Texas flood toll rises with Negro victims dominate
Ninety six people are known to have perished in Texas floods with Negro victims making up the majority. The Brazos and Colorado rivers crest nears the gulf as cold weather worsens conditions for refugees. Drownings near Brookshire in Waller county total about twenty as flooding slowly subsides.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
Gulf
Brazos
Colorado
South Texas
Brrazos
Brookshire
Walter County
Wolks
Growth of Banking Power and Bank Failures in 1 Year
The annual currency bureau report to Speaker Clark details the growth and operations of national banks. Only six of more than 7,000 banks went into receivership, with total capital of 4.35 million dollars, while assets were being liquidated. The report covers loans discounts deposits and bank expansion across the United States.
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Washington
United States
Currency Bureau
Thomas P. Kane
Clark
McAdoo
Congress
Seventeen Teams In 21st Madison Square Garden Bicycle Race
The twenty-first annual six day bicycle race in New York began with seventeen teams at midnight and remained intact through eight hours. By noon, twenty-four hours in, all teams had covered 278 miles plus one lap, beating last year’s mark by two miles and three laps. Mr and Mrs George L Van Duyn of 1602 Third Ave West report returning from Mattoon Illinois after a neighbor Howard Thornberry died.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
George L. van Duyn
Third Avenue West
Mattoon
Howard Thornberry
Suffragist Leader Mrs Pankhurst Arrives In London
Militant suffragists gather to greet Emmeline Pankhurst as she returns from Exeter jail. She alights with nurse help, appears weak, and is escorted by a long procession of taxicabs to a nursing home, ambulance and stretcher unused.
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London
Emmeline Pankhurst
Exeter
Another Girl Disappears in New York City
Miss Jessie McGann 28 the daughter of Robert McCann wealthy grocer vanished on Thursday while reportedly en route to a charity home. Police in Greater New York are told to search, with a sighting reported near Wall Street Friday night as family urges Mayor Kline to speed the probe.
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New York
Greater
Jessie McGann
Robert McCann
Thorsday
Dorothy Arnold
Deattute
Wall Street
Kline
Jessie
Mr. McCann
German Crown Prince In Zabern Crisis Ties
In Zabern Alsace Dr Georges Weill, a socialist deputy, says the crown prince aided the soldiers and met with Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg on December 3 the day the parliament passed a vote of noncompetence. Lieut Baron von Forstner said he is effectively retired from the army. In Washington the House passed the Hensley resolution urging Wilson to back Churchill’s idea for a one year international naval holiday.
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Berlin
Zabern
Alsace
Georges Weill
Hetz
Weill
von Bethmann- Hollweg
Baron von Forstner
Ninety-ninth Infantry
Washington, D. C
House
Hensley
Wilson
United States
Winston Churchill
Italian Deputy Wounded After Duel in Chamber Fight
Rome December 8 Deputy Gambarot a liberal was wounded in the forearm by Deputy Giuseppe de Felice Giussrida a socialist after a rapier duel following an incident in the chamber of deputies. The clash ended the quarrel that began in the legislative chamber.
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Rome
Gambarotta
Giuseppe de Felice Giussrida
Chamber of Deputies
Grundy County youths win corn growing honors in 1912
Agnes Friedell of Black Hawk county captured the Grundy County Boy Champion Corn Grower title and a Washington trip after producing 1400 pounds of field corn. Arthur Runft, 17, of Grundy county led state acre corn clubs earning a paid trip to Washington and Niagara. Friedell also tops tomatoes with 118.14 dollars in sales and a 92.88 net profit from a near tenth acre plot. Friedell, a Cedar Falls high student, and Runft were recognized for seed corn testing and bed preparation as key factors.
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Grundy County
Agnes Friedell
Black Hawk
Ames, Jr
Dee
Arthur W. Runft
Grandy County
Friedel
Washington
State Garden
Cedar Falls
Arthur Rungft
Farmers’ Institute
Reinbeck
Women Suffrage Delegation Seeks Wilson Endorsement
A large group of suffrage leaders led by Dr Anna Shaw marched to the White House seeking President Wilson's support for a standing house committee on women’s suffrage. They praised his interview as satisfactory but noted his refusal to send a special congressional message.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
National American Womean’s Suffrage Association
House of Representatives
Congress
White House
Shaw
Washington
D. C
Tec
Suffrage
Treasury
Dr. Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw
Medill McCormick
Susan W. Fitegerald
Wisconsin forms first state land mortgage group under new rural credits law
Marinette Wisconsin December 8 the first state land mortgage association under the new law opened with paid in capital of 25000 tied to Farmers Savings and Trust Co another new unit with 55000 capital. Farmers can apply for loans under the statute long term loans allow annual principal and interest payments. The Marinette association is the first of its kind in the United States with Wisconsin adopting this rural credit system.
