Miss Slater Engaged To Sumner Wells For Paris Home
Boston society notes announce Miss Esther Slater daughter of Mrs Horatio N Slater will wed Sumner Wells son of Benjamin Wells of New York in spring. Wells prepared for college at Croton and graduated from Harvard. the couple plan to live in Paris where Wells has business interests. The engagement ties to a $20,000,000 suit and the Slater family’s Beaton society prominence.
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Horatio N. Slater
Benjamin Wells
New York
Washington Post
Boston
Esther Slater
Restoratin XN
Slater
Sumner Wells
Wells
Croton
Starvard
Nelson Slater
Africa
Miss Slater
Bella
Shea
Massachusetts
Beaton
Webster
Germans Still Confident Belief Russia Beaten England Decadent
British eyewitness reports from the front quote a German officer saying Germans feel Russia defeated England decadent and France exhausted yet acknowledge war will last longer than initially expected. The account notes gloomy prisoners but argues it does not reflect true sentiment of all troops.
Socialist Organ Confident Germans Will Emerge Strongest
Berlin dispatch cites the German Socialist Trade Union praising national resolve in 1914. Officials say the war will strengthen unity and discipline, and that Germans will endure for months or years if needed, forging greater solidarity and military resolve.
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Berlin
German Socialist Trade Union
Workmen's Association
Equestrienne’s Leg Break Report Incomplete Details
A fragmentary note reports a rider named Stevens aged three or so from a street in Washington DC having a leg injury after a ride with a liveryman at 1444 P Street NW. The text is garbled with misread words but mentions left leg fracture and ambulance transport to an emergency facility.
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Slix
Warie Stevens
Soway Ave
Miss Stevens
Othe
Unk
Stevens
Lionel Masa
Bullet Proof Armor Warned Fraud By German General
Perris January 8 the general commanding the eighteenth German army corps warns troopers that bullet proof armor advertised for sale offers no real protection and can cause grave wounds when exposed to fire. He notes armor hinders movement and makes work harder and urges caution against such purchases.
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Parla Temps
Pope Weeps Over Frightful War Desolating Humanity
Cardinal Gasparri reports Pope Benedict weeps at the war and cannot stay it. The Pope prays for lighter suffering of prisoners and families and asks governments to show Christian charity to end the frightful conflict desolating humanity.
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Cardinal Gasparri
London
Pietro Gasparri
Daily Chronicle
Pope Benedict
Battle of Four Rivers Won by Czar, Foe Repulsed, Say Russian Experts
London dispatch reports that Russian experts deem the battle of the four rivers ended with German and Austrian forces repulsed along the Bzura Rawka Pilica and Nida lines. Russians hold Bukowina rail link near Hungary, with rumors of Austrian evacuation and panic migrations to Roumania.
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Czar
London
Petrograd
Banka
Bzura
Rawka
Pilica
Nida
Vistula
Warsaw
Kieice
Piaczow
Reform at Sing Sing Cuts Prison Offenses
Auburn Jan 3 Warden Thomas Mott Osborne released December statistics from the new discipline rules at Sing Sing. The inmate court handed 34 minor offense cases, with 28 guilty and 8 not guilty. Supreme Court judgments were affirmed in 6, reversed 1, and 2 pending. Last year 37 inmates were fined, 11 offended and tried, with 45 suspended sentences and severe punishments now abolished.
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Auburn
N. Y
Thomas Mott Osborne
Sing Sing Penitentiary
Prigenere’ Court
Sing Sing
Supreme Court
Thriving in trenches British seek divine aid amid mud
Dispatch from the Tenth German Infantry Division on the Rawka River, Poland, describes harsh trench life with constant rain and freezing temperatures. Despite discomfort, soldiers remain healthy due to strong commissary and field kitchens. Vaccination and rations improvements noted. many show grim determination to endure until homecoming.
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Rawka
Poland
Berlin
Sar
War burden on Jews half of world in eastern zone
Boston financier Louis Brandeis told the Knights of Zion convention in St Bonts that half the world’s Jewish population is in the eastern zone of the European war. He urged American Jews to aid war sufferers and uphold democracy, calling current calamities the greatest since 1492.
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Brandeis
St. Bonts
Loys
Boston
Provisional Committee For
General Zionist Affairs
Knights of Zion
Israel
Spain
Noted skater kills youth in Canada shooting suicide
Utlea Newfoundland and Labrador reports that former champion skater John Morrison shot and killed Esra Alpert, a 22 year old clerk at Franklin Hotel in Tupper Lake Junction, then shot himself. Motive unknown and Morrison may die from his wound.
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Utlea
John Morrison
Canada
Esra Alpert
Franklin
Tupper Lake Junction
Captain Stood Smoking As Formidable Sank
London, Jan 4. Captain Arthur N. Loxley of the battleship Formidable stood on the bridge smoking a cigarette as the ship sank after being torpedoed in the English Channel last Friday morning. Survivors say his last words praised the boat launch despite the disaster, and he calmly ordered the crew to steady themselves, keep cool, and be British.
