Germany’s Truth on Peace Terms Reveals Imperial Demands
The article asserts Germany would impose a liberal peace only on its own terms. It claims actual terms found in a trench document demand Belgian subordination under German control and colonization plans for Lithuania Livonia and Estonia. It also envisions a Germany made liberty of the seas shaping global shipping with vast tonnage allocations for allies and adversaries.
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Germany
Bourland
Lithuania
Livonia
Es Fthonia
Austria
Turkey
Itaria
America
Great Briin
France
Italy
Japan
Strause Found Guilty in Peoria Bank Killing Verdict
Edgar A. Strause former president of State Trust and Savings Bank of Peoria was found guilty of murdering Berne M. Mead. The jury fixed his punishment at 25 years in the penitentiary. The trial followed the December 23 1917 shooting when Strause said Mead attacked him over stock and self defense was claimed. The case tied prominent Peoria citizens to a bank dispute and feud.
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Edgar A. Strause
State Trust “and Savings Bank of Peoria
Berne M. Mead
Strause
Peoria
Bath
Mead
Illinois Commissions Designs For Centennial Half Dollar
Designs for a new Centennial half dollar are being considered by the Illinois Centennial Commission. One design will be chosen and sent to the Director of the Mint for official production, with 100000 coins planned as souvenirs. The bill was introduced in Congress by Rep Loren E Wheeler and supported in the Senate by James Hamilton Lewis and Lawrence Y Sherman.
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Hlineis
Congress
Ako
Tminois Centennial Commission
Mint
Renee Sentative
Loren E. Wheeler
Springfield
Senate
James Hamilton Lewis
Lawrence Y. Sherman
Lewis
Republic
America
Illinois
Lincoln
Germany’s Peace Terms Labeled False Tribute Claims
The piece argues against German postwar demands, labeling as fiction the idea that Germany seeks peace on liberal terms. It cites a 1,800,000 ton petroleum aid from Roumania and calls German “testimonials” of hundreds of billions in debt and territory concessions a misrepresentation. It rebukes those who claim Germany seeks fair peace.
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Germany
America
Bank Holdout Faces Gunfire Probe At Board Meet
The state says Strause refused to sell and Mead threatened to oust him at a board meeting. Strause allegedly shot his cashier to prevent removal. The trial stretched nearly five weeks with 400 talesmen questioned to seat a jury. Judge Robert Grier of Monmouth served as special trial judge to curb alleged favoritism.
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Strause
Mead
Robert Grier
Monmouth
Peoria Circuit
America Builds Salvage City in France Bath Parade for Soldiers
A new salvage base behind the front in France plans bath parades for battalions returning from trenches. Soldiers shed clothes, bathe, and emerge in clean dry garments while salvaged uniforms are laundered, de lauded, inspected, and repaired for reuse.
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Salvage-Corps
Uncle Sam
Bolshevik Takeover of Moscow Described by Waterbury
Ed win S Waterbury, Chicago’s first returning reporter from Russia since Kerensky fell, recounts seven days of intense fighting that killed five to six thousand in Moscow. He and twenty Americans were imprisoned in the National hotel as Bolshevik forces fired and sniped before the hotel was neutralized and raised with allied flags.
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Moscow
Edwin S. Waterbury
Chicago
Russia
Kerensky
Waterbury
National Hotel
Mr. Waterbury
Muskrat Acts Like Puppy Surprises Fox Lake Walker
A Fox Lake man A. M. Zimmermann strolling on ice observed a muskrat behave like a friendly puppy, jumping around his feet and then scampering off. Old trappers warn rats are savage and may bite, but this one seemed nonaggressive.
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A. M. Zimmermann
Fox Lake
Wis
Zimmermanne
Red Cross Seeks Details for Military Casualties
The American Red Cross sets up a Paris based bureau to relay casualty details to relatives. William R. Castle Jr. leads the bureau aiding communications with families through personal letters and reports on wounded and missing soldiers. An international team gathers information from hospitals, troops, and comrades to refine official notices.
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American Red Cross
National Headquarters
Bureau of Communication
William R. Castle, Jr
Harvard College
Harvard Graduates
Statistical Division
The
War Department
Paris
E. Gerry Chadwick
New York
Robert Davis
Englewood
N. J
New York Landlady Bans Parlor Spongernot and Gas Rules
A New York landlady forbids spooning in her boarding house parlor calling it a cabaret like space and promising fuel savings. A cigar-store owner denied permission for candles complains of no light and is told to use lightning bugs. Monday rule forces hot dogs from kennels to stay cold and gas use to keep free lunches warm in saloons is forbidden.
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New York
Captain at 22 Years Youngest Camp Sherman Commander
Captain Klingler, aged twenty two, is named the youngest captain at Camp Sherman. Commissioned at twenty one, he celebrated his twenty second birthday last August. He commands Jefferson county boys in Company K of the 332nd Infantry, with 80 percent of his men older in years, yet they all respect his youthful title.
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R. R. Klingler
Camp Sherman
Klingler
Kliingler
Jefferson County
Chicago Otto and Peoria Ry Timetables Eastbound and Westbound
Eastbound trains from Spring Valley to Peru LaSalle Utica Starved Rock Ottawa Grand Ridge Streamwood Rockdale Joliet and more with listed times and intermediate stops. Westbound services to Ladd and cities Marquette Howe DePue Bureau and Princeton with daily except Sunday service and fare details. Tickets encouraged to save money.
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Peru
LaSalle
Utica
Starowed Rock
Ottawa
Grand Ridge
Streamor
Marseilles
Seneca
Morris
Minooka
Rockdale
Joliet
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