U S Gains Status As Global Trade Power In Pratt Report
Washington reports Dr Edward Pratt chief of the Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau says the United States has risen from a provincial to a leading global trade power due to wartime shifts. He warns two main risks finance and skilled manpower, urges expanded foreign banking, branch offices, and coordinated industry efforts to develop overseas markets. Conducting foreign trade requires trained personnel and policy support, with emphasis on dollar trade and liberalized warehousing and free ports.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Edward E. Pratt
Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau
Department of Commerce
Londen
London
New York
Esteblien
England
Germany
Epean
Pratt
Europe
Tumburg
Copenhagen
Treasury
Bureau
Ronve Uw
American Banking
Tmstivati
Eurane Temaits
Ioan
Preit
Cubs Sold to Chas. Weeghman
Corinna Ohio January 5 The Chicago National League club was sold to Charles Weeghman by Charles Taftaday Taft and Tarry F. Sinclair assisted in closing the negotiations giving Weeghman control of the club
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Cubs
Chas. Weeghman
Corinna
Anhicago National League
Charles Weerlasan
Charles BP. Taftiaday
Tarry F. Sinclair
Oklahoma Oil Migrate
Weechhman
Ithe
Temperatures and wind observations from Buchanan area
The brief report lists a sequence of time stamped readings and weather references from midnight to 2 PM, noting temperatures and wind conditions supplied by Buchanan Option Co. The garbled data mentions various numbers and times, indicating a data log of meteorological measurements for a given day in 1944.
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Buchanan Option Co
Farrar concert trip with Misses Becker and companions
Miss Geraldine Farrar will perform in Cedar Haplis. Attending with her group are Miss Exlith LoWoer and pupils Misses Becker Norma Gatser Florence Springe Matinda Whitney and Mrs FG Weston. The party also includes Mrs I Thies and travels today.
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Exlith LoWoer
Ave
Becker
Norma Gatser
Florence Springe Matinda Whitney
FG. Weston
Cedar Haplis
Geraldine Farrar
1. Thies
City in Brief From Waterloo News Items
City in brief items report social visits and illnesses in Waterloo Iowa with mentions of residents in nearby towns. Notes include Mrs. Traphagsn improving after illness, Miss Ina Moss hosting soon, and George Whitson welcoming a daughter. Also mentions of local business moves, theater events, and a church lecture.
Young Woman's club meeting at First Congregational church
The Young Woman's Club of the First Congregational church met at Miss Jessie’s home with Edith Korin of Washington, D C hosting. Attendees discussed naval questions and heard brief remarks about Atlantic activity and shipyard access as Rear Admiral Sanford testified before naval committees.
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First Congregational Church
Jessie
Mijas Edith Korin
Washington, D. C
Ting Hoste
Deep Water
Naval Station
E Tossessor
Sanford
Best advertisements live on the street today
A compact street scene notes that the best ads are those you encounter daily on the sidewalks outside Marsh-Place Building third floor and the $2.50 Shoe Shop. The fragment highlights urban storefronts as informal, effective marketing.
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Marsh-Place
Fire damages Peters home in roof and attic blaze
At about 1 20 in the afternoon the fire department responded to George Peters at 134 Garrison Street where a defective chimney caused a roof fire. Considerable damage occurred to the roof and attic. The ad lists Miller MacCartney firm and contact details for Cadvert agency.
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George Peters
Garrison Street
Receipt Acknowledged for Edmund Ne Wagenaere Fund
The Courier and Reporter records receipt of fourprend from 4 Prend to be applied to the fund for the benefit of Edmund Ne Wagenaere. The notice confirms payment and intended use as specified.
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Edmund Ne Wagenaere
Dry Amendment Introduced in Congress
Washington D C January. Representative Webb chairman of the judiciary committee introduced a resolution to prohibit forever the sale of intoxicating liquors within the United States and territories. The Webb amendment seeks a constitutional prohibition and would empower Congress and states to enforce by near term legislation. Webb predicted the judiciary committee will report the resolution and expect a House vote in the current session. Members favor moving ahead despite election campaigns.
