Policy Shifts Loom in US Mexico Crisis
President Wilson weighs a possible change in policy as American joint commission delegates inform him of deadlock with Carranza. Secretary Lane Dr Mott and Judge Gray report failure to ratify a protocol on troop withdrawal and border cooperation. Meanwhile a military plan for withdrawal is drafted as Gen Scott and Gen Bliss confer with Secretary Baker on impacts of pulling back Pershing forces.
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Washington
United States
Mexico
Wilson
George Gray
Joint Commission
Carranza
Carranga
Gen. Pershing
Henry P. Fletcher
Mexico City
Conifer
War Department
Scott
Gen. Bliss
Baker
Mine Explosion Buries 16 Miners at Gilmore Idaho
Butte Miner dispatch from Dillon reports a gasoline powered blast at the Pittsburgh Idaho mine on the 400 foot level trapped thirteen miners. A 100 man crew is digging through debris as three bodies are recovered. The mine near Gilmore, a lead and silver producer, prompts a townwide rescue effort.
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Butte
Mont
Dilton
Gilmore
Idaho
Pittsburgh-Idaho
Society Woman Wields High Powers in Briton War Office
A court of inquiry censures Mrs. Cornwallis-West for exercising influence at the War Office in the Barrett case. Lieut Barrett of the Welsh Fusiliers faced transfer and censure after a remonstrance letter she allegedly placed with his commanders. Gen Cowans is blamed, while Gen Owen Thomas is vindicated. the report notes her public wartime roles and criticizes her conduct and influence.
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Ondon
Patrick Barrett
Welsh Fusiliers
House of Commons
Col
Delme-Radcliiffe
John Cowans
Owen Thomas
Barrett
Delme-Radcliffe
Cornwallis- West
Cowans
Cornwallis-Wests
Board of Inquiry
War Office
John Cowan
Den
Bighshire
Wales
Cornwallis West
Wynne Edwards
Thomas
Cornwallis‘West
Kansas City Police Chief Reinstated After Dismissal
Kansas City Missouri January 4 Hiram W Hammail reinstates as chief of police after board charges of laxity in performance of duty are dismissed R K James a police captain also returns to his post as an officer in the Kansas City police department
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Kansas City
Board of Etie Commissioners
Hiram W. Ham‘mail
Two roads have safety record in railroad notes
CHICAGO Jan 4 The Illinois Central and the Chicago Burlington and Quincy have issued statements showing that no passengers were killed through fault of the company in January.
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Chicago
Illinois Central
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Six jurors picked in Mooney trial in San Francisco
An all day session in San Francisco Superior Court resulted in six jurors being selected to try Jamie Mooney on murder charges tied to a July 22 bomb blast during a preparedness parade that killed ten and injured forty. Chief defense counsel is New York attorney Bourke Cochran. The first defendant, Warren K. Billings, has already been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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San Francisco
Superior Court
Lorers
Jami M. Mooney
W Bourke Cochran
New York
Warren K. Billings
Villa shoot claim sparks border controversy
El Paso report claims Francisco Villa shot Garcia, his secretary, in Bermejillo after Garcia drafted and issued a manifesto sent to the border while Villa held Chihuahua City. The secretary allegedly wrote the document without Villa’s knowledge, prompting a Villa agent ordered a rein for immediate execution.
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EL Paso
Tex
Francisco Villa
Garcia
Bermejillo
Villa
Chihuahua City
W. W
California
Arrest Four Agitators in International Falls
International Falls Minnesota January 4 four arrests of I W W agitators were made here Wednesday. All agitators and men known to have red I W W cards will be arrested and jailed or deported the police said. The paper mills continue running but wood supplies are short.
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International Falls
Minn
Good road laws for Iowa solons
Des Moines reports that the Thirty-seventh general assembly will likely consider road legislation anew. Many leaders expect no major reactionary changes and anticipate support for the town commission while opposing tweaks to the law creating it. Board friction with the highway commission and county engineers is noted as a key issue, though lawmakers largely endorse the existing framework.
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Des Moines
Iowa
General Assembly
Highway Commission
Boards of Supervisors
East St. Louis Levee Five Miles Long Is Done
The final section of the front levee on the east bank of the Mississippi at East St. Louis is completed at 270000 dollars. The five mile section caps more than a year of work and part of a larger project totaling about 6000000 dollars to protect twenty two miles of Illinois riverfront from floods. A canal and dike from the levee’s southern end to the bluffs, roughly four miles, has begun.
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East ST. Louis, Sr
Mississippi River
Bluffs
Illinois
East St. Louis
New Scout Cruisers Advanced in Price
Washington January 4 officials expect a Navy request to raise the cost limit for the new 35 knot scout cruisers to nearly a million dollars. Of four ships authorized only one contract has been awarded under the $5 million cap and re advertised bids show one offer for two ships at a price well above the limit. In a separate note Treasury officials say the $4,000 exemption from the income tax applies to heads of families with dependents beyond married persons.
