About Finnish Crop Failure Causing Broad Hardship
Finland faces its worst crop failure in fifty years due to rain and frost. One fifth of parishes nearly destitute with bread made from husks and straw. relief funds and public works planned. Thousands of Finns emigrate seeking food and work as famine relief efforts mobilize.
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ST. Petersburg
Finland
Uleaborg
Kuopio
Vasa
St. Michel
Viborg
The
Agricultural Board
Russia
Uiax Nm
Senate
Citi
Penn Nace
Pastor Kilburn
Hango
Bothnia
Sweden
Russian plan to feed semi starved population amid crop failures
Petersburg reports the Russian government has drawn up a comprehensive plan to relieve widespread distress in European Russia and parts of Siberia. Funds already spent on relief will be followed by further sums to support the populace and enable spring farming.
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Petersburg
European
Russia
Siberia
Berlin trade news shows steady markets and growing exports
In Berlin the past week, bourse activity remained steady despite the Venezuelan situation. Money was abundant with carry 5 percent and call money 2 percent. Foreign exchange fell while domestic loans held firm. European crop estimates show a drop, and German rail receipts rose by 1,062,700 dollars vs last year. German foreign trade for eleven months reached 40,044,216 tons, with iron and manufactured goods exports up 855,707 tons.
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Berlin
New York
International Association of Sugar Statistics
Germany
Stock Exchange Ends Week With Cheerful Tone in London
London dispatch reports a cheerful stock market close with broad gains among American securities after an unsettled start to the week. Investors showed renewed confidence as prices firmed across major listings and trading activity picked up.
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London
Stock Exchange
Pease firm assigns assets amid family ties in London debt
The private banking house J. & J. W. Pease of Darlington has executed a deed of assignment for creditors with liabilities around 2.5 million. The move affects many Pease family members and close associates, with two MPs from Durham and Essex and A. E. Pease of Yorkshire as partners. Some friends have offered aid to arrange a settlement plan.
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London
J. W. Pease
Darlington
Pease
House of Commons
Durham
Essex
A. E. Pease
Yorkshire
Roosevelt Seen Likely to Arbiter Venezuelan Dispute
London reports indicate Roosevelt may accept arbitration of the Venezuelan crisis. Secret diplomacy continues with steady cable traffic between London and Washington as officials weigh U S willingness to assume responsibility and potential pacific settlement mechanisms.
Saved a Shipwrecked Crew in London Steamer North Point
The British steamer North Point under Captain Drake, which departed Philadelphia on December 3, reached London by December 21. Report continues on page 2 column 2.
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London
North Point
Drake
Philadelphia
Roosevelt tribute frames peace talk by Golden Rule Jones
Chicago news reports Samuel M. Jones Toledo mayor told the Chicago Peace Society that Theodore Roosevelt as a man outshines the government he leads and urged nonviolence in labor disputes. Jones urged against forcing war to back commerce and criticized General Young. Other speakers included Francis J. Barry Stolz and Jenkin Lloyd Jones.
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Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Roosevelt
Samuel M
Golden Rule
Jones
Pennsylvania
Young
Cleveland
Francis J. Barry
Joseph Stolz
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Plague Alarm in Mazatlan Heightens Quarantine
Mexican health officials report a deadly plague outbreak in Mazatlan with nineteen deaths. A commission led by Gonzales Fabala studies the disease in Mazatlan and San Francisco experts weigh in on bubonic symptoms. The government imposes strict controls to prevent spread. Mazatlan remains quarantined and interior access is limited. A separate bill approves 250000 dollars for sanitation in Vera and public buildings.
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Mexico City
Superior Board of Health
Mazatlan
Gonzales Fabala
San Francisco
Nations Propose Venezuelan Arbitration Details Revealed
Berlin reports Germany and Britain have drafted identical arbitration replies on the Venezuelan crisis. The British and German texts will be delivered to Ambassador Tower and Charge d Affaires White in London, with no separate German reservations. Rome notes allies are not yet considering referring the dispute to The Hague. King Victor Emmanuel and Prinetti reviewed the energy conference and welcomed the peaceful development. Prinetti informed Ambassador Meyer of Italy’s participation in the Venezuela blockade.
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Berlin
Germany
Great Britain
Ambassador Tower
White
London
Associated Press
Rome
Hague
Victor Emanuel
Prinetti
Signor Prinetti
Meyer
Italy
Venezuela
Venezuela Accepts Arbiter Appointment In Castro Sign
Caracas reports President Castro has signified acceptance of the appointment of a panel to arbitrate the Venezuelan difficulty. The move signals a formal step toward resolving the crisis through mediation.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Castro
Pane
Blockade Effects Hit Port Workers as Vessels Move
Enforcing the blockade at Laguayra reports a sloop captured from the east. The British cruiser Tribune sails for Port of Spain with the Mercedes in tow. German training ship Stosch ferries Mme Von Pilgrim Bal tazzi to Curacao. Troude's commander visits the French legation in Caracas. Troude departs tonight. The blockade drives layoffs. harbor firms dismiss over 500 workers.
