Lloyd George Takes Office Amid Ill Health and War Cabinet
Premier Lloyd George, ill with a severe chill, remains indoors as he forms a new government. The war cabinet includes Andrew Bonar Law and key ministers. Asquith’s followers move to opposition. The session will be formal, with policy focus on shipping, mines, food, and manpower.
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London
Lloyd George
Buckingham Palace
King George
House of Commons
Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law
Asquith
Independent Labor Party
Labor Party
David Lloyd George
Earl Carson
House of Lords
Arthur Henderson
Lord Milner
Exchequer
Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay
Home Department
Sir George Save
Arthur J. Balfour
Walter Hume-Long
the Earl of Derby
India
Austen Chamberlain
Baron Rhondda
Board of Trade
Sir Albert Stanley
John Hodge
The
Admiralty
Sir Edward Carson
Christopher Addison
Lord Robert Cecil
Baron Davenport
Joseph Paton MacLay
Board
Afgriculture
Rowland E. Prothero
Board of Education
Albert A. L. Fisher
Sir Alfred M. Mond
Duchy of Lancaser
Sir Frederick Cawley
Albert Illingworth
Minster of Pensions
George N. Barnes
Sir Frederick E. Smith
Gordon Howart
K. C
Scotland
Fr. Munro
James A. ‘Nyde
Thomas B. Morison
Ireland
Baron Wimborne
Ireand
Henry E. Duke
Ignatius J. Brien
Briand starts reshaped cabinet and sweeping reforms
Paris December 11 Premier Briand spent the day meeting politicians and business leaders to form a new cabinet. He plans a war council of five ministers and a sweeping reorganization of government departments to inject new methods and grant broad powers to ministers and under secretaries.
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Paris
Briand
Chamber of Deputies
England
Explosion at Quaker Oats Plant in Peterboro England? Ont
An explosion in the engine room of the Quaker Oats plant in Peterboro Ontario today collapsed walls and trapped workers. Twelve rescuers have already freed and hospitalized several severely injured.
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Quaker Oats CO
Peterboro
Ont
Quaker Oats
Safeguards Against Temptation Cited By Prominent Men
Answers read at St. Andrew's Church list high aims from Andrew Carnegie and the will to resist from Oscar Straus. Other notable replies include influence of a good mother from Lyman Abbott, good home from Booth Tarkington, knowledge from Arthur Brisbane, will from Irving Babbitt, healthy interest in good things from Rabindranath Tagore.
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New York
Fred Winslow Adams
St. Andrew's Methodist Church
Andrew Carnegie
Lyman Abbott
Oscar &. Straus
Booth Tarkington
Arthur Brisbane
Apples warmed in cars sent from Washington state
A large Washington apple shipment to New York was moved in 40 box cars lined with paper and heated with oil stoves due to absent refrigerator cars. The apples, placed on the market today, were valued at about $40,000.
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New York
State of Washington
Weather Forecast for San Antonio Tonight and Tuesday
The forecast for San Antonio and surrounding areas calls for tonight to be fair and colder with freezing temperatures. Tuesday should stay fair with a slight warming trend.
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San Antonio
Weather Forecasts From The Light For Major Cities
Forecasts list temperatures and conditions for St. Louis Chicago Kansas City New York and Washington with winds, precipitation chances, and notable low temperatures in the last 24 hours. The notes mention northwest and east to southeast winds and rain or snow in several locales.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
Washington
Long Sault development contract ruled unconstitutional
The U S Supreme Court upheld New York court findings nullifying the Long Sault Development Company charter for water power on the St Lawrence River. The ruling centers on lack of federal jurisdiction and the state’s control of navigation, ending a $180 million, 600 000 horsepower project once hailed as the world’s largest.
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Washington, D. C
New York
Long Sault Development Company
St. Lawrence River
Supreme Court
Long Sault Island
Niagara Falls
Niagara
Long Sault
Ture
St. Lawrence
Congress
Woodbury
Aluminum Trust
Long Sault Company
New York Senate
Sulzer
New York Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals
Justice Pitney
Supreme Court of the United States
Earl Curzon to wed Grace Duggan in London match
The engagement of Earl Curzon of Kendaleston, former viceroy of India, to Mrs Grace Elvina Duggan widow of Alfredo Duggan of Buenos Aires, is announced. Duggan is the eldest daughter of J Munro Hinds, ex American minister to Brazil. Curzon, a widower, previously married Mary Victoria Leiter. Lady Curzon died in 1906 leaving three daughters.
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Buenos Aires
London
Earl Curzon of
Kendleston
India
Grace Elvina Duggan
Alfred Duggan
Earl Curzon
Mary Victoria
Levi Z. Leiter
Chicago
Washington
Lady Curzon
Pulp and News Print Plant Planned for Port Angeles
A pulp and news print paper plant with a $2,000,000 investment will be built in Port Angeles by Whalen Brothers of Vancouver, B C. The site has been purchased and construction will start immediately. Whalen Brothers operate paper pulp plants in Canada.
