Attorney General to take over paper trust inquiry
Washington January 5 Attorney General Gregory has assumed leadership of the federal trade commission’s probe into the print paper market. The aim is to determine the existence of a paper trust and to pursue civil and criminal action against violators of the anti trust law. President Wilson follows the inquiry closely as secret reports and testimony are reviewed for possible grand jury indictments and dissolution suits against manufacturers.
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Washington
Gregory
Federal Trade Commission
Wilson
Department of Justice
Trade Commission
Department
Bracken
The
Congress
Official Entente Reply Reaches Gerard in Berlin
Berlin January 5 official text of the entente reply to the peace proposals has arrived for presentation by Ambassador Gerard to the foreign office. Swiss minister earlier handed the Italian text. Officials think the note ends current peace hopes though some see a slim chance for renewed talks if invited by Wilson or via central powers terms.
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Berlin
London
Washington
Copenhagen
Gerard
Foreign Office
Italy
Germany
Wilson
Roosevelt Again In Fight Over Wilson Note Endorsement
Col Roosevelt resumes his sharp attacks on the Wilson administration, endorsing Lodge in opposing Senate endorsement of the note to belligerents. He blasts the White House handling as evasive, calls the peace note circular, and urges adherence to Hague promises and universal military training for youths.
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Lodge
New York
Senate
Col. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Wilson
Wood
Gardner
Massachusetts
Lansing
Tle
Germany
United States
Messrs. Daniels
Baker
Artemus Ward
Gold and Silver Production Fell in 1916
The United States produced 8,710,300 ounces less gold and 2,077,275 ounces less silver in 1916 than in the previous year. Mint officials reported total gold output at 92,316,400 ounces and silver at 72,583,800 ounces. California led in gold, Montana led in silver.
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Washington
United States
Mint
California
Union
Montana
Canadian Train Service Reduced Discussed in Nationwide Conference
Ottawa Ont Tan 5. A safe cut in the passenger train service in Canada is being worked out here by operating heads of the railways from all parts of the dominion, working with Sir Henry Drayton, chairmen of the dominion railway commission. The demand of the freight set for motive power led to the conference.
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Ottawa
Shooting in taxicab leaves two wounded in Brookline
James J. Riley of Somersville and Miss Mildred Melzian a 19 year old stenographer were shot and badly wounded in a Brookline taxicab ride to her home. The chauffeur said suitors urged Miss Melzian to marry him and then shots were fired. Riley is 34.
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Brookline
Mass
James J. Riley
Somersville
Mildred Melzian
Melzian
Riley
Meets Mate But Loses Diamonds
H D Reynolds a Houston mining man and broker recuperates in San Francisco after being drugged. His diamonds valued at 160 dollars and 230 dollars in cash vanished. Mrs Mabel C Aiken, 85, linked to a Los Angeles matrimonial bureau, is arrested on larceny charges. Reynolds says he met her December 23 and they lived together until December 28 before he waked to missing valuables.
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San Francisco
Cal
H. D. Reynolds
Houston
Tex
Mabel C. Aiken
Reynolds
Los Angeles
Aiken
Billik Starts Anew After Perjured Murder Conviction
Bent white-hair and 50 year old Billik left Chicago for Cleveland to begin life anew after eight years in Joliet prison for murder later found to be based on perjured testimony. He bears no malice toward Jerry Vrzal who confessed to perjury to convict him in the murder of a Vrzal family member.
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Chicago
Bent
Merman Billik
Cleveland
Billik
Joliet
Jerry Vrzal
Vrzal
Unc
Swiss leaders split on latest note to belligerents
The Journal Democrate reports President Schulberg and ex presidents Motta and De Coppet opposed Wilson’s note to the warring powers, a minority in the Swiss federal council. A Berlin interview quotes the German minister asserting Germany will strictly respect Switzerland’s neutrality amid the crisis.
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Geneva
Parisian
Journal Democrate
Schulberg
Motta
de Coppet
Wilson
Federal Council
Berne
Bund
Switzerland
Germany
Divergent Theories On Race Efficiency
New York January 6. Leading surgeons and physicians debated race efficiency at a Medical Academy meeting after Dr Pearce Bailey presented a paper. Dr Abraham Jacobi argued birth control boosts race efficiency while Dr S J Meltzer of Rockefeller Institute urged focus on patient care over preventive medicine.
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New York
The
Academy of Medicine
Pearce Bailey
Abraham Jacobi
S. J. Meltzer
Rockefeller Institute
Commuted Sentence for Convicted Soldier, Kansas
William White, a Black soldier, had his death sentence at Leavenworth commuted to life imprisonment by the federal pardon board in Washington. He was convicted of killing a fellow soldier of the federal reservation and faced execution before the commutation.
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Topera, Kas
William White
Federal
Leavenworth
Federal Pardon Board
Washington
White
Money Squandered In Cotton Futures
Three suits filed in federal district court seek to recover fourth million two hundred fifty thousand dollars allegedly misused by C Hunter Raine then president of the Mercantily Bank of Memphis Tennessee. John F Black & Co. are named in the alleged speculative cotton futures deal with future delivery. John L Emerson, bank receiver, brings the action.
