Republicans Endevor 1 End Discord Reform Plan Debated
Washington December 16 Two proposals for reorganizing the Republican party to unite discordant elements faced the national committee. One calls a special national convention to readjust delegate representation the other would fix a reapportionment plan for ratification by state conventions. Committee members Warren Borah Hadley Smoot and Powell discuss the options and the aim to prevent further factional splits.
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Washington, D. C
Republican National Committee
National Committee
Charles B. Warren
Michigan
Law Committee
Warren
Borah
Idaho
Hadley
Missouri
Louisiana
Smoot
Utah
Powell
Nebraska
Chicago
Progressive Republicans
Republican Party
Robert M. Marsh
New York Young Republican Club
Progressives Call Out Republican Reform Move
Progressives in the House adopted a resolution expressing interest in the deathbed repentance of Republican leaders for sins of the late national convention and their hypocritical offer of reform in representation at future conventions. They argue reform does not touch the core issues.
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Washington, D. C
House
Weather outlook for San Antonio area unsettled period
For San Antonio and vicinity: Unsettled Tuesday night and Wednesday with probable showers and warmer Tuesday night, according to local forecast.
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San Antonio
Weather for Tourists Across Major Cities at 8 A.M.
Observations at 8 a.m. report temperatures from 28 to 38 degrees with winds from the southwest to northwest. St Louis 36 clear eight miles. Chicago 38 partly cloudy with southeast wind. Milwaukee 32 clear. St Paul 28 clear. Kansas City 38 cloudy. New York 36 cloudy. Boston 38 cloudy. Washington 34 partly cloudy with increasing Wednesday cloudiness.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
Progressive and Republican parties push direct presidential primaries
The article notes a shift toward direct popular vote for presidential nominees, signaling acceptance of President Wilson's endorsement of direct primaries and pledging support to his favored Progressive approach.
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Wilson
Progressive plans general campaign in Illinois
Chicago December 16 Progressives from most Illinois counties meet to map the 1914 elections. They back nominating a U S Senate candidate and vow not to fuse with old parties. Ray mond Robins urges thorough county by county organization and criticizes both major parties for failed tariff promises and high living costs.
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Chicago
Progressive Party
Illinois
United States Senate
Raymond Robins
State Central Committee
United States
A. J. Beveridge
Indiana
Beveridge
Robins
Mr. Robins
Rain Lingers Across Northwest Texas Says Weather Chief
Major Allen Buell of the local weather bureau warns of continued cloudy drizzly weather for about 24 hours with a cooler change expected in Northwest Texas on Wednesday. Moisture from southward currents keeps showers, but no heavy rains are reported. areas like Corpus Christi and Laredo note rain.
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Allen Buell
Weather Bureau
Texas
Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company
Corpus Christi
Laredo
Public Christmas Tree Planned in Lafayette Square
NEW ORLEANS La Dec 16 Mayor Martin Behrman and city electricians with Kingsley House arrange a public Christmas tree lighting in Lafayette Square on Christmas Eve. French Opera principals and chorus will sing carols for the lonely poor and lonely rich community members.
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New Orleans
Martin Behrman
Electricians
Kingsley House
Lafayette Square
French Opera and
Army Benefits From Texas City Maneuver Camp
The annual report of Major General William H. Carter highlights the Second division’s ten month encampment at Galveston and Texas City. Troops underwent progressive training from company to division, including road marches, field firing, troop exercises, and bay swimming qualification.
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Washington, D. C
William H. Carter
Galveston
Texas City
Carter
War Department
Court considers state power over safe deposit inheritances
The Illinois Supreme Court weighed whether states may tax safe deposit assets held for heirs. The National Safe Deposit Co of Chicago argues Illinois tax rules restricting box content disclosure violate contracts. The state says timely knowledge of a deceased patron’s deposit is essential to estate interests.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Illinois
National Safe Deposit Company of Chicago
Fire kills city fireman mother and sister in Amsterdam Ave building
A five story apartment blaze at 366 Amsterdam Avenue in New York traps residents and blocks exits. Fireman Thomas J. McManus, his mother, and sister die. seven others injured during rapid rescue attempts from third and fourth floor windows aboard a storm of flames and smoke. Michael O’Sullivan, aiding the rescue, is likely fatally injured after a fall from a ladder.
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New York
Amsterdam Avenue
Thomas J. McManus
Michael O'Sullivan
McManus
Shoop Asked to Resign as Chicago School Superintendent
A committee of Chicago club women from the Chicago Women's Club Chicago Teachers' Federation Political Equality League and others will ask John D Shoop to resign so Mrs Ella Flagg Young may be re appointed. Shoop will meet the delegation at a suitable time.
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Chicago
John D. Shoop
Ella Flagg Young
Chicago Club
Young
Chicago Women’s Club
Chicago Teachers’ Federation
The
Political Equality League
Shoop
Kansas City Cafes Must Close at New Year
Kansas City police commissioner Reynolds announced that all cafes must close at 1 o clock New Year s morning. Patrons had previously been allowed to order drinks until that hour and stay until their liquor was consumed.