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Marinette
Wis
Wisconsin
Farmers Savings & Trust Co
Marinetts Association
United States
Wilson says US seeks no protectorate over Central America
President Wilson denied reports of a new far reaching policy to protect Central American nations or other regions. He clarified the Nicaragua treaty discussions do not create new territorial claims and emphasized no changes in the Platt amendment authority.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
United States
Central America
Globe
Nicaragua
White House
Nicaramaa
Twenty-first Child Born to Emporia Couple
The 21st child was born to Mr and Mrs Alpheus P Mowlander of Emporia Kansas. Mrs Mowlander is 40. The report notes the mother was described as a 10 year old in error.
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Beals
Emporia, Kan
Dev
Non
Mere
Alpheus P. Mowlander
Phoebe Couzins Dies After Trailblazing Career
Phoebe Couzins, noted as the first woman lawyer in the United States and the first U S marshal, died in poverty in St Louis. Her funeral honored her with a silver marshal badge donated by President Cleveland and carried by her brother John Couzins and friends. Two hearses carried mourners including Mrs Willam H Thompson, her childhood neighbor.
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St. Louis
Phoebe Couzins
United States
Washington University
United States Marshal
Cleveland
Cougine
Willam H. Thompson
Couzing
Phoebe
Thompsons
John Couzins
Miss Cousins
New French Cabinet Organized Today Under Doumergue
Paris reports the cabinet under Premier Senator Gan ton Doumergue, not a Socialist, will be organized today at a statesmen conference. Doumergue asks those invited to accept portfolios as the Radical Socialist party remains the chamber’s strongest group.
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Paris
Ganton Doumergue
Doumergue
Radical Socialist Party
Chamber of Deputies
France
Catholic Bishop Converts 200 Parishioners to Episcopal Faith
Rev. Victor Von Kubinyi and over 200 church members publicly renounced Catholicism in South Bend on December 8 and entered St. James Episcopal Church bareheaded. Kubinyi was ordained Episcopal rector immediately after the conversion.
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South Bend
Tsd
Church of America
H. J. Alerdin
Ft. Wayne
Victor von Kubinnyi
St. James’ Episcopal Church
Kubinyi
M'Guire Charges Frameup Amid Bribe Indictment
James K. McGuire ex mayor of Syracuse New York surrendered to the district attorney on an indictment accusing him of soliciting a $5000 bribe from a corporation for the Democratic state committee. He called the charge a frameup and alleged contractor interests hatched the plot. his brother George testified to contractor dealings. In St Louis Judge Sanborn accepted the resignation of Thomas H West as receiver of the St Louis and San Francisco railroad, a member of the Brownsville road syndicate that sold it to Frisco.
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New York
James K. McGuire
Syracuse
N. Y
New Rochelle
Democratic State Committee
John Doe
Tropics
McGuire
Geo. R. McGuire
St. Louis
Walter H. Sanborn
United States Circuit Court
Thomas H. West
San Francisco
West
Brownsville
Frisco
Weather Forecast For Week Whit Washington Area
Real winter weather will prevail across the country next week. The bulletin says the week opens with the lowest temperatures of the season in interior districts east of the Rockies with frost toward the Gulf coast. Temperatures fall on Monday night along the Atlantic coast and remain cool in the east through the week. the extreme west warms early then cools in the northwest later.
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Washington, D. C
Dee
Weather Bureau
Interior
Rocky Mountains
Middle Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic
Senate Eyes Quick Passage of Currency Reform
Washington December 8 Senate debate over administration currency reform aims for passage by December 20 and a swift conference with the House to clear the measure. Senator Swanson backs the plan, praising the president and urging prompt action as he criticizes the current reserve mobilization in New York for fostering trusts and monopolies.
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Senate
Washington, D. C
House
Wilson
Senator Swanson
Banking Committee
New York
Swanson
Lands Case for Illegal Liquor Sale Heard by Jury
A jury was empaneled to hear the state versus P H Landy charged with illegal sale of liquors. County Attorney Hoxie prosecutes while Feely Feely & Clark defend. The case concerns operating a truck to convey liquor from a saloon to Waterloo. Judge Mullan presides.
