German peace referendum plan stunned by Berlin offer
United Press reports a dramatic German proposal for a Europe wide peace referendum as a condition of a future warless era. Chancellor Cuno’s Berlin government outlined the idea to Britain France Germany and Italy with Paris already countering it amid secrecy and diplomatic denials.
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Oriant
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Cuno
Berlin
Hamburg
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State Department
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Italy
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Dstone USA
Peo Secratnyyr
Hughes Lalas
Tasserand
Elie
Tasserand Inform
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Hughes
Vlacthe Siinnort
Unitad
Mannpe
United States
Paris
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Fruebas
Statn Pyllins
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Harding
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Council of Allied
Rhineland
Ruhr
laid _Curzon
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Quai A’ Orsay
Fremier Poincare
Marshal Foch
Courier delivery details and contact times
The Courier should be delivered to your home before 5 30. If you do not receive your paper on time due to carrier error contact the office at 3320 before 6 30 P.M. A copy will be sent.
Son Missing After Skate Club Vanishes From Home
Eva Walker of 4/3 Wayard Street mourns as her 15 year old son Charles Walker remains missing since Thursday. Police report unavailing traces despite interviews with skating companions who described a strange youth known as The Dude and his tales of travels and adventures.
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Charles Walker
Eva Walker
Wayard Street
Vles
Black Hawk Creek
Very Wet New Year Weather Across Eastern States
Washington reports a very wet start to the new year across the eastern seaboard and northern regions. The Weather Bureau says some improvement was seen as revelers returned home, with forecasts of clearer and moderately cold weather to follow. Prohibition agents remained active amid the widespread precipitation.
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Washington, D. C
Seaworth
On Prohibition
Weather Bureau
British Subjects Plan Escape From Constantinople
Report says British subjects prepare to flee Constantinople due to renewed hostilities. They intend to proceed to Malta and Cyprus, according to an unofficial report.
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Constantinople
Malta
Cyprus
Witness in Louisiana murders vanishes amid terror probe
Mer Rouge Louisiana January 1 investigators hunt HL Teegeston a key prosecution witness in the Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards slayings by a masked group He disappeared December 29 threatening to erase Burnett alibi claims and raising fears of kidnaping by the terrorists officials.
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United Press
Mer Rouge
Watt Daniels
Thomas Richards
HL. Tergeston
Teegeston
T. S. Burnett
Daniels
Richards
Morehouse
Daniely
Southern Carbon Company
Burnett
Labor Now Knows Its Invincibility Says Gompers
Washington Jan 1 Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor declared in a New Year statement that labor organized in federations and finally in one great federation now knows its invincibility and looks forward with confidence and courage to its cause.
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Washington, D. C
Samuel Gcompers
American Federation of Labor
Greek Turmoil Amid Turkish Military Buildup Near Constantinople
Reports from Athens say Turkish nationalists mass troops toward Constantinople and Mosul as Greek Allied pressures rise. Forces are reported moving to Dizmart, near the Tigris, and toward Ada bazar as a drive toward the Bosphorus is feared if Greece and allies do not back down.
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United Press
Athens
Jan. J
Constantinople
Mosul
Holyity
Leusenne
Conerge
Bosphorus
Dizamart
Tigris
Adabazar
Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversary Public Library in Chicago
Chicago marked the library system's fiftieth anniversary today under Women’s clubs auspices. Events run all week. The institution began in a water tank atop City Hall and now spans a square with many branches serving all districts. 1922 book circulation reached 8,000,076, up from 7,472,765 in 1921.
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Chicago
Chicago Public Library
Conqueror of Sun Yat Sen Falls Back
Forces under Gen. Chen Chiung Ming, once credited with ousting Sun Yat-Sen, retreat from Wuchow on the Hwangtung border. Pro Sun Yat-Sen loyalists from Yunran and Wangsi provinces seize Canton area as they occupy Wuchow.
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Sun Yat-Sen
Associated Press
Canton
Chen Chiung Ming
Southern Republic
Wuchow
Kwangsi
Hwangtung
Yun- Ran
Wwangsi
Air Bomb Falls on Plane Over Massad Country India
A British air force pilot and observer were killed when a bomb from a attacking plane dropped on a nearby machine flying below in the Massad country of India. The blast caused a second explosion on the lower aircraft.
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London
Massad
India
Fifty Families Flee Fire in Fashionable Chicago District
Fifty families fled an upscale Chicago apartment building in their night clothing after a fire threatened the structure. The blaze followed two explosions in a grocery store on the ground floor.
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Chicago
West End
New York Dry Squad Raids Broadway Cabarets on New Year
Federal prohibition agents and New York police launched raids across Broadway and nearby streets arresting more than 1000 people for alleged violations. Major venues visited included Shapley's Moulin Rouge The Plantation Monte Carlo and Gypsy Land as crowds clashed and bottles and chairs flew at several hotels and cafés.
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Chase Ulman
Ullman
Aj Wankel
New York
New York City
Broadway
Shapley’s
Moulin Rouge
Cabiarets
Minister Memorizes New Testament and Large Part of Old
A minister of the Disciples of Christ denomination memorizes the entire New Testament and much of the Old. He preached at several churches yesterday, occupying pulpits and telling Bible stories in his own words to congregations.
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Agn
Henry
Disciples of Christ
Mainner
Old England
Tysoy
Harvey Lands With Data for Harding
George Harvey, self titled international messenger boy and ambassador to the court of St James, arrives in New York delivering European doings to President Harding and Secretary Hughes. He heads to Washington to discuss reparations and the British debt plan with Cabinet members amid claims Britain will pay in full.
