Christmas Trade in San Antonio Sets Prosperous Record
San Antonio merchants report a record Christmas with spending around 6 million dollars, up at least 25 percent from prior years. Strong demand for diamonds, jewelry, furniture, and automobiles, plus presence of Camp Wilson troops, fueled brisk sales and high prices for farm products.
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San Antonio
Camp Wilson
Indinehaemson
Simon Frank
Joske Bros. Company
A. H. Affleck
Stowers Furniture Company
Mr. Winerich
Max Goodman
Hertzberg Jewelry
Christmas Shopping Surges Before Sunday Feast
Shoppers flock to grocery stores as Christmas follows Sunday, prompting rushes for festive supplies and extra spreads. Clerks report busy aisles with high buying activity as families stock up for the holiday period.
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Santa Claus
Record Season In Chicago Brisk Christmas Buying
Chicago merchants report a wave of prosperity with heavier than ever Christmas buying in State Street stores. Gifts bought in greater quantities and at higher prices reflect a record surge in holiday demand across the city.
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Chicago
Christmas Mail Congestion Forces Rail Aid to Deliver
Postmaster General Burleson orders freight cars and extra handlers to speed mail as holiday volume rises 25 percent. Blizzard delays and car shortages slow trains from Buffalo to Chicago, with 5,000,000 pounds processed in the last three days as efforts aim to meet Monday morning delivery.
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Washington, D. C
Uncle Sam
Burleson
Santa Claus
Buffalo
St. Louis
Chicago
Chicago Postoffice
Christmas Payroll Heists Net $2500 in Chicago
Payroll band makes two robberies in Chicago on December 23 with about $2,500 in wages taken. One haul targeted Bambini Brothers & Co. tailors for 1360 dollars, the other 1050 dollars belonged to Booth Fisheries Company workers. Employers will reimburse workers and payrolls were promptly paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cricago
Bambini Brothers & Co
Booth Fisheries Company
Notorious Bandit Williams Fatally Shot Near Newport
F. B. Blackie Williams, a famed Middle West bandit and Arkansas prison escapee serving 15 years for attempted murder, was fatally shot in a late day clash near Newport. City Marshal Gus Martin and Constable Terry Gunn were slightly wounded. Williams had a long crime record including bank and train robberies and jail breaking.
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Little Rock
Ark
F. B
Blackie’ Williams
Middle West
Arkansas State Prison
Newport
Williams
Gus Martin
Terry Gunn
Weather Outlook for East and West Texas
East Texas expects cloudy skies Sunday and Monday with mild temperatures. West Texas likewise forecasts clouds on Sunday and Monday, suggesting a generally overcast period across the region.
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East Texas
West Texas
Forecasts by The Light City and region weather notes
Forecasts from The Light list temperatures for cities including St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York Washington and Boston. Conditions are mostly clear with varying winds and weekend highs ranging from the mid teens to mid forties across locales.
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T. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Boston
Villa Said To Have Control Of Torreon
Reports from El Paso say Villa now controls Torreon and began a Saltillo attack while Salazar was ordered toward Chihuahua. Carranza officials in Juarez deny Torreon’s fall and Saltillo bombardment. Torreon residents fled toward San Luis Potosi as Villa is alleged to make Torreon a central base.
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EL Paso
Tex
Francisco Villa
Torreon
Villa
Saltillo
Coahuila
Ynez Salazar
Chihuahua
Carranza
Juarez
San Luis Potosi
Sitillo
General Cass Denies Villa Seizure of Torreon
General Francisco Coss, a Constitutionalist leader, emphatically denied that Villa captured Torreon. He stated he left the city two days ago, reported strong defenses, and said Villa could not have entered Torreon in that interval. He met with T. R. Beltran, Mexican consul general in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francisco Coss
Huerta
Mexico
Saltillo
Villa
Torreon
Cass
Mexico City
T. R. Beltran
Murguia Seizes Juarez as Gonzales Is Ousted
General Jose Murguia with three trainloads of Carranza troops forcibly took command in Juarez from General Francisco Gonzales who faced charges of treason with Trevino. Gonzales agrees to field against Villa, possibly moving to join Trevino near Chihuahua City, as Carranza forces consolidate. The Juarez garrison and reinforcements bring total strength to about 1,500 men.
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EL. Paso
Tex
Carranza
Jose Murguia
Chihuahua
Juarez
Francisco Gonzales
Gonzales
Jacinto Trevino
Comaduran
el Paso
Francisco Murguia
Jose Murelia
Obregon
Villa
Trevino
Chihuahua City
Guadalupe
Zaragosa
Gorizales
Ten Doctors Face Federal Indictments Over Diploma Mill
Chicago December 23 ten physicians indicted in Cook county are to be indicted federally for fraudulent use of the mails. They allegedly operated a diploma mill selling medical diplomas to students who had not passed the state medical examination.
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Chicago
Cook County
Gardner Opposes Mann for Speaker in GOP Split
Representative A P Gardner of Massachusetts declares he will oppose Minority Leader James R Mann for speaker and will back Irvine L Lenroot of Wisconsin as the next Congress convenes. Gardner cites Manns support for Wilson peace notes as his reason and notes a Lafollette faction ally. Democrats hail the split as likely to empower Champ Clark for speaker and to block Republican control.
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Washington
House of Representatives
A. P. Gardner
Massachusetts
James R. Mann
House
Representative Gardner
Irvine L. Lenroot
Wisconsin
Lafollette
Representative Mann
Wilson
Mann
Lenroot
Gardner
Champ Clark
Overdue liner Voltaire still 未 heard as fears rise
The Tamport and Holt liner Voltaire, 1140 crew, fifteen days overdue since leaving Liverpool November 28, remains unseen. Line managers and officials hold to engine trouble or drift and warn ships to avoid potential German raider rumors while awaiting word. One third of the crew said to be American. no passengers aboard.