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Kansas City
CG. Reynolds
Currency Bill Debate Highlights Senate Test on Owen Plan
Senator Reed defends the Owen plan as the Senate weighs an administration currency reform. Root attacks the measure while Hitchcock backs a nine-member board. The 40 to 35 tabling of Hitchcock's substitute signals likely adoption of a regional-bank system with stock owned by national banks.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Bristow
Walsh
Hitchcock
Federal Board
Secretary of the Treasury
Reed
Root
Bryan
New York
Women Police Urged New York Appointment Debate
Miss Maude Miner of the New York Probation Society urges New York to appoint ten policewomen to handle abduction cases and tracing runaway girls. She argues women with police power would gain girls confidence and improve investigations.
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New York
Miners Entombed After Explosive Blast at Vulcan Mine
An explosion at the Vulcan mine of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company near Newcastle Colorado entombed foreman L L Crawford fire boss L Walters and at least 30 miners. Officials fear the number could rise to about 40 with eight believed to be foreigners. Exclusive LEASED WIRE DAY AP report notes the daily 20000 word dispatch.
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Newcastle
Colo
Vulcan
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company
L. L. Crawford
L. Walters
A L Huth Dies of Typhoid at 26 in San Antonio
Alvin Lorraine Huth aged 26 brother of County Tax Assessor Albert V Huth died Tuesday afternoon at 1 at his home 101 West Florida street from typhoid contracted after Thanksgiving He leaves a widow a two month old son Robert his mother three brothers and three sisters Funeral plans were to be held Wednesday at 10 am Huth born in San Antonio February 15 1888 grew up here and was deputy county tax assessor and collector and later did the scholastic census and worked for Bexar Abstract Company.
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Alvin Lorraine Huth
Albert V. Huth
West
Florida Street
Robert
Adolph Huth
Louis Huth
M. Ransom
Edna E. Huth
Edith Hut
Katherine S. Smith
San Antonio
Bexar Abstract Company
Explanations From Carabao Officers On Dinner Satire
Officers of the Order of Carabao assured administration officials today they showed no hostility to President Wilsons Philippine policy during a dinner last week. Rear Admiral Howard repudiated a press agent's advance stories misrepresenting the event. Brigadier Generals Aleshire McIntyre and Admiral Howard met Secretary Garrison and said they would provide a report on the banquet.
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Washington, D. C
Order of Carabao
Wilson
Howard
Order
Aleshire
McIntyre
Garrison
Wilson Meets Cabinet After Illness At White House
President Wilson, recovering from grippe, met his cabinet not in the usual offices but in the White House upper rooms. Dr Grayson ordered the temperature kept even, with no urgent business on the agenda. The study chosen recalled Lincoln era cabinet meetings.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Grippe
White House
Grayson
Lincoln
Secretary Daniels Rules Water May Be Used In Naval Launches
Secretary Daniels ruled he has no jurisdiction over the fluid used to christen battleships. Protests over champagne at the launching of the battleship Oklahoma prompted suggestions of a water bottle or a white dove release. Daniels stated shipbuilders control launchings and that he has no doves wines or champagne.
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Washington, D. C
Daniels
Oklahoma
Municipal Christmas Tree Lit in Madison Square
The municipal Christmas tree for five million New Yorkers is set up in Madison Square New York. Electricians are trimming the tree as delegations from city choral societies prepare to sing on Christmas Eve beneath its twinkling branches.
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New York
Madison Square
Church Fire Damages St Anne's in Liverpool Protest
Suffragette arsonists caused extensive damage to St Anne's Church in Liverpool. South side stalls and the organ suffered serious harm while suffrage literature lay scattered, signaling a protest against government treatment of Mrs Pankhurst.
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Liverpool
St. Anne’s
Gray Arrives to Advise on San Antonio Drainage Work
Samuel M. Gray arrives from New York to advise on sewer and storm drainage for San Antonio. City officials including Mayor Brown, City Engineer Hans Helland, paving expert C D Pollock and others plan immediate paving while Gray surveys flood risks and tours the Olmos basin with a view to a special river report.
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Samuel M. Gray
New York
Brown
Mr. Gray
C. D. Pollock
Hans Helland
South Heights
South Presa Street
Southern Pacific
San Antonio
Gray
Hell
Olmos
Menger
Mayor Brown
Two Williams Brothers Lynched After Confession in Blanchard
In Blanchard Louisiana two men Ernest Williams and Frank Williams were hanged by a mob after confessing their role in the killing of Calvin Ballard a white man. Ballard who had recently been released from a Louisiana penitentiary after killing three black prisoners opened fire with a shotgun during the raid wounding several others.
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Shreveport
Ernest
Frank Williams
Blanchard
Calvin Ballard
Ballard
Louisiana Penitentiary
Mob hangs Cleve Culbertson after conviction in North Dakota
Cleve Culbertson, convicted of murdering three members of the Dillon family at Ray, North Dakota, was taken from the Williams county jail by a mob and hanged from a bridge near Williston. The incident occurred on December 16 as an extrajudicial punishment.
