Propositions for International Peace Backed by Chamber Voters
The Chamber of Commerce of the United States backed six proposals aiming to curb war. A vote tallied favoring naval safety conferences 762 to 29, international court 753 to 21, conciliation council 774 to 28, economic pressure 556 to 157, concerted military pressure 452 to 249, and frequent conferences 769 to 13, short of two thirds for approval.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Chamber
Council of Concilia
Narion
Roosevelt Not a Candidate for Presidential Ballot
Colonel Roosevelt declares he will not allow his name to appear on primary ballots in states selecting national convention delegates. He asked Michigan Secretary of State Vaughan to ensure his name is not listed as a candidate for any party including the Progressive ticket. The move signals his stance against pursuing the Republican nomination via primaries.
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Michigan
New York
Col
Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Cyster Bay
Vaughan
Lansing
Mich
Will of late Thomas L Shelvin Probate Filed
The will of Thomas L Shelvin, former football star, filed for probate in Minneapolis. The estate, estimated at 3 500 000 dollars, is left to his widow and two children.
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Shevlin
Minneapolis, Minn
Thomas L. Shelvin
Survivor of Monitor crew dies in Philadelphia home
William Durst, 16, claimed sole survivor of the Monitor crew from the Hampton Roads engagement with the Merrimac, died at his Philadelphia home of pneumonia.
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Monitor
Philadelphia
W William Durst
Merrimac
Hampton Roads
Ford Returns to Detroit Avoids Welcoming Floral Piece
Henry Ford arrives in Detroit at the station and sidesteps a delegation of local citizens planning to greet him with a floral tribute for his efforts to end the war.
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Ford
Detroit
Mich
Henry Ford
River Improvement Urged for Missouri River Project
The board of army engineers urges congress to approve Missouri River work from Kansas City to the Mississippi with a total appropriation of about 20 million dollars.
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Washington
Board of Army Engineers
Congress
Missouri River
Kansas City
Mississippi
Man and Wife Buried in One Grave at Greenville
In Greenville Illinois Mr and Mrs James Hepburn were buried together in a single grave. Hepburn aged 77 died last Saturday evening and Mrs Hepburn aged 75 died on Monday.
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Greenville
Ill
James Hepburn
Hepburn
Austrian Reservists Start Home From Marquette
Forty or more Austrian reservists from Marquette and vicinity left for New York to sail for their homeland by an indirect route, signaling the start of their return.
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Marquette, Kan
Marquette
New York
Storm storms cripple Irish coast cable
Severe storms sweeping Ireland England and the Continent have crippled or delayed the New York transatlantic cable communication, disrupting messages and signaling difficulties across the ocean.
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Irish
New York
Ireland
England
Continent
Divorce Sparks Scandal After Heated Wardrobe Incident
In Chicago, Mrs Evelyne Serill reportedly placed her husband's union suit on a radiator to dry, causing the buttons to heat and triggering a public divorce. The odd defense or motive centers on domestic tensions and a dramatic household mishap.
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Chicago
Evelyne- ‘Serill
Sinking of Glengyle and St Oswald In Mediterranean Seas
London reports British steamers St Oswald and Glengyle sunk in the Mediterranean. Glengyle carried about 120 aboard. all but three Europeans and seven Chinese were saved. No Americans aboard. Geelong 5 000 ton liner also sunk. all on board saved. American consul Robert N McNeely at Aden not among Malta survivors.
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McNeely
Geelong
Glengyle
London
Mediterranean
Peninsular and Oriental Company
Malta
Persia
Lord Montagu
Robert N. McNeely
Aden
St. Oswald
Indictment Against Cunningham for Manslaughter
Grand jury returns an indictment against Samuel H H Cunningham for manslaughter in the Cordova Apartment House fumigation death of Miss Louise Roberts and endangering Mrs A Bolling and Miss Bertha Bolling, mother and sister of President Wilsons bride.
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Washington
Samuel Hh.” Cunningham
Cordova
Louise Roberts
A Bolling
Bertha Bolling
President Wilson
King Constantine Resting Easy in Athens
Athens report notes Professor Frederick Kraus of Berlin and Professor Eisselberg of Vienna attending the king announced his condition was most satisfactory. The observers described the royal health as improving and stable during the current visit.