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State
P. H. Landy
Charles F. Wilson
Chris Venter
TE. A. Randall
H. C. Hebert
W. J. Heldeman
J. J. Heiple
Henry Sondag
H. B. Eliott
L. Bernardy
William Raab
D. N. Nogele
F.C. Schubart
Hoxie
Feely, Feely & Clark
Toms
Waterloo
Mullan
Frost Expected In Northern Florida Tonight
Washington dispatch reports storm from the Great Lakes moving to New England with gales, rain along the Atlantic states, and snow in the Ohio valley and lake region. Frost is expected tonight as far south as northern Florida. Storm warnings flank the Atlantic coast from Eastport to Hatteras.
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Washington, D. C
Great Lakes
New England
Lakes
Atlantic
Atlantic States
Ohio Valley
Lake
Florida
Eastport
Hatteras
Market closes mixed as wheat supply offset gains
Chicago reports a session of weakness with closing prices down 4 8 to 11 4 cents while wheat shows an unexpected rise in visible supply erasing earlier gains. Predictions claim Canada may remove its import duty soon. A dirigible Sachsen arrives Hamburg after a foggy night near Quickborn. A luncheon at Leland Avenue honors visiting guest Mrs J E Crouse of Alba with ten guests and Christmas sewing chatter.
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Chicago
Kr. A. Boggs
Leland Avenue
J. E. Crouse
Albia
H. O. Kelly
Carrie Riley
Lopez Survives Mina Escape Amid Search Update
Kingdom Utah December 8 deputies pressed an airborne search for Talph Lape in a mine after hearing reports of large crates and trucks. They feared a repeat of a deadly November 2 collapse when five workers died and Lopez allegedly escaped days earlier after killing a Mexican miner and three peace officers.
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Kingdom
Utah
Ueir
Fawo
Lopes
Mina
Heeler
Mystery of Rio Grande Fire Rescue Near Diamond Shoals Unsolved
Norfolk reports a passenger evacuation from the Mallory liner Rio Grande after a fire north of the Diamond Shoals. A wireless claimed Captain Dodge of the British steamer Quernmore aided, but the mystery remains as Balti more and Charleston wirelesss say no rescue details.
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Norfolk
Ben
Diamond Shoals
Virginia Beach
New York
Dodge
Bwanmor
Baltimore
Charleston
S. C
Mallory Line
Rio Grande
Brunswick
Virginia Capes
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Sees Women as Presidential Prospects
In Baltimore Dr Shaw, president of the American Woman Suffrage Association, names Jane Addams Carrie Chapman Catt and Mrs Joseph T Bowen as potential presidents. She says Susan B Anthony could have outperformed Lincoln and jokes she would rather be a policewoman than a senator. She argues presidents have been abject failures and calls for gender equality.
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Baltimore
United States
Jane Addams
Joseph T. Bowen
Chicago
Carrie Chapman Catt
Susan B. Anthony
Abraham Lincoln
Anna Howard Shaw
American Woman Suffrage Association
Shaw
Ur Shaw
Villa imposes price controls to aid starving in Chihuahua
Gen Francisco Villa orders foodstuffs sold at peace prices in Chihuahua and other rebel cities. Merchants risk confiscation if they raise prices. Trainloads of supplies to help famished citizens will be shipped from Juarez to Chihuahua once the railroad reopens. A federal escort funded by Luis Terrasas guards the border amid tensions with federals.
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Juarez
Basia
Francisco Villa
Chihuahua
Villa
Mexico
Luis Terrasas
Nuevo Leon
Water loo Baseball fans weigh future at Thursday meeting
The Water loo Baseball association will hold a city hall meeting next Thursday evening to select directors and review officers reports. Fans hope the new board will choose a manager for the coming season as discussions and finances shape the club’s path. The gathering aims to gauge sentiment on leadership and tackle ongoing concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo Baseball Association
Waterloo
Senators Expenditures Revealed in Contingent Fund Record
A Waterloo newspaper reports on a Senate contingent fund disclosure listing purchases from Washington including grapefruit knives hay oats liniment and horseshoes. The memo notes items like pillows bags of salt mineral water taxi fares and dinners for senators during late sessions.
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Washington, D. C
Courier
Alice L
Senate
James M. Baker
Sen
Druxeter
Jamaica
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New York City
Tangled
Pres
Believe Executive
Mr. Wilson
James K. M’guire
Andy Case
Gorn
Gloge
Hamburg
Germany
Sachsen
Oon
Quickborn
DR. Saw
Havana
Roll OF Honor Courier
Iowa
Waterloo Evening Cour Saondorien
Frank Beck
A. L. Alexander
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