Vienna and Budapest in turmoil over war conduct
Reports from the Austrian frontier describe a growing crisis as internal disorder intensifies in Vienna Budapest and Prague. Demonstrations target the war effort with Bohemians and locals demanding stops to German or anti Slav policies amid police clearances and harsh conditions in Servia.
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Budapest
Rome
Vienna
Prague
Ringstrasse
Foreign Office
War Office
Trague
Lerive
Germam OT Atbislav
German Attack on Anglo Belgian Treaty Reacts in France
A French Courrier des Etats-Unis summary discusses Dr Dernburg’s publication of the Anglo-Belgian convention and argues Germany’s accusations fail. It cites a Brussels report on Belgian neutrality, warns against German strategic aims near Belgium, and notes Britain’s 1912 military talk as no Belgium aggression justification. Also mentions King Albert’s 1923 Berlin visit framing Kaiser as not a peace partisan.
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Courrier Des Etats-Unis
New York
Dr. Dernburg
Semiopela
Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Berlin
Germany
Belgium
Dr. Dernbure
Dernburg
Brussels
Ducarme
Balgian
Eiffel District
Elsenborn
Malmedy
England
France
Cal. Bridges
Jungbluth
Hingland
Sirniser
London
Albert
Kaiser
Musicians Elect Officers of Local 161
The Musicians' Protective Union Local 161 elected new officers for 1915. President A Hayden, vice president Antonio Celso, secretary John Hirdeck, treasurer Nate Keen Well, sergeant-at-arms Jo Frazier, directors Eo S Bergh Jack Greaser EF Huestis FT H Meiners Muhlhausen and John E L eer, trustees William M Lynch Mills and W Samuels. President Hayden will represent the union at the AFM convention in San Francisco in May 1915.
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Proveitve Union
Local 161
KF. of
W& M
Offecras
AC. Haayden
Antonio Celfo
John KE Hirdaek
Keen Well
Mail Delivery Christmas Postpone Santa Arrival Route
Postmaster Praeger announces a single Friday morning mail delivery to ensure Santa Claus can arrive by post on Christmas. Carriers Mello and others start routes at 7:36. Main office hours extend with stamp, registry, and money order sections open specific morning to noon. Substations operate 4 to 11. Regular holiday collections proceed.
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Santa Claus
Praeger
Mello O
Injured Pastor Improves After Auto Collision
Rev Wallace Radcliffe pastor of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church was seriously injured Friday at Thirteenth and Ko streets when struck by a car. Dr John W Shaw reports improvement and expects restoration to pulpit in about two weeks. No complications yet, but healing of a gaen on his forehead remains to be seen.
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Budapest
Ministry of Defense
Staats-Zettung
New York
Mr. SchiMm
Eliot
Lila
Wallace Radcliffe
New York Avenue
Presbjtenar
Thirteenth
John W. Shaw
Rani
Allies Hold Line as Russian Retreat Persists Across Europe
The dispatch notes ongoing Allied pressure on retreating Russian forces nearing supply bases. Hindenburg expected to complete his campaign, while fighting spans Flanders and the Carpathians. In Galicia and South Poland Russians advance near the Nida River as a new front develops along the Dunajec.
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Toland
von Hindenburg
Flanders
London
Carpathians
la Loroza
Luphow Pass
Kerosno
Zakliczyn
Bula
Tuchow
Tarnow
Dunajee
Galicia
Poland
Nida River
Great battle begun tories in the Argonne and Yser fighting
Reported in dispatches from the Argonne and Yser fronts. In the forest of La Gerurgie the troops repulsed three attacks including two at Fontaine Madame and one at St Hubert. Violent fighting continued on the Yser with Allied guns hampering German ranks. Trainloads of wounded moved toward Bruges as fighting raged between Reuters, Ypres, and Dizmude.
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Argonne
Lagerurie
Fontaine Madame
St. Hubert
Vosges
Netherlands
Yser
Bruges
Reuters
Ypres
Dizmude
Northview Fire Destroys Dixie Theater and Dwellings
A morning blaze at Northview suburb near Clarksburg West Virginia destroyed the Dixie Theater two drug stores a barber shop and four homes causing about 315 000 in damage and displacing dozens of residents authorities reported today
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Dixie Theater
Northview
Alexandria set for five year tax basis and assessor fight
Judge Bailey will appoint a city tax assessor within days to set five year state and city tax values. The five year figure may rise above six million dollars due to new construction since the last assessment. A heated contest between Frank Lyons and W C Wibert marks the county race, with court involvement by Judge Thornton. The city council plans to hold the final session of the year tomorrow to consider street and law matters and the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone franchise. Mrs Lucy Ann Crump 78 dies at her daughter's home. services at 114 South Pitt Street. Funeral to Newport News. Lewis Gillingham of Fairfax County buried at Woodlawn. B J Councilor spoke at Y M C A meeting.