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Constantine
Athens
Frederick, Kraus
Berlin
Eisselberg
Vienna
Trail Hitter Kills Mother In Religious Mania
Syracuse man Ed G H Buchena u, a Billy Sunday trail hitter, shot and killed his mother during a fit of religious mania in Syracuse.
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Syracuse
G. H. Buchenau
Billy Sunday
Massachusetts Population From 1940 Census
Massachusetts population reached 3,693,316 as of April 1 per the state bureau of statistics official census announcement. Boston context noted in the report.
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Massachusets
Boston
Mass
Massachusetts
State Bureau of Statistics
Dynamite Bomb Kills Two in Sacramento Home
In Sacramento California A Grandy and A Aragoni were killed and two other men were injured when a dynamite bomb was thrown through the window of their home.
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Sacramento
Cal
A. Grandy
A. Aragoni
Gems Lost On Persia Steamer Worth Four Million
Cairo dispatch to the Evening News reports jewels of the Maharajah of Kurpathala valued at 4 million dollars lost on board the steamer Persia.
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London
Cairo
Evening News
Maharajah of Kurpathala
Persia
Boy Coasting on Sled Killed in Sterling
Thomas Durnett, 14, was killed while coasting on a sled in Sterling when he struck another sled. The incident occurred as the youths were playing near a street, with authorities investigating the exact cause and circumstances.
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Sterling
Thomas Durnett
Kansas Prohibition Leader Dies at 60 in Kansas City
Maj Frank Hol singer a Kansas pioneer and prohibition leader dies in Kansas City Missouri at age 60. He was the prohibition nominee for governor of Kansas in 1900.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Frank Holsinger
Osborne Hearing Postponed In Sing Sing Case
White Plains New York arraignment of Thomas Mott Osborne, former Sing Sing warden, postponed until next Monday after his resignation followed Westchester grand jury indictment.
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Osborne
White Plains
N. Y
Thomas Mott Osborne
Sing Sing Prison
Westchester Grand Jury
Hyde’s Trial Postponed to April Term in Missouri Court
Dr. B. Clark Hyde, charged with murdering Kansas City philanthropist Col. Thomas H. Swope, will have the fourth trial postponed to the April term in the circuit court. The case remains a high profile homicide proceeding in Missouri.
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Kansas City
B.’ Clark
Hyde
Cricult
Persia Sunk With 245 Lost in Five Minutes
Unofficial Cairo reports state the British steamer Persia was torpedoed without warning in the Mediterranean Thursday. About 150 to 160 survivors landed at Alexandria. American consul McNeely is believed drowned. Captain perished. 10 officers and eight non British aboard.
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London
Cairo
Alexandria
Egypt
Robert N. McNeely
Aden
Arabia
Reuter
McNeely
Charles H. Grant
Boston
Peninsular and Oriental Company
Persia
Lloyds
Peninsular & Oriental Company
Grant
Steamship Company
Edward Rose
Denver
Gibraltar
Bridegroom of Day Arrested In Mount Vernon Case
Mount Vernon Illinois Tom Ames of East St Louis and Chicago, a bride groom of 24 hours, is jailed on procuring a license to marry Ethel and a charge of perjury in connection with Stone 17. He was arrested and the girl's father took the bride to her home near Mount Vernon.
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Mount Vernon
Ill
Tom Ames
East St. Louis
Chicago
Ethel
Stone
Huerta Undergoes Gall Stone Operation in El Paso
Gen Victoriano Huerta former provisional president of Mexico was operated on for gall stones in El Paso Texas. A surgeon said Huerta may be suffering from cancer of the bladder with a short time to live if confirmed by tests.
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Fluerta
el Paso
Texas
Victoriano Huerta
Mexico
Huerta
Maye
Big Gain in Orange Crop Reported for California Growers
H Harold Powell announced that orange growers in California, centered in Los Angeles, have received about five hundred thousand dollars more for their crop this year than last year, signaling a strong uptick in citrus earnings for the industry.
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Los Angeles
Cal
California
H. Harold Powell
Woman Takes Bichloride in Sparta Tragedy
Sparta Illinois reports a woman identified as Anna Belsner took five bichloride of mercury tablets amid family estrangement. She said relatives live in Steeleville and have turned against her, declaring she did not care to live. Her condition is critical.