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Washington
Congress
Navy Department
Jan
Treasury Department
Huge Military Budget and Universal Service Debate 1918
Washington reports detail a $800,000,000 1918 military budget amid House and Senate investigations. Senate subcommittees discuss universal service and the failing volunteer system, while Navy oil land negotiations stall. Army ordnance leaders note private munition plants crowding orders and outline plans to equip arsenals and acquire armored cars and tanks.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
House
Senate Public Lands Committee
Navy Department
Pittman
Nevada
Navy
Congress
Department
Senate Military
Stephen M. Foote
Coast Artillery School
Charles D. Rhodes
Mounted Service School
National Guard
Crozier
Army Ordnance
House Military Committee
War Department
Domestic Servants Union Forms in Duluth
The first Domestic Servants union east of the Missouri River is formed in Duluth with 100 charter members. It will present demands to Duluth housewives on Jan 15, including monthly family wages of 20 to 25 dollars for two, 25 to 30 dollars for three or more, a nine hour day with overtime at time and a half, one full recreation day weekly, adequate meals, and sanitary sleeping quarters. The union is an offshoot of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Duluth
Minn
Missouri River
The
Industrial Workers of the World
Fear Druggist Sales in Nebraska Cities Omaha
The Douglas County Retail Druggists association which includes ninety five of Omaha's 125 druggists has begun a campaign to secure a law preventing liquor sales by druggists after May 1917 when prohibition takes effect Prof O'Brien Creighton College of Pharmacy notes thirty saloon keepers have sought registered pharmacists for drug stores once closing saloons Omaha wholesale drug houses report saloon men seeking to open drug stores after May There are about 350 saloons in Omaha.
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Omaha
Douglas County Retail Druggists’ Association
Nebraska
O’brien
Creighton College of Pharmacy
Christmas Savings Club Seeks New Members At State Bank
The State Street bank invites readers to join the fifth annual Christmas Savings Club at State Savings Loan & Trust Company. Membership available at 426 Maine Street Broadway Branch or South Side Branch. Several residents and local figures are mentioned in brief notes including ill health improvements and travel plans.
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State Street Bank
Charles F. Malley
North Fifth Street
Walter Wisherd
St. Paul
J. H. Best
Chicago
Earl Thayer
South Fourteenth Street
Toledo
Ohio
Snyder
Davis- Cleaver Produce Company
Pittsburgh
Carlos Wiener
Perkins Engineering Company
J. E. Miller
Majestic Building
H. E. Schmiedeskamp
Bloomington
Bob Jones
Agriculture Department
John Schrage
Grant Heidbreder
Illinois College of Pharmacy
Edgar Fredericks
H. J. Niemann
B. F. Berry
Quincy
Cudah
State Savings Loan & Trust Company
Maine Street
Broadway
South Side
Elizabeth Denning
Denning Glass and Book Firm
Eugenia White
Beatrice Mueller
Camp Point
W. H. Livingston
Clayton
Clayton School
Walter Bennett
Mary Orton
Speller
Adams County
Pea Green
Ira Stuart
Macomb
State Street
Irma Bastert
State Savings, Loan & Trust Company
Christmas Savings Club
Edna Becker
Hannibal
W. K. Abbott
Jacksonville
State barbers split on proposed Iowa licensing bill
Barbers statewide oppose a licensing bill drafted for submission to the Thirty seventh general assembly by the Iowa State Barbers association. The measure would require yearly certification to practice barbering and impose board supervision over schools and apprentices.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Board of Examiners
Thirty
General Assembly
Iowa State Barbers’ Association
Torture of Prisoners Reported in African Camps
A German memorial on prisoner conditions in Morocco and Algeria describes severe abuse in camps. Reports say captives in Bousada are guarded by troops and in Abomry, Dahomey, prisoners were brutalized with the sjambok and thumb screws.
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Berlin
Morocco
Algeria
Bousada
Abomry
Dahomey
Deposed Abyssinia Emperor Captured
Dispatches from Washington report that the deposed Abyssinian emperor Lidji Jeassu has been captured. His followers are said to be pursued and crushed as reports note involvement by a German minister and a Turkish consul in the upheaval.
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Washington
Abyssinia
Lidji Jeassu
Passenger rate hearing opened in Chicago court
Opening arguments in the railroads of Illinois plea to raise interstate passenger rate from two cents to two and four tenths cents a mile were heard in federal court. Arguments were submitted Wednesday and evidence was expected to be offered today in conformance with a ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Chicago
Railroads of
Illinois
Interstate Commerce Commission
Monticello News Briefs Highlight Local Visits
Miss Ruby Rouse visited Monticello High School Tuesday afternoon. Miss Patterson of Quincy visited her uncle Jasper Hyde of Monticello. John Sayre had his ice house filled Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Banks were called to Quincy by the death of Mrs. Meekes, Mr. Banks’ sister. A new floor was laid in the high school during Christmas vacation. Mr. Bell of Canton was a Monticello visitor early in the week. H. B. Rouse and family visited relatives in LaBelle over Sunday.
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Monticello
Ruby Rouse
Monticello High School
Miss Patterson
Quincy
Jasper Hyde
John Sayre
C. E. Banks
Meekes
Mr. Banks
Mr. Bell
Canton
Rouse
LaBelle
A Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles
An advertisement for Texas Wonder claims it cures kidney and bladder issues in men and women, dissolves gravel, aids diabetes, back pain, rheumatism and irregularities, and regulates children’s bladder. If not sold by your druggist, it will be mailed for $1.00 with a two month supply. Testimonials available. Dr W Hall. Louis MO. Sold by druggists.
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Texas Wonder
W. Hall
The Quinine That Does Not Affect Head
An advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine as safe for all users with no nervousness or head ringing. It claims only one Bromo Quinine and features FE. W. Grove's signature on the box, priced at 25 cents.
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W. Grove
Cancer and female diseases cured without the knife
Dr Welsch at 204 Hampshire St Quincy IL advertises cures for cancer piles tumor ulcer gall stones chronic appendicitis and other female diseases without surgery. Consultation offered.
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DR. Welsch
Hampshire St. Quincy
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