English Lords Learn Economy in Wartime Homes
War Savings Committee letters from wives of MPs reveal sweeping household cuts. Wives report halving staff, closing castles, downgrading leisure and clothing, and redirecting money to war effort. Some say meetings to urge economy are unpopular. others devote funds to Red Cross hospitals and rationing across two houses.
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the Commons
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Chicago Alderman Under Indictment in Police Protection Conspiracy
Six indictments returned by a county grand jury accuse Oscar DePriest alderman of the second ward and Police Captain Stephen Healy of conspiracy to exact protection money from underworld figures. Nineteen other defendants are named in the true bills, with charges tied to extortion and graft tied to police protection.
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Conurt
Oscar DePriest
Second Ward
Stephen Healy
Stanton Avenue
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Underworld
New Orleans Man Heads Tariff League
Charles A. Farwell of New Orleans was elected president of the American Protective Tariff League at the annual meeting. A resolution urged reciprocal restrictions and prohibition against the dominion government in prohibitions tied to spruce log exports to the United States. Public ownership urged.
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New York
Charles A. Farwell
New Orleans
American Protective Parcheague
United States
Washington, Dan
Ameren Forestry Association
Five Year Old Boy Pilots Blind Father on 2400 Mile Trip
A five year old boy accompanied his blind father, a member of Congress from Minnesota, on a 2400 mile journey home during a holiday. The boy, unable to read or write, spelled out numbers to indicate 75 cents in change while guiding his father across the trip. The pair traveled in a dining car and navigated fare and coins with the boy acting as interpreter for the blind father.
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Schall
Washington
Innesota
Thomas D., Jr
Minnesota
Coat of arms on infant wrist shocks German attache
In San Francisco a German naval attache Lieut Von Brincken questions hospital staff after seeing a baby’s wrist marked with a coat of arms. He seeks assurances the child’s mother will not swap infants, pressed by nurses for identification methods amid recent munitions plot ties. The mother is Miss Milo Abercrombie.
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Milo Abercrombie
San Francisco
Vopicka Denies German Charges as Neutral
American Minister Vopicka, accredited to Romania Serbia and Bulgaria and removed from Bucharest by German authorities, dispatches a strong denial of charges of pro Romania neutrality. His likely recall to Jassy with the Romanian government remains unresolved but probable.
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Jassy
Oregon Moves to Punish Drunken Auto Driving
Salem, Ore. January 19. The Oregon state senate has passed a bill making it a misdemeanor to drive an automobile while under the influence of liquor. Auto owners who fail to discharge drunken drivers will face the same punishment under the measure.
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Ore
Oregon
State Senate
Mexican leaders ready to retire from Congress
Querétaro leaders Miluel Redes and Natividad Macias Nave issued an open letter to General Carranza saying that once Congress finishes its duties they will retire to private life. They helped draft the new constitution and urged good faith to aid the revolution and avoid Carranza embarrassment amid renewed opposition from the military faction.
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Jujas
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Madero
Renovaddores
Helpless Holland editorial denounces Dutch military readiness
The Nieuwe Amsterdammer launches a campaign for military preparedness under the headline Helpless Holland. It argues Netherlands lack heavy guns anti aircraft weapons and airmen. The piece contends mobilization was mere show and warns of German superiority and the risk to Amsterdam and its defenders.
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Amsterdam
Nieuwe Amsterdammer
Holland
Uriah Heep
Berlin urged to build small skyscrapers in central district
Prof Gustav Schimpff of the technical university of Aix-la-Chapelle told Berlin architects that the city should embrace higher office buildings, citing U S skyscrapers as a model but favoring limited height. He proposed placing tall structures on corner lots to preserve air and light and urged not to exceed 130 to 160 feet.
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Berlin
Gustav Schimpff
Technical University of Aix-la-Chapelle
Society of Berlin Architects
Herlin
Schimpff
United States
Inventions by Colonel Nambu for Japanese Army
Tokio special report states Colonel Kistro Nambu has devised a new infantry rifle for Japan. The weapon allegedly improves on earlier designs, offering a longer range and refined internal mechanism. Nambu, traveling in Europe to study ordnance, aims to apply wartime lessons to this claim of world efficiency.
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Kistro Nambu
Murata
Nambu Fa
Europe
Entente
Dutch suffragists withdraw after negotiating concessions
In The Hague a suffragist picket shown by yellow ribbons vanished from parliament entry after weeks of vigil. Leader Aletta Jacobs pressed for government role in suffrage deliberations as ministers faced protests. Concessions allow women limited rights in provincial council and state council, while full universal voting remains to be achieved later.
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Hague
Netherlands
Holland
Aletta Jaxcphs
Chamber
Tans
Seoend Chamber
Parisament
Council
State
Cort van der Linden
Germany Increases Beet Bounty Amid War Measures
Berlin reports the Federal Council approves actions to lift sugar beet output for 1917. Beet price fixed at two marks per hundredweight with higher after extraction shares for growers, more fertilizer access, and boosted labor including POWs. Earlier demands for bigger price hikes were trimmed. raw sugar and factories receive modest gains.
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Berlins
Federal Council
Old Silver Mine Near Marienbad Boosts Work Output
Work resumes in a Bohemian silver mine near Marienbad after a year long stoppage. Ore runs exceed 6 percent in some sections and tower levels show abundant rich ore. Production is to be increased as results are satisfactory.
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Berlin
Marienbad
Bohemia
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