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Sparta
Ill
Misa Anna Belsner
Steeleville
Returns to Jalil to Get Warm
Harvey Séals, who escaped from the Christian county jail with Frank Kosmato, returned and surrendered to Sheriff John Turner in Qzark Missouri, citing cold and hunger conditions.
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Jalil
Qzark
Harvey Séals
Christian County
Frank Kosmato
John Turner
Steam Turbines on Submarines Use Planned by Navy
Designs prepared by the navy department for two seagoing submarines authorized by the last naval appropriation act contemplate steam turbines for surface propulsion.
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Washington
Navy Department
Naval
Col Robert Van Horn Dead Pioneer Journalist Dies at 91
Col Robert Thompson Van Horn founder of the Kansas City Journal and a pioneer journalist and statesman of the Middle West died at his home in Kanens City Mo. He was 91 years old.
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Kanens
City
Robert Thompson van Horn
The
Ansas City Journal
Middle ‘West
Hare
Shoots Friend Over a Dog in Moultrie Area
A quarrel over a dog in Sale City, Georgia led to A. K. Patterson being shot by a friend named Strickland. Patterson expected to recover from his wounds.
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Moultrie
A. K. Patterson
Sale City
Strickland
Patterson
Enemies Consuls Arrested by Allies in Macedonia Front
London reports German and Austrian consuls with staffs and families were arrested by order of French General Sarrail and moved to a French warship. Consulates occupied by Allied troops as Germans and Austrians begin a broad front withdrawal in Macedonia, linked to Russian advance in Bessarabia.
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London
Times
Saloniki
Germany
Austria- Turkey
Bulgaria
Sarrail
Macedonia
Exchange Telegraph Company
Rome
Bessarabia
Austrian reply to American note on Ancona incident
London reports Austria-Hungary punished the submarine commander for failing to consider passenger panic on the Ancona. The reply urges Washington to provide details of affected American citizens and says, if evidence is lacking, Vienna will indemnify damages whose proximate cause cannot be fixed and views the incident as ended.
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London
Ancona
Washington
United States
Black People Fatally Injured by Posse in Blakeley
Six Black individuals were fatally injured during an attempted arrest by a posse in Blakeley. The victims were inside a cabin they sought for refuge when it was set ablaze. Two others were burned in the incident as the cabin burned.
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Blakeley
Igseye
Brewer Slab by Bandits at South Bend Brewery Office
Millionaire brewer Henry A. Muessel and an employee Frank Chabot were murdered during a brewery office robbery attempt. Muessel's two sons were seriously wounded as they resisted the attackers in South Bend Indiana.
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South Bend, Ind
Henry A. Muessel
Muessel Brewing Co
Frank Chabot
Two Austrian Warships Sunk In Adriatic
Paris reports that two Austrian torpedo boat destroyers have been sunk in the Adriatic Sea by Allied naval forces. The action highlights continued Allied dominance in the waters near Austria. The names of the ships and precise dates were not given in the available text.
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Paris
Adriatic
Allied soldiers blinded surpass forty thousand
Dr Helen Nolen of the American Hospital in Nice arrived aboard the Rochambeau and stated that more than 40 000 Allied soldiers had been blinded since the war began.
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New York
Helen Nolen
Nice
Triples Rate on Shipping London
Lloyds raises insurance rates for ships using the Mediterranean and Suez Canal routes to the Far East due to increased Austro-German submarine activity.
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London
Mediterranean
Uloyds
Suez Canal
Far East
Booze In Auto Radiator Cited In Aberdeen Bootleg Case
Chief of Police Hurst reportedly stored 35 gallons of bootleg liquor in his car radiator, a bold measure amid prohibition era enforcement in Aberdeen. The claim notes the stash existed in the vehicle’s radiator and became a local talking point.
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Aberdeen
Hurst
Longshoremen to Get Pay Increase in Boston
Local longshoremen will see wage raises from 2 to 6 cents an hour starting January 1 after an agreement signed by the union and the steamship companies. The deal covers Boston area workers and outlines the staged pay hike across job classifications.