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New York
Mercantily Bank of
Memphis, Tenn
C. Hunter Raine
John F Black & Co
John L. Emerson
Federal District Court
Broker tied knots in murder trial evidence
OSSIPEE New Hampshire January 5 testimony described Frederick L Small tying knots like those in a cord used to strangle his wife and his knowledge of electric wiring Mrs Elizabeth Curry of Boston testified she had seen Small tie such knots in the cord found about her daughter's neck when her body was discovered at their cottage September 29.
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Ossipee
N. H
Frederick L. Small
Elizabeth Curry
Boston
Small
Ely's Cream Balm Ad Promises Quick Relief
An old advertisement touts Ely's Cream Balm as a fragrant antiseptic cure for nasal congestion and catarrh. It claims the cream penetrates air passages, soothes inflamed mucous membranes, and provides instant relief after a small application.
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Ely
Commerce committee reports to the Senate site
A commerce committee report is forwarded to the Senate site as part of ongoing oversight. The document outlines proposed actions and next steps, outlining committee findings and anticipated votes. Further details were not provided in the accessible excerpt.
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Senate
Commerce Committee
Men’s clothing styles kept steady for 1917 fall and winter
Cincinnati report on the National Association of Clothing Designers convention notes no major changes in men’s garments for the 1917 18 season. Popular shades include blue gray and brown. Irving S. Frankel of Cincinnati to appoint a style committee today.
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Cincinnati
National Association of Clothing Designers
Irving S. Frankel
Despondent Chief of Enger Car Co Shoots Self
Cincinnati January 5 Frank J Enger president of Enger Motor Car company shot and killed himself Thursday night. He was said to be in ill health and his death is attributed to depression.
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Self
Cincinnati
Frank J. Enger
Enger Motor Car Company
Mr. Enger
Saw German Sailors Guarded in Bermuda
A British ship master reported in Norfolk that in a Bermuda port he saw thirty eight men in German naval uniform marched under guard. He said the sight prompted rumors that a German commerce raider or submarine had been captured in the southern Atlantic.
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Norfolk
Bermuda
South Atlantic
Skyscraper King Declared Insane in Chicago History
Francis P. Owings, famed for a fourteen story Chicago building in the 1880s, was declared insane on Thursday and ordered confined to the hospital for the insane at Kankakee.
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Chicago
J&n
Francis P. Owings
Hospital For
Kankakee
Former Justice Wilder Found Dead in Honolulu
Arthur A. Wilder, former associate justice of the territorial supreme court, was found dead at his Honolulu home. Police say he shot himself in front of a mirror. His recent divorce from his wife is noted in the report.
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Honolulu
Arthur A. Wilder
Territorial Supreme Court
Mayors Draft Bill on Municipal Food Markets
Five of the nine mayors on the state cost of living committee met in Schenectady New York to draft a bill for the legislature. The measure would create municipal markets and require foodstuffs to be brought into cities and sold under supply and demand rules.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Neutral Ministers Removed from Bucharest
Petrograd News agency reports Germany ordered removal of the last neutral representatives, the American and Dutch ministers, who defended Entente subjects in Romania. The action comes as Germany asserts the move to purge neutral diplomats from Bucharest.
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Petrograd
London
Germany
Bucharest
Rumania
Williams urges severe penalties for bank robbers
Oklahoma Governor Robert L. Williams urged in a message to the legislature that electrocution or life imprisonment should be the maximum penalty for bank robbers in the state.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Jan
Robert L. Williams
Peace Causes Rift in German Socialists
German socialist minority and the Spartacus group plan to separate from the socialist party at a January 7 meeting. Amsterdam advices say the rift stems from the peace question.
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London
Cologne
Spartacus
Socialist Party
Amsterdam
Gomez Denies Report About Provisional Presidency
San Antonio dispatch reports Dr. Francisco Vasquez Gomez denying being named provisional president by Villa supporters. He called the idea ridiculous when asked about the rumor.
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Gomes
Sanantonio
Texas
Francisco Vasquez Gomez
Villa
Unclear Fragments Hint at Policy Tug of War
The readable text presents a fragmented political remark mentioning Berg, interns, threats, and a secretary of state. It implies fear in Wall Street and an unexpectedly forced retraction of an interpretation, but lacks coherent context or complete facts to name events, dates, or locations.
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Berg
Wall Street
Mother dead her daughter wounded in barn near home
In Osawatomi Kas on Thursday Mrs T L Spellman was found dead with a bullet hole in her temple and her 15 year old daughter Hazel wounded in the neck and head in an empty barn. Police say the mother had taken the girl from the school Wednesday afternoon in a buggy.
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Osawattomie
Kas
T. L. Spellman
Hazel
Spellman
Callous Disregard Admiralty Statement on North Wales
London January report notes an admiralty statement regarding a British steamer North Wales torpedoed in ballast en route to Canada. The German wireless dispatch dated November 10 claimed the ship was attacked with a torpedo. No further word has been heard about the vessel or its fate.
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London
Tull
Canada
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