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New York
George Harvey
International
Court of St James
Wan Haro Tuley
Tardis Wit
Hughes
Harvey
Barengaria
Graat Britain
United Suites
Washington
Great Britain
United States
London
Court of St. James
Freeman to Face Juvenile Court Hearing on Support Charge
Indianapolis January 1 N C Freeman husband of Mrs Freeman is charged by his wife with being the Indianapolis state organizer for the Ku Klux Klan and will be given a hearing in Juvenile court tomorrow on a charge of failure to support his wife and two children Merrill 12 and Kenneth 6 The wife testi fied that Freeman joined the Klan during the war even though he did not live with or support her and her children Attorneys for Freeman denied he claimed exemption from the draft on false grounds.
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Indianapolis
Ind
N. C
Freeman
Mexican shoots four in jealous frenzy
In Zanton Ohio a Mexican laborer, 22 year old Joseph Farnantez, allegedly driven mad by jealousy, opened fire inside the Rich home killing Mrs. Elizabeth Rich, 26, and her daughter Elizabeth, 3, and wounding Peter Rich, 13, and Gminte Rich, 45.
Yale Student Killed on Holiday Vacation
A Yale student, Tuan pol Taaha Ja Courtland Camp FE, aged years, died from injuries after his car ran off an embankment and landed in a creek. He was spending Christmas holidays at home.
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Tuan Pol Taaha
Courtland Camp
Vian
Perdwa & Iron Co
Yale
Bernhardt Faces New Fainting Spells
Actress Sarah Bernhardt suffers a new fainting spell raising concern among her doctors as she nears recovery from a recent breakdown. Medical advisers note the episode heightens vigilance over her condition and treatment.
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Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt
A New Year Soul-Stretch
A devotional verse urges self discipline and spiritual striving in a prayerful reflection. The speaker asks for grace to walk righteously and to live as messengers of peace, seeking God’s presence amid worldly Babel.
Gates College Forms From Eklund Business School Merger
Waterloo evolves its higher education sector as Gates College absorbs Eklund Business College effective June 1 1923. The move consolidates private business training, expands courses to a junior college level, and creates a fully accredited institution led by A F Gates Bruce Gates and Mary S Horner with long tied faculty continuity.
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Gatey Waterloo Buusiness College
Waterloo
Teal IL
Sears
Buvineas Callegas
Duyineia College
Waterton
Gates College
Messrs
A. F
Bruce Gaites
Courges
Eklund
Eklund Business College
Eklond Business College
Waterloo College
Eklond, Business College
Thomas Tobin
Fifth
Jefferson Streets
W. H. Barrett
Fourth
Commercial Streets
A. PL Gates
Mr. Garrett
Tobin College
Waterloo Normal College
W. Ti. Brown
Tater
Gates
Hl. Corton
Mary S. Morner
W. Is Hager
Air Corton
Miss Jierner
Jierner
Lanlding
Y i Gates Codlege
Gewest
Ekhund Zine
Admon F. Gates
Mary S. Horner
FB. L. Corton
Davenport Enjoys Quiet New Year Eve in Rock Island's Shadow
Davenport on January 1 reported a quiet New Year's Eve with crowded theaters cafes and dance halls but no arrests for intoxication or disorder. The absence of Rock Island vice resorts is seen as reducing bootlegger activity that once fed Davenport's thirst.
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Davenport
Rock Island
Dreanport
New York
Slick-Domed Bandits Nabbed In Chicago Robberies
Five flamboyant thieves described as filppers with expensive clothes and patent leather shoes were arrested by Chicago police in connection with numerous robberies and holdups. They allegedly offered information to police about past crimes as victims viewed them in jail.
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Chicago
Filipper
Garbad
Spolice
Hungary Bars Whitman and Lenin Writings
Hungary bans works by Walt Whitman Karl Marx and Nikolai Lenin as destructive. 105 Magyar language newspapers in Central Europe and the United States are barred. only American Magyar Wapslava papers remain allowed.
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Budapest
Walt Whitman
Karl Marx
Nikolai Lening
Soxchidel
Hungary
Europe
United States
America
Amerikal Magyar Wapslava_ zs
Trio Arrested in Chicago May Aid Clinton Owa Murder Case
Three men, including a relative of the slain Brownsfield couple, were arrested in Chicago as investigators pursue leads in the November murder of Herman and Irene Brownsfield keepers of a Clinton area grocery. Officials say Meadows bought cartridges before the killings and deny involvement.
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Chicago
Bly Witte Pressey Chirico
Clinton
Herman
Tose Brownsfieldt
Lincoln Highway
Charles Meadows
Brownsfield Place
Walter Ha
Leo Fisher
Meadows
Uncle Sam Starts Year Paying Off War Debt
Washington reports the new year begins with a large war debt refinance effort. Secretary Mellon aims for tighter spending and new revenues while dealing with about 1.5 billion dollars in obligations maturing in early 1923.
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Uncle Sam
International
Washington, D. C
Simx
Tosday
Treasury Department
Mellon
Treasury
Congress Organizes United States of Russia
Moscow reports the first congress of the United States of Russia convening after a treaty creating the union. Nicolay Glenine acts as temporary chairman while the red army guards the common frontier and merger brings renewed compactness to Russia with two states in the union.
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Moscow
United States of Russia
Union of Russian Republics
United States of America
Nicolay Glenine
Red Army
Russia
Unicn
Three Die in Auto Collision West of Arlington
Three killed outright and one dying with three others seriously injured when an automobile carrying seven youths struck a grave truck on the Fort Worth pike three miles west of Arlington Texas this morning. Victims were taken to Fort Worth and include P. Calhoun of Dallas and Stanley Davis of Dallas. One injured man reportedly dying at a sanitarium in Cooke Bay.
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Fort Worth Pike
Here
Fort Worth
P. Calhoun
Dallas
Stanley Davis
Haig
Cooke Bay
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