Bad conditions at Brest reported for 70,000 troops
Secretary Baker ordered Major General Harbord to personally inspect the Brest embarkation camp after charges of wretchedness and misery. He said his visit found conditions satisfactory on his prior trip, but reports claimed troops endured meager rations from garbage cans, coffee from ash receptacles, inadequate shelter, and knee deep mud while performing tasks beyond their strength.
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Brest
Har
Baker
Europe
Harbord
Service of Supply
Treasury to Issue Long Term War Savings Securities
The Treasury plans to issue long term securities redeemable for War Savings stamps and certificates and to continue the war savings system beyond 1919. War Savings certificates of 100 and 1000 dollars will be offered to bypass adhesive stamps. Details of conversion securities are being worked out, with terms likely exceeding five years and interest yet to be set. Intensive war savings organization will drive the 1919 campaign.
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Washington, Jan. i
Treasury
Lewis B. Franklin
War Loan Organization
The
War Savings Societies
Troop Train Wreck in Canada Kills Three Soldiers
Three soldiers are reported killed and 75 injured when a troop train from Halifax to Toronto wrecked at Clair siding in Quebec amid a heavy snowstorm. The accident occurred yesterday afternoon on the Trans-Continental Railway between Edmundston New Brunswick and Monk Quebec. Eleven coaches left the rails and one turned over as hospital trains with medical staff were rushed to Clair siding.
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Canada
Quebec
Halifax
Toronto
Clair Siding
Edmundston
N. B
Monk, Que
Little Black Book Records Divorce Suits in NYC County Court
In New York County Court House the “little black book” records divorce suits ending 1918 with 886 filings, down from 949 in 1917 and 921 in 1916. County Clerk Schneider cites the war as causing couples to reevaluate their marriages.
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New York County Court House
New York
Schneider
Asquith Defeated in Election May Sit in Parliament
Washington Star reports Herbert H. Asquith, former British premier, defeated in recent elections, may still gain a seat in Parliament. A dispatch suggests a method via a resigning follower, as Parliament convenes.
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Asquith
Herbert H. Asquith
Great Britain
Campaign to promote Crowder to lieutenant general
A Washington movement backs Provost-Marshal General Crowder for lieutenant general or full general. Republicans largely favor the promotion while some Democrats oppose, alleging he harbors extreme ambitions and maintains a political machine tied to his duties.
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Washington
Crowder
Baker Delivers New Year Message to Army Camps
Secretary Baker sends a New Year greeting to all army camps at home and overseas. He notes 1918 showed America’s capability and 1919 will show what America is. Demobilization proceeds with patience and orderly steps, some units leaving quickly, others later for real reasons. He urges continued pride in the army of victorious democracy and dignity in transition to peace.
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Washington
Baker
America
Twichell Becomes Hartford Clergyman With Twain Ties
Rev. Joseph H. Twichell of Hartford dies aged elder statesman of his church after a 50 year pastorate. He shared in Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad and was a close friend though philosophically apart. Twain’s atheism and quarrels, wife’s shift, and Twichell’s belief in God frame a final contrast as both now rest in peace and truth.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Joseph H. Twichell
Hartford
Mark Twain
Humorist
Jesus Christ
China
Twain
Twichell
Bottled spirits boom as prohibition nears
Wall Street Journal reports nationwide surge in bottled spirits purchases as people fear a coming ban. Rich buyers stockpile large quantities while medicinal users load up as well. A financier’s steam yacht leaked early in December and was seized in South Carolina with hundreds of cases of liquor destined for a Florida estate.
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Wall Street Journal
South Carolina
Florida
Epidemic costs mount for life insurance firms
New York actuaries estimate epidemic deaths through pneumonia could top 500,000 by January 1, with insurance losses around 112 million dollars on 1917 in force and potential rises toward 125 million by year end. In twelve weeks through December 14, 102,357 influenza pneumonia deaths occurred in 46 cities.
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Boston News Bureau
New York
Census Bureau
Actuaries
Metropolitan
Courant Suggests Presidential Ticket Choices
The Hartford Courant offers unsolicited advice to Democratic managers naming Harry A. Garfield for president with George Creel for vice president, or vice versa, noting Burleson may be unwanted by many who voted on this ticket.
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Hartford Courant
Courant
Harry A. Garfield
George Creel
Burleson
Death of Hobart A. H. Baker Heroic Aviator Remembered
The tribute to Captain Hobart A. H. Baker honors his stout heart both as Princeton athlete and as an American airman at Ypres and St Michel. The article lauds American aviators for their pure gameness to fly in planes that could be unfit, and asserts Baker’s deeds embody enduring courage and conduct.
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Hobey” Baker
Tribune
Hobart A. H. Baker
Princeton
Ypres
St. Michel
Hobey’s Baker
William the Coward and the Hohenzollern Flight
The Stars and Stripes portrays the self-styled war lord as exposed in a flight over the Dutch border. It condemns his boasts of discipline and lineage from Frederick the Great, noting old Fritz’s likely scorn for his descendant and the unforgivable military failure implied.
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Attila
Frederick the Great
Fritz
Elysian Fields
Cromwell Opens Night School for Non English Speakers
A night school for non English speaking people will open next Monday January 6 in the upper room of the library building.
We're Getting Ready to Fight
Kansas City Star reports war correspondent Edwin L. James predicting the U.S. army will field modern artillery ranking third globally once home. He notes nearly all American guns failed to reach the front in France, except one regiment with 24 4 7s, as he explains the wartime supply gaps.
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Kansas City
Edwin L. James
United States
Mr. James
France
James
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