Frontline Struggles Continue Across Alsace to the Baltic
Across the Alsace to the north sea front the Allies press advance as French and German troops exchange losses near Steinbach Alsace where the village is split between both sides. In Poland German forces push eastward while Petrograd reports a breakdown of the offensive with heavy casualties in Trans Caucasus as Turkish columns are dispersed. Thirty ships bombard Pola as British and French warships join bombardment with Bougainville in the Solomons.
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London
Alsace
North Sea
Germany
Galicia
Poland
Warsaw
Berlin
Petrograd
Trans-Caucasus
France
Servia
Hungary
Argonne
Upper
Brura River
Amsterdam
Pola
Copenhagen
Seabolt
Rouleno
Melbourne
Australia
Bougainville
Solomon Islands
Move Made for To Oust National Stockyards
A suit filed in the circuit court seeks to oust the National Stockyards Company from Illinois. The attorney general alleges the stockyards firm operates as a restraint of trade within the state. In Chicago Charles Alex Sider, a Rhode Island steel magnate, was indicted today for Mann Act violations.
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Belleville
Fast St. Louis
Mllinois
National Yards Company
Chicago
Charles Alex Sider
Rhode Island
Meat prices not boosted by war decline units from 14 cents
Washington reports that despite large U S meat exports during the war prices fell 14 cents per 10 pounds from a year ago, per the agriculture department. The note also mentions a record apple crop with yield 259,000,000 bushels and regional production figures for New York Missouri Pennsylvania Michigan.
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Washington, D.C
United States
Department of Agriculture
New York
Pennsylvania
Michi
Vocational Unit Plan Indorsed At Illinois Teachers Meeting
At the Illinois teachers annual meeting resolutions favored cooperation with religious bodies in teaching religious matters and endorsed the unit plan of vocational education. Disputes centered on simplified spelling and two Illinois figures spoke on vocational schooling and publication practices. A later note mentions Marconi being named a Italian senator and Charlottesville jail escapees captured in Bloomington with a $44 reward offered for Stak.
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Springfield
State Teachers’ Association
School Teachers of Illinois
W. B. Owen
Chicago
Imindig Sunday School Association
Edwin G. Cooley
General Assembly
H. S. Magill
G. P. Randle
Danville
Magill
E. O. Wile
Oak Park
Blair
W. Duff Piercy
Mount Vernon
Leland Hotel
Bloomington
Charlottesville
David Sisk
Harvey Melton
Stak
Japan Not Asked to Send Troops
Tokyo reports deny any request for Japanese troops to Europe. France and possibly Russia favor the project while England nixes clear requests. Financial aspects could be arranged but political and economic questions hinder action amid frequent pro and anti editorials.
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Tokio
Japan
Europe
Foreign Office
France
Russia
England
Missing link identity announced at scientific meeting
Philadelphia reports James H. McGregor of Columbia University announced at a joint Geological Society of America and American Association for the Advancement of Science session that the long sought human ape link was found in Pithecantropus Erectus the Java skull showing intermediate features. Osborn and Becker of Columbia and the US Geological Survey presented related findings on human migration and an Earth age near 100000000 years with claims on crustal activity.
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Philadelphia
James H. McGregor
Columbia University
Geological Society of America
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Java
McGregor
Henry F. Osborn
Columbia
Europe
George F. Becker
United States Geological Survey
Carranza Forces Evacuate Monterey as Villa Advances
Washington reports Carranza forces pulled out of Monterey on Tuesday while Villa forces push north from the south. The Tam pico Monterey railway was cut and trains fired upon. Blanco reportedly imprisoned by Villa with staff dispersed among Villa regiments. Gutierrez pledges guarantees to all inhabitants and vows action against kidnappings and attacks on civilians.