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London
Arthur N. Loxley
Formidable
English Channel
Lorley
Edison Sees Submarines, War Lasting Two Years
Thomas Edison predicts Europe’s war will endure at least two more years. He notes submarines as top naval offensive tools but foresees defenses repairing ships, and he comments on Germany’s military caste and American business mood. He expects a postwar trade boom and outlines work on a universal music library for his diamond disk phonograph.
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Holigan
New York
Eaiser
Wilson
Edison
Universal Library of Music
Swiss to Remain Neutral, Hoffmann Says
Paris reports Dr. Arthur Hoffmann the retiring Swiss president and foreign minister states Switzerland will stay absolutely neutral. He notes no Swiss control over shipments in sealed cars from Italy to Germany moving through Switzerland, and denies favoring Germany in wheat provisions citing Switzerland’s own scarce needs. He confirms Switzerland is supplying France with shoes and Germany with chocolate but emphasizes neutrality remains intact.
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Paris
Arthur Hoffmann
Switzerland
Berne
Petit Parisien
Hoffmann
Italy
Germany
France
German Chancellor Says Britain's Rulings Hurt Neutrals
Berlin, Dec 14. Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg discusses Belgian relief, contraband, and Britain’s impact on neutral nations. He defends German adaptability, criticizes British censorship, and asserts Germany’s pursuit of relief for Belgians while denying hatred toward France or the Latin powers. He cites Tannenberg and Masurian battles and notes his son’s wounding.
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England
Great Britain
Teutons
Saya Bethmann von Hollweg
Berlin
Tha
von Esthmann- Hollweg
Germany
America
British Official Says Germans Confident of Final Victory
A British official at the front reports that German prisoners appear gloomy but their leaders’ influence is not reflected in troops. He notes Germans expect the war to last longer and deny Russia’s decisive defeat, England’s collapse, or France’s exhaustion.
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Rome
Italy
Cardinal Gasquet
Vatican
Henry Howard
Quirinal
Irish College
Sir Henry Howard
New York Herald
London
de Pembe
Moltke Named Chief of Supplementary General Staff
Berlin reports Lieut. Gen. Count von Moltke appointed chief of the supplementary general staff to handle interior military affairs as the former chief remains unfit for field service. Gen. von Moltke's health declined after influenza and doctors say he must stay active. Infantry Gen. Baron Manteuffel becomes deputy commanding general of the Fourteenth Army Corps.
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Gen. von Moltke
Berlin
London
Count von Moltke
von Moltka
Baron Manteuffel
Fourteenth Army Corps
German Aero Drops Xmas Greetings Dunkirk Visit
A German airman visited Dunkirk during Christmas week dropping peaceful greetings rather than bombs. At the request of a Prussian colonel seeking news of his son buried at Soissons, he distributed letters and cards in the city square from French prisoners and other signatories. The aviator stated his admiration for captured French airmen and included a personal note.
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Dunkirk
Hnen
Soissons
Thore
Wilmarth Escapes Prison in Brussels Case
Parla January 2 An ex banker railroad man and newspaper proprietor Nestor Wilmart, jailed in Brussels for overissuing Ghent Terneussen Railway shares in 1812, has escaped from prison per Basel dispatch. He was sentenced to ten years and fined 80 dollars after swindling 54,400,000. He disappeared in 1912, then was arrested in Risima France. Also report: two Japanese aviators killed in a midair fall between Kyoto and Osaka.
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Parla
Neextor Wimart
Brussels
Basel
Switsserland
Nestor Witmart
Ghent
Terneussen
Risima
France
Kyoto
Japan
Oaska
Rains Silence Guns as German Front Quiets
Paris reports from January 3 state the front remains largely quiet from the Lys to Arras due to steady rain. The army notes heavy bombardment at Zonnebeke, gains near La Boisselle, and artillery duels around Craonne, Perthes, and Verdun with limited infantry progress and multiple trench battles across the Meuse and Vosges fronts.
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Arras
Craouna
Beausejour
Paris
Zonnebeke
Albert and
Rouge
Craonne
Perthes-les-Hurlus
la Grurts
Verdun
Meuse
Bouchon
Treyon
le Pretre
Pont-a- Mouzaon
Politeness via Wire Costs Carranza Dearly
El Paso Texas January 3 Gen Carranza bans telegraphic greetings from Vera Cruz ministry to U S consuls and agents. Consular messages often began with saludelos felicidad and abrazos. Auditors found December courtesy costs at 406 dollars.
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Washington
el Paso
Tex
Carranza
Ministry of Foreign Relations
Vera Cruz
United States
Austrian generals retire from active service
Vienna via London January 3 Emperor Francis Joseph has accepted the retirements of General Lithermum von Frank commander of the Fifth Army Corps and Field Marshal Arthur Preyhborsk. General von Frank who aided Serbia and occupied Belgrade December 2 retires due to ill health.
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Vienna
London
Francis Joseph
Gren
Lithermum von Frank
Fifth Army
Arthur Preyhborsk
Servin
von Prank
Belgrade
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