British Women Organize as Volunteers for War
A photograph from Old Bedford College shows women in khaki receiving field telegraph training as the Women’s Volunteer Reserve forms in Britain. The group, featuring professionals and militant suffragists, drills under Army instructors and aims to serve as dispatch riders telegraphers cooks and nurses if invasion occurs.
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Britain
Reg'iar
Kitchener
Old Bedford College
London
Women’s Volunteer Reserve
Viscountess Castlereagh
Women’s Emergency Corps
Warsaw
Great Britain
Women’s Volunteers
Adair Roberts
Arlcen
Belgium
France
Thomas
Knightsbridge Hall
London Scottish
Buckingham Gate
Canfield’s Burning I O U Hoard Saved Names of the Rich
York January 3 report recalls Richard Canfield burning his gambling papers to avoid scandal after his death. It notes he extended large credits, kept losses limited per night, and that notable families such as the Vanderbilts faced his strict rules. The piece cites a former employee on Canfield’s insistence on credit discipline and reputational concerns.
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York
Richard
Canfield
Forty-fourth Street
Saratoga
Welch
Welching
Canfield’s
Welcher
Vanderbilt
Reggie
Danish steamer M. C. Holm sinks after mine hit
The Danish steamer M. C. Holm from Savannah to Christiana struck a mine off Flamborough Head England and sank in fifteen minutes. All crew survived in lifeboats, narrowly avoiding mine fragments. Flamborough Head lies on the North Sea in Yorkshire near the Paul Jones battlefield site.
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Associated Press
London
M. C. Holm
Savannah
Christiana
Flamborough Head
England
North Sea
County of
York
Paul Jones
Empire Contest Has Lovely Start at Empire Theatre
The Empire Theatre announces a popularity contest with seven cash prizes totaling 600 dollars. All non-winners will earn a 6 percent commission on books sold, aiming to attract many entrants to the motion picture house event.
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Empire Theatre
Peru Cabinet Resignations Continue Amid Unrest
Lima reports fresh cabinet resignations as Fernando Fuchs the interior minister and Colonel Abril the war minister step down amid ongoing political instability in Peru.
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Associated Press
Lima
Peru
Fernando Fuchs
Interior
Abril
Rayford Child Burned In Front Of Open Grate
Five year old Thelma Rayford, daughter of Police Officer Lyman Rayford, was badly burned while near an open grate at Mrs. Ruth Hilliard’s Virginia Street home. Mrs. Hilliard wrapped a blanket around the child to shield her face and she received medical attention.
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Rayford
Ruth Hilliard
Virginia Street
Tuttle Avenue
Thelma Rayford
Lyman Rayford
New Era of Good Times Predicted by Cincinnati Delegate
Charles 5. Roth, a Cincinnati Rivers and Harbors Convention delegate, travels from Washington to New York and reports optimism after meetings with bankers and financiers. He foresees reduced money rates and a rebound in livestock prices, selling prospects as meat availability rises. Roth notes Ohio and the Midwest show encouraging conditions and predicts a broad economic upturn. He previously served as Hamilton County treasurer.
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New York
Charles 5. Roth
Cincinnati
Washington, D. C
Gotham
Roth
Ohio
Middle West
Stock Exchange
United States
Hamilton County
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Women's Emergency Corps
Viscountess Tlers
Women's Volunteer Reserve
I.o.u.’S
Wien
Weater Coats
Nelson & Bailey Royal
Cincinnati Packer
Charles E. Roth
Charles Schimpf
North Royal
Planta
Europa
Columbia
Jos. A. Magnus & Co
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