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Lucy Ann Crump
Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Louis C. Bailey
Corporation Court
James B. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
United States
District of Columbia
Alexandria County
Frank Lyons
W. C. Wibert
J. B. T. Thornton
Circuit Court
Fort Myer Heelghta
Chesa Peake and Potomac Telephone Company
Southern Bell Telephone Lines
J. R. Goode
South Pitt Street
Holmes Travel Lectures End at Columbia Theater
Burton Holmes closed his Washington travelogue series with Belgium and the allied powers. The cockpit of Europe and France battle scenes drew enthusiastic reception as Belgians and King Albert received applause. Other countries shown included Russia Japan India and England with Lord Kitchener drawing notable acclaim. The lecture repeats at 4:30 this afternoon.
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Burton Holmes
Washington
Columbia
Belgium
Europe
France
Lord Kitchener
This Day Marks Official Winter Start and Historic Cold Spells
The article recalls the official start of winter and lists extreme winters across history. It cites frozen seas and rivers from 401 to 1888, noting record cold events in the Black Sea, Danube, Adriatic, Kattegat, Thames, Neva, and Po, with dramatic scenes from Vienna to Siberia.
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Napoleon
Black Sea
Danube
Hibe
Setne
Adriatic Sea
Kattegat
Denmark
Norway
Europe
Charles X
Baltic Sea
Italy
Vienna
England
Thames
Spain
Portugal
Neva
Gehenna
Russia
Constantinoplie
Malta
Verkhoyansk
Siberia
Ocean Rates Investigated Amid War Freight Pressures
Reports reaching Secretaries Redfield and Mee doo show ocean freight rates have doubled or tripled since the European war began. Steamship lines exporters and importers are asked to provide data as Senators seek a Senate report within the week.
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Redfield
Meedoo
Senate
New Avenues of Trade Opened to American Businessmen
New York December 20 The list of local subscribers to the 125 million cotton pool to ease cotton states financial strains due to weak foreign demand was released by Albert H. Wiggins chairing the clearing house committee. Forty one banks and trust companies and J P Morgan amp Co subscribe to the 50 million guaranteed by this section led by National City Bank with 5 million. Major subscribers include National Bank of Commerce Hanover National Bank Chase National Bank Bankers Trust Guaranty Trust J P Morgan amp Co 3700000 each National Park Bank and First National Bank 9600000 each National City Company 2400000 Merchants amp Metals National Bank and American Exchange Bank 1806000 each Central Trust Company 1260000 and Irving National Bank Columbia Trust Company 1000000. Remaining subscriptions ranged 60000 to 750000.
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New York
I Albert H. Wiggins
Clearing House Committee
J. P. Morgan & Co
National City Bank
National Bank of Commerce
Hanover National Bank
Chase National Bank
Bankers Trust Company
Guaranty Trust Company
National Park Bank
First National Bank
National City Company
Merchants & Metals National
Schwab sails for home with bigger contracts
Charles M. Schwab president of Bethlehem Steel, Robert Bacon former American Ambassador to France, and Mrs. Walter H. Page passenger aboard the Lusitania sailing home from Europe. Schwab during his European visit secured probably the greatest business contracts ever obtained by a single individual, now completed as to signing agreements.
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Specifi
Washington Post
London
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Robert Bacon
France
Walter H. Page
Lusitania
Costa Rican ships opens new trade with Chile
The Costa Rican steamer Marina Quesada formerly the Norwegian Gladstone cleared at Newport News for Valparaiso and Puerto Montt via Port Timon and the Panama Canal. It was reported to take supplies for the German fleet in southern Pacific waters but no neutrality violation occurred. The vessel, possibly the first Costa Rican flag ship in U S territorial waters, will serve West Coast trade between Costa Rican ports and San Francisco under owner Browne Willis of New York.
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Norfolk
Marina Quesada
Gladstone
Newport Kews
Norman R. Hamilton
Valparaiso
Puerto Montt
Chile
Port Timon
Costa Rica
Panama Canal
Pacific
Hamilton
United States
Browne Willis
New York
San Francisco
Manufacturers Rush With Orders In The West
Special to The Washington Post from Chicago dated December reports manufacturers in the Central West flooded with foreign orders. Milwaukee St Paul Maveland and Detroit show a favorable business mood as a revival replaces the prior lull, signaling a strong spring ahead.
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Washington Post
Chicago
Central West
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Maveland
Detroit
Big Shipload of Cotton and Mules Sent to Europe
New Orleans December 20 The third shipment of mules for the allied armies in Europe left on the British steamer Kelvinia bound for Liverpool via Avonmouth. The ship carries 781 animals to be unloaded at Avonmouth along with 128000 bushels of wheat and 2019 bales of cotton to be discharged at Liverpool.
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New Orleana
New Orleans
Europe
Kelvinia
Liverpool
Avonmouth
Tiverpool
New Orleans Wheat Shipments Break Local Records
New Orleans on December 20 reports a daily wheat shipment of 486,680 bushels to European ports, the largest single day total this year. Seven vessels carried the grain, led by the British steamer Llangollen with 222,000 bushels to Rotterdam. more large ships await clearance for European destinations, with local shipping men estimating over 1,000,000 bushels in total.
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New Orleans
Llangollen
Rotterdam
Mills Keep Mills Open Sundays to Fill Blanket Order
Burlington Vermont December 21. War demand prompts woolen mills to run Saturday half holidays and Sundays to meet a large blanket order believed to be for a European power. For two weeks mills have operated day and night.