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Washington, D. C
Uris Seselon
Webb
Nourse Judiciary Committee
United Bites
Congress
Judiciary Committee
Sesson
Dle
Ntl
Ford bars funds for gowns and travel for peace delegates
Kopenhagen Jan 6 Henry Ford will not pay for new gowns for certain women peace delegates and will not cover their travel home. Delegates must wear their own gowns or stay in hotels, and those who do not sail with the main party on the Inner Rotterdam will pay their own fares. Mme Schwhnmer helped gain permission for the trip across Germany to The Hague. The press notes this may ruin Allied hopes for the peace expedition. Ford reportedly favors Stockholm for a permanent peace tribunal with Miss Jane Addams among likely members.
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Kopenhagen
Henry Ford
Tague
Gaston Plaintiff
New York
Ford
Enterprise
Plainchey
Europe
Atast
Plaintife
Rotterdam
Mme. Schwhnmer
Germany
Hague
Stockholm
Jane Addams
Berlin inventory sales halted by military order
Berlin reports that military authorities have barred all January sales including white week and closing out events. Advertised price cuts on woven and knit goods and clothing are also forbidden. The normally crowded shopping streets showed a subnormal turnout on the first inventory day.
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Berlin
London
Paris
Grace Jones in Serious Condition After Hotel Poison Attempt
A woman identifying herself as Grace Jones attempted suicide at a local hotel by ingesting bichloride or mercury after a disorderly conduct arrest. She remains in serious condition at Presbyterian Hospital with no change in the last 48 hours and the outcome remains uncertain for several days.
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Grace Jones
Presbyterian Hospital
Jewels of Maharajah Worth Million Lost at Sea
London Jan. 5 A Cairo dispatch to the Evening News reports the jewels of the Maharajah of Kapurthala valued at one million pounds were lost aboard the steamer Persig. The Maharajah’s suite were aboard the ship while the ruler planned to join them at Port Said.
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London
Cairo
Evening News
Kapurthala
Port Said
Maryland Legislature Faces Deadlock Over Speakership
Annapolis Maryland January legislature meets in biennial session amid a deadlock over the House of Delegates speakership that could delay the inauguration of Governor elect Emerson C. Warling. Inauguration date set for next Wednesday.
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Annapolis
Maryland
House of
Emerson C
Fielder Jones Takes Charge Of St. Louis Americans
Fielder Jones, former manager of the St. Louis Federals, assumed command of the St. Louis Americans today and was named second vice president of the club. Also noted is details about a Waterloo study center event next Saturday at West High School with instructors Eva May Luce Elizabeth Hughes and A Lynch.
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Fielder Jones
ST. Louis Americans
St. Louis
St. Louis Federals
T the Club
Waterloo
al West High School
Eva May Luce
Eilizabeth Hughes
A. Lynch
Engiteh
Lodge Notes Elect 1916 Woodmen Officers
Hawkeye camp No. 137 Woodmen of the World elected 1916 officers led by Council Commander F. W. Childs and Advisor W. W. Miller. Installation set for January 18 with a smoker to follow. The order also paid widow Addie S. Mershiser a $1,000 policy draft.
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W. Eleetson
Hawkeye Camp
Woodmen of the World
Fne
F. W. Childs
Leutenant
W. W. Miller
Hawker
Conner
Winslow
Furlong
A. Colllea
A. B. Hayes
Board of Managers
J. P. McLaughlin
M. O’donnell
T. Roberts
E. L. Kolkk
J. R. Thompson
R. E. Russell
Addie
Mershiser
John W. Mershiser
Observe Industrial Relations Day Soon
Industrial Relations Day will be observed by the Central Labor Union at Waterloo on January 19. Frank P. Wahish, chairman of the Industrial Relations Commission, asks Waterloo to plan a national observance at the regular meeting near January 16. The national commission ended by law in 1916 but workers continue as a committee with headquarters in Washington.
