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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1916
Page
3
A five member commission appointed by Governor Whitman will study high living costs in New York. They will investigate price causes and propose remedies, including modernizing food regulation and interstate transportation systems. The group aims to report to the legislature at the next session.
Cleveland housewives start a six weeks boycott of butter and eggs to push prices down. The campaign, led by the Woman's Civic Association, plans to ask Mayor Harry L. Davis to issue a proclamation urging residents to dispense with butter and eggs until prices decline.
Whistler events include Ladies Aid Society at Mrs. M. B. Hays home and Saint Pauls Guild meeting with the Misses Peterson. Knights of Pythias members listed from Whistler Lodge No. 127 attended Mobile lodges gathering. Various members travel, returns, and a W O W circle installs officers.
The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to dismiss prewar anti trust prosecutions against British and German liners for trans Atlantic and South American shipping. New York courts had ruled the suits against the American Asiatic Steamship Company Prince Line and others had become a wartime autopsy rather than a live issue. The government asked for right to renew prosecutions if the agreements resume after peace.
A Chicago man known as Charles H Wax admitted he is Oliver Osborne, a figure linked to a high profile 1915 suit in New York. Police describe him as a physician with many aliases who allegedly swindled hundreds of women. he says he sought to clear James W Osborne of the stigma but fled New York due to publicity.
Wax T asserts he and Osborne resemble each other with Wax noting he is 36 while Osborne is over 50. Wax says he has lived in Chicago six months with a woman called Mrs. Ida Dorothy Wax who he says is his wife. He once worked as a head night porter in a downtown department store. Mrs. Wax denies long acquaintance with her husband and keeps details private.
The police say Wax served two penitentiary sentences one at San Quentin Cal and one at Salem Ore both for swindling women. He allegedly preyed on working women in moderate circumstances scraping acquaintance by street flirtations. Wax said he would waive extradition and a New York deputy post office inspector prepared to accompany him to New York. He claimed to want to clear the name of a reputable citizen and be square with a man who had the reputation of being square.
Paris reports an embargo on all Greek shipping in French and allied ports following clashes in Athens. Greek minister Athos Roma nos resigns. King Constantine offered to surrender much artillery to the Allies but failed to secure ratification, leading to renewed Greek-American tensions and further military actions.
In Petrograd the semi official news service reports Premier Alexander Trepoff reading a proclamation that the 1915 Russia France Great Britain Italy accord grants Russia a definite right to the straits and Constantinople. He says Turkey’s neutrality failed and the pact confirms Russia’s occupied outlet.
A Reuters dispatch from Petrograd reports Premier Trepoff mounting the tribune to read the government statement, but extreme left parties began a hostile demonstration that blocked his speech for about fifteen minutes. Trepoff then returned to the rostrum.
A Russian premier declares the war must continue until German militarism is destroyed and victory is won. He urges measures to improve supply, curb internal unrest, and expand education and industry to support the war effort. Troops, economy, and tech development are to be prioritized to end the conflict.
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