm near Yarmouth exploded.
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Iowa
Louis Brosker
Yarmouth
U S NOTE IS GOOD NEWS TO BERLIN
Berlin reacts to President Wilson peace note with broad front page display, cheering the entente peace initiative as Christmas season news. Officials and press press for details as Ambassador Gerard returns to the American embassy amid a reporter scrum for more information.
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New York
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Wilson Note Dominates World War I Discussion
In Paris and London reactions to President Wilsons note to belligerents are weighed. L Intransigeant lauds the move as clear and necessary, while La Liberte warns it may draw the US into the conflict. Britain and France debate terms of peace and reparations amid tense global diplomacy.
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Medical fraud ring indicted in Chicago and Iowa
Ten individuals including two Chicago physicians and several medical students and instructors were indicted by the December grand jury for alleged schemes to obtain medical licenses. Charges cover conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretenses with a ring that allegedly collected around fifty thousand dollars to guarantee passes on licensing exams.
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Princeton
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Barnes Not Guilty in Chicago Murder Trial
Mrs Iva Barnes was acquitted of murdering her traveling salesman husband James R Barnes in a Washington Park quarrel on Sept 15 1916. Jurors deliberated three hours with initial 11 to 1 vote for acquittal and final unanimous verdict. Barnes collapsed reappearing calm and thanked the jurors while Hoyne lamented the trial as old story of sobs over evidence.
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Russians Defeated as 900 Taken in Dobrudja Advance
Berlin reports Teutonic forces push into Dobrudja and take 900 Russian prisoners. Petrograd notes Russian troops retreat under heavy attack. Also, El Arish in Egypt falls to British forces after Turks abandon fortifications. other fronts show activity with engagements in Galicia, Somme, Meuse, and Carpathians.
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Teiper Guilty Of Second Degree Murder In Buffalo Jury Verdict
John Edward Teiper was found guilty of second degree murder in Buffalo New York after a 29 hour jury deliberation for the January killing of his mother. The twelve jurors reached a compromise verdict as one member resisted a first degree conviction. The punishment carries at least 20 years in prison.
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Riccardi Will Put In Probate After Seventy-Year-Old Will
In Chicago on December 23 a probate petition for the estate of Mrs. Clara L. Riccardi, once Princess de Chimay, was filed by John W. Garry. The will values personal property at about 1.124 million and real estate at 5,000, largely left to Giuseppe Riccardi, who is in Italy, and to Paris residents Marie and Joseph De Chimay. A Chicago cousin receives 715,000. The estate is to be divided into three trusts for the husband and two children, with funds for maintenance and education, and estate tax provisions noted. The will, signed in 1904, followed Mrs. Riccardi’s death in Italy.
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Clara L. Ward
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Joseph de Chimay
Detroit
Riccardi
Paper hearings resume Jan 29 in federal trade probe
Washington Dec 23 Public hearings in the federal trade commission s news print paper investigation will resume Friday Dec 29. The commission will address reasonableness of prices cost of manufacture and jobbers profits while exploring a plan to prevent suspensions in newspaper paper supply.
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Humphreys flood bill nears passage in Senate
Washington December 23 The Humphreys flood bill proposing large river system funding was favorably reported by the Senate commerce committee after a last session House approval. Western senators led by Newlands Yon and others oppose piecemeal measures and seek a coordinated national waterway policy. Baker of the War Department urged support for the Newlands compromise advocating cabinet coordination to review projects comprehensively.
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Kansas Masonic Home Fire Claims Five Lives in Wichita
A morning fire at the Kansas Masonic Home in Wichita destroys the main building. Three charred bodies recovered are Jesse T. Brown, 80, Mrs. Tesse T. Brown, 80, and Miss Gertrude Weigle, 20. Three more people are critically injured, including two children and the matron Mrs Ettele Stewart, with about 25 residents under physician care.
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Weigle
Danish West Indies Sale Ratified by Denmark
Copenhagen announces cabinet council ratified the treaty for selling the Danish West Indies to the United States. The accord moves toward formal transfer as December 23 dispatches report the action via London.
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Congress Makes Record Session Ends For Holidays
Congress adjourned for Christmas, reconvening Jan. 2, after three weeks in which the House passed five government supply measures, including urgent deficiency, and more. The Senate moved on immigration with literacy tests and began DC prohibition debate, while hopes for a national dry amendment remained slim this session.
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Commission orders railroads to show cause over car misuse
Washington Dec. 23 An Interstate Commerce Commission order requires railroads to show cause at a Dec 28 hearing why foreign coal and refrigerator cars should not be returned to owners immediately after unloading at destinations without diversion or misuse. The action follows a Railway Association report that eight large railroads did not comply with delivering an excess of box cars to southern and western connections. The car service commission, based in Washington, has worked with the ICC to ease a nationwide car shortage.
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Miller Dies Hours After Sentencing in Mail Fraud Case
Charles S. Miller 66, once president of Miller Townsend and Co, collapsed and died in the county workhouse ward after being sentenced to three years in Atlanta for using the mails to promote a fraudulent gold mining scheme. Raymond McCune of New York, sentenced to four years, will be sent to Atlanta today. Prosecutors said victims lose over 100000.
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Del
Charles S. Miller
Atlanta
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New York
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Mass Meeting Denounces Belgian Deportations
In Baltimore on a Friday night a large mass meeting condemned Germany's deportation of Belgians. Dr John Grier Hibben of Princeton University called it a crime against progressive civilization and said peace talks should wait until Belgium and the world receive assurance that Germany will address the wrongs done to Belgium.
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Princeton University
Belgium
War Time Workings Revealed in German Consulate Trial
In San Francisco on December 23 the German consulate’s wartime activities were exposed in court as Franz Bopp testified to a “war fund” over 100000 dollars and its use for buying rubber and nickle to aid Germany. He noted funds from the Washington embassy, denied a million dollar fund, and mentioned spying and wire taps at the consulate.
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United States District Court
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Bopp
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John Preston
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Germany
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Nickie
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Smith
Egyptian Town El Arish Captured By British
London reports El Arish a fortified Egyptian town on the Mediterranean near Palestine’s frontier was captured Thursday by British forces establishing a western push toward the Palestine border. The town, with under 20 000 residents, had been Turkish-held since the invasion era and previous raids had targeted its fortifications by sea and air.
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Dozen Injured in Santa Fe Wreck Near Red River Bridge
About a dozen people were injured, none seriously, when the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe train No 17 derailed at the Oklahoma end of the Red River bridge seven miles north of Gainesville Texas. The train carried troops home from the Mexican border and was held until the track could be cleared, a process taking several hours.
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