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Central Labor Union
Waterloo
W. A. More
Frank P. Wahish
Industrial Relations Commission
Moorg
Unidad
National Commission
Washington
Meana
Moore
Luniong
Austin Garrison
Cedar Rapids
Commission On Industrial Relations
Cambridge University Faces Fight Over Medical School Recruitment
Cambridge aims to resist the Lord Derby plan to recruit medical students for the army and navy, led by Dr. Arthur Everett Shipley. He warns against depleting civilian doctors as England fears a future epidemic, while university authorities prepare to contest any such denuding of students. No recruiting action has yet been taken.
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Cambridge
Eng
Medical School
Lord Derby
Arthur Everett Shipley
United States
Princeton
Christ College
Cambridge Medical School
Shipley
Associated Press
England
Striker Sued for Breach of Promise in Detroit
Frederick P. Striker, a Detroit restaurant proprietor, was named defendant in a $10,000 breach of promise suit by Lola Bellant, a former cashier in his employ for three years. Bellant says Striker promised marriage repeatedly and, after leaving Detroit, sent postcards with endearing names. She learned of his Chicago marriage on December’s eve. Striker wed again in Chicago on October 25.
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Detroit
Mich
Frederick P. Striker
Wayne County
Lola Bellant
Chicago
Striker Geclarest
Will Audit All Municipal Books
State auditors begin a careful investigation of city finances. They started with the waterworks books and will audit city hall accounts next, aiming to finish in about ten days. Reports from the city treasurer, city electrician, plumbing inspector, and other departments will be reviewed, with the library board and park commission vouchers also checked. They will summarize findings and report irregularities to the city council and offer recommendations. Regular intervals will see the auditors repeat the process.
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State Auditing Department
Water Company
City Electrician
Plumbing Inspector
City Hall
Met
State Department
Library Board
Park Commissioners
Begun at football game ends in divorce in Walkerville
A romance started at a Cornell versus Michigan football game in Ann Arbor on November 6 led to an elopement and marriage in Walkerville Ontario. Mrs. Alice M Hissen suing for annulment of her marriage to Frank Hissen, an American Motor Company official, after returning to her parents as Miss Trubbard.
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Marshall, Mich
Roomance
Cornell
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Navy
Walkerville
Ont
Alice M. Hissen
C.lubbard
Pee Marshall
Frank Hissen
American Motor Company
Battersby
Hissen
Trubbard
Nice Lady, Naughty Auto, Miss Square Panic
Mrs Harry E Klein received a $5000 car for Christmas and drove it through Times Square causing panic. She steered onto the sidewalk at 20 mph and smashed the plate glass of Peter Fervieres Broadway shop. Separately the body of R H Burns, Illinois Central machinist, will be sent to Braddock Pennsylvania with funeral services planned at St Josephs church.
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New York
Harry E. Klein
Fitnesi Square
Klein
Peter Ferviere
Broadway
Hoby
Pennsylvania
R. H. Burns
Illinois Central
Braddock
George Schaub
Hillness Central Machine Shop Force
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Waterloo
Mexico City Typhus Scourge Reported
Yalveston Texas January 5 There were 3242 cases of typhus in Mexico City and suburbs during December with 305 deaths in the city An overall communication received by the Mexican consulate here today says the hospital death rate is about 3 percent for treated cases and about 2 percent for other cases There are about 2300 cases currently in the city and suburbs across the report notes
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Yalveston
Texas
Mexico City
Faremess Institute Program For Hudson Meeting
The farmers' institute will be held in Hudson on January 25 to 27 with sessions in the opera house. Day programs run by day, and night meetings are planned on the first two days. Organizers expect a profitable institute and a large attendance.
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Farmers’ Institute
Hudson
Opera House
Bensing
Indeans and the Settle Iowa Life Glimpses
A review notes Rev Charles Brown's volume on early Iowa life, including his observations of Ojibwa and Sioux Indians from 1842 to 1851. The text describes their visits to settler camps, their generally friendly but wary nature, and their impressive appearance with wigwams ponies robes blankets bows arrows and guns.
