French Press Report of WWI Battle Front Shifts
Paris reports artillery duels from the sea to the Lys river with the Aisne and Argonne fronts active. French advance in Argonne, hold positions on the Aisne with limited trench blows by Germans. Allies push along La Basse canal toward routes to Roulers and Lille as German forces withdraw east.
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United Press
Paris
Lys
Aisne
War Office
Argone
la Basse Canal
Roulers
Lille
Breslau Active in Black Sea Attacked at Sevastopol
The German Turkish cruiser Breslau again operates in the Black Sea. Reports say it appeared in Sevastopol harbor on Monday and was attacked by Russian cruisers and aircraft attempting to bomb the ship.
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United Press
Petrograd
Breslau
Black Sea
Sebastopol
City Spelling Match On This Afternoon
This afternoon at 2 o clock the children of the city schools numbering forty five from seventh and eighth year classes gathered at the library for a spelling match. The successful spellers will represent Joliet township in the county contest on December 19 at the courthouse. Interest is running high in the city event. The contest is oral with words from Cavins speller used in the state course of study.
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Joliet Township
Court House
Cavin
Joliet Eagles Visit Morris on Interurban Trip
More than seventy Joliet Eagles traveled to Morris by a two car train over the C. O. and P. interurban line. They were entertained by the Morris order of Eagles and marched with the fife and drum corps through Morris streets. A general good time was reported with a late return and satisfaction at the welcome from suburban residents.
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Joliet
Morris
Morris Order of Eagles
Thirteen Miners Die in Pennsylvanian Mine Disaster
Scranton December 9. Thirteen miners are killed instantly in a Lackawanna Coal Company shaft explosion when dynamite is dropped into the cage. The blast destroys the cage and drops all aboard to the shaft bottom.
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The
United Press
Scranton
Lackawanna Coal Company
Michigan brewer killed in automobile accident
Grand Rapids officers report vice president George Brandt of Grand Rapids Brewing Co and Wm Wu died when their car overturned near Grand Rapids Michigan. The victims were not discovered until several hours after the crash.
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Grand Rapids
Michi
Dee
George Brandt
Grand Rapids Brewing Co
Wm. Wu
Waterway meeting to protect Joliet flood channel plans
Joliet commerce leaders met to discuss Governor Dunne’s plan and other options to protect the Joliet waterway. They plan conferences with the Sanitary District trustees Public Service Company and canal commissioners to build a united plan before the legislature. Senator Barr urged timely action as flood risk from the big channel remained.
Schmidt Keeps All Langs Appointees in County Clerk Office
Henry F. Schmidt was sworn in as Probate clerk after posting a 10000 bond and said he would retain the staff appointed by the late John C. Lang. Albion F. Delander becomes law clerk, Milton E. Thompson succeeds Delander, and the sureties on Schmidt’s bond mirror Lang’s except for Piepenbrink replacing Newkirk. Schmidt pledged to give full value and keep Lang’s appointments.
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Henry F. Schmidt
John C. Lang
Albion F. Delander
Schmidt
Milton E. Thompson
Delander
Thompson
Scholl
Henry Schmidt
Edwin G. Young
George A. Barr
L. H. Piepenbrink
Samuel J. Drew
John H. Savage
Fred W. Walter
George J. Clare
Mr. Lang
Piepenbrink
James Newkirk
Mr. Schmidt
No Joliet Delegates At National Rivers and Harbors Meet
Joliet will have no delegates at the annual convention of the national rivers and harbors congress in Washington today. None of the delegates appointed by Gov. Dunne could attend the convention.
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Joliet
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Washington
Gov. Dunne
Artillery Ordered to the Mexican Border
El Paso reports three batteries of U S field artillery ordered to the Mexican border. Firing across the line has created great excitement at Villa headquarters.
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The
United Press
el Paso
Texas
U.S. Field Artillery
Villa
Elks Minstrel Show Sets Record in Irving Hirschfield Tops Acts
The Twelfth annual Elks minstrel drew a full house with Irving Hirschfield a major hit in singing and talking. Clarence Olin, Robinson, Hicks and Hahney plus the quartet and Denneny impressed audiences. a minor orchestration error was the only drawback as the show closed with “Southern Pastimes” and “Tennessee Moon.”
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The
Elks Minstrels
Order
Elks Quartette
Elks
Elks Club
Clarence Olin
Joliet
Paul Baxter
Kentucky
Edward Hahney
George Bailey
Tim O'Brien
Howard Hewlett
Paul Denneny
Chas. Mauer
Kaiser Wilhelm Seriously Ill With Pneumonia
Berlin reports Kaiser Wilhelm is seriously ill with pneumonia and bronchial catarrh. Official notices earlier said his condition improved but illness prevents him from visiting the front. Dispatches from Berlin confirm the diagnosis and note headaches and irritable behavior toward advisors.
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Kaiser
Wilhelm
United Press
Amsterdam
Kaiser Wilhelm
Berlin
Saloons Face Sunday Open-Again Charges in Joliet
State's Attorney files two counts against 119 Joliet saloon keepers for Sunday openings on November 22 and 29. Defendants are listed. all must plead before County Judge George J. Cowing on Monday at 10 a.m. Names include Adelmann Peter Avon Joseph Augustaitis Peter Borg Charles Bazich Frank Burns Ber J and Tim Callaghan etc.