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Port Angeles
Westh
Whalen Brothers
Vancouver
B. C
Canada
Germans Violated Pledge Seen in Marina Case
State Department announced full information on the British ship Marina torpedoing showing a clear violation of Germany pledges to the United States. Awaiting Arabia details before next move, likely a new note to resolve interpretation issues on Sussex pledges regarding armed ships.
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Washington, D. C
State Department
Marina
Germany
United States
Arabia
Sussex
Record Cold To Continue In San Antonio This Week
The coldest weather of the season is forecast for San Antonio starting Monday night into Tuesday morning. Temperatures will slip below freezing, with a 7 am reading projecting between 20 and 25 degrees. The low to date was 28.5 on November 14. Cold air high pressure will persist with occasional warmer pockets, but overall the pattern favors continued cold spells.
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San Antonio
Mercury
Major Buell
United States
Changeable Weather Forecast From Southwest Bureau
Cold but changing weather across the Southwest foreseen with snow flurries in Texas and Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas to see cooler temperatures than last night. Warmer conditions expected tomorrow. Readings ranged from 4 in Dodge City to 82 in Shreveport with an 18 degree high at 8 am. Arkansas warned of a hard freeze.
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Kansas City
Southwest
Texas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Owever
Bureau
Dodge City
Kan
Abilene
Tex
Dallas
Oklahoma City
Shreveport
Fort Smith
Ark
Severe Cold Continues In Fort Worth
Fort Worth reports another day of freezing weather after a bitter night with a low of 27 degrees. No damage to stock or grain has been reported.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Artesian Belt Wins San Antonio Trackage Agreement
The Artesian Belt railway reaches a five year trackage rights deal with the International and Great Northern to enter San Antonio from Kirk starting January 1 1917. The arrangement cuts two hours from passenger travel time and replaces a two line freight rate with a single Artesian Belt charge for shipments between San Antonio and Artesian Belt points.
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Artesian Belt Railway
International & Great Northern
San Antonio
Kirk
International
van H. Howard
Harry Landa
the International
International & G Northern
Howard
Artesian Belt
Grand Jury Probes High Living Costs in Coal Trade
Federal inquiry opens in New York with grand jury investigation into coal industry price fixing and alleged food commodity conspiracies. Similar probes will run in Chicago Detroit Toledo and Cincinnati. Special prosecutor Frank Swacker says no real coal shortage and no warrant for high prices.
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New York
Chicago
Detroit
Toledo
Cincinnati
Frank Swacker
Department of Justice
Swacker
Egg Boycott Under Way In Kansas City
Kansas City Sunday reports the first twelve hours of an egg refr ain initiated by the Restaurant Men's Association to push egg price reductions. Some restaurant owners see a drop in egg sales while others note no change. Posters urge customers to refrain from eggs, with groceries meat markets and women's groups joining the campaign aimed to last a month or more.
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Kansas City
Mens’ Association
Restaurant Men's Association
Oklahoma Diet Squad Opens Cheap Food Trial
Eight Oklahoma City residents began a six day test under domestic science teacher Miss Lena Osborne to prove cheap foods can substitute expensive options. The first breakfast cost seven and a half cents per person and included canned peaches, salt cured hogs, fried gravy biscuits and coffee.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Lena Osborne
Deutschland returns to Weser after round trip
The German commercial submarine Deutschland arrived off Weser at noon marking the completion of its second round trip to the United States. It sailed from New London on November 21, completing a 19 day eastbound voyage with a cargo valued at about 2 million dollars and carrying official mail for Germany.
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Berlin
Sayville
Deutschland
United States
Weser
New London
Baltimore
Germany
Earning under three dollars daily cannot support a family
Florence Nesbitt, supervisor of Cook county pension funds for needy mothers, concludes in a new analysis that a man earning less than $3 a day cannot support a family of five in Chicago. She lists monthly bare necessities totaling about $77.50 including rent, food, fuel, clothing, car fare, health, and education.
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Chicago
Florence Nesbitt
Cook County Pension Fund
Radical submarine solution proposed by Britain
London officials said the government would cooperate with allies to pursue a very radical remedy to the submarine problem.
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London
Foreign Office Today
Great Britain
Senate weighs Japanese question over immigration amendment
Washington Dec 11 The Senate debated an amendment to exclude reference to the gentlemen's agreement with Japan from the immigration bill. Senator Works attacked the clause claiming it would leave the United States with only the agreement as protection and jeopardize future Japanese entry. Senator Lodge called the move awkward but said it left the country in no worse position overall.
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Washington, D. C
Senator Works
Senate Committee
United States
Japan
Senate
Works
State Department
Senator Lodge
Foreign Relations Committee
Armed Steamship Warned Near Porto Rico
A warning from a cruiser off Sandy Hook reports a heavily armed 4000-ton steamship with torpedo tubes sighted about 840 miles northeast of Porto Rico. The vessel is described as 350 feet long, 45 feet beam, with one broad funnel and two masts, likely high speed. Anticipate merchant-vessel caution and evasive actions per the warning.