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Piojnear
Iowa
Charles &. Brown
State Historical Society of
Mr. Brown
William C. Brown
Catinue
Towa
Mississippi River
Plan giant levee project to guard Imperial Valley
Washington Jan 5. The War Department recommends constructing two levees sixteen feet high and nine miles long at the current volcano lake site to protect the Imperial Valley of California from Colorado River floods. The report was sent to Congress today.
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Washington, D. C
Volcano Lake
Imerial
California
Congress
Steubenville Votes Wet in Special Election
Steubenville voters approved a wet liquor measure by 271 votes after a special election held yesterday. Wet 2,462 dry 2,191, ending two years of local dry status. The result shifts local policy amid ongoing retail closures and changes.
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Steubenville
Votes for Women a Challenge to Lowans
Miss Alice B Curtis joins Iowa Equal Suffrage organizers as they urge 506000 voters to vote yes on the June 5 amendment. They stress Iowa’s literacy and education, noting 25000 women teachers and 26000 women in shop and factory work who seek full citizenship to educate and empower their families and communities.
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Iowa
Missi
Alice B. Curtis
Lue Union
Massachusetts
Trinois
Jimnes
Mothers of
Foresters of America and auxiliary announce meetings
Court Lucky No 62 will meet in A O A Wi hall at 7 30 this evening with the organizer present and new members invited. Helen Gould auxiliary No 2 meets at 2 30 tomorrow in Memorial hall for officer installation with a social hour after. Spanish War Veterans hold installation meeting tomorrow in Memorial hall and comrades are urged to attend. The Woman's Relief Corps thanks florists for plants used at the dedicatory service yesterday. A Greek note presented at Sofia protests arrests of consuls and Greece vows to support central powers while seeking good relations.
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Court Lucky
Order of Foresters of America
The
Foresters of America
Helen Gould
Memorial Hall
Woman's Relief Corps
Galloway Brothers
Kembles and
Sherwoods Florists
Berlin
Sxyville
Sofia
Premisr Radoslavoff
Saloniki
Greece
Henry Myers Married in Chicago to Miss Clara Rollins
Waterloo friends report the marriage of Henry John Myers of Waterloo to Miss Clara Alvord Rollins in Chicago on December 22. The groom, about 50, is well known in Waterloo. The bride's residence is not stated, but Chicago is believed.
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Waterloo
Chicago
Henry John Myers
Clara
Alvord Rollins
Slyers
Coal camps praised by federal inquiry official
Trinidad Colo Wao March 3 General conditions in the coal camps of southern Colorado were the subject of favorable comment by Patrick J. Glilday a member of the federal commission investigating the industrial situation in the Colorado coal fields in a statement here today.
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Trinidad
Colo
Wao
Colorado
Patrick J. Glilday
Federal Commission
General Volda with 500 Men Ready for Fight
General Villa with Generals Jose Rodriguez Guedes and Hernandez and five hundred troops have assembled in the San Buens Centura valley southwest of Casas Grandes per Mexican Consul Andreas Garcia to General Obregon. A concrete arch rests on a bed rock in a New Hampshire cemetery to support stones on soft ground. The U.S. Navy plans a wireless Cape Cod station to guide Atlantic vessels in fog.
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Fl Paso
Tex
Francisco Villa
Jose Rodriguez
Geneceles
Hernandez
San Buens Centura
Casas Grandes
Andreas Garcia
Obregon
New Hampshire
United States Navy
Cape Cod
Atlantic
Farmers Grange Endorses Suffrage at Springville Meeting
Linn County Farmers Institute at Springville declares support for equal suffrage in view of the June primary constitutional amendment. Nearly all members vote for a resolution endorsing women’s enfranchisement as a logical democratic step. The Inwood Grange to host a suffrage talk by Elizabeth Perkins on January 27.
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Farmers of
Linn County
Farmers’ Institute
Springville
Iowa
Linn County Warmers’ Institute
National
Farmers’ Grange
Inwood
Elizabeth Perkins
Étate Board
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