City Grants Electric Franchise With 25 Year Term
Citizens Gas & Electric Company wins a near five year franchise approval conditioned on voter support for a special election on February 14. The deal includes a new 800,000 dollar power station and electricity rate reductions for street lighting and public buildings, with rates preserved for private customers at 63 dollars per year per light for 125+ lights and gradual reductions over six years. Construction to begin in spring along the riverfront, with seawall work tied to the project.
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Citizens Gas & Electricompany
J. Valentine's Day
Iowa
Wa‘tloo
Vsible
Bosy
Imipany
Lafayette Reef
Foorth Street
Naois Central
Union Mil Olfials
Commercial Eitibid Chamber of Commerce
Austin Buri
Jeft
Philadelphia
Aulit
Safe Submarine Warfare Reply From Briton On Austro Hungary Repatriation
London dispatch reports Sir Edward Grey condemning Austro Hungarian submarine tactics. In addressing a request to shield Austro Hungarian repatriates aboard the Golconda, Grey questions the notion of protecting only their subjects and urges Vienna and Berlin to follow accepted humanitarian wartime rules. He links such attacks to a deliberate policy rather than accident.
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London
Edward Grey
Walter H. Page
India
Golconda
Sir Edward Grey
Hemse
Bettes
Persia
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Moosers Plan People Meet in Chicago in June
The national Progressive party committee met in Chicago to set a time and place for the national convention likely in Chicago during the week of June 7, aligning with the Republican gathering. Roosevelt sent a telegram urging preparedness in mind and spirit, joined by messages from Hiram Johnson and A. J. Beveridge. All states except Arizona and Mississippi were represented.
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Chicago
Progressive Party
T. R
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
messRees
Hiram Johnson
California
A. J. Beveridge
Indiana
Union
Arizona
Mississippi
Koenig Indicted On New Charge Sparks Manhunt
New York police search for Paul Koenig the so called chief of Hamburg American secret service after a new misdemeanor indictment. He is on $50 000 bail on a prior conspiracy to blow up the Welland canal. A magistrate issued a warrant accusing him of corruptly influencing Frederick Scheindl to deliver letters and telegrams. Scheindl was arrested and released on bail. Federal grand jury probes alien plots may yield more indictments. edges of the conspiracy are only touched so far.
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New York
Jas
Paul Koenig
Mne
Secret Service
Liberty
Welland Canal
Koenig
Frederick Scheindl
National City Bank
Scheindl
Federal Grand Jury
Jane Addams Before Congress Talks Peace
Jane Addams of the women’s peace party told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that all warring European nations would welcome a war end without sacrifice. She said high officials from Holland, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian nations assured her they would join a U S peace conference if the United States called it, or would join if the U S joined.
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Washington
Jane Adams
Women's Peace Party
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Europe
Holland
Switzerland
United States
Illinois Legislature Opens Special Session
Springfield reports the second special session of the Illinois legislature met at noon to discuss changes in state prime and election laws and to provide additional appropriations for losses during the foot and mouth epidemic. The session also recommended state control over sale and manufacture of hog cholera serum.
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Springfield
Illinois
Dunne
English Ranch Manager Killed by Villistas
Washington D C Jan 11 Patrick Keane manager of the Hearst ranch near Matera Mexico reported in El Paso to have been murdered at Rubico by General Medinavellia formerly with Villa s army His death is linked to a feud with Villa supporters who accused him of killing Villa soldiers suspected of stealing cattle Keane is described as an Englishman
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Washington, D. C
Patrick Keane
Hearst
Matera
Mex
el Paso
Rubico
Medinavellia
Villa
State Department
Keane
Strikers at Youngstown Resume Work as Probe Opens
A jury investigation into the Youngstown Sheet & Tube strike resumed with witnesses testifying. Gates at Republic Steel & Iron reopened, about 1,000 of 7,000 workers returning to duty amid a quiet scene with no pickets or disorder reported in Youngstown Ohio.
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Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company
Republic Steal &Iron Company
Althe
Youngstown
Jau
Fire destroys Friedman department store district
Ottumwa Iowa January 11 firemen battled a blaze that destroyed five stores in the Friedman department store area causing an estimated loss over 500000. Patrolman Lightner and another officer narrowly escaped as flames fed an elevator shaft collapse. Store managers suffered cuts from falling glass as walls gave way. Incendiary fires were reported and a police inquiry ordered.
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Ottumwa
Friedman
Lightner
John Jacques
Stevens
Sloan
Swirles Dry Goods
Nelson Cloak Company
Woolworth's Fire
Ten Cent
Stevens Shoe Company
400 000 Railroad Men Vote On Eight Hour Day
GMeago Jan 11 Nearly four hundred thousand railroad workers started voting on an eight hour day and time and a half for overtime. Ballots went to engineers firemen conductors trainmen switch men and baggage men. If accepted the unions plan to present the demands to the roads via a joint committee in March. Officials estimate an annual increase of about 150 million dollars for all railroads in the United States.