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Mills
Burlington, Vt
Suffrage advocates urge plain talk and steady press for ballot
Oregon Senator Chamberlain told the Kate Gordon chapter of the Southern States Woman's Suffrage Conference at Jardin de Danse to seek a constitutional amendment through states, keep politics away, and build public opinion by individual effort. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett compared Virginia's obstacles to Turkey and urged women to demand equal rights. Dr. McKelway of the national child labor commission described progress and pushed for a national law to ban factory products made by under 14 year olds and mine products by under 16.
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Senator Chamberlain
Oregon
Kate Gordon
Southern States Woman's Suffrage Conference
Jardin de Danse
Kate Waller Barrett
Virginia
Turkey
Dr. McKinway
National Child Labor Commission
South
McKelway
North
South Carolina
Alabama
House
Senate
Hermion Sails From Savannah with Large Cotton Cargo to Italy
The Norwegian steamer Hermion departed Savannah for Genoa, Italy, carrying 14,000 bales of cotton, the largest outbound cotton cargo this season. Additional steamers are expected to sail this week, delivering more cotton to Europe.
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Italy
Savannah
Hermion
Genoa
Europe
Opposes Mail Rate Change by Weight Payment Plan
Ralph Peters argues against the space plan for railway mail pay, urging Congress to pay by weight transported and to weigh mails annually rather than every four years. He quotes a previous editorial and condemns taking over freight business for inadequate rates, calling for weight-based compensation for mail transport.
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Ralph Peters
Postoffice
Folster Post
Congress
Postoffice Department
Font Office Department
German Aims Seen in Eastern Front Moves
The article notes the enemy seeks to seize Lithuanian forts Kovyno Dvinsk and Grodno, occupy western Poland to Warsaw, while Austria aims to free Galicia and push toward Radom and Lublin. It argues Russian reinforcements strengthen defenses and make further advances unlikely.
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Kovyno
Dvinsk
Grodno
Poland
Warsaw
Galicia
Radom
Lublin
Police News Notes Highlight Local Robberies and Incidents
Police notes list robberies and losses including a William P. Malburn item set from Wind sor Lodge, a John R. McCathron box, a Mrs Morrow West note, goods from Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Co, and other thefts. Incidents include a hotel raid by Lieut Catts, a warehouse fire, a streetcar pocket book loss, auto collision on U street, and a death outside 416 Ninth Street Southwest. Coroner notified for Mrs Jennie E Speakman death.
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Pace
Secretary of the Treasury
William P. Malburn
Windsor Lodge
Wisconsin Avenue
Saturday Night Home Savings Bank
John R. McCathron
Twelfth Street
Morrow West
First Street
Ted
Nathan Wheelock
Indiana Avenue Northwest
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
Seventh Street
Luke Fegan
Thirteenth Street
Carroll Hotel
A .E. Sadler
Nineteenth Street
Old Rosa
Ernest HD. Allwine
Twelfth
EB Streets
Iadgar ED
Lgin
Baltimore
Union Station
Pennsylvania
Arebee
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
P. Washington
Jennie E. Speakman
Ninth Street
Nevitt
Peace on Earth and War in Biblical Prophecy
Brooklyn pastor Russell preaches in Cleveland urging that war tan precede the reign of Messiah’s Kingdom. He argues Christ’s message foreshadows a time of trouble, followed by divine rule, universal peace, and the revival of righteousness through the Kingdom strengthening global order.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Russell
Brooklyn
I R & A. Temple
St Paulinger
Daniel
Finwu
Hfe
Great Britain
Earth
Messiah
Church of England
Rome
Church of
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Nish
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Herman Ridder
Musicians
A. C. Hayden
Council
Lewis Gillingham
Wairfax County
Vernondale
Acecotink
Friends’ Meeting House
Woodlawn
B. J. Councilor
Religious Work Committee
Washington Y. M. C. A
Westminster
Second Presbyterian Church
Holmes’ Travelogues
Rivera
America
Cotton Pool
Schwab
West
Chamberlain
Police
Brighton Apartments
California Avenue
U Street
Seventeenth
Eighteenth Streets
John Newbold
Fourteenth Street
Newbold
John Catts
Piedmont
Sixth Street
Missouri Avenue Northwest
Lieut
Catts
M. E. Howes
Simpson
Cale
Nolan
Fourteenth Street Northwest
Phelps Bros. & Co
Walter Jones
Sixteenth Street Northwest
Benning Road
Casualty Hospital
National Press Club
Riggs Building
Corcoran Street
S. C. Cissel
Albert Keck
V Street
Mary E. Brooks
Pastor Russell
Fia
Canada
Aurfala
Scandinavia
Reational Bible Students Association
SSS Sess
Christ’s Kingdom
Ezekiel
Zechariah
Matthew
Jose
Jase
Elin
Phe
Allo Mhen
Vderete
Osaffk
Stdama
Christenday
Porpe Xed
Aero Pest
Misaiah
Rassella
Hicka St Krooklyt
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