Chronicle Berth: Stevenson Editor and Publisher History
The item note shows Stevenson as editor and publisher, with post office details and Associated Press rights. It mentions subscription prices, monthly plans, and that the chamber of commerce seeks donations from Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Sacramento County, and Nevada to fund a highway project. Also notes prior California tourist spending and regional distribution.
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Associated Press
Chamber of Commerce
Oakland
Berkeley
Almeda
Sacramento
Nevada
California
The German Debt and Versailles Reparations Clash
A Brussels finance conference flags what a Paris paper calls a first formal violation of the Versailles treaty as Germany budgets 12 billion marks for future interest on its public debt. Allies insist reparations obligations come first. France alone owes the United States if Germany fails to pay. The issue underpins broader economic reconstruction and European stability.
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Conference of International Financiers
Brussels
Germany
Paris
France
Europe
United States
Parcel post delivers for St Paul stores in 1919 expansion
Seven large St Paul firms ditch private delivery in favor of Uncle Sam parcel post, begun in 1919. Stores wrap packages at the shop, affix stamps, and place them in bags picked up by mail trucks before 800 AM. Deliveries reach customers by about nine next morning with a second daytime run.
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St. Paul
Minn
Uncle Sam
Campaign launched to build highway from Salt Lake to San Francisco
In San Francisco on December 28, Adolph Mack, chair of the San Francisco chamber of commerce highway department, and L. Nates, an original director of the federal highway committee, presented to the board of supervisors a plan to raise 4 150 000 in San Francisco for a publicity campaign to back a high profile project. The card of supervisors supported a $5,000 contribution toward the fund.
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the Card of Supervisors
Talbe
Mayor of Fiume Seeks Armistice With Regulars
A Rome dispatch to the London Times says the Fiume mayor pressed General Caviglia for an immediate armistice with conditions. Troop withdrawal to former positions, regency evacuation of Vigalia and Arbe, ships unarmed or pledged not to attack Fiume, Italian government independent control of volunteers, and a Fiume delegate to the Port Baross commission. These terms echo those proposed by the government and rejected by d Annunzio.
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London
London Times
Rome
Fiume
Caviglia
Vigalia
Arbe
Legionairres
Port
Baross
d'Annunzo
Bolsheviks Bar Americans From Leaving Russia
Unexplained refusal by Bolshevik authorities forces Americans near completing exit to be sent back to Petrograd. Baltic sources report some Britons and others allowed to advance toward the frontier while about 100 Americans remain detained in Russia per state department estimates.
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Washington
Soviet Russia
Petrograd
State Department
Department
Diay
Russia
Costly Funerals Celebrate Ancestral Reverence in China
A historical account describes Chinese funeral customs where relatives incur heavy debt to display honor through pomp. The eldest son bears the burden of maintaining ancestral dignity, funds last rites, and leads New Year graveyard visits with processions, prayers, offerings, and money paper to aid the deceased in the afterlife.
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China
Wil
Textile Union Split In Lawrence Leadership Rift
Lawrence Mass December 28 A split in the Amalgamated Textile Workers of America local erupted with a faction led by Ben Legere former secretary announcing plans to join the one big union The disruption signals a major rearrangement within regional labor ranks and could affect local bargaining leverage and membership cohesion.
Government declines appeal in funds discharge case in Boston
Assistant United States Attorney Lewis Galdhers said there will be no appeal to discharge funds in the Boston case. Four defendants were deemed not to oppose the court order. Judge Anderson recommended release of twenty alleged radicals captured by Justice Department officials last January. Exceptions were noted for Mr and Mrs William Colyer Lew Bond and Frank Mick. The judge ruled all should be released since the Communist Party membership did not advocate overthrow by force or violence as defined.
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Boston
Per
Lewis Galdhers
Communist Party
Four to be remanded if higher court views party differently
Mr. Goldberg said exceptions have been made and will be filed next Tuesday. This will mean the immediate and unconditional release of the others currently at liberty on bail. Judge Anderson noted that if higher courts view the communist party differently, the four with exceptions should be remanded to immigration custody.
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Goldberg
Anderson
Communist Party
Vermont Legislator Howland Embezzlement Case
A Vermont legislator, Howland, faced embezzlement charges totaling 25 086 dollars with disputed 10 5 00 item. His admission on four counts raised to 15 480 dollars while a partial collapse occurred at sentencing. He is under 60 and has served in both branches of the state legislature.
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Howland
Vermont
Germans Protest Dismantling Of Big Guns In Frontiers
Berlin December 28 The German government protests to the council of ambassadors through a note from Paris against the control committee demand endorsed by ambassadors for dismantling guns at 41 to 14 fortresses along the southern and eastern frontiers. The note argues such removal breaches the peace treaty and would leave Germany with only three fortresses. It notes appeals in the four to...
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Berlin
Council of Ambassadors
Paris
Germany
Prohibition Enforcement Agents Dismissed in New York
New York report says 47 federal prohibition enforcement agents were dismissed from the staff of the supervising enforcement agent in New York during the last two weeks, including 20 today. No official confirmation yet, but Justice Department agents and others from Washington were said to be involved.
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New York
Department of Justice
Washington
Funeral Arrangements Not Yet Completed for Director
A local story notes that the company director, whose name appears in fragments, requested actions be completed tonight while funeral arrangements remain unfinished. Further details are unavailable due to the fragmentary text.
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Ishing Company
Alleged Japanese forger captured after six week chase
George Sata alias George Toktat, a Japanese national, was arrested in Ogden after a six week pursuit that stretched from Gallup New Mexico to San Francisco Portland Reno and finally Utah. He is said to have forged checks for thousands of dollars and presented a $33000 check drawn on a San Francisco bank that police termed worthless at the Ogden bank.
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Salt Lake. City
George Sata
George Toktat
Ogden
Gallup
N. M
San Francisco
Portland
Reno
Utah
Sata
Spokane
Destroyers Speed to Welcome Admiral Bayly
San Francisco December 28 Two fleets of American destroyers sped out into the Pacific tonight to escort the Educator into port Admiral Bayly aboard the Educator sails tomorrow from port to join Allied and American commanders off Ireland during the war The escort voyage marks a ceremonial welcome for Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly aboard the Educator with Admiral Sims directing combined naval forces
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San Francisco
Pacific
Lewis, Bayley
Willam P. Sims
Ireland
Bayley
Pacific Mail
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Berth
Stevenson
Twi ‘Walla
Idaho
Prohibition Enforcement
Destroyers
Admiral Bayly
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