Goethals Seeks Destroyers to Patrol Canal Waters
President/Panama Canal official Goethals urged urgent dispatch of two torpedo boat destroyers to canal waters to curb neutrality violations tied to wireless misuse and diverted supplies. Garrison withheld dispatch details, citing confidential nature and interdepartmental review.
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Panama Canal
Sone
Canal
Garison
State Department
Navy Department
United States
Mallina
Pacific
Panama
Love
Pearl Islands
Claude ¢. Mallet
Panana
Pepere
Modifying Iowa Foot and Mouth Quarantine Initiated
Washington D.C. Dec 14 Preparations to modify the federal foot and mouth quarantine in Iowa are underway by the department of agriculture. Modifications will permit cattle shipments in certain parts under specified restrictions.
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Iowa
Department of Agrculture
Funeral of Elisha Payne Halts Business in Auburn
The funeral service for Elisha Payne veteran leader of the House of Representatives was held in Auburn on December 14. Simple services at the First Baptist Church drew hundreds from Cayuse and adjoining counties and included a 60 member congressional delegation. Thousands stood in snow blocked streets en route to the cemetery as all stores and public places closed for one hour. Floral tributes arrived by wagonloads, including pieces from President Wil.
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Elisha Payne
House of Repreves
Cayuse BM
Wil
Get Busy Join the Argus Good Fellows Club
Appeal urges readers to join the Argus Santa Claus Fund to help children have a Merry Christmas. Readers are asked to write in with names and addresses to sponsor a child or to send a check for shopping and delivery. The call emphasizes immediate action to prevent empty stockings in any home.
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Argus Good Fellows’ Club
Argus Santa Claus Fund
the Argus
Fifteen Inches Snow in Oswego
A severe cold wave grips the Midwest and Great Lakes with Oswego, New York reporting fifteen inches of snow. Temperatures fall sharply across the region, hitting below zero in multiple states. Charities in Chicago urge aid as the cold snap deepens, while Ottumwa, Duluth and others report record lows.
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Washington, D. C
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Great Central Valleys
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Mississippi Valley
North Plains
Oswege
N.Y
Chicago
Great Lakes
Ottumwa
Iowa
Duluth
Minn
Durant hotel guest asks police to catch a man
Mrs J Peters owner of the Durant hotel at Durant Iowa asks Commissioner Archie Hart to seize a man named L Nichols who left on an early train with seven dollars of her money in his possession. She described him as wearing a dark suit gray cap and red hair. Hart explains the police cannot act as collection agents and a warrant must be sworn.
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Archie Hart
J. Peters
Durant
Iowa
L Nichols
Nichols
Hart
Cantillon Dies Former Northwestern General Manager
William David Cantillon former general manager of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad died in Chicago of heart trouble. He joined the railroad as a freight brakeman in 187% and rose to conductor trainmaster superintendent and general manager before retirement. Born in Jacksonville Wisconsin in 1861 he is survived by a widow two children four brothers and a sister. Two brothers Michael and Joseph are noted as baseball men.
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Chicago
William David Cantillon
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Cantillon
Jacksonville
Wis
Michael
Joseph
War Today reports reverses for Turkey and allied losses
The War Today dispatches note Russian successes against Turkish forces on land and sea, with heavy Turkish losses. Britain says the old Turkish battleship Messadieh, carrying 600 men, was destroyed by a British submarine. Servians claim advances near Nish, while Austria is said to be being swept from occupied territories. Von Der Goltz predicts a long war with eventual German triumph. Berlin reports a Bethmann Hollweg son injured in Russian Poland. Paris sources say Russians repelled a German column toward Warsaw. Antwerp mutiny rumors surface regarding Bavarian troops. Frieburg bombs injure two girls. A Polish delegation member urged Poland to press for a separate peace with Austria and Russia.
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Berne
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Grand Duchy of
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M. Merunovitch
Lemberg
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Austria
Mrs Cable Typo Triggers Chicago Society Rush
Chicago society buzzed as a published Casino list showed Mrs Benjamin S Cable. Jensa S Cable was listed as eligible bachelor but Benjamin S Cable was not. Friends confirmed the “Mrs Cable” entry was a typographical error and the secret marriage tale ended.
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Til
Benjamin S. Cable
Jensa S. Cable
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Cable
Denies Outrage by Union Miners
The federal commission on industrial relations questioned the United Mine Workers about violence by members. Secretary-Treasurer Doyle said no union member commits violence as a member and there is no probe of applicant moral character. Two hundred union miners statewide found work since the strike ended.
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Col
United Mine Workers of America
Federal Commission On Industrial Relations
Doyle
Mine Workers
Commissioner Weinstock
John Lawson
United Mine Workers
Shooting of Czech Resident Not Surprise in Chicago
Chicago dispatch reports a Czech resident of Prague was shot for corresponding with a Czech union in Chicago. Bohemian groups express little surprise, noting unity among Czechs outside Bohemia to free their country. Secretary Psenka of the Bohemian National Union comments on the broader sentiment.