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New York
Holt
Maritime Exchange
Line
Atlantic
Cook
Adriatic
Liverpool
Stabbed store owner in Texas after ordering men from saloon to leave
W. A. Slocum, 45, proprietor of a Corpus Christi road grocery and beer saloon near San Antonio, was killed around 7 PM when four drunken Mexicans closed in after he ordered them to vacate. Sheriff Tobin and deputies pursued four men seen fleeing toward the river. Slocum’s wife and two children survive him. Body taken to Kiebe Undertaking parlors.
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W. A. Slocum
Corpus Christi Road
San Antonio
John W. Tobin
James Galbreath
George M. Millard
Pete Lujan
Terrell Wells
Tobin
Slocum
Kiebe
Adamson Presses Early Action On Anti-Strike Law
In Washington a coming clash over a federal anti-strike measure is anticipated as Representative Adamson seeks to push the bill in the House. President Wilson backs investigation before a strike and aims to attach the rider to interstate commerce legislation amid railroad labor opposition led by Gompers and the railway "Big Four."
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Washington, D. C
Dee
Congress
Wilson
Samuel Gompers
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
House
Adamson
Supreme Court
Georgia
Mr. Adamson
Newlands
New York
Brotherhood
Labor Organization
Gompers
Tulcea Port Seized by Mackensen’s Forces
Tulcea, a key Roumanian Danube port in Northern Dobruja near Ismail, was captured by Field Marshal von Mackensen’s troops in a daytime assault. The war office announced over 1,600 prisoners taken. A Danube crossing in this region is viewed as a pivotal next move.
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Berlin
Sayville
Tulcea
Danube
Dobrudja
von Mackensen
War Office
Ismail
Mackensen
Coal famine threatens Chicago as railroads aid distribution
Chicago and coal dealers unite to move every available coal car. Railway presidents pledge engines and crews, with losses feared if mines stall and blizzards hit. Richard Fitzgerald notes borrowing coal to keep factories running amid embargo on freight for coal handling.
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Chicago
Richard Fitzgerald
Chicago Junction Railway
Commonwealth Edison Company
Illinois
K. H. Rishton
Chicago & Northwestern Road
Campbell
Consumers’ Company
Liquor to be Sprinkled on Phoenix Streets
Phoenix will pour about one thousand gallons of contraband liquor onto city streets next Wednesday using municipal sprinklers. City Manager Craig gave permission for the sheriff to operate the water wagons to deter citizens from collecting the liquor. Deputy sheriffs will ride on the wagons to guard the operation.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Craig
Chinese Premier Vindicated In Impeachment Clash
Pekin dispatch reports Premier Tuan Chi-fui cleared of impeachment charges after strong support in parliament. Kuomintang radicals seek Japanese backing as the government faces continued political upheaval and a tense crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pekin
Tuan Chi-fui
Kuomingtang
Radical Party
Mary Garden Touring for Month in Chicago Run
Mary Garden arrived from Paris aboard the American liner Philadelphia and will go to Chicago for a one month engagement before returning to Paris. The famed soprano gave New York a quick look tonight during the voyage to the Midwest.
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Mary Garden
A. S
New York
Chicago
Paris
Philadelphia
West
President Wilson Memoir Highlights White House Turkey Gift
Joy spread among married White House staff as 125 fine turkeys were distributed today with the president's compliments and best wishes for a merry Christmas dinner. Secretarial and clerical staff household help and the guards were all remembered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Wilson
Washington, D. C
White House
Britain Urges German Reparation for War Sufferers
Arthur Henderson of Britain’s war council urged that peace could not be sought until Germany offered reparations to Belgium Serbia France and Poland. His speech before the Steel Smelters’ Association in London steadied stock markets in New York and other financial centers.
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Arthur Henderson
Great Britain
War Council of Five
Steel Smelters’ Association
London
England
Germany
Belgium
Serbia
France
Poland
Henderson
New York
New York Winter Military Training Camps Open
The Military Training Camps Association will run a winter course in New York under Major General Leonard Wood with 400 members enrolled and 1000 expected. Captain Ralph M. Parker leads the program aiming to prepare students for second lieutenancies, covering arms firing, field service regulations, administration, courts-martial, topography, and infantry drill regulations.
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New York
Military Training Camps Association
Leonard Wood
Ralph M. Parker
Second
United States Cavalry
Norwich University
Vermont
Governor's Island
Probe cost of bread spreads across Texas
United States Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice orders a flour price probe to explain high bread costs in Texas and across the region. Robert L. Barnes, local chief, says interviews with jobbers wholesalers and retailers will determine who is responsible. Results will be sent to Washington.
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San Antonio
Texas
United States Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Robert L. Barnes
Barnes
New Mexico
Arizona
Oklahoma
Washington
Six Weeks Away Land Banks to Finance Agriculture
The Federal Farm Loan Act system will be fully organized in six weeks with twelve bank districts and cities chosen. Initial loan applications exceed 100 million dollars as appraisers prepare to value farm lands under government supervision. Bonds appealing to small savers will fund the program and profits are planned to support surpluses and eventual stock retirement.
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Washington, D. C
Farmers’ Loan Board
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
United States
Trousseau
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Blackie” Williams
Arkansas
Milwaukee
General Coss
Murguia
Voltaire
House of Senate
Roumanian
N.Y
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