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New York
Porto Rico
Sandy Hook
Many Men Seek Work in Chicago Unemployment Drive
More than 4000 applications have been received by the unemployment commission which seeks to place men aged 45 to 65. The 66 year limit has not deterred some older applicants from applying, with one man confessing he will be 41 in January and seeking a job.
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Chicago
Unemployment Commission
B. J. Rosenthal
Taft as Peace Advocate for Kansas State Tour
William H. Taft leader of the League to Enforce Peace will speak this week in St. Louis Kansas City and Topeka. The tour includes a Kansas stop at Lawrence where he will address Kansas State University students before a critic dinner in St. Louis. The Kansas committee plans to recruit over a hundred students to travel and speak across the state during the Christmas holidays.
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New York
William H. Taft
League
St. Louis
Kansas City
Topeka
Lawrence
Kan
Taft
Kansas State University
Kansas State
French Destroyer Yatagan Sunk in Collision
Berlin reports via Overseas News Agency that the French destroyer Yatagan has been sunk in a collision with a British transport, marking the fifth French destroyer lost in the war. The 307 ton ship, 187 feet long, built in 1900, carried one nine pound gun six three pounders and two torpedo tubes.
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Berlin
Yatagan
Owen Renews Fight on Corrupt Practices Bill
Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma re introduces his corrupt practices bill to cap national campaign committee expenditures at 400000 dollars. He warns no republic can endure when money dominates high legislative and executive power.
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Robert L. Owen
United States
Oklahoma
Senator Owen
War Department faces $25 million deficit in mobilization costs
Major General Sharpe told the House military committee the War Department faces a 25 million dollar deficit due to border mobilization expenses. He warned that keeping the National Guard at 75 000 strong through June would raise the shortfall to 50 million dollars.
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Washington, D. C
Sharpe
Army
House Military Committee
War Department
National Guard
Kearny Declines Candidacy for Re election
Commissioner Clinton H. Kearny announced he will not seek re election next spring. He returned from New York and, with White Caldwell, will supervise a 2.5 million dollar hydro electric plant in Toronto province Canada generating 25 000 horsepower for pulp mills.
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Clinton H. Kearney
New York
Brown
White Caldwell
San Antonio
Kearny
Toronto
Canada
San Antonio Gas & Electric Company
W. H. Weiss
Saloon Reform Prompts Rebuff to Busch Plan
In St Louis the Liquor Dealers Benevolent Association rejected August A Busch's proposal to eliminate bars and serve only beer and light wines at tables. They warned reform plans would curb prohibition arguments and urged tighter control to push Missouri toward dry status within eight years.
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ST. Louis
Liquor Dealers’ Benevolent Association
August A. Busch
Anheuser Busch Brewing Association
Busch
Missouri
Roumanian Defensive Line Likely Along Buzeu River Front
The Associated Press reports the Roumanians retreating from Bucharest may set a new defensive line along the Buzeu river in Moldavia. Romanian forces hold northeast advance toward Buzeu while facing Danube army pressure and Bulgarian contingents. Russians hammer Austro German lines in Moldavia as Serbians push Bulgarians near Monastir and Somme activity continues.
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Bucharest
Buzeu
Moldavia
Petrograd
Teutonic
Ploedhti
Danube
Wallachia
Tchernavoda
von Mackensen
Hilistria
Chernovoda
Moldavian
Hungary
Roumania
Macedonia
Monastir
Somme
Roumanians regain positions after Teutonic push
Petrograd reports Roumanians press back Teutons on the Ploechti front and regain positions after yesterday’s attack. Austro German forces attack Pomorzany near Lemberg but halt under Russian fire as war office confirms.
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Petrograd
London
Ploechti
War Office
Pomorzany
Lemberg
Galicia
Roumanian Losses in War Reported by Overseas News Agency
The Overseas News Agency critic states Roumania has lost about 112 000 men in prisoners since entering the war, plus roughly 400 000 in casualties. Teutonic victory shortens the front by over 340 miles, and gains about 20 000 square miles. German losses are said to be surprisingly small in comparison. The Russian north offensive is described as costly and largely futile.
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Berlin
Sayville
Roumania
Overseas News Agency
Today
Entente advance northeast of Monastir reported
Serbian official statement says on December 10 the allies conducted artillery and local infantry actions near Suhodol and drove the enemy back several hundred yards.
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Saloniki
London
Monastir
Suhodol
Artillery Duel Rages on Somme Front
Berlin reports intensified firing along the Somme with both sides trading heavy bombardments. Official German communique says artillery duels increased yesterday across the river banks and French positions including the Butte de Mesnil in Champagne are under attack.
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Sayville
Somme
Butte de Mesnil
Champagne
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