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Laguayra
Giovanni Bausan
Tribune
Spain
Trinidad
Mercedes
Stosch
Mme. von Pilgrim-Baltazzi
Curacao
Gazelle
Troude
M. Quivereux
Caracas
Labor Commissioners Meet To Decide Next National Statistics Meeting
In Washington Cleveland December 21 labor commissioners W A L Johnson Topeka T A Smith Baltimore J M Clark Harrisburg and David Ross Springfield met and agreed to hold the next annual National Bureau of Labor Statistics meeting at a northern city. The panel also discussed taxation of the convention.
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Cleveland
W. A. L. Johnson
Topeka
Kan
T. A. Smith
Baltimore
J. M. Clark
Harrisburg
David Ross
Springfield
Naos Bureau of Industrial Statistics
Xelena A Sain Moan Sand Sty
Scruggs Sees Germany Harboring Venezuela Crisis Motives
Col William L Scruggs formerly US minister to Venezuela and Venezuelan boundary representative says Germany aims to test the Monroe doctrine by pushing the US to modify it or assume responsibility for actions of states under protection. He cites England’s debt collection as sincere but notes other objectives at play and asserts the Monroe Doctrine remains unaffected for now.
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Atlanta
William L. Scruggs
Scruggs
United States
Venezuela
Harrison
Great Britain
Germany
England
United States as Arbiter in South American Settlement
Colonel Scruggs argues that any equitable settlement with European powers over South America will force the United States to choose between abandoning or heavily modifying the Monroe doctrine or assuming suzerainty over South American republics. He warns that growing populations will push Europe to seek gain through subjects rather than territory. The speaker stressed the difficulty of avoiding eventual American involvement.
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United States
America
Scruggs
Marconi Solves Wireless Transoceanic Link
Halifax report states Marconi announced successful wireless transmission from Canada to England after eight secret experiments. Messages were sent from Cape Breton to Cornwall and on to Britain and Italy with tests aboard ships and in Sydney harbor. London Times confirms receipt via Grace Bay to Poldhu with the inventor’s greeting message.
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Halifax
Upper Canada College
Rhodes Scholarships
Marconi
Newfoundland
Signalhill
Cornwall
Philadelphia
America
Carlo Alberto
Sydney Harbor
Table Head
Canada
London
London Times
Cape Breton
Nova Scotia
Times
Grace Bay
Poldhu
Signor Marconi
England
Italy
Knoxville Fire Devours Heart of City Without Mercy
A massive blaze in Knoxville Tennessee began at the knitting mill on Commerce Avenue and rapidly spread to multiple four and five story blocks. By 3:20 the loss neared a million dollars with estimates growing. five thousand onlookers watched as firemen fought back amid exploding cartridges and advancing flames.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Knoxville
Commerce Avenue
Broyles, Lacky & Co
McTeer, Hood & Co
Gay Street
Commerce and
Wall Avenues
George Brown
Chattanooga
Commerce
George Brown Hardware Company
Davies Furniture Company
Claiborne, Tate & Cowan Clothg Company
R. H. Gate & Co
Shanklin Grain Co and Merchants’ Transfer Company
Haynes, Henson & Co
Gay
Brown Hardware Company
Brown
Former Secretary of State Griffin Dies in Hammond
Charles F. Griffin longtime Indiana lawyer and former secretary of state died at his Hammond home after cerebral meningitis. Funeral Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church with burial in Crown Point. Griffin born June 10 1857 in Henry County educated locally, practiced law in Crown Point then Hammond, active Republican, led Sons of Veterans, and served in militia. He married Edith Burhans in 1880 and had two children.
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Indianapolis Journal
Hammond
Ind
Charles F. Griffin
First Presbyterian Church
Griffin Long
Crown Point
Charles Fremont Griffin
Henry County
Indiana
Quaker Academy
Spiceland
Walter Olds
Indiana Supreme Court
Griffin
Indianapolis
Republican Party
Blaine
Harrison
Chicago
Minneapolis
Sons of Veterans
Presbyterian Church
James Aount
Edith Burhans
Lowell
Wealthy farmer Boylston Whitney dies in Muncie scene
In Muncie Indiana on December 21 Boylston Whitney a 67 year old wealthy retired farmer died suddenly at his home after an afternoon of visiting and a hearty supper. He was a large landowner and prominent county figure survived by a widow, four sons and one daughter. In Evansville Indiana on December 21 Joseph Givens aged 63 died today. A former Morganfield Kentucky merchant his body will be sent there for burial.