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Boston
Union
Steamship Companies
Gold Hauled by Dog Teams From Iditarod Reaches Seattle
The steamship Northwestern sailed from Seward Alaska to Seattle carrying $550,000 in gold bullion hauled by dog teams from Iditarod and $50,000 in copper.
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Seward
Alaska
Northwestern
Seattle
Iditarod
Prohibition Wins In Liberty County Local Vote
Texas County records show Prohibition carried Liberty County in the local option election with a majority of 48. A total of 413 votes were cast, and the result was reported as official in the Cleveland area.
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Texas County
Prohibition
Cleveland
Tex
Liberty County
State Board Aims at 1916 State Fair Profits
Springfield reports Len Small of Kankakee and M B Davison discuss the January 11 12 annual state board meeting. Secretary Davison notes a net profit of 17000 with 20000 saved from 1914. Hoof and mouth disease kept 18000 of the savings in premiums unpaid. Chicago teachers gain 120 yearly raise for 3200 teachers starting January 1.
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Springfield
Len’ Small
Kankakee
State Board of Agriculture
M. B. Davison
Davison
733 Opinions in 1915 Illinois Appellate District
In 1915 the First district Illinois appellate court docketed 1000 cases from superior, circuit, county and municipal courts and issued 733 opinions. Of October term cases 603 await calendar call while 212 remain indisposed. Pneumonia deaths in Chicago reach 201 with daily averages near 60 amid hospital strains and nurse shortages. Jack Sheridan of Bloomington, wanted for auto thefts in Chicago, is detained in San Antonio en route to Chicago. Aurora saloon licenses expire. 17 renewed by Mayor Harley as 43 licenses verge on renewal and policy remains undecided.
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Chicago
Appellate Court of
First District of
Texas
Jack Sheridan
Bloomington
San Antonio
Tex
Detective Bureau
John’ Rourke
James Coon
Sheridan
Aurora
J.B. Harley
Testimonial Letter on Kidney Remedy and Framed Notary Scene
Fragmentary testimonial letter from Robert E. Hendrick of Missouri claiming kidney remedy benefits and offering a booklet. Notary Emery confirms the declaration's oath. Ad copy mentions a sample and a dollar prize sale.
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Robert E. Hen
Missouri
Jackson
Eard
Hendrick
Deraele
N.Y
Ely
Burial on Hig Birthday in Girard
The funeral of F. D. Allen, longtime Girard merchant, will be held here. The body will go to Jacksonville for burial after a long illness. He died at almost fifty, leaving a wife and three children.
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Girard
F. D. Allen
Jacksonville
Allen
May Organize New Northwestern League
Northern Illinois baseball fans discuss a Northwestern league to include Elgin De Kalb Sterling Dixon Clinton and Syracuse. Plans expect general management to be formed led by Joseph Killian, former manager in Wisconsin Missouri. A meeting is planned for January.
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Sterling
Imoig
Elgin
Bath and Lime Phosphate: A Morning Purification Regimen
An older health ad urges daily intake of lime phosphate dissolved in hot water before breakfast to purify the digestive system. It claims that cleansing the stomach liver kidneys and bowels removes poisons and toxins, promoting youthful vigor and a clear tongue and breath.
War correspondent quotes about checks and censorship
A clipped war dispatch from Louisville notes a censor’s stance on financial guarantees. The correspondent emphasizes that all checks must be verified, asserting, You can bank on it, but I bank on nothing with the censor.
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Louisville
Coirier-Joy
Sly Fox: Witty Fragments Spark Tea Party Debate
Ambiguous lines hint at a character named Jiblets pursuing a wife’s cultivation and a remark about a professor. The mix of dialogue fragments suggests a satirical skit or column with playful banter and social commentary, though the exact context remains unclear.
Unclear fragment hints at tonic claims and marriage dream
Fragmentary text mentions Grove's chill tonic and malaria treatment along with incoherent phrases about matrimony and a troubled mind, yielding an unreadable, partial newspaper clipping with no verifiable events or clear entities.
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PEAGE
Dr. Hyde
Cl. van Horn
Austria
Treasury
Board of Education
Harris W. Hueh
Huehl
Health Department
Sly Fox
Jiblets
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