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Gmeago
Chicago
United States
Austrian submarine sinks Italian liner Porto Said
Overseas News agency reports the Austrians sank the Italian liner Porto Said in the Mediterranean last month after a submarine torpedoing it. The liner was said to have attempted to ram the submarine, with six passengers and one crew member killed.
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Berlin
Sayville
Porto Said
Mediterranean
Porte
Altho
Milan
Democratic banquet lauds Wilson policy and the Bank
The Jacksonian banquet in the Russell Lamson hotel featured speakers praising the Democratic administration’s federal reserve system and tariff stance. W W Marsh urged effort for Woodrow Wilson’s campaign, citing mothers and soldiers spared from war and condemning Republican critics of rural mail routes.
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America
Mothers of America
Mexico
Europe
Russell-Lamson Hotel
Black Hawk County
Jackson Club
W W. Marsh
Toas Master
Jackson
Wilson
Mars
Marsh
Democratic Party
Ha Bald
Woodrow Wilson
Rmost
Oyster Bay
Belgium
Roosevelt
Religgham
Mr. Marsh
Wileon Anil
Hay Proposes Substitutes for Garrison Plan
Washington D C Jan 11 Chairman Tay of the house military committee urged President Wilson to strengthen the national guard with regular pay and eventual transfer to the regular army in war time. He argued this would raise 130 900 men into regular service now and 400 000 within two years, proposing to expand existing regiments to war strength rather than create ten new ones. The draft bill and administration plans differ, with Wilson endorsing the continental army despite Tay’s alternative, and cabinet discussions continuing as committees prepare to act in about eleven weeks.
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Washington
D.D. C
Antionil Guard
War Department
Wilson
Tay
House Military Cou- Mines
Mr. Way
National Guard
Efe
Hay
Continental Army
Flay
House
Supreme Court Upholds Federal Drug Misbranding Law
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the 1902 Shering amendment to the federal Pure Food Law as constitutional. It targets the sale of falsely labeled nostrums and extends to statements inside the package, affirming Congress aimed at inside the label and printed matter. Justice Hughes stated the misbranding prohibition covers inside the package.
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Washington
Shering
Supreme Court
Congress
Charles K. Hughes
Newlands Attacks Party Record Foresees Defeat
Washington, D C November 11 Senator Newlands of Nevada Democrat attacked his party s record in the Senate delivering a prepared speech criticizing the tariff and banking reforms of the Wilson administration He warned that ongoing industrial and commercial low mood under Democratic control could bring defeat in the 1914 elections unless the European war continued He urged caution toward radical reform and argued the party must avoid policies that invite failure while noting the war s impact on production and trade and the president s foreign policy stance
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Washington
D. C
San
Newlands
Nevada
Senate
Wilson
Ifo
Altho
Mexico
Pace United G.olp
United Republican Party
Democratic Party
Body of Bishop Scannell Lying In State At Omaha
The body of Right Rev. Richard Scannell bishop of Omaha lies in state after his death the previous Saturday. A guard of honor from Omaha Catholic societies attends the body until the funeral set for tomorrow morning. Prominent clergy and laymen from the Midwest will attend with Archbishop James Keane of Dubuque, Iowa, celebrating the pontifical requiem mass.
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Omaha
Web
Richard Scannell
Catholic Societies of
Middle West
Janes Keane
Dubuque
Probe Into Conduct Of E Higgins Spurs Recall Demand
Reports from Berlin say German newspapers urge the recall of Edward Higgins American consul at Stuttgart amid accusations of neutrality violations and anti German declarations. Ambassador Gerard at Berlin authorized by Secretary Lansing to investigate unofficial charges though no formal complaint has been filed.
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Berlin
London
Jan
Wolff
Stuttgart
Edward Wiggins
Higgins
Staats Zeitung
New York
Cologne
Sayville
Overseas
Edward Higgins
Bluttgart
Germany
Amsterdam
Gerard
Washington, D. C
Lansing
Conscription Bill Set for Second Reading in Commons
London reports that the debate on the second reading of the military service bill opened in the house of commons today. The general mood in the lobby favored a larger vote for second reading, with some predicting a shrinking minority and few radicals opposing the measure. John F H Redmond announced that Nationalists would refrain from further opposition to the bills.
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London
House of Enomamons
Radical Party
John Smon
John FH. Redmound
House of Commons
Menace publishers face U.S. trial in obscenity case
Four men tied to Menace Publishing of Aurora Missouri were indicted in federal court on eight counts for sending obscene literature through the mails. Wilbur Phelps Bruce M Pheins Theodore C Walker and Marvin Brown are the defendants. One count was dismissed at government request during the opening of the case. The action referenced an advertisement about a book allegedly titled The pope chief of white slavery and high priest of intrigue.
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Toplin
The
Menace Publiing Company
Aurora
Publshers of the Menace
Wilbur Phelps
Bruce M. Pheins
Theodore C. Walker l
Marvin Brown
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Peach
Mouse Committee
Willistas
Joing Committee of Unions
SAYS
Perio
Soren
Talle Wilson
Hint At
Meredith
Hamilton
Alex Miller
Newlands RpcAlLs
Bishop Scannull
Baid
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