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Muncie
Ind
Morganfield
Indianapolis
Union Station
East Street
Kentucky Avenue
Meridian Street
Bookwalter
New York
George R. Sheldon
J. Pierpont Morgan House
Morgan
Mr. Sheldon
Waldorf-Astoria
Exce
Morgan & Co
Welaes
Apadelphia
Baltimore
Charles F. Griffin
Hammond
James McCrea
Union Railway Company
McCrea
Union Tracks
Louisiana Street
South Street
Capitol Avenue
Washington Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Aechusetts Avenue
Malott Avenue
Tenth Street
Big Four
Wood
Lake Erie
Monon
Deaths in Baltimore and San Francisco Honor Notable Officials
The Very Rev Dr Alphonse Magnien president emeritus of St Marys Seminary Baltimore died today of kidney and heart disease aged 65. Capt Daniel P McCartney retired naval officer died in Washington from pneumonia at his residence. Isaiah Lees age 72 former captain of detectives and former chief of San Francisco police died in San Francisco.
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Baltimore
Alphonse L. Magnien
St. Mary’s Seminary
Magnien
Mende
France
Orleans
la Chappelle
John Paul Dubreul
Washington
Daniel P. McCartney
Navy
San Francisco
Isaiah Lees
Widow Ida Davies Green Dies of Blood Poisoning in Janesville
Mrs. Ida Davies Green widow of the late Lieutenant Green U S N died in Janesville this afternoon from blood poisoning. In Washington the same bulletin notes the death of Patrick O Farrell a lawyer in the city tonight aged and unspecified.
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Janesville
Wis
Ida Davies Green
Lieutenant Green
Rio Janeiro
Washington
Patrick
Farrell
Notables Gather for Grant Tomb Service and News of 19th Century Figures
Charles T Neale, a pioneer in western Pennsylvania iron, dies at seventy in Pittsburg after a life dating to 1838. In New York, grand memorials for General and Mrs. Grant include officials like Odell and Elihu Root. services in Riverside Drive mausoleum feature hymns and readings. Also noted: funeral for General Wager Swayne at St Bartholomew's with delegates from Loyal Legion and others, body to Arlington after services in Washington.
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New York
Riverside Drive
Ulysses
Andrew Carnegie
Army
Navy
Frederick D. Grant
E. Wu. Andrews
Methodist Episcopal Church
Alexander Mackay E. Smith
Pennsylvania
Methodist Episcopal
Protestant Episcopal
Grant
Wager Swayne
St. Bartholomew's Church
David H. Greer
Andrew H. Smith
Robert W. Tyler
J. H. Browning
Edward Patterson
QO. O. Howard
Henry L. Burnett
Chauncey M. Depew
Grenville M
Washington Express
Washington
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Arlington
Porto Rico Education Gains Under American Rule
The year end report by Education Commissioner Samuel McCune Lindsay notes 874 schools, 40 993 pupils and 23 teachers in Porto Rico, with 19 percent more schools and 21 percent more enrollment. Total public and high school students reach 61 863, about 19 percent of the island’s youths, reflecting doubled educational advantages under American civil governance.
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Washington
Porto Rico
Samuel McCune Lindsay
United States
Oil Vessel Destroyed Off Massachusetts Coast
A large oil laden vessel, possibly a tank steamer, burned in Massachusetts Bay about 20 miles from Boston. Life Savers could not reach her amid a southeast gale. Fishermen and Boston ships reported sighting the burning ship, but its identity and the crew fate remained unknown.
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Gloucester
Mass
Massachusetts Bay
Boston Harbor
West Gloucester
Boston
Leeward
Bailey
Eastern Point Light
Dolliver
Gertrude
Emma W. Brown
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Humberts Om
Paris
Bank of Spain
Rman Trade Statistics
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Buenos Ayres
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Exico City
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Plymouth
Eng
Scilly Islands
Cherbourg
Hamburg
Maxee
State Department
Foreign Office
Isaac Seligman
Golden Rule Jones
Chicago Peace Society
Mexico
Rooseve
National Bureau of Industrcs
Ulterior Designs
Cape Bre
the Times
C.F. Griffin
Secretary OF State
Grant's Tomb
A. L. Magnien
Baltimore Catholic Seminary
Tholie
D. P. McCartney
Idan Davies Green
Patrick C. Farrell
Anti-imperialist League
Charles T. Neale
Pittsburg
General
Mrs. Grant
General Wager Swayne
Insular Commissioner OF Education
Massachusetts
James McRea
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