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Chicago
Prague
Bohemia
Psenka
Bohemian National Union
Weather Summary For Local Area Tonight And Tuesday
Fair and cold tonight with low near zero or a touch below. Tuesday turns cloudy with a gradualtemperature rise. Yesterday's high 22, low last night below zero, 8 am reading below zero. Wind 11 mph at 7 pm. No precipitation in 24 hours. Humidity 80 to 83 percent. River stage 23 inches, steady. Astronomical notes list Jupiter Mars evening, Mercury Venus morning, Sirius prominent in winter sky.
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J. M. Sherier
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Mars
Mercury
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Sirius
Probe opens into two Mexican murders and troop warning
Reports from Sonora say Thomas Francis and another American were killed last week while returning from a mine near Nacozari. R E Dunn of Pittsburgh identified as companion. Secretary Bryan orders investigation as Carranza warns U S troops would be an act of hostility if used to keep bullets from crossing the border. Domestic blame follows killings and a Carranza reiteration of avoiding cross border firing due to risk to Americans.
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Washington, D. C
Thomas Francis
Sonora
Mexico
State Department
Bryan
Douglas
Ariz
R. E. Dunn
Pittsburgh
Francis
Nacozari
Stage Workers Attach Grand Opera Receipts in Davenport
A Davenport sheriff attached part of the box office receipts of the New York Grand Opera company on a wage claim. James W. Devlin and M. O'Brien assert unpaid wages from Oct 1914 onward, including labor in New York and since Nov 23, 1914, plus railroad fares. The case, served by Sheriff Louis Eckhardt, was settled Saturday.
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New York Grand Opera Company
James W. Devlin
M. O’brien
Opera
New York
Devlin
Opera Company
O'Brien
Nmfiont
Louis] Eckhardt
Roosevelt To Reenter Field As Magazine Man
Theodore Roosevelt signs a three year contract with Metropolitan to write exclusively on political and economic topics. He left the Outlook earlier this year and may still contribute on outdoor life elsewhere, but Metropolitan will host his political and social order writings.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Metropolitan Magazine
Michigan Court Ruling Supreme in Rate Case
United States Supreme Court holds federal courts cannot review state rate cases after Michigan Supreme Court has sustained the rates. The decision upholds the Michigan Railroad Commission order lowering rates for the Detroit and Mackinac Railway Company. The ruling also addresses non-resident aliens and damages under federal law in a separate decision.
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United States Tribunal
Washington, D. C
Michigan
Michigan Supremae
United States Supreme Court
Michigan Railroad Commission
Detroit and Mackinac
Supreme Court
Investigation into Sullivan as American minister to Santo Domingo
President Wilson orders inquiry into James Mark Sullivan Brooklyn lawyer and American minister to the Dominican Republic commission led by Paul Fuller of New York. Sullivan reportedly welcomes the probe and a Santo Domingo visit may follow to review misconduct charges.
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Wilson
James Mark Sullivan
Brooklyn
Dominican Republic
Paul Fuller
New York
Santo Domingo
Sullivan
Pay Increases In Mail Service In New Appropriation Bill
Washington DC Dec 14 The post office appropriation bill carrying 325 million dollars nears submission to the house with provisions to abolish the assistant postmaster office restructure first class offices under a single postmaster oversight and raise rural carrier pay while boosting railway mail clerks and letter carriers pay until legal limits. It also shifts pay basis from tonnage to car space used and includes 100 million extra compensation for railroads due to parcel post burdens. Senate approved war tax return penalties relief and foot and mouth disease emergency funding. The big Supply measure totals about 39 million in salaries for over 16 000 federal employees.
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Washington, D. C
Post Ofice
Burleson
House
Senate
Girl who asked mother murder now a reporter
Aurora Illinois December 14 Julia Flake a 15 year old girl from the Higgins murder case is now a reporter on the Training School Chat a monthly journal for Geneva state school girls She writes of Willard Cottage and daily school life and notes a stray kitten and a pigeon meal
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Ill
Julia Flake
Mamma
John Higgins
Geneva
Julia
Willard Cottage
Submarine B-11 Dives Under Dardanelles Mines
London official reports the Royal Navy submarine B-11 under Lieutenant Commander Holbrook penetrated the Dardanelles, torpedoed the Turkish battleship Messudieh, and escaped after nine hours submerged. The Messudieh, built in 1874 and rebuilt in 1903, carried 600 men and faced damage in 1912.
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Holbrook
Royal Navy
Dardanelles
Messadieh
Blackwell
England
Genoa
Greece
Subarine B-11
Arthur Holbrook
Portsmouth
Emperor William II Prepared for Emergency Throat Operation
A Munich telegram reports Germany's Emperor William II may undergo throat surgery. The operation was deferred due to the emperor's feverish condition, as shared by a Berne dispatch dated December 14. The report notes medical caution amid ongoing health concerns.
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Berne
Munich
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