Toll of Auto Deaths Brightens Traffic Reform Call
Census Bureau reports 3808 traffic fatalities in the past year with an 14.1 per 100000 rate, up since 1915. It urges stricter regulations, more crossings, lower speeds, and graduated licensing as remedies, noting cities like Youngstown and Richmond show varying rates and New York leads in deaths.
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Union News Service
Washington
Census Bureau
Kansas City
San Antonio
Bureau For
Youngstown
Ohio
Richmond
New York
Chicago
Kasbah of Algiers Moors and Markets Described
A travelogue sketch of the Kasbah in Algiers details cobbled steps, street cars, and European streets. It portrays mosques tucked among houses, street cafes, and Arab gossip while women weave sandals and sell gold objects. Some girls are described as married at a young age.
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Kasbah
Algeria
Banaars
Fine Workmanship In Tiny Watch Parts And Jewelry
The piece notes two remarkable examples of minute workmanship in watches. It highlights the maker's name painted on the dial and the minuscule screws in the mechanism. Tiny watch parts, some heads as small as 3-100 inch and threads sunk to 2-100 inch, are praised, especially when used in rings or earrings.
Coal crisis ends as ICC vacates priority orders
The Interstate Commerce Commission announced that the coal crisis has passed and issued an order vacating all remaining priority orders that favored open-top coal cars. The order takes effect at midnight today.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Poet Builds Barricades as Fiume Tensions Rise
Trieste reports a state of war between Italy and the Quarnero regency at Fiume began at midnight with no immediate fighting. D'Annunzio urges barricades and resistance to regulars, but few followers join as his forces, estimated at 5,000, seek to retain Arbe and Veglia islands and push for frontiers aligned with Rapallo terms.
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Trieste
Italy
Quarnero
Fiume
Gabriele d'Annunzio
Caviglia
Arde
Veglia
Gulf
D’annunzian Legionaries
Rome
D’annunzio
Tempo
Fin
Arbe
Rapallo
Epoca
Annunzio
Thieves Active in Berlin Target Finance Ministry Office
Berlin police report thieves who have troubled city authorities for some time broke into the finance ministry offices at night, smashing walls and furnishings in a bid for treasure. They likely found nothing of value, while a silver-mounted marshal's baton linked to Polish ruler John Sobieski was found in a suspect’s house, bought for 3000 marks in Warsaw.
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Berlin
Finance Ministry
John Sobieski
Poland
Warsaw
Relief Chief barred from entering interior of Turkey
Col J P Coombs head of American Near East relief wired from Samsoun on the Black sea that Turkish Nationalists HQ at Angora denied him entry into the interior. He said he would leave Samsoun for Constantinople next week.
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Constantinople
J. P. Coombs
American Near East Relief
Samsoun
Black Sea
Angora
Coombs
Builders' Bureau Involved in Probe
New York December 4 The joint legislative committee probing New York's building trust ordered its counsel to submit extraordinary grand jury testimony showing changes in the minute book of the Builders' Supply bureau.
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Builders’ Bureau
New York
Joint Legislative Committee
Building Trust
Builders’ Supply Bureau
White House buys Christmas seals for Tuberculosis fund
Acting for President Wilson, Secretary Tumulty purchased from Adrienne Meyer six year old the annual White House allotment of Christmas seals issued by the National Tuberculosis Association.
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Washington
Wilson
Adrienne Meyer
White House
National Tuberculosis Association
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Neville Street
Beckley, W. Va
King
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Hoover
the Electric Shop
Beckley
M. B. Smith
G. W. Willis
W. E. Moorefield
Army and Navy
Fayette
Beckley, West Va
Coats
O. D
SOX Red Cross
Army Russetts
E. Gilbert
Bluefield
W. VA
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