Severe Weather Grips Nation with Coal Shortage Fears
Intense cold and fuel shortages reach the East and Midwest as subzero blasts press from the Rockies to the Atlantic. Des Moines reports 18 below, Chicago battles blizzards, and Canada endures 48 below. relief is promised only slowly while authorities urge fuel conservation and coal shipments ramp up.
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Ficone
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Keokuk
Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
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Government Weather Bureau
State Fuel Administration
Indiana
Illinois
State Council of Defense
Weather Bureau
Middle West
Oklahoma Line
Canada
Toronto
Ontario
White River
Winnipeg
Cobalt
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic
Minnesota
St. Paul
Minn
Northwest
Moorhead
Duluth
Dakota
Baltimore
New York
Calvin L Kingsley City Builder Dies at Home in Waterloo
Calvin L Kingsley a Waterloo hotel operator booster and real estate dealer died suddenly at his home in Kingbard Hill after a day of business. Born in 1862 in Toledo he came to Waterloo in 1875 and later rose from traveling salesman to manager of the Irving hotel succeeding his father. His wife is ill recovering from surgery.
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Kingsley
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Robert M. Kingsley
Toledo
Hammond Avenue
Jin
West
Bryant & Stratton’s
Business College
Chicago
Irving Hotel
de Soto House
Jefferson Street
Thomas J. Kirkwood
Kirkwood
R. M. Kingsley
Cal
Kingsler
Waterloo Builder Is Taken by Death
Waterloo builder Cal Kingsley, long known for expanding and modernizing the Irving hotel to serve traveling guests, dies. He enlarged the property to 125 rooms, upgraded dining, installed conveniences, and became a personal friend to many patrons, earning a wide circle of influence in fraternal and business circles. His lifelong habit of forming strong friendships began in Waterschool, shaping his career as a practical builder.
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U boat fate at U S hands detailed in navy report
Washington reports full navy department account of the destroyer actions against a German submarine. Fanning and Nicholson engaged the sub during convoy escort on the day after a periscope sighting. Depth charges and gunfire followed as the U boat surfaced. The text notes the submarine’s conning tower and rapid bow rise before continuing on page six.
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Washington, D. C
Navy Department
Fanning
Nicholson
David D. Loomis
Offense Body Under Fire At Senate Probe
Washington reports the war probes spotlight a scrap sorting contract linked to army uniforms. Gen Sharpe faces questions on Samuel Kaplan and Millbrook Mill ownership, while motor truck shortages prompt orders to reserve trucks for training camps. Capt Perefesstestifies the 6 cent per pound price was too high and a second contract handled old wool garments.
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Senate Committee
Council of National Defense
Sharpe
Samuel Kaplan
Millbrook Mill Company
Connecticut
Senator McKellar
Emmanuel Kaplan
Gen. Sharpe
Thames River
Millbrook Company
Senator MecKellar
Rosenwald
Supply Committee
Creel
Committee On Public Information
Greble
Camp Lowie
Senator Hitchcock
Gen. Pershing
Wadsworth
Hitchcock
A. FE. Pereless
Capt. Perefess
Chamberlain
Charles Neisenman
Capt. Pereless
Perejess
President Eats Iowa Butter for Christmas Letter
Special report from Marble Rock that President Wilson received a pound of town butter donated by Mrs. C. D. Easterday for a Red Cross auction in Floyd county. The butter, raised in Union and Scott townships, sold for 587 dollars and was sent to the White House with the wish to grace the president’s Christmas table. The White House autographed reply from President Wilson praised the Red Cross effort and the local sympathy.
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Presten
Wilson
White House
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Hod Cross Auxiliaries of Union and Scott Townships
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Woodrow Wilson
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Red Cross
Union
Scott Townships
Floyd County
Bri. A. Davis
Railways Wage Demands Spark Government Control Debate
Washington December 29 The railroads refuse a 40 percent pay rise demanded by organized employees and push responsibility to the government. Director General McAdoo mobilizes a staff to run railroads as a national unit while a government operation is seen as a step toward ownership. Freight routing changes and a cold snap complicate relief. Cummins committee to continue probe into the rail road situation.
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Pittsburgh
Washington
Madoo
McAdoo
Railroads’ War Board
McAdon
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Shipping Board
Fuel and Food Administrations
Federal Trade Commission
Cummins
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Augota to Sign Separate Peace Seeks Entente Involvement
Bolshevik foreign minister Trotzky says Russia will seek entente participation in peace talks within 10 days or make a separate peace with Germany. British and French leaders reply indirectly. German terms deemed insufficient. Petrograd dispatches show mixed views on German peace reply and Russian unity. Kiev rivals Ukrainian rada declared supreme, Ukraine turmoil grows. Moscow Bolsheviks seize private banks in Moscow.
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Picton
Count Czernin
London
Petrograd
Wim
Daily News
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the Times
Post
Berlin
Peking
Ukraine
Kiev
Rada
Kharkov
Krylenko
Minsk
Pskoff
Moscow
Bolsheviks
Chicago bans Sunday funerals amid driver shortages
Chicago Undertakers' Association reports Sunday funeral ban due to war time driver scarcity except for contagious diseases. The note appears amid a sequence of ads and notices, with a reminder about delivery deadlines and a cigar advertisement for New Years.
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Chicago
Chicago Undertakers’ Association
Rumors of Roumania Royal Abdication Spread from Petrograd
Petrograd dispatch reports persistent rumors that King Ferdinand I abdicated in favor of Crown Prince Charles amid revolutionary plots. Bolshevik sources note a political crisis with overrun territory and royal family in flight from Bucharest, with limited corroboration beyond rumors and wartime confusion.
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Ferdinand of
Heis
Hohenzollern
Ferdinand
Charles
Roumania
Austria
Leopold of
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Sigmaringen
Altho
Olga
Russia
Marie of
U.S. Bankers Taken by Russ Are Set Free
Washington dispatch reports B R Stevens of National City Bank and an assistant were arrested then marched through streets to their bank and released. Embassy reaction to the bank seizure remains unstated. Jay Martins Cigars for New Years.
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U.S
Washington, D. C
B. R. Stevens
Russia to pay railway workers by cost of living plan
London reports that under a new system the council of people's commissaries has divided Russia into 10 districts and railroad workers into 14 classes. Wages will be fixed by living costs, ranging from 46.5 to 51 rubles monthly, with physical laborers receiving an eight to six hour day.
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Council of People’s Commissaries
Petrograd
Russia
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