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Washington, D. C
Carranza
Monterey
State Department
Villa
Tampico
Carranza Agency
Vera Cruz
Blanco
Gutierrez
Republic
Canadian coroner jury exonerates line guard
A coroner's jury at Fort Erie Ontario found Walter Smith of Buffalo died while evading arrest for illegal duck shooting when a volley from three militiamen fired after officers ordered arrests. Police Officer Thomas Delaney testified he authorized the firing to assist in the emergency. Only two soldiers fired.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Fort Erie
Thomas Delaney
Delaney
Disturbances in Philippines Seen as Dangerous Yet Minor
Senate hearing heard Dean Worcester report from Manila on unrest linked to independence talk. Dispatches say uprisings were arresting many, with foreigners seeking firearms, but no Americans involved. leaders unsettled, property to be seized. independence favored by some, opposed by others, amid fear of repercussions.
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Washington
Manila
Philippines
Senate
Dean Worcester
Islands
P. G. McDonnell
Worcester
Corregidor
Ricarte
McDonnell
United States Navy
Holds liquor is a national issue
Topeka Kansas December 31 John P St John former prohibition governor of Kansas argued at the national convention of the Intercollegiate Prohibition association the liquor traffic is not a purely state matter and questioned why the government taxes and licenses distilleries stating the issue has national implications.
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Topeka
Kan
John P. St. John
Kansas
Intercollegiate Prohibition Association
Fifteen Slain by Germans Bombs Over Dunkirk
Dunkirk reports say four German aeroplanes bombed the city while soldiers fired on them. Official casualty returns list fifteen killed and thirty two wounded as bombs filled with shrapnel caused the deaths. New York City quarantined over foot and mouth disease among cattle.
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London
Dunkirk
Daily Mail
New York City
Washington, D. C
New York County
Weather forecast and astronomical events for Rock Island area
The report predicts generally fair weather tonight and Friday with warmer conditions and a low near 15 degrees. Northwest winds at 4 mph, 7 am temperature readings show 9 and yesterday’s high of 3 above zero. Stage of water 3.4 with no recent change. Evening stars Jupiter and Saturn, morning stars Mars Mercury and Venus, Pleiades visible due south around 9 pm.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Jupiter
Saturn
Mars
Mercury
Venus
Record Farm Values Hit New Peak in 1914
Washington report shows American agriculture posting a total farm product value of about 9.873 billion dollars for 1914, surpassing 1913 and 1899 marks. Crop value reached 6.044 billion, animal products 3.828 billion, with cotton and other crops driving the gains amid European war pressures.
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Washington, D. C
Houston
Department of Agriculture
Ends Life For Love Of Woman He’d Known Four Days
Gus Clause killed himself in St. Louis after proposing to Mary Cook, a divorcee he had known only four days. She was in a department store rest room when he drank carbolic acid, causing panic as several women fainted and others urged her to stop him. Clause’s body was to be forwarded from Cleveland where his mother lives, per his deathbed statement. Wilson to Speak at Indianapolis. President Wilson has chosen to visit Indianapolis on January 8 for a Jackson day event.
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St. Louis
Mary Cook
Gus Clause
Clause
Miss Cook
Ward
Cleveland
British Note Pleases London Says Page and Grey
The British official information bureau said an answer to the American note would be drawn up as soon as possible in a friendly spirit. Foreign Secretary Grey met with the American ambassador to discuss Wilson’s protest over the detention of American shipping by British warships. Senator Walsh urged action in Washington, citing copper shipments seized and nine thousand tons at Gibraltar. Representative Towner pressed for presidential power to bar export of war supplies. Lloyd's trimmed the war outbreak premium to seven guineas per cent from 15 yesterday.
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London
Official Information Bureau
Grey
Wilson
Washington, D. C
Senator Walsh
Montana
Senate
Great Britain
Walsh
Gibraltar
Marseilles
Towner
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Representative Towner
Iowa
Lloyd's
United States
Literacy test change defeated by senators
In Washington the Senate voted 34 to 26 against an amendment to enlarge literacy test exemptions in the immigration bill. Senator Martine moved to strike out the literacy test, initiating a lengthy debate. The Senate refused to remove the literacy test from the bill.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Martine
Liebknecht Calls for World War Against War in Message
German socialist Carl Liebknecht urges workers worldwide to unite in a war on war. Published in the Labor Leader, he is noted as the only Reichstag member to oppose the new war credit amid widespread antiwar sentiment.
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London
Carl Liebknecht
Reichstag
Labor Leader
Liebknecht
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