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Joliet
Joseph W. Jones
State’s Attorney's Office
George J. Cowing
Borg
Charles
Bazich
Frank
Burns
Ber
Tim. Callaghan
Bagnell
Fred J. Bazik
Andrew
Bjekic
Stanko
Bly
John
Bolte
Tony
Buffo
Dominic
Ba Prich
Joseph
Eft
Patrick
Wm. Irwin
Biscay
George
Cheville
Connors
Béw
Thomas
Cooper
Fred
Churchill & Gooding
Chaprnda
Ignatz
Carnaghi
Vincent
Carneghi
Caragati
Antonio
Dwyer
Fred J. Daley
Wm. C. di Lorenzo
Nunzio
Ferguson
Jas
Wm Ference
Grayback
Goltz
Herman
Giblin
Horwath
Heiland
Horvath
Mike
Kovalcik
Ignatius
Kijak
Emil
Dejanovich
Stephen Klimek
Kirincich
Nick
Hobler Mate Kalinski
A. Kaducak
Kearney
Laurie
Jerry
Liberty
Ten Aldermen Ordered to Answer Mandamus Plea in Ten Days
Judge DeSelm ruled that four points in Samuel Drew's mandamus petition against ten Democratic aldermen are excluded as evidence rather than pleadings. The defendants must respond within ten days, by Monday December 21, to the mandamus plea challenging the council's actions from 1913 to last spring on annexation petitions.
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Thomas Donovan
William Mooney
Samuel Drew
Belial
Drew
Donovan
Corn Show Opens Tomorrow With Cash Prizes
About fifty entries have been made for the annual corn show of the First National Bank which opens tomorrow. Fifty or more Will county farms have raised corn and will submit samples from the cribs for comparison in a contest offering three cash prizes of 20, 10 and 5 dollars. John Collier of Kankakee county will judge and award prizes. no competitor may win more than one prize. Proceeds from a forthcoming auction of exhibits will benefit two city orphans’ asylums. The banking room will be decorated after today’s bank close and the show opens tomorrow.
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First National Bank
Farmers’ Institute
John Collier
Kankakee County
Convicts May Face Chicago Grand Jury Over Police Graft
State's Attorney Hoyne may bring two or three Joliet penitentiary inmates to Chicago to testify before a grand jury investigating alleged police graft. One identified man is Eddie Jackson known as Eddie the Immune who escaped prison walls for years and allegedly paid protection money to police. Yellow Kid is also mentioned in the report.
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United Press
Chicago
Ill
Illinois State Penitentiary
Joliet
Eddie” Jackson
Hoyne
Jackson
Eddie
Yellow Kid
Vns
Ben Riftfaeree
Maximilian Declares Constitutionalist Adherents Outlaws
Fifty years ago today December 9 Emperor Maximilian announced imperial policy in Mexico to treat the Constitutionalist party led by Juarez as outlaws. The Richmond public soup house provided soup at cost for the poor. Twenty-five years ago today an inhaler epidemic affected St. Petersburg Berlin Vienna Paris and London.
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Maximilian
Mexico
Juarez
Richmond
St. Petersburg
Berlin
Vienna
Paris
London
Legion of Honor Grand Cross for LS Ambassador arrives
Myron T. Herrick former ambassador to Paris arrived in New York aboard a French liner. Several thousand people greeted him at the dock including hundreds from Ohio. Herrick bears the grand cross of the Legion of Honor, awarded aboard ship on orders from France.
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United Press
New York
Myron T. Herrick
Paris
Ock
Ohio
Herrick
Legion of Honor
France
Three Inmates Fined for Disorderly House in County Case
Mary Rucker James Rucker and Bobbie Jackson were fined a total of about 70 dollars after pleading guilty to keeping a disorderly house on November 28 near Riley Park. Justice McCulloch oversaw the case with attorneys Richard Barr and William Faulkner, as Assistant State's Attorney Jones prosecuted. Authorities aim to remove such individuals from the city and monitor future movements.
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James Rucker
McCulloch
Bobbie Jackson
Mary Rucker
Lockport Road
Riley Park
Richard Barr
William J. Faulkner
Jones
Nobel Peace Prize Delayed Until Next Year
The Nobel Peace Committee decides the prize will not be awarded this year and will be held for a future date. The announcement cites unspecified reasons and postponement by the organizing body.
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The
United, Press
Nobel Peace Committee
City Pupils Craft Christmas Gifts for Parents
Children in all city schools are busy making season gifts from learned skills. Lower grades create frames and racks with views of parks and schools while seventh and eighth graders use household arts and manual training to design appropriate seasonal presents.
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Schooels
Young Nash Bound Over for Express Package Theft
Wilbur Nash, a colored youth with prior petty theft历史, was bound over to the grand jury by Judge Lumley for stealing a package from Wells Fargo Express last night. He confessed in court after police say he was found with the stolen goods including an opera cloak and other items near the Scott viaduct.
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Wilbur ‘Nash
Grand Jury
Lumley
Wells Fargo Express Company
Wilbur
Louis Boos
Express Company
Union Depot
Princeton
Rosston
Mass
Nash
Ryan
St. Nicholas ‘Hotel
Scott
Dennis Hartigan
Bridewell
Central
Frank Lumley
Comery
German aviators drop bombs on Dover England
Five bombs were dropped by German airmen on Dover England six miles from London according to United Press reports. No casualties were reported as English censorship blocked news from reaching the public. Lieutenant Clark Kasper and Lieutenant Richard Otto flew from Ostend, hit targets near the town fortifications, and escaped.
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United Pres
New York
Dover
England
London
United Press
Clark Kasper
Richard Otto
Ostend
Great Heig
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