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Lnebiog
North Dakota
Williston
N. D
Cleve Culbertson
Dillon
Ray
William County
Egg boycott ends in Kansas City as prices fall
Kansas City women’s groups lift a ten day egg boycott as storage eggs drop from 40 to 30 34 cents a dozen. Fresh eggs sell at 36 to 38 cents while commission men credit milder weather and rivals for the price drop. Mrs W Q Church notes continued action if prices rise again.
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Kansas City
London Realty Deal Biggest On Record
The sale of the Duke of Bedford's nineteen acre Covent Garden freehold to Harry Mallaby-Deeley, a Unionist MP, marks the largest private real estate deal on record. The price, kept undisclosed, reportedly exceeds the previous record by several million pounds and covers theatres, hotels, Covent Garden market, Bow Street police court, the National Sporting Club, and other major properties.
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London
Duke of Bedford
Covent Garden
Harry Mallaby-Deeley
House of Commons
Stretces
Kingswey
St. Martins Lane
Trafalgar Square
Longacre
Strand
Royal Opera
Drury Lane
the Aldwynch
The
Lyceum Theatres
Covent Garden Market
Bowstret Police Court
National Sporting Club
Bond Sale Bid Cut to Three Fourths of One Percent
Farson, Son & Company lowered its bid for selling the county’s $1,000,000 bond issue to three fourths of one percent, the lowest bid yet. Judge Davis aims to complete the record by Saturday and forward it to Dillon Thompson & Clay for validity review, then to the attorney general for approval. Upon approval, bids may be sought and proceeds used to repair roads and build concrete bridges.
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Farson, Son & Company
New York City
Davis
Dillon, Thompson & Clay
Fire at Salvation Army Home Kills Five in Cincinnati
Five men are known dead in a Cincinnati blaze at the Salvation Army Home for Men with arson suspected. Eight people are in serious condition as search continues. the fire may have destroyed about 150 beds, with 45 occupied by staff. One victim identified is Arthur Sandell of Bangor Maine. A man named Frank Meyers, posing as a circus rider from Arizona, faces arson charges. Several other bodies are feared to remain in the ruins.
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Cincinnati
Salvation Army
Arthur Sandell
Bangor
Frank Meyers
Arizona
France Accepts Greek Island Settlement in Balkans
The French foreign office told ambassador Cambon in Berlin that France agrees to Greece keeping nine of eleven islands occupied in the Balkans war. Tenedos and Imbros to be returned to Turkey. Italy should return eleven Tripoli islands to Turkey.
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Paris
Jules Cambon
Berlin
France
Greece
Tenedos
Imbros
Turkey
Italy
Tripoli
Famous Scout Archibald Rowand Dies at 65
Archibald H. Rowand longtime Jesse Scout of General Sheridan died in Pittsburg Pennsylvania at age 65. He earned the congressional Medal of Honor for daring Shenandoah valley actions begun at age 17 and served under Averill Milroy Hunter and Sheridan. Three Jesse scouts survive him.
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Pittsburg
Archibald H. Rowand
Philip H. Sheridan
Jesse
Sheridan
Shenandoah Valley
Averill
Milroy
Hunter
Spaniards Get Protection as United States Intervenes
Secretary Bryan says US has not recognized Carranza and has simply pressed the military authorities to protect foreigners. He notes Spanish subjects receive the same protection as other foreigners and cites previous cases with Windham and Dunne. Navy reports Ohio delayed for smallpox and Michigan to stay in Mexican waters. Tampico conditions improving after water supply restored.
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Washington, D. C
Gen Villa
Clether
Hermosillo
Carranza
United States
Chihuahua
State Department
le Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Mexico City
Bryan
Messrs
Windham
Dunne
Tepic
Mexico
Ohio
Becaus
Michigan
Mexican
Navy Department
Fletcher
Tampico
Cecille
Sumner
Ward
Attack May Be Renewed At Tampico
News from Matamoros reports the Constitutionalist retreat from Tampico after 72 hours of fighting aimed at luring Federal forces away from the city. Gunboat fire from Bravo Zaragosa and Vera Cruz inflicted little damage on about 5500 Constitutionalist troops led by Generals Murgia Villarreal and J Augustin Castro, with General Pablo Gonzales en route to join them.
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Brownsville
Tex
Tampico
Matamoros
Victoria
Bravo
Zaragosa
Vera Crus
Murgia, Villarreal
J. Augustin Castro
Pablo Gonzales
Villa May Change Attitude Toward Foreigners in Juarez
Juarez leaders hope General Francisco Villa will adopt a milder stance toward foreigners. General Benavides, left in command, believes Villa acted against Spaniards seen as aiding Huerta. Raoul Madero, son of the late president, serves as chief of staff to a civic advisor amid ongoing political tensions.
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Juarez
Mexico
Francisco Villa
Benavides
Villa
Chihuahua
Huerta
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