Russia’s dry decree upheld as ban extends to all alcohol
Petrograd and London report Russia’s prohibition decree remains in force after city councils reject attempts to permit sales of beer and light wines. Officials note enforcement reaches denatured alcohol varnish and any alcoholic compound needing a permit, while restaurants and liquor dealers face sharp declines in patronage.
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Petrograd
London
Russia
Moscow
Theorister
Obituary notices dated December 1914 to January 1915
A sequence of death notices and funeral details appears for multiple individuals across Washington areas. Entries mention Emmilly Browne, Henry C Freitag, Clifton F Harrison, Eulitin B Hogan, Admiral Henry L. Howison, Phineas Janney, Maude Killmann, David W Lewis, Barbara Miller, Fohn Eb Parker, Stephen Beinstrin, with funeral dates and burial places across Glenwood Cemetery Oak Hill and local parlors.
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Rowne
O Cooke
Hay Bank
Hampton
Emmilly Browne
Washington, D. C
Freitag
Ninth Street Northwest
Henry Co
Henry L
Henrietta L Ffeitare
Frank Geler
Etreet
Prospect Phil Cemetery
Farrisom
Clifton $F Harrison
Glenwood Cemetery
Togan
Eiletin B. Hogan
Laurel
Hosong & Barnett
Massachusetts Avenue
Tuowtron
Yonkera
NW. Y
Henry Lycurgus Howison
Yonkers
Oak Hill Cemetery
Washington
Nney
Phineas
Samuel Wu
Elizabeth Janney
Loom
T Lincoln
Loudoun County
Killmann
Maude
Toht
Illmean
Wn C. Thompson
Hock ‘Creek
Lewis
David W Lewis
Varyes
M & Son
Fourteenth Street
Miller
Barbara Miller
Providence I Hospital
Potomac Avenue
Parker
Sune B. Parker
Severty
Calvert Street
Yao Om
German Armies Not Weaker at Front Says Parliament Member
London dispatch reports Col Arthur Leese at the front warns against underestimating German resistance. He argues the Germans are skilled and brave, and that Britain must mobilize every fighting man and penny to sustain the war effort.
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England
Parliament
Washington Post
London
Arthur Leese
Four German Spies Arrested Near Swiss Frontier
Geneva report states four German spies were arrested yesterday at Delle near the Swiss border. They were moved by train to Belfort for court martial after authorities found compromising documents on the men.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Delle
France
Belfort
Tets
France and Japan Push Trade Ties Post Germany Losses
Paris moves to win German market share lost to war. Gaston Thomson leads a Paris Chamber of Commerce push to expand French exports, forming a committee to organize trade expansion. In Tokyo, the government aids Nipponese firms by extending export trade to South China and South Sea islands with Bank of Japan backing. The Bank of Formosa will receive facilities to support this effort while the Japan Russian Society seeks markets in Siberia, aided by authorities and the Russian embassy.
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Tokyo
Far East
South China
South Sea Islands
Siberia
Paris
Jan. L
France
Gaston Thomson
Paris Chamber of Commerce
Hme
Germany
Tien mM
Ministry of Finance
South Sea
Yokohama Specie Bank
Bank of Formosa
Shanghai
Hkiukiang
Amoy
Swatow
Fuchow
Canton
Bank of Japan
Huasian
Sibenan
Norwegian Steamer Odeneence Wrecked After Reef Collision
Torpedo boat reports the Norwegian steamer Odeneence struck a reef just after leaving Rotterdam Friday morning and will likely be a total wreck. Fire crew of 42 were saved.
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Odeneence
Reef
Rotterdam
Tlarwich
Eng
Fier
New Year Receptions Across Washington Honor President
Foreign dignitaries, ambassadors, and lawmakers called at the White House to extend New Year greetings to the President who played golf and rode in an automobile. Congress adjourned for recess as private dinners and theater parties marked the day. Local groups including G A R auxiliaries held receptions at the New Ebbit and other city venues amid religious services and charity events for orphans and missions across the District.
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White House
King George
George
Great Britain
United States of America
Gustaf
Sweden
Haakon
Norway
Legion of Loyal Women of the Instrict
Tenth Street Northwest
Ada H. Weiss
Albertina Odell
A. E. Ball
Margaret Knapp
Mary S. Lockwood
St. Joseph's Male
Wass Wes
Michael Gallagher
James F. Barbour
Anaca
St Ann's Infant Asylum
St Vinecent’s
Union Engine House
H Streets
Theodore W. Noyes
William H. Singleton
Grand Army of the Republic
White Room
New Ebbitt
Women's Relief Corps
Department of the Potomac
Georgiana D van Fleet
Isabella T. Bagley
Natonal
Relief Corps
Isabelle World Brill
Alice Stein
Guare Palmer
Lucy Weaver
Davis
Dent
J. K. Greason
Army of the Potomac
Sue Browning
Department of Iowa
G. Afr
Hall
Daughters of Veterans
J. K. Gleason
Col. Joyce
Col. Tasker
Judge Ross
Walker
Kimball
Sons of Veterans
B. H. Warner
The
Loyal Order of Moore
G Street
Lodge and Masonic Hall New Year events with music
The ft night program at the lodge featured director B F Bond and soloists Albert Stahl Herman Jacobs Joseph Apolonio and Philip Kronheim. A W Canfield presided with a large assisting committee. Four hundred couples joined a progressive euchre party in honor of lady guests. Mizpeh Chapter hosted over 800 at the annual New Year reception at Masonic Hall with an old Virginia reel. About 600 attended a New Year celebration concert at the YMCA gym with Antoni Kaspar Mary Sherrier Isoprang Richard Bayking Emma Bender and Maurice Jarvin performing.
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Lodge
B. F. Bond
Albert Stahl
Herman Jacobs
Joseph Apolonio
Philip Kronheim
A. W. Canfield
Washington Moose
Charles B. Yerry
H. N. Vanhess
H. Disney
H. C. Hopper
T. J. Lanahan
Thomas Ryan
Robert Morrison
L. Harvesten
Mizpeh
Order of the Fantern Star
LO. O. M
Masonic, Hall
Georgetown
Wisconsin Avenue
Memie Klenkley
Reuben A. Bogley
Arthur Pointon
B. W. Murch
Antoni
Kaspar
Mary Sherrier
Richard B. Bayking
Eimma
M. Bender
Mra
Maurice Jarvin
Special Services Held in Washington Churches
Catholic and Episcopal churches marked the Feast of the Circumcision with solemn mass and benediction. Other denominations hosted New Year receptions at church and pastor homes. Franciscan and Dominican monasteries held morning high mass followed by complines. St Patrick and St Matthew priests led solemn mass with assistants. Episcopal churches offered morning communion and prayers. Nativity Church hosted a New Year reception by parish men at its new location.
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Church of the Nativity
Mrs Ida McNab Seeks $500000 Suit Transfer To Michigan
Milwaukee boarding house keeper and former social worker Ida McNab sues J B Kinney of Washington for breach of promise seeking half of Kinney interests. She plans to move the case to Michigan courts where Kinney properties lie, with possible transfer to Ishpeming Escanaba or Iron Mountain. Attorney Henry F Cochems says the move will be sought after the new year. The damage claim centers on a written agreement to turn over half Kinney holdings. McNab abandoned charity work among foreign miners after learning of the promise. Kinney’s principal property is the Hammer Man mine.
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Washington Post
Milwaukee
Wis
Ida McNab
Michigan
J. 8. Kinney
Washington
Upper Michigan
Ishpeming
Escanaba
Iron Mountain
Kinney
Henry F. Cochems
McNab
Cabinet Crisis in Sofia Over Foreign Minister Post
The anti Russian party demands admission of former foreign minister M. Guenadieff to the cabinet as foreign min ister, sparking a cabinet crisis. The premier would appoint him to a portfolio but not as foreign minister, while the government seeks support from the democratic party.
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Eee Reel Enema
London
Bosla
Bulgaria
The
Times
MS Guenadieff
M. Guenadieff
Democratic Party
Russians Pour Into Hungary In Four-Point Advance
From Budapest dispatches the Daily Mail Roma n correspondent reports Russians invading Hungary from four points. Refugees flee to Budapest as panic spreads after a rapid Austrian retreat. Public meetings are prohibited in Budapest as authorities respond to the advancing forces.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Budapest
Hungary
Bude- Peat
Germany denies Kaiser sought peace with France
Berlin reports a Paris cable claim that Germany offered a September peace plan with France restoring Alsace and Lorraine to France and taking Belgium. The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung strongly denies any such move saying Germany never contemplated restoring Alsace and Lorraine.
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Berlin
Seauville
Journal de Geneve
Geneva
Switzerland
Germany
France
Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Alsace
Lorraine
Belgium
Norddeusche Allgemeine Zeitung
Ex-Wife’s Friend Denies Separation Pact Amid Poison Plot
Washington Post Special report from New York details lawyer Lortus Elton Rogers denying any separation pact with his wife Caroline Giddings-Rogers as Ida Sniffen Rogers lies dying in Lebanon Hospital. She remains unaware her daughter Lorida is dead while young John Jr. might survive amidst mercurial poisoning.
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Larrys Elton Rogers
New York City
Lebanon Hospital
Ida Sniffen Rogers
John
Gisa
Loridsa
Caroline Giddings Rogers
Beard Rogers
W.W. Grant Hague
Rogers
Washington Post
New York
Lortus Elton Rogers
Bronx
Anna Roquemora Rogers
West Ninety-sixth Street
Mra
Ids Rogers
W .Grant Hague
N.L. Jacobs
Mr. Jacobs
Ida Rogers
Caroline Giddings-Rogera
Mra. da Rogera
Ian Lebanon Hospital
Prof
Franklin H. Giddings
Lorida
First Radium Eye Cancer Treatment At Bellevue Hospital
New York report states James Grogan a 46 year old laborer with cancerous growth on the eyelid received the hospital’s first radium treatment. A 100 milligram dose valued at $12,000 was used with silk and lead shielding, exposing only the eyelid for twenty minutes. Doctor Bissel deemed the case greatly benefited and predicted two more applications may cure, with the next treatment in about ten days.
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New York
Jan. L
Bellevue Hospital
James Grogan
Joseph B